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WEATHER FORECAST Showers THE DAILY REPUBLIC An Independent Newspaper if if Jt Sell It Fast With DOUBLE SERVICE WANT ADS Volume LXXXII 12 Pages Mitchell, S. Saturday, June 5, 1965 Final Edition Single Copy lOc Number 194 Huge Posse Spreads Search For Triple Killer in Nebraska By BILL VV. DEAN BIG SPRINGS, Neb. (AP) A huge posse spread out across sprawling plains of western Nebraska and eastern Colorado today, hunting an icy-calm gunman who killed three bank em- ployes with shots in the back and wounded a fourth. "Every available man in 100 miles is taking part," said Sheriff Floyd Stahr.

Late Friday Sheriff Stahr, a 6- foot-4 man in a wide-brim Western hat, made his headquarters in the bank. State troopers, FBI agents, sheriff's officers and police from neighboring towns trooped in to report to him. The 510 residents of this village astride the Denver-to-North Platte highway 10 miles north of the Colorado border were stunned by the killings Friday. "I have no idea why he shot them," said county Atty. Robert Richards.

"They didn't resist when he told them to lay down on their stomachs." The gunman fired eight times as the four lay on the floor of the Farmers State Bank. Three died instantly. The fourth was critically wounded. Killed were Andreas Kjeldgaard, 77, a bachelor who was president of the bank; Glenn Hendricksen, 59, the cashier; and Lois Ann Hothan, 35, bookkeeper. Franklin Keldgaard, 25, nephew of Andreas, was taken to a Denver hospital with wounds in the neck and back.

The hospital said today he was in critical condition, It was noon when the gunman drove up to the little red-brick bank on Main Street. Franklin Kjeldgaard, barely able to talk, told police the man "didn't seem tough" when he entered the bank. He said the killer was about 35, and wore his hair crew cut. He was neatly dressed in a dark suit. Only the senior Kjeldgaard and his three employes were in bank.

The man first asked about obtaining a loan. Then he pulled a pistol and ordered the, four victims to lie on the floor, face clown. Franklin Kjeldgaard wasn't certain what happened next. on the floor. But state authorities said the As the gunman walked out of bandit looted the cash drawers! the bank he bumped into farmer of about $1,500, and then Mauser.

into the vault. He found the safe! "Good morning," he said po- locked. Uitely. He then returned to the main, Mauser continued into the room and started shooting, bank. The man got into a 1965 Sheriff Stahr said eight 22-cal-; model car and drove unhurried- iber cartridge shells were found jly away.

Calif. Solon Would Split Slate in Two 2 MinnesoJans Are Sentenced For Kidnaping MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Two youths were convicted on kid- naping charges Friday and sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison or a correctional institution. Judge Rolf Fosseen in Hennepin County District Court sen- Davdcetd.AiE tenced David E. Anderson, 16, and Mark Chritina, 15, after they had pleaded guilty. The youths had waived court action as minors and were convicted as adults.

The 'charge grew out of a holdup of a Minneapolis dairy store last month, where they forced Mrs. Clarence Olson, a customer, and her daughter, Sherryl, 13, to drive them downtown. They did not injure the woman and daughter, but held a shotgun to their heads on the trip. Nebraska Man Dies in Mishap Near Newell NEWELL (m A Grand Island, man was killed and his wife and a son were hurt critically in a one car accident late Friday on U. S.

212 about 25 miles east of here. Killed was Wilmer Wickmen (age unavailable.) His wife, Clara, and a son, Paul, were hospitalized at Sturgis, with severe inuries. Officials said the car was driven by another son, Donald, 17. The car went out of control and upset. Donald, too, was hospitalized.

His condition was listed as fair. The Wickmen death rais ed the high way toll in the state for the year to 95, same as at this time a year ago. New OAS Peace Team Is At Work in Dominican Republic By ROBERT BERRELLEZ SANTO DOMINGO, Domin- lean Republic (AP) The stalemated Dominican civil war marked its sixth week today with a fresh peace team of the Organization of American States trying to win a political settlement. Six previous major efforts to negotiate an agreement ended in failure, including those by Washington, the OAS, the United Nations and the Vatican. There were reports that the new, three-nation mission, au- Mitchell Youth Named Delegate To Boys Nation ABERDEEN Wl Bruce D.

Forbes, Mitchell, and Randall Gates, Redfield, will represent the South Dakota Americ a Legion at Boys National in Washington, D. in July. Alternates are James M. Tredway, Huron and Ron Engen, Sioux Falls. The selections were announced this morning by state Legion Commander Richard W.

Small, Alpena, at the concluding session of the 1965 Boys State on the Northern a College campus. Forbes is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Forbes, 905 S. Miller, Mitchell.

The outstanding citizen award went to Don Rypkema, Rapid City, and Tom Dunn, i u.x Falls, won recognition as outstanding speaker. The awards session also featured presentation of graduation certificates to all 512 Boys Staley Wants Chain Stores Investigated OMAHA (AP) The National Farmers Organization called Friday for a "complete investigation" of chain store buying and selling practices. NFO President Oren Lee Staley, Rea, said there is only one way to get to the bottom of the problems "that seem to grow as the volume of buying power increases at the chain store level. This is through the use of the power of subpoena." Staley said that means "carrying out an anti-trust investigation." Staley's comments were contained in testimony prepared for the National Commission on Food Marketing. The commission up of senators, rep- resetnatives and presidentially appointed public members, began three days of hearings here Thursday.

Staters. Speaker was John Artichoker former South Dakotan who was last year selected as one of the 10 outstanding young men in the nation by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Artichoker was a BRUCE FORBES counselor at South Dakota Boys State for several years. Observers at Friday's inauguration of 1965 boys state officials included Dr. and Mrs.

Arnett Matchett, Sioux Falls, the parents of Gov. Ronald Matchett and the governor's younger brother Gerald. Two Sioux Falls boys, Larry Sivertson and James Grinde, tied for high in the comprehensive examination given Friday. They scored 121 points out of a possible 125. Friday's activities also included a heavy calendar for the Boys State Legislature which was scheduled to adjourn this morning.

It was also a busy day for both the circuit and supreme courts of the mythical state. The 1965 Boys State ended at noon today. Gunfire Slams Home ofBogalusa Deputy Sheriff SD Traffic Deaths THIS YEAR TO DATE BOGALUSA, La. fired six bullets into the home of the chief deputy sher- iff early today as officers i pressed their investigation of a i terrorist-style murder. i Chief Deputy Doyle Holliday, who lives about four miles out of town, said he rushed from his house and emptied his .38 Magnum pistol at a fleeing car.

"Perhaps one of the shots did 95 LAST YEAR TO DATE 95 Friday and was Louisiaa from returned to Tylertown, where he was arrested. Holliday said he and his wife were sitting in a room behind the kitchen. "The bullets hit the wall right behind us," he said. FBI and state crime laboratory investigators were making casts of the tire tracks made by the car as it drove down a cir- i unc ui vm- oi.wvu vj.v» i some damage but I am not surejcular driveway leading to Holli he said. day's home.

Two of the bullets fired by i The Holliday house is situated the nightriders ripped through i about 300 yards off a blacktop the kitchen wall. Two hit an air'road west of Bogalusa. conditioning unit and anotheri Agents also were probing for lodged in the wall of a slugs that tore into the way to the garage. The other could not be located in the Holliday, who is white, said he darkness. been home about half an The shooting came as state, hour when the shooting oc- federal and local i ers curred.

He said he was sitting in pressed a massive investigation a den talking with his wife. Two 'SLOW DOWN-AND LIVE" into the shooting of Washington of his three boys were in anoth- Parish's first Negro deputy sher-'er part of the house. iff O'Neal Mooie. He said he did not hear A white man charged in the thing until the shots rang out. Ernest R.

McElveen, 41, Holliday said he saw the tail- of Bogalusa, waived extradition light as it drove off. thorized Wednesday by a special OAS conference, brought from Washington a plan for a swift OAS-supervised election. But OAS and U.S. government sources only would say that the election was one of a number of possible compromise solutions under consideration. An OAS trusteeship, followed by an election, and a coalition provisional government were other possibilities.

The Dominican rebels already have rejected an election formula proposed by the civilian- military junta. The rebels demanded restoration of the 1963 constitution and creation of a new government before an election. The new OAS peace effort was launched Friday when its commission met with Msgr. Emanuele Clarizio, the papal nuncio, and with U.S. Ambassador W.

Tapley Bennett. The Vatican's representative was one of the first to attempt to mediate the conflict. Members of the peace team are Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambassador to the OAS; Ilmar Penna Marinho of Brazil and Ramon de Clairmont Duenas of El Salvador. The remaining 2,000 O.S.

Ma(Continued on Page 2) DOMINICAN OAS Nay Get Voice in US Foreign Aid By ERNEST E. VACCARO WASHINGton (AP) Senators have expressed mixed reaction to Sen. J. W. Fulbright's proposal to assign the Organization of A i a' States a major voice in channeling U.S.

military assistance to Latin America. The Arkansas Democrat, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, offered the proposal as an amendment to the two-year, annual foreign aid authorization bill on which the Senate will resume debate Monday. It would require that the $55 million available for military assistance to Latin-American countries be furnished to the maximum extent feasible according to joint plans approved by the OAS. This would include plans dealing with internal security defense. In addition, it would authorize the use of up to $25 million of the funds for an inter-American military force under OAS control.

There was no immediate reaction fro mthe administration, but Sen. John Sparkman, D- a senior member of Fulbright's committee, said he thought the amendment "has a great deal of good in it." "It might provide for an orderly military support and do much to slow down the arms race in Latin America," Sparkman told a reporter, "I like the idea," Sen. John Sherman Cooper, said in a separate interview. "I haven't studied the details, but I think the principle is correct." On the other hand, Sen. Frank E.

Moss, D-Utah, said he had reservations" about Fulbright's proposal, and Sen. Clifford P. Case, said "I am not at all sure 1 could vote for it." "I'll give it careful onsidera- tion," Case added, "but I do want to hear all sides." Sen. Vance Hartke, said he thought Fulbright "is basically right" and that assistance through the OAS was a preferable method to unilateral decisions on military aid which bring charges of gunboat diplomacy. But, he said, "whether it is a practical, workable solution to our problem is another matter." Sen.

Frank Church, D-Idaho, said "it is a very worthwhile suggestion and I intend to study it with great care and sympathy." Fulbright introduced amendment without comment just before the Senate recessed Friday. By BILL BOYARSKY SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) embattled Senate, fighting reapportionment like the '49ers beat off gold mining claim jumpers, has acted to split the nation's most populous state in two. But the State Assembly, Gov. Edmund G.

Brown and maybe the Congress of the United States all appeared ready to head the move off at the pass. Sen. Richard J. Dolwig, a Republican from the San Francisco Bay area community of San Mateo, offered his plan as an answer to a federal court order for the rural-dominated Senate to reapportion itself by July 1. Dolwig reacted in angry, frontier fashion to an order that would turn the legislative upper house over to populous counties particularly those in the southern part of the state.

But the Assembly, dominated by Southern California, was certain to turn the plan down. "We're one state, one California," snapped Assemblyman Don Allen, D-Los Angeles, whose assembly committee (Continued on Page 2) CONTROVERSY SF Nan Dies After Home Basement Blast SIOUX FALLS UP) A Sioux Falls man died early today of injuries received in an explosion in his house last night. The explosiion in which Horace Benson, 52, was fatally burned happened at 8:10 p.m. He died in a hospital at 4:15 a. m.

Benson's wife received minor injuries but was not hospitalized. They were alone in the house at the time of the blast. A fire following the explosion caused minor damage to the house. Minnehaha County Under- sheriff Joe Vanderloo said Benson, before he was taken to the hospital, described events leading up to the explosion. Benson told Vanderloo that he had been repairing the water pump in his basement.

When he plugged it back in, there was a spark and the explosion. Vanderloo said the pilot light for Benson's gas furnance apparently had been out while he was working. The basement filled with gas and the spark from the water pump ignited it. The Benson home is in a suburban area at the north edge of Sioux Falls. Federal Funds To State For Recreation WASHINGTON (AP) Interior Secretary Stewart L.

Udall announced Friday the first allocation of federal funds for state and territorial development of outdoor recreation facilities. The $10 million allocation includes $183,119 for Minnesota, $107,267 for North Dakota and $110,390 for South Dakota. The grants require matching in equal amounts by state and local funds, as authorized by the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act. The fund gets its revenues from the sale of federal recreation and conservation stickers, fees paid for existing recreation facilities, the motor boat fuels tax and proceeds from the sale of surplus federal property. States may draw on the fund for planning.

White-McDivitt Reach Half-Way Mark in Flight By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) Astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II neared the halfway mark of their record space flight today, their routine broken by unidentified satellites and Little League baseball scores. America's newest heroes, who cracked the U.S.

space endurance mark Friday night, were to reach the mid-point of their marathon journey at 11:15 a.m. (EST) as their Gemini 4 space ship sailed high above the nation during orbit No. 32. Mission Control reported the craft and pilots in excellent condition. White slept through one attempt to give him a routine medical check and had to be awakened later in the 27th orbit for the exam.

As the spacecraft crossed over the Libyan desert early in its 29th orbit the Canary Islands Mitchell Man Found Dead in Ditch CAMBRIDGE, Minn. (AP) The body of a man tentatively identified as a Stickney, S.D. public school music teacher, was found in a ditch near a country road, some 16 miles southwest of Cambridge Friday. He was believed to be Robert G. Eddy, 35.

Isanti County authorities said he appeared to have been dead two days and had been severely beaten. There was no wallet or valuables on the body. The sheriff's office said the man may have been killed elsewhere and the body dumped at the site. The key to a Minneapolis Reports of Trouble In The Sudan CAIRO (AP) Unconfirmed reports reaching here today said Khartoum Airport was closed down and trouble appeared to be brewing in the capital of Sudan. Cairo Airport said it lost radio communication with the airport at Khartoum.

Airport officials noted the loss of radio contact could be due to a strike rather than political tension, however. Word of the airport closing reached here after reports from the Sudan that four army officers, including one general, had been arrested there In an alleged attempt to stage a coup d'etat. Unconfirmed reports said the authorities had seized a supply of arms designed for a coup and more arrests were expected. Telephone communication between Cairo and Khartoum also was reported out of order but this Is a fairly regular occurrence. A sotry from Khartoum Friday said the caretaker regime of Premier Sir el Khatim el Khalifa had resigned to make way for a new government but was asked to stay on until next Tuesday by the State Supreme Council.

hotel room was in one pocket of the man's clothes. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Eddy of Mitchell, S.D., parents of Robert Eddy, said their son had left home May 28 to visit a brother at Brandon, S.D., and left Brandon May 29. He was at the Minneapolis hotel May 30, but failed to check out May 31.

The parents said the son was driving his car when he left home and had in his possession two valuable rings. Neither the car nor rings were at the site where the body was discovered. The body was taken to Minne- polis for an autopsy. Mr. Eddy was born May 6, 1930 at Miller, had attended Huron College and Dakota Wesleyan i ity.

He had taught at Ipswich, Armour, Avon and Bridgewater and had been music teacher at Stickney for the past three years. He had served two years in the U. S. Army and had been stationed in Germany. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Brandon and a member of the South Dakota Education Association.

Survivors include his parents, Mitchell; and six brothers, Raymond, Brandon; Roger, New Ulm, Royal, Redding Russell, Sioux Falls; Richard, in the U. S. Army; and Rodney, Mitchell. Funeral services under the direction of the Milliken Funeral Home are incomplete. Jasper Egeland, Mitchell, Dies Jasper Egeland, 71, Mitchell, died June 4 at a Mitchell hospital where he had been a patient since May 3.

Funeral services under the direction of the Milliken Funeral Home are incomplete. Military Action Stepped Up in South Viet Nam By RONALD I. DEUTSCH SIAGON, Viet Nam (AP) Government forces, badly battered by Viet Cong ambushes in recent days, struck back with the aid of armed U.S. helicop- erts and claimed today they killed 48 Communist guerrillas in a single action Friday. A U.S.

military spokesman reported that quick action by U.S. Army helicopter crews accounted for 20 of the Viet Cong dead, Six Reds were captured and eight others taken as suspects in the operation near Vinh Long, 55 miles southwest of Saigon. Vietnamese units continued to comb the area Saturday with the support of armored and artillery units. Four government soldiers reportedly were killed and four (Continued on Page 2) VIET NAM Johnson, Humphrey Call for New Civil Rights Impetus By FRANK CORMIER WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson has called for a new civil rights effort to achieve true equality for the American just equality as a right and a theory." Johnson, delivering the commencement address Friday night at predominantly Negro Howard University, said the great majority of Negro Americans "still are another nation." "Despite the court orders and the laws, the victories and speeches, for them the walls are rising and the gulf is widening," the President said. Citing statistics on employment and income to show that Negroes, in somp.

ways, are faring worse today than 5 or 10 years ago, Johnson said this represented an "American failure." The President, -who took the occasion to announce plans for a special White House conference next fall to explore such problems, said: "It is not enough to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates. "This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity not just legal equity but human ability not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and a result." Johnson, applauded frequently, spoke of seeking justice for the Negro and said: "I pledge this will be a chief goal of my administration, and of my program next year, and in years to come. I hope it will be part of the program of all America." Johnson, who looked ahead to a time "when the only difference between Negroes and whites is the color of their skin," said: "The task is to give 20 million Negroes the same chance as every other American to learn and grow to work and share in society to develop their abilities, physical, mental and spiritual and to pursue their (Continued on Page 2) JOHNSON tracking station told the astronauts: "Everything looks good from here." "Everything in here is go," White also got the good that his son, Eddie, 11, got one hit out of three times at bat in a Little League baseball victory.

McDivitt was told by Mission Control that the Little League team of his son, Mike, 8, also won. Mission Control said the pilots had reported no more sightings of the unidentified object McDivitt reported during the 19th orbit. Offiicials listed at least earth satellites, most of them fragments or space debris, In the general area of McDlvitt's sighting. As they whirled through their seemingly endless voyage, Mo- Divitt and White were pronounced in excellent physical condition. White suffered no apparent after-effects from the 20- minute excursion he made outside the capsule shortly after Thursday's launching from Cape Kennedy.

But no American has spent as much time orbiting the earth and the medics were on the at(Continued on Page 2) SPACH Weather Delays Boe Flight to Camp Ripley ABERDEEN a her conditions in Minnesota held up a flight of South Dakota's Governor and members of the state military affairs committee here today. After a wait of nearly three hours, Gov. Nils Boe and the others got off the ground for their flight to Governor's Day at Camp Ripley, Minn. Maj. S.

D. Yeager, pilot of the S. D. Air National Guard plane, said weaMier conditions at Alexandria, interfered landings and the plane was h-sld here until conditions improved. The Boe party will fly to Sioux Falls Saturday.

Weather Forecast SOUTH DAKOTA: Varia 1 cloudiness today with showers and thunderstorms over about 50 per cent of southeast 20 per cent remainder of state today and early tonight. Cooler east and central today and most of state tonight. Sunday partly cloudy warmer west and central. High today 62-72. Low tonight 48-55.

MITCHELL WEATHER Average precipitation for por. tion of year to date 8.70 Total precipitation for portion of year to date 8.33 High Friday 75 Overnight low 59 Precipitation Trace 7 a.m. temperature 61 Sunset today 8:12 Sunrise tomorrow 4:50 PRECIPITATION 25 Yr AH Month '65 '84 Avg Arg Rec Yr Jan .13 .25 .47 .52 2.10 '97 Feb. .31 11 .08 .66 2.92 '62 Mar .69 2.05 1.41 1.24 3.45 '06 Apr 2.60 2.83 2.24 2.05 7.30 '42 May 3.51 1.32 2.73 3.21 10.59 '42 June 1.09 3.22 3.98 3.03 8.56 '15 July 2.28 2.96 3.06 8.85 '15 Aug 2.90 2.71 2.60 6.72 '01 Sep. 2.87 1.26 2.12 6.72 '01 Oct.

0.00 1.25 1.48 4.82 '47 Nov .03 .69 .67 .2.71 '47 Dec .89 .25 40 2.12 '20 TEMPERATURES Rapid City Philip Pierre Aberdeen Watertown Huron Sioux Falls Pickstown Valentine Lemmon Mobridga Sioux City Pep. 58 48 .01 67 52 .04 62 53 .10 75 53 79 58 Tr 75 57 Tr 73 60 Tr 75 59 Tr 75 53 .13 65 50 Tr 69 50 Tr 73 66 .07 MISSOURI RESERVOIR DISCHARGES Oahe Reservoir elevation 584.51 feet; the lake has risen .11 feet the past 24 hours. Average discharge rate 24,700 cubic feet per second. SOLUNAR TABLES Sun 12:25 5:15 12:10 5:45 6:05 1:15 6:35 Tue 1:20 6:55 2:20 7:21).