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Scattered The Selma Times Before 6:30 Week Days Thundershowers Or Before 9:00 Sunday Journal 5 M. Your You CENTS Dial Tall Times To A. Journal COPY (Established 1827) (Established 1890) VOL. 141, NO. 136 Full NEA Service SELMA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 20, 1968 Associated Press Leased Wire 10 PAGES TODAY Transplant Rejected Ike's Survival Prospects 'Guarded" WASHINGTON (AP) Army doctors reported today that former President Dwight D.

Eisenhower's prospects for survival are "guarded" meaning unpredictable -at this point. Doctors of the Army's Walter Reed General Hospital said 50 In answer to a list of submitted questions by reporters. At the same time they said in formal medical bulletin that the general's condition remains critical even though there has been a favorable trend in the pattern of abnormal heart rhythm action which is the basic problem of his heart attack. They left open the question whether the "gradual worsening" of his condition which they had reported in a midafternoon report Monday had been either halted or slowed in pace. The doctors disclosed Monday night they had rejected, after serious consideration, the idea of attempting heart transplant.

The text of today's medical bulletin follows: "Since last night's bulletin, Americans, Soviets Respective Banners U.S. Omits Section Of Spacecraft CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) -The space agency has deleted problem-plagued section from the Apollo spacecraft which is scheduled to be launched in December in the first manned flight of the Saturn 5 superrock- The action reflects an apparent high-level decision to beat Soviet cosmonauts around the moon. Air Force Maj. Gen.

Samuel C. Phillips, Apollo program director for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said Monday the flight will not Include manned earth-orbital test, of lunar module, the spacecraft section that will leave the nose of an Apollo command ship in lunar orbit kind take two astronauts to the moon's surface. Instead, he said, the 363-foottall Saturn 5 is now scheduled to hurl into space only a three-man Apollo command ship piloted by Air Force Col. Frank Borman and Maj. William Anders and Navy Capt.

James A. Lovell Jr. "The basic mission plan is for operations in low earth Phillips said in a news conference. "While preparing for that basic mission, we are studying possible he said. Preceding that first Saturn 5 launch will be a three-man Apollo earth-orbital flight by Navy Capt, Walter M.

Schirra Air Force Maj. Donn F. Elsele and Walter Cunningham, a civilian astronaut. The Schirra crew is to blast off Oct. 11 aboard a Saturn 1 rocket, forerunner of the larger Saturn 5 man-to-the-moon booster.

If the Schirra flight, named Apollo 7, is good, "we may be able to change flight plans accordingly' for the orman -Anders-APollo 8 mission. Phillips said. Possible alternatives of the flight plan include penetrating "several thousand miles" into space while still remaining in earth orbit or swinging around the moon itself, the Apollo program director said. Sources said the possibility of circumlunar flight was a (See U.S., Page 2) ESCAPE TOWER APOLLO CAPSULE LUNAR EXCURSION MODULE THIRD STAGE ft.224 STAGE SECOND FIRST STAGE APOLLO APOLLO SATURN 18 SATURN (NEA Diagram) BIG AND BIGGER There will be a lot more power behind the Apollo spaceship which eventually carries American astronauts to the moon than was used to launch the capsule for its first unmanned test. Diagram at left shows Apollo atop Saturn 1B rocket being used for current test.

At right is much larger for destination moon. The Human Mind Gen. Eisenhower to rest comfortably. of isolated irregular tinues. There stances of sustained irregularities cal ronversion hours.

While this vorable, the remains critical." irregular brought him near his seventh heart One of the newsmen inquired In Race In OAKLAND, Calif. -The 187,000 workers who face new one per cent income tax because they commute to San Francisco daily were asked Monday to join a retaliatory "brown bag" campaign. Starting Friday, Sept. 6, and each Friday thereafter commuters were urged to bring their own lunch in a "brown bag," rather than buy it. Supervisors from Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties agreed to support such a move which they estimmated could mean $14 million annual business loss to San Francisco food purveyors.

San Francisco expects the commuter tax will bring in $12.7 million in revenue each year. Hearing of the "brown bag" campaign, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, who proposed the new tax, said: "Tell one of them to bring a smoked salmon on french for me." Vietnam War Major Controversy Of Democratic Platform Group By EDMOND LeBRETON. Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic party threw open Platform Committee heartoday to some of the most important figures on both sides of the controversy over a Vietnam policy statemtn. Defending the Johnson adminIstration's war policies in a special committee meeting tonight will be Secretary of State Dean Rusk. His appearance follows presentation of a statement by Arkansas Sen.

J. William Fulbright, an arch-critic of the course followed in Vietnam. Fulbright, head Senate Foreign Relations Committee argued in a prepared staetment for a halt to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and the inclusion of the National Liberation Front, politiial arm of the Viet Cong, in any discussion of the future of South Vietnam. Fulbright's position was similar in most respects to the stand at Sen.

Eugene McCarthy, the has continued major The pattern tons" which beats ed Monday conthe factors have been no in- ing out a ventricular And the requiring electri- to the during the last 24 senhower's trend is ta- years -including general's condition bladder, tate gland heart beat had nesses. death after Another attack. one the questions asked by was this: as to the "In the light To Put Lunar Dust 'Russians To Contain Small Job By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer VIENNA (AP) A Soviet space scientist hinted today that instead of building a new superrocket, the Russlans may concentrating on sending small rockets to form "large cosmic stations" in orbit. The cosmic stations could be used a springboard to the moon. Dr.

B. V. Raushenbakh, in report to the U.N. Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, said small unmanned rockets were far less expensive and risky than superrockets. American space officials ported recently that the Soviet Union may be developing rocket more powerful than United States' 36-story-tall Saturn 5, the largest booster ever launched.

The Saturn 5 has placed 140-ton satellites in earth orbit. But in a report on two unmanned Soviet space docking missions, Raushenbakh hinted that a new rocket is not in the Soviet plans. He said there were 1 two basic methods of placing heavy satellites in orbit. "Either it is possible to make more and more powerful carrier rockets, or to put into orbit heavy satellites in parts, using comparatively small carriers, and then to assemble the required structure in the cosmos from the separate parts," 1 he said. "The first of these methods associated with vast expenses.

For even now large carrier rockets are as tall as a 30-story house and the advisibility of further increasing their height called in question by many experts." Raushenbakh said the Russians twice have demonstrated automatic rendezvous and docking in space -with Cosmos 18 and 188 in 1967 and with Cosmos 212 and 213 this year. Soviet scientists concentrated on unmanned rather than manned space linkups, he said, because of safety and economic considerations. Manned satellites the technique of the U.S. Gemini program have to be equipped with costly life support and re equipment, he explained. "The automatic rendezvous and docking is absolutely indispensable to the modern flight technique" for such work as delivering supplies to an orbital station.

Manned docking missions, he said, will be necessary for flying to an automatically assembled space station, Negro Man Sought In Robbery Effort Law enforcement officers in this area are seeking for a young Negro male in a white Mustang wanted for questioning in connection with the reported attempted robbery of an elderly white woman who lives alone on the New Orville Road. The victim told officers the young man came to her house about midmorning and asked for a drink of water. When she gave him the glass, he threw the water in her face and grabbed her, she reported. The attacker tore out the telephone line and bound the woman's hands, investigation showed. Her face was scratched, her ear bloody and her arms bruised, officers said.

medical condithe doctors reportnight were one of involved in their rultransplant operation. doctors referred only "chronology of Gen. Elillnesses" over the his ileitis, gall cerebral stroke, prostrouble and other ill- question asked--this Associated Press of your p.m. report yesterday that the general's condition showed a 'gradual does your later report at 10 -noting 'fewer instances of ventricular irregularity' mean that the 'worsening' has been halted; at least slowed in pace; or, indeed, kept back somewhat? And what is the situation on this same score right now?" Without giving a direct answer, doctors referred reporters to the text of the formal medical bulletin, which did not appear to City Schools Will Open Sept 3rd The Selma City Schools will open the 1968-69 session on Tuesday, Sept. 3, according to City School Superintendent Joseph Pickard.

All elementary school pupils will report to their schools at 8:30 on Sept. 3, Pickard said, and will remain at school until about 10 o'clock the opening day. The regular school schedule will begin on Wednesday, Sept. 4, with elementary school pupils reporting at 8:15 and being dismissed at 2:30 p.m. Seventh, 11th and 12th grade pupils will report to Parrish High School at 8 o'clock on Sept.

3 and will remain at school until 11 a.m. that first day. Seventh graders are to assemble in the new gymnasium and 11th and 12th graders are to meet in the auditorium. Pupils in the eighth, ninth and 10th grades at Parrish will report to school at 1 p.m. on Sept.

3 with the 10th graders going to the auditorium and the eighth and ninth grade students meeting the new gym. They will all dismissed at 8:30 p.m. that day. At Hudson High School, seventh, eighth and 10th grade pupils will report at 8 o'clock on Sept. 3 and will remain until 11 a.m, Pupils in the ninth, 11th and 12th grades at Hudson will report at 1 p.m.

and will be dismissed at 3:30 p.m. on the opening day. The regular schedule at both high schools will be effective on Wednesday, Sept. 4, and will call for school to begin at 8 a.m. each day and to end at 3:15 p.m.

Two Killed By Tornado By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hot and humid weather steamed much of the eastern half of the country again today after hatching a flurry of violent storms over the Midwest Monday night. Two farmers were killed late Monday their home collapsed as tornadoes and severe thunderstorms raked wide areas of Wisconsin, More than a dozen persons were injured in the weather. Lightning and wind combined to knock out electrical power in scattered sections of the state. About 12 persons fled uninjured when lightning struck the club house at the Eagle River Country Club in far northern Wisconsin and started a fire that swept part of the structure. Heavy rain accompanied the thunderstorms and soaked some northern Wisconsin communities with up to 3 inches.

Numerous farm buildings were destroyed and mobile homes were turned over in central and northern areas of the state. The two farmers who died were in their home near Marinette when a twister churned across Marinette County. Heavy rains also drenched portions of northern lower Michigan during the night, ranging up to inches at Pellston. The storms did little to dampen 90-degree heat blanketing the Midcontinent. And often the rains only added to already withering humidity levels, Temperatures remained in the 70s and 80s throughout the night from the Western Plains to the Eastern Seaboard.

New England and the Pacific Coast were comfortable exceptions to the wilting weather in the interior and the South. Readings in the 50s and 60s were common over the far West and the northeast. Northern New England chilled down to the 40s with Limestone, Maine, registering 42 before dawn. specifically answer the question. The reference in the medical bulletin to there having been no instances of sustained abnormal heart rhythms requiring "electrical conversion" during the last 24 hours meant this: That during that period those irregularities in heart rhythm that did arise did not require the emergency application of two paddle-like metal devices to the general's bare chest to induce an electric countershock to re -establish at least temporarily satisfactory rhythm.

"What are the general's prospects for survival?" was another question submitted by the Associated Press. and the doctors only reply was that they have previously defined as meaning unpredictable. However, Monday Eisenhower's doctors affirmed for the first time the definite possibility he might die from his present heart attack, his seventh, al- (See (IKE'S, Page (Times-Journal Staff Photo) FAVORITE SUBJECT -Mayor Joe Smitherman, left, discusses his favotite subject, the City of Selma, with H. Guthrie Bell, president of the firm which is purchasing W8LA-TV, Channel 8, in Selma. The proposed purchase is subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission, Purchase Of Local Video Station Is Negotiated H.

Guthrie Bell, who owns television stations in Montgomery and in Lexington, was in Selma yesterday to "meet the people" and to look at the pile of charred rubble and the broadcasting tower, all that remain of WSLA-TV, the television station he is in the process of purchasing. Bell said negotiations for the purchase of the local television station were under way before the fire which completely destroyed the facility. some three weeks ago. If the Federal Communications Commission approves, Bell said, a temporary structure will be erected and equipment brought in so that the station, Channel 8, can be put back on the air in the immediate future. It is his plan, Bell said, to work with community groups and civic and business in up-grading the at the local station, particularly in the presentation of local news and the spotlighting of events of regional interest.

"We intend to operate a tele-1 vision station in Selma that this whole area can be proud Bell declared. The Kentucky businessman said he is impressed with the growth potential of Selma and that the business interests he represents want to be a part of that growth. Bell is president of WCOV-TV, Channel 20, in Montgomery, and of WLEX-TV in Lexington, Ky. The communications executive began his career when he was still in high school in Lexington, back during the depression, His father, a tobacco grower and an amateur horticulturist, developed a light burley low in tars and nicotines, and Bell used radio to advertise seeds of the tobacco plant. "My radio show made me late for school nearly every morning, and I almost got thrown out of Bell recalls, "but I did manage to graduate, and I went on to attend Duke University." Bell visited yesterday with Mayor Joe Smitherman, who outlined for him the progress being made in many fields in Selma and Dallas County, and who, drawing on his experience in the television merchandising field, offered suggestions for "making the operation of WSLATV really meaningful in the community." Bell also went by the Dallas County Courthouse to meet Probate Judge Bernard Reynolds and other officials there.

He hopes, he said, to meet later with Selma merchants before finalizing the programming schedule for the local star tion. 739 Enemy Killed For Loss Of 69 In Sharp Three-Days Of Fighting By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON (AP) Allied forces reported today killing more than 700 enemy soldiers in three days of enemy attacks and allied counterthrusts ranging from the Cambodian border to the northern frontier. But enemy forces overran one allied unit--outnumbered sixto-on 15 miles south of Da Nang today and killed all 10 U.S. Marine and 24 South Vietnamese defenders. A relief force of South Korean marines rushed to the area but was unable to reach the besieged men because of explosions, believed touched off when the compound's ammunition dump caught fire.

U.S. fighter-bombers and artillery drove off the more than 300 enemy attackers. There were no reports of enemy ualties. The new intensification of the ground war after a two-month lull shattered hopes that the enemy high command might be -escalating to try to break the stalemate at the Paris peace talks. U.S.

headquarters reported at least 739 enemy and 69 Ameri- major challenge to Vice dent Hubert H. Humphrey for the Democratic presidential nomination. will be necessary at an early stage to bring the Saigon sovernment and the National 20th Of Month Finds Home With Lynns LINDEN- -The 20th of any month of the year is a favorite with the Thomas Lynn family of Linden. Mr. and Mrs.

Lynn were married on April 20, 1930. Their oldest son, Thomas, was born July 20, 1935. Their youngest daughter, Bessie Lee Lynn, was born March 20, 1937 and the baby son, Dewey Lynn, was born November 20, 1939. One grandson, Reginald Newton was born June 20, 1954. Al granddaughter, Juanita Lynn, was born March 20, 1966.

The oldest daughter, Elizabeth Lynn Newton, was married ber 20, 1947. liberation Front into the discussion of their country's future." Fulbright said. McCarthy is advocating inclusion of the NLF in a temporary coalition Vietnamese government and saying the United States should begin withdrawal if this is not done. Vice President Humphrey, who generally supports Johnson's war policies has said that he cannot, as he put it, support imposing a coalition government on the South Vietnamese, Fulbright did not specify a COalition government but argued like McCarthy when he said, 'It may be found necessary to remind the South Vietnamese government that the United States seeks a compromise 1 peace, that it is not committed to the objective of military victory for the present South Vietnamese government, and that it cannot, accordingly, allow the Saigon government to exercise veto on American policy." However, Fulbright's criticism of past administration deeisions was relatively muted. cans killed since the start of enemy attacks Sunday.

Nearly 500 of the enemy deaths were inflicted since Monday, most of these in four battles around the provincial capital of Tay Ninh, A new fight broke out five miles, west of Tay Ninh City today when a U.S. 25th Infantry Division armor column came under a rocket attack while advancing along Highway 26, 1. SUNNY SAND HOT WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy and hot through Wednesday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Probability of rain today. 30 per cent, tonight 10 per cent, Wednesday 30 per cent.

High today Low tonight High tomorrow High yesterday .93 Low last night River, falling 4 a military supply route. U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers were called in, In another development, headquarters announced that American -and South Viet namese troops had ended two-week search-and-clear operation through the A Shau Val ley, a major enemy troop supply hideaway 375 miles northeast of Saigon. Headquarters said allied troops killed 133 enemy seized large quantities of arms and ammunition in the Valley. U.S.

losses were put at 15, killed and 97 wounded, while South Vietnamese forces sufered 24 dead and 62 wounded. While fighting flared up and down the country, the heaviest engagements centered in Tay Ninh and neighboring Bin Long provinces by the Cambodian border where at least two North Vietnamese divisions and elements of a third are reported to have massed in secret base camps. Some of the tighting around Tay Ninh was touched off by allied, probes, searching for remnants of an enemy that invaded the eitz Sunday,.