Rutland Daily Herald from Rutland, Vermont • 1

AND Windsor County Edition THE WEATHER Friday: Fifr Saturday: Cloudy TEMPERATURES Yesterday Max SO Min 14 Year Ago Max 30 Min 16 Protections Asked For Consumers Gen Cram Wins Military Job in Rebuke to Hoff Both Sides Incur Heavy Losses In Jungle Fighting Legislature Defeats Governors Nominee in 91-82 Contest Johnson Wants Congress to Arm Buyers Against Gyp Deals Products Mail Sales Cited Combat Is Savage SAIGON South Vietnam (AP) Losses on both aide mounted Friday in savage jungle fighting between North Vietnamese troop and infantrymen seeking to block Communist infiltration routes along the Cambodian border Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division have killed more than 137 North Vietnameae in two days of the battle US spokesman said i But one US company iweep-ing an area three miles east of the border itself suffered heavy casualtiei from mortar and automatic weapons fire Tburaday a division spokesman said The term heavy easualitiea Americans Under Fire By AL CHANG AP Photographer PLEIKU South Vietnam (AP) Communist troops i staged a heavy attack Thursday night three battalions of American soliders the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division compaigrang along the Cambodian border In the central highland The Americans reported they were under heavy mortar and extremely heavy imall-arms and automatic-weapon fire from a North Vietnamese regiment or about 2900 Hanoi regulars The American forces numbered about 2200 The three battalions set up general was the highlight of the day-long balloting for Supreme Court and superior court judges a sergeant at arms and three trustees for the University of Vermont This is a biennial event authorized by the Vermont Constitution Hoff wasnt available for comment on the Cram-Page race since he is attending a conference on state governments in North Carohna However bis office which had counted 104 "sure votes for Page (a Conservative Republican) was visibly shaken Meanwhile in the halls of the State House Cram was thanking lawmakers who worked for him and Page was saying he doesnt have any plans after Feb 28 The Hyde Park Republican resigned as executive of the Ruberoid Co of Hyde Park to accept the adjutants post when Hoff offered it in December Although Hoffs office had officially taken the posture that it wasnt working for Page it had been involved in the race because defeat of Page by the Legislature would be embarrassing to Hoff The vote for Cram wasnt strictly a party vote Many Democrats voted for Cram which led other Democrats to say it was a move to "get Hoff Although to one would mention names the conclusion of the Democratic leadershipi was (See Page 7: Cram) By STEPHEN TERRY (Vermont Press Bureau) MONTPELIER The Vermont Legislature for the second day in a row handed the administration of Gov Philip Hoff a stunning defeat by electing Brig Gen Reginald Cram as the states adjutant general Cram was voted in ae head of the military department by a 91-82 vote over Brig Gen Wayne Page of Hyde Park Hoff had named Page as the adjutant general last December bypassing Cram who at the time wae the deputy adjutant general Hoff named Page to fill a vacancy left by the death of Maj Gen Francis Billado (In other legislative elections Thursdc Reps Peter Giuliani George Sloan and Ellwyn Miller were named University of Vermont trustees The story of that voting is on Page 7) Crams victory was stunning to both the Hoff administration and to Page Page was sitting in the House balcony surrounded by of'icers of the Vermont National Guard when the vote was announced Page looked perplexed and Mid: "Im most surprised He then went over to Cram and shook his hand Cram a retired Air Force Mrs Marjorie Powell estranged wife of the congressman appear at witness table (AP Wlrephoto) Powells Wife Says Checks Endorsed by Somebody Else GEN REGINALD CRAM Adjutant General fire base in jungle clearings ufiuanv means a unit has been about 1000 yards apart to a-iwip((1' out 0 effective fend positions some 5000 yards figtiting force from the Cambodian border and A iecon(j company fought Jt about 230 miles north of Saigon way through 2000 yard of I ihink we're engaged with nearly impeietrable jungle a minimum of a regimental-size njRht march to link up with the North Vietnamese irmy force I beleaguered company and the said Col Jamei Adamson of jltue continued fa Honolulu the brigade ora-( jt thf biggest continuing colonel displayed almost no emotion and said he was naturally pleased" House members were surprised at the outcome of the vote and Democratic leaders immediately said at was an anti-Hoff vote On Wednesday the Republicans rammed through the House legislation spending $18 million next fiscal year in state aid to education for the towns The Democrats and Hoff had recommended $16 million The vote for the adjutant and Labor Committee She said some of the signatures on the ducks issued in l'5 adn l'A-fi looked familiar The select committee examining Powell's performance as a memlier of the House didn't pursue in Thursdays hearing the question of who endorsed the checks But in a House (See Page 2: (becks) WASHINGTON (APi-Adam Clayton Powell Jr's estranged third wife testified Thursday that someone signed her name to 19 govemmeut paychecks totaling about $26000 The attractive Marjone Powell said she couldn't be wire who eo- dorsed the checks made out to her as a $205cxa-year employe of the House EducUion mandcr The American art among elements in Operation Sam Houston a drive reported to have accounted for 82 Communist dead since Jan 1 with 74 of them coming in fighting on Wednesday "My men are fighting In the toughest terrain in the world" Adamson said "Thev're rutting through thick jungle hand and firing their with the other" described the Cm-troopa "well-well-trained and ighters The fighting broke out ground action Fighting tapered off in the major battle between Korean marine! and North Vietnamese on the central coast and between Vietnamese troops and guerrilla in the Mekong delta Those two midweek engagement accounted for 554 enemy dead US fighter-bombers raided North Vietnam again Thursday damaging coastal cargo vtsteli bridges railroad facilities and radar sites The battle near the Cambodian border bgan Wednesday when infiltrating North Viet-nameae tried to overrun one of three fire base established WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson asked Congress on Thursday to enact a legal package that he said would help protect Americans against such hazards as pipeline explosions flammable blankets thieving pension-fund managers and gyp land deals These were but a few of the consumer protections Johnson advocated in a 12-point special message In one other controversial area possible curbs on sales commissions charged buyers of mutual fund shares Johnson did not recommend any specific course of action He said only that recent recommendations by the Securities and Ex-change Commission "provide sound basis" fdr legislation Asking legislation in 12 areas Johnson told Congress: "The cost to taxpayers of carrying out these proposals is very small The savings to them as consumers will be great in dollars in safety and peace of mind As the past Johnson backed a "iruth-m-lending" bill that would inform an installment buyer about "the percentage rate per year that is being charged on bis borrowing" Johnson came up with brand-new proposal for crack ing down on telephone and mail order sales of borne sates ac tioo he laid is needed because too many Americans looking for a retirement haven "have wasted much of their life savings on a useless piece of desert or swamp lend" The President's plan would require land developers who aell across state hoes to give prospective buyers full and accurate disclosure of the wacea they're peddling These statements would be feled with the Securitiee end Exchange Cora-ntmeo which could bold op any sale ta the absence of hit end accurate disclosure or seek criminal prosecution is flagrant abuses Urging federal regulation of natural gas pipelines to insure their safety Johnson look note of the recent expiowoc in Jama-ica NY "As pipelines age and aa more and more of the system lies under areas of high population density said Johnson "the hazards of pipeline failure and explosion increase He said 22 atatea have no 1 Student Links Beneficial A 1 rj Adamson bays Former CIA Lhier' tenacious fi their wav with one weapons Adamson Pownal Youth Accused In Death-of Father 42 Billings Gets His Judgeship As Foes Fail I Needed Facts: Dulles Civil Richts Aid Denied Wednesday when i- ci: wphm three miles of the border i wl I uicMvV-TcvK- George Wilcox of Ta a nj zw northea xt of Sa I- WASHINGTON (AP) The WASHINGTON (AP) A Na-Wash mowl tii lit Battalion go0 bv the 2nd Brigade of the 'man In charge of the Centnl tional Student Association lead- jyj infantry la by helicopter to 4-h Divisioo Intelligence Agency during 'er said Thursday no Corral secure a fire base The enemv attack waa re- much of the time it jecrrtlv fi-1 Intelligence Agency funds were' Wilcox troop Uo captured pulsed wfh two Ameriean to fnanee the extensn civil in the Souh Johnson wive as NSA na- youh rights nanetd the National Student used Association thinks from a national aecunty viewpoint it was a good deal group's activities Jh By DON FREDETTE -POWNAL (Special Charged late Thursday evening with the first-degree murder of his father was James Danforth 16 of North Pound Danforth was arrested by Verxmt state police in North Dorset at 715 Thurs- day after the body of his father Joseph Danforth 42 was found with a gunshot wound through the chest in bis home here at 3 50 Also apes ted was Marshall Bailey 16 of Worcester Mass who was charged by Bennington County States Ally -John Carmody with aiding Dan-forth in an attempt to avoid US Presents Safety Guides To the States WASHINGTON (AP) "We obtsmed whit we want-tional affairs vice president last (Vermont Press Bureau) MONTPELIER Superior Court Judge Franklin Billings once a Republican House Speaker Thursday was elected to a two year term as judge after the state Republican chairman urged that be be "punished by defeat Billing! wi elected by the General Assembly on a 132-39 aecret vote State Republican Chairman Derick Webb of Shelburne year directed all the group domestic program a bad a quick firm "oo" when a newsman asked abom the proubflity that the CIA tingty had help- and ton political ally Richard wlU A Snetling the defeated GOP ele! candidate for governor had urg-j ed the Legislature not to elect Both youths were held in jail for lack of bail ed" Allen DuUea said Thursday la aa interview Dull who headed th CIA from 1963 to 1961 said be found the link with the Undent organization alreody forged when he took over and would not dis-cuv any detail a of how the Tela-txmsfep worked the question CIA $2no Thirteen federal itsndards ranging from uniform traffic signal to la drivers test at leait once ev- The Danforth youth jery four year were submitted to the states Thursday for possi- charscd with grand larceny of his father I2 sedan five wounded men One an officer later died of hi wounds "We had much fee power that the North Vietnamese couldn't drag their dead away Adamson said The aeldiera a ln captured machine rune rocket launcher rifle bend grenidei and quantitr of ammunition Cemmunirt fir downed two i helicopter killing on e1 Mipprrt vA crewman and Injuring another cml right proj- Sft Ffi ec hi Ga said he and Spec 4 But Johavon Phlip Hjrm Bingham-wdrS-d I had on NY used grenades to kli no korostodcr of two enemy eoldiers who were that CI 4-NSA re- heading toward one of the ifmhip what- dnwnrd he)icop(eri whtcfi erntov inever" until a landed in the clearing held by few weeks ago Wilcox's battalion When the Sh "Both of ue threw bind gre-Dcpartmcnt ac-'nade and killed them korosAerfredDiea-! said "One had a batooka and foy that the gov- one had aw automatic weapon ernment'i chief They wer trying to get to the espionage armj chopper to blow it up h-vt been Suhtl-! vJI'Club After 100 Years pcoficany a-ud tu wippmt wa Hears Female Speaker for "mtcrTVTioi-' ortivrifs Con fm woman The OA funds i were chaonetodj Addrewc Republican Unit Mojica companies suffering moderate caau-allies The fight continued throufh Thursday and Col Jamei Adamson of Honolulu commander of the border guarding bn rde wild he believed hit mew were blocking a North Vietflimei regiment of eome 7-900 aokjier The American force ha about 2200 men in the different fire baee Enemy gunfire downed on more helicopter Thursday but the craft cratb-ianded in one of the Ameriean landing aooea end there were on earual-tiei Two helicopters had been shot down in the same area Wednesday wih on crewman killed and another wounded Air Foret Flos Thunderthief pilot marking a rwdar srt to mile northwest of Hanoi apot-ed two Communist MIG' but there was no encounter B52 raid on enemy eoneen-tramns South Vktaam mounted with the budge Strat forts flving from Guam to make four strikes between durtc and midnight Tburaday The week was already the Vietnamese new years blood tert and fovse obvious ty mounted on boh side of a tf in which an unoffmal tabulation showed American combat tare- the Billings The two party leader said that Billings doesnt deserve the support of the Republican Legislature because Billings publicly supported Democratic Gov Philip Hoff in the last election lfoff beat Swung by some 21000 vote Shortly after the election the Democratic governor anointed tilings to the bench because Donald O'Brien of Burlington Itcpped down Snelling and Webb made thinly The body was discovered by Miss Gloria Danforth the victim's 12 yearod daughter rnd Patrick Danforth his 14 yeaeold son The children found the body when they returned to their two-story home on Snake Hill Road in North Pownal from Mount Anthony Union High School near Bennington The body was aprswled on the kitchen foor in the house The children ran outside the ble Inclusion In their highway safety program The suggestions are (or comment and review only the Commerce Department said and represent no commitment by the government to Uvetr adoption in the form outlined But official have and they expect do softening of the high- way safety alaodardi similar to Among other thinga be wants! general the tonaf-down of the auto standards published Dt month But on broad of wfiat the got for the aafety regulation and aland arda many other atatea areiooo a ywr or outmoded ped to the The Preiident advocated also! foe more a atrengthening and overhaul of derate legislation aimed at protecting private covered by welfare and i a be pension plana willing to general ie audit of! "if yxj plans more complete ds closure of their financial sctivi- if you tod the slip-weak NSA than a through found-worker waa ulk to Mud-such a u-dent confer-once fnrrverwnt appointment a poliucal workllf 00 BJtrby ALLEN DU4ES psvoff" cables The linemen called atate abroad during those years of the 'to NSA (brnugh found mt and early 50 he aatd "you would orords re found mo find that the Gurrmmista were had meric knimUraitvf grartalftrel A general broadcast ii f1 tv fcrf iiivi md issued over police networks for Vife to dYlh Danforth youth Roadblock set up in North Dorset In factf during the session be once said he would rather fee by the department Under lew each atate must be Implementing by Dee 31 1966 a highway safety program approved by the federal government or fac possible toss of 10 pee cent of Its federal road coo-strueuon money Stat represents Gyes who attended the meeting which the recommendations were outlined questioned federal officials about technical aspects of the standards Thera waa no oul- BOSTON (AP) For time in tta HWyrar hnr I foe wounded musing and to th s' i ideni group These grants jry th Midlroex ckih the oki deed tn South Vietnam have apparently were isuued to knm- ie( Repubbcan organiwr the 1 1" red th 50000 mark mer NSA program both country had a woman apeak nr 1 Aside from more than 40 ckunewte and tnternauonat at anrxiat dinner Thurs Flier killed or captured in NSA the largest college stu- idPy rngnt North Vietnam a total of SflWT dent group the natiofl anh Met Margarrt Heritor who 7353 American killed and million member oo more Uua wu the forfe drWnrt congjrs 42 734 wounded was re tad 3fD campuses makri no bone1 aeat to tong held by during the four dav Tet true lie and other provision to discourage conflict of Interest or thievery by administrators Johnson called too for dosing of loopholes In a 1953 law that has done much to keep flammable clothing off (he market He urged that provisions be expanded to cover such everyday ilema aa bay blankets drspet carpets aod upholstery fabrics Also on the subject of fr aafety the President nked tor (Are Pag 3: rrotertiewa) of the elate He km a judgehip John Krupp Th truce waa a nommat cease fire which was marked by Joseph Martin th fall election fie Lencria OrwLrei to the election to February 1959 Hoff almost named him before the elections but gave lb Judgesh-p to Robert Larrow (foe Pag 7: Billing) Rep Max gave chib (Ac Peg Vtotaam) (See Peg 3: ColtVe 1 about its involvement in the civil rights movement "InvoNement in nviic rights derro hack to the assnewtsoos earliest days" foe NSA kind book says "Unqualified and immediate npprt for th sit-ms cooperation in setting up mt Opponents of Mao Reported making very effective use of them "The conferences had great propaganda value for them and were Influencing the youth to the United States aa well other countries Once NSA sponsored representatives Marled attending thee conferences expound 8g and defending the United Sutes pont of view th picture changed laid Dulles "The Soviet had to retreat in this etui be laid Dull' remarks and the who! nature of In reiationshtp as it bs become known in the last few diyi im ply that th NSA representative! at the international conference were carefully selected and certain to lake at anu Communist politico Were they CIA agents? Wer they screened or selected by the DA? At this point no on is saying Richard Rtearna the NSA vice president for international af Blend of Two Heart Drugs Excels in Treating Angina To Seize Area in Manchuria ivuy in aS area of tTvdi rgb' thrs acLc-ns conwjtutej 1 a proud chapter ta NSA a hs lory The hendboofc dd thet TD1C0 fAP) Backed by a Mongolia Tibet Honan SSiit-dssident Red Oust army tjmt'tung Hunan and Cbekuog prw- siaod on racial bad cost the oci-in control of its Southern foes of Mao Tie lung wer re to hare eeuedj of the sou'hern Up iodustriiiired Manchuria 1 Three pro Ms a Red Guard (were killed and many other! forthrghl equality tioo much membership There wee thev other dev el opmems fire Reporting a rktory for Mao in the south Radio Peking said hi forces bad seised Fukien Province opposite Formosa after a fieroe atrogg involving armed flashes It was th tJih WASHINGTON (AP) A new double barreled drug treatment "appear to be the most exciting aod promising development" against angina pectorui to a century a heart specialist ttid Thursday AL the aim meeting another doctor reported hghly auecesa-fuj results with a recently developed artificial pieemaker ailing heart a eoodtion wherein there is In-aufficient blood aupply to the arteriei feeding the twart Angina attacks are proreprtafod fo such things Is eiercise emotion or a heavy meal Runek gav this outline For the list icio years the most widely used drug treaV meat his been nitrate drugs forieotabiy eitroglyeeria tablet which a patient alip under bia both of the main station I Rutland sod wer taken to the jShaftvbury aubalauoo for ques- I boning The youiha did not offer when arrested police Md i Police had qnl recovered the murder weapon by kite Thurs-idy evening Danforth and Bartey were to Beooiogtoo District i Court si 10 50 tn where they rl cf A rrt cre arraigned before Judge 1 II 5 I 111 Georg Eieohrrg I Plea of Innocent were entered a Ion all counts by the youth BOSTON (AP) A fat ifovi Appointed at attorney for Dan-Jrg powerful windjaorm run-(forth wit William Sennett nng before a cold wave (of Bennington Ally Stephen buffeted much of New England (Gilman of Bennington waa ap-Thurtday with wind up to 8 pointed for Bnwy mies per hour which caused Not being abl to fumuh ball widespread minor damage The US Weather Bureau reported gv(a up to 65 tnph at Hyamw Msm at Providence I Velocity of were docked a Bofon and on Martha's i Vineyard I The winds weit to northwest were in front of cold ware I wbirb the Weather Bureau sad would push temperature near or below seen during the night Accompanying the blustery gal U) tome aectaoss was mixture of ran and mow obituaries Ja the Pinkham Notch area cf (UDtun New Hmphire to Editorial local New Page 13 Windsor County Ntwg Pag 9 TV Theater Pag 10 Pag 16 thunder "arid iSporfl Pg 14 15 records earned Clashes Will ppefl I (hr former sa offci re-iin fTod More wan'of China 21 province rlaimad fair lays the CIA did not pick reived 01007- from the lode-0( Guard were re- by Maoist the-r itroggle to th representative or lnut peSenc Foundatem of Boston uoder arresL (wrest provincial maebasery 'an alleged recipient of CU forces quoted by rom their eoe mica funds Japanese correspondent to thej C2 nr Nation hat report to reports filed with th Inter- Chnrw capital Mid rad Uan declared Cgtitwt had apread that they meet any Ideotogical standard The representative usually U-S atudrnta in achooi port to wa impended Tu-day mght in southern Man chon The situation 10 Dairen land Toft Arthur 11 deeeribcd is lens from Tibet where Mams force are said to be oa the de fermi'e eastward to Siectwa Provioc AoU Maoist wer last reported ta control af meet 01 Revenue Service the fmml atson bted a $3fo "ecboiar-ah-p in J2 for Edward Garvey former NSA president Carver 36 Bur'-nrtnri Wis aid Thursday at the I'nivervity tongue In many eases these drug are quite effective A coups of year aw a new drug agtitud logins waa introduced ta England called peopeanofol hat a different mod of action than the nitratei and baa been warmly praised by tom tsvestigatorn Russek said that ia bia tests the newtg drag proved disappointing But be said be hK upon the idea of a combi nod treatment with nitrate drug and with propranolol and be laid the tie together produced mock better reaults that either atone Th average age of th 12 was 5 be fold newsmen abroad were picked by the president and kiternaUcns vice prrstdeet of the NSA foe am said It may be only eeinrkJenUi that these twq oTGcerf were generally the eoiy once who knew if the onderrwver or-fingement with the OA There hae been report from torn SA member that del-gate to the oversea eonfer-eecee brought back information about Communist youth aciivb Lea which waa turned over to th Da But va w-th this th pla- The separate reports wee given at the annual meeting of the A meric a a College of Car-diokry and amphfied at aewj conference Dr Henry Reek a consultant to the US Public Health Servicaa States Island NY hospital toWI af the still experimental treatment for angina used ao far tn only patients but with what he formed a trying resuita Anew pertana t'-ing crudnsg pain ta (he chest Is one of the anajor forma af cardia Ulnesa chrookally affecting many thouasnda af American It a disease in Jifoelf bet wuaSyta potential- It sX'iF a gootiing leffovee from page WSaAsform) CUlma Pig 1719 taraury attack areotxpaaiea tghtning wer reported la theDear bby Pag 6 The a Iron wind waa blamed jCotki Pag 17 for collapse of a lecfioo of will financial Pag 1 6 at a Providence apartments Industrial devetopment of 1A ineonvio where he attends 1 Manchuria wa atepped up by tow rhno( that he ws not 00 Japanese in the lEtot after the CIA payroll they occupied th regn ta 131 The founds Lon elwt reported and made it the purpet tt that tn IP-4 it pd 14 to Rb- they cad Minchukuo If anU-et Eraon and pvi) to tao irmed forces have gamed Denma Nhauf Franns was idem the upper bind there it would be overthrown ferrous it to ee ufied Thursday 1 a former be the aeven'b matof are 'opertung with Imperial NSA vffra rerrevrotatsve whrre th Maoiet bav suffered jsm ed of Siechwas Foreign Mmlrer Chen Md a Japanese trad group Mao purs wiil tuccessfui withu II month th newspaper Asahi reported He aivi told th Japanese the Soviet leadership would vernas representative Rheul a former 5A president The Rcvtrm fvnwiaton also I Rid-o Peking Hid Mo toM Sunday crushed reversei Previously it was reported (force that miltary forrqi had crocked daw Red Guards ia loner (See Peg ia Red Cktoa) toe Pag 1: Deltoa) (foe Page 1 fo4ewta Idee Papa la I enrtt.