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II Great Services Associated Press AP Wirephoto United Press UPI Photo UPI Business Wire Federal Photo Chicago Daily News Foreign Service L-A Times-Washington Post Service NY Herald-Tribune Service Chicago Sun-Times Service Copley News Service 2 Sljfje Wednesday December 9 1964 PALM BEACH lumt EDITION i No 9 Most Complete Xeicspaper 55tli Year A Latin American Edition is Published Daily 88 Pages 10 Cents Was McCloskey CIA Job a Political Plum? The Langley contract awarded on the basis of competitive bidding was for 35 million dollars Tompkins is largest builder and Jones is among the 10 largest in the world According to letter company was chosen over Tompkins-Jones and the three other because it had other large and projects satisfac-expeditiously for es Admin- completed important torily and the General Service a $35000 kickback for another Washington construction job the plush Stadium CIA job like other government construction was handled by the General Services Administration A spokesman for that agency said early this year in response to newspaper inquiries that competitive bids were omitted because of the nature of the project and a need for speed in building it However when Sen John Williams (R Del) put the same question to GSA Administrator Bernard I that if speed were the main consideration the Tompkins-Jones organization would have been a logical choice It was just finishing the Langley project had been praised by the CIA for its work and had the workers and equipment all assembled for another big project In addition it had completed the necessary security procedures for a contractor of a CIA project These included a special course conducted by the super-secret agency to inform the builders of its peculiar needs and specifications on which to obtain Boutin said McCloskey was chosen as a result of a study of contractors operating in the Washington metropolitan area deemed qualified to perform the The list was narrowed to five builders including McCloskey and Co Also on the list was a joint venture of Jones Construction Co of Charlotte NC and Charles Tompkins Co builders of the main CIA installation at Langley Va Industry sources point out Boutin the reply made no reference to security considerations A copy of letter has been obtained by Knight Newspapers It mentions only a desire for quick construction as the reason for skipping competitive bidding Central Intelligence Agency stressed an urgent and compelling need for the Boutin said a determination was made that the public exigency would not admit of the delay incident to advertising which would have required completed drawings By PHIL MEYER Of Our Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Behind a chain-link fence in Southeast Washington the Central Intelligence Agency occupies a mysterious building erected by Matthew McCloskey The CIA project was handed to McCloskey without competitive bids in November 1961 the first year of the Kennedy administration Members of the Washington construction industry are of near-unanimous opinion that McCloskey got the contract as a reward for his services to the Democratic Party feel it was just a gift made by the politicians to McCloskey in return for past said one builder Tuesday "There was no other reason for it to be handed out that were very much said the head of an-other Washington firm gave it to McCloskey for no reason but politics as far as we could McCloskey former national treasurer of the party was a witness last week in the Senate PvUles Bobby Baker hearings There he denied a charge that he paid Pro-West Premier Guiana Vote Topples arxist Chief lagan Press Wirephoto: WALKING on a hospital porch in Boston are Sen Edward Kennedy and his father former Ambassador Joseph Kennedy Sen Kennedy recuperating from a broken back suffered in a plane crash last June has been walking for the past six days His father went to New York after the visit at New England Baptist Hospital and is leaving for his Palm Beach home today Sen Kennedy is expected to join him there in a week or 10 days on Eastport Maine Where 36 Inches Fell of storms piled white stuff up to the eaves of garages Snow Weighs Down 2 days 1546-Foot Toner Boutin cited Federal Office Turn to Page 2A Col 1 Likely Press Wirephotos 1049 feet above sea level These towers are all located in Hallandale in South Broward The petition to the Cabinet for rental of the state-owned bay property was presented for Coral by John Evans' former press aide to Gov Farris Bryant In addition to providing the site for the transmitter and tower the rental agreement also gives an easement of 1-700 feet in radius from the center of the site for three guy wires which will support the tower 18 Drown In Finland RAUMA Finland (UPI) Fifteen young girls and three soldiers being taken by motor-boat to a military dance drowned Tuesday night when the vessel was rammed by a harbor steamer in heavy rain Sixteen other girls were injured but were rescued by ships fn the area There were 34 persons aboard the military vessel toe 31 teenage girls and the three soldiers who were operating the ship The collision occurred about 220 yards offshore in Rauma harbor The military boat was bringing the young women to a ball sponsored by the Finnish coastal artillery Beatrix Plans Visit THE HAGUE (AP) The Dutch government announced Crown Princess Beatrix will visit the Netherlands Antilles (West Indies) and Surinam (Dutch Guiana) Feb 19-March 10 Roofs Cleaned $14 Coated $49 VVI 7-6465 FR 3-8125 82 Matthew McCloskey without a Itid Reds Lose Possible Foothold GEORGETOWN British Guiana (UPI) Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan whose leftist leanings threatened to give communism its first foothold in South America Tuesday night was turned out of office in British critical General Assembly elections Jagan the 46-year-old Chicago-trained dentist who is married to an American captured the popular vote but failed to win a majority necessary to retain control of the government The results of the balloting mack it necessary for Sir Richard Luyt governor of this racially-divided British protectorate to name a premier who he feels can form a stable government Negro lawyer Forbes Burnham whose Peoples National Congress party was second in the balloting to Peoples Progressive Party thus may be named head of a coalition government Some observers say this is likely Jagan extreme leftist leader of the Indian majority saw his PPP receive 103222 of the more than 225000 votes cast in the crucial election Under the new proportional system announced earlier this year by then British Commonwealth Secretary Duncan San-dys Jagan failed to obtain the absolute majority of votes party received 87-548 votes with 30 of the nation's 35 voting districts tabulated The United Front Party of white businessman Peter had 20846 votes Three of the five districts yet to report are traditionally against Jagan who became British first premier in the 1961 General election There were no outbreaks of violence either Tuesday or in heavy balloting British troops and police force were on guard to stop any outbreaks of trouble Authorities expressed fears the election would be followed by a wave of rioting and arson similar to that which swept the country after Sandys installed the proportional representation system About 200 persons died in the rioting before troops flown from England could restore order If Burnham pro-Western and an arch-foe of Jagan is named premier it would mean the Marxist-Leninist chief of state's downfall on three explosive issues: HIS LEFTIST leanings which opponents said indicated communism would have its first base of operation in South America THE RACISM between Ja-gan's Indian followers and the Negroes in party THE QUESTION of independence from Britain opposed by the Indians Final official returns are not expected before Thursday Baker DeaV Hinted Unionist Cites New York Herald Tribune Wire WASHINGTON boilermakers union officer testified Tuesday it was a that Bobby Baker entered into a lucrative stock' deal with him at about the rime time a 25 million-doliar I'HA-approved loan was extended to a housing project sponsored by his union And a Washington lobbyist who went to the same Senate page school with Baker took the Fifth Amendment rather than tell about a $5000 check which was turned over to the former Senate majority secretary after a California bank the lobbyist represented received a federal charter The lobbyist Wayne Bromley a longtime friend of Baker who regularly used the onetime Senate Capitol office as his working quarters appeared before the Senate Rules Committee and proved to be a man of few public words Claiming that his answers might tend to incriminate him he said in a low halting voice give is my name and These were the highlights of hearing into the circuitous financial dealings of Baker which appear more enigmatic with cach passing development It had been expected that this latest set of hearings could be cleared up in a week but committee sources now report there'is no end in sight Just how far the committee is willing to go in following new ieads will be threshed out in executive session In the past the Democratic majority has favored winding up the investigation while the Republicans have demanded a more thorough airing of the case Maywood Boggs vice president of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders Forgers and Helpers AFL-CIO said that in 1959 on the recommendation of Baker lie purchased $2300 worth of stock in the Mortgage Guarantee Insurance Co a company which has figured prominently in the inquiry About a year later he said he sold the stock to Baker for Turn to Page 2A Col 8 CAREY Kofoed 29D Pearson 7A Landers 4E Sports 1-7D Lippmann 7A Thompson 28D Martenhoff 7D TV-Radio 12D Movies 7E Weather 2A Everybody Shuns Credit $10000 Racing Post is Cabinet Agrees to Rent Land Strip to Channel 6 By KOBERT SHERRILL Capital Bursau Chief TALLAHASSEE -The Cabinet created a $10000-a-year job with the Florida Racing Commission Tuesday but a difference of opinion on whose idea it was Gov-elect Haydon Burns said the idea came from the Racing Commission even though the new man will work directly under the governor To be exact Burns said the idea came from Jack Fiveash a racing commission member from Pensacola But the chair- point Pensacola Mayor Charles Mason to the commission Mason was a strong backer of Burns in I960 and he handled Burns' campaign in Escambia County this year But Burns could not appoint him to the commission until 1967 because that is when the term expires for Fiveash a Pensacola auto dealer Only one member of the Racing Commission can be from the old Third District (which includes Pensacola) and this left Mason out in the cold The new job could bring him man Robert Morgan ofjn0 racing as a kind of quasi Miami said the new post Turn to Page 2A Col 5 SPECIAL A Heavy Blanket of Cold Nips The North And Dixie BOSTON (AP) Bitter cold weather clung to the whole of New England Tuesday and frost moved far into the Deep South Freezing temperatures pierced Southern Georgia the central Gulf Coast and Central Texas Macon Ga recorded an early morning low of 24 tying the record for the date The only relief New England got from the frigid weather were temperatures that inched from far below zero to a few degrees above Snow continued to fall in the area Tuesday Light snow extended west from New England over the Great Lakes and as far south as the Ohio Valley Buffalo NY had two inches of snow Tuesday morning Some communities in Central Indiana added about one inch of snow to the six inches that already blanketed the region 2nd Beatle May Marry LONDON (UPI) A second Beatle plans to be wed it was reported Tuesday The Daily Express said that Paul McCartney who has categorically denied persistent rumors that he would marry 18-year-old actress Jane Asher was asked about the latest one The newspaper quoted him as replying: say that when you asked this question I But McCartney indicated any wedding would not take place for at least two years The only other married Beatle is John Lennon BOAT STORAGE Repairs Brokerage Lauderdale Yacht Basin Inc 2000 SW 20 St Ft Laud Fla JA 2-3655 Adv Planned they sought a new site after the City of Islandia protested to the US Corps of Engineers against the location of the tower and transmitter in its area The proposed tower could make signal the mast powerful in this area The firm estimates it could have a first-class range all the way from South Dade to north of West Palm Beach The present towers in use by the other stations average about 1000 feet in height! Channel 10 has the highest Press Wirephoto LONELY LOLITA Actress Sue Lyon has won a divorce from Hampton Fan-cher III whom she married last December left me alone and the 18-year-old star of complained The pair separated nine months after their wedding Sell or borrow $100 to $100000 or more on your diamonds Jack Werst Diamond Loans 1402 Congress Bldg FR Adv Conflict Rocks MRR By JACK AXDERSOX Herald Radio-TV Editor The Florida Cabinet agreed Tuesday to rent to Coral Television Corp a strip of Bis-cayne Bay land that would be the base for a television antenna tower higher than New Empire State Building The underwater site which the Cabinet will rent to Coral for five years at $100 a year lies south of Key Biscayne Coral proposes to locate there a transmitter and a tower 1546 feet in height for the operation of a new television station on Channel 6 The tower would be the highest structure in Dade County Leon McAskill a Miami Beach publisher and president of Coral said his next move will be to seek approval by the Metro Zoning Board of the proposed installation as well as approval by the Federal Aviation Agency of the height Coral also will need the approval of the Federal Communications Commission because the new location would put the station 2148 miles from Orlando's Channel 6 The engineering requirements usually are that stations of like channel number be 220 miles apart move caught the local television industry by surprise The firm originally had planned to Install its transmitter and a tower only 339 feet in height on Ragged Key Xo 4 just north of Is-landia in the south bay The firm's officials said Chuckle An adolescent is one who when not treated like an adult acts like an infant TV commercials bug you? Write MUTER-MATIC Inc Box 1208 Key West Fla-Adv With everything going for it Manuel Artime's exile group is torn by inner conflict and outer complaint put in the budget at the request of Mr And another member of the racing commission Joe Bill Rood of Bradenton said he know anything about the new office at all Neither Morgan nor Rood knew what the new would do to earn $10-000 guess he would be some sort of a PR (public relations) said Morgan Both said the commission had been running very well without the proposed help Meanwhile several high insiders of the racing industry agreed that the job was created to get Burns out of an embar-J rassing position brought about by his alleged promise to ap- SHOPPING DAYS LEFT CHRISTMAS SEALS fight T8 and other RESPIRATORY DISEASES i SOME young people should slay away from college and learn a valuable skill says U3 Chamber President Walter Carey 30D i HAVE YOU SEEN the gifts for the pet that has everything? 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