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mmKHt-KKIBItL-Hmdo E.enimj, Miy 12, (969 MAKSFIELD TO SEEK PASSAGE OF FULBRIGHT.SPONSORED MEASURE Senators Want To Be Consulted On Future "Vietnams" Mv JACK BRUT, My JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) Sen ale: Democratic Leader Mik Mansfield says he will seek pas sago next month of a resolution calling on President Nixon ti consult with the Senate befor sending U.S. troops into any fu ture Vietnam-like situation. The resolution, which woiil not be binding on the President would piit the Senate on recon as saying the chief executiv should not send American forces into fighting abroad with out prior consultation unless na tional security was directly in volved, action, sponsored b. long-time Vietnam critic Sen. W.

Fulbright, is an out growth of criticism, agains President Lyndon B. Johnson" use of the Tonkin Gulf resolu tion to justify his expansion the U.S. role in Vietnam. Approved Kald Order That resolution approved Johnson's ordering American air raids against North Vietnam following alleged attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf in 1964.

Mansfield said passage woulc help "restore the powers anc the responsibility which the Sen has permitted to erode away willingly." "It would establish a partner ship in foreign affairs between the legislative and executive branches," he said. "It would not encroach on the President's powers in any situation calling for instant action. It would no diminish the power of the presl d'ency, it would give it added strength." Mansfield conceded he hac personally intervened to action on a similar resolution when Johnson announced las he would not run again. j' Dirksen Uncertain "But he insisted that his 'deci sjon to' 'ask or' next month on the proposal involves no attack on Nixon's presiden tlal prerogatives, Senate Republican Leader Ev erett M. Dirksen of Illinois was not so sure that passage of the resolution by the Democratic controlled Senate would not be Ipterpreted as an attack on Nix on's prerogatives as Command er-in-Chief.

rHe said in a separate inter view that State Department offi trials had complained to him the resolution was loosely drawn. But Dirksen said opposing would involve a "difficult deci slon" since he shares the com rnon yearning among senators for a greater voice in foreign policy decisions under the Con stitution's advise and consen clause. a question of how you up this authority," he said. "It depends on how you in terpret the advise and consen clause." rThe resolution has the power fQl backing of Sen. Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Commit tee.

'Only Sen. Gale W. McGee, D- who supported Johnson's Vietnam policies, voted agaSnsi tb'e resolution in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which is headed by Fulbright. Church Building Being Converted Into Gun Plant JMIAMI House of is being converted into a house of guns. Eig, who use to import inexpensive guns but was stopped by the gun control act 01 1J)5S, has been making his own line of cheap weapons.

Business isf booming and Eig needs more room. he bought the First Pentecostal Holiness Church and wil! soon be turning out thousand of handguns. Eig says the Pentecostal church building has bpen for sale for about two years. Membership had been dropping, he says, because ol growing industrialization of the neighborhood." think we did them a favor by buying it," he says. won't reveal how manj guns he is producing now or how many he will be able to turn out when the church con Version is completed.

But he predicts he'll be one of the biggest manufacturers of handguns, shotguns and rifles in the na- tSon in a few years. most popular item is a .22 caliber pistol which sells for under $30. The gun is a copy of a now-banned weapon he formerly imported from Ger many. Miami police say the Eig gun is frequently carried by slum youths in their early teens 'Dade County Homicide Lt Bobbie Jones says "30 to 40 per cent of the homicides in the county are committed with 'Eig- type' guns." discounts the charge he is making arms available to irresponsible persons in the black ghcttoes. see them wearing alligator shoes," he said.

"They afford expensive guns." Veteran Texas Officer $uff ers Heart Attack (AP) Sheriff Woodrow Blanton, about 49, suffered what his doctor described as a severe heart attack early Sunday. physician said the veteran peace officer was responding to treatment at Sherman's Community Hospital. 'Blanton has been sheriff of Grayson County for 20 years atjd. in 1960 was cited as the No. 1 sheriff in Texas.

QUAKER CONSERVATISM STILL RULES Nixon's Hometown Of WJiittier Not Give Up Its Old Habits By KELLY SMITH TUNNE1' WHrrriER, calif. CAP) A noonday sun, careening through a sullen haze, fingers dusty shadows between the gas pumps. Another car rolls In off the busy six-lane highway anc Henry Akard muses aloud that like it or not, Whittier is changing- "Say, mister," asks the motorist, "is this the place?" Akard, a rangy man with blue-gray eyes, smiles and nods affirmatively. His gas pumps stand on the spot where President Richard M. Nixon tended the family grocery store.

In Yorba Linda, 15 miles across rolling hills to the southeast, Dodie EHingson is fixing peanut butter sandwiches in the frame house where Richarc Nixon was born. Nixon Country This is' Nixon country, anc these are Nixon people. Here, in the foothills of snowcapped mountains, between the ocean and the great American desert, is the birthplace and boyhood home of the nation's 37th president. In the early 1900s, after the flamboyant era of Spanish exploration, before the jet, this rural Southern California valley basked under blue skies amid white orange; blossoms on rows of citrus trees marching to the horizon. i People didn't come here often is off the main when they came, they stayed.

To the north and cast are Death Valley and the vast Mojave Desert. To the south are peaks and the arid, rocky lowlands into the shoulder of Mexico. Looking to the west, from a high hill, one can see the Pacific. Resist Change Today, in stark contrast to the growth convulsions in mushrooming, populated Southern California, Whittier and Yorba than an hour's drive From Los Stubbornly resisted change "This is the kind of says Mrs. W.

A. Robinson', an old guard Whittierite, "where boys go to the dean of students if their hair Is too long." -J Nixon country is the kind of where homecoming and the senior prom are major events, where Boy Scout Troop 175 weeds city parks, and where nearly everyone buys Camp'fire Girl candy. It's a church-going community. Wednesday night prayer meetings pack in a sizable attendance. a town whore volunteers raised more than the needed send its high school band to a President's inauguration.

No Parking Folks here say Los'Angeles is a cement ogre to be visited only vith discretion. smog, hey say, is not as smelly as asadena smog. Pasadena is he area social barometer. Over Whittier's main street, a banner advertises the Lions jay. Women's hemlines are discreetly knee-length, or longer.

A downtown dress shop displays stiff crinoline slips and pointed -i. Above, a street scene 'in Whittier, Calif, where President Nixon spent his boyhood. Below, a resident of Nixon's birthplace Cilif her flag as each storekeeper in: the town does. The can easily swing by. Resi- on." settlcd by Whittie dents who visit elsewhere say There was a skirmish between they are now greeted with: Whittier and Yorba 1 yes, Nixon's which could claim Nixon, th, ometown!" President.

Nixon, the vice presi There's considerable pride in dent, was a mutual commodity the local boy at 1600 Penrisylva- nia Avenue, but other manifestations of that prominence are not altogether welcome. Some feel more tourists means more hamburger stands, more neon, more coin laundries, roadside vendors and general commercialization by what they Sunset call the Angeles Strip element Schools Praised safe town," says Mrs. Glen E. Remick, president of Whittier's oldest social clan, the Women's Club. "We have excellent schools and a good at- uaimei- iiuvciuaub uic mosphere for raising families.

Club horse show. There are rib People here wouldn't want that )arking meters. They were to change." tried once, but people wouldn't "Clean" and are frequently heard adjectives. Some businessmen, like Hu- Perry, a banker whose shoes, styles considered frumpy flc tlmc metropolitan circles Wnltier looked beyond the city One cannot buy a cocktail in fllm ts more mter- downtown Whittier. And it wasn't so long ago that protest- ng parents successfully barred 'Butterfield-S" and "Splendor the Grass" from local movie louses, as being too seductive 'or the "Whittier is the Midwest with palm trees," says Dorothy Curry, 'a native Californian who moved here to avoid what she the "movie industry element.

It's unsophisticated." Inquiries Mount Since Nixon's election, there lave been increasing numbers of inquiries from school children, travel agencies, national news media. Tourists from the icavily-travcled Los Angeles- national" in scope. 'Whittier has wanted to remain isolated," says Gerald W. Hathaway, manager of the local Chamber of Commerce. "Some are trying to change the image, from old Quaker conservative to high middle class." Hathaway contends that with planning, the population today would be 250,000 instead of 73,337.

Whittier, doubled in size only eight years ago by annexing territory, a move which barely inched through the city council. Oldtimers say 73,000 is too big. Skirmish Settled Signs entering Whiltier have a postcript tacked at the bottom: of Richard M. Nix yard, an address longer than the street, a modest two-story call itself the "hometown" and Yorba Linda the "birthplace" the President. The mayor of Whittier, an ar ticulate Democrat named Marl lyn Hofstetter, may yet throw everyone out 'of kilter! "I'd saj this was his former she says.

"I assume that New York is his hometown now." The Chamber Commercp had no comment, biit its manag er, Hathaway, took Mayor Hof stetter to lunch. Whittier was formed back in 1SS7 as a Quaker retreat anc named for the poet John Green leaf Whittier. Nixon's grand father, Frank Milhous, was one of its first settlers. "Still Kip Deal" "It's still a big deal to be a birthright Mayor Hofstetter, who isn't one. Nixon is, since both his parents were Whereas Whittier is green anc lush, Yorba Linda is the gate way to the desert.

Surrounding hills' are covered with tumble weed, blown by winds through the canyons. ha; to irrigated. Yorba. Linda looks much the same today a's it did when Nix on was a boy. There's one main street.

On it is thej white clap'- board meeting house his father Francis, helped found for the Society of Friends. Pink and white flower pots perch on porch railings, Chil dren's swings sway under the willows. People; here like to say they "get up with the At noon, shops for an hour and children at the Nixon school go home for lunch At 1S061 Yorba Linda Boule THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW By SHORTEN A1N 7 WHIFFLE ADVICE? WHEH rte NOT SQUIRED, POP DELIVERS IT 6V "THE BUSHEL I HOPE VOU BRUSHED VOUR i TOMORROW, MO DOhTT TUB GEOMETRY PROBLEM! HELP ISWEAlW HEEDEDOH 50ME- frame house sits on a dirt roat far off the widened pavement. A black: and white sign mountet on a new chain fence says "Birthplace of Richard M. Nix on." Plan To Stay Dodie and Vince Ellingson live there with their three young children.

They like it and plan to stay until it's made a perma nent museum. "It's our kind of house," says pert, brunette Dodie. "Excep on Sundays. Sundays people come and peek in the windows I don't like that much." No one around Yorba Linda likes to be peeked at. In surrounding arroyos and barrancas, hidden from view to the casual passerby, are homes selling from 525,000 to $150,000.

People who live there, mostly executives or retirees, are as.in- tent on isolation as the early scttlrs. Surrounding communities have labeled it "Beverly Hills South." "Exclusive is the word," says Edward R. Burke, former station master. "Have you noticed that ail of our one or dead No one would live on a through settlers. Yorba Revealed Linda gets its name from a colorful Spaniard named Bernardo Yorba who used to live nearby in a 200-room ha cienda with 100 servants, three wives and 25 children.

They say there's a rich Yorba treasure buried in the hills, still to be found. And on moonlit nights, local legend tells of a fair-haired Yorba daughter seen wandering in the canyons singing softly to a guitar, waiting for her lover to return from Spain. Today's folklore hero is Nix on. In the WhiUier-Yorba Linda area there are said to be some 150 Milhous cousins. Sixty-seven relatives made the plane trip to the inauguration.

There's quiet, shy Bill Milhous, Nixon's cousin, who runs a seafood restaurant in Whit- "I don't remember too much. People ask all the time," he says, "but I reaily can't remember a lot." Few Stories Told Bill is typical. One finds that this modest community ivhere dozens knew, went to school with, practiced lnw with, Three Acquitted In Death Of Negro Leader MERIDIAN, Miss. A federal court jury Saturday acquitted three men charged in the death of Hattiesburg Negro leader, Vernon F. Dahmer Sr and a mistrial was declared for seven other defendants.

After deliberating 11 hours and 22 minutes, the all-white jury of six men and six women returned verdicts of innocen for William Travis Giles, Frank Lyons and Lester Thornton. Th mistrial came when the jury said it was hopelessly dead locked in the cases of Sam Bowers Henry Edward De Boxtel, Deavours Nix, Charles Richard Noble, Cecil Victor Ses sum, William Thomas Smith and Charles Clifford Wilson. The government accused the 10 Jones County men of plottini the Jan. 10, 1966, firebomb at tack on Dahmer's home anc store in the Kelly settlemen near Hattiesburg. Dahmer, who had encouraged Negroes to reg ister to vote, died several hours after! the predawn attack.

U.S. Dist. Court Judge Dan Russell ordered DeBoxtel, Nix and Noble released under $5,000 bond pending retrial "as soon as possible." Bowers, former imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Ku KIux Klan; Sessum, Smith and Wilson have been convictec in state court of charges stem ming from the Dahmer attack or are awaiting retrial. Bowers received mistrials in state court on charges of mur der and arson in the Dahmer case. He was sentenced to years in federal-prison follow ing his conviction on conspiracy charges in the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers in ad joining Neshoba County.

Dirt Isn't Road Builders Find LOS ANGELES (AP) Dirt isn't cheap, after all. The California Division of Highways starts today to collect dirt from construction sites, storing it for use next year for a freeway embankment. The saving, a spokesman said $600,000. debated against Richard Nixon few people remember much more than he was a nice boy in a nice town from a nice family Perhaps because there's a lack of individual tales, one tends to hear Home stories re peatedly. They go this way, ant are already folklore in Nixon country.

Vignette No. 1: a la Tom Saw yer. Young Richard, the story goes, was a lawbreaker. He spent summers swimming in the off-limits irrigation ditch which ran by his house in Yorba Linda. Not only that, but he en couraged others to join him.

For his devilment, he frequently go spanked. Vignette No. 2: Little Elmore. Ma (Mrs. Cecil) Pickering is often says truthful how a youthful Nixon teased her son, Little Elmore.

Ma says she soundly paddlec Richard and Richard didn't re peat his aggression. Vignette No. 3: Road to the presidency. When he was 11, lore says, he overheard his fiery Irish father denouncing the Teapot Dome scandal and is said to have told his mother, Hannah: "When I fjet big, I'll be a lawyer who can't be bribed." Vignette No. 4: Duffer on the bench.

For four years, he was on the Whittier College football squad but never earned a letter be cause he spent game time warming the bench. "He played tackle and played it welt," say; the coach, Wallace Newman "but the kid was'just too There's one tale which camo to light during a celebration lonoring the then President-e Icct in January, Told by Merle tVest, a' cousin, it aptly illustrates the Whittier of today and yesterday. When they were teenagers West told the gathering, he and Richard had to sneak off to Los Angeles to see the world. On one occasion they went to town to attend a movie, but instead were diverted around the comer to attend the burlesque. Asked to remember the details, West said that he couldn't 'except that Mickey Rooney's father was the comedian." Nixon, asked for details, said that he couldn't either "at the moment." And from the rear of the audi- orium came a discernible sigh of relief.

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They got a license and considerable publicity about it. "Then I learned more about him," her letters says. "He was using me. He stuck me with hotel and restaurant bills. Not only that, he beat me up." Her letter just alerts me to the fact that, although women are supposed to have become wiser since their liberation there are many who are still allowing men to live off of them.

Curiously, the women taken advantage of by male phonies are very often the most beautiful gals around. Which will make all the plain girls say, "Sure, beautiful but dumb. We always knew that." Dustin Hoffman set out to keep his marriage a secret and succeeded. He and Anne Byrne are in hicljng here, honeymooning, after a small wedding in a Chappaqua synagogue. After a reception at the bride's parents' home, they eluded the fan magazines and made their way to a Manhattan sneakaway.

Hoffman's parents came in froirTL. A. Hoffman, 31, and his 25-year-old bride, a former ballerina, plan a longer honeymoon later. Secret Stuff: A major movie company may startle Hollywood in a few months. It hasn't had a hit in a time.

Banks are tightening up on credit. The former Countess Christina Paolozzi (Mrs. Howard Benin) is asking for advice. She and her husband were planning a party in their Park Av. apt.

May 21, with two rock groups and a couple of hundred the Bellins were notified by lawyers for the Tenants Corp. that "such an event would be in violation of" the house rules. "This distresses me-what can we do legally?" asks Christina. "What's the use of paying for a giant apartment, a fantastic maintenance if you're not allowed to use it?" STREISAND'S dating Charles Evans handsome texilionaire brother of Bob Evans, head of Paramount Pictures Robin Moore's book, "The French Connection," about the drug traffic here, may cause the assassination of a huge narcotics huckster because it reveals that he "voluntarily" testified before nc i Herb A 'P ert 's album "Warm" has a song, Her and him just separated from his wife Sharon C-leasons 6-golf-course supperckib in Florida includes a golf stadium with a cluster of scats at each hole so spectators never get on the course. One of the rare visitors to Howard Hughes' Las Vegas' penthouse reportedly was ex-film star Richard Arlen, a couple of weeks ago Restaurateur Joe Kiphess sold Hippy's and (with Irving Karter) bought out his former partner Arthur Schmdler Hawaii Kai Singer Morgana King, due to open May 19 at the Rainbow Grill, had to cancel auto accident At Danny's: A couple of Oscar-winners and a Bird-Lee Marvin, Anne Bancroft, Luci Bird Johnson Nugent (with her husband Pat) Ava Gardner, watching The Kids From Spam at the Chateau Madrid, had six male escorts Veteran comic Jack Durant, who was shot in the scalp by a holdup man, has recovered after surgery and will start a European tour The Singing Cowsills will do a guest ap- j)earancc next the Minneapolis Symphony Second Holdup Victim Dies DALLAS (AP) A second man died Sunday of wounds suffered in a holdup shooting two Dallas insurance company collectors.

He was Dennis K. Thorman, 2-5, and attendants said he did not regain consciousness after being shot May 5. His partner, James L. Kirtiey, 25, was killed the same night. Police said two robbers shot each man in the head as they sat in a parked car counting money collected from policv holders in a West Dallas project.

The Jioldup netted only $11, officers said. Complaints charging murdor have been lodged against Willis Griffin, 21, who was arrested May 8 at his home, and Sherman Collins, still at large. Asians Seeking Military Pact BANGKOK (AP) Nationalist China's defense minister Chiang Ching-kuo arrived in Bangkok today for a five-day visit that may mean a new step toward an expanded Asian military alliance. Chiang wa met at Bangkok's military airport by the prime minister, Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, and other military ana political leaders. Some observers believe that Nationalist China is anxious to ioin a regional defense alliance and that Thailand and South Korea support this.

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