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Page I I VOL 69 NO 303 BARREMONTPEUER VERMONT THURSDAY MARCH 10 1966 16 PAGES PRICE -I Short Power Bill Study Is Favored By Committee Reds Overwhelm Ashau American Troops Are Lost Senate Passes Vt Highway Project Bill Vermont Prod Surratt The Senate passed the I miles north of Saigon said his hindered the American pilots men "fought every Inch of the flying in almost over the tree! way" and he thought the Communist toll also high topi Until the end the American Vermont Pri Bureau House Senate committee ofj attorney left the final decision mittee of conference on the pow- Sen Frederick Fayette D- conference broke up after five until this morning so Rep Law- er bill has been taking ht "tentative-! nait from Mallary The Housa speaker save he bomr the bill Best Arrangement Hoff at a morning nv con- wy acceleration bill on a 1 1 morning the committee of n- ly agreeing to disagree" could consult with House Speak "Green Berets" and their tough 'itagea and messaged It back to iterance on the big Canadian Decision Delayed er Richard Mallary of Fatriee angular-shaied fortress after Itlllttle Mantagnard troop clung be House this morning afterpower bill has agreed to let However the SouthBurlington Franklin who la on the com had been pounded into ruins and doggedly to a single bunker on brief explanation and no real the Legislative Council study he Chittenden-Grand Isle said this hours of deliberation rence Franklin R-Gutifonl Bv THOM AS A REEDY SAIGON South Viet Nam (AP North Vietnamese regular overwhelmed the isolated Ashau Special Force camp tonight after a fierce two-day fight put up by several hundred mountain tribesmen and their 15 to 20 US advisers The commander of the US Special Forces detachment at of Special Forces In the area 360 flames by Red attack and US planes trying to drive them off Heavy clouds at tlmea cutting the celling to 200 feet seriously the camp's northern trench Rue I matter until July 1 The attackers were described The 133 9 million bill will now At that time Gov Philip a a reinforced North Vietnam- be over In the House for Hoff can decide whether he will esc regiment Originally they day and then go to the gov- call he Legislature back -had been thought to be two com- cmor office to be signed Into special session to consider btll once again Fayette who ia Hoff i i counsel on power matters and The bill call for a sweeping program of reconst rue 1 1 of entire arterial highway sya- sponsor of the bill which would before 1980 and also for a create a non-profit vehicle to million emergency program import Canadian power re-of spot improvements to criti-P0 the agnomen just before section the assembly convened this sR lianiet 200 or so men of lw regular Viet Cong troop Before the collaiwe helicopters flew out "a certain number of defenders" Lacey said He gave no figures The camp was defended by 15 to 20 Americans and about 300 Montagnards they had trained Three US aircraft two planes and a helicopter were lost in the determined effort to save the camp The Communist capture of the the tern $5 cal bill West Line A Priority Given special priority In the are stretches of road from Rutland to the New York along Route 4 and from Rutland to Pownal along Route morning Compromise Fayette said "We have given in on some points but were firm on insisting the report of the Legislative Council be made to the governor by July Last night Fayette and the other five members of the camp dominated retorts from 7 fcrence said he cithered the best arrangement that could ha madp ia to have the council study the power matter and re port back July 1 Hoff said he Mould have to accept this decision because it la "too important of a bill to let die" The governor said there would be a "good likelihood for a one to two-day special session to consider the power bill again" Laat night Fayette and four other memlwrs of the committee of conference were pressing for an agreement by which the council could study the bill and if it agreed with the Senate version of the bill it would automatically become law Opposed However Franklin and Rep Luther Hackett R-South Burlington resisted and voted against the suggestion 1 Under the rules if two members from the same chamber vote against a proposal in a I conference committee the pro-jposal dies The Fayette side of the com-I mittee of conference gave in on jthe point of allowing the bill to become law if the council approved the Senate version after I extensive study 1 The Senate voted to set up a non-profit corporation to float $400 million In bonds to buy i sell and transmit 21 million kilowatts of Canadian power to i Vermont and New England by 1971 The House adopted amendment and shuttled whole problem to the Legislative Council If the House and Senate agree to accept the committee of conference report the Hoff bill will remain alive The session adjourns Satur day night the fighting zones Elsewhere in South Viet Nam the Communists showed little stomach for combating the US Vietnamese and other Allied forces hunting them down gs A flurry of speculation dominated the political scene as Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and other members of the ruling military junta met under heavy security at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport While Vietnamese air force planes circled overhead and tanks and troops guarded the com(ound the military leaders held a special session amid a flurry of reports that one of its most powerful members Lt Gen Nguyen Chanh Thi might be removed as commander of the 1st Army Corps This is the zone that includes Those sections will be built four lanes except for a new stretch of two-lane road in the Danby area and are scheduled for completion by 1972 Also given priority in the bill are a section of beltline in Burlington and a stretch Route 2 between Danville and St Johnsbury Sens John O'Brien D-Chit-tenden-Grand Isle and Edward Janeway R-Windham urged the Senate to adopt the proposal The only note of caution was injected by Sen George Morse -Caledonia who said he hoped a one-cent gas a would be passed The gas tax was passed in the House to help finance the bond issue but both Gov Philip Hoff and Janeway say they It Farm Income Hits Record In 1965 WASHINGTON (API The Agriculture Department reported today that the average income of farm operators and the entire farm population reached record highs in 1965 Farm operators were said to have earned an average of $4-280 after deducting production costs This compared to $3486 in 1964 The per capita income of the farm population was reported at $1510 compared with $1370 in 1964 These figures include eamings on and off farms The figures were in a report bearing out earlier forecasts that the 1965 net income of LAURA AND FRIEND President Johnson holds one-year-old Laura Baggett after honoring posthumously her father Maj Joseph Baggett at the White House President Johnson presented widow who lives in Fairfax Va and his mother Mrs Martha A Baggett oak leaf clusters to the Distinguished Flying Cross the Air Medal the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Purple Heart (AP Wirephoto) the fallen Ashau Special ForcesL needed camp Thi ha long been known Spnatp Finance for his independent ways Thej show of force by Ky who still commands the air force was jdescribed as a precaution and in tee has voted against raising the gas 65 to 75 cents per it is the Mallary Quells Con Con Move WOOD SMOKE not gas Pulpwood in two of the 35 derailed cars caught fire in mishap in Charlemont Mass (AP Wirephoto) Deadly Gas Car Derailed Charlemont Mass Cleared CHARLEMONT Mass (AP) ton and Maine Railroad freight plant at nearby Rowe sent One town was evacuated and train went off the tracks her suits and gas masks for the officials considered clearing Wednesday were evacuated railroad workers to wear while two others today while railroad early today righting the car crews prepared to remove aj Another 25 families were Donald Raymond Civil Detank car of deadly chlorine gas evacuated from their homes in fense district head said police from the wreckage of a freight 1 adjacent Buckland blocked all roads leading into car derailment Police Chief Cyrus Annear of Charlemont Only persons with Officials of Charlemont Buck-1 Charlemont said the tank car protective clothing and gas land and Shelburne Falls met atj was not leaking masks were allowed in the the local State Police barracks! He said people were being area Vermont pm Bureu confusion reigned in the House House Speaker Richard for several minutes farmers as a whole would be Mallary today shot down an at- The speaker went into billion compared with tempt to save the bill calling for ence with House Clerk Robert a constitutional convention Picher then put the lower cham-The Fairlee Republican lead- at ase while he tried to find er of the 135 GOP legislators a wa? out of the parliamentary and the highest elected Repub- maneuver lican official in the state ruled Mallary who has said he sees that an attempt to tack the con- 10 nee tor a constitutional con- billion $129 billion in 1964 The 1965 eamings were the largest since 1952 The income of the farm population was 63 per cent of the average eamings of the House OKs Commercial Code Bill Vermont Pres Bureau The House suspended all of Its rules on voice votes today and passed and sent to Gov Philip Hnff ti massive commercial code bill to decide if more families should be evacuated before the crews began trying to put the tank car back on the tracks The 800 residents of Charle-rront where 35 cars of a Bos- nonfarm population The latter in 1965 was reported at $2405 compared with $2317 in 1964 Gross farm income in 1965 reached a record high of $444 billion up $22 billion from 1964 But farm production costs rose about $1 billion to a record high of $303 billion The 1965 income average by states and comparison with 1964 included: Maine $8274 up 88 per cent New Hampshire $1482 up 155 Vermont $3254 up 21 Massa- no way connected with any coup attempt The bad weather that plagued the defense of Ashau also curtailed air raids against North Viet Nam Air Force and Navy pilots were limited to radar-guided runs in the Vinh area but reported some hits on Route 15 a Communist supply line running south from Vinh Throughout the siege of the Special Forces camp thick clouds kept US planes from providing the effective air support that might have saved the camp only a few flying time by jet from Da Nang 60 miles away "We sent in a whole flock of helicopters but the ceiling closed right in on them" said Col McKean Another plane was lost in the final hours of the fighting but the pilot was rescued in a daring and heroic feat An A1E Skyraider was shot down at 11:35 am while making a second napalm run over the camp Although the wreckage was aflame the pilot managed to crawl out with minor bums Under a burst of machine-gun fire Air Force Maj Bernard Fisher 39 of Kuna Idaho landed his Skyraider on the rough air strip and picked up the pilot Maj Stafford Myers of Newport Wash who (Continued on page two) stitutional convention i-sions onto an historic sites board bill was out of order Rep William Mikell Williston made two attempts to save the convention bill and was ruled out of order both times His defeat came at the hands past day or so through stalling of Rep Donald Milne R- tactics were also surprised Washington who raised a point of order on the grounds that silent on a point of parliamentary procedure Conservatives who have led a silent attack on the bill for the Waiting in the wings is a mo- 1 the bill to inSUTC VTCWins Backing For Aeaie Course The 233 page bill is making uniform all banking laws and is commercial unanimous 1 tax from gallon and expected Senate will go along with that recommendation The acceleration program allows two things It allows the roads to be built three to five years ahead of schedule And it also allows them to be built four lanes instead of two The department has already been authorized bonds and federal money to build them two-lane and the extra $289 million will allow four-lane construction The additional $5 million will go into a crash three-year program of spot improvements It will include building er lanes widening bridges and eliminating bad curves in all sections of the state The crash program will only take place on roads not scheduled for reconstruction in coming five years who is chairman of the Highway Committee used a written text for the first time this session He said the people of southwestern Vermont have received "nothing but promises for th last 10 and receive anything but promises for 10 years more if the bill were not passed "Highways are important to the economy of the state to industry to agriculture and to he said "The arterial roads serve the same function the railroads did a century ago" The South Burlington Democrat said Vermonters "have always been fair and square in their dealings but those people (in southwestern Vermont) have been left out of the highway pic- choice man and wife touched ure completely on the tenseness of the day and also made a strong those ahead 'pitch for the improvements pro- Speaking directly to the new gram saying that bad roads Dutch prince he mentioned thejeause Vermont to have the hours which were cer-jhighest accident rate in the tainly not easy for and country pre-j Mrs Henry Noga said she cautionary iwas awakened at 6 am and The tank car was lying upside told to evacuate down partially beneath a box was leaving" she car i said "Not too many knew The Yankee Atomic power where they were going They were just getting Mrs Noga her husband and three children went to nearby Greenfield to wait until it was safe to return home The tank car was one of 35 cars that derailed about one mile west of Charlemont Wednesday The derailment the Randolph course serves ahout a half mile of The Senate adopted a House-j those boys who want to go back 1 00 approved resolution today which 'nt0 farming and not enter the reaffirms the de- side of they dld sire in keeping the two-year: Sen Walter Wheatley R-Or- course ange said a large percentage ofipolice spokesman said the car contained enough gas to spread over a 6-mile area if the tank ruptured A Civil Defense headquarters was established at Charlemont Town Hall to supervise the evacuation i'l i Hoff had requested two year agricultural course and th amonrimont woe nnf trorl011 use(J jn most f)f (bp s(atps jn the the amendment was not ger- that jt does not come up for con- pnmtrv mane to the bill under consider-s air)orotiAn thi mn i chusetts $5135 up 27 Rhode jation Island $2500 up 37 Connecticut! Mallary was obviously taken $5917 up 24 aback at the surprise move and I (Continued on Page Sixteen) sideration this session it brings Vermont in line with The bill was originally intro-i practices used throughout the nation Rep Peter Giuliani R-Montpe- Mansfield Doubts Johnson Plans Haiphong Blockade lier urged the House to pass the bill because "it would have Vermont join the 20th Century her fore the 20th Century is Conservative Rep Fred West-phal R-Elmore urged the House to suspend its rules and consider the bill out of order Clark and Church announced' has cost a lot of money they would vote for the bill but 'to print It should get considera-agreed with Sen George Me-j tion instead of going down the Govern D-SD that this would Westphal said Dutch Princess Is Wed Police Club Demonstrators House Majority Leader Lawrence Franklin R-Guilford not reflect ratification" of the conduct of the war or indi- the president of the University of Vermont and the provost of the Vermont State Colleges to consider putting the two-y ear farming course under the control of UVM The governor has asked Pres- ident Shannon McCune of UVM and Robert Babcock provost of the Vermont State Colleges to study the possibility The Vermont State 1 leges ization including $275 million in emergency funds for South Viet Nam Sen JW Fulbright D-Ark chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee turned over management of the measure to Sen John Sparkman D-Ala Fulbright a critic of Viet Nam policies said he lacked enthusiasm for the bill The committee in recommending approval of the measure Wednesday said it has doubts expenditures in South Viet Nam will provide a better life for the people there the military situation the committee said aid program is likely to be little more than a holding operation keeping the wolves of rampant inflation away from the door cate any future commitment also urged favorable considera-The bill already has passed the tion House I Vermont lawyers have been Mundt said he suspects that in trying to get the bill passed for time there will be action to halt years the shipping of supplies to North: Viet Nam "I think the time is going to! come when we will have to act to cut off the supplies that are going into Mundt said "There are several ways it! can be done and I would not be surprised if some action is taken Mansfield said however that Taylor was speaking on his own mors swept through Moscow Bv JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said today he does not believe President Johnson is giving consideration at this time to proposals to blockade North Viet Nam ports Mansfield said in an interview he thinks any action to mine the harbor of Haiphong bomb the docks there or intercept supply ships would bring a confrontation with the Soviet Union that might drive the Soviets and the Chinese Communists closer together He gave his views as a feeling of uneasiness spread among some senators that Johnson may be considering fresh action to diminish military supplies reaching the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam Sen Karl Mundt R-SD a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said in a separate interview that this feeling is based on a statement by Gen Maxwell Taylor that he is inclined to believe the time has been reached to mine the Haiphong harbor from the air to cut off shipping Taylor a part-time presidential adviser said he was giving only his personal opinion But By JAMES KING 128-year-old "smiling AMSTERDAM The Nether-land her bridegroom as the lands (AP) Crown Princess i bridal procession moved through would retain the two-y a Beatrix the future queen of the I Amsterdam course in Randolph Netherlands married a hand-' A simple civil ceremony in The House voted 123-14 in German diplomat today City Hall preced-vor of keeping the course there as 1000 demonstrators tried to ed the glittering church wedding Sen Derick Webb R-Chit- march on the palace before a gathering of said: "I am certain that as tenden-Grand Isle said there is Club-swinging police beat them dwindling royalty more people meet you and our a definite need for this type of back The traditional marriage oath nation comes to know you bet- institution I The bridegroom Claus Von heed and was omitted ter their confidence in you and "Most of the boys who grad- Amsberg 39 grew up under from the rites of the Dutch Re- respect for you will grow" uate from the agricultur a 1 Hitler and as a youth served in formed Church Europeans watched the cere-of some of the bridges courses at UVM go into the pro-the German army The mar- Amid the pomp and pageantry monies over television in the are almost falling down fessional side of farming like riage made him a prince of the a restlessness ran through the countries covered by the Euro- the people knew the condi-the Extension Webb Netherlands entitled him to an Dutch nation where five years vision network Ition of the bridges in this state said annual allowance of $83000 and of Nazi wartime occupation left The emphasis of the day was: they would rise up in he Webb who is a dairy farmer changed his name to the Dutch deep scars on youth with three youthful saic one of these said the Randolph school teach- Va" Amsberg The heaviest security forces reigning monarchs and their bridges will coItapRe with a trees boys how to be good milkers The demonstrators most of in this ancient city's history queens present All were from mpndoUs loss of life less and less farms and them youths shouted eondem- about 10000 police and troops countries occupied by Germany Janeway chairman of the more and more investment on nations of the bridegroom and were strung along the royal during World War II the remaining farms the posi- republican slogans but were route tion of the milker is comparable I about half a mile from the wed-! wedding gown was Belgium and his Spanish-born to that of highly skilled techni-dinS procession through Am- of white satin in fitted "princess I Queen Fabiola King Constancies Webb said sterdam The police dispersed style with long sleeves and tine of Greece and his Danish- the session first opened and providing relief where need- and not in his capacity as a today of a new Soviet manned to Saigon or adviser President is serious consideration move at this leader said Defense Department indicate that Allied shipping to has been re ed "The committee hopes that the officials of the South Vietnamese government will vigorously pursue a program of economic and social reforms as pledged in the declaration of Honolulu This committee will remain skeptical until words are matched with Sen Frank Church D-Idaho and Joseph Clark D-Pa said duced drastically former ambassador a presidential feel that the not giving any to any such he said The Democratic that State and studies and neutral North Viet Nam space launching Some Soviet sources said an official announcement was likely later in the day and advised Western newsmen to keep their radios and television sets on The Soviets have not put a man in space in nearly a year Their last manned flight was on March 18 1965 when Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space A new manned space shot has long been rumored here It la in a supplemental statement the Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen said he was Mundt said he doubts the gener-1 inquiry into Viet al would have made such a 'Nam policy produced evidence statement without at least tacit the reasons for the size voicing only his own idea when believed likely to come before he proposed in a speech to the the 23rd congress of the Soviet The House took the position the crowd as it started to march high neckline The train start-bom Queen Anne-Marie and He said it was a great depar- on the palace ing from the waist was 15 feet Baudouin's brother-in-law and Jure from present highway pol- In the former Jewish quarter long and seven feet wide sister Grand Duke Jean and icy wcause it pledged the state flowers were placed at the mon- She wore a short veil and the Grand Duchess Josephine Char- t0 building roads with 100 TUCSON Ariz (AP) Addi- ument to the wartime resistance tiara of pearls and diamonds lotte of Luxembourg son Taylor found an edible solu- movement against the Germans her grandmother Queen Wilhel- Queen Elizabeth II tion to a neighbor complaint to Youths also set off smoke- mina wore when she married a was represented by Princess that his rooster woke her bombs in protest against the German Prince Hendrik in Marina the dowager duchess of al funds dollar for dollar to con- i's crowng every morning marriage 1900 Kent and her daughter and soil struct new roads Taylor 87 ate the rooster for But thousands of Dutchmen Mayor Gijsbert Van Hal in Princess Alexandra and Prince dinner one night this week many waving flags cheered the pronouncing Beatrix and her 'Michael The Windham Republican also (Continued on Page Sixteen) White House approval and scope of United States in- Veterans of Foreign Wars the Communist Party opens March This and other Viet Nam war volvement in Southeast Asia are i i i 0 of a quarantine 29 questions were likely to be subject to question" and raise against Haiphong He said he The Soviets never announce a raised in a Senate debate on a jthe danger of the war becoming hadn't consulted Taylor or the space shot until it has been foreign aid author-J jeessfuily launched.