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'he Evening imes The Weather Mostly cloudy, windy and rold with occasional snow flurries tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight In the $0s, high tomorrow in the 30s. Vol. LXXVI, No. 218 SAYRE ATHENS, WAVERLY, N.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1966 PRICE SEVEN CENTS Temperature Record Noon yesterday 53 Noon today 38 High last 24 hours 5o Low last 24 hours 35 Fighting Light In Third Day of Viet War Lull Red dim Membership to yiss UNITED NATION'S, N.Y. (AP)-The General Assembly voted by a substantial majority today to bar Red China from the United Nations for the 16th time. It also rejected an Italian proposal for a high-level study of the China representation problem. The vote to expel Nationalist China and seat the Peking government was 57 against and 46 in favor with 17 abstaining and Laos not participating. The vote on an identical resolution last year was 47-47 with 20 abstentions.

The total membership then was 117. Two members did not vote and one was absent. The proposal study, which many believed might lead to a reeommen- Waverly Water Board Says Its Program Best Solution for Problem GooaDye Forever The Phoeibe Snow shows her observation platform to Wav- of the Valley on her final run to Hoboken. Omer Grace, sta-erly for the last time Monday afternoon, as she pulled out tion agent in Waverly, watches sadly. Evening Times Photo dation for seating both the Chinese Communists and the Chiang Kai-Shek government, was defeated by 34 in favor, 62 against and 25 abstaining.

The Assembly had decided in advance that both resolutions would require a two-thirds majority for approval. The action proved unnecessary, however, since neither received even a simple The result was to leave the China problem more tightly deadlocked than ever. As in the past. Britain and Franca split with the United States and voted for the pro-Peking resolution sponsored by a group of Communist and nonaligned countries. Albania, Cambodia and other countries sympathetic to Peking led the fight to seat the Chinese Communists.

The Soviet Union and India former champions of Peking voted yes, but gave only lukewarm support to the bid. The China debate lacked its usual steam this year, due mainly to the worsening dispute between the Soviet Union and Red China and a three-way split among the Western nations over how to break the stalemate. During seven days of discussion preceding the balloting, most of the speeches on both sides were apathetic. Communist bloc delegates who usually spearhead the drive to seat Peking were almost perfunctory in their support of the Chinese Reds. Western unity, which has been fragmenting for several years on the Chinese question, was shattered over the Italian proposal.

Britain and France were as cold toward the Italian plan as the Communists, making plain that it did not fit In with their desire to see Peking seated without further delay. Th? United States finally agreed to support the Italian proposal mainly because it did not commit Washington to anything beyond authorizing: a U.N. study. The United States was reported reluctant to switch its China policy at this stage because of developments in Indonesia, where Phoebe Snow Is Right on the Dot For Her Final Arrival in Hoboken Pa, N.Y. Hit By Up to Eight Inches of Snow Phoebe was painted on the sides of all Lackawanna trains as a symbol of the clean ride offered by the line because it used sootless anthracite rather than soft coal in its steam locomotives.

In 1949 the Phoebe Snow passen- ing the ride out of nostalgia. One of the passengers, Berniea Yacka, 21, of Bound Brook, was dressed in white in the tradition of the fictional girl for whom the train was named. Phoebe was the creation of a tum-of-the-century advertising man. Portrayed as a lovely lady in white, Five Children and Man Perish in Phila. Blaze SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) -Tlie U.S.

and South Vietnamese commands reported 75 Communists killed in small skirmishes in the past 24 hours as the lull in ground fighting in the Viet Nam war continued for the third day, Continuing foul weather once again slowed the U. S. air offensive. The U. S.

command reported 53 enemy killed in more than a dozen patrol contacts. The South Vietnamese headquarters said their forces killed 22 Communists in three small engagements. Vietnamese headquarters also reported that a Viet Cong force ambushed a 17-vehicle Vietnamese military convoy this morning on its way to the mountain city of Dalat, causing some casualties. U. S.

Air Force B52 lxmlcrs returned to the central highlands near Cambodia tiday and struck at North Vietnamese troop concentrations 35 miles northwest of Pleiku. U. S. pilots flew only 39 lxmibing missions over North Viet Nam Monday as the monsoon rains and low-clouds continued into the third week. Five of the raids were against North Vietnamese positions in the demilitarized zone between North and South Viet American pilots flew 311 strike sorties over South Viet Nam Monday and South Vietnamese pilots flew 162.

A U. S. Army helicopter was shot down 10 miles northeast of Saigon, aixl two Americans were killed. Toll of Traffic Mounts to 748 During Holiday By The Associated Press The nation's 748 traffic deaths during the extended Thanksgiving weekend reached an all-time record for any holiday. The, total, for four-day, 102' hour period, from 6 p.m., loca time, Wednesday to midnight Sun day, surpassed the previous record high for a holiday of 720 set in the three-dav, 78-hour Christmas week end of 1905.

An Associated Press comparative survey of traffic fatalities during nonholiday period from 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9 through Sunday, Nov. 15, showed 548 deaths. This year's Thanksgiving weekend toll compared to 615 last year, the highest for the period since AP tab ulations were started eight years ago.

A spokesman for the National Safety Council said the tragic fig ures were not too surprising in view of the fact that a record death toll has been set each holiday period since Memorial Day 1965. Set Sanity Quiz For Accused Slayer of Eight CHICAGO (AP) A jury of sev en men ami five women was selected Monday to determine whether Richard Speck is competent to stand trial on charges of murdering eight student nurses. Judge Herbert C. Pasrhen of the Circuit Court recessed the hearing until today when a panel of psychiatrists who have examined Speck was to begin testimony. Judge Paschen explained to 50 prospective jurors that their sole task would be to determine whether the defendant understands the nature of the proceedings ami is able to assist in his own defense.

He also explained that the competency hearing has "nothing whatever to do" with charges that Speck. 24, strangled ami stabbed the nurses in their living quarters last July 14. a.m. today ended her first crisis. But "we've got a lot of hurdles, ami this is just the big one," said Dr.

Lee Bass, chief of pediatrics at Magee-Women's Hospital. At a midmorning news briefing. Dr. Bass disclosed that the infant had become jaundiced and a decision will have to be made about an exchange blood traasfusion within the next few days. Dr.

Bass explained that Jaundice, which causes a yellowing of the kin, is common in premature bab- (Continued on Pajje 10, Column 4) PHILADELPHLV (AP) Five young brothers and sisters and an unidentified man died today in a fire which swept a third floor apartment. A policeman climbed a drain pipe Stocks Slightly Down Today as Trading Eases NEWr YORK (AP) The stock market took a small loss in moderate trading early this afternoon. Trading was active at the start but soon slowed. Most changes of key issues ranged from fractions to a point with a few wider moves being made. Steels, motors, electronics, chemicals, rails and tobaccos were mostly lower.

The Associated Press 60-stock average at noon was down .6 at 293.3 with industrials off 1.1, rails off .2 and utilities off .3. The Dow Jones average of 30 in dustrials at noon was off 3.56 at 97.60. Prices were mixed in active trad ing on the American Stock Ex change. By The Associated Press Up to eight inches of snow fell in Western Pennsylvania Monday night ami early today, and up to six inches was measured in Western New York. The Portage-Gallitzin area in the mountains of Cambria County reported eight inches of snow, and five inches were reported at Titusville, Warren, McKean County and in the mountains east of Uniontown.

The first considerable snow of the searon fell in Pittsburgh, coating rooftops and lawns but not causing any serious difficulties. About four inches fell at Cony and three to four inches were reported at Tionesta. Meadville reported about a half-inch and snow also was laying in the Oil City area. Heavy rain was the weather story in eastern Pennsylvania and in some areas there were high winds. Allentown reported more than an inch of rain.

In the Wilkes-Barre area, heavy rain and wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour caused some damage, including downed power lines in some areas. In New York, Gowanda, south of Buffalo, and Franklinville, in Cattaraugus County, measured six inches of snow. The Jamestown area reported four to six inches. Nearly two inches of rain fell, meanwhile, at Oswego, in Northern New York, and more than one inch at Xewburgh, in the Hudson Valley and at Binghamton, in th: Southern Tier. Snow and gales stranded more than 1,000 persons, closed roads ami schools and disrupted electric service to 10.000 homes in Upper Michigan Sixteen inches were reported around the Marquette area.

Drifts ranging to five and six feet high blocked U. S. 2, a main route along (Continued on Page 10, Column 4) Rain Again Hits Stricken Italy ROME (AP) After one day of sunshine, rain returned today to flood-stricken Italy. Milan had its first snow of the year, for four hours. Snow was general in the Dolomites ami the northern third of the Appcnnine chain.

In the plains and south from mud-mired Florence to Sicily it rained. The Italian Riviera ami the Tyrrhenian coast were battered by a heavy storm. Rainwater caused Florence's saturated sewers to overflow, pouring more mud onto the streets. Heavy rains also fell over the delta of the Po River, still flooded by the salt waters of the Adriatic. The $783,700 Waverly water system improvement program proposed by the Waverly Water Board is the correct solution to the present problems of the system, and proposed alterna- Rocky Declines To Rule Out Tax Hike Next Year ALBANY, N.Y.

(AP) Gov. Rockefeller declared tcxlay that he would do "everything in my power" to avoid a state tax increase next year. The governor declined, however, to rule out the possibility that a tax boost might be required to finance growing stale expenditures, such as in the area of education. "I'll cut everywhere I can and anywhere without prejudicing services to the people," he said in response to questions at a news conference. But, when askea w'hether lie' was optimistic that he would be able to hold the tax line, he declined to express an opinion, saying, "just stick on my statement that I will do everything to avoid a tax increase." Rockefeller commented on a variety of other subjects during his meet ing wiln newsmen us lust news conference at the Capitol since his reelection.

Their questions brought these statements from him: His oft-repeated statement that he never again will seek the presidency is "absolutely irrevocable." He does not know yet whether any charges should be made in the cause "we haven't had enough experience yet to give us a basis for judgment." He plans to make "a rather com prehensive statement" on proposals that he believes the 1967 Constitu tional convention should consider in dialling a new constitution lor the state. Thomas P. Knapp, New Promotion at Thomas P. Knapp, son of Mrs. T.

Phillips Knapp of 455 Waverly Street, Waverly, ami the late T. Phillips Knapp, has been named vice president in charge of Bank of THOMAS P. KNAPP. JK. America's credit card, Iiank- Arnerieard, Southern Division, it was nnounced this week by the bank's iiairman of the board, Louis B.

Lundborg, in San Francisco. Knapp will head a staff of 400 in BankAmcricard's Southern Headquarters located in Pasadena. Knapp was formerly associated as a partner with his father in the operation of Knapp's Department Store in Waverly. He joined Bank of America in August, 1962, at its I-os Angeles Headquarters, was promoted to assistant vice president in the newlv formed direct leasing division in 1964. and in August, 1965, was named vice president and second 1 lives are impractical, according to a formal statement issued today by the boa ixl.

The statement follows: "Several weeks ago the local news minlia carried a story reporting the adoption by the Roard of Water Commissioners of the Village of Waverly of a resolution to be submitted to the Board of Trustees urging that a program for improvement of the Waverly Water System be submitted to the people for approval at referendum. In order to better inform the water consumers in the area served by the Waverly Water System of the nature and background of this recommendation the Water Board has prepared ami authorized the release of the following statement: "There arc two matters of essential concern to any municipal water department; first, the maintenance of a supply of water adequate in quantity to meet the requirements of the area served, and, secondly, assuring that such water supply is of good quality. "A recent engineering study pre pared for the Water Department 1ft djcates that our present water system Is capable of producing a sufficient supply of water to take care of a forseeable needs. This report Indi cates that the reservoirs should pro duce approximately 200 million gal Ions of water per year and the Ithaca htreet well 285 million gallons per year, or a total of 485 million gallons per year. Translated into gallons per day, this supply would satisfy an average daily demand of one million three hundred thousand gallons.

The 19(1(5 average daily consumption has been approximately seven hundred eighty six thousand gallons per day Projecting ahead to 1986, a period of twenty years, and allowing both for gradual population growth and increased consumption per capita, the engineering report concludes that the present sources of supply, con-sising of the reservoirs and the Ith- (Continued on Page RColumn 1) Receives Bank of America in charge of consumer credit, Southern Division. I5ankAmcricard passed American Express and Diner's Club to become the world's largest credit card, it was announced in June of this year, primarily as the result of a statewide (Continued on Page 2) Jordan King Of Mideast By ROY ESSOYAN AMMAN, Jordan (AP) King Hussein of Jordan told The Associated Press today in an exclusive interview the Middle East is on the brink of an explosion more dangerous to world peace than the Suez crisis of 1956. His warning was directed at Israel, the Arab world and the West. lie said his armed forces would back at Israel "and strike extremely hard" if Israel attacks again across the armistice line. "Our patience is at an end and we won stand lor any lunner aggression." he said.

Hussein said "there was no justification whatsoever" to Israel's claim that it was retaliating against terrorist raids across the border when it raided Samua and two other Jordanian frontier villages Nov. 13. He said Jordan was tlu eatened on three fronts by Israel, by the threats and DroDasanda attacks of some of its Arab neighbors, and by Communist and proCommunist ub- of HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) Right on the dot of her 6:20 p.m. schedule, the Erie Lackawanna's Phoebe Snow pulled into Hoboken's station for the last time Monday.

No festivities greeted her final arrival. One hundred twenty-four passengers get off the train, and Phoebe Snow, the railroad's crack train since 1949 and a name associated with the line for over 60 years, became railroad history. Erie-Lackawanna officials said the train was canceled because of rising costs and declining passengers. (Three diesel engines, three baggage and mail cars, five passenger cars, and a final car for VTPs made up the.tPhoebe. Snow as she made her final trip through Waverly.

(Several passengers boarded the train in Waverly, as an fnterested platform crowd watched the farewell stop and departure here, and train crew members waved a final farewell as she pulled out of the station.) The westbound Phoebe Snow left Hoboken on time Sundav for her last trip to Chicago. She was filled to capacity, many passengers tak Grand Jury Wi! Reopen Sheppard Murder Inquiry CLEVELAND, Ohio AP) Five persons, including Samuel H. Sheppard, have been ordered to testify before the Cuyahoga County grand jury Friday in the unsolved murder of Shcppard's first wife, Marilyn, 12 years ago. "Sheppard has been making statements and his lawyer has been making statements. That is all I will say about it at this time," County Prosecutor John T.

Corrigan said. Shcppard's attorney, F. Lee Bailey of Boston, last week, told a City Club audience that he had written a 15 page letter to Bay Village Pole? Chief Cred Drenkhan, indicating who killed Marilyn Sheppard and what the motive was. Bailey demanded that the investigation be reopened. Drenkhan said Bailey's "suppositions and conclusions" were not sufficient to reopen a police investigation of the murder case.

$250 Million Funds to Be WASHINGTON (AP) The government is giving the sagging home building industry a $250 million emergency transfusion. Some builders huil it as a step in the right direction. Others say it is too little, too late. President Johnson ordered the release Monday of one-fourth of the $1 billion in special federal mortgage funds authorized by the last Congress. The government said the action would permit construction of 15.000 new homes.

Due largely to a shortage of mortgage funds, the housing industry is mired in its deepest recession in two decades. Total housing starts in October dropped to 83.100 units th lowest since Wcrld War II and more than 50.000 under October 1965. The $250 million will be used to (Continued on Page 10, Column 3) to rescue Pearl E. Jones, 32, mother of the five dead children. He also canned out her two remaining children.

The bodies of two of the tiny victims, Donald, 1, and Anthony, 2, were taken to Philadelphia General Hospital, where their father, James Edward Jones, is a patient, ill with pneumonia. The other Jones children, Sylvia, Barbara, 6, and James, 4, were pronounced dead at Presbyterian Medical Center where the survivors of the family were treated. Lawrence, 10, told police and fire officials: "I was awakened by a big boom." Deputy Fire chief Harry Kite said later the fire seemingly stalled inside a doorway and swept up the stairway. Kite said he was puzzled as to what started it, and asked the fire marshal's office to investigate. Lawrence said he and Beverly 7, were in the back room when their mother ran to them from a middle room.

"My mother," Lawrence said, "told us to 'hurry up and get up, there's a She didn't scream and holler. She made me and Beverly get over to the window." Patrolman Morris Hayes, walking his beat, saw a burst of flames from (Continued on Page 10, Column 3) economic sanctions agaiast Rhodesia while still searching for a compromise with its white minority regime. Wilson met with his Cabinet but held off making a final decision on whether to break with Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Sir Morrice James, who has played a key role in talks with Smith, flew to Salisbury for further clarification of Smith's position on ways to guarantee progress toward African majority rule. Sir Saville Garner, the top-ranking career diplomat in the Commonwealth office, took off for Washington to seek U.

S. backing in any move i to bring down the Smith government through compulsory sanctions. Rhodesia, a British colony, declared independence Nov. 11. 1965.

refusing to bow to British demands for eventual African rule. Britain con siders Rhodesia a colony i.t rebellion rarrv f.mmitmont to the Commonwealth to end the rebellion or take it to the United Nations Security Council before the end of the year. Wilson promised Commonwealth leaders last month to apply for U. N. sanctions unless Smith came through by Nov.

30 with an acceptable program for eventual transfer of power from Rhodesia's 225.000 whites to the colony's 4 million Africans. Wilson Envoys Seeking U.S. Backing For Possible Rhodesia Boycott Communist attempts at conquest were shattered, and because of signs of trouble Inside Red China Itself. Presidents of U.S, Mexico to Meet Saturday WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson is expected to meet Presi dent Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico at Del Rio, Texas, and Ciudad Acuba, Mexico, Saturday, authoritative sources said today. The meeting place will be at the site of the Amistad Dam, being built as a joint project ot ine two coun tries.

The $78 million dam, rising 254 feet above the lied of the Rio Grande, is 6 1-2 miles long and will create a reservoir with a surface of 138 square miles, making it one of the largest in Noith America. The trip will be Johnson's second into Mexican territory this year. Last April 14-15 he and Mrs. Johnson were given a spectacular reception on a state visit to Mexico City. Sees Threat Explosion version within its borders.

Hussein said he had grounds to fear that the Samua attack "was not an isolated incident but was the beginning of something that could lead to a general war." "We are determined," Hussein said, "to fight with every ounce of strength we have if the battle is forced on us. It is obviously our fight. But the outside pressures being exerted in this area are of vital interest to the free world. "My country has become a symbol of freedom and stability and this obviously disturbs many people. We are doing everything possi ble to build up our defenses to deter attack or to meet it if necessary.

"We need more arms, we need the moral support of the free world and we need all the help our friends in the Arab world can give us." He said his security forces were taking every measure to stamp out subversion in Jordan and to prevent the possibility of a campaign terror getting started here. Hopes Rise Surviving Quintuplet Will Live LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent high-level envoys to Washington and Salisbury today seeking U. S. backing for possible in Building Released buy mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration up to or $17,500 in high cost areas, and $22,500 in Hawaii, Alaska and Guam. On mortgages up to $15,000, FHA requires a 3 per cent down payment.

An additional 10 per cent is required on the next $5,000 and 20 per cent on the purchase price be twecn $20,000 and $30,000, the FHA ceiling. Thus a house costing $15,450 would have an FHA mortgage of $15,000 and one costing $18,200 an FHA mortgage of $17,500. The Veterans Administration has no requirement for down payments which are up to the individual PITTSBURGH (AP) Kicking and active, tiny Roni Sue Aranson passed the fir.it crisis in her struggle for survival today, bolstering the hopes cf her parents and doctors that at least one of Pittsburgh's quintuplets would live. The sounds of cries from the infant declared her to be free from the respiratory difficulty which claimed the liv-s of her four sisters within 56 hours of their birth Saturday to Mr. ami Mrs.

Michael Aranson, both 22. Doctors said Roni Sue's survival pa.it the 72-hcur mark at 2.41.