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ivvi 1' NEWS Of Interest At SHAW AFB PAGE 8-A WEATHER SOUTH CAROLINS: Genorel-ly fair and war mar tonight and Friday Lows anight mostly lowor 30s with risk of scattorod THE SUMTER DAILY ITEM VOL 71 NO 122 FOUNDED OCT 15 1894 THURSDAY AFTERNOON MARCH 10 1966 24 PAGES TWO SECTIONS FIVE CENTS A COPY Seeks Senate Seat Republicans Capture Plum In Parker political figure to join state Republican ranks since US Sen Strom Thurmond and US Rep Albert Watson switched in 1964 Parker 43 told a news conference Wednesday he was leaving the Democratic party and would run for the US Senate because national Democratic party has long since abandoned all pretense of serving the South Carolinians considered to be a part of Democratic party He said the best- McLeod said Dent said move into the GOP was of the best things that has happened to the South Carolina Republican Parker ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1962 against current Gov Robert McNair He has remained in the limelight as chairman of the South Carolina Tax Study Commission and as leader of the Young Turks faction in the State Senate hope of curbing the rush toward the collectivist state is through the ranks of the Republican party and I move into those ranks in order to better serve my state and State GOP Chairman Harry Dent rejoiced in the switch but State Democratic Chairman Yancey McLeod predicted defeat for Parker am confident that whomever the Democratic nominee may be that the Democratic nominee will prevail in Novem By AL LANIER Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA South Carolina Republicans captured another plum from the Democrats when State Sen Marshall decided to be a GOP candidate for the US Senate The tall ruggedly handsome Oconee County dairyman Wednesday became the fourth state legislator to bolt the Democratic party in less than a week He is the most widely known A native of Seaboard Parker owns Oconee dairies at Seneca although he concedes tried milking a cow once and like With no announced opposition and plenty of assurances from 'Republican leaders Parker is certain to receive the Republican nomination at the State GOP Convention in Columbia March 26 But he will face an uphill battle in the November general (Continued on Page 2 Col 3) w-s mmm iet Cong Capture Of Camp Dominates Battle Reports Princess Married By JAMES KING AMSTERDAM the Netherlands (AP) Crown Princess Beatrix the future queen of the Netherlands married a handsome German diplomat today as 1000 demonstrators tried to march on the royal palace Club-swinging police beat them back The bridegroom Claus Von Amsberg 39 grew up under Hitler and as a youth served in the German army The marriage made him a prince of the Netherlands entitled him to an annual allowance of $83000 and changed his name to the Dutch Van Amsberg The demonstrators most of them youths shouted condem nations of the bridegroom and republican slogans but were about half a mile from the wedding procession through Am sterdam The police dispersed endment Change Sought SUPPLY SHUTTLE-Marine Ch-46A helicopters moving into action in Viet Nam for their first deployment in a combat zone hover over the flight deck of the carrier Valley Forge to pick up supplies The big copters are based at Da Nang (NEA Radio-Telephoto) Enemy Takes Ashau Camp Leaders Conferring In Saigon mistake He finally got consent to change it to carry out his original intention of leaving the residential phone tax at 3 per cent The supporters beat back 47 to 37 a proposal of Sen Abraham A Ribicoff D-Conn to provide for deductions of up to $325 for annual college education expenses It would have cost about $1 billion a year starting in 1968 withholding system for collection of personal indome taxes and a speedup in payment of corporation taxes Sen Eugene McCarthy D-Minn predicted the Senate conferees would abandon the two amendments they get to the The Senate conferees pass through the rotunda in the center of the Capitol on the way to meet the House group Sen Albert Gore D-Tenn charged that the President had sent up a not nard defenders suffered heavy casualties It was not known immediately where the few rescued survivors were taken Col William McKean com- the crowd as it started to march geared to meet the needs in the war crisis As the bill cleared the Senate Wednesday by a 79-9 vote it would provide a net of less than $5 billion The Social Security amendment by Sen Winston Prou-ty R-Vt adopted 45 to 40 Tues day would cost an estimated $750 million And the proposal by Sen Vance Hartke D-Ind to knock out of the bill the increase in the excise on local residential telephone service would wipe out $315 million of the biffs: revenue The Senate became so confused Wednesday in voting on proposal that it adopted the amendments by a vote of 46 to 42 in a form which actually repealed the entire excise levy on residential service But Hartke said this was a By ROBIN MANNOCK DA NANG South Viet Nam (AP) After almost two days of fierce fighting the Special Forces camp at Ashau was lost to the Viet Cong tonight Lt Col Kenneth Lacey commander of the Special Forces detachment in Da Nang announced: closed Ashau at 5:45 this The colonel said a number of were evacuated by helicopter before the camp was abandoned to the victorious Communist force estimated now as a reinforced North Vietnamese regiment The American and Montag- By JOE HALL WASHINGTON (AP) The administration sought today to persuade Senate-House conferees to drop two Senate amendments that took a $1 billion chunk out of a $6-billion tax bill designed to help finance the Viet Nam war Chances for dropping the two provisions appeared good ais the conferees try to compromise Senate and House versions and meet President March 15 deadline for final congressional action on the measure Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen told a reporter he had been advised the House conferees would stand firm against the two amend ments One would provide Social Security coverage for 18 million persons over 70 not covered now The other would confine reinstatement of the 10 per cent excise tax on phone calls to longdistance calls while keeping it at 3 per cent for local residential calls Major provisions in the bill are reimposition of taxes on phone calls and car sales that were cut Jan 1 a graduated Local Weather Observations of the Sumter Weather Bureau for the 24-hour period ended 7 am today: temperatures: max 51 min 25 Low this morning: 27 0 Rainfall Jan 1 to date: 1512 Same period last year: 917 on the palace In the former Jewish quarter flowers were placed at the monument to the wartime resistance movement against the Germans Youths also set off smoke-bombs in protest against the marriage But thousands of Dutchmen many waving flags cheered the 28-year-old and her bridegreeom as the bridal procession moved through Amsterdam A simple civil ceremony in City Hall preceded the glittering church wedding before a gathering of dwindling royalty The traditional marriage oath heed and was omitted from the rites of the Dutch Reformed Church mander of all Special Forces in the area said: sent in a whole flock of helicopters but the ceiling closed right in on A heavy cloud cover had prevented effective air support or relief since the battle started at the triangular mud and log fort near the Laotian border 60 miles northwest of Da Nang A force of 15 to 20 Americans and about 300 tough little Mon-tagnard troopers occupied the lonely outpost when it was attacked in the predawn hours of Wednesday The defenders fought fiercely from that time until late Thursday afternoon At one time the survivors occupied about one-fourth of the bunkers (Continued on Page 2 Col 3) By THOMAS A REEDY SAIGON South Viet Nam (AP) North Vietnamese regulars overwhelmed the isolated Ashau Special Forces camp tonight after a fierce two-day fight put up by several hundred mountain tribesmen and their 15 to 20 advisers The commander of the Special forces detachment at Da Nang Lt Col Kenneth Lacey pronounced the doom of the garrison which is in the forested hills near the Laotian border closed Ashua at 5:45 this he said Casualties among both the Americans and Montagnard defenders were heavy But Col William McKean commander of Special Forces in the area 360 miles north of Saigon said his men every inch of the and he thought the Communist toll was also high The Communists took the triangular-shaped fortress after it had been pounded into ruins and flames by Red attack and US planes trying to drive them off Heavy clouds at times cutting the ceiling to 200 feet seriously hindred the American pilots flying in almost over the tree tops Until the end the American and their tough little Montagnard troops clung doggedly to a single bunker on the northern trench line The attackers were described as a reinforced North Vietnamese regiment Originally they (Continued on Pago 2 Col 4) Parker Blasted Last Chance Surgery For Stricken Child Judy has suffered congestive heart failure and been stricken several times with pneumonia Ultimatum Is Given Sukarno By JOHN CANTWELL SINGAPORE (AP) The Indonesian army has given President Sukarno an ultima turn to get rid of his pro-Com-munist Foreign Minister Suban-drio and has demanded an an swer by Saturday reliable sources in Singapore reported today Sukarno is expected to announce his decision at a meeting with the armed forces chiefs at his palace in Bogor 40 miles outside Jakarta the sources said The army chiefs who have demanded ouster are mostly supporters of former Defense Minister Gen Abdul Haris Nasution whom Sukarno fired last month Subandrio has been accused unofficially of having been behind last Communist coup attempt His name was on a list of ministers published by the coup leaders but he has denied that he had anything to do with the coup California Battle Seen I WALHALLA SC (AP)-Ma-son Du Pre Oconee County Democratic chairman said of Sen Marshall defection Wednesday to the Republican party: think the Democrats lost anything and the Republicans gain Du Pre said told me two years ago to hell with the party for Marshall Du Pre added: he was defeated by more than 52 000 votes for lieutenant governor he must think he can do better on the Republican ticket I doubt it not surprised at his party switch but making a big mistake He should have waited two years and run against Lyn don Johnson for President He thinks too big a man for the job of state the Brown told 2500 Democrats Wednesday night at a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner in San Francisco Yorty a maverick Democrat who supported Republican Richard Nixon for president in 1960 accused 7-year-old administration of machine themselves split by a fight or the GOP up-bernatorial nomination were heartened by the squabble something Brown had been hoping to avoid is one more indication of the division in Democratic By BILL BOYARSKY SAN RANCISCO (AP) -The promise of a bitter fight for the governorship nomination punctured Democratic plans for a peaceful primary today and cheered Republicans seeking political control of the most populous state Democratic Gov Edmund Brown seeking a third term replied angrily to the challenge of Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty who said Wednesday he will try to take the nomination away from Brown think in he wrong primary but I accept ranks which has become very obvious in the past few weeks said former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher one of three candidates for the GOP nomintaion His major foe actor Ronald Reagan said candidacy offers Democrats an alternative to Brown He added it bring out once and for all the answer as to whether the incumbent really intends to be governor of California if he is William Penn Patrick San Rafael cosmetics manufacturer (Continued on Pago 2 Col 7) CARMICHAEL Tio By GENE SCHROEDER ANN ARBOR Mich (AP) -Frail Judy Lynn Funsch cheerful 5-year-old underwent heart surgery today that could give her the chance to grow up normally The pretty blonde who weighs only 28 pounds was wheeled into the operating room shortly before 8 am Judy Lynn suffers from a rare obstruction of a vein that carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart Judy one of three children of Mr and Mrs Clarence Funsch has been enjoying her stay in the pediatrics ward of the University of Michigan Hospital unaware that the 10-man surgical team assigned to her case was not optimistic about her chances for surviving the operation Doctors have told the parents that without an operation Judy has only a few years to live If the surgery is successful she has a chance to live a normal life parents consented to the risky operation to give their daughter that chance very enthused about it all She even looks forward to the railroad tracks have on her chest from the surgical said mother she added Her husband nodded agreement been playing with the other kids and is happy with her favorite doll said Mrs Funsch was particularly thrilled to see her picture in the Highly susceptible to disease Astronauts Practicing CAPE KENNEDY Fla (AP) The Gemini 8 astronauts planned another long series of flight rehearsals today as their Tuesday launching date drew closer Astronauts Neil A Armstrong and David Scott and their backups will run through key phases of the countdown launching and orbital flight They also will practice emergency procedures in the Gemini 8 spacecraft atop a Titan 2 rocket The backup crew is Navy Lt Cmdr Charles Conrad Jr and Navy Lt Cmdr Richard Gordon Jr This so-called simulated flight exercise was expected to last until late at night The launch teams Wednesday successfully completed a complex simultaneous countdown involving an Atlas-Agena rocket and the Titan 2-Gemini combination Only two minor problems developed The Atlas-Agena is to be launched at 10 am EST Tuesday to propel the Agena into orbit as a target for Gemini 8 Armstrong a civilian and Scott an Air Force major are to take off in pursuit at 11:41 am and attempt to link up with the Former Chief Strange Dies By BARRETT BOULWARE Former Police Chief Wilson Strange who rose to his position from the ranks died last night at Tuomey Hospital at the age of 67 The chief had a medical history of high blood pressure He retired on May 1 1965 because of his health and was succeeded by Clarence Kirkland Strange joined the force in 1920 at a patrolman back in the a when Sumter po- Klansman Dead BESSEMER Ala (AP)-Wil-liam Orville Eaton 41 one of three Ku Klux Klansmen charged with the murder in the slaying of civil rights worker Viola Gregg Liuzzo died of a heart attack today Eaton reportedly was stricken at his home early today and was dead on arrival at a hos tal Eaton and fellow Klansmen Eugene Thomas of Bessemer and Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr of Fairfield all of the Birmingham area were convicted by a federal court in Montgomery last fall of conspiracy charges They were accused of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of persons taking part in 1965 voter-rights dmonestrations in the Selma-Montgomery area They were sentenced to 10 years each Their attorney said an appeal is planned The state indicted the three Klansmen for muder last year in the highway slaying of Mrs Liuzzo Hie wife of a Detroit labor leader was shot to death in Lowndes County the night of March 25 1965 while ferrying participants in the Selma-to-Montgomery voter-rights march I struck the i and trees and telephone poles were blown down all over the streets Strange and the other men on the force worked for three days without rest until the emergency was over His legs had swollen so badly that it was necessary to cut off his rubber boots and it later developed that he had blood poisoning in his right leg road been smooth all the the chief used to say I have no regrets as to my choice of he said Strange had many during his service of 43 years as a policeman He also thought his Army dutjr had something to do with his becoming a policeman He spent four years in the Medical Corps and was discharged in 1920 as a corporal The last six months wore spent patrolling the Mexican border When he returned to Sum ter he was hired as a patrolman by John Berwick who was chief at that time There were only seven men on the force then When he retired last May there were 37 In the early stages of his career the chief resigned twice to take other jobs But on Sept 28 1924 he returned to the force to make law enforcement his work He was successively promoted to sergeant lieutenant and captain He was made chief in 1962 taking over the job formerly held by McIntosh McIntosh resigned to become probation and parole officer Strange felt that the biggest improvement in the force" during his tenure as chief was the enlargement of the detective division When he took over there were only two detectives Strange increased this num-( Continued an Page 2 Col 2) in the ITEM TODAY give so more will live HEART FUND Site WAkITS id borrow a cop of momev sotiteV EAT WILSON STRANGE licemen worked 12 hours a day and had 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