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Legislator Suggests Godwin Tell Dr. Hahn To Get Back To His Desk RICHMOND (AP) A Richmond area legislator suggested to Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. Friday that he Tech president tell Virginia T.

Marshall Hahn to get back to his desk in Blacksburg. In a letter sent to the governor and also released to newsmen, Del. T. Dix Sutton said he was "shocked" to Hahn was making leara that public appearances around the state as a "crusader" for support of recommendations of the Metropolitan Areas Study Commission. Hahn was chairman of the recommendations on revision as it may believe proper," local governments earlier thisjhe said.

month. For Hahn to "stump the state to seek support for legislation while on a salary paid by he taxpayers is a misuse of tax money." Sutton said. "At the same time." he added, "his absence from the college on such an endeavor is a neglect of his duties." The Henrico County legislator said that with the issuance of its report, the functions of the Halm commission are ended. "It is now the responsibility of commission which released its the legislature to take such ac- "For Dr. Hahn to become a crusader for support of his recommendations," Sutton said, "indicates.

Dr. Hahn was not making an impartial study but that he is a promoter of a plan for the destruction of local governments." Sutton concluded his letter to Godwin by saying: "I respectfully request that you tell Dr. Habn that his work on the commission is complete and direct him to get back to his job at Blacksburg." Darden Says Studies Could Delay, Chloroform Progress In Education RICHMOND (AP) Former Gov. Colgate W. Darden Jr.

resorted to some table-thumping statements Friday in criticizing legislative studies which he said could "chloroform and delay" progress in public education. "We've studied enough things in Virginia to run the nation," the former president of the University of Virginia said at a meeting of the State Board of Education. Darden is a member of the board. What touched off the verbal flareup was the report of a board committee which recom- 'mended further study of the problem of school division consolidation by the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council (VALC) The committee said the matter should be approached in the light of action taken by the 1968 General Assembly with respect to changes in local governments as recommended by the Hahn Metropolitan Areas Study Com' mission. Darden, while emphasizing that he wes not hostile to either 'the Hahn Commission or the VALC, called for speedy action to solve school problems apart from any improvements that might result from the Hahn Commission report.

The Hahn Commission's recommendations would take years to 'implement, Darden said, while "we're at a point where We've got to do something for education. We can do it far quicker than Hahn (commission chairman T. Marshall Hahn). If we tie the schools to the Hahn commission, it'll be the part last considered." The former governor said the VALC has done an "outstanding job" over the years but "its studies have had the effect of chloroforming and delay." Unless immediate action on the problems of education is taken, Darden said, "we've en- gated in an exercise futility." RICHMOND education committee studying the feasibility of school division consolidation concluded Friday it would have definite advantages but is easier said than done. And, after exploring all facets of the issue, it recommended th the whole matter be turned over to the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council (VALC) for more complete examination after the 1968 General Assembly.

The State Board of Education named a committee last April to study the consolidation of school divisions and formulate the best plan for doing so. The committee, in turn, appointed a five-member subcommittee which ompleted the report approved by the full committee and made public Friday. In recommending referral of the matter to the VALC, the report said "the scope of the study should be definied in light of such action as may be taken by the General Assembly of 1968 with respect to the organization of local governments pursuant report of the Metropolitan Areas Study Commission. The committee said a realistic plan for consolidation of school divisions "would provide for a greater degree of efficiency in a winder range of educational services than is now the case and would result in a more economical organization for public education in Virginia." Trying to implement this, however, would be no small job, the report said. For instance, it added, consolidation of two or more school divisions would necessitate the resulting single school board's looking to "the two or more governing bodies for financial support." The committee figuratively scratched its head over how compulsory consolidation of school boards could be accomp lished without a "consolidation This would require, the report said, "a degree of fiscal inde pendence not available under present statutes." In urging further examination of the problem by the VALC, the committee said "the enormous complexity of the many facets of these matters requires careful and detailed study." The report recommended, however, "encouragement and assistance" by the state board in the consolidation of "certain programs or services operated jointly by small adjoining school divisions." It recommended, too, assistance to small school divisions contemplating voluntary merger and said special consideration should be given applications for educational funds where two or more school divisions are planning for joint use of the funds.

WINNING grand champion Black Angus Wiseman (right), 20, and her friend, Anita Bulfar, co- owners of the steer Modern, are all smiles at the International Livestock Show in Chicago. Virginia Neivs In Brief The Register: Danville, Saturday, Dec. 2,1967 3-A Private Who Was 'Lost' 18 Months Will Be Released From Service SAN FRANCISCO (AP) pay since he wasn't at a I til he has served his full six- Pfc. Joe A. Smith, "lost" by tip'post to sign for it.

I year military obligation. He will Army for 18 months after basic! The draftee, figuring his in the active reserve for two', training in 1965, will be up, donned his almost newjyears and the inactive reserve' from the service probably nextjuniform June 13 and checked ia! another two. This is the usual" week, the Army announced Fri- at the Oakland Army Base for procedure for all draftees. "I didn't expect no trouble'," day. Smith, 23, of Brownsville, Cal- his discharge.

"You've got to be kidding," applied for release interviewing officer ex month. The Army contended when he heard Smith's then he must serve out the I8; st 9 I No Smith received a routine 30- Istarted sir," said Smith. Then Smith's efforts to get was er training at Ft. Hood, Tex. He went home to await orders.

He waited months. Then he applied for discharge While standing by for orders, While waiting at Sixth Army and" waited 11 Headquarters in the San Fran- and waited-18, cisco Smith worked as a runner. And he was promoted to private first class. The Army wanted him to pay back the allotments his wife got, a and SERVE, that the week to support himself and his is months he got credit for Smith took a logging job nearby Yuba City at $130 wife, Glenda, 23. He was awaiting orders, he RICHMOND (AP) A new federal law limiting to 75 the age of persons serving on selective service boards will bring about the retirement of 43 Virginians Dec.

31. Capt. Charles L. Kessler, USN, state director of selective service, said four of the retir- tiring board members have served 25 or more years and six more than 20 years. RICHMOND (AP) A Edwin Kendrew.

a member of the Virginia Art Commission since 1945 and its chairman since 1950, will resign Dec. 31. Kendrew. senior vice president of Colonial Williamsburg, said he is resigning because of the pressure of other ausiness. Gov.

Godwin will make an appointment to the five-member agency to fill the vacancy caused by Kendrew's departure. three months. told his employer. All the while, the Army was sending Mrs. Smith a monthly allotment of a.m.

after being told by and Smith himself an Hart that her husband had U.S. savings bond every returned home. Death apparently was caused by a heart attack. Hart, a father of five, had worked for WAVA five years. Previously he was employed by WARL, the predecessor to WAVA.

and WCMS, Norfolk. WAYNESBORO (AP) Poke continued their investiga- ion Friday on the death of a man who apparently hanged limself with a leather belt while confined in the city police ockup. C. H. Benson, Waynesboro po- ice chief, said Henry E.

Evans, morning hours Friday after his arrest Thursday night on a charge of being intoxicated in an automobile. Dodd Asks Summary Judgment In His Suit Against Pearson, Anderson WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, filed a motion in U.S. District Court Friday for a summary judgment in his conspiracy and libel suit against columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson.

The motion, filed on Dodd's behalf by his attorney, John F. Sonnett, is to be heard Dec. 12 before Judge Alexander Holtzoff. Dodd, who was censured by the Senate last June 22 for personal use of political funds, filed a suit May 6 against Pearson and Anderson asking for a $5 million judgment. He later scaled that down to $2 million and asked for a speedy trial.

The motion filed Friday, however, said that to require a trial of the entire case Is unnecessary and unwarranted in the light of the evidence already de velopcd, adding that Dodd has YOU NEVER OUTGROW YOUR NEED FOR HIGH PROTEIN BODY-BUILDING MILK! FAULTLESS HAS IT! AT YOUR FAVORITE STORE OR DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR DANVILLE DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. DIAL 792-2515 been put to "almost ruinous ex pense in meeting the scandalous charges" published by the columnists. To put Dodd "to further pro- onged pre-trial proceedings anc a needless trial could wel lave the effect of freeing the de 'endants from liability for their own wrongs, not because they sre innocent but because the plaintiff simply could not afford prosecute them further," the motion said. The 92-5 vote censuring Dodc vas based on a finding by the lenate's bipartisan ethics committee that he had converted to lis personal benefit at leasl 116,083 in campaign and testimonial funds. The Senate rejected, 51 to 45, he committee's second count against he had billed the Senate and private for the same travel expenses.

A series of columns by Pearson and Anderson, based on some 4,000 documents removed rom Dodd's office by four of his ormer employes, led to the eth- cs panel's tion. lengthy investiga- The motion filed Friday asked lor a summary judgment on the 'irst cause of action in the con- piracy and libel suit and for partial summary judgment with respect to two other causes of action. The first dealt with the removal and publication of confidential papers from Dodd's office and the other two with the sena dealings with Chicago 3ublic relations man Juliu; flein and with his trip to the in 1961. Dodd contended there is no genuine dispute about any mate rial issue of fact involved in the motion and that he therefore is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. The 33-page court paper said is undisputed that Dodd's of files were surreptitiously ransacked and that Pearson anc Anderson "conspired and con nived in these a-Is" and publ ished a series of articles pur portedly based on the docu ments.

The motion said the colum nists not only were guilty ofj trespass "but of violating two separate criminal statutes which in turn entitle plaintiff to a civil remedy." The laws violated, the motion said, were an Internal Revenue Code ban on publication of a persons's income tax return and of langed Lynchburg himself in apparently the early RICHMOND (AP) The Virginia Advisory Legislative Jouncil (VALC) recommended Friday more stringent regulations to promote land restoration by surface miners. The VALC report dealt mainly with sand and gravel operations and specifically exempted coal strip mining because of apparently adequate legislation already dealing with that type of activity. At the heart of the committee's report was a recommendation that surface miners be required to submit a plan of operation annually and a bond of $50 for each acre of land to be involved in a mining operation. Under the plan, a mine operator would have to file with the Department of Conservation and Economic Development a report on reclamation work performed. This would be followed by an inspection to see if he was operating in accordance with his approved plan.

The VALC recommended an appropriation of $100,000 a.year to finance the new program, HAMPTON which would not become effec- while he was at home. The Army at first said it was going to charge him with desertion, but this was dropped for insufficient evidence, Smith said. What Smith will get next week is a release from active duty, He did not get his regular pri- but he won't get a discharge un- order was given. Smith said after his story'be- came public. "I didn't hide it (his connection) from no one." Asked whether Smith would have to return the allotment his wife had received from the' Army or the savings bond mon-' ey, an Army spokesman said he 1 expected the release to be "nor-' mal," meaning none of the money would have to be but he could "not be certain." While the Army was reaching: its decision to release Smith, the draftee's ACLU lawyers received from federal Judge Rob-' ert C.

Peckham a show-causa, order for the Army to explain: why Smith should not be charged, Peckham laughed when reporters told, him about the release. Newsmen said Army torneys were in court when tha Secret Service Agent Clint Hill Promoted To Chief Of White House Bodyguard Unit WASHINGTON (AP) Clint Hill, the only Secret Service agent to race from the follow-up security car to clamber aboard the presidential limousine when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, was promoted Friday to chief of the White House bodyguard. This was one of a number of major shifts within the Secret Service announced Friday by Director James Rowley. The others: W.

Youngblood, then chief of the secret service bodyguard for Lyndon B. Johnson, who threw himself over the then vice president at the time of the Dallas shooting four years ago, has been named to the newly created position of deputy director of the service. This means he will rank second only to Rowley in the organization. L. (Lem) Johns, who had been special agent in charge of the presidential pro division, is succeeding Youngblood as an assistant di- son, city manager of Hampton since 1956, was reported here Friday to have suffered a heart attack while visiting a daughter in San Antonio, Tex.

A Hampton City spokesman said Johnson, 53, was listed in fair condition at Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital in San Antonio. VIENNA (AP) The small son of a Fairfax County couple drowned Friday when he fell through thin ice near the middle of a pond in the Oak Crest subdivision just south of here. The body of Robert Lane, 5, was recovered from water about seven feet deep about 2 p.m. by two divers from the Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department Resd cue Squad. The child, son of Mr.

and Mrs. John W. Lane Jr. of Chain Bridge Road, wandered away from home about 8 a.m. His parents called for help at 9 a.m.

and a probe of the pond, which was covered with a thin coating of ice, began shortly afterward. Rescuers said the boy apparently wandered to the pond a quarter of a mile from his home and walked across the ice until it broke beneath his weight. ARLINGTON (AP) Stephen J. Hart. 39, chief engineer of radio station WAVA, Arlington, died in the station early Friday.

Police found the body about 4 tive until July 1, 1969. Also recommendld by the VALC was that Virginia take no action "for the present" regarding affiliation wihh a proposed Interstate Mining Compact. It was suggested that Virginia consider its own legislation first and await action by other states before making such a move. MORE CANCER RESEARCH KOHALA, Hawaii (AP)-A jellyfish that has shown promise in producing an anticanccr agent is being studied by Dr. Frank L.

Tabrah, assistant professor of clinical pharmacology in the University of Hawaii's School of Medicine. Dr. Tabrah has been experimenting with an abstract from the tentacles of sea creatures in the treatment of mouse cancer. He scooped up the rector of the Secret Service in over-all charge of protective forces. H.

Taylor, formerly deputy to Johns in the protective forces division, is elevated to the position of deputy assistant director in charge of those forces. Rowley, in a statement, said that the shifts were a final part of an over-all Secret Service reorganization intended to strengthen and broaden the administrative structure. Hill, who was assigned as chief bodyguard to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy when she was First Lady, raced from the security car that followed the presidential limousine immediately after shots were fired in Dallas and climbed atop the trunk. Many people credit him with having saved Mrs.

Kenne dy from serious injury or death since she, at the time, was climbing out on the trunk deck. The changes mean that Hill will succeed Johns as the top Secret Service agent in day-to-day contact with Johnson, and with the protective duties associated with the presidential office. Hill, 35, is a native of Larimore, N.D., a 1954 graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, and a former member of the Army counter-intelligence corps. He joined the Secret Service in 1958 and has been directly associated with presidential protection since 1959 when he was transferred here from the Denver field office. Youngblood, 43, was born in Macon, and has been with the service since 1951.

Johns, 41, grew up in Birmingham, and joined the service in 1954. Taylor, 41, is a native of lola, who received a degree from Wichita State University and took courses at Memphis State law school before joining the Secret Service. He became a Secret Service agent in 1950 and served in Kansas City, Memphis and Washington. 'Shall Return To HeU-That Is, United States' By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent After 40,000 miles or more, a baker's dozen countries and innumerable speeches to Communist audiences, Stokcly the Black Power advocate, announced his odyssey would end with his return to hell.

"I shall return to is, the United States," said Carrni- chacl, according to a Swedish translation of his remarks to the press in Stockholm, last stop of his five months of travel. The Stockholm remarks could be considered mild, compared with what Carmichael had to say elsewhere to audiences ol Communists who lionized him jellyfish-shaped like an eight- and rol)ed Qut th(J rcd et inch dinner plate with a knobby teacup on top and trailing its tentacles from the central Hawaii Island's Kawaihae Harbor. The tentacles, he said, yielded a substance which appeared potent in arresting cancer in laboratory mice. Dr. Tabrah said the creature is a specimen of Cephea con- ifera, a species common to the seas around Samoa and the Carolines.

Princess Wants Royalty To Come To Her Defense ROME (AP) Ma-, ria Beatrice of Savoy asked a Rome court Friday to summon her cousin, King Baudouin of Belgium, and other European royalty to defend her from a charge that she is not stable enough to marry her boy friend, actor Maurizio Arena. The Princess' counterattack was directed against her aunt, Princess lolanda Cavi di Bergo- lo who has asked the court to rule her mentally weak and unable to decide for herself. Princess lolanda acted after the 24-year-old daughter of, Italy's exiled King Umberto II announced plans to marry Areana, 34, an actor with few roles and many debts. The opening hearing of the case is set for Jan. 15.

In a document submitted to the court Friday, Princiss Maria Beatrice said her aunt simply wanted to make it impossible for her to marry Arena, a commoner. She said former King Leopold III of Belgium, brother of her mother, Maria Jose; King Bau- douin, her aunt, Grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte of Luxembourg, and 17 other royal Europeans related to her should be summoned to Rome to testify she has full control of her mental capacities. Arena also is involved as a defendant in a closely related case, which could also bar a marriage. The Rome public prosecutor has charged him with making a slave of the princess and blocking out her free will. The princess and Arena said they vainly had tried to marry in Spain, Britain and France since September.

They said troubles with documents had stalled them. a District of Columbia statute making it a misdemeanor to carry away the property of another without the right to do so. The motion also said charges that Dodd had accepted expensive gifts from Klein, a registered agent for West German business interests, and deliv- should be "a struggle for total lion. revolution." For this, Havana Hj ncxt st was Algeria. He him.

To them he was more than just a Black Power advocate. He made himself champion of guerrilla war in the United States. Carmichaers journey began in July, his first stop England. The Daily Sketch, calling for expulsion of the 26-year-old visitor, quoted him as telling a British audience: "It is time to let the whites know we are going to take over; if they don't like it, we will stamp them out, using violence and other means necessary." Carmichael left England for Fidel Castro's Cuba and a conference of Latin-American Communists weighing prospects for hemispherewidc revolution. Now the Communists were including the United States in calls for "liberation struggle." Presented by Havana to a news conference, Carmichael announced the Black Power movement was directly linked with "liberation struggles" everywhere.

"Armed struggle," he said, "is today the only means ofj struggle by the North American Negro. Our movement is pro- grossing toward an urban guerrilla war within the United States itself." Negroes' problems, he said, could not be solved "within a capitalist society," and there radio hailed him as "the greatest North American Negro lead- Carmichael then left for Communist North Vietnam, where ic was greeted with all the ceremony attendant upon arrivals of government leaders. He was received by the premier and other top figures and hailed as a "valiant spirit." In return, Carmichael expressed "warm support for the struggle against the common enemy" and, said Hanoi radio, "his joy and emotion at the militant solidarity which is bound to win victory" for the Communist Viet Cong. The United States, Carmichael told the Vietnamese, "is the greatest destroyer of humanity," and its system had to be changed by violent rcvolu- ground." had, he announced there, come to learn from' his "African brethren." He told Algerians "the only possible way for the colored people in the United Stales is to wage armed struggle to attain their liberation." There was more of the sama at stops in Egypt and Syria. While he was there, Hanoi was broadcasting a tape of his voice advising U.S.

troops in South Vietnam that young Americans were refusing to serve in the armed forces. In mid-October, Carmichael showed up at Conakry, Guinea. A resident Cuban correspondent interviewed him. "We will win our rights and live like human beings," he was quoted, "or we are going to burn the country down to the orcd a Senate speech written by the purpose of upsetting U.S. foreign policy.

The ethics committee, in its report to the Senate, said Dodd's relationship with Klein was indiscreet but that "there was not sufficient evidence ofj wrongdoing to warrant recommendation of disciplinary action Klein, false. had been shown to It said this also was the case with respect to the charge that bejby the Senate." It made no findings with re-j Dodd's trip to the Congo was it. spect to Dodd's trip to the Congo and held no public hearings' NOW OPEN FOR. BUSINESS! New, Modern and Clean 673 ARNETT BLVD. ON THESE LOW-MILEAGE TRADE-INS 62 67 PONTIAC GTO H.

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