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Bombs Damage American Embassy Hotel Housing Britons In Nicosia Evacuation Of US Women And Children Is Authorized Storm Slows Southwestern Area Of US Thousands Stranded In Texas Oklahoma And New Mexico By United Press International The worst storm of winter swamped the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and northeast New Mexico with 2 to 3 feet of snow Tuesday piling drifts 7 and 8 feet high Thousands ol motorists' were stranded tnd many communities isolated A bus carrying 35 to 40 passengers wm stranded on Highway 66 west of Tucumcari NM The sheriff sent heavy National Guard trucks to bring them to safety The New Mexico Highway Patrol stopped all traffic at San Job and bedded some 400 travelers in a Ugh school gymnasium Tucumcari reported 2 to 3 feet of snow on the ground About 1000 motorists were reported stranded on UR 66 between Glenrio on the Texas-New Mexico border and Santa Rosa Snow plows start the plan to station an Atlantic Alliance police force of 10000 men in Cyprus wu not in his office There wu no damage to his private apartment upstairs where a reporter informed him of what had happened and where Makarios soon arrived to express regrets Some Cars Damaged The bombs apparently were tossed at the embassy by a man who drove by in a British-built Land Rover The bomb at the Averoff Hotel damaged some cars in the parking lot but hurt no one Earlier in the violence-charged day Makarios had appealed to Greek and Turkish Cypriots to stop their bloody feuding which hu led to his calling in 2000 British troops to restore order know that many incidents have been sparked off by mutual a common he said speaking to both sides He added that neither British nor any other troops could keep the peace if that was and sons Bryan 12 and Robert 10 to the presidential palace to if the government of Cyprus wu prepared to protect the lives of UR I am very he told newsmen we have reached tills sad day in relation between the United States and Cyprus shall remain in charge as long I am he added and then Issued an appeal to the American community to remain calm Outside Window Two bombs exploded just under the ambassador's window blew out part of the wall and did some interior damage A spokesman said the telephone system wu knocked out Marine Cnp Henry Theria- que 26 Noth Windham Conn suffered a slight leg injury American officials said about 1200 of the 1700 Americans on the Island are women and children Evacuation to Beirut Lebanon by chartered commercial planes may begin Wednesday It would take eight to 18 hours Armed Guards On Duty Armed guards were placed around the embassy and the UR Information Service library The bombings followed a rising wave of violence on Cyprus which hu included at least one killing in the past 24 hours and several kidnapings and other in cidents between the feudini Greek and Turkish communf ties Wilkins who led the Allied drive here to win acceptance of Senate Hands LBJ Another Big Victory Beats Republican Efforts To Alter Tax-Cut Measure 5 WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate handed -the administration another big victory Tuesday night by turning back 47-44 a Republican effort to strip repeal of the 4 per cent credit on stock dividend income from the $116-billion tax cut bill Earlier in the day the Senate with a 8-45 roll call vote turned down an effort to grant special income tax reductions to parents whose children are In college IMs also was opposed by the administration Offered By Sen Morton The proposal to knock the div-idened credit repealer out of the bill was offered by Sen Thrus-ton Morton B-Ky in behalf of Senate Republican Leader Everett Diricsen of Illinois who is ill and unable to take part in the action on this key legislation Dirksen had made a fight and lost in the Senate Finance Committee to knock out that House provision which is the biggest revenue-producing section The repealer is expected to bring the Treasury $300 million a year The credit first was written into law in the big Eisenhower administration tax bill in 1954 Under it an Individual can excluse $50 of his stock dividend $100 for a married from taxable income then subtract from his taxes due 4 per cent of his remaining stock dividend income Approved By Hone The House voted to repeal the credit effective next year but to double the exclusion to $100 for an individual $200 for couple Morton proposed to continue INSURANCE WOMEN Members of Blue Grass Association of Insurance Women observed their llth anniversary at a Kentuckian Motor Hotel dinner last night Two national officers were among the guests From left are Miss Jean Mason 'Cincinnati key chairman of Region 4 National Association of Insurance Women Miss Mary MeAninch Rhy Grass Association president and Mrs Betty Haverkamp Cincinnati director it Region 4 national association (Herald Photo) Hundreds Of Ghanians March On US Embassy NICOSIA Cyprus (AP) -Bomb explosions damaged the American Embusy and a Greek-owned hotel housing British guests at Nicosia Tuesday night The US ambassador im-metiately authorized voluntary evacuation of all American women and children on the island In Washington the UR government expressed shock and demanded punishment of the guilty Marine Slightly Injured One UR Marine wu slightly injured in the second of two blasts at the six-story embassy in an exclusive residential area None of the 12 guests or em ployes at the hotel wu hurt Ambassador Fraser Wilkins his voice shaking wife emotion told newsmen that he had talked wife the president of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios at the presidential palace following fee blast Makarios who also was visibly upset had examined the bomb damage and he expressed regret to Wilkins said I was the am-bauador aaid having no confidence in the Greek Cypriot police I wu ordering the voluntary evacuation of all UR wives and Issues Statement Makarios issued a statement calling the bombing the work of "heinous Wilkins Mid he took his wife School Heads Urge Boost In Tax Rate FRANKFORT (AP)-A battle cry1 for support of a revenue-increasing bill wu sounded Tuesday at a meeting of Kentucky school superintendents The bill would allow boards of education to levy a property-tax rate up to $2 without a public vote The current law puts the ceiling at $150 for each $100 of assessed valuation The proposal is known generally of the Kentucky Education legislative program It is hardest thing we have to fight State Supt of Public Instruction Harry Sparks said Dodson KEA executive secretary told the group are in better shape wife Print ItaMl Back Paf TMi SkIIm) $1 Million Buy Crosley Broadcasting To Purchase WLEX-TV The Crosley Broadcasting dtp will buy WLEX-TV here for $2 million Plans fin: the purchase were announced here yesterday by Crosley and WLEX-TV Inc The transaction is subject to approval of the Federal Communications Commission' A spokesman for Crosley a subsidiary of the Aveo Corp said present personnel at the Lexington UHF station would be retained which carries programs of both NBC and CBS networks was Central first television station Principal owners and founders of- WLEX-TV which began operations in 1955 are las Gay Jr Lexington dent Guthrie Bell secretary-treasurer and Earl Boyles Lexington executive vice president and general manager Bell speaking for WLEX-TV said past outstanding performance record of Crosley Broadcasting Carp was a major consideration in our decision to merge facilities We are confident that Lexington and the Blue Grass area will benefit from proven progressive management and excellent The Crosley corporation operates radio station WLW Cincinnati and four television stations WLW-T Cincinnati WLW Dayton WLW-C Columbus and WLW-I Indianapolis John Murphy Crosley president Mid we were attracted by the fact that WLEX-TV wu fee first UHF station in fee country to be fully equipped for color telecasting of both network and locally originated not also the goal of the 600000 Greeks and Turks on the island Presented To Sandys His official reply to the idea of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization force was presented In London to Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys and (SM Cal I Back Page TMs Secflsal Fears Grow For Safety Of Climbers GORHAM (UPI) Mountain experts expressed growing fears Tuesday night for fee safety of four Syracuse University students who failed to return from a weekend hike along wilderness trails in New towering mountains Experienced mountaineers braved hurricane velocity winds near zero temperatures and deep snow Tuesday in the March for the four New York State youths identified Robert Koppe 21 of Massapequa Park Peter Catelli ol Rouses Point Craig Fournier 18 of Tonawanda and Peter Bradford 25 of Syracuse The four left the Glen House near Route 16 on Friday and planned to climb 5363-foot Mt Madison and cross over to ML Washington to Crawford Notch Search parties set out Monday when the climbers did not arrive at Crawford Notch as scheduled Juk Godden information officer for the US Forest Service said Marchers found snow- (Sm CM I lick Pag TMi SKflM) The Guide Post Clraified 20-22 Markets 19 Colored Notes 19 Racing 11 Comics 23 Radio-TV Crossword 23 Society 14 Editorial 4 Sports 7-11 In A Aroand -5 Store 13 Landers 14 Theaters 16 CIRCULATION HOURS 730 om to 9 am Weekdays 730 am to 10 am Sandays Dial 252-2270 Far Circe latioa Servica The Weather Viet Cong Guerrillas Stage Biggest Attack This Year Youth In Industry Program Launched By Local Students SAIGON (UPI) Communist guerrillas overran a Vietnamese army battalion headquarters' 55 miles south of Saigon in a predawn attack Tuesday the biggest since' late November The Viet Cong withdrew when government planes lit up the area wife flans In Saigon an estimated 1000 university students staged a leaeeftd demonstration demand-ng the reinstatement of deposed junta chairman Maj Gen Duong Van Minh a stronger stand against neutralism and drafting of students to fight the Viet Cong Attack Village Fortress Military sources said the Communist force estimated at 400 guerrillas attacked the village fortreH of Hau My in tile Meking Delta from several directions under cover of intense fire from machine guns mortars and recoilless rifles At one print in the three-hour battle government troops lowered a 105-millimeter howitzer A group of 21 Lexington high school seniors hu been selected to initiate the Youth in Industry program designed to give students a grasp of industrial economics An orientation meeting fra fee first group from Lafayette and Bryan Station high schools wu held last night at fee YMCA Leonard Hocker personnel director of Texu Instruments Co Versailles was discussion leader Sponsored by the Industrial Management Association of Central Kentucky and the YMCA of Greater Lexington the progra will last six weeks for each group of from 2CL to 25 students Each week fee group will meet to discuss fee economics of a different plant by questioning the top executives of feat plant under the direction of the discussion leader The purposes at the Youth in Industry program are to help young people relate industrial economics to society in general to acquaint them wife fee personalities and problems of in ed from each of those towns in a rescue attempt Like BUssard Gusty north winds compounded the problem by whipping the fallen snow The Weather Bureau at Amarillo Mid it wm not and will not be a blizzard because lt wm neither cold nor windy enough if you were here you would think you were in a the Amarillo Weather Bureau meterologlst said Amarillo reported 15 inches of snow on the ground with drifts 4 feet deep Stranded farmers and ranchers were nearly much problem motorists trapped by the snow Armstrong County Tex officials organized tractor and snowplows to try to reach ranchers wife emergency supplies 66 wu closed to westbound traffic at Amarillo and was closed to all traffic at Borger Die In Mishaps Three persons died in New Mexico two in wrecks on icy roads One wu overcome by carbon monoxide he tried to keep warm in the cab of his stalled truck Two men from Borger Tex were missing since Monday night when they left town to check the crew at an oil welL Barger in the Texu Pan handle reported 24 inches of snow More than three feet fell in the highlands of New Mexico While the storm belted the Texu Panhandle a tornado rare in winter hit Rosenberg in south Texu It damaged 10 bouses but nobody wu killed or injured Ask For Snow Flows State police at Tucumcari called for heavy snow plows from Santa Fe the state capital to help rescue 300 motorists stranded around Tucumcari Crews fought a driving wind and blowing snow in an effort to clear 55 derailed Santa Fe Railroad cars from the tracks new Vaughn One cw of a Southern Pacific Railroad train went off the tracks near Santa Rosa No one wu injured Officials blamed the weather for fee derailment Train Hits Cattle A herd of cattle lost in the snAw wandered on the Burlington Railway tracks near Dal hart Tex A passenger train ran through the cattle and killed many of them Wella a meteorologist at fee Amarillo Weather Bureau said snow wu on the ground from Albuquerque far east the Oklahoma border on fee east edge of the Panhandle and from around Liberal and Dodge City Kan south to near Lubbock Tex A foot of snow fell at Trinidad in southern Colorado The snow was welcomed by wheat farmers but stockmen had fee problem of getting feed to their cattle Because temperatures generally did not fall below the 20s livestock losses were expected to be light Starling Problem Is Being Studied The starling problem in downtown Tvfagtnw is being studied by the University of Kentucky in cooperation wife health Officials Dr Samuel Shouse Lexington-Fayette County health officer uid last night Dr Shouse said some of the UK faculty are some in an effort to devise a means to eradicate the startings To date he reported the State Hfcalto Department come with a solution and the local health queries to other cities' afflicted with the roosting birds has produced no answer The problem will be discussed at length at fee board of health's meeting next Tuesday Dr Shouse said ACCRA Ghana (UPI) Mobs of Ghanians egged on by government party loudspeaker trucks marched on the UR Embassy Tuesday hauled down the American flag and threatened to storm the building One crowd of several hundred demonstrators fell back when Emerson Player of Denver Colo a Negro embassy official rushed out seized the rope and ran the banner up fee staff Police and leaders of President Kwame Nkrumah's Convention Party (CPP) stopped another mob short of storming the embassy during second demonstration directed against what the mob called 'filthy American Ambusador William Mahoney told UPI the demonstrations were unfriendly act by the Ghana government of a flagrant Ledges Protest Mahoney drove to the Foreign Office to register a strong oral protest with Foreign Minister Kojo Botsio The embassy followed up later by sending i formal note of protest which of- dustry to raise their level of knowledge about industry to help them appreciate the operation and benefits of a free enterprise system and to stimulate a desire for more knowledge about industry The first plant visit to be made by the group will be next Tuesday A Dixon plant manager of the Lexington Lamp Plant will be the host and resource person for the visit Other visits will be made to Kentucky Utilities Columbia Gu Co Dixie Cup and Parker Seal Students participating in the program are: John Pope Carril Vick Van Sudduth Laurel Rich ards William Diamond Butch Locklar Jill Pulley Jeff Beal ty Christie Jones Robert Root and Jerry Haas Bryan Station Phil Patton Larry Mountford Sandee Starr David White Dee WieUine Larry Columbia Roland Hamm Berry Jordan Ronald Tudor and Anne Bowe lieves that still another day- of steady questioning through an interpreter might be needed Warren said he expects Mrs Oswald to identify readily the Italian-made rifle fitted wife a telescopic sight because as hu been she did so when shown the weapon in Dallas do not have fee' rifle Warren said whoever hu it in presumably the Federal Bureau of Investigation have it here when we call fra it Bears Palm Print The rifle bears a palm print identified by federal experts Evidence written in Russian covering the last four years of Oswald's life was traced during day-long interrogation of Mrs Oswald Many of the documents and letters related to efforts to return to fee Soviet Union wife his Russian-born wife Although the Ruuians had refused to accept the ex-Marine sharpshooter a defector in October 1959 some of letters thereafter concerned al tempts to obtain passports back IIhMIi Back Pas TMa lectin) ficials said forthright American officials said that while they took a serious view of the demonstrations they had no plans at present to warn UR nationals to remain off the streets or take other precautions The United States has pledged about $170 million in grants and loans to Ghana since it became independent in 1957 Most of the aid hu gone to ambitious Volta Dam Project Early Tuesday trucks circulated through fee streets with loudspeakers blaring: are rumors two soldiers have been killed and Nkrumah hu been arrested These rumors are not true American imperialists started fee rumors They have sent money into Ghana to start rumors and Other trucks toured tile city urging the people to march on the 8 Embassy A mob at several hundred responded Led By Editor Outside the embusy Bafoe editor of the Ghanian Times shouted: yes Yankees no Yankees go killed President he yelled toward the embassy cannot kill Kwame Nkrumah American imperialism is a filthy civiliza-tion You murdered (United Nations Secretary Generali Dag Hammarskjold You want to murder (Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash while on a peace mission to fee Congo) Demonstrators carried placards wife anti American slogans They massed outride the embassy fra nearly two hours shouting their hatred of Power Generation At Mines Urged WASHINGTON Better transmission methods for high voltage electric power could start an economic resurgence of the Appalachian coal area the president of fee United Mine Workers said Tuesday The independent president A (Tony) Boyle said such technology now Is being used to Import hydroelectric power from Canada Boyle gave his views in statement filed wife the Senate-House Economic Committee best way to help poverty in Appalachia is to create jobs fra coal miners there' Boyle said arguing that power generation at the mine mouth could step up the market for coal Boyle proposed to fee committee for inclusion in its study of the economic report eight other points in an antipoverty program They include youth training programs public woks social security medical care for the aged federal research and development extension of the Fair Labor Standards Art continuation and expansion of the area redevelopment program expansion of fee food stamp plan and foreign policy changes designed to help markets fra UR goods Sgt York Released JAMESTOWN Trim (UPI) Sgt Alvin York World War I hero wu released Tuesday from PentreM County Hospital where he underwent treatment during the past week fra Dr Guy Pinckley physician aaid the 76-year-old Medal of Honor winner wu in good as he left the hospital here with his wife for their home in nearby Pall Mall the 4 per cent credit but with a limit of $300 Thus he explained dividend income above $7500 in a year no longer would benefit He said that the effect of the repealer would be to nullify much Of file benefit of the tax rate reductions in the bill or persons dependent largely or entirely on dividend income He contended also that the credit makes at least a start toward ending double taxation of corporation earnings and should be retained gays It Would Aid Wealthy Sen Eugene McCarthy D-Minn leading the fight to retain the repealer said it would remove from law a provision which chiefly aids wealthy taxpayers It obviously took some intensive behind-the-scenes persuasion for the administration to muster sufficient forces to keep out of the bill the controversial special income tax deductions for parents of college students The ndl call was tied 4M4 at one point and again at 45-45 The votes cast in the last minute iftaded three of its cosponsors Sena Hubert Humphrey D-Minn Robert Byrd D-W Va and Frank Moss D-Utah The tally showed 26 Republicans and 19 Democrats the proposal They were outweighed by 43 Democrats and 5 Republicans i After defeating that proposal by Sen Abraham A Ribicoff D-Conn the Senate also rejected with a 47-47 tie vote proposal by Sen Winston Prouty R-Vt to allow tax deductions for working students Opposed By 47 Denus All 32 Republicans present voted for Prouty's proposal joined by 15 Democrats It was opposed by 47 Democrats Later administration forces defeated 46-45 a motion to reconsider the tie vote Democratic leaders stressed they would give priority to a bin to furnish scholarship and loan aid to college students Sen Wayne Morse D-Ore chairman of the Education subcommittee promised to conduct hearing on stub legislation The Senate rejected by voice vote an amendment by Sen Albert Gore D-Tenn to raise personal fxfwipHnns from $800 to $1000 as a substitute for the individual and corporate rate reductions provided in the bUl Gore said his proposal would mean a revenue loss of $12 billion compared to $116 blllioa under the biU now before the Senate A later move by Gore to raise personal exemptions from $600 to $900 as a substitute for the individual and corporate rate reductions in the bill was tabled by a 61-33 vote He estimated this would have made the overall revenue loss $67 billion The debate on Ribicoffs proposal centered on whether the people who need such aid would be or whether it would provide a bonanza for the wealthy Democratic leaders said the college tax credit would cost so much it would require Congress to cut back the individual tax rate reductions now in the bill (Sts CM I Sack Pass TMs SscIM Expanded Food Stamp Plan Killed By House Committee Oswald's Widow Will See Assassination Rifle Today and fired print blank into the on rushing hordes in an desperate but futile attempt to halt the attack- military sources reported Casualties were listed as 12 government soldiers killed 20 wounded and 6 Communists killed Military sources believed fee two government companies inflicted far heavier casual ties but as usual the Viet Cong took their dead and wounded wife them Demonstration Orderly The student demonstration was orderly and police made no effort to break it up In sharp contrast police and troops stifled student demonstrations during the authoritarian regime of fee late President Ngo Dinh Diem The students did not voice any opposition to South Viet new military strongman Lt Gen Nguyen Khanh 38 but shouted instead that who was toppled last Thursday be Mid he opposed the bill in committee because it is financed entirely by the federal government He said states should pay 50 per cent of the cost of the food distributed Rep Leonor Sullivan D-Mo who has fought for the food stamp plan for years said any such provision would kill the program because no state could afford it Hopes For Revival think it is one of fee most important facets of the fight on poverty" she said adding feat she hoped the bill could be revived this year The food stamp plan started as a pilot program in 1961 is confined to 39 counties and three cities The defeated bill would have expanded it throughout the United States and made it permanent The total cost was estimated at $360 million a year by 1968 FamDies Buy Coupons Under the plan families buy coupons and get additional coupons free TheM coupons can be spent in a grocery store for any grocery item The present pilot program can be continued in its present limited form financed with other government funds Daily Forecast ncreazinf cloudiness and mild wife rain by late after-High 56 degrees Lexington Fignres Highest temperature yesterday 51 degrees lowest 17 average 34 normal 35 Highest and lowest on record for Feb 4 70 in 1962 and 9 below zero in 1912 Accumulated excess in temperature since Jan 1 14 degrees Precipitation fra 24-hour period ending at 6 pm none Total precipitation since Jan 1 256 inches wife an accumulated deficiency of 259 inches Humidity readings: 6 am 84 per cent noon 35 per cent 6 pm 33 per cent Sun sets today at 6:06 pm (EST) riMs Thursday at 7:39 am (EST) (Hours of possible sunshine today 10 hours 26 minutes) Tups rural onwr Cltfm -a Htfk LM 17 MomMill 41 SI 11 Mllwaukn IS Mpiwat pms 4i 17 New Ortm S7 SS IS Ntw York 41 17 Oklahema City 41 4 offals SS SS Omaha Jt Cli leaps 44 Philadelphia 41 14 andimafl 44 is Ptioanta 41 SS 41 14 PltMwrgh 41 11 41 IS Portland Mo SS 14 Das Motrin -SS SI Portland Ort 44 If If kspld City 17 Fairbanks -4 -If ktchmand 14 IS Fart Worth -44 41 St Laula IS IS Helena S4 14 Salt Laka City S4 11 Hanohila II 44 San Dlaos 47 44 Indianapolis 44 If San Franctacs 44 47 Jaduonvllls 40 IS Seattle 44 Kann City S3 SS Tampa 4S 41 Lea Angstn 71 47 WaMiington IS Laulvrilla IS If Winnipeg SI WASHINGTON (AP) President on got a stinging slap from the House Agriculture Committee Tuesday The committee voted to pigeonhole an expanded food stamp plan for needy families Johnson made fee expanded program a key part of his agriculture message to Congreu last Friday tying it in directly as a part of our war on Vote Is 19-14 The House committee voted to table or kill the food stamp bill by a 19-14 vote Five Southern Democrats voted wife all 14 Republican members against it Rep Harlen Hagen D-Calif main backer of the bin in the committee said it was unfortunate setback I think this one of the beat parts of the farm Hagen said in an interview feat the defeat is an ominous forecast of the reception other administration agriculture bills are likely to get at the hands of the House committee this year Race Issue Inserted -It was learned from several members that one committee member had contended in the closed meeting feat most of the recipients of the food stamp benefits would be Negroes Rep Albert Quie R-Minn WASHINGTON (AP) The weapon that authorities believe killed President John Kennedy will be placed before the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald oi Wednesday fra identi-cation the mail-order rifle he bought last March Chief Justice Earl Warren uid Tuesday that the presidential investigating commission he heads also will inspect diaries notebooks and household odds and ends feat link Oswald to fee Nov 22 assassination in Dallu Questioned About Walker Warren disclosed also that the commission hu questioned Mrs Oswald on the possible connection of her husband wife sniper shots fired at former Maj Gen Edwin A Walker last April 10 Government sources have reported that Mrs Oswald told investigators that her husband came home that night and boasted excitedly that he had shot at Walker The bullet fired through a window- at Walker while he worked in his Dallu home narrowly missed him He wu cut by flying glau Wednesday will be the third day of Mrs interrogation behind closed doors and Warren told reporters he be.