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The Brandon Suni
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5tbt JBr andoti' Sum Plus Weekend Magazine The Newspaper Written And Edited To Merit Your Confidence 84th YEAR NO. 268 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1965 14 PAGES CITY EDITION Alt Aid Not Enough Zambia May Call In Russians If Will Not Invade Neighboring Rhodesia SS BhotoM. The Britoh flew st Zambia durtag the iJ for defence but Kaunda said. that is not enough. the Wfocl rioI)s" he said.

"we ask Cong Bandits Blow Up Billet SAIGON AP) Viet Cong terrorists, breaking a lull, attacked and blew up a U.S. enlisted men's billet with machine-guns, grenades and an 'explosives-laden market truck before dawn today in downtown Saigon. Estimates of Vietnamese casualties ranged up to 100, including eight dead. military' spokesr Ships Race To Leave Seaway By THE CANADIAN PRESS Officials of the Stl Lawrpnns Rparoav Aiifhrn-if St. Catharines, Ont, said Friday night they hoped all ocean-going ships will have cleared the Wettand Canal into Lake Ontario by, noon tod A- ispokesman said only, six vessels remained Fri-dkyVnight above Lock 1 at Port jailer on the Lake Ontario end jot' the canal and these.

were ex-Tpected to clear within 15 hours. He said no other ocean-bound ships remained in the Great-- Lake's" above the Welland Canai; The deadline "for ocean siups to leave the seaway expired St rmdrnghL raynight -but' wilL be pushed' ahead 'on a day-! "dWi day basis; depending on condi' acquitted a. state-' court the murder, of. '-Mrs. Ljuzv.a," CONVICTED Collie Wilkins cen- alter his first trial" in -May.

ended in a locked jury arid mistrial in Ala. He was oh trial in the slaying civil 1 Viola. Liuzzo of Later he was- was convicted-and sentenced with two other men under a statute of conspiring" i.o violate- civil Tights of Historic All Set astronauts Frank Bor man and Ay Tjivell iTr re Fridaiibn the eye of one ul greaicsr space acven- hiresa two week endurance flight during which two manned vehicles may fly within, inches while orbitine at milp? an hour; Success of the marathdn mis- sion and the planned rendezvous With nBmin; With Gemini 6. which will be 3 Klansmen Convicted, Get Ten Years lCL'rs on ships of the. Lake ners'.

Association have started launched-later, "would topple all ritrs' Assiiciation have started. Russia Renews Attack UNITED NATIONS (CP) The Soviet Union attacked the United States in the United Nations Friday-: and promised military and political support to fNorth Viet Nam amid specula-torn about increased Communist Cfiinese intervention in the. "crisis. The United States replied to a the Soviet charkes in eral Assembly's committee by describingi iherrl' as 'outrageous' and reaffirmed American willingness to- take' in; unconditional negotiations for a peaceful settlement pf the The war was brought "lip in the assembly at a time -when-all signs pointed toward increased hostilities between the United States and North Viet Nam, blamed by Washington for the success of the' rebel Viet Cong activities in Viet Nam. At the.

same time, -reports from Washington indicated fresh concern over a possible between Communist China the United States as tension 'tightens in Southeast Asia. Addressing the assembly, Soviet delegate Fedorenko virtually' ruled put any Soviet efforts to bring about peace gotiations in Viet Nam. East German Chief Takes Own Life BERLIN (AP)-Deputy Premier Erich Apel of East Germany committed suicide Friday "after a sudden nervous collapse," the official East German news agency reported. Apel, 4S. headed the East German planning commission.

The. ADN dispatch said he had been suffering from circulatory and nervous ailments for some time and as a result the nervous collapse "he departed from life in a sudden uncontrolled reaction." A medical bulletin distributed by ADN no word how Apel took his life. National mourning Was ordered throughout East Germany for Monday, the day pf the fimeraL Apel worked as an engineer for six years in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. In 1935, he assumed his Erst cabinet post minister for the heavy uachine industry. said two Americans were killed and 6V wounded.

A' New Zealand artilleryman was- killed arid four of his mates wounded. series of bomb scares' swept over the city after the big blast 'at the Metropole -Hotel A Claymore mine was planted in the street with a time-fuse set to go off when a crowd gathered. It failed to go off. A bomb believed to have: been a hand grenade exploded hear the top floor' a three-storey officers' ''dormitory, about two -blocks from the Metropole. No one was injured there.

The attackers first met a U.S. military stationed at -the Metropnle billet. The MP was wounded as he emptied his revolver shot-, gun the attackers ir, hospital iJtuAcii uiu explosion i and five patients --were 'slightly" by flying glass, The "navy hospital adjoin. the billet. Also damaged was the navy-' "dispensary' hi -the billet.

building, and one source said it iiu'ght be five or six Weeks before; it its delicate and equipment would be fully opV erating again. Nearly all windows in "the billet and vicinity were shattered. Navy Captain Archie Kuntze, commander of the headquarters support command in Saigon, gave this account: Shortly after 5 ajn. a "hand grenade was thrown at the International billet possibly as a diversion from the main attack. About 10 minutes later, a produce truck with possibly 250 pounds of plastic explosive pulled up in front of the Metro-pole.

Five or six men leaped out and fired machine-guns at the U.S. MP on guard. Although wounded, the 1 MP battled with the Viet Cong until his ammunition gave out and terrorists ran to a nearby intersection and apparently escaped. Viet Nam Film On TV Sunday TORONTO CP)-The Mills of the Gods, a special CBC documentary Elm on the war in Viet Nam. will be broadcast Sunday night in the time period for This Hour Has Seven Days.

xas mm was made in Viet Nam by Beryl Fox, a 33-year-old Winnipeg-born director and producer who started work with the CEC five years ago. Since then she has made One More River, The. Chief and Summer In Mississippi, all prize-winning documentaries. Her new production avoids politics, except so far as political strife causes suffering and destruction. It shows random glimpses oE life in South Viet Nam: Tired soldiers on patrol, peasants working in rice paddies, the streets and bars of Saigon, and battle on the ground and in the air.

slaying of a white civil rights" worker from Detroit. my opinion," District fflidfie Jtr tdld'tlie jury, "that was the only ventift pftw i tw Jr- case and reach a fair and a i. A. short time later, Johnson sentfnces- the maximum prison terms- Leroy Wilkins 22. of Fairfield.

Ala and Eugene Thomas, 42. and William Orville fcaton, 41, both of Bessemer. former mhnnfr h.T hZ Witians, a stocky and crew-cut 'quitted earlier by a state court jury of murder in the March 25 slaying of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, wife of a Detroit union official The ihvov IHantm, He contended, however' that the U.S. is likely to' follow Britain's lead, and added: "What is there left for us to do but; to So' to. the government?" He said is "just -a line of thought." If the Soviet Union is.

into the- he "this not only be a racial ah ideological one." ine president- talked press conference as RAF 'fighter and transport planes swarmeq SJm River border between; Zambia and Rhodesia; which supplies power to: the -Zambian copper In Addis Ababa: delegates from-36 African stat: voted to break; diplomatic rem-tions with Britain-Dec. 15 unless Prime "Miraster Wilson's gavf. emment crushes the Rhcvdesian rebellion bv date The dcTegates: to; th3 Organ-. ualioQ oJ African also voted to" bar planes to' Rhodesia from- flvini-over- heir- Iprrif nrv' cut off afl-communiciatioMyWith hTiilriiau sma lb blMk alf Rhodesian bank declared-a RhodA- aian documents In his press conference, Vu. Kaunda" was of- RAF strstaev nf from "fit.

ts Zambia" we Protect." he said; "it 'is-Kariba dam." -Tfle" British have: offered to i-nH send troops to protect the'instai-. latidn, -are bo'gged down over. Zambia and' possibly. other-countries. issue is considered espe- dally vital since' there is the African countries nuRht take wwt uvm part in.

any future operations tera. RCs To End Friday Rule? A ie man Catholic rule against meat on Fridavs expecl shortly, informed sources said fnjay mgnt. ope raui give added during 4 cereihonies decision most likely would be in the form of removing the Friday abstinence from CathoU- cism's area of discipline-mean- "'S that it would no longer be regarded as sinful for Catholics eat meat Fridays. ine jfontui, it was reported. will encourage Catholics to ob serve fnday abstinence just the same, a a st, nf nanrP for sins and gratitude for Christ's uuuu rnuay saennce.

Moon 5 and Idt, announcement- said all porti, nSes from earth ern er wviei moon veniaes 5S man-in-space records and con- siderably enhance U.S. confi- dence that it can land astro- haiits on the moon in this de- cade. Most space agency official'; iei were is sucnuv better than a snn rbnn lstS and 6 rendezvous can be ac- comnlished in mid-DeeemhPr launching of Gemini 7 Th cSTth" brightened. All systems in- th frmr. spacecraft and the Titan ro- cket received thorough checks Wtre Proed Prison gomery "march'-'that was the climax of a violence marked Negro votic rights drive ji.j if they had anythins to'sav'-be- fJ 'r- acnieiite was vvil- kins and Eaton each replied: uinutent oi uie cnarge," Thomas had nothing to say Their lawyer said the verdicts wiH be appealed 1 ea.

et Jel a' federal marshal. Thpv liriii eligible for -parole after serving M-third of the 10 years. was second guilty ver- Ict two oavs by white juries tnals growing out of Alabama raaal incidents. A jury at An- IliStOn Convicted a whitp man In Washington, ol v- he convictions were "a victbry Lrt ....7,. nns tw i 1 1 Junes- CounseI AtUr J- f' su.ccs.fu"y SeCDnd 1 obyioJusIv was Hari said that the judge's io ac- a deadlocked jury about fnni- u-j "a great influence on the verdict' victed under an 1877 statute of Thursday of murdering a Ne-couspiring to violate the civil and set penalty at 10 rights of Mrs.

Liuzzo and other year in Prison. ships -in the system1-above vi ei i real. Officers Quit Job MONTREAL -CCPl IWr of. OUlthna their 'iohs. a snnlrecman uIttng their jobs, a spokesman for tne Canadian Merchant Serv- ic.e mBht- Most of the officers, 500 in all, could be off 6 job by some- The spokesman.

Robert' Cook. national representative of the negotiations with the Phoned us to ask if the. owners SE saH nar1 7" said. "We had to tell them we didn't feel the owners were bargainine falthfuHv "We were expecting the own- ers at least to accept the de- have been congregating of a man in Quebwho prayerS' aee 2' Christmas the 5th Army Headquarters MONTGOMERY, Ala. ihree Ku Mux Klansmen were cotivicted Friday by a white jury of cnnunal conspiracy and sentenced by a federal judge, to 10 years lmorisDnment in' the Women Get Big Brea SYDNEY, N.S.W.

(Reuters) Australian women have made a major breakthrough in their efforts to gain equal status with males. The Building Trades Union announced Friday that women will be permitted to perform "light duties," but employers must provide adequate powder room Facilities on building sites. Male workers will be asked to watch their language. Four letter words will he banned. Mick McNamara, a spokesman for the Builders Laborers Federation, said all branches through the country have been directed to permit women to enter the industry.

found we could not consistently preach equality of the sexes and continue to freeze the women out," he said. just had to move with the times." Woman suffragettes in Australia have campaigned through the years for equal status in government, private employment and social life. In most parts of the country, a woman is not permitted to enter a bar. Earlier this year, two mothers chained themselves to a bar in Brisbane to gain the right of drinking side by side with men, A leading Australian educationist, R. D.

Goodman, says that in Queensland state, men have reduced women to the rank of "second-class citizens. "Surely this is the height of man's arrogance or of women's indifference," lie told a conference at a girl' college. participants in a 3 Die In Crash KITCHENER, three others are in critical n- dition in hospital here following a car-train collision at a 11 crossing here Friday. Dead Jre Mrs. Ronald Weber and Ca- tharine and David Sellers, both aged three.

All were from Kit- cnecer. art. Mk cDn0 Maeuire. fin. and ntnrin Weber, 4, also of Kitchener.

Russia In The News This Afternoon Again Tries To He Is Heartbreak For Mother Kaye Rowe in the fourth article on the disturbed child tells of a four-year-old in nursery school who is intelligent and straight of limb but his emotions fail to grow straight. See page 11 Healer Sparks Traffic Jam Crowds SOmetimec almnst Inrffo Pnmiah tn Land Softly On traffic on a main street the quarters THE FORECAST pted to chsna, to th northwest at 3S mile, hour and flurting by Low-high 15 and OuttwV for Swnday mortly cloudy and contiraifng-milcl. -arraay rTOUgti Mother Wants Son For Union launch ,7 FayTu fourth attempt this year to land ZlZZJrlZ. stride ahead of the United thlrf raCe PUt 3 man If 31 goes well, the Erst soft nlace amnnri midnight staKon TflZ scientific equipment, weighed tghLJt2 pounds. deference weight could soft landing system landing system following tw tTTTw ther who doesn't want the U.S.

Army to te her son before Christmas has sent a telegram to President Johnson and in Chicago. See page 2. Hmo tt rvv 7T ljUna vu nave been launched by power-Moscow time (3 pjn. CST) crashed on the moon. Luna VI ful muMstflR.

rackets The fi- orinrinp ihp t-h it. around the earth before the orwung me eartn the Gem- An official announcement said ran, i Editorials Page 4 Church page 5 Sports Pages 6 and 7 Women's Pages 8 and 9 Entertainment Page 11 Obituaries Pace 13 ALSO IN THE SUN TODAY TJt House of Ring Home of COLUMBIA most trusted name In D'unwnd. the main purposes of Luna ViH moon..

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