Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 1

Weather Partly cloudy and colder today and tonight High near 53 low tonight in low 30s riday mostly cloudy and continued cold with a chance of rain High in the low 50s Inside Classified 12A Sports 2B Comics 13B TV Bog IA Deaths 2A Weather 2A Editorials 4A Women 8A The Only Daily Paper Published in Eastern South Carolina VOL NO 14 LORENCE THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 14 1965 DAILY 5c SUNDAY 15c OT JOT 1 X': JVN MUwi j1 1 I I Jfr Ji i i 1 1 1 li i I hwi''1! wi il ftl I i ws! I HI i i I BBHh i i lilBi iiL MW J' i ul'iii Bill! 5 li wl Ik sk'sI'IIM 1 1 1 1 11 ilip'ili'' vUI'il' fe'WKii nS 111 IwS ftj 4 i HjH ii'ii i i i 1 AS Vilhr iHHUVJm 11 Jl i illlfil Hiil'lh II HI h1 II1 i Wil1 Illi h'lllllllph llW lllUlllll 1 ill III I lllll I 1 I 1 I I I III III I I lllnl ll 1 1 Illi 'lim If Jlllll I Al1 i'miI'LLI MEOWER This frosted feline stuck around long enough for a Minneapolis photographer to snap him but that took some bravery in the 22 below weather Wednesday morning Nosing snowbound thermometers is a good way to get ice in the whiskers (AP Wirephoto) State Budget Upped $14 Million COLUMBIA SC (AP) The South Carolina Budget and Con trol Board recommended Wed nesday a record $246772225 in appropriations to cover state government expenses in 1965 1966 The Budget report proposed no tax increases and predicted that increased spend ing would be adequately covered and estimated $14 million in in creased revenues by the end of fiscal 1964 1965 At a news conference Gov Donald Russell said a break down of the estimated revenue increase shows a $6 million rise in sales tax collections and near ly $4 million in income tax col lections The proposed budget is nearly $14 million over this to tal appropriations of $232942 152 The recommendations of board many of them included in Russell state of the state speech to the legislature Wed nesday include 3 per cent cost oi living pay raises for teachers and other state employes to taling $4 million (See Table Page 11 A) Also coming out of the $14 million additional revenue next year will be nearly $5 mil lion for state retirement system benefits $3 million to meet a deficiency in this year appro priation for public education and $12 million for normal in crements occurring from changes in teacher classifica tions Russell stressed that South Carolina public schools will get 65 per cent of the additional revenue available in 1965 1966 He said appropriate increases have been recommended for professorial salaries at state supported institutions of higher learning These could be used for pay raises or additional pro fessors The governor said the appro priation for the state (mental) hospital was increased so as to equalize the salaries of men and women doing the same type of work An increased appropriation of about $200000 was recommend ed for the state development board for use in its industrial and tourist promotion program Russell noted that a separate recommendation for raising tui tion fees for out of state stu dents at state supported colleges enabled the Budget Board to keep down appropriations rec ommendations for the schools The $2467 million general ap propriations bill total outlined bv the board underwrites a rec ord over all state budget of $4262 million including federal aid and earmarked revenues 4 Ol II A Gov Hosseli Asking School! Money Hike Charleston's St Matthew's Church Damaged By Blaze CHARLESTON I) ire struck 125 year old St Matthew's Lutheran Church in downtown Charleston Wednesday night destroying part of the roof and the interior and endangering its 196 foot steeple The steeple the tallest in this old port city was still burning after the flames in the interior were put out said Mrs A James Laughlin Jr wife of the pastor The brick and masonry structure was being re modeled and workmen had spent the day painting the interior she said A city library across the street from the church was evacuated when the fire broke out stained glass windows are Mrs Laughlin said were original just as were the pulpit and Two other church buildings a Sunday school and parish education building were saved Jfa Laughlin said the fire apparently started in the eaves She said the congregation's 1400 mem bers dedicated two new stained glass windows just recently The Laughlins came to the church from Haven Lutheran Church Salisbury White House Is Mum On LBJ Staff Changes Two US Jet ighters Downed In Laos on Supply Line Strike State Lawmakers Had ull Work Schedule Wednesday: COLUMBIA South Carolina lawmakers had 'a busy day Wednesday Some of the doings in thecapital included: Gov Russell's State of the State address 1 A The Budget and Control Board Report 1A JP 11A of the Congressional Dis tricts was considered Page 1 A proposal was made to use women on state juries Page 11 A Sen Rembert Dennis of Berkeley County said discontent at the Medical College is not as bad as portrayed 1B Reaction to Gov speech was general ly favorable with one exception 5A A number of local bills were introduced 1B A Water District Bill Would Serve Oakdale WASHINGTON (AP) The White House Wednesday clamped a secrecy lid for the time being on changes in Presi dent staff expanding an earlier bar to the disclosure of staff salaries The question of the current composition of official family came up after a veteran Secret Service agent Emory Roberts was seen performing the receptionist chores formerly carried out by David Powers who was a close friend of the late President John Kennedy Asked about day long appearance at the recep desk in the White House lobby Press Secretary George Reedy said the presidential body guard was carrying out his regular assignment as a Secret Service agent Reedy referred vaguely to checking the passes of people passing through the lobby Reporters Mississippi Jury inishing Work JACKSON Miss (AP) A federal grand jury turned its attention to liquor law violation cases Wednesday after spending two days studying the slaying of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County last summer The 23 member panel is ex pected to wind up its work and report to US Dist Judge Har old Cox on riday The Justice Department presented evidence Monday and Tuesday in the killings of Mi chael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman both white New Yorkers and James Chaney a Meridian Negro observed no pass checking by Roberts but did see him greet ing Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and other visitors UNITED NATIONS NY (AP) Secretary General Thant conferred separately Wednesday with the chief dele gates of the United States and the Soviet Union but apparently failed to make any progress in resolving the crisis over UN peacekeeping debts Thant met first with US Am bassador Adlai Stevenson and then with Soviet Ambassa dor Nikolai edorenko The secretary general was opening a last round of efforts aimed at avoiding a US Soviet confrontation when the General Assembly reconvenes Monday after a New recess Stevenson met with Thant for a little over an hour and later told reporters that pending the negotiations Thant was holding with representatives of various countries nothing I can edorenko met with Thant for about an hour also but the Rus sian did not make himself avail able to newsmen Philippine Ambassador Salva dor Lopez conferred with Thant just after the latter saw Stevenson impression is that no WASHINGTON (AP) Two Air orce fighter bombers were shot down Wednesday while striking at a key road in Laos over which supplies and men reached Communist guer rillas in South Viet Nam and central Laos This information became available from government sources Wednesday night after a terse Defense Department statement disclosed that an 100 Supersabre and an 105 Thunderchief had been downed by ground fire in central Laos The pilot of the 105 Capt Albert Vollmer of Denton Kan and Rush NY was res cued Listed as missing was the pilot of the IDO Capt Charles erguson of Clovis NM and Parma Idaho A Defense Department spokesman declined to shed any light on the nature of the mis sion But informants said the jets capable of carrying thousands of pounds of bombs were raid ing along Route 7 a road ex tending northwestward from North Viet Nam toward the Communist held Plaine de Jarres in Laos Connecting with this road are other roads lead ing into the Laotian panhandle and thence by trail into South Viet Nam There are four airfields in progress was made in resolving the financial Lopez told newsmen He added that has been no change for the bet since the assembly re ressed Dec 30 LAMBARENE Gabon (AP) By plane river boat and on foot black and white men are reaching this jungle outpost to honor Dr Albert Schweitzer on his 90th birthday Thursday Across miles of rain forest drums carried the message of the white anniversary Entire villages of grateful tribesmen treked over brown paths cut in the forest to take part His hospital where since 1925 the rench born doctor has helped more than 60000 per South Viet Nam capable of hau dling jets No immediate in formation was available here on what base was used as the point of departure for this raid But the closest base is at Da Nang on South Viet coast be low the 17th parallel separating the Communist and non Com munist parts of the country Two other American planes $35 Million Tax Lien Is iled STUART la (AP) The federal government is seeking $35 million in taxes penalties and interest from James Rand Jr 78 the founder of Remington Rand Corp his former wife and two corpora tions with which he is con nected The liens one challenging the tax exempt status of the Rand sponsored Public Health oun dation for Cancer and Blood Pressure Research Inc were filed in Circuit Court here Tues day by the Internal Revenue Service One placed against Public Health oundation seeks $22 184222 in corporation taxes for the years 1955 to 1963 Another asks $10911523 income taxes for 1955 61 from Rand and his ex wife Evelyn Heerman of Palm Beach la A third lien against almouth Ltd of Stuart seeks $1959615 in corporation taxes for 1956 61 Rand whose scientific achievements include invention of the dial telephone could not be located for comment at his home at reeport in the Baha ma Islands Mrs Heerman also was una vailable and a spokesman for Public Health oundation and almouth both with headquar ters at Stuart said there would be no comment from anyone there sons was in a festive mood Gifts were being wrapped Officials of the new Gabcto Republic where Schweitzer has lived and worked most of his long life have joined in hon oring him The old doctor was at his post in the central pharmacy He wore a white shirt with his usu al black bow tie and appeared more stooped and more bur dened with age than when I last saw him 10 months ago But the twinkle was in his eye as usual and he smiled at visi went down near the Viet Nam Cambodian border "One was shot down and the other ran out of fuel and crashed Two crewmen In a small Army spotter plane suffered second degree burns when their craft was shot down near the Cambodian border a US spokesman in Saigon said In a fourth incident a US Air orce officer also uniden tified suffered minor bruises and scratches when his airplane ran out of fuel and crashed the Viet Nam Cambodia area the spokesman said One of the two Air orce jets shot down in Laos was an 100 and the other was an 105 Both are fighter bomber types not equipped for photo reconnais sance missions They could have been used to escort reconnaissance planes but the Pentagon announcement made no mention of any other aircraft in the area Loss of these two jets brought to six the total number of Amer ican jets that have been shot down by ground fire in Laos since last June Pentagon press chief Arthur Sylvester said in reply to news questions that the recon naissance flights that have been carried on at the request of the Laotian government will contin ue 1 95 Property Owners Meet An estimated 70 owners of property in the vicinity of In terstate Highway 95 are sched uled to meet Thursday with rep resentatives of the South Caro lina Development Board and fi nancial institutions to discuss the prospects for developing the area The meeting scheduled at the Back Swamp Community Cen ter at 3:30 pm apparently will find farmers in that area inves tigating the prospect of turning their property into a tourist mecca tors He appeared hard of hear ing and he leaned against the wall as he received visitors assure you I feel wonder he repeated cheerfully am grateful that you could It is not a happy Africa on the 90th birthday of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Critics accuse him of having a colonialist patronizing attitude toward the African of defying desire to adopt the ways of the white man Schweitzer has refused to re COLUMBIA A bill to allow creation of the Oakdale Water District of lorence County was introduced in the General Assembly by the lorence dele gation Wednesday The measure provides for es tablishment of the district which would be empowered to oper ate a water system to supply residents of the district and others outside the district who purchase the service It pro vides for a five member board of directors to run the agency The area covers some 250 acres in the Oakdale Golf Club area near Ebenezer A petition submitted the sec retary of the governing board of the county with names of at least 10 property owners in the designated area would provide for a referendum on the mat ter An election would be held within 30 days with the district going into operation immediate ly if the vote is favorable The directors would be ap pointed by the governor upon recommendation of the delega tion A meeting of residents of the area would nominate direc tors Directors would serve six years with two of the original ply to the criticism or to alter the methods he has used since he first came to Africa in 1913 He has not adopted modem treatment methods or hygienic installations He has refused to identify his African patients by name preferring to give them numbers for more efficient han dling But the black man from the surrounding rain forest contin ues his confidence in the doctor The hospital has been expand ing steadily and some of the best specialists have directors holding office for four years and two for two years The board would be empower ed to request the county auditor to levy taxes to supplement revenue of the district The act describes the area as being bounded by a line starting where the east boundary of Oakdale Golf Club intersects the run of Middle Swamp and running northerly to Pine Needles Road Mars Probe Is Way Out WASHINGTON (AP) The Mars bound Mariner 4 space craft is more than 8 million miles from the earth and has completed more than 110C hours of its 6000 hour mission to the planet The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday that as of 9 am EST on Thursday Mariner will have traveled 813 million miles in its spiralling course practiced here The theory is simple and to many logical: he is here to help the African and not to impose the Western ways on him Schweitzer has heard all the arguments and he will not change regardless of the new Africa exploding around him regardless of the wrath of semi educated Africans Those for whom the day means more than to anybody else are members of his staff about 50 men and women run ning his hospital No Tax Increase Sought By JIMMIE HOWIE News Editor COLUMBIA Governor Russell Wednesday called for legislation that would provide South Carolinians with more and better edu cation through a continu ance of sound economic legislation featuring a pro gram that provides addi tional tax revenue by in creasing economic growth In his annual address to a joint meeting of both houses of the legislature the governor said the state of the state is good due chiefly to the solid fiscal policy of living within its means believe our record in growth in incomes in industry in education and in public serv ice during he said a testimonial to you and the type of climate we in state govern ment have generated for our state in the past our future depends not so much on what we have done in the past as on what we do Those legislators contacted afterward apparently were sur prised by nothing contained in the talk but it was generally praised as an excel lent summation oi me past) present and prospective condi tion of the state The one remark in the ad dress that drew any on the spot reaction was the suggested increase in costs to out of state students studying in state supported colleges This brought a brief outburst of applause led by Dillon Rep A (Red) Bethea long an ex ponent of increasing the tab for foreigners Russell said it has been cost ing South Carolina an aggregate of $3 million annually to edu cate students from other states To correct this he reported the state Budget and Control Board has recommended fees in addition to the already higher tuition costs be charged out of state students to cut this annual loss in half giv ing the colleges an addi tional $1400000 annually with out cost to taxpayers of SC Dealing with a perennial prob lem the governor recommend ed a 3 per cent cost of living pay increase for teachers and other state employes The teachers are asking a 15 per cent pay hike (See GOVERNOR Page 5A) UN Dues Crisis Is Rising Again The Soviet payment was not anywhere near enough to avoid a challenge of its voting rights in the assembly This would re quire payment of around $217 million Dr Albert Schweitzer Honored Hi 'A 4.