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The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 1

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The Wichita Eaglei
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Wichita, Kansas
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K1 The Forecast WlGWTA AREA Tartly cloudy and mild High 43 low 30 KANSAS Partly cloudy turning cokler high 30a north to 40a south (Map table Pago 11B) Cessna Will Spend $3 Million oh Expansion Here 9A IcndlnK Homo Newspaper for 03 Years Qinr No 12 24 Pages WICHITA KANSAS 67201 TUESDAY JANUARY 12 1965 Price 10 Conti AM 2-4211 China Pays $5 Million Back Dues UNITED NATIONS VY (AP)-Natlonallat China pumped almost $5 million into the dwindling UN Treasury Monday enough to avoid a challenge to Its voting rights in the General Assembly The amount eased temporarily the financial crisis facing the United Nations but there wu no sign of agreement in the continuing private negotiations aimed at an overall solution Ambassador Lieu Chleh permanent UN representative for Nationalist China presented a check for $4990500 to Secretary General Thant The check wu described by the Chinese a contribution to the United Nations budget PRIOR TO the payment Nationalist China owed the United Nations about $16 million mostly for peacekeeping duu but Including about $4 million for the regular budget The money judd in above $4 million wu sufficient to get Nationalist China out of the two-years-in-arrears column Soviet Union France and other nations are more than i in arrears on peace-assessments Las Communist Bulgaria pal $160000 on its regular buagef and under UJf bookkeeping practices escaped being in arrears for two years on all its assessments Hill Gets Quick Solid Approval By LYNNE HOLT Eagle Political Writer TOPEKA Republicans will hold tbs balance of power In the Kansu legislature but in the House of Representatives it took two elections Monday afternoon by the GOP delegation to resolve who among them should direct that power This final authority came during late afternoon caucus when Republican Houu members gave a quids and uncontested stamp of approval to Rep Clyde Hill 82 R-Yates Center House speaker This vote of confidence is tantamount to election since Republicans at noon Tuesday will control the House 81-44 THE FIRST question of leadership in the new 1968 session opening Tuesday came in the selection of a pro-tem In this race Rep Tillotson R-Norton ousted last session's speaker protan Rep Edward Boyd R-Larned Tillotson is beginning his fourth term in the House In the second major contest of the caucus Rep Bin Frib-ley RrCkestline wu retained majority floor leader by a 42-38 vote supporters successfully withstood the bid of Rep Wayne Angell R-Ottawa for the key GOP poet in the House REP GERALD FORD SEN EV Now partnen for GOP report Press Previews Ev Jerry Show (C) NY Tlmea Neva Sendee Sen Everett McKinley Dirkaen sharing the atage with a new partner offered the Republican party a few top-level mechaniam Monday to avert a repetition of the 1964 election The minority leader from Illinois smiling like a winner bade the audience a New Year" read half of a preea release and turned over the other half to Rep Gerald Ford of Michigan the party'a new leader In the House SO BEGAN the 1965 version of the Joint Senate-House Re- Eibiican leadership news conference unofficially billed and Jerry show" The new mechanism' temporarily called the Republican Coordinating Committee would have 22 members 11 of them leaders in Congress There would be five governors and five presidential nominees from Alf London to Barry Cold-water The Republican national chairman now Dean Burch would be a member and chairman Republican senators made another organization decision Monday They gave their most widely publicized convert Strom Thurmond forma: Democrat of South Carolina a place on the 14-member Policy Committee' The practice last year wu to ill Republican senators to meetings when significant leg-policies were to be determined invite all islatlve use xnx maun Top men la Hen THURMOND is expected to stay on the armed services and commerce committees No decision will be made for a few days on his desire to retain the seniority he acquired a Democrat On the House side Leslie Arends of Illinois announced stay on whip The Republic make the he wu a candidate to conference will on whip The decision presumably (Tan to Page 8A CsL I) Staff photo br Hirold Lyla WILLIAM AVERY RIGHT IS SWORN IN AS KANSAS GOVERNOR Justice Parker does the honors while 'Gen Nickell watches Gov Avery's First Day Runs Gamut of Emotions By Eagle Political Writer TOPEKA One moment he tapping MS' tee to the last moving tune You Come 1 Home Bill A broad smile known far and wide across Kansas came over his face HE WAVED without hesitation to those colleagues who served with him in the Kansas legislature in 1953 Then suddenly aa ha surveyed the 22 vacant chairs marked by bright red roses In memory of the deceased members of that same legislature a solemn expression came over his face This was the changing mood of William Henry Avery as he waited to take the oath of office Monday noon as Kansu 37th governor For Bill Avery he hu come to be known during his four years as state representative and 10 years US representative this momentous occasion wu producing consid-ap photo erable strain TWO ''FIRST FAMILIES' MEET AT INAUGURATION SINCE ins victory last No- Gov Avery Mri Avery Sen Pearson Lt Gov Crutcher Ex-Gov Anderson Mrs Anderson vember been engrossed The 39-year-old majority floor leader now commencing his ninth two-year term has previously filled such posts as caucus leader speaker protan majority floor leader as well ss sawing on numerous key committees House Republicans also did battle in selecting a chief doorkeeper By a 8947 vote they retained aging Myron Milea veteran legislator-doorkeeper whose post was sought by Ros Woolvert name will be submitted to the toil membership of the House for approval along with that of Hayes for chief clerk Bill Hubbard to chief sergeant-at-arms Henry Koeling postmaster and the Rev Dr Robert Carruthere Topeka's First Presbyterian Church to chaplain Republican state chairman Oliver Hughes Wichita opening the House GOP caucus urged members to cooperate with their county chairmen in strengthening central commit tees and in recruiting candidates for public office in 1965 Rep Jess Taylor R-Tribune served as caucus chairman with Miss Bea Jacquart R-Satanta as secretary AT THE afternoon caucus of House Democrats ail officers of the past session were retained without opposition Leading the delegation will be Joseph Mikesic D-Kanaas City minority floor leader Rep Jerry Griffith D-Derby assistant minority floor leader and Rep John Caaebeer D-McPherson caucus chairman Mikesic told the group must demonstrate our desire to lend the benefit of our experience to the Republican administration Wo shall let Gov Avery know that wo accept him as governor also and that ho is not only a governor of the Republicans" Maurice Martin Demo state chairman spoke briefly saying the Democrats came within 9 of one per cent of electing a governor in 1964 this (Turn to Page 6A CoL 1) City Streets 1 i rf-v mg More raff ic Is it taking you a few minutes longer to get to work than It used to? be surprised if it is because a recent survey of traffic volumes on major Wichita thoroughfares i i a a Increased traffic on all but a few of the main city arteries Don Blackburn assistant city traffic engineer said the staff is in the process of analyzing the figures COMPARISONS with 1963 show few areas remain static or showed a decline during the two-year intervaL A random selection of locations in the city revealed these 24 hour traffic volumes 1962 totals in parentheses: Boulevard west of Seneca 14800 (11350) north of Harry 9900 (7200) West Street north of US 54 11500 (11100) 1-235 north of US 54 6-800 (6800 in 1963) Seneca south of Harry 18- 018 (17135) Broadway 'south of 13th 12200 (11800) south of Harry 12300 (11700) Hillside south of 21st 9600 (7000) south of Kellogg 16950 (16050) Woodlawn south of 13th 6 100 (4800) 1 (Turn to Page 2A CoL 1) Two Huge C130sBurn On Ground TOPEKA (AP) Two hugs Air Fore cargo planes wers destroyed in a spectacular firs at Forbes Air Fbrcs Bass Monday night after one Jumped Its retaining blocks and rammed the other Four airmen were to or near the planes Two were given first aid at the base hospiUL THE TWO C130B Hercules planes four-engine troop and cargo carriers valued at $4 million were destroyed They were assigned to the 813th Troop Carrier Wing at Forbes The Air Force said the engines of one plane were being tested for deficiencies and it jumped the chocks that held It" A tod tank on one plane ruptured in the collision Betting off flames that shot 200 feet high MAGNESIUM used in tea construction of the planes gave off a bright glow flames spread through them Technical Sgt Talmage Mrosa Jr 34 Biscoe Ark and Airman 2C Robert Russell 22 Hammond Ind were listed as aboard the plana which Jumped its chocks Both were treated at the hoapitaL Staff Sgt Eldrldge Savant 30 Kinder La also a maintenance crewman wu in the second craft Neither he nor Airman lC Edgar Davis 22 Oklahoma City who wu near the craft were hurt Shocks Win 11th Buffs Bounce KU Wichita State's basketball express stayed on the winning track Monday night with a 8441 decision over Southern Illinois at the WSU Field House The vie-4 toy boosted thei record! to 11-2 for the' season All America Dave Stallworth connected to 20 points to pace a quartet of Shockers (coring in double figures In Big Eight Conference action host Colorado gained revenge for a Kansu two-point victory In the lodp's pre-conference aeason tourney by turning backKU 81-69 Earlier in the day Wichita State wu ranked third in both the Associated Press and United Press International basketball ratings Details Paga IB New Watson Park Rules Get Tentative Approval in thou pre-office-taking duties There's been no real letdown Days have been busy But now 11:55 am inauguration day Jan 11 1965 There's still five minutes before the curtain will rise A newsman suggests picture of the new governor-to-be with his 90-year-old mother Mrs Hattie Avery brought here especially for this event of a lifetime can do lt if we Avery says as he moves beside his mother who unhesitatingly plants a Mas such a mother (Tura to Pago 9A CsL I) The park a development of former sandpit area is located on either side of 27th South between McLean Boulevard and Old Lawrence Road It will be operated by the park department Non revenue basis with estimates of an an- By DALE DAUGHERTY Eagle Staff Writer Boating fishing and concession rules and regulations for the operation of Watson Park were given tentative approval Monday by the Park Board Has Labor Gets Humphrey's Promise For Fight on Right-to-Work Laws Eagle MighUyhts Wm Avery Takes Oath As Governor Gov Avery Gets Kiss From Mom 6A By JOE McKNIGHT TOPEKA William Henry Avery wu sworn in Kansu' 37th governor Monday and promised to strive to a strong economy and an accelerated industrial program The 53-year-old former congressman said win" to the 40-word oath of office administered shortly after noon by Jay 8 Parker chief Justice of (he Kansas Supreme Court Parker also administered the oath to nine lesser state including eight department before some 3000 persons 1200 ten than the seating capacity in Municipal Auditorium ALL OF THE newly sworn stale officials are Republicans were their predecessors Avery and his predecessor John Anderson Jr led an inaugural parade through the business district of the city prior to the 40-minute Inauguration ceremonies Immediately after his Inaugural address Avery went to the atatehouse where ho assumed command of the Army and Air National Guard (Tuns to Pago 6A CoL I) nual net profit in the neighborhood of $15000 IT WAS pointed out that Wichita is facing the same dilemma that practically every sizable city in the country faces: that is more leisure time Increased population greater mobility and increased aspirations This condition naturally puts increased strain on present facilities and additional strain on tax dollars These conditions have forced creative research and imaginative planning on the park departments throughout the country in Bcekinl new ways of financing more self-sustaining services Activities that will come under the supervision of authorised personnel of the department Include fishing (mating concessions picnicking and special activities such hayrack tides and wiener roasts THERE will be no swimming allowed at the park site Annual revenue at the park hu been estimated at $51150 with expenditures expected to total $35411 A gate admission of 25 cents to adults and 15 cents to children 12 nnd under will be col- (Tini Is Fage 2A CoL 3) US Jaycees honor 10 Americans as outstanding young men of the year rage 2A Ray Bliss of Ohio says he'd serve as GOP national chairman if it were OK with Barry Goidwater Page SA Pickets at Vance Air Force Base Okia charge they were run down by automobiles entering the base Page 7A The American Football League All-Star game pulled out of New Orleans is rescheduled for Houston Tago 2B WASHINGTON (UPI) Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey promised labor leaden Monday the administration will press to i change in the Taft-Hartiey Law that would nullify to In 20 tatea get the Job done at a time when we have the means and the votes" Humphrey told delegates at the start of a xir-day conference on organ-led 1965 legislative goals AFL-CIO President George Meany singled out rlght-to-work laws and their abolition as one of labor's major pals this year In his State of the Union ad- nu CB dress President Johnson advocated repeal of section 14-B of the Tsft-Hartley Act This section allows Individual states to pass laws banning compulsory union membership clauses in labor contracts- and 20 statu have such laws Meany said repeal of this section would be "in the broad public interest" and wu not a selfish proposal" by labor He also gave special attention to labor's pal of raising the federal minimum wage from $123 per hour to $2 per hour HUMPHREY VOWED that Congress would pass a program of hospital care to the elderly under Social Security "before the first flower of spring He also predicted that the economy would continue to expand under the Johnson administration Meany called on union mem-ben to the mandate of the people" by working for 1965 program a greater degree than ever before in the history of this country" Meaty said stated goals of the administration end of Congress end of the labor movement are ktonticaL" He said assurance of equal Job opportunities to all re-gardleu of race wu vital in the campalp against poverty and unemployment Markets 48 58 Obituaries 68 Oil News 128 People and Places 7A Radio-TV Logs 6A Sports 2838 State News 7A Washington Roundup 6A Womans News IB Amusements 11IA Billy Graham I2A Classified Adt IB Comics 10A Crossword Puzzle I I A Dear Abby IB Editorials 4A 'Goran on Bridie 38 Home Town News 12A I Al.

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