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FRESNO TUX REPUBLICAN VOL 85 NO 15G11 mone 288-5221 FRESNO CALIFORNIA SUNDAY FEBRUARY 13 168 EIGHT SECTIONS 'Founded 1922 By Carr Mr DtKvorv 1250 Montolv Par Copy Daily We Sunday Me TT US Warns HanoiOn rr- Trials Of Captives 60 Americans Rusk Says Peace In nV A i a' 1 Viet Is Up To Hanoi r7: -i Are Believed Viet Prisoners i By Al Kucttner ATLANTA Secretary of State Dean Rusk told upwards of 15000 persons in rain-swept Atlanta Stadium Saturday the United States is not going to back" in Viet Nam but there can be peace anytime Hanoi really wants it Rusk spoke at an Viet Nam" rally sponsored Emory University students to show support for US policy in Viet Nam duct creating a disturbance and resisting arrest A young mother pushing a child in a stroller was at the front of foe pickets and in the rear was a soldier in uniform carrying a sign that read for freedom at home We need it" He refused to identify himself The pickets in turn were picketed by a small group of persons carrying signs reading: hell with Red China" and more Viet The secretary had to walk through about 20 pacifists picketing the rally and one man was arrested when he tried to tear a sign away from a woman picket Rusk a native of Georgia told the crowd that America has a commitment in Viet Nam signed by three presidents and approved numerous times by Congress integrity of the United States is the principal pillar of peace throughout the world Rusk said foe Communist capitals get an idea that our pledge means nothing then the world will be in great He told the crowd message you are sending to Hanoi today is very important they are expecting the United States to draw back they're now beginning to find out it will not happen' WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department publicly warned Communist North Viet Nam not to stage criminal trials of captured American servicemen Some 60 American fliers 34 Air Force and 26 Navy are now believed in Hanoi's hands Another 46 30 Air Force and 16 Navy are listed here as missing but presumed alive Their exact status is unknown North Viet Nam has been hinting in its propaganda that it may treat foe Americans as common criminals because no formally declared state of war exists between North Viet Nam and the United States Hanoi claims the US airmen have committed barbarous acts against humanity with their bombing In Cairo foe daily newspaper Al Ahram said the Hanoi government had decided to put American pilots imprisoned in North Viet Nam on trial as war criminals Quotes Red Envoy It said the North Vietnamese ambassador to Cairo Nguyen Xuan informed Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad that the planes were shot down while raiding a country with whom the United States is not in a formal state of war and they will be tried accordingly Press Officer Robert Me-Closkey said the State Department has no official information confirming the Cairo report Cairo is one of the places US officials said at which Ameri- See Captives Page f-A March In Florida GAINSEVILLE Fla (AP) -A small group of demonstrators marched in protest of US participation in the Viet Nam war Saturday while four veterans of that conflict were being feted by the rest of the city Bm Photo Fresno' County Cpurthouse The $63 million courthouse will open for business tomorrow Additional photos on Page 8-A NEW LOOK IN Symbolic of changes in Downtown Fresno are Washing Woman on the Mariposai Mall in the foreground and the Bold PlanToEnd Eggs Hurled NEW ORLEANS La About 60 antiwar marchers braved rain insults and an occasional hurled egg Saturday to Yank Plane Vanishes Over Spain 8 Aboard ion In City's Schools Rusk Id there could he us in Nlm peace those who reject it would give the South Vietnam Dominican Officials of the Fresno City operative effort of the schools They have enlisted the aid of education programs to work the city and the federal govern two consultants in intergroup re MADRID (AP) A US Air ese a chance to make their own Schools are considering a bold plan to begin relieving 1 classroom segregation through a co Sniper Hits US Soldier decisions in their own Rain Hurts Attendance Rain which had fallen intermittently for two days and drenched the demonstration from the start apparently kept many persons away Sponsors had hoped to fill Atlanta's new 50000-seat stadium Before 15-minute ad- with remaining Edison students 3 Attempt to arrange transportation to the other high schools for those Edison students who would transfer possibly through an arrangement with the Fresno City Lines and possibly with the assistance of federal funds for compensa- tory education Bus lines could be rerouted or possibly federal funds could pay for leasing buses 4 Eliminate a principal stumbling block to successful open enrollment limited classroom See Schools Page 18-A ment The program still in the discussion stages and subject'd) approval by the governing bodies of agencies involved would make it possible for a large number of West Fresno students to transfer to other city schools But no student in any part of the' system would be transfer red without the specific permission of his parents Supt Edwin A Dann and -his staff have been pondering the problem of de facto segregation in the schools for some time lations for the State Department of Education and more discussions will be held But the plan now considered most feasible is essentially this: 1 Encourage transfers to other high schools of all Edison High School students who teachers and counselors feel can compete academically in other high schools There would be active recruiting and consultation with the parents to encourage them to approve of such transfers 2 Put intensive compensatory SANTO DOMINGO Dominican Republic A US soldier was shot and gravely wounded last night as gunfire and ex- Store Holdup dress sponsors of the rally pre plosions rocked Santo Domingo Force C-124 heavy transport plane with eight crewmen aboard' was missing early today netr the scene of the Jan 17 nuejear bomb crash in southern Spain Hie 'big four-engine plane was on a support mission in connection with the search for a missiiig US nuclear bomb US 16th Air Force headquarters I said an air and land search for the missing aircraft hadjbeen started Over Mountains C-124 left Moron Air Base near Seville for San Javier air-pop near the site of the bomb search The scheduled route wfold have taken it over foe hfjh mountains of southern Stain! Fj At the time of the Air Force Fleeing Reds Leave Arms Cache Behind Armed Forces Add 200000 In Buildup sented to Nguy Duy Lien South Viet ambassador to foe United Nations a poll showing that 956 per cent of 253781 persons backed the US stand in Viet Nam Georgia Gov Carl Sanders told the crowd that it had not come as or white rich or poor Protestant Catholic or Jew but to demonstrate they stood together in liberty and freedom and were willing to fight for it everywhere Sen Richard Russell D-Ga chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said the 'Young Farmer! Title For State for the fourth straight night The name of foe US 82nd Airborne paratrooper on guard duty downtown was withheld A US military spokesman said he had been shot through the abdomen presumably by armed civilians Americans Shoot Back A US Army jeep patrol also came under fire during the night from civilian snipers but there were no casualties The spokesman said the Americans returned fire The wounded American was foe first casualty by gunfire in Santo Domingo in months Some US troops were hurt last December in riots when struck by rocks The wave of disorders that started last Wednesday had subsided during the day but gunfire and explosions apparently from homemade bombs began shortly after sundown reaching a peak near midnight A pint-sized bandit in a long trench 'coat 1ook $127 and- a quart of whisky in a robbery in the Black-Olive Liquor Store at 1229 N-' Blackstone Ave at 7 o'clock last night The owner Gerald Baxter of 5829 Butler Ave told the police be was alone in the store when the robber entered and tossed h- bank bag on the counter want it the robber said it in the bag'and get a bottle of -Baxter obeyed The bandit prodded him the rear of the counter and ordered him to lie down 1 Baxter told the police he did not see a- gun but that the holdup man kept-a hand in his pocket as though 'he had one! Baxter described the man as about 25 years -old about' 5' feet 2 inches tall and about 120 pounds in weight- WASHINGTON (UPI) Defense department figures disclose that the armed forces have already added more than 200000 men to their strength in the buildup for the Vietnamese war With the draft remaining at the 30000-to-40000 a month level another 150000 or more are to be added before July 1 The new authorized: strength to be reached next fall is 3093000 men 453000 more than was planned a finouncement six hours after tikeoff the big plane would lave been out of fuel It was one of many US Air IalIy we are not Cuba Russ Sign New I for foe policy of tucking tail and running like a whipped dog The rally was picketed by about 20 persons representing foe Southern Coordinating Committee to End the War in Viet Nam and a man was arrested when he grabbed a sign from a woman and broke it The man William Kontoes 42 was charged with disorderly con- SAIGON Viet Nam A Communist base camp abandoned under foe Claw attack of US air cavalrymen yielded a truckload of arms They included 34 recoilless rifles lethal tubes that serve as light artillery The haul to almost a said Col Hal Moore commander of the US 1st Air Cavalry Division's 3rd Brigade A Chinook is a heavy duty helicopter that can lift six tons Three rocket launchers two antiaircraft guns two machine guns and 5000 rounds of ammunition were among supplies the Viet Cong left behind in flight Friday from the helicopter-borne strike 20 miles southwest of Bong Son 300 miles northeast of Saigon A US spokesman said the troopers killed 46 Viet Cong and captured eight in foe Eagle's Claw operation It marked the first sizeable contact by Americans with foe enemy since the seizure of the An Lao valley west of Bong Son a week ago The cavalrymen suffered only a handful of wounded Force planes Spain for the nuclear bomb search The home base was Hunter Air Force Base Georgia It had been on temporary assignment to Rhine-Main Base at Frankfurt Germany when it was called to Spain to assist in the bomb recovery project It was assigned temporarily to the 16th US Air Force headquarters at Torrejon near Madrid The bomb was lost when a B-52 and its tanker plane collided assembled in Trade Pact i I a i McClatchy Nriwsjpeii Service HANFORD Kings Cb-A 35 year old Lodi San Joaquin County rancher was named Outstanding Young Farmer of the Year here last night i He is John-Kautz a diversified truck-crop farmer who will represent this state in national competition to be held in Birmingham Ala April 3 to 5 Kautz was chosen from 10 local contest winners representing fanning areas throughout Central California The first runnerup is Gerald Barfon id Stockton Emerald Halseth of Modesto is the second runnerup The Outstanding Young Farmer id the Year contest is sponsored by the National Junior Chamber of Commerce its' state and local chapters and the Nar tionatLiquid Petroleum Gas Association Hanford' was selected as the site for last awards din-rierfollowing the 1965 contest In The Bee Today American Heritage 12-S Amusementk 1I-S KIMMMIM year ago A Pentagon release said that as of Jan 1 the services had 2847310 men under arms This included 1075196 in the Army 725851 in foe Navy 214504 in the Marine Corps- and 831759 in the Air Force The total compared with a strength of 2663000 a year ago and with 2686000 last August before draft calls were stepped up- Defense officials said foe increase in January although not yet fully tabulated was similar to-the 43851 man-gain recorded for December Proportunately the Marine Corps is undergoing the biggest expansion The Leathernecks are building toward a strength of 278000 and need another 60-000 mar The new goal is 1 233000 but foe increase is less than 20 per cent of the strength already actyieyed N-t" Officials Sait the buildup presumably could be thrown info reverse by any -VietjNanrpeaqe negotiations but' nothing of foe HAVANA (UPI) Cuba and foe Soviet Union have signed a commercial trade agreement for 1966 amounting to million pesos It was 22 pdr cent higher than the 1965 trade agreement The new accord cane just a week after Premier Fidel Cas- i tro issued a blistering statement accusing Red China of reneging on trade agreement? It underlined the fact that Cuba is securely in the Soviet camp in the aftermattyof the Sino-Soviet split -in international Jcommu- hism I The Sovief Union promised to give Cuba- a 91-mi ion-peso credit-in oider to finance its excess of Imports of goods 1 Carrier Will Be Modified For Jets SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Weather OFFICIAL FORECAST Fair through tomorrow High temperatures today 52-57 Colder tonight with lows 28-31 Northwesterly winds 5-15 miles an hour stronger on West Side diminishing i tonight FRESNO" FACTS 57 55 29 61 40 Details on Page 6-A Today's Chupkle 'To -findouf what a -poor-loser you are taK-VV i The USS Midway attack aircraft carrier will be placed out of commission Tuesday at San Francisco Naval Shipyard for a $75 million conversion program The modernizing work will take from 30 to 36 months It will equip the 62000-ton ship commissioned in September 1945 to handle heavier jet kind ism Astronomy 25-A- Books i Country Life Building And Development Country Life Cartoons City Brief 22-A Classified' 5-B to 19-B Comics Color Section Community Calendar 12 A Crossword-Puzzle TV Tabloid Editorials 2-B Financial 27-A Yesterdays 2-B Golden Years f16-A Katherine Kitchen iCiHintry Life Letters 3-B Lodge Newsv2t'A Movie Times jill-S Nature Stupes 25-A Obituaries Politics In Review 2rB Radio JV-JfablffltLPullout Sports Section Stocks Taking Pictures Tales Of San Joaquin 12-S Television TV Tabloid Pullout Travel Turntable 7PPIcs JXV Tabloid Pullout Valley -News- 20-B Vital Statistics 5-5 Weather 6-A Activities Section Your Health vr 11-A-Youth Parade JW Section ears Lost Cause l'IIRt aign Fresno area campaigns fonhaVe begged for financial funds have aborted or a 'assistance hut the aid once 1 By Vene Cole After seveh yeartf of effort' and 'money on the- part of a few foe central San Joaquin Valley "appears- -as- -far-' -away 1966 TRAFFIC RECORD dragged cm with an amazing lack of success The schools have 'offered available from the federal government contingent upon the community matching the federal grant This was impossible There is now no federal mo from- obtaining its assistance with 'foe tional and cultural televisiamexception of the Fresno County station as it was at foe begin- Mrs Marilyn Conley the president of the San Joaquin Valfey" Community Television Association and foe person who has spent -countless hours over the past years on the project is discouraged we have federal money not a very optimistic outlook for community she said Then she qualified the state- See ETV Page 13-A Businessjqen have pledged t-ney available and with the Viet natiohs often -with' the reserVa- Nam- war federal aidto educa- ning I And -while the-rest of-foestatfe is rapidly puttingtogether a net- tion that foe pledges will be fali- tion programs and the war on poverty demanding more and more tax dollars it is unlikely federal funds' will be available for some time AP Wirtctato SUBDUED Police subdue William Kontoes after he work of ElV stations tljeFresrjfilled only if foe campaigns arfe no area has only and actual constructor community' and educational tion is started television I State and federal agencies Don't crosi thn doubln lino attacked antiwar pickets in Atlanta I A A 5 i JUdr i rfi.