Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 1

rr uutne r-vru -rswna a WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS Byron i Ik i i i i f99 6T or 1 -r-ry i NO 208 ABILENE 85TH YEAR TEXAS 79604 TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 11 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS 0 CENTS DAILY 15 CENTS SUNDAY Associated Press nwy Mk No Details Of Contact Given Out (AP Whrwhoto) (AP WirwMt) PRIME MINISTER SHASTRI GULZARILAL NANDA dies in USSR Shastri's successor India's Top Leader Dies Pact Signed TASHKENT USSR (AP) Soviet Premier Alexei elder wife and 10-year-old daughter were burned while fleeing the predawn fire Monday (AP Wirephoto) WORK OF ARSONIST Harold Dahmer son of Vernon Dahmer Forrest County Miss Negro leader who died of burns suffered in a firebomb attack surveys the ruins of the residence near Hattiesburg The Civil Rights Leader Dies Firms in Winters Damaged by Fire ji apparent heart attack early Tuesday killed Lai Bahadur Shastri 61 prime minister of 460 millions a few hours after he had signed a limited reement with Pakistan to pull ick their opposing forces The humbly-born 5-foot-2 110-jound Shastri who succeeded awaharlal Nehru 19 months ago had suffered two previous heart attacks Shastri died at 1:32 am :32 EST Monday in a country villa he was using outside ashkent during Soviet-spon sored talks with President Mo-lammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan In New Delhi Home Minister lulzarilal Nanda 67 was sworn as prime minister He had leld the job temporarily after death Grevious Blow President Johnson in Wash-ngton described death as a blow to the hopes of mankind for peace and prog ress" Johnson said Shastri had proved a fitting successor to Nehru by holding aloft the highest ideals of Indian Kosygin Shastri's host in Tashkent stood in the foyer of the villa hat in hand and called Shastri great humanist of our Could Not Sleep Shastri dined alone at 10:30 pm and went to bed at 11 but could not sleep aides at the villa said About 1:20 am they reported Shastri was seized with coughing spells and stumbled from his bedroom into the hallway crying "Doctor The aides gave this description of events that followed: Shastri's personal staff packing their luggage for a planned departure Tuesday for Kabul Afghanistan en route to India put the prime minister back to bed and called his personal physician Dr Chugh No Pulse Dr Chugh rushed to bedside and examined him The doctor later reported that at 1:32 he could feel no pulse The doctor then tried to revive Shastri with mouth-to-mouth respiration but did not succeed I DEPARTMENT OP COMMERCE WEATHER EUREAU (Wnflwr Map Pi l-A) ABILENE AND VICINITY (40 mlla radlui) Claar to partly cloudy and a Ditto war mar through Wednesday High Tueiday 45-70 Ovar night tow 3S-i High 71 NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS NORTHEAST TEXAS: Clear to partly ctoudyi mild Tuesday and Wednesday High Tu day 474 NORTHWEST TEXAS: Claar to partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday A little warmer Tuesday High Tuesday TEMPERATURES Alan pm 1:00 55 1:00 1:00 4:00 5:00 4:00 7:00 1:00 0:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 ond low for 14 hours ending 03 and 34 tow sama date last year: 40 47 47 42 40 30 37 37 40 44 40 51 High pm: High ice station turned in the alarm at 7 pm about 30 minutes after City Grocery was dosed for the night Firemen had the flames and smoke under control by 9 pm Cause Unknown Carl Baldwin owner of i Grocery said he did not know the cause of the flames and that his building was burned He said his building and stock suffered extensive smoke damage Three fire units extinquished the flames and deared smoke from the buildings with fans No one was injured during the two hour fire Many young Abilenians have a more personal interest in the Viet Nam war because of letter writing gift sending campaigns carried out in various local classrooms at Christmastime One such is Ronnie Westbrook a 5th grader at Anson Jones son of Mr and Mrs Arnold Westbrook 2226 Low-den Ronnie wrote a Christmas letter to Serviceman Viet and sent it along with the bundles of mail Dyess folk delivered Back came a reply which is one of those world" things came this letter the other day from a second lieutenant who is a platoon leader with the 285th Transportation Co you for the Christmas greetings that you sent to my platoon It was most appreciated as we spent our Christmas here in Qui Nhon Viet Nam is also quite interesting to me that our names are the same and that my home is also in Abilene I went to South Junior High and Abilene High and hope to come back to Abilene after my tour of duty!" The lieutenant included with his letter a souvenir for Ronnie a piece of Vietnamese paper money a 20 something But that was not really as exciting as the name signed to the James Westbrook Strangely of all the mail which went from all American children to all the Vietnamese forces it so happened that this letter from a young Abilene Westbrook was delivered to an older Abilenian Westbrook Lt James son of the Max Westbrooks of 1536 West-view The home is just a few blocks away from the fifth David Lane son of Mr and Mrs Lane of 710 Forrest and a 5th grader in Mrs Sam class at Valley View is another youngster with a mere personal view now of the war David was one of a group who got together small boxes of small inexpensive gifts to send to Viet Nam servicemen He selected for his box a new comb and handkerchief wrapped the package and sent it along with others In all the school sent two big cartons of gifts to servicemen Principal Jim Baugh reported and all the effort was more than repaid by the letter David got The letter was from a Spec Oliver McWilliams of an engineer company who did not identify himself by hometown or background This is what he wrote David in a letter dated Christmas Day: short letter is just to let you know I received your present Christmas morning Yours was the first and only one I received want to thank you very much for your kindness Believe it or not they were really the things that I was in need of because just lost my only comb have been here In Viet Nam 5 months stationed in a place by the name of Qul Nhon It is right on the coast of the China Sea do hope you and your family had a proper Christmas I wish all of you a Happy New Year But one thought keep In mind us being in Viet Nam I say better to slop them In their own backyard before they grow so strong that you'll have to stop them in our 41 and Sunset last night: sunrise today: :41 sunset tonight: 5:51 Barometer reading at 0 pm: 1140 Humidity at 0 pm: 71 par cant WINTERS (RNS) A fire which began in the rear upstairs portion of City Grocery shortly after the business was closed Monday night burned the rear of the building and caused smoke damage to half a block of other downtown businesses on Main Street Main Drug owned by Raymond Lloyd and Ha tier Barber Shop owned by Tab Hatier the two adjoining buildings received smoke damage as did Kendrick Insurance Company and the West Texas Utilities Building No Damage Estimate Marvin Bedford fire chief and assistant fire marshal of Winters Volunteer Fire Department said Monday night that the fire started in the rear of the grocery store and that damage estimate would be available only after adjustors had examined the buildings He said the cause of the fire was not known Monday night Roy Young owner of a serv Lubbock Station Buys KPAR-TV By LEWIS GULICK WASHINGTON (AP) A US diplomat has met with a Hanoi government representative for a lew minutes and handed him a message concerning US proposals for peace in Viet Nam This was reported Monday night following White House disclosure for the first time since President current peace offensive began Dec 24 that a direct US contact had been made with the Hanoi regime However the disclosure of the meeting said to have taken place sometime ago did not appear to mark a shift in the immediate diplomatic or military situation No Response The Communists were said not to have responded in any significant way so far to President bid for uncondi tional discussions on settling the Viet Nam war Presidential press secretary Bill Moyers declined to lift the secrecy wraps on where the US-North Vietnamese contact took place or who was involved More than a dozen Communist and free world countries have both American and Hanoi representatives at their capitals The US diplomat was said to have handed over the US message to a North Vietnamese official in a brief meeting during which the two exchanged routine remarks but did not get into substantive negotiations Message Accepted The Hanoi representative did accept the US communication in contract to last May when the North Vietnamese regime refused to receive a Washington message sent to Hanoi through the British That was during the irevious lull in US bombing of forth Viet Nam But North Viet acceptance of the communication this me was not viewed here as of mmediate significance pending le receipt of some reply through diplomatic channels And publicly the Communists lave been continuing harsh enunciation of what they term JS imperialist aggression in Viet Nam The disclosure of direct con-act came at an afternoon White louse news briefing when Moyers was asked about three Americans who made an unau-horized trip to Hanoi and re-umed to report there had been no contact between the North Vietnamese and American governments Not Informed are incompletely Moyers said Asked if that meant there has een direct contact with Hanoi Moyers replied: a safe deduction" It was understood that the US-North Vietnamese contac was made at an official leve sometime ago Just how and where was not announced And as far as could be a seep tained from Johnson adminis- ration sources Monday night Hanoi has yet to Indicate in any way a willingness to start negotiations on a Viet Nam settlement The same lack of a favorable response so far had been previously reported after US efforts through third parties to persuade North Viet Nam to come to the conference table Door Open However despite harsh public accusations against the United States which continued to emanate from Communist capitals Monday the White House was keeping the door open for negotiations US sources decline! to take the Communists' public statements as final and conclusive rejection of the Idea of 3ne Man Killed BRECKENRIDGE Colo i AP) One man was killed and wo other persons seriously in- ured when an explosion wrecked a three-story timber building at this Colorado ski resort Monday The dead man was identified as Richard Lanning 31 Casper Wyo POLL TAX BOX SCORE Record (1964) 28285 Poll tax receipts issued 1551 Exemptions claimed 2137 Totals 3188 Deadline Jan 31 HATTIESBURG Miss (AP) A Negro civil rights leader ied in a hospital Monday of urns suffered in a predawn irebomb attack that destroyed his home and tiny store Vernon Dahmer 58 was turned along with his wife and )-year-old daughter while eeing the fire that destroyed their four-bedroom frame home near here The attack came one day after Dahmer was identified in a radio broadcast as the leader of voter registration drive in this area However he had long een active in the civil rights movement Atty Gen Nicholas Katzen-tach said in a statement in Washington that President Johnson had expressed to him his deep concern over the rievous in Hatties-jurg Katzenbach said he advised the President the FBI has an intensive investigation under way and that full resources of the (justice) department wil je made available until the persons responsible are identiflet and Katzenbach said: violent death of any man is a tragedy but it is dou-)Iy tragic when the victim is a man like Vernon Dahmer As many in the Department of Justice came personally to know and to respect Mr Dahmer was engaged in the highest kind a citizenship helping to secure asic rights for his fellow Dahmer was a past presiden of the Hattiesburg Chapter the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People His daughter Betty 10 was lsted In fair condition at the lospital Mrs Dahmmer was treated and released The couple's two sons Harold 26 and Dennis 12 escaped injury Deputy Sheriff A Woodward said the fire had been started by some type of fire bomb thrown into the house Laboratory tests may establish the type of bomb officers said Inliift liram Toamide -t Television Station KPAR Channel 12 will be sold to the owners of KLBK TV in Lub-jock The announcement of a con-ract to sell was made Monday by Dick Elam president of KPAR TV He said the sale is subject to approval of the Federal Communications Commission and that the present ownership would continue to operate the station until the approval is ranted This usually takes several months Elam added KPAR TV presently is owned by Texas Key Broadcasters he of which Elan Is principal stockholder The Lubbock station is owned by the Grayson Enterprises nc which is owned principally Ted Shanbaum and Dr Ellis Carp of Dallas They also are trincipals in Lee Optical of Texas a Dallas based firm The same group owns the 1 Spring television station No Personnel Changes Walter Windsor executive vice president of the Lubbock firm said the new ownership contemplated no changes in operating personnel but that substantial equipment additions will be made to KPAR Terms of the sale were not disclosed However the contract contemplates dismissal of pending suit brought by the present KPAR TV ownership against the Lubbock firm The suit was filed over alleged failure of an Inter city micro-wave system that originally fed network programs to KPAR-TV from the Lubbock station The station which is licensed to Sweetwater by the FCC originally was a satellite sta linn of KDUB TV In Lubbock Since Texas Key Broadcasters Inc took over the ownership It Americans came upon the weapons and food cache which ncluded 20 tons of rice and a large quantity of medical supplies The US troops continued their methodical work of scorching the area and demolishing caves and tunnels Artillery Barrage The operation kicked off Saturday behind an artillery barrage from US and New Zealand batteries A fleet of about 80 helicopters began ferrying elements of the 1st Infantry the 173rd Airborne and the Royal Australian Regiment Into positions from where they could block off the triangle As the assault helicopters set down the soldiers saw buildings afire from air strikes Up in flames went a field of unharvested rice The troops pushed across an abandoned rubber plantation and found themselves atop a den of guerrilla underground tunnels Several tunnels dug 35 feet into the hard clay soil were Intact even after direct hits by bombs from B52s flying from Guam The Amcricuns and Austra-SEE VIET Tg I-A Col 4 of Quin Nhon 265 miles northeast of Saigon claimed his roops this weekend scored their liggest victory of the war Idling 185 Viet Cong and capturing 800 suspects Air War Lull In the air war the lull in bombing Communist North Viet Nam went into its 16th day but Viet Cong targets in the South were not spared Air Force and Navy carrier pilots flew 281 missions against Viet Cong targets and in support of troops Four US planes were lost Sunday and Monday About 8000 men most of them from the US 1st Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were In the third day of Operation Crimp against the iron triangle The triangle of 15 square miles of jungle has been a stronghold of the Viet Cong for years Saigon River Reached The allied force reached the Saigon River boundary of the triangle but did not cross into the triangle Itself Like the operation west of PIciku the allies battering against the iron triangle were trying to seek out and destroy the Viet Cong Australians operating with the By EDWIN WHITE SAIGON South Viet Nam (AP) and Australian troops pushed to the edge of the Viet Cong iron triangle Monday lew up an abandoned tunnel network and seized a huge food and weapons cache But US officers expressed disappointment over results of this biggest operation by American forces in the war Only 22 Viet Cong had been killed and 38 captured on the front 25 miles northwest of Saigon The officers had hoped to trap a regiment of Viet Cong They believe they only brushed with a rear guard More Frustrations As the troops pursued the Viet Corn another big operation far to the north was experiencing similar frustrations US 1st Cavalry Airmobile Division troops destroyed four Viet Cong rest camps capable of accommodating 3000 guerrillas west of PIciku about 240 miles north of Saigon They drove to within 100 feet of tlie Cambodian border without encountering any Viet Cong but there were signs the guerrillas had left hurriedly The commander of the South Korean division operating west DICK ELAM announces contract las become an independent station with a CBS network interconnection through American Telephone Telegraph Transmitter at Trent KPAR Is a primary CBS af-iliate and a secondary ABC affiliate It operates with lower of 154000 watts with the ransmilter located at Trent anc justness offices in Westgate Shopping Capital Minor stockholders are A Elam Sr John Crutchfield Harry Walker and Sam Levine Dick Elam president of the company ami owner of 80 per cent of the stock first became connected with KPAR TV I960 when he organized Texas Key Broadcasting Inc and obtained a 10 year lease on the station with an option to buy lie became president In 1963 Elam formerly In oil bus ness did not announce future plans beyond the time the change In management accomplished mm inn SECTION A Worker Killed MIDLAND Tex (AP)-Pcdro Arrcguln a 23-ycar-old construction worker was killed Monday when he fell 30 fee from a platform at a building site about i'k miles east here 4.