The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 1

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FINAL 127th NO 206 MEMPHIS TENN MONDAY MORNING JULY 25 1966 86 PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS I Reds Continue To Hold Down i Hard-Hit Marine Companies i i Prisoner Trade Is Doubted 'A Lot Of Dead1 Hanoi Js Firm Colorful 'Champagne i Gov Frank Clamant Welcomes Crowd Ot 2500 To 3500 At Interstate 40 Dedication -WI Photo bv Robtrt WlMlum Communiit Fire Drives Off Attempts To Clear Way For Two Companies By ROBERT TUCKMAN SAIGON July 25 (Monday) (AP) North Vietnamese Army regulars continued harassing tactics overnight against embattled United States Marines they had pinned down near the demilitarized zone separating the two Vletnams the United States commend Mid Monday Two companies of the Fifth Third Battalion were subjected to heavy fire end the attackers drove off Leatherneck helicopters trying to reach United States casualties reported heavy in one com-pany got lot of deed Marines up here ami lot of Mid Marine company commander by radio to his battalion headquarters Involved were India and KUo Companies of the Fifth Third Battalion taking part in Operation Hastings designed to flush out and destroy large North Vietnamese division of 8000 10000 men believed to have slipped across the demilitarized zone from the north Is Killed In Crash Of Plane LANSING IU July 24-(AP)-Tony Lema the Champagne Kid who had delighted golfing millions with his quick wit and fairway antics was killed in the crash of a light plane here Sunday night Lema's wife Betty Mrs Doris Mullen of Joliet 111 the pilot and co-pilot Dr George Bard of Kankakee 111 also died in the crash Lema 32 was en route to Joliet from Akron Ohio where he played in the Professional Golfers Association Championship Sunday Witnesses mid the plane a twin-engine Beechcraft burst into flames while attempting to land on foe Lansing Club golf course and skidded into a small lake A Federal Aviation Agency spokesman mid there had been no radio contact with the plane and could offer no explanation of why it attempted to land on foe golf course A former British Open champion Lema won foe tag for hie habit of buying champagne for the golf writers following each of hie tour victories' He was born in San Leandro Calif and had been a so-so touring pro for five years when his game apparently jelled in 1962 He boosted hia money winnings to $2892372 that year won four tournaments and wu off and running to a career that took him to golfs upper echelon 270 score won the Memphis Open in 1963 after a sudden death playoff with Tommy Aaron Lema took the $8 600 championship with a par on the first hole In the middle of one of his hottest tours he celebrated with champagne party in the press room Plane Losses Tax Builders Stennis Says ImcM tu Thu GmmmtcM AupmI NEW YORK July 24-Sen a tor John Stennis (D Miss) Traffic Lines Approach To New Tennessee River Giant Of Progress Grows Bridge 195 Miles least three other interstates' are warranted in the ar Memphis to Kansas City Memphis to Birmingham and Memphis to Chattanooga Harriman Notes No Sign Of Enemy Oesiro To Swap Captured Fliers WASHINGTON July 23 -(AP) Avereli Harriman indicated Sunday that several hundred North Vietnamese prisoners may be held in South Vietnam but Hanoi has shown no wiUingneu to exchange them for nearly 100 Americans who may be captives in foe north has been some movement" however in efforts to free aome II or more GIs held by Viet Cong guerrillas in the south be mid Harriman United States roving ambaasadnr who heeds endeavors in behalf of the American prisoners did not say specifically what exchange attempts may have been made or give detail on any behind-the-scenes moves Harriman would not say whst United States reaction would be should Ninth Vietnam execute captured American fliers But he mid foe rvernment "is not gdtog to i a barbarian because the North Vietnamese act in a barbaric way" Speaking an a local Washington television show Harriman again cautioned Hanoi against going through with threats to try the Americans as war criminals In New York the Columbia Broadcasting System mid it received a cable Sunday signed by North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh saying No trial in view" in answer to CBS query on whether he had decided to place captive United States airmen on trial CBS mid it sent a cable to Ho last Thursday asking him: "Would you kindly advise us ao that we may in turn advise the people of America whether you have decided axyet to (dace on trial the captive American airmen?" The CBS report came after Hanoi Radio said a North Vietnamese committee to investigate "United States war crimes in Vietnam" had appealed for help from other Communist countries to build up a case againit foe prisoners In Chicago Sunday a United States representative mid document! taken from North Vietnamese priaonen show Hanoi would violate its own pledge for safe treatment of priaonen of war if it attempts to punish captured American pilots Representative Roman Pucinskl (D Ill) said a leaflet printed in both the English ana Vietnamese languagm and signed Vietnam Liberation Army" was designed to be given to American or South Vietnamese soldiers when they are captured by foe Communists The leaflet reeds in part: "Obviously you are a prisoner of war You have no rights and no responsibilities to observe the code of conduct of the United States Army" Pucinskl mid the leaflet! dearly recognize "captured American soldiers as prim of fact Hanoi is trying to deny as it threatens to prosecute American pilots for war crimes againit all rules of tiie Geneva Convention dealing with treatment of war praoMTi bom Memphis attending the deification were Brooks executive vice president of the Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce and Wiley Holeman administrative assistant to Mayor William Ingram chairman of foe Senate Preparedness Subcommittee Mid yesterday that the United States is losing aircraft in Vietnam filter than new planes are being built The senator interviewed on the NBC television program Vietnam Weekly Review said hie committee as told plane losses were greater than production and "We looked into it and found that it was true It is still true to foil moment We apparently just give production orders in time" He Mid there ere comfortable margins of available aircraft stationed in Europe and that aome Air National Guard units have equipment suitable for use in the Southeast Asian war He Mid however tint the deployment of these units in Vietnam is not considered necessary Death Comes To Fred Lucas Leader In Banking Cotton Fred Lucas of 60 Morningside Park a director of the National Bank of Commerce and a retired cotton executive died at 6:30 ami yesterday at WUliam Bowld Hospital after a illness He was 71 Mr Lucas was widely known in the cotton business and for the many posts he had held He was a past president of foe Memphis Cotton Exchange and Southern Cotton Shippers Association Born in Athens Ga he came to Memphis alxftit 60 years ago He retired three years ago bom his firm Fred Lucas A Co He also formerly served as president of the Memphis Cotton Carnival Association By WALTER VEAZEY CUBA LANDING Tenn July 24 Gov Frank Clement and Senator Albert Gore (D Tenn) stood midway on the 46-fflilUon-doUar Tennessee River Bridge near here Sunday and snipped a red white and blue ribbon to open interstate traffic on 1-40 between Tennessee's two largest cities Governor Clement who cut through the ribbon first said interstate work being carried out across the nation the ritest public works project the history of all mankind" ir Gore who exclaimed got the bow I got the bow" said his heart with pride" in the dedication of the completed interconnector between two of our four major cities" Senator Gore was a co-author of the Federal interstate highway MU which passed in 1196 Governor Clement used the dedication to emphasize that foteritatB work in the state has received national attention He said Tennessee was singled out as the leading Southern state in fair employment practices because of the public works project which drew together foe and drills of aU Tennesseans" Ike dedication about midway between Nashville and Memphis drew 2500-3500 spectators some of them unwilling guests By the time the 30-minute ceremony was completed traffic was nearly three miles deep on either side of the bridge and took another 30 minutes to unravel The Memphis-to-Nuh-vflle section of foe interstate covers 105 miles Senator Gore said traffic patterns now indicate that at A competitor la all but one of foe Memphis Opens Lema foil year shot a 277 and collected $2175 In 1963 he also finished second in the Masters In 1964 he won the Crosby Captund tilt rich Thunderbird Claisic and backed it up a week later with the Buick Open title He made it three titles in four weeks at Cleveland beating Arnold Palmer in playoff Then came the British Open title and later the World Series championship He wu fourth on foe moneywinning list for the second straight year In 1166 Ms earnings soared to $101316-82 and stamped him one of the brightest atari on the PGA tour His quick wit colorful attire and grandstand play also made him a gallery favorite He won foe Carling World Open that year and also took his second straight Buick Open crown He won foe Oklahoma City Open earlier this year He finished in tie for 34fo in the PGA championship Sunday at the Firestone Country Club in Akron So far this year his earnings had just topped $50000 He picked up his nickname on his climb to prominence in the late summer of 1962 Tony had taken the third round lead in the Orange County Open in California and wu talking to golf writers in the press room He held up an empty cm of beer ud said: if I win tomorrow going to buy champagne for everyone" He won and he did Ai the Marinas battled near the 17th Parallel the United Statu command reported the low of a Navy A-4 Skyhawk to ground fire Sunday over North Vietnam about 80 miles northwest of Dong Hoi The pilot bailed out and wag rescued in the Gulf of Tonkin The jet fighter-bomber wu the 12fo plane reputed shot down in the pest eight days and the 306th officially listed as lost over the Communiit north The fighting upped a day of reports of scattered Viet Cong activity in other areas of South Vietnam Allied tpokes- reported Communist guerrilla squads carried out a ertea of mortar attacks in striku following up an attack on a United Statu compound outside Da Nang Saturday United States air raiders continued to pummel North Vietnamese MI storage areas including a third strike this month on the Dong Nam fuel depot 16 mites nurthwest of Haiphong Pilots reputed the Dong Nam attack sent up 80-foot-round orange fireballs and 1000-foot plumes of black moke Marine commanders hi Operation Hastings reputed foe over-ell enemy death toll had reached 646 by body count This- wu an increase of 34 over foe count Saturday The estimated enemy toll Is more than 1100 About 5000 Ma- rinu are participating In the operation The Marines claim to have uncovered a major North Vietnamese infiltration route through the demilitarized zone The zone wu drawn up to separate the North and South Vietnamese before the Viet Cong launched their full-scale guerrilla war in the south A dhpatci from the official North Vietnamese news agency howerer denied that any northern troops had crossed the demilitarized zone The Viet Cong were operating in widely scattered areas The guerrillas unloaded between 100 ud 200 rounds of mortar and recoUleu rifle fire on the Trei Bi Special Forres camp eight miles from the Cambodian bordu and 68 mites northwest of Saigon The United Statu command uid casualties were light The camp in foe heart of Viet Cong territory hu been subjected to repeated guerrilla attacks and harassment in recent months In Saigon Thick Thien Hon became temporary rector of the Buddhist Ley Institute He replaced moderate leidu Thick Tam Chau who resigned for health reasons after playing a key rote in solving differences between Buddhists and the military government of Premter Nguyen Cao Ky Te foe north 18 mites northwest of Hue the Viet Cong rained an estimated 100 rounds of mortar fire on a base camp of South Vietnamese regional forces United States Air Force B42 bombers hammered Sunday nt suspected Communist troop concentration 30 milu west of Quang Ngai City in central Vietnam (Picture on Page Tee) catch up (on pnoduc-in the tion) some day he Mid He also indicated a production program hu been considered but hu been ruled unnecessary Syria Threatens War DAMASCUS Syria July 24 Syria warned Israel Sunday that further raids on Syrian territory will lead to Israel 10 days ago bombed Arab operations designed to divert the Judin River Syria Mid in a statement on the eve of a United Nations Security Council meeting which will take up a Syrian protest against the air raid that the debate would be the United last chance to prevent a wu Mayors and civic officials burn other West and Middle Tennessee towns also were represented many arriving in motorcades Telegrams of congratulations were read by state Highway Commissioner David Pack and bom United States Representatives Richard Fulton William Anderson Robert Another guest sitting on the Volunteer orange-colored plat Red Luces Newcomen Club of New York He was communicant Calvary Episcopal Church and worked in Boy Scout councils He Mhvea two sitters Miss Kate Lucas and Mrs Elmer Butter both of the Morningside Park address Services will be at 3 pjn tomorrow at Calvary Episcopal Church Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery -Memphis Funeral Home has charge The family requests mat any memorials be sent to the Man-for-Boy dub or the Episcopal Church Home at 3232 Raines FOOL IS NO SANCTUARY Florida Hotel Swimmer Is Tnrgst MIAMI BEACH Fla July 24 (UPI) Constantino Pugliese wu standing by the swimming pool at the lavish Americans Hotel when three-foot-long alligator waddled over end bit him on the leg "AU of a sudden my husband said wwMtiiiwf had bit said Mrs Pugliese of foe Saturday night incident "I thought be was kidding and then I saw this animal" hesald Pugliese who lives in Merrick was taken to a hospital and treated for superficial wounds authorities said form was Miss Marcia Murray of Paris whose reign as Miss Tennessee ended Saturday night The speeches were low-key and mostly non-political a fact which disappointed some Governor Clement took only maty opponent Senator Rom Bam The Governor mid Although he always complains about not opening the interstate highways he's not hen now" Bam was invited Noting in a joking manner that it might me every vote in Gov dement read a poem entitled Bridge" at the prompting he laid of his son Gary The pdern is about a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste meeting on a bridge and Akheugh 1-46 is opened portions of foe work an not completed Westward from the Tennessee River to the Lexington exit the two net stops an not completed or marked some exit roads are unfinished and unmarked and shoulders on the west-bound lanes are not leveled The dedication was also viewed by about 25 persons in 11 boats on the river far below the bridge which wu completed July 21 1165 The interstate eventually will connect Memphis with Knoxville and will coat mors than 400 million dollars (Plcteree Map and Additions! Mary an Pat II) The Weather OJL DEVABTIIKIIT OF OOMMXaCB FOR MEMPHIS and Vicinity-Considerable cloudiness Monday becoming partly cloudy Monday night and Tuesday Chance of showers Monday decreasing Monday night and Tuesday Continued warm with high Monday near 92 Southerly winds at I to 14 miles per hour Low Monday night 76 Sun rkM Mti VM FIVB DAY OUTLOOK BOS THB MIPOUTH-rTumwruhjnt IMT It UN 6TMVT Vf RfRVHI win IP REPORT High S7 degrees at 3: 15 pm Low 75 degrees at 5 am Mean (midway between high and km) 81 Normal mean for date II HOURLY SIADINOS 4 Ml i uji I Ml aw ljn mEm 22222? JggvV iVMnffjN MfMMIIr niflhl 30J9 and Mllnf SLSMSJncliN A YIAR AOO YESTERDAY tMMrute minimum y- wm siwi IVML nwniM (Map Forecasts on Page 26) Or The Indie 'Women Of Maybe The Pound Crisis By JAMES KING Mr Lucas was known for hia philanthropic work as weU He was active in the Man-for-Boy Club to help underprivileged boys During World War II he headed a binds drive for the Memphis chapter of the American Red Cross He was a lieutenant in foe infantry during World War I and was past commander of Memphis Post No 1 of the American Legion and active in foe Forty and Eight of the American Legion Mr Lucas was a member of the Rotary Chib Memphis Country dub Tennessee Club Memphis Navy League and foe Pussies Society Sports TV Today 23 12-13 20-22 26 24 Want Ads 2US in the Marxist world of foe Communist empire who on occasion calls on the censors to keep her private life out of print 12 DEFENSE SECRETARY Robert McNamara arrives in Paris for a meeting today of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 2 8PORTS GERMAIN AND GOLF they go together like sugar and tea LONDON July 24 (AP) British financier Charlu Clore reputed to be one of foe richest mu in the world is suing a Chinese housemaid for quitting hu six-pounds ($16 JO) week job He wants his money beck for paying hu fare from Hong Kong charging breach ot contract The maid 24-year-old Miu Shiu Wai Lin Winnie served notice through a lawyu Sunday that she will fight Mm in the courts view of hu financial position she intends to apply for legal said the lawyu Jack Bernstein is very pretty girt and speaks good hire County where many of the English gentry live Clue hu four big greenhouses there and follows one of his hobbies orchid-growing Miu SMu left week ago to take another job The lawyu uid have been asked by hu present employu not to give Mi name and Othu servants at country mansion said they were surprised about the Chinese girl's departure Frederick Kay a butter on the Clore household staff for 18 years uid: cut think that she should have been lonely Of course when you live in a country home you havq to make life for yourself But she had hu Chinese friend and there were always two othu ladies there There is always a caretaker and a car calls four days a week for anyone who wants to go Douglu Byrne of Oriental Domestics uid: "Another domestic for Mr Clore hu been arranged in place of Miu SMu She is on hu way to England at the moment Mr Clue is paying hu 16 Births 24 ftyirii 4 ftwilii 23 Deaths 26 27 Flight Talk 16 Graham 2 Clore la tag a high court writ against foe maid did not disclose how much money he spent to bring hu to England Mire Shiu wu hired through Oriental Domestics a London agency end came to Britain nine months ego with Hong Kong girt friend to work for Clore The other girl is still a maid at the mansion Stype Grange in Hungerford a picturesque town in Berk- EDITORIALS Page 6-Poverty War Needs A Lull Hook-erevUle Special Something New Added State Tax Revi-riffi ud columnists Alexander and Widener A 4.