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The Durham Suni
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Sunny Sunny and warm today and Tuesday Fair and reel tonight Highs S3 today and Tuesday Lew tonight in tower Me One year ago: High SI Lew IS Chuckle A bui may set knew when Ms aext dollar Is canting bw bet the chances are Us wife knows where going EST 1889 VOL LXXVI NO 67 TEL 682-8181 DURHAM MONDAY AFTERNOON MAY 18 1964 22 2 SECTIONS PRICE: 10c In California Lodge Backs Rocky Before NC Democrats Wednesday Platform Asks $1 Pay Minimum Neutralist Head Flees Key Plain Premier Appealing To Britain Soviet To Halt Red Drive RALEIGH (AP) The platform to be presented to the North Carolina Democratic convention Wednesday calls for an increase in the minimum wage to 51 an hour and calls for equal pay for equal work to women in state jobs It also calls for a road bond issue saying highway commission whose main concern to the needs of the people and the constant flow of commerce between all areas of the state to hampered by the lack of funds to carry out sound long-range transportation goals this end we pledge our support to the approval of an road bond issue to be financed under the existing tax structure On the minimum wage the platform said subscribe to the premise laborer to worthy of his and recommend that the minimum wage which has been increased by the Democratic administration be raised to $1 per On pay to women it said "We propose that women in our governmental agencies be given equal compensation to equal work equal promotion for equal preparation and equal responsibility for all employes" The platform oppose any increase in state taxes but said Carolina remains at one of the nation's lowest levels of combined state and local taxation per capita and at the same time offers public service programs which in many areas are nationally New Asian Crisis Seen By America Has Warned Russia And Britain Of Growing Dangers By JOHN HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has told the Soviet Union Britain and its Asian allies that a breakdown in shaky neutrality could bring on a new Southeast Asian crisis Johnson administration leaders are deeply disturbed about new offensive action by Communist forces in the Plaine des Jarres region of Laos The Path-et Lao attacks developing Sunday brought positions held by neutralist troops under heavy fire Secretary of State Dean Rusk who conferred with President Johnson during the day held an unusual series of meetings with ambassadors of the Soviet Union Britain and other countries that have a direct interest in the ptHatton purpose was to get support in Moscow London and elsewhere for efforts to put an end to the Communist drive and save the Geneva agreement which neutralized Laos and stopped the use of Laotian territory for supplying Red guerrillas in South Viet Nam Some officials say privately that if the efforts to preserve the neutrality of Laos are unsuccessful then the conflict in that country will almost inevitably become a part of the antiguerrilla war which the United States is supporting in South Viet Nam Rusk met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin Sunday night He also conferred See Page 2-A No 6 KEPT APART DURING Army helicopter pilots Captains Ben Stotts left 31 of Florence Ala and Charleston Voltz 25 of Frankfurt Mich are shown today in Seoul Military Hospital They were freed by their North Korean Communist captors Saturday after a year in prison They said they were kept apart during their imprisonment They are currently under medical observation in Seoul AP Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo LOS ANGELES UP I )-B ackers of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge today threw their support to Gov Nelson A Rockefeller for the Republican presidential nomination in the California June 3 primary Sen Barry Goldwater and Rockefeller are the only Re-on the California bal- It was emphasized that the Lodge backers threw the support to Rockefeller because they feel that his delegation to the San Francisco convention in July will the most even-foal support to Ambassador New Funds Asked For Viet Nam WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dent Johnson asked Congress today for an additional $125 million in economic and military aid to advance the anticommunist war in Viet Nam Viet Cong guerrillas under orders from their Communist masters in the north have intensified terrorist actions against the peaceful people of South Viet Johnson said in a special message to Congress "This increased terrorism requires increased he said Of the new funds $70 million would be for economic and $55 million for military uses in Viet Nam Johnson said this was one of major which See Page 1-A No I Tax Cut Talked By 2 Candidates Explanation Of CR Package Due VIENTIANE Laos (UPI) shaky trace and coalition government crumbled today under a Communist onslaught in the key Plain of Jars that sent neutralist military leader Gen Kong Le fleeing to the hills Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma appealed to the British and Soviet envoys to do everything possible to stop the two-pronged offensive by the Communist Pathet Lao Britain and Russia are co-chairmen id the 1962 Geneva conference which established the coalition government The Pathet Lao sweep of the strategic plain in central Laos dealt the coup de grace to the two-year-old cease-fire and virtually ended all hope for an early settlement of the political crisis (The weekend successes of the Pathet Lao brought a top-level review of US policy on Laos by American officials in Washington Sunday Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with diplomatic representatives of a dozen countries involved with the tiny Southeast Asian kingdom) The Pathet Lao attacks coincided with stepped-up Communist guerrilla activity in neighboring South Viet Nam putting pro-Western forces on the defensive in key parts of Southeast Asia as the rainy season begins Informed observer in Vientiane believed the Pathet Lao offensive waa the final reply to the union of neutralist and rightist forces achieved after the bloodless right-wing coup April 19 Fire Hoses Quell Brawl MICHIGAN CITY Ind (AP) hose were used to quell a brawl in a crowd of about 200 Negro youths in an informal party Sunday at a lakeside beach firemen kinds wetted them reported Detective Capt Ralph Stormer took only a couple of squirts We got it stopped very very ting to the presentation of a check to Mrs Kennedy to be used In construction of a library at Harvard University to house Kennedy's papers The presentation was delayed because contributions had not See JFK Page '10-A plana tions were to be circulated to other senators today Republican and Democratic conferences have been set Tuesday to discuss the package plan Leaders hoped the amendments would attract enough support to command the votes needed to apply cloture to shut off debate on the bill A two thirds vote of senators present and voting is required to invoke cloture If all 10 senators are on hand 67 votes would be needed to impose the gag rule Technically the issue of Jury trials in civil rights cases was still pending before the Senate It must be disposed of before the package plan can be called up for senate action Sen Richard Russell D-Ga said the southern caucus would meet today or Tuesday to discuss strategy Thus far the southern group has refused to permit a vote on tha leadership'! limited guarantee of Jury trials for criminal contempt or on a broader proposal offered by Sen George A Smathers D-Fla As for FAA the House committee said it had 47111 employes last year compared to 24378 in 1958 BoyHidet Out At Fair For 1 1 Days Taken By Woman By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two candidates talked of cutting taxes as the North Carolina battles for gubernatorial nominees entered the final two weeks before the primary At Raleigh I Beverly Lake expressed hope today that if he is elected governin' there can be a reduction in taxes Citizenship Loss Voided By Justices WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that strips naturalized Americana of citizenship if they return to their native land to three years Justice William Douglas delivered the 53 decision Justice Tom Clark wrote a dissenting opinion in which Justices John Harlan and Byron White Joined Justice William Brennan took no part Validity of the section was attacked by Angelika Schneider who waa born in Bavaria Germany in 1934 In 1950 she became a naturalized American Four years later she was graduated from Smith College with a bachelor of arte degree In 1959 she returned to Germany to marry Dieter Schneider a lawyer in Cologne Three years later the American consulate in Dusseldorf asked her to surrender her naturalization certificate She did so under protest then had attorney begin action in federal courts in this city Mrs Schneider contended the law violated the Constitution by imposing cruel and unusual punishment A special three-See Page 2-A No 7 JFKNews Kept From Prisoners SEOUL South Korea (API-Two Army helicopter pilots disclosed today their Communist captors withheld word of President John Kennedy's assassination from them for days The two US officers also said they were kept apart during most of their year of imprisonment in North Korea Capts Ben Stutts 31 of Florence Ala and Charleton Voltz 26 of Frankfort Mich revealed some aspects of their captivity in a brief meeting with Lt Gen Thomas Dunn commander in Korea The conversation was tape-recorded at the military hospital and the Army released a transcript to newsmen The Army has refused to allow a news conference Stutts and Voltz who were freed Saturday remain under medical observation Hospital officials described their condition as good Dunn raised the question of See Page 2-A No 4 As Teachers Students Said Tearing Up Building EAST ST LOUIS 11L (UPI) St Louis teachers went on strike for higher wages today and classes of at least one echoed were cancelled after the principal reported "the students are tearing up the building" School Supt John Stevr-nagel granted Principal Carl Compton of dark Junior High School permission to dismiss classes after students there became unruly Steurnagel said will proceed in certain areas si long as Teachers manned picket lines in front of at least two junior high schools and in front of tha Board of Education Building School officiate and an attorney for the American Federation of Teachers scheduled a meeting for later today in attempts to end the strike Graham Leads NC Tribute To JFK Set Example Lake told a news conference that if the state's tax sources produce a suprlus on June 30 1965 substantially larger than the surplus on June 30 1963 he would call for a tax reduction He mentioned the possibility of eliminating the sales tax on medicine reducing the sales tax on food and increasing income tax dependency deductions as possible ways of cutting taxes He said he would favor eliminating the sales tax oq medicine as a first step Lake seeking the Democratic nomination said in a statement there would have to be some expenditure increases next biennium such as hiring additional teachers to reduce the teacher load and eliminating inequities in state salary schedules believe we can take care of these things through the savings I can put into effect by eliminating extravagances such as the private airplane to the he stated State Sen Charles Strong campaigning today in McDowell County for thelRepublican gubernatorial nomination said Robert Gavin is a "cant win At the same time Strong ia-See Page 2A No Picketing Hearing Transfer Requested WKilAMSTON Five Massachusetts white women and two Williameton Negro women today petitioned Court to transfer of their hearings on charges of picketing without a permit to federal court None of the women appeared in court nor were they represented for a lawyer Summary Monday May IS 1964 Faaa S3 Daathi and Fae Tslavlalan and radio nrsaramt Fees 10-B LOCAL Hlk hi daunty1 health hudaat la Fao 1- New itop llaMs Installed! thra hilursd lean afterward Fee 1-S VUlon dink alatad hare hr "baalmar Fata l-S Final Impaction 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$5 a day retrieving good luck coins tossed into several fountains For sleeping Dominick secluded himself in several pavilions including one with a ship board letting complete with lifeboat Was he afraid at night? nothing to be afraid said Dominick place to crawling with Was he glad he had been discovered? he said "I'm See Page 2-A No 2 WASHINGTON (UPI) -Senate leaders planned to give their colleagues full particulars today on their of civil rights amendments designed to win enough support for action to curb southern talk The package was drafted by leaders in both parties with help from Atty Gen Robert Kennedy Details have been kept secret but texts and ex- Clergymen Trying CR March Today WASHINGTON Protestant clergymen from every state march in a "silent prayerful to Capitol Hill today beginning of the Senate's Uth week of debate on the civil rights bill The demonstration sponsored by the National Council of Commission on Religion and Race was designed to press for passage of the measure stalled by Southern oratory through 57 sessions An hour before the Senate is gaveled into its 58th meeting on the House-passed bill the clergymen assemble in the Lutheran Church of the Reformation two blocks east of the Capitol for a worship service led by the Very Rev Francis Sayre dean of the National CathedraL En route to the Capitol the churchmen pause to pray for Justice at the Supreme Court building marking the Uth anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation decision They planned to pray on the Senate ateps and then seek out every senator to appeal for enactment of the civil rights bill Warnings On Taxes Urged WASHINGTON (UPI) The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said today it would ask buai-nesamen to tell their employee about the possibility that not enough money would be withheld from their paychecks to cover income taxes due next April 15 The federal tax agency plans to mail out notices to some million companies next Friday urging that employes be advised review their tax for 1964 Many companies have indicated they already are doing this an IRS spokesman said Payroll withholding may not be sufficient to cover tax liability this year because of the recently enacted $1L5 billion tax cut House Body Okays Cary Post Office WASHINGTON (AP) The House appropriations Committee approved today funds for 149 new post office buildings including Cary $111600 NEW YORK Dominick Tucci's run of the World's Fair ended Sunday after 11 days and nights He thought it was a TlieWeatlier WmHMT DM! 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