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WEATHER CENTRAL OHIO Fair and cooler tonight, low 40-46. Saturday mostly fair and cool, high 63-66. he og One Hundred and Thirty-Second Year, No. 237 ily ews Logan, Ohio, Friday, October 8, 1965 PAID CIRCULATION TODAY 5,071 Ten Cents War On Poverty Enters 2nd Year; Progress Reviewed WASHINGTON (AP) Presi- the Peace Corps was at the dent on pover- same stage of developments. enters its second year today.

under investigation by Congress and the target of some criticism, but, with its chiefs convinced they are making progress. There have been charges of poor administration from both Democrats and Republicans. There have been congressional suggestions that Sargent Shriver, the antipoverty commander, step out as Peace Corps director and give full time to running the Office of Economic Opportunity. But Shriver and other top OEO officials appear confident. They say they had expected even more criticism because of the scope of antipoverty efforts and their new approaches to the poverty problem.

Despite a riot Aug. 20 at the Camp Breckinridge. Job Corps center, officials say they feel they have solved their most serious administrative problems and are turning their major efforts to finding jobs for graduates. And VISTA Volunteers-in- Service-to-America better known as the domestic peace corps, recently announced an expansion program and said it was further advanced now than President Johnson signed legislation appropriating $793 million to the antipoverty programs a year ago today, but nothing much happened for another month. Now, however, things have been moving so fast that Shriver recently cautioned that the programs soon will begin leveling off.

To some, he said, this might appear to be a slowdown. Shriver brushes aside criticism of confusion and high personnel turnover. It was the same way at the Peace Corps, he says. had 150 per cent turnover the first two years at the Peace The GOP task force on economic opportunity has been a frequent critic of Shriver The House Education and Labor Committee, meanwhile, has begun a nationwide inspection of some antipoverty projects. The chairman.

Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, has named a special staff to conduct hearings, and this week, Rep. Roman Pucinski. opened hearings on the antipoverty situation in Washington. OEO officials sum up their (Continued on Page 2) President Is 'Doing Well' After Successful Surgery McNamara Says Viet Nam Situation Has Stabilized Discuss Establishment Of Child Care Center Miss Janet Storey, supervisor of day-care services of the Division of Social Administration, Ohio Department of Public Welfare, met Thursday in the Hocking anti-poverty office with a group of citizens interested in setting up a child day-care center in the city.

Mrs. Betty Lou Berry, antipoverty office secretary, who has assumed the duties since the resignation of Grant Malone, said the state is anxious to start the center and has offered full cooperation. The county health board and child welfare department have also offered assistance. The Logan Senior Citizens Club has indicated it would like to sponsor the center, working through the Hocking Community Action Committee. Mrs.

Berry said today she is requesting that a state inspector check the present Hocking Valley Hospital building to determine if it would meet state requirements, although permission been granted for use of the building when it is vacated in favor of the new pital now under construction. At meeting attended by members of the health department, child welfare department, commissioner Tom VanCuren and interested senior citizens, qualifications of supervisors, equipment and other requirements were discussed. Mrs. Berry said if the hospital building is not available, her office will look for other locations. Too many people are interested not to pursue the possibilities further, she said.

Hocking CA Panel Meeting Scheduled Steering committee of the Hocking County Community Action Committee will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Courthouse auditorium. Don Young CAC chairman, said the constitution and bylaws prepared for a tri-county CAC will either be accepted or changed. The executive committee will meet at 7 p.m. in the extension office.

WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara believes the situation in Viet Nam has stabilized since the United States began tunneling large numbers of U.S. troops into war, it became known today. However, he is not yet ready to join those who say the tide has turned and that the anticommunist side is winning. About the most optimistic evaluation he has made is that U.S.

Army, Air Force, Marine and Navy forces have made remarkable achievements and that the Communist Viet Cong have failed in their efforts to cut South Viet Nam in two and to destroy the morale of the South Vietnamese troops. He is best described as remaining cautiously optimistic. It is known that McNamara believes it best that the gains should not be overemphasized because much hard fighting lies ahead. He considers it important to remember that the Communists still control large parts of South Viet Nam, that they continue to impose taxes and to ciraft young men from the population and that they still have the ability to cut roads and other communications linking Viet Nam cities and towns. Gen.

Harold K. Johnson, Army chief of staff, told the National Security Industrial Association Thursday are doing in Viet Nam and are taking advantage of our progress to do even U.S. forces in Viet Nam, which numbered only about 23,000 at the start of 1965 are about to top 140,000. And this is not the end of the buildup. Meanwhile, the U.S.

government apparently is trying to prod the Communist North Vietnamese to the negotiating table by stressing the theme that the North Vietnamese are shedding blood to further the aims of Communist China. In a speech to the same association Thursday night, Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus R. Vance called on the Hanoi regime to whether its future is best secured by fully submerging its own separate interest to Vance, second in command at Lawmen Want Clover leaf Interchange At Junction Of New Rt. 33, Rt. 664 Hocking Sheriff Paul Hartman and Sgt.

R. T. Fannin, commander of the Athens state highway patrol post, are urging the state highway department to reconsider its plans for the Rt. 664 intersection when the new four-lane Rt. 33 Logan bypass is constructed.

Current plans call for a regular four-way intersection at Rts. 33 and 664 such as exists now, but the two officials propose a cloverleaf interchange be built instead for a number of reasons. The existing intersection is plagued with traffic problems during the summer and fall months, especially on Sunday evenings, and the same type intersection of the new highway would further complicate problems, they say. Northbound traffic on Rt. 33 is exceptionally heavy on Sunday evenings.

When Rt. 664 traffic from Homing Hills State Park. Lake and other scenic areas is heavy, it is able to get out onto busy Rt. 33. Both the department and state patrol have to assign officers at the intersection to control traffic and prevent a buildup on Rt.

664. If the intersection is built according to present plans, it will be even more dangerous for motorists to try to get onto Rt. 33 from Rt. 664, Hartman and Fannin said. They point out that there are only two lanes of traffic in a 35- mph.

speed zone now, but the bypass will be a four-lane divided express highway with a legal speed of 60 to 70 miles per hour. Columbus or northbound traffic from the scenic areas would have to get across two lanes and then still find an opening in the northbound lanes, they added. Hartman and Fannin feel the promotion of the Hocking Hills area will bring a marked increase in tourist traffic, which would likely use Rt. 664 for gress and egress. They also think the new highway will attract a lot more interstate traffic, including trucking, on Rt.

33. Regular traffic is increasing every year, they added. The officers contend the cloverleaf interchange is the answer to eliminate safety hazards which are bound to develop if present plans are carried out. The new four-lane Rt. 33 highway between Rt.

180 and the Hoeking-Fairfield line will be completed by next Friday, according to Engle Construction project contractor. Russell Wallar, Engle purchasing agent, said the job would have been done three weeks ago but was delayed by exceptionally wet weather. The Rt. 33 project in Athens County south of Nelsonville between Myers crossing and the Chauncey bypass has almost come to a stop because of wet ground conditions, Wallar said. the Pentagon, noted that Red Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao recently declared that the war in Viet Nam is the focus of a worldwide revolutionary movement against the United States and that Red China is determined to drive U.S forces from Viet Nam.

it is not Peking that is fighting in Viet Nam; it is Vance said. He declared that Chinese Communist party chairman Mao Tse-tung not risking his own troops to achieve his The whole point of doctrine, Vance said, is that the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong fighting inside South Viet Nam reject any offers of reasonable settlement or neo- gitations; that they should be prepared to wage a prolonged and dirty whatever the cost in North Vietnamese blood and well being. Vance renewed the U.S. offer to negotiate now without any preconditions. At the same time, he warned Red China and North Viet Nam that South Viet Nam and the United States not be defeated by Communist aggression from the U.S.

Uses Tear Gas In New Viet Offensive SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) U.S. paratroopers launched a big new operation on the fringe of the Viet zone and used nonlethal tear gas, a U.S. military spokesman said. No further details were immediately available on the gas attack, but the spokesman said the American troops had made with the Viet Cong. Field commanders were au- State To Open Right-Of-Way Office Here Charles H.

Harris, Division 10 right-of-way coordinator, said today the state highway department will open a field office Monday at 130 Mineral Ave. The office will be in operation during the purchase of rights-of-way for Logan bypass Rt. 33 projects. Hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Harris said there are two houses on the Mineral Ave. lot purchased from Josephine Robertson. One is being converted to a field office and the other will be disposed of at a public sale. The coordinator said eight parcels have been purchased to date on the first two sections of the Logan bypass.

There are 64 parcels involved in the first section between Rt. 180 and the Rt. 93 interchange, and 27 parcels involved in the interchange area, he reported. thorized to use nonlethal gas if it was deemed necessary. The object was to flush out the Viet Cong without wounding or killing noncombatants.

Thousands of American troops combed a densely jungled area about 30 miles north of Saigon. Australian forces supported the operation. B52 bombers from Guam hammered the area twice before the U.S. ground offensive. The paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade landed by helicopter and moved into the Viet Cong area in convoys along Highway 13 near the district capital of Len Cat.

The spokesman gave no details on the fighting, but it was believed to have been heavy. A personnel carrier hit a Viet Cong mine and overturned. Casualties were reported moderate. The Americans also drew sniper fire as the convoy moved deeper into guerrilla territory. U.S.

spotter planes circling the skies following the B52 raids drew enemy fire, but there was no indication that any of the planes were shot down. The operation was taking place in the same area where paratroopers of the 173rd completed a giant two-week sweep last week the longest operation involving U.S. troops of the war. 150 Sohio Refinery Workers End Strike CLEVELAND (AP)-A strike by about 150 refinery workers who walked off their jobs at two Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) plants here early today ended a few hours later, a company spokesman reported.

He said workers agreed to a 15-cents-an-hour increase effective Oct. 4, and contracts with all local unions have been extended to Dec. 31, 1966. He said the strike was settled around 4:30 a.m. At the other two Sohio refineries, at Lima and near Toledo, negotiators reached agreements shortly after midnight.

DENVER, Colo. (AP) The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, AFL- CIO, has postponed indefinitely a strike as contract agreements were reached with some major oil companies and negotiations continued with others. Homecoming Queen Will Be Crowned At LHS Tonight Logan High homecoming queen will be crowned at the Logan Wellston grid match tonight in pre-game ceremonies at 7:40. The five finalists are Bonny Berry, Connie Ellis, Mary Lou Gillogly, Mary Kay Grandy and Joan Nelson. The queen will be crowned by Merl Bell, student council president.

Ohio Creates Agency To Aid Elder Citizens COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A new bureau has been created in the Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction, Director Martin Janis said. The Ohio Administration on Aging was created under the new federal Older Americans Act. The office will be financed with a $172,000 allotment from the federal government, and Mrs. Rose L. Papier, former secretary of the Ohio Commission on Aging, will head the new bureau.

Standby Role Is Taken Over By Humphrey WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, saying he was being fully on the condition of President Johnson, went to work this morning as standby chief executive. Humphrey left his suburban Maryland house about 8:45 a.m. after receiving the usual morning briefing and speaking by telephone to White House news secretary Bill D. Moyers.

Moyers told Humphrey that Johnson was in good spirits before he was wheeled into the operating room at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Humphrey was barely noticed by passers by as his limousine, with a Secret Service car trailing, used a back route from the Maryland suburbs into the capital. He then disappeared into the vast, ornate executive office building across a narrow street from the White House. His aides tend to underplay the dramatics and to stress the as theme, despite the unusual day. They shy away from any description of Humphrey as acting president.

Technically role during the time Johnson is under anesthesia and for an uncertain period afterward. No one, including Johnson and Humphrey, expects any drastic change internationally, and certainly not one that would force Humphrey to make the ultimate decision whether to trigger nuclear weapons. Conservancy Court Hearing Rescheduled The Hocking Conservancy District court hearing, originally set for today, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, in Athens County Common Pleas Court.

The new date was set when it was found the original date was illegal because the hearing has to be scheduled at least 20 days and no more than 30 days after the deadline for filing objections to the official plan. Deadline was Saturday and no objections were filed. Common Pleas Judges John Bolin of Athens County and Harley Meyer of Hocking County will conduct the hearing. Parking Lot Survey OK'd The Merchants Division of the Logan Trade Club Thursday discussed plans for development of an off-street parking lot near the downtown area. Engineer James Guthrie was authorized to survey a site and make cost estimates for removing a house, blacktopping the lot and installing meters.

The site to be checked would park 36 cars. The merchants also completed plans for holding their annual fall retail sales promotion next Friday and Saturday. No Complications Are Encountered Day Of Prayer Is Set WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson, in a formal ceremony Thursday, signed a proclamation marking Oct. 20 as a National Day of Prayer. WASHINGTON (AP) President gall bladder operation was performed without complications today, and three hours later he was reported However, White House press secretary Bill D.

Moyers said Johnson, as would any patient recovering from a gall bladder operation, was mild The operation itself went and as in the words of one of the doctors. It was pronounced a The surgical team did find and remove a kidney stone in the ureter as well as removing the faulty gall bladder. The ureter is a passage Moslems Burn Indonesian Red Center JAKARTA (AP) Several thousand young Indonesian Moslems burned the headquarters of the Indonesian Communist party, the PKI, to the ground today. Indonesian army troops who broke the back of the attempted coup last week cordoned off streets leading to the PKI headquarters and did not interfere with the demonstrators. The one-story building was reduced to ashes.

Three fire trucks played water on them. The demonstrating youths shouted and D. N. Aidit is the first secretary of the PKI. He has been out of sight since the coup failed last weekend.

(A Jakarta radio broadcast, heard in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, said 500,000 persons held an anti-Communist rally in main stadium today. The broadcast said rally was held in very tense and got somewhat out of hand when some of the crowd began to shout Kill! Kill After burning the PKI headquarters, the demonstrators paraded through the streets shouting hell with Behind the PKI headquarters a three-story concrete building is under construction for a new party headquarters. The demonstrators did not touch it. Truckloads of demonstrators passed the American Embassy shouting live This was in marked contrast to the numerous anti-American demonstrations the Communists have staged before the embassy. The Indonesian army, meanwhile, continued its anti-Communist campaign despite President Sukarno's attempts to check it.

through which urine is voided. Johnson was in the operating room from 7 a.m., EDT, to 9:15. Moyers reported that Johnson began to emerge from an anesthetic sleep less than an hour after the surgery by a medical team enlisted in part from the famed Mayo Clinic. He said he had talked with the President about 11 a.m. Moyers said the doctors told him the operation was He said there was no cardiac irregularity at all and that the blood pressure remained normal throughout.

During the operation, Mrs. Johnson and daughter Luci, 18, remained in the bedroom across the hall from the A general anesthetic was used. The medical estimate was that the President should remain in the hospital for 10 days to two weeks. As is customary in abdominal surgery, there will be an early effort to get the patient to take a few steps and maintain muscle tone. The first may come before the day is out.

No mention of the possibility of a kidney stone had been made in previous discussions of the current illness. But the President has a history of kidney stones, having had two of them removed over the by surgery and another one by manipulation at a different time. Just a month ago Thursday, Johnson experienced stomach pains that led medical experts (Continued on Page 2) Road Beauty Bill Passed WASHINGTON (AP) It took one of the roughest sessions of the year to do it, but the House passed President highway beautification bill early today, soon after he entered Bethesda Naval Hospital for gall bladder surgery. Sitting until 12:51 a.m. the House held up the big party Johnson gave as a salute to Congress and delayed the departure for the hospital, but it passed the bill, 245 to 138.

Voting for the bill were 219 Democrats and 26 Republicans. Against it were 49 Democrats and 89 Republicans. Geiger Bros. Wins Contract Geiger Bros, of Logan was low bidder, at $248,300, on the heating and ventilating contract for the new No. 10 dormitory to be built on Ohio West Green.

Carl T. Johnson also of Logan, will be the subcontractor for sheet metal work under the Geiger contract. Knowlton Building Co. of Bellefontaine was the only bidder on the general construction contract, with a bid of 700. The Knowlton company has built or is building nine of the 10 West Green dorms.

Stocks Buoyed By LBJ News NEW YORK stock market responded strongly early this afternoon to word that President Johnson's operation was successful. Key stocks advanced from fractions to a point and trading was active. The market, however, was not running away with itself either in regard to prices or volume. Market averages pressed close to historic peaks. Weather Mostly fair and cool weather is forecast for Saturday.

It was 68 at 11:30 a.m. today as compared with Thursday's high of 64. The overnight low In the Hocking Valley was 48. There was a .15 of an inch rainfall recorded..