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The Weather Today: High In 50s Clear and warmer Toiiwrrcw: Fair and continued warming 150129 Largest Morning Circulation in Virginia Ucal Data an Pogt B-l 117th Year 1 117 Numter 44 Richmond Virginia 33211 Wednesday February 15 10 Cents 'strays 4 Peace alks Were Near Wilson Says Small Needed? Hope Slill Held for From Wire Dispatches ihore 100 signatures a greater LONDON Prime Minister number than such protest mo-Harold Wilson said Tuesday tions usually draw night that peace in Vietnam almost within our son sugges ed thdt each last weekend side the Americans and North single simple act of Vietnamese was still too sus-trust could have achieved the other But he he told a national television au-ment'oned and empha- dience He added that neither continued on Page 2 Col 3 the renewed US bombing of North Vietnam nor the I Reds oink Minesweeper Damage Two in the meaning Viet Cong activity had ended the possibilities of peace The television address echoed statements the prime minister had made in the afternoon in the House of Commons He told the MPs that the machinery to Blackstonc College Bid Hits Snag Methodist Iiodv Against Opening By Walter Wells Plans to reactivate Black stone College have been disapproved by the body of the Methodist Church which accredits and standardizes church-related educational institutions Dr George Reamey editor of the Virginia Methodist Advocate said yesterday that the University Senate voted unanimously against the reactivation at its meeting Sunday in Des Plaines 111 Dr William Quillian Jr president of Randolph-Macon College and the only Virginian in the 20-member senate abstained from voting The Blackstone College Board of Managers had made plans for reopening the college in September 1968 More than a halfmillion dollars has already been pledged toward an immediate goal of $750000 for the reactivation including a gift of $200000 from a Roanoke businessman Detailed Preparations Apparently the managers have been preparing detailed proposals for reopening the college which they would present AP WirtPholo Vietnamese Woman and Baby Uprooted by War Campus of Former Blackstone College Is Now Used as Conference Center More Than a Half Million Dollars Has Been Pledged Toward Reactivitation Paid Miami Part Of Powell Bimini Trips Washington's Not His bring peace to Vietnam was all prepared and could be brought into play by very small End of Infiltration Informants said Scott to Read Farewell 9 WASHINGTON tPl Rep been subpoenaed but was not Adam Clayton Powell and a for-j called to testify Tuesday beauty queen took at least' The committee also heard Franklin owner of together from Miami to Airline Service testify after government-paid that he was instructed to send to Florida in 1965 and bills for supplies ordered for House investigators yacht to a Washington-told Tuesday based company headed by Miss From Wire Dispatches A US minesweeper was sunk today and two others were dam-(aged severely in two separate 'guerrilla attacks along the flights I Long Tau River the main ship- small would fWping channel into Saigon A spokesman said 13 sailors were wounded and one was North Vietnam to cut off arms and men though not food or mer 10 trips Bimini 1966 other non-military supplies from its estimated 100000 troops fighting in South Viet- He of Government auditors also pro-j11 firm Huff Enterprises duced records to indicate that Ltd has the same address as said that at 10:15 am one in all of these cases the name of Powell's congressional office in the 80-foot minesweepers Miss Corrine A Huff Powell's: the Rayburn Building nam struck a mine 22 miles south-secretary and traveling com- are trying to learn more By Charles McDowell Jr Times-Dispatch Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Virginia WJ scou when the Virginia Methodist' Rep William first ndcated that the contem- hi to --1 town of about 3700 persons and The freshman Republican is approximately 50 miles south- from the 8th District has th arws-west of Richmond chosen to read I Speaker John McCormack A telegram reporting the ac-jFarewell Address in the on tion of the University Senate tional celebration of -the President's birthday on Feb 22 district includes birthplace at Wakefield In Westmoreland County end bin ospeaker and that at home and tomb at lit nt! non in Fairfax County A num-lnStons mIn 8 assigned to it the Univer- ber of constituents arej The same arrangement is fol-sity Senate of the Methodist expected to be in the House gal-jlow the Senate where the Church voted to dis-lery at noon to hear him makeconnuous tradition of reading approve the proposal to reopen 'the famous 7641-word speech the speech is much older than it Blackstone College as an educa- ibis will put them one-up on is in the House It has been tional institution of the contemporaries 1st Nobody ever heard him make Copies of the telegram were the speech Rather than speak That would be synchronized southeast of Saigon and the ves-j panion in recent years did not' about with a US military halt in at-itti was destroyed Five men 'appear on flight coupons to Moore R-W Va said after the tacks against the north The two were wounded and one was Miami hearing moves would clear the way for missing in that mining Miss Huff a 25-year-old beau-1 The committee does know negotiations the sources said Three hours earlier two mine- ty contest winner did not re- Moore said that the stockhold-Wilson indicated that he andj sweepers came under heavy firejspond Tuesday when called to ers include Miss Huff Miss Premier Alexsei Koskgin of from both banks of the river testify before the House com-i Swann Odell Clark and Sum-the Soviet Union has been deep- about 15 miles south-southeastimittee inquiring into mer Stone aides to Powell and ly involved in the arrangements of Saigon The guerrillas qualifications for his House Lynden Pindling the new that he believed came close to pumped rounds from a 57mm'seat She was served with a prime minister of the Bahamas achieving talks and a truce of recoilless rifle into the craft and committee subpoena in Bimini Powell has been stripped of the committee chairmanship The current Investigation involves whether he should be Rep William Scott Virginia Republican sprayed the vessels with auto- last Saturday matic weapons fire the spokes-j The records produced by man said Robert Gray of the General Ac-1 One sweeper was extensively counting Office showed in the damaeed and settled in the wa- that about half the time Powell committee had hoped to ter the other one was beached! traveled on tickets made out In JHltedanoSE in the north bank Eight men other names Tuday utcheduled Mother were wounded in the action the certain instances thereMrs Marjorie Flores Powell spokesman said was practically no time lapse in the HarlemJ Democrat-s ga in Washington the Defense the arrival time at Miami and traJ wife Department said yesterday that the departure forBimini Gray shJ refused t0 appear before North Vietnam moved 25000 tonssaid- appeared that no committee that looked ot supplies more than it moved business was probably con- int(J PoweI1s activities late last in any previous 30-day period aiictea in tnat time jyear and ordered her fired from Son Made Trips her $22500 job on Powell's staff These compilations showed some kind He said in Commons: "One small move would have activated the whole proposal and continued the Tet (lunar New Year) truce until the parties were around the conference At another point he spoke of a saying: is an initiative there is a plan that I tell the house about which bring peace tomorrow and requires a very small move to activate all the complicated machinery which would bring us to d' I Hopewell Air Pollution Called Worst in State it he simply published It In a Philadelphia newspaper on Sept 19 1796 a little more than five months before the end of his second term Long Convoluted Phrasing There are those who think Washington is one-up on all sub sent to Bishop Walter Gum of the Virginia Methodist Conference Dr Roland Riddick pastor of the Arlington Methodist Church and chairman of the Blackstone board of managers and Dr Carl Sanders superintendent of the Norfolk District of the Methodist Church Bishop Gum said last night he would have no comment until he knew more about the decision Dr Sanders who Is That amount a spokesman travel By Elliott Cooper 'individuals This committee he sequent orgtors The speech is Times-Dispatch Staf Writer would be made up of such filled with long convoluted andj WILLIAMSBURG The doctors neace neEotiations often quite awkward phrasing 'of Hopewell was described by a Patholoflsts veterinarians and P63 and It is difficult to read sjoud state ajr pollution official hereresearc Kientlts coherently Some historians Tuesday as worst polluted I lucky in Virginia blame Alexander Hamilton and'area jn that we yet have a dread- James Madison for their ghost- SnpakinB nf conference ful he added Left-Wingers Wilson came came from left-wing members of Parliament james mauison wr ineir ginni-i cn-akine at a conference UI Paicm ne aauea we re by other persons whose lllllmi Pilunf estimated is enough for a 10-names did not appear on flight 1 for more than coupons purchased with funds Iji(()n(llioil of the House Education and 1 Angered under attack eight months 000-man division Labor party They peU' HOUSTON Tex a Continued on Page 4 Col 1 then headed Hector Fernandez 38 the sixth North Vt-prep t0 ir ackGray adl writing and let Washington off Virginia Tu- lucky 11 happened yet expressed anger at but it can happen here" i iL State In addition to Arey several other local and federal air pol-inam bombm of lfleDl Hopewell and many other loca- A motion deploring Biosutcllilc Said K1 berculosis and Respiratory Dis- Probably the best-known pas-ease Association Richard Apparently Down sap are the warnings against A was quick t0 add I I tht nnri foreign alliances The1 clean hemiiruic and ppcniratnrv ns quick to add that debt and foreign alliances The 8 Bn aances- the was filed in the house It nn SUNNYVALE Calif IB The I strongest language Is reserved Hues in the state with air pollu- Continued on 4- 'however for an impassjOTied problems are attempting to Satellite I trapped in orbit t0iint Adam Cayton Powe11 IIL was in con-U reconnaissance planM An earier investigation into' dition at Methodist Hospital oDservea iau the travel expense The hospital said Fernandez had produced information about who received the pump Mon- a large number of Miami tripsjday was returned to surgery but records tied them Tuesday and was back in the 'special intensive care unit two ll rb lin oui luesudy icwurus lieu uicii ApmUmriLallact to trips to Bimini in the Ba 1 nundation of political parties correct the situation alternate domination of one faction over another sharpened by the Arey the executive i of the Virginia Ip r8V2 Control Board also secretary Air Pollution listed Alex- dissension! hours later The pump a leit ventricular bypass was not re hamas Virginia has been ordered to draft 181 men for military service in April 40 under the March quota of 221 state Selective The flight coupons to Miami names of various mittee staff members some whom have denied they went Fred- Rich- andrla- ericksburg Covington Lynchburg natural to party which in different ages countries has perpetrated and the Bio two months ago apparently dropped to earth Tuesday night in the Australian area the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported The capsule contained a radiation source in a sealed tungsten steel sphere and a potentially explosive bottle of compressed air An aerial hunt for trace of the capsule was started from Australia by three US Air Force search and rescue planes mond Roanoke and Waynes- com- moved of! The farmer and rancher from Villa Azueto Mexico had the rvice headquarters reported This group includes pump partially implanted in his yesterday The national for April is 11400 and men for March quota Emma Swann Powell's for-11900 mer receptionist who has de-nied making the trips She has chest after surgeons replaced his disease-damaged aortic valve with one of plastic ullior 12 Stirs Controversy Napalm Ode Lights Fire The Inside Story Three Sections 38 Pages The World TROOPS IN TIBET reportedly seize control from Maoists In Lhasa after battle Page A-2 The Nation PRESIDENT JOHNSON IS expected to ask Congress soon for civil rights laws aimed at ending discrimination In the sale or rental of private housing Page A-ll The Stale TEEN-AGE NEGRO defendant is charged with perjury in racial demonstration trials at Danville Page B-7 The Area RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE math professor is teaching this year at no salary because of his gratitude to college Togc B-l most horrid enormities is itself as some 0j areas re-a frightful despotism Wash- quiring more study incSmlll uihan mnnrfr' W0Ud Arey ad hm certaln these clties' reminded him of that theme I specifically Hopewell and Roa- rilS haVe USed federal grants people he said he could read jQr tjer own study" The state official also went on to describe the legislation which created the control board and the progress which has been made since the legislation was enacted by the last General Assembly of the first things the board has attempted to do is to collect local ordinances and he said Arey outlined that most of these existing statutes are really smoke control or fire hazard measures and do little to prevent air pollution Danville Hampton Richmond Roanoke and Roanoke Fairfax and Arlington Counties are the only ones I have hern able to find that have a good start on an air pollution control law" Arey said He emphasize ihut many problems now confront the: board and some time may pass before spectacular results are' achieved I Intrniionully going' Arey said we'd like jto know where we'll step each time we set our foot i I Arey sold that one of the pro-i grams the board is now working jon Is to select an advisory com-'mlttee of technically qualified The poem written by Barbara Bridler of Vcro Bench Tin entitled on Napalm Drop on Jungle Villages Near appeared in the magazine Venture in its February issue The magazine circulates about 130060 Issues throughout American military bases and is aimed at the 9 to 12-year-old oge group The poem reads in part: Then there was the silver and gokl Silver and gold Silver birds flying Golden water raining The rice ponds blazed with new water The Jungle burst into guld and sent up little birds of fire Little animals with fur aflame Then the children flamed their clulhes flying like fiery kites their screams Dying as their faces scared Tb woman's baskets burned on their heads The men's boats blazed on the rice waters Then the rains came A rag (ire black fluttered A curl of smoke rose from a rice stem The forest lay singed and seared A hut crumbled and uli was still PHILADELPHIA if) Then there was the flash Sliver and gold The Jungle hurst into gold and sent up little birds of fire The little animals with fur aflame Then the children flamed Dfd lines such as from a poem about napalm bombing in Vietnam and written by a 12-ycar-old cause the Defense Department to remove from its recommended list the Sunday school magazine of the Presbyterian Board of Education? Yes a spokesman for the board said Tuesday effort is being made to deter chaplains from subscribing to any religious replied (he Pentagon In Washington The Rev Dr William Morrison general secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education here said the recommendation by the religious advisory group of the Armed Forces Chaplains Buard thut the department drop the magazine from ill recommended list the question of religious freedom" "The list of recommended publications is a service to base chaplains and not a form of Ihe Pentagon's statement said fine religious publications Hre not on (lie recommended list because they do not fit the requirement applicable to all faiths" i 4 AP Wit irioA enls Ice in February? Richard Cnlnan 11 of North Adams Mass looks nt the big Icicle near his home and has to admit whole lot of lee Hut will there lie enough of It left next summer to cool a glass of lemonade?.

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