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GREATEST TULSA DAILY WORLD CHARACTER RELIABILITY NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE 58th Year No. 116 FINAL HOME EDITION TULSA, GOVERNOR BOARD NAMED TO PROBE NY PAPERSTRIKE Three Judges Look at 'Public Interest' in News Blackout NEW YORK (P -Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and Mayor Robert F.

Wagner Sunday named a three-man "board of public accountability" to investigate the city's newspaper blackout. Announcement of the development was made after a meeting, apparently secretly, arranged, among the top federal, state and city officials in a hotel room here. The board will investigate the dispute between striking printers and publishers and report to the secretary, governor and mayor by Friday "or earlier if the announcement said. Named to the board were Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S.

Court of Appeals; Criminal Court Judge, Joseph commissioner; O'Grady, former city labor and David W. Peck, former presiding justice of the State Supreme Court appellate division, first department. Meet Monday They will meet Monday to be briefed on the situation and plan procedures for resolving the dispute, now in its fifth week and the city's costliest newspaper strike. "The board will not propose terms of settlement or undertake mediation efforts, unless this is agreeable to the parties concerned," the joint statement said. Wirtz, Rockefeller, and Wagner sent telegrams to all parties, asking their cooperation with the board.

"The public has the right to know why this intolerable situation continues," the statement said. "The public is entitled to know whether its interests are being given due account. "If they are not, the public has the right to exercise further influence to resolve the present deadlock." Employment Hurt The shutdown of the city's nine major newspapers in a printers' strike has caused a 50 per cent cut in the number of jobseekers using private employment agencies, the head of an agency group asserted. "Newspaper (classified) adverising is the only way we have of listing our (job) offerings," said John Fanning, president of the Association Personnel Agencies of New York. "During last month, the city agencies interviewed 45,000 people," he said.

"Normally we would have at least 100,000 jobseekers coming to the offices during December. "This month we should have at least 200,000 unemployed seeking our help. But, if the strike continues, we don't believe we' get half that number coming in this strike, could mean the end of several of our general agencies Most specialized agencies aren't hurting too badly, he said, "beSee NEWS CRISIS on Page 2 Cloudy and Warmer Weather Predicted Partly cloudy skies and slightly warmer temperatures predicted for Tulsa Monday, with the mercury climbing to the 50-degree mark after an early-morning low in the 20s. The Weather Bureau recorded a high of 47 for Tulsa Sunday and the low was 33. The Weather U.S.

WEATHER BUREAU Municipal Airport William O. Garrison, Meteorologist Sunday Max. .....47 .33 Precipitation Relative Humidity 70 per cent Saturday Max. ...42 ...37 1963 Max. .59 .30 River stage 3.36 feet Arkansas (7 a.m.

Reading Sunday) Verdigris River stage 18.88 feet (SH33 at 7 a.m.) Sunrise 7:35 a.m. Sunset 5:25 p.m. TULSA AND VICINITY--Clear to partly, cloudy and cool and Tuesday; overnight low in the upper 20s; high Monday near 50. OKLAHOMA-Clear to partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday; little a little cooler Panhandle and a east Monday; a little warmer warmer over state Tuesday; high Monday 47-55. Weather map and area foreoasis on page 2.

OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, NAMED Nigh Him EX-GOVERNOR FACES TOUGH FIGHTIN 1964 Gary, Nix May Be Strong Contenders; Kerr Name Is Magic World Capital Bureau OKLAHOMA CITY -Ascendancy to the U.S. Senate of J. Howard Edmondson, the former Tulsan who just a few days ago was headed for comparative obscurity in a law firm, will set Oklahoma's Democratic political pot boiling. Already, the 1964 Senate election, coming in a presidential go, election year, is taking on tremendous importance and there are national ramifications. Edmondson knew when he decided he wanted Robert S.

Kerr's Senate seat that he would have primary opposition when he runs in 1964 when his appointed term expires. Former Gov. Raymond Gary had been planning to run against Kerr in 1966, and sounded a few days ago like he would look forward to taking on Edmondson. Expresses Family Wish Judge Kirksey Nix of the state Court of Criminal Appeals is said to have cast an eye on the seat, too, after Kerr's death. Robert S.

Kerr 36-year-old attorney and son of the senator, has announced his candidacy. It came within minutes after word of Edmondson's appointment came out. Young Kerr made it clear that the family wanted Edmondson to appoint the son and that the family doesn't feel Edmondson can be as effective in carrying out his father's program. Young Kerr is virtually unknown in politics and has never before expressed any interest in running for office, friends report. One of the late senator's three sons, he is a member the law firm in Oklahoma City of Kerr, Conn and Davis.

The firm also includes his uncle, Aubrey Kerr, brother and close political associate of the late senator. Formidable Fortune The Kerr name will still be a magic one in Oklahoma when the primary rolls around, and the Kerr fortune is formidable. Edmondson tried his best to mend political fences before he took the Senate post to help diminish the 1964 primary fight. He is said to have tried to placate the Kerr family to no avail. Edmondson has no personal fortune and a statewide campaign for senator is expensive when there is heavy opposition on the ballot.

Of course Edmondson will be the incumbent, and that will help. Making the political pot bubble even more are the reports from usually well informed sources that Vice President Lyndon Johnson urged young Kerr to run for his father's seat. Johnson has had no love for Edmondson since the See TOUGH FIGHT, Page 2 to Governor of Oklahoma for Nine Days in George Nigh's title was cut in half late Sunday. He became governor of Oklahoma instead of lieutenant and send him when to J. the United Howard States Edmondson Senate to quit take the the governor's seat of office the so late that Sen.

Nigh Robert could S. succeed Kerr. Nigh is shown here seated at out of office Jan. 14 when Henry the governor's desk after big Bellman becomes governor. Congress Facing Early Struggles WASHINGTON (P- Members returning for themselves under the political gun Sunday session even opens.

Before their bags were unpacked House in the swirling controversy over the size of which President Kennedy says will make or tive program. Senators also faced the prospect of early STATE DEATH TOLL SOARS Five More Killed in Road Accidents By The Associated Press Five more names were added Sunday to Oklahoma's soaring traffic death toll for the new year. The toll now stands at 20, compared with 10 at the same time a year ago. The victims: FRED SITTINGBULL, 53, Watonga. INEZ SITTINGBULL, 53, his wife.

CALVIN C. MILLER, 37, Stigler. LOIS M. M'CLANAHAN, 32, an Army WAC, Minco. KENNETH G.

CRAWFORD, 17, Vinita. Two-Car Collisions Sittingbull was driving a car which collided early Sunday. with an auto driven by James Whitebuffalo, 26, Canton. Sittingbull's wife died at the scene and he died at a Fairview hospital. The cars collided about 2 miles south of Longdale on Oklahoma 58.

Miller also died Sunday after his car collided with one driven by Ralph Junior Vandygriff, 37, three miles east of Keota on homa 9. Vandygriff, a migrant worker from Michigan staying with relatives at Marietta, was taken to a Fort Smith, hospital. Several others were injured in the crash. Car Out of Control The Army WAC was dead on arrival at Veterans Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was fatally injured when her car ran out of control and turned over in a creekbed Saturday night along Oklahoma 152 in Oklahoma City.

She was found Sunday morning by a passing motorist. Crawford died at a Vinita hospital Saturday night of injuries suffered in a headon collision of his car and a semi-trailer truck driven by Forest Adams, 17, Muskogee. The accident occurred early Saturday a half-mile west of Vinita on U.S. 60. Talks to Resume BONN Germany and Communist Poland will resume talks in Warsaw this week aimed at conclusion of a new trade pact, a government spokesman said Sunday.

1963 TO Edmondson at Kerr's ROBERT S. Mike, 22 PAGES-2 PARTS PRICE FIVE CENTS SENATE Resigns, Once Makes Successor JFK Gives Approval Over Phone; Son of Late Senator Announces He Will Seek Post in Next Vote By TRAVIS WALSH Of The World Staff OKLAHOMA CITY--J. Howard Edmondson resigned as governor of the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy created of Robert S. Oklahoma at 4:44 p.m.

Sunday and was immediately, appointed to Kerr. Announcement of the double-barreled move was made to newsmen at the Capitol 6:30 p.m. by George Nigh, former lieutenant governor who succeeded to the helm as Oklahoma's temporary chief executive and appointed the 37-year-old Edmondson to the Senate. Nigh will serve as governor for nine days until the inauguration Jan. 14 of Republican Henry Bellmon.

Almost simultaneously, Edmondson's political future ran into a roadblock the announcement by Robert S. Kerr Jr. that he would run in 1964 for his father's Senate seat. Edmondson also is expected to run in 1964 for a two-year term in the Senate when his current appointment expires. The big Nigh-Edmondson move came in two stages.

Nigh called switch was completed. He will (Related story on page 8) the 88th Congress found three days before the members were caught up the Rules Committee, break his entire legisla- combat. An expected attempt to alter the rules so it would be easier to shut off debate is liable to touch off a filibuster by southerners. Once these matters are settled the battling will still continue as Republicans and Democrats both seek to turn the session in a direction that will enhance their chances in the 1964 presidential and congressional elections. Presidential politics will have a good deal to do with how the House Rules Committee fight turns out.

Firm GOP Stand Seen Mr. Kennedy has already said unless he gets a 15-member Rules Committee, which usually means an 8-man majority favorable to the administration, "we are The committee largely determines what bills go to the floor for a vote. Republicans, who fought two years ago to retain the 12-member committee on which their four members and two southern Democrats exercised control, are not likely to be swayed from such a position by fears of crippling Mr. Kennedy's program. As one influential GOP House member said, "'Why should we help Kennedy make a record to run on in 1964?" Looks Close Again There are Republicans who disagree, feeling, the party can't afford to obstructionist.

The chances are the outcome of the committee fight rests with them. Two years ago when the late Speaker Sam Rayburn squeezed out a 217-212 victory and enlarged the committee to 15 for the 87th See CONGRESS on Page 2 RUSSIA, RED CHINA CLASH Pravda Directly Hits Peking View MOSCOW, Monday (UPI)-The Soviet Union and Communist China Sunday exchanged another series of charges in their ideological dispute. For the first time, the Soviets named Red China directly as the backer of "dogmatic, divisive views" in the Communist, bloc. The Soviet newspaper Pravda, in a two-page editorial, defended Premier Nikita Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence policies and condemned Peking's tough line toward the West. The Communist New China News Agency, monitored in Tokyo, did rot mention the Soviet Union or Khrushchev by name in its attacks, which consisted of excerpts from the Peking theoretical journal Red Flag.

But their implication was clear. It repeated charges that Khrushchev was wrong to withdraw from who do not acknowledge that imperialism is a paper tiger are scared out of their wits," it said. It charged that "modern sionists" -the Chinese label for Khrushchev and Yugoslav President Tito -have done "serious harm" to the world Communist I movement. It said they have brought about "the gradual restoration of capitalism in one form or another" in Communist countries, an apparent reference to Khrushchev's recent statements that Russia should adopt some Western capitalist ideas. New China also made public an attack on Russia again by implication by Communist North Korea, a member of the Peking camp.

It accused the Soviets of being "scared stiff" of imperialism and slipping into "non-principled compromise and surI render." Set to Help Edmondson KERR JR. Steed By JACK CLELAND World Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Senator-designate J. Howard Edmondson was assured the cooperation of at least two members of the Oklahoma congressional delegation Sunday night. Sen. Mike Monroney, now the state's senior senator, said he offered Edmondson every "courtesy" in his new duties.

Sen. Monroney said the former governor is assuming "an office of difficult responsibility. I will do everything to help him with his new committee assignments, which in will greatly contribute to his carrying out our new program for the development of Oklahoma." On the House side, Rep. Tom Steed, Shawnee, dean of the Oklahoma congressional delegation, said he was quite pleased with the announcement that Edmondson would succeed the late Sen. Robert S.

Kerr. "It had become obvious to me one or the other of the Edmondson brothers was going to get the job." Steed admitted, while he was closer to Rep. Ed Edmondson, the state would be better off with Howard in the job rather than having a void in the House delegation. According to Steed, Howard Edmondson is not only in good standing with the Kennedy administration, but is acceptable and on friendly terms with the state congressional delegation. "I am more concerned with how the state fares during the next two years than I am with a senator who will get re-elected in 1964," Steed said.

The only trouble with some of those fine new homes is that they're located on the outskirts of your income. Yanks Score Cowardly Vietnamese SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) Angry U.S. military advisers charged Sunday Vietnamese infantrymen refused direct orders to advance during Wednesday's battle at Ap Bac and that an of American Army captain was killed while out front pleading with them to attack. The Vietnamese commander of an armored unit also refused for more than an hour to go to the rescue of 11 American crewmen of downed helicopters and an infantry company pinned down by Communist small arms fire, they said. "It was a miserable damn performance" was the way one American military man summed up the humiliating and costly defeat suffered by the South Vietnamese army at the hands of outnumbered Communist guerrillas in the fight for the jungle hamlet 30 miles south of Saigon.

It was perhaps the strongest Viet Nam. Three Americans, including Capt. Kenneth N. Good of Hawaii, a West Point graduate, and two helicopter crewmen were killed. Ten other Americans were wounded.

Of 14 U.S. helicopters involved in the battle, 11 were hit by Communist ground fire and five crashed. American advisers who took part in the battle on the edge of the Plain of Reeds recounted sorry tales of the debacle: the government forces outnumbered the Communists 10 to 1 and were supported by planes, artillery and armor. Yet an infantry battalion, located less than a mile from Ap Bac held by an estimated 200 guerillas, flatly refused to advance on the Hamlet even though Vietnamese and American officers at division headquarters ordered and pleaded for hours. The battalion commander had been See COWARDS on Page 2 surprise Sunday afternoon press conferences at the Capitol at 3:30 p.m.

to announce he had decided to appoint Edmondson if the governor wanted the job. The latter was a foregone conclusion, of course. Nigh said it had been planned that Edmondson would resign and be appointed to the Senate Monday. Plans changed, however, and Nigh called the press together again at 6:30 to declare that the move already was an accomplished fact. Nigh, the 34-year-old former House member and McAlester schoolteacher who lost a bid for governor in the 1962 primary, said his appointment of Edmondson to the Senate had the blessing of President Kennedy.

Edmondson himself was at the governor's mansion and was not available to talk with newsmen. 'Taking Off Hook' He sent word that he would meet the press Monday morning shortly after Nigh is formally sworn in as governor by Justice Earl Welch of the state Supreme Court. Nigh chose Welch for the ceremony because he is the justice from Nigh's home district. Nigh's strategy in announcing the move in stages appeared to some observers as aimed at taking him off the hook politically for the heat he may get for appointing Edmondson. Nigh still has political ambitions of his own, and the ex-governor is still unpopular with a lot of Oklahoma Democrats.

Word that the Kerr family didn't want Edmondson for the job and that the senator's son would run if the governor was appointed may have affected the strategy, also. There were some rumors that moves to placate the Kerr organization delayed Edmondson making his move earlier than he did. Talks to President Nigh told newsmen at his first press conference that the governor had asked him Saturday i if he would appoint him to the Senate if he resigned as governor. Nigh added that he put off an answer for a day to think it over and talk to some friends. "Today I informed the governor that if he asked me to appoint him to the Senate, I will," said Nigh.

"Among those I talked to was the President. I talked personally to the President and told him my decision would be to appoint Gov. Edmondson if that was the governor's desire. I told him I was particularly interested in the future of Oklahoma and wanted his comment had one. President said of course he was personally pleased with my decision.

He said he thought Gov. Edmondson could speak very See GOVERNOR on Page 2 Rome City Workers Received by Pope VATICAN CITY (UPD-Pope John XXIII received in special audience Sunday the mayor of Rome, the city council and municipal employes and made his regular Sunday appearance at the window of his apartment to bestow his blessings on crowds that gathered in St. Peter's Square. The 81-year-old pontiff showed no outward signs of the illness which felled him Nov. 27 and forced his confinement in his apartment in the Vatican palace for almost a month.

JOHN R. WOODARD EX-COUNTY JUDGE DIES Heart Attack Fatal to John R. Woodard John R. Woodard, 80, pioneer Tulsa attorney and former judge of the County and Common Pleas Courts, died of a heart attack Sunday afternoon at his home, 224 Sunset Drive. He had been ill about two years.

Woodard, who came to Tulsa in 1910, had been active in many service clubs and civic associations here. He had remained in active law practice time he came to Tulsa until he closed his office in February, 1961. Born in Fayetteville, Woodard attended Peoples and Morgan Training School there, and then Duke University, graduating in 1906 with an AB degree and acquiring a law degree two years later. Three years after he came to Tulsa Woodard was appointed assistant city attorney. He served in that post until 1916, when he was named city attorney, where he served two years.

It was during his term as city attorney, in 1917, that Woodard compiled the first codification of the city ordinances. Woodard served as judge of the Common Pleas Court during the late William H. Murray's term as governor, and was named to the county court following the death of John Boyd. He was a vice president and trust officer of the Exchange See WOODWARD on Page 2 criticism by an American tary adviser but other Americans involved in the battle said it was not an unfair one. They spoke of the marked "lack of aggressiveness" of Vietnamese commanders, their refusal to heed recommendations of their American advisers, refusal to carry out direct orders from their superiors and a breakdown in the chain of command of the 7th ese Division.

As a result, the American sources said, the government troops suffered a needlessly high casualty toll, 65 dead and at least wounded -the second highest since the war against the Communist. Viet Cong began. U.S. casualties also were the highest in any single battle in Guerrillas Strike Again SAIGON, Viet Nam, (P -Communist guerrillas struck in force again Sunday, apparently overrunning a government strategic hamlet and inflicting heavy casualties on the defenders. The attack was against a hamlet in mountains 235 miles northeast of here.

Reports said about 30 wounded have been flown from the hamlet by helicopter, but there was no indication what total casualties may have been on either side. South Vietnamese forces supported by 10 troop carrying helicopters immediately launched an operation to crush the Viet Cong that hit the hamlet. Late Sunday no contact with the enemy was reported. No Americans were believed involved in the action. Index Editorials 4 Farm News 5 Women's News .6, 7 Industrial News 9 Goren on Bridge 10 Sports 11, 12, 13 Television 13 Oil 14 Telling Tulsa .15 Want Ads 16-19 Entertainment Ads .20 Feature Page ..20 Comics ..21 Round the World ..22.