Northwest Arkansas Times from Fayetteville, Arkansas • Page 1

In MM of 107th YEAR-NUMBER 211 The Public Interest Is The First Concern Of This Newspaper Associated Press leased Wire and Wirepholo FAYETTEVIILE, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1967 AP, King and NEA Features tOCAl FOMCAST- Continued cloudy today; clear' to partly cloudy Sunday; coMef Monday; barometer 30.00 winds and variable; sunrtw Sunday sunset 6:03. High Lto; Expected today 3MO Yesterday 41 12 CWtt' Major Fighting Continues For Fourth Straight Day SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP)i Australian troops bypassed an enemy ambush and killed 70 Viet Cong in a six-hour battle Friday, spokesman for the 1st ustralian Task Force an- ounced today. It was the fourth straight day Hied units South Vietnam- ese, Koreans, Americans and ON GUARD AGAINST THE STORM--Its only enemies the elements, a long-silent 105 mm. howitzer on guard at the main entrance to the Fayetteville Veterans Hospital is outlined by the snow that blankets the hospital grounds in this night time picture. Like many othei- occupants of the facility, the howitzer is a veteran of World War II.

(TIMESfoto by Ken Good) House Okays Extended Racing Season LITTLE ROCK (AP)--A bill to extend the racing season at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs was approved 66-26 in the Arkansas House Friday, and now goes to Gov. Winlhrop Rockefeller for his signature. The bill would extend flic 43- day session by seven days, with some of the extra money from the extension to go into a fund to reward Arkansas thoroughbred breeders. Proponents of the measure said that it would give the state a start toward building a breed- ing industry comparable to that of Kentucky, Maryland and Virginia. The bill will mean about $250,000 for the state, and about $100,000 for the Arkansas Racing Commission to use in augmenting purses, stakes or prizes and in paying breeders' awards in races held exclusively for Arkansas-bred horses.

In the Senate Friday, Sen. Dan. T. Sprick of Little Rock charged in a speech that reporters who have written detailed accounts of nine execu- tive sessions used a rigged telephone to obtain their information. He said newsmen George F.

Bartsch of the Associated Press, Ernest Dumas of the Arkansas Gazette and Bob Sallee of the Arkansas Democrat had listened in on a closed meeting Feb. 9 and had conveyed their information to the governor. "I have had no briefings of any sort from any member of the press concerning secret As Explosions Threaten Workmen Rescue Girl Trapped In Fleminq Chemical Plant HAWTHORNE, N.J. (AP) "Don't leave me! Please don'tl leave me:" pleaded Sandy Kanter, a pretty 19-year-old laboratory worker pinned in the debris from a series of explosions that ripped a chemical plant. Two workmen, despite the possibility of another explosion at any moment, freed the girl in Snow, Cold Again Hold Sway Over Much Of Nation Snow, rain, sleet and freezing temperatures dominated the nation's weather pattern today, but the Weather Bureau said no severe storms were reported.

More sub-zero cold gripp northern border states from Montana to Maine. The mercury dropped to near 30 below zero in parts of North Dakota, Minnesota and Maine. The sub-zero weather a covered Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota Wisconsin, Nebraska, upper Michigan, New.York State, Vermont and New Hampshire. Light snow fell in scatteret sections from the Rockies to the Midwest and in another bel across the Appalachians to New York and New Jersey. Slee and freezing rain mixed witl snow pelted interior sections Virginia to the Carolina high lands.

aftermath of the blast Fri- ay that left at least one man ncsvn dead and 10 others miss- ng and presumed by authorities be buried in the ruins. Eighteen persons were inured, two seriously. Sifting through the rubble un- floodlights and knocking lown foot-long icicles that had ormed during the day, nearly volunteer firemen searched hrough the night for the miss- ng men. George Decker, 43, one of the vorkmen who helped free Miss Ranter, was at work some dis- ance from the apparent center of the explosions in the block- square complex of the Morningstar Paisley Division of the In- ernationl Latex Corp. Decker made his way through he dust and rubble to the exit where he saw other workers isiiiKHBiimiiiffliiiiiiiiiiBsniiJiiiiffi BASEMENT WON'T RUST ROCKFORD, 111.

(AP)-The Carl Smiths converted their heating system from oil to gas last fall and when their son, Michael, was home on leave the service ai Christmas, he disconnected the oil tank from the filler pipe. Friday, while the Smiths were away from home, a fuel oil truck pulled up in front of the house. Naturally. Two hundred gal Ions all over the cellar. Mrs.

Smith said Michael is going to remove the filler pipe the next time he's home. jrick. one of the four-story three rec buildings Some were crying out in terror some bleeding, some holding handkerchiefs to their faces. Decker was told that someoiv was trapped on the third floor He raced back into the flaming building with several other workers and policemen. He found Miss Kanter pinnet by a cabinet and a pile of brick that had fallen on her leg Flames were shooting up th side of the building as if from furnace fire.

The flames wer only four feet above the girl' head. "Don't leave me! Please don (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Powell Expected To Escape Censure, Fine WASHINGTON (AP)-A selec House committee weighing dis ciplinary action against Adam Clayton Powell is likely also propose punishing his secretary traveling companion, Corinne A Huff, it was learned today. Reliable sources said recom mendations concerning i Huff probably would include ther a citation for contempt refusing to obey a committe subpoena to appear or a reques that the House drop her from her congressiona job. A clear majority of the nim member select committee leaning toward a proposal 1 seat Powell but censure hin (CONTINUED ON PAGE SDC eetings," Rockefeller said lat- Bartsch and Dumas said their formation on the Senate's ecret sessions had come from Senate sources," and Sallee aid he had not been a party any eavesdropping arrangement. All three denied that tiiey ad conveyed any information Rockefeller.

Sprick said he had seen the tree at a phone in the-Capitol ress room and later had found he telephone on Bartsch's desk fixed" so that the receiver was the hook. In response to Sprick's ijeech, Sen. Richard Earl Grit- in of Crossett introduced a bill tiat would make it a felony unishable by a fine of not less lan $1,000 "and imprisonmenl or one to three years for any inaufhorized person to use any of listening to the pro- eedings of an executive ses- ion. The House approved 82-3 a ienate bill prohibiting mislead ng or deceptive advertising nd setting penalties for viola ions at fines of $100 to $1,000 md-or 60 days in jail. A controversial insurance bil ntroduced by Sen.

Dan White Fort Smith got trapped in he morning hour, and th House made it a special ordei tf business next Tuesday. The bill would permit rate in creases based on "loss experi ence" to go into effect on th late an application for an in crease was filed. Rep. S. Pet laydon of Little Rock wantec amend it to provide a 30- day waiting period between th ime the application is filed ahi he date the increase goes int effect.

The Senate voted for a sec ond time on a bill to appro 3riate $24,000 for Leroy Jones a former Slate Penitentiary in mate, but Lt. Gov. Mauric Britt, the president of the Sen ate, reserved judgment whether the bill passed. The money would pay part a $51,944 claim approved fo Jones by the state Claims Com mission. Jones was totally an permanently disabled Sept.

1965 when he was wounded a trusty shooting at another in mate. There was some question fo whether the measure neede 27 votes required for approv of appropriations bills, i menlary evidence Australians with guerrillas or namese regulars. have clashed North They Viet- have claimed an over-all enemy death toll exceeding 1,000. This week's battles raged from the Mekong Delta lo northern Quang Ngai Province and hether as a "just debt" of th afe it required only a simp! ajority of 18. On its first roll call Wednes- ay, the bill got 25 votes for 7 against.

On reconsidera- Friday, the vote was 25-4. id on Britt said he would reserve udgment on the bill until Sen. (lax Howell of Little Rock, its Arms Race Slowdown Discussed MOSCOW (AP) Premier Alexei N. Kosygin met in the Kremlin today with U.S. Am bassador Llewellyn E.

Thompson to discuss a personal appea from President Johnson for a slowdown in the arms race. Vietnam was also believed have been discussed at the firs formal meeting of Kosygin witl the new ambassador. It lasted a ittle more than two hours. The U.S. Embassy said that "subjects of mutual interest were discussed." Thompson brought to Moscow last month a message from Johnson to Kosygin which was written about seven weeks ago.

WHEN LITTLE MEN WAVE YPSILANTI, Mich (AJ) "Fin not gomg to worry about these things until I can see the little men waving. With that Police Chief Ray Walton of Ypsilanti closed the file on the latest report of flying saucers in Michigan. Police received several telephone calls Thursday i from persons who reported seeing unidentified flying objects in the Ypsilanti-Ann Ar- alfhough the action tapered off today, allied troops continued hunting for their fleeing adversaries. There was no pattern to the week's outbreak of major fighting, the heaviest so far this year. Several battles were initiated by Communists trying to overrun allied positions 9r blocking posts the others started when probing allied units found the enemy and hemmed them in.

The Australians swept through the coastal miles southeast of Saigon today and said they had killed' 70' men of the Viet Cong's veteran Di45 Mobile Battalion. The action capped these jor fights that started bor area. Later, a telephone caller lonsor, could present docu- fhat had the al- laims Commission owed Jones' claim. In other action Friday, the CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 1 Men Named To Turnpike Commission LITTLE ROCK (AP) Seven men were appointed to the new Arkansas Turnpike Authority by Governor Winthrop Rockefeller 'riday. Those appointed were Carl Tune of Fayetteville, Ross Pendergraft of Fort Smith and Ed Lester of Little Rock, Democrats; Austin Temple of Crossett, E.

M. Jones Sr. of Texarkana and Guy Moseley of Batesville, Republicans and eorge Crafcraft of Helena, Independent. The legislature created the Turnpike Authority this month. The Authority will supervise the construction of toll highways in Arkansas through bond issues inanced by tolls and gasoline revenue generated on the turnpikes.

It is understood to include an appeal for talks on banning an tiballistic missile ABM -defenses. Communist sources here say the Soviet Union, which is already constructing ABM systems, is uninterested just in an ABM moratorium. It reportedly interested only in a moratorium disarmament. Many years of East-West talks on that have failed to produce agreement. The Johnson administration feels that an ABM system would be a waste of money since attacking intercontinental ballistic missiles could still cause catas trophic destruction.

It wants a moratorium now, feeling i would be quicker and easier to achieve than a general disarms ment agreement. WASHINGTON (AP) Presi- lent Jolmson's tax increase proposal is in trouble will, first hundred others ofes of Two Charged With Magnolia Robbery EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) Two men were arrested here Friday and charged in connec tion with an armed robbery las Wednesday at Magnolia. The men are Turner L. Boles 36, of Celina, and Cliftoi Walker, 25, of Phoenix, Ariz They were being held in El Do rado for Magnolia authorities.

told police that a friend of his was launching weather balloons with flares attached- accounting for the UFO reports, and Friday police closed out the case. South Vietnamese rangers and infantrymen killed 331 guerrillas in two days of fighting in the delta southwest of Can Tho. Korean marines killed 243 North Vietnamese regulars in a three-hour battle Wednesday near; Quang Ngai City on the central coast, Tax Increase Faces Rough A blocking force of South Vietnamese armored personnel carriers rangers killed 161 fleeing Communists the next day. Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, killed at least 128 North Vietnamese and Thursday when, the enemy attacked the division's bases near the Cambodian border and 230 miles north-, west of Saigon. U.S.

Marines made an amphibious 'assault on the central coast in Operation Deckhouse Sfx Thursday and killed 62 guerrillas. In addition to the enemy dead these contacts, several sider It. That Senate-House Economic Committee is a study unit without legislative power. But three of its members sit on.the House Ways and Means Committee and three on the Senate Finance Committee, the two that do have legislative power over taxes. One source close to the Joint Economic Committee predicted flatly that its report would kill Johnson's proposal for a 6 per cent surcharge on most income taxes effective July 1.

Others would not go so far. The trend of questioning at still- incomplete hearings on the President's economic report indicates a number of members have not made up their minds. The weight of testimony by nongovernment witnesses has been against a tax boost. Most outside economists questioned the conclusion of the President's Council of Economic Advisers that the economy is due for an(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) out the republic. actions through Internal Revenue Invents Poverty Cure YPSILANTI, Mich.

(AP) "Boy, could we have a ball," grinned Laura Oestreich, eyeing a signed blank check from the Internal Revenue Service. "I love this antipoverty program!" she giggled. "Who needs medicare?" Mrs. Oestreich, 24, and her husband, Larry, an electronics technician, said they were due an income tax refund of about $450. "When I opened the mail this morning, I couldn't believe my eyes," she said Friday.

But James Reilly, director of Chicago's IRS regional center, said the entire bankroll of the U.S. government really isn't at the disposal of the Oestreichs. "It's obviously worthless," he said hastily. "It couldn't be cashed." He said the check would have to be returned I'll have the Secret Service out there in the next few minutes" and the proper check forwarded to the couple. Reilly, whose name was on the check, said he couldn't imagine how it got through the IRS.

The allies did not escape Ioss es. One company of the U.S. 4th Division suffered heavy casualties and several others had moderate casualties. Two companies of the Korean marines had moderate casualties. The U.S.

Marines South Vietnamese and Australian troops reported light casualties. In the war, bad weather again curtailed missions over North Vietnam Friday with U.S. Navy and Air. Force fighter- bombers flying only 41 sorties involving an estimated .120 planes. -'I.

The Australians' battle Friday was the biggest one they've had since last. August when they killed more than 200 guerrillas, also in Phuoc Tuy An Australian spokesman said the Viet Cong had prepared an ambush and then mortared; the fishing village of Phuoc Hai. The guerrillas expected the Australians to rush to the village and into the A South Vietnamese unit: discovered hidden guerrillas, however, and warned the Australians who then launched one of their largest helicopter operations. Even artillery pieces were airlifted into position. Swooping in to block the rillas, one company charged through two hastily drawn defense lines before it was pinned down by heavy fire.

One Australian armored personnel carrier was destroyed by the guerrillas, who were equipped with inor- tars, recoilless rifles and machine guns. The enemy broke contact and fled shortly after dark. Student Leaders Entrapped By CIA, Association Leaders Charge WASHINGTON (AP) With money, draft deferments and the tiireat of jail the Central Intelligence Agency laid "an ethical trap for young men of great integrity," say leaders of the National Student Association. To the CIA it was a valuable weapon in the back alley struggle of international espionage. To the students involved it became an agony and a horror.

the end, the moral strain the students became too great and it shattered the 15- year secret relationship between the government spy agency and the nation's largest student organization. That was the story told Friday night by leaders of the NSA as they emerged from three days and nights of nearly continuous discussion, of the crisis that disclosure of the relation ship had created for them. But they plan to continue the student organization. Much of what they said al- ready had come out in the days since Ramparts magazine spotlighted the undercover link early this week. In a statement read by Samuel Brown, chairman of the 10- member supervisory board of the NSA, NSA leaders said they received between $1 million and $2 million in hidden CIA funds through 21 foundations and individuals.

Brown named six Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs, Catherwood Foundation, San Jacinto Fund, Independence Foundation, Sidney and Esther Rabb Foundation and an individual, R.A. Smith. This was the first mention of the Catherwood Foundation's involvement. In addition, Brown said, last year's president, Philip Sherburne, told the board there were 15 other foundations and individuals that had channeled smaller amounts of CIA funds to NSA through the years. Brown said he did not know their names.

The money went into NSA's overseas activities, seminars for foreign students and operating expenses, including rent on the four story Washington headquarters of the organization. In some years CIA money made up 80 per cent of NSA's budget, Brown said. He said the CIA also helped "negotiate" draft deferments for top NSA officials. An NSA spokesman earlier had denied there were any strings pulled to get draft deferments, but it turned out he was talking only of the present officials. For its part, ttie CIA got strong U.S.

student representation at world student conferences, information about politics and student activities in foreign lands and a line on their rising young leaders. The information brought back by NSA overseas representatives was given, to CIA agents in informal meetings in restaurants or on the street, Brown said. What came out with fresh impact Friday night was the reaction of the present NSA leaders to the CIA's penetration of their organization when they learned of it for the first time a few weeks ago. Brown, a 23-year-old divinity student at Harvard, expressed it when he was asked how the CIA recruited students to spy for it. The selected individual was given a security check by the CIA without his knowledge, Brown said, and if he passed, was called in for a discussion with NSA leaders.

Usually only one or two top leaders were aware of the CIA" srole. "He was told there were certain things about the NSA that he was not aware Brown, "and that it would helpful to him in his job to have certain information that was available only from classified sources. "So he was told he would have to sign a security (CONTINUED ON PACK SDQ.