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NORTHWMT ARKANSAS' BEST CAUESMAM Jlortfjtoest fKmes; The Public Interest Is The First Concern Of This Newspaper IOCAL FORECAST Clear lo parlly cloudy with mild temperatures and a chance of widely scattered showers in the late pressure 30.23. Surface winds NE. Yesterday's high 85, low last night no precipitation. High today 85 to 90, low tonight 65. 103rd YEAR-NUMBER 36 Associated Press Leased Wire FAYETTEVIILE, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1962 AP, King and NEA Features 24 PAGES-FIVE CENTS State's Gubernatorial Campaign Mounts Toward Boiling Point Hy THK ASSOCIATED PltliSS (inbcrnatoriiil candidates crisscrossed the stale Wednesday in search of voles, cajoling supporters from podium and a over television and radio.

Four of the candidates Kenneth Coffelt, Vcrnon Whilteti, Dale Alford Sid Mc.Malh lo the airwaves Wednesday night. Orva! Kanbus spoke al Magnolia, attended a dinner in Canidcn, spoke lo a crowd in it roped-off downtown street. David A. Cox called a HOWS conference to announce a he was selling his 880-acre a In have money for a runoff campaign against Kaniius. Coffcll, after spending most of the day in his headquarters, issued a scathing television and radio a a on Fanbiis a i istration for what li termed alliance with trucking interests lo water down enforcement of Ihe Mack-Hlackwell amendment and incease load capacities.

Coffelt said the amendment was no longer being enforced and lhal Faubus is gradually replacing monitors of Ihe Highway Commission with (hose who served in 1950 when there was public indignation over a dling of state road funds. Coffelt said if he was elected governor lie would appoint former senator Lawrence Hlackwell, co- uutlior of Ihe arncndmcnl, to the commission. Coffelt charged a i I'anbns had allied will: Inu-king intercsls lo increase ll)t a i load limit of trucks from 05,000 pounds next year, ile said the ex- li'a road repairs this increased load would make necessary would Ix- paid for by a lax to Ix. 1 placed on all truck operators, although only 1,1:10 trucks in ihe stale are licensed a tile heavy loads. Whiltcn, also on television, hammered away at the theme of cons i i a government.

He said that the present constitution "lii'S trampled, tailored and lorn in the path of nn onrusliing mob of politically intoxicated private citizens led by loo many punch happy public i i a Whitten said he had been advised lhal the topic of the constitution did not have voter appeal and a he should not use it loo much in his politico! talks. Hut he- said he would continue the theme because though there may be no voler appeal, "a strong is bulging from cvei-y crack ami in our present constitution." Ile said a the extent of gambling in Hoi Springs and the suils filed against slate officials and legislators proved "conclusively lhal law and order had broken down al both the state and county level." He sakl the only Uvo ways 10 constitution a through proper performance of elected officials and from a cons i i a right of independent taxpayers to challenge lli ads of public i i a The first way, he said, has "deteriorated to a point of small return." He said, referring to suits filed against stale officials and legislators, 'the second best! way is not in the I'ulaski County courthouse and it remains to be seen how far our taxpayers may be provoked and infuriated." A series of suits have been filed by a citizens group alleging that legislators and slate officials had violated a stale act by receiving special funds above the maximum salary set for them by law. Alford and Faubus, on Ihe same in at Tcxarkana Tuesday night, almost clashed a a i Wednesday at Magnolia. iMford appeared in the city al night, charging lhal Faubus had "moved in an him" by speaking there 10 minutes earlier. Alford said he had his talks three weeks ago and Faubus made his arrangements only last week.

The candidate slapped al Fan- bu-; and JIcMath. a i Truman Baker of Searcy was in charge of Hie Highway Commission during the Mo-Math administration when there were audit i Algeria On Threshold Of Civil War U.S. Foresees New Offensive By Viet Cong WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. officials anticipate a mounting Communist guerrilla offensive in Koulli Viet Nam in Ihe next CO or 9fl days. Informed sources said today Secretary of Defense Robert S.

McN'amara was lokl al his Honolulu conferences that il is highly possible the Red Viet Cong will slep up their attacks lo counter increasing pressure from U.S.-supported government forces. American authorities, it was learned, also believe the Communists may become more aggressive as parl of a drive to establish a rump regime in Viet Nam. High U.S. officials are worried a the Communist North Vietnamese may try to follow a pattern like a whic 1 worked so successfully in neighboring Laos. There, the pro-Communist Path- el Lao rebels seized control of a porlion of the country and organ- a regime which challenged (he pro-Western government in Vientiane.

Ultimately, the pro-Western government of Laos was unseated and replaced by a neutralist regime believed lo lean leftward. Informants familiar i the discussions in Honolulu early this week said the South Vieliiame.se forces will do their best to prevent the Communist Viel Cong from consolidating in any sector. Admittedly, officials said, this will be difficult oven with South Vietnamese troops toing flown by U.S. helicopters into jungle 'and mountain areas where the Communists long have had free rein. So far, informants said, there lias been no big scale flow of Communist reinforcements into South Viel Nam across the Lao- i a border since Ihe fighting in Laos ended.

(Jen. Paul D. liarkins. American chief in South Viel a was said to have given McNamara a report a was generally on the optimistic side. Once a a i it was slro.sscd lhal the war in South Viet Nam probably will last for years.

a a a was told Ihe stralc- gic hamlet program is moving ahead. Up to dale, of these new sclllcments have been built, many of them heavily fortified lo slancl off Communist a a The goal is to have 7,000 of these villages started by Jan. 1. Under this program, peasants are removed from areas where they are vulnerable to Communist coercion and resettled in protected towns within reach of South Vietnamese forces. Authorities said there has been a definite 2iin toward greater political freedom peasants and thai this has undercut a major Communist propaganda pitch.

British Court Rejects Robert Soblen's Plea LONDON' (AP) -The Brilish Coiirl of Appeal today rejected convicted spy lioberl A. Soblen's plea lie be set free in i a i for Ihe fil-year-old psychiatrist contended his detention in prison is a and that lie s)Kiild freed in Brilain under a writ of habeas corpus. The British government contested the appeal on the ground lhal Soblen--under of life imprisonment in the United Stales as a Soviet entered lite country illegally and should Ix 1 expelled. IT'S NOT FOOTBALL TIME, YET, BUT-- Valerie Matthews, of Louisville, has a whole team of "Horned Frogs" to watch after the mother, captured in Arizona eiirlier this summer gave birth to 13 of the little critters. Valerie named the mother Mrs.

Aloysius, but hasn't thought up names for all the wee ones, yet. Cargo Of Gas Explodes In Berlin, N.Y. Destruction Rides Wheels Of Runaway Truck BERLIN. N.Y. (AP) Al 5:30 p.m.

in (he picturesque a of Berlin in eastern New York, dinner was on Ihe stove, the men were i from work, and Gene Merrills was standing beside a barn. "God, it was like a clap of Ihuru'er. A bomb. Everything lit up red." Merrills said. A load of propane gas on a tractor-trailer exploded Wednesday, spurliiiR Ihe a i liquid as far as a a i within Ibis community of 'tflO.

Tin- truck driver was injured a a and 16 incii. women and children were hospitalized. Ten of them remained in critical condition today. A homes and the 170- ycar-okl Baptist church were in ruins. Tliunderheads were gathering in the as Robert J.

McLucas, 30. of Pomeroy, look his big FBI Jails Seven In Gambling Raid FORT SMITH Ark. (AP) The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested seven men Wednesday in connection with what is described as a gambling operation at Top Hal nighl club in Moffett, Okla. Charges had been filed in Muskogee against the men for violating a recently enacted law forbidding interstate travel to aid and gambling. Hoy K.

Moore spe.ri.il agent in charge of UK- FBI office in Little Rock, said the meti (raveled between Oklahoma and Fort Smith in Ihe promotion of "a business enterprise which included gambling." The FBI said a federal marshal raided Ihe club and seized a dice table poker table, dice, cards, Hiip.s. a clmck-a-lnck game and two pinball machines. truck down Ihe twisting two-mile i leading into this community folded into a valley Ijclwcen Ihe Gr.nflon Mountains and the Berkshires near the intersection of the New York-Massachusetts-Vermont stale lines. At soino point, Ihe brakes apparently failed, Slafc Police said, and McLucas leaned on his horn in warning as the vehicle picked up speed. Some wit- nesscs the brakes appeared to be on fire.

About 50 yards from the village square with its Civil War statue, the truck reached a turn near the bottom of Ihe hill. It jack-knifed, Ihe trailer broke off. "There was a pause, then a pop, then a blam. The flames must have gone J50 lo 200 feet in the air bright orange." That was the account of Holden Gutornnith, 24, who witnessed it from a field. McLucas was blown 350 feet.

lie ABSENTEE VOTE SLOW Two hundred and two Washington County voters have filed written requests for absentee ballots in the July 31 Democratic primary. County Clerk Paul Davis said loday. Many of those planning lo vote absentee cast their ballots before leaving the courlhouse, Davis said. Others indicated Ihey plan to mail in their votes later. Although absentee requests have been i behind previous years so far, the clerk said il now appears the absentee box- will a i aboul an average number of ballols--somewhere in Ihe neighborhood of 300--by election day.

Davis said he plans lo keep his office open until noon Saturday in order to distribute as many absentee a a possible. a Ihe court house is closed all day Saturday. died aboul two hours later. Postmaster Robert Moses was closing up for the day. lie lookc at the house he had built himself "It was terrible.

was a mass of fire His wife was inside. Held back by the searing heat Moses watched as his wife crawled into the breczcway, tlic-n through the garage, over the cai and through a window. She was critically burned. Three homes were envelope! immediately in flames and hunks of fire soared off lo strike in a crazy-quilt pattern among the few dozen while clapboard homes in Berlin and the church, A barn a a i away housing two school buses was ignited. A man painting his house a quarler-milc away was blown from his ladder.

The immediate blast occurred in from of the home of Kenneth McCumbcr. 53, and his wife, Florence. 55 The house disintegrated. "You could sec the clapboards come right off the place," said Cliflon Shuhart, who found the MeCumbers crawling in a field about 400 feet away. They, too, were burned critically.

Premier's Guerrilla Forces Dig In To Resisl Ben Bella's Rebei Troops ALGIF.HS (AP) Algiers and he mountain region of Kabylie irepared today lo resist the vic- orious advance of Iroops of dissi- lenl Vice Premier Ahmed Ben iclla. After years of rebellion igainsl France and three weeks 3f 'independence, the new nation of Algeria found itself on the hreshohl of civil war. Soldiers of the Algiers "autono- Long-Closed School Told lo Reopen RICHMOND, Va. (AP) U.S. District Judge Orcn R.

Lewis today ordered Prince Edward County schools reopened. The public system has been shut down since integration. Prince Edward's schools, Lewis- ruled, "may nol be closed to avoid the effect of Ihe law of the land as interpreted by the Supreme Court, while Hie Commonwealth of Virginia permits other public schools lo remain open at the expense of Ihe taxpayers." Lewis ordered Prince Edward's school board lo coirplele plans for the admission of pupils in Ihe elementary and high schools of the county "without regard to race or color and to receive and consider applications to i end at the earliest practical dale." In the decision entered in U.S. District Court. Lewis ordered thai these plans to submitted lo all counsel of record by Sept, if possible, and to the court on Sept.

7. Prince Edward's public schools have been closed since Hie county's Board of Supervisors refused lo appropriate funds for their operation in 1959 a a federal court order. Since then the county's MOO white children have attended pri vale schools operated by the Prince Edward School Foundation. The county's Negro children for the most part have been without formal schooling. The Prince Edward suit was instituted in 1051 and was one of Ihe five cases involved in the Supreme Court's IBM decision.

nious zone" took up positions lale Wednesday night on the approaches to the while-walled cily. From the Moorish-style palace Premier Ben Yonssef lien Khodda warned a (he danger of civ.l war was real and pleaded Foi i A group of ministers of Bei. Klieddii's government quit the capital and set up headquarters in the Kabylie Mountains, 65 miles cast of Algiers, amid loyal Berber guerrillas of Wilaya (xone) No. 3. They called on the population and on the guerrillas who fought for ndependence lo resist- to Ben Bella "in every town, illage and hamlet." Regular army troops and fiuer- 'illas loyal to Ben Bella appeared to control three-fourths of (he country, with Kabylie and Algiers the only centers of organized resistance to the dissident deputy premier.

Ben Bella claimed his forces had won power over the country Shots rang oul and blood flowed Wednesday in the east Algerian capital of Couslanline when troop; loyal to Ben Khedda tried to resist the takeover of the cily bj the opposing faction. By nightfall Wednesday, Con- stanlint and Ihe Medilcrranear seaport of Bone were in (he hands ol Ben Bella troops who moved in from the Tunisian frontier re fiion. There was no resistance ir Bone, but authorities in Algiers reported there were many dcac and wounded in Constanline. Ben Bella, a lough, uncompro misim; revolutionary who uses the vocabulary, appeared on tile verge of taking the power which lie dreamed during five years of Trench captivity. Bui from Hie Kabylie Mountain town of Tixi Ouzou, two olhei vice premiers flung a challenge a Ben Bella.

Bclkaceni Krim and llohammet (CONTINUED ON) PAGE THRRE Pilot Killed WYNNE, Ark. (AP) A crop- dusting plane nosed into a i and crashed near here Wednesday, killing Paul Urfer, 35. Authorities said the plane crashed in 'H soybean field near a landing strip two miles south of Wynne They said Urfer was making a lurn for his landing approach when the plane nosed intc a dive. Urfer was killed instantly. The plane did not Union Enjoined PARAGOUIA Ark.

An injunction was issued Wednesday a i i Ihe International Union of Electrical Workers, its Para- gonld local and 3D specifically mentioned members from violence in connection i Ihe Kmci.son Electric Co. strike. ARKANSAS WEATHER ARKANSAS: Clear norlh, partly cloudy to cloudy south with scat tercel thundershowers extreme south portions ending by evening Clear to a lonighl and Friday with widely scattered Ihun dershowcrs likely southwest por lions Friday afternoon or evening Migh this aflernoon 80-87 norlh W-94 south. Low tonight 50s extreme north, to Ms elsewhere High Friday in the 80s. Peruvian Junta Hints It's Glad S.

Envoy Is Leaving Country LIMA, Peru Ambassador James Ixwb look off for Washington today to report on the military of power, and the junta made it clear il was lo see him leave Peru. A statement labeled semi-official but emanating from the foreign i i said Loch's departure would tend lo ease "existing tension between Ihe Iwo countries." II accused him of helping to create "a climate of misunderstanding i Washington." i cut off aid to Pern after the military's coup last week. Asked about Ihe charges. Loch (old new.smen at the airport, "I have heard about the and Ihe foreign ministry will deny il." He said he hoped lo return to Lima afler he reports personally to President Kennedy. Police Wednesday night broke up a demonstration of 500 slu- denls protesting the overthrow of President Manuel Prado aixl shouting 'clown with dictatorship." The rally wa addressed by speakers identified as members of the leftist, bul anli-Commtinisl American Popular Revolulionary Alliance.

In Caracas, the Venezuelan for eign ministry said eight nations out of a required have now asked for a hemisphere meeting of foreign ministers lo prolesl the coup in Peru. The ministry sale Ecuador and Salvador have joineii Venezuela, Colombia, Cosla Rica Honduras, Panama and the Do minican Republic in demands for the meeting. It added a Guatemala was seriously studying the proposal, In Rio dc Janeiro, however, a spokesman for the Brazilian foreign ministry said Brazil oppose? the hemispheric meeting because it would smack of intervention in Peruvian affairs. The semi-official slatemcnt on Loeb said, in part: "It is believed a (he U.S. diplomat has.

without regard to his specific mission, made incursions in (he field of internal politics, clear prcdilcclior for one of the presidenlial candidates." FEMALEMAN Delivery might ba called "extra special" near Altoona, when Beth Staley is on the job as substitute for her dad, George Sta- Icy, the regular rural route mailman. Beth, 19, is a student at Kansas Stale College and says shorts are her regular uniform. COP Leader Admits His Affairs No! In Order CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)--WU liam E. Cobb, Norlh Carolina' dashing, 40-year-old Republican 0 stale chairman.

wa.s exposed Wednesday night as a man who has been leading a double life. The Charlotte Observer and the Hoanoke (Va.) Times revealed in copyrighted stories that Cobb, Morganlon lumber dealer, maintains a home in Roanoke for a and two chil- in Morganton his legal wife and an adopted cullies and that he (Baker) ran ic commission now. Alford said a cartoon will ap- -ar soon, criticizing him for be- ig away from his office in Washington. Kaubus, he said, "has been out his office more ti)an any gov- mor in the history of the state." The governor was feted at a appreciation dinner I Camden, (hen spoke to a crowd sthnatcd by authorities at about ,500. The appreciation dinner was ponsored by supporters of Fau- us in Camden and Ouachita ounly.

Officials said about 175 xvsons attended. At Magnolia, Faubus weathered ain and sound equipment failure gel his points over to his audi- nce. Just before he was schedul- to lalk, rains poured and the' ally was moved inside. Shortly fler lie started talking, the sound i failed. Faubus denied charges of pad- ing the stale payrolls to build a lolilical machine, of abusing his ulhority and of placing the state eopardy.

In Camden, his talk was delay- 30 minutes in deference lo Yednesday nighl prayer meetings leld in the community's churches. Faubus agair reviewed the progress of his administration and cited the location of new industry the state. He charged that Mi-Math had ricd to bring undesirable charac- ers into Hot Springs and said iVhilten was not a successful busi- lessman as he had been pictured. Of Alford, he said, "I know an eye-loetor who is going to have a trailer for sale pretty cheap next week." Mellath said in a television talk tial Faubus has written welfare ON) PAGE THREE) Miss Holcombe, Former U. A.

Teacher, Dies Miss Jobelle Holcombe, daughter of a pioneer family of Springdale and for many years a member of the University faculty, died this morning in a Fayetteville hospital. She was bom in Springdaie, Feb. 5, 1877, the daughter of Joseph Holcombe and Belle Smith Holcombe. After graduating from the University she received a master's degree from Cornell University. She taught at Ihe University of Arkansas for many years, serving at one time as dean of women.

She was one of five who founded the Chi Omega sorority. Holcombe Hall, a women's dormitory, is named in her honor. She served as librarian at the Fayetle- ville Library, and took part in a number of civic enterprises. She was a member of the Unitarian Fellowship. Miss Holcombe received a hon- from UK common-law wife dren while living son.

Cobb statement to University in 1SM7. Survivors are a number of nieces and nephews including Dr. Ruth Lesh and Miss Elizabeth Ellis of Fayelteville. George Holcomb of Fayetleville, Kenneth Holcomb of Memphis, Charles Holcomb of Longview, Texas, Joe Holcomb of Springfield, Joe Holcomb of Fayelteville. Richard Hoicomb of New York City, Crawford Holcomb of Jackson, and Duprce Deaver of Springdaie.

a plans will be nounccd. Observer Editor C. A. (Pete) McKnight in which be admitted the double life and said he would resign his party post immediately and withdraw as a GOP candidate for the state senate. Cobb, a dapper, dark -haired Yale graduate and Marine veteran of World War II, was elected chairman of the state GOP four years ago and promptly pul the party into a position of real challenge in an otherwise- predominately Democratic state.

Under his hard-driving leadership the Republicans polled the highest vote for stale candidates in its history in the 1960 elections. Investigation by the two newspapers showed Cobb maintained a home in Roanoke under the name of Edward Cobb. There, he kept .1 girl idenlified only as Linda and two sons by her. The two newspapers began Iheir investigation a Cobb's picture apicared three other young Southern Republican leaders. Neighbors of W.

Edward Cobb in lioitnokp noticed the resemblance of William K. Cobb lo 'heir i who (raveled frequently, croups of Ihe 8lli Infantry Division Tlicy reported Ihe coincidence i i Germany, and a third the Roanoke Times. (group nol yet selected. in a national weekly (Time), along wilh Army To Rofale Overseas Troops WASHINGTON (AP)-The Army has announced it is sending three battle groups to Europe for six- month lours beginning Oct. 1 in an expanded trial of its new troojl rotation plan.

The program is designed to trairt unils for rapid deployment any; where in the world in emergencies. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara also has sakl ij could cut by $1,000 to $3,000 pet soldier (he annual outflow of U. gold. announcing the expanded test Wednesday, (he Army sjaid groups sent overseas under the rotation program will not be permitted lj take their dependents.

Two o( the three groups to be stationed in Europe for six months will bo batlte groups from the 2nd Infantry Division nt Ft. Bennlng, Ga. The othwj group lias not yet been lesignatelj They will replace Iwo.