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The Daily Progress from Charlottesville, Virginia • 20

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THE DAILY PROGRESS, Charlottesville, Virginia Wednesday Afterwore, June 22, 1968 New Methods of Intelligence Against VC Pay Off (Continued From Page 1) movement of ground troops by helicopter. But the U.S. tactic now is to the enemy before he hits you." to seize the initiative so the enemy's monsoon offensive can't get rolling. "The question is, who is really conducting the monsoon offensive?" says one officer at U.S. military headquarters.

Intelligence has im- I proved to such a degree that we can anticipate where the enemy intends to strike. We can watch him seeemble and the nhit him before he gets going. In that way, we can keep him off balance all the time. At the same time, our planes are hammering his supply bases." Allied forces have at their command an array of new and old intelligence methods. These include line-crossing agents, Special Forces camps overlooking enemy forward positions and behind their lines, aerial photo reconnaissance, electronic night detection devices which spot movement in the dark, conventional radar as well as a new "side-looking" radar and heat detection devices which can detect a lighted match.

The heat detection device. says a U.S. officer, is a "real morale buster" for the Communist soldier. "They can't light fires to cook Whites Throw Firecrackers At King; Shots Exchanged (Continued From Page 1) armed and they started shooting back. More than an hour later.

he said, a second car with men came by. There was an FBI agent and one of the city's two Negro policemen there then, he said. More shots were fired and the fire was returned. A little later one Negro policeman detained two white men and white police officers picked them up and took them to headquarters for questioning. They were later released.

They were not identified by police. Latimer said police received a call at 10:05 p.m. from a white man identified as Gibson Eakes, who claimed his car had been peppered with shot as he drove through the Negro neighborhood. Eakes told the police chief wasn't wounded. At Yazoo City, Dr.

Martin Luther King said he would lead the Mississippi civil rights marchers back to Philadelphia armed with "the ammunition of justice the armor of righteousness." A King aide said they probably would return to Philadelphia tomorrow. A hostile crowd of cursing whites hurled firecrackers and insults at King yesterday when he stood on the Neshoba County Courthouse steps here and told a Negro group: "Today, we have seen men with hatred on their faces who want to turn this country backward." It was to commemorate the second anniversary of the slayrings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andy Goodman and Mickey Schwerner that King came to Philadelphia yesterday with a contingent from the group continuing the march through Mississippi begun by James H. Meredith. Meredith said in New York yesterday that he would return to the march tomorrow or Friday, or when the marchers arive at Canton, Miss. The march route returns to Highway 51 in Canton, Meredith said.

It was on Highway 51 that Meredith, 33. was shot and wounded from ambush near Hernando, June 6. "I think this is by far the worst situation I've ever been in." King said after yesterday's violence. "This is a complete climate of terror and breakdown of law and order." Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price one of the 17 men the federal government claims participated in the slayings of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner on June 21, 1964 tried to block King from mounting the courthouse steps. "I'm not afraid of any man," King shouted the heckling and disorder mounted.

"Before I will be a slave I will be dead in my grave." "We'll help you," screamed several white men. While the memorial march and services were being conducted at Philadelphia, the main column stepped off miles from Louise to Yazoo City where they got quiet reception and set up a campsite in City Zoning Board To Consider Appeal The City Board of Zoning Appeals will consider an appeal for a building permit at its regular meeting at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Council room at City Hall. The case to 1 be considered is an appeal by J. Ernest and Virginia M.

Goodwin for a permit to add a chimney to side of their residence at 1537 Rugby Ave. in violation of the side-yard requirements of R-1 residential districts. Anyone interested in the case may be heard at the meeting. Obituaries a Negro ballpark owned by the city. King and other Negro leaders argued over violence and nonviolence at a nighttime rally in Yazoo City.

"If we had black sheriffs. we would have had black deputies and if there had been black deputies, there wouldn't have been trouble at Philadelphia," said Willie Ricks, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee official. Ricks is an advocate of Negro militancy which he calls "black power." "Negroes in Mississippi will never have anything until they show black power," he exhorted. "When a white man attacks us, attack him back." Andrew Young, executive director of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, countered: "Anybody that goes preaching violence in a situation like this is a fool. The only way we can make the streets of Mississippi safe for women and children is to make Cecil Price obey the law.

"I don't want to have to go through life having to have my big boys around Then Ernest Thomas of the Militant Deacons for Defense and Justice said, "I don't believe in talking brotherly love when one man is whipping the other one. They are talking about a hot summer in Chicago, in New York, in Los Angeles. But there is going to be a hot summer in Mississippi, too. "There's going to be no more violence on the white folks' part, because if there is, there will be blood she din Floyd McKissick, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, said his organization planned to ask the federal government to send troops and federal marshals to Philadela phia. Lyles Mrs.

John O. Morris Rufus M. Pettie FREE UNION Mrs. Rebecca M. Morris, 83, widow of John Oscar Morris of Free Union, died this morning of a heart attack at her home.

She was born June 10, 1883, in Greene County, a daughter of the late Ranson and Lydia M. Morris. Surviving are two sons, Mathew Morris of Free Union and Elijah Morris of Charlottesville; four daughters, Mrs. George Morris and Mrs. Robert McCauley of Free Union, Mrs.

Maggie Bush of McGaheysville and Mrs. Sammy Frazier of Charlottesville; three brothers, Lewis Morris and Jim Morris of Stanardsville and Newton Morris of Dyke; a sister, Mrs. Sally Morris of Free Union; and 23 grandchildren. The funeral will be at 4 p.m. Friday at Free Union Church of the Brethren, with burial in the church cemetery.

Preddy Teague Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Joseph Washington HOWARDSVILLE The funeral for Joseph Washington, 17, a pulpwood worker of Howardsville who was killed Monday in a car-truck crash in Fauquier County, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Mt. Alto Baptist Church, with burial in the church cemetery. He was born July 20, 1948, in Howardsville, a son of James T.

and Ellen Henley Washington. In addition to his parents, he is survived by two brothers, James Washington and Leroy Washington of Howardsville, and five sisters, Mrs. Nannie Smith of Charlottesville, Mrs. Annie Powell and Mrs. Cornelia Austin of Washington, D.C., and Miss Frances Washington and Miss Elizabeth Washingtonn of Howardsville.

Thacker Brothers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangemeats. their food. and it's no joy to eat cold rice day after day," he explains. In the morale-buster class also are the massive B52 bomber raids. These awesome attacks have hit heavily at Viet Cong strongholds and supply bases.

Captured Communist soldiers said they feared these raids most. American intelligence reports indicate 10,000 to 12,000 North Vietnamese army regulars are poised in the Cambodian mountains just across the border from the central highlands around Pleiku. There are also individual North Vietnamese battalions in Laos opposite Kontum. Two of these battalions were spotted recently crossing into the central highlands. One such North Vietnamese unit, the 24th Regiment, was badly mauled a week ago by U.S.

paratroopers in heavy fighting on ridges 35 miles north of Kontum. U.S. officers expect these Red units to try to drive across the center of South Viet Nam. If they should try, the U.S. tactic will be to hit them first.

A Frenchman who was here at the time of the 1954 French UVa Med School Awarded Grant The University of Virginia School of Medicine and the medical and dental schools of the Medical College of Virginia will share in a nationwide distribution of basic improvement grants just approved by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. Word of the grants was received this morning from Sen. A. Willis Robertson, in Washington, D.C. The MCV medical school grant is the MCV school of dentistry grant is $61,587, and University of Virginia grant is $61,762.

defeat calls the American effort after one year a noticeable success. Riot (Continued From Page 1) riot squad had built the police force to 100. The serious trouble began when the officers were given the order to break up the crowds. "Go home before you get hurt." officers yelled from beneath the plastic face masks on their riot helmets. The Negroes banded together in small groups.

As police moved in with billy clubs and tear gas guns ready, the Negroes disappeared into the shadows of the dimly lit street. Then a shower of rocks and bottles sailed out of the darkness. Twenty-four Negroes were arrested before the streets were cleared about 1:30 a.m.. At least one Negro was bleeding. Sgt.

George MacFadden said three or four policemen were injured by glass, none seriously. There have been peaceful wade-ins and an occasional rock throwing in this area, but the riot was the first serious trouble. There are huge vegetable farms in the vicinity and Negro laborers make up a large percentage of the population. Special Meeting Set To Act on School Bids The City School Board will hold a special meeting tonight to open and consider bids for summer maintenance work in the school system. The meeting will be held 7:30 p.m.

in the auditorium at Venable Elementary School. Another special meeting is scheduled for June 30 at the same time and place to approve July and August contract salaries for school personnel where applicable. Today's Markets C. F. CASSELL CO.

INC. 114 3rd St. NE DOW JONES 11 A.M. AVERAGES 30 Indus 698.21 up 3.23 20 Rails 231.41 off 0.65 15 Utils 132.54 off 0.42 65 Stocks 313.67 up 0.19 Alcoa Allied Chemical 40 Aluminum Ltd. Am.

Airlines Am. Can Am. Cynamid Am. Am. Tel Tel Am.

Tobacco Bethlehem Steel Boeing 79 Brunswick C. 0. Rwy 72 Caterpillar Tractor Chrysler Coco-Cola Columbia Gas 26 Consolidated Edison Corn Products Deere Douglas Dupont Eastman Kodak Ford Gen. Dynamics Gen. Electric Gen.

Foods 69 Gen. Motors Gen. Tel Tel Goodyear Gulf Oil IBM Int. Paper Int. Tel Tel Merck Minn.

Honeywell Montgomery Ward Rwy Pepsi Cola 64. Phillip Morris Phillips Pete Polaroid Radio Corp. 52 Reynolds 60 Reynolds Tobacco Safeway Stores Scott Paper Sears Southern Rwy Sperry Rand 27. Stand. Oil NJ Tenn.

Gas Texaco Texas Inst. Union Carbide United Aircraft U.S. Rubber U.S. Steel Western Union Westinghouse Electric 58 Winn Dixie 32 Zenith Bid Asked Mass. Inv.

Tr. 16.51 13.04 Tel-Elect. Fd. 10.55 11.50 Wellington Fd. 13.88 15.13 -the-Counter Quotations of both national and local issues are as of yesterday On national issues, prices do not include retail markup, markdown or commission.

Bide on local issues do not include retail markdown or commission. Asked prices on local issues have been adjusted upward to include approximate markup. NATIONAL ISSUES STOCKS Bid Asked Acme Vis. Inc. Colonial Stores 28 Cmwlth.

Nat. Gas 31 Fdlty Bnkrs Life 12 First Mchts N-B First Va. Corp. 7 Smith's Tsfr. Corp.

15 United Va. Bkshrs. 47 Va. Chems. Inc.

19 Va. Cmwlth Corp. Va. Natl. Bank 32 LOCAL ISSUES STOCKS Bid Asked C.

Forge-W'boro Tel. 56 Craddock Ter. Com. Gen. Stone Mtls.

Harrisonburg Tel. 33 Luck's Inc. Miller Rhoads 44 Thalhimer Bros. Tidewater Tel. Virginia Capital Virginia 30 Wyllie Thornhill, Inc.

INVESTMENTS Listed and Unlisted Stocks, Corporate Bonds, Mutual Funds, U.S. Government, State, County and Municipal Bonds. Associated With Hayden, Stone Inc. New York City Charlottesville, Virginia 204 East Market St. 296-7118 Across From Downtown Post Office AP Wirephote French Leader Amid the Muscovites Charles de Gaulle (right), the French rives for last night's ballet performpresident, gets a friendly welcome ance.

Earlier in the day he particifrom the crowd gathered outside the pated in talks with Soviet leaders at Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as he ar- the Kremlin. De Gaulle (Continued From Page 1) Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko's proposal in April for a conference of states of eastern and western Europe on security questions. He would exclude the United States. The conference has been opposed in the West, notably in West Germany, because of the exclusion.

The French have said they favor such a conference but have left the question of U.S. participation vague, saying the United States should play its proper role. There is also a problem of what kind of voice Communist East Germany should have in such a conference. The Soviets are expected to insist on a full vote for East Germany. The French have said East Germany should be included, but not with a full vote.

It was in this context that the French viewed such a conference as a later step in efforts to ease tensions in Europe. In a Kremlin speech Monday night De Gaulle stressed that bilateral talks should come first. Turkey Report HARRISONBURG Prices unchanged and offerings continue short on young hens and toms. Estimated slaughter by Virginia processors today, 200, including 7,800 from out of state. At-farm prices negotiated in 24 hours ending at 11 a.m.

today, deliveries generally to be made within one week, 22,400 fryer-roastes at 22 cents. Station to Boost Its Power Output Charlottesville Radio Station WINA expects more than double its prospective listeners within the next six months with an improved power output and new facilities. The Federal Communications Commission has granted to WINA an increase in power from 1000 watts day and 250 watts night to 5000 watts both day and night. The new, stronger interference-free signal is expected to reach over 200,000 people during the day as compared to its current rating of 75,000 people. At night, WINA, is expected to go from people to 50,000.

Donald G. Heyne, general manager of WINA, said that the power application was filed in 1962 because of the rapid growth of the Charlottesville trading area, and the need of advertisers to reach this larger market. The signal is expected to also reach the cities of Waynesboro, Harrisonburg and Staunton. Construction of the station will require four 250-foot towers at cost estimated in excess of $200,000. The new towers will be located near Ivy Creek on Rt.

647, back of Albemarle High School. The job should be completed within six months. Heyne said the reason for the four year delay was a conflicting application filed in Springfield, necessitating a hearing before the FCC. The final decision favored WINA. WINA also has a permit to build a television station on UHF Channel 29.

Heyne said that construction has been delaped because of an inability to complete satisfactory affiliation with one of the major networks. "We haven't yet convinced them (the networks) that their signals are only fair, at best, in this area," Heyne said. The building proposed for the radio operation will be large enough to house the TV studios and operation center. The TV transmitter is expected to be located on Patterson Mountain. Virginia Live Poultry Market HARRISONBURG Broiler and fryer prices unchanged and supply adequate for a good demand.

Ready-to-cook movement, including frozen products, good. Estimated slaughter by Virginia processors today, 162,900 head of broilers and fryers and 68,100 head of Rock Cornish, totaling 231,000. This compares with a total of 210,800 last Wednesday. Prices paid at farm for broilers and fryers, all weights, picked up in the last 24 hours, ending at 11 a.m. today, to cents 168,900 head 74 per cent at 12 per cent at and 14 per cent undetermined.

FOWL Market quiet and no sales reported. Joseph M. Lyles Joseph McKinley Lyles, 60, died last night at his home at Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County. He was born in Fluvanna County, Aug. 26, 1905, son of the late Robert Lyles and Willie Booker Lyles.

He was a retired railroad employe. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alice Lee Barnett Lyles; six sons, Arnold Lyles of Charlottesville, Thurman Lyles of Philadelphia, Everett Lyles and Joseph Lyles of Washington. D.C., Vernal Lyles stationed with the Air Force in Thailand, and Roderick Lyles of Bremo Bluff. Also, six daughters, Mrs.

Helen L. Brockett, Mrs. Victoria McGruder, Miss Letitia Lyles and Miss Joyce Lyles of Washington, D.C., Miss Gwendolyn Lyles of Bremo Bluff and Mrs. Mertie Johnson of Racine, four brothers, Theodore Lyles and Edward of Bremo Bluff and Winsel Lyles and Elmer Lyles of New York City; two sisters, Mrs. Inez Kerr of Dillwyn and Mrs.

Christine McClain of Washington, D.C.; and 23 grandchildren. The funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at West Bottom Baptist Church at Bremo Bluff. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery at Bremo Bluff. The J.

F. Bell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Georgia McCandlisk Mrs. Georgia P.

McCandlish, 93, died yesterday at her home in Bumpass in Louisa County. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Bagby Gooch of Bumpass; George T. Bagby of Bumpass; four grandchildren and six great grandchildren. A graveside service will be held at 3 p.m.

today at Bethany Christian Church. The Lacy Funeral Home of Orchid is in charge of arrangements. CULPEPER Rufus Melvin Pettie, 76, of Culpeper, died Monday at a Charlottesville hospital. He was born May 20, 1890, in Culpeper County, the son of the late Walker Pettie and Emma Hitt Pettie. He was a retired carpenter.

Surviving are his wife, Daisy Burke Pettie; five sons, Vernon Pettie of Criglersville, Cornelius Pettie of Fairfax, Walter Pettie and Homer Pettie of Culpeper, and Melvin Pettie of Stephens City; three daughters, Mrs. Aubrey Grimm of Elkton, Mrs. Carlton Conner of Stephen City and Mrs. Ralph Snapp of Winchester; a brother, David Pettie of Arlington; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Hoffman of Brightwood; 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

A graveside service was held at 11 this morning at Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper. Andrew Daugherty CULPEPER Andrew Lee Daugherty, 47, died Monday. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lillie Dodson Daugherty; a stepdaughter, Miss Jo Ann Dodson of Lehew, W.Va.; a stepson, Thomas D. Dodson of Billerica, two sisters, Mrs.

Clarence Pierce of Culpeper and Mrs. James Leeth of Waynesboro; and a brother, John Daugherty of Ft. Bragg, N.C. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Culpeper National Cemetery.

Arthur B. Bulla Arthur B. Bulla of High Point, N.C., died there yesterday morning. Among the survivors is daughter, Mrs. Cameron Pettitt of Charlottesville.

The funeral will be temorrow in High Peint. STANDARD POOR'S SEES PROSPEROUS LAST HALF OF 1966! Mid- Year Forecast Features 9 New Stock Lists Standard Poor's believes the American economy will hit an alltime high during 1966 including: Personal Income going up to $573 billion for the year--a new high Government purchases going up to $152 billion--a new high Consumer spending going up to $467 billion--a new high Disposable Income going up to $502 billion--a new high Employment averaging above 74 million in 1966-a new high Gross National Product going up to $737 billion--a new high Dividends going up to $21 billion--a new high Corporate Profits going up to $49 billion- a new high Specifically Standard Poor's will recommend these securities in its Mid-Year Forecast: 5 Overlooked Special Situations with "kickers" 10 Stocks We Believe Capable of Outrunning the Coming New Spiral of Inflation 7 Stocks for Growing Income 8 Blue Chips to Buy and Stay With for the Long Term 8 Low-Priced Stocks 5 Favored Rapid Growth Stocks 11 Candidates for Stock Splits 12 Candidates for Increased Dividends 8 Convertible Bonds and Preferred Stocks ANDERSON Gentlemen: Please send me the Standard Poor's MidSTRUDWICK Year Forecast for 1966, which features 9 new stock lists. Member New York Stock Exchange Name Address Phone 293-8181 City State Charlottesville Richmond Zip Code Fredericksburg Virginia Beach Private Wire System to Correspondent, Branch Offices and their Connection in over 100 cities throughout the United States and Canada.

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