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WEATHER WIREGRASS AREA Today: cool. Tonight: Fair, cold. More weather on Page Two. 58 Eagle, Copyright 1965 Dothan. DONE Alabama DOTHAN, Urban Renewal Voting Law Doesn't Exist Contrary to evidence of the urban renewal to give approval renewal program.

That no such Eagle's attorney, son, was preparing opinion for The the validity of lieved to be a statute, how it and when it would erative, etc. Mrs. Agnes Baggett, of State, to ask been advertised notice in advance duction in the Mrs. Baggett "The Legislative Service advises me in question was the Second Special 1965 and did not houses of the "This act was population figure a general law of tion. No publication is customary and made on House Bill The office of Wallace also advised that it had no legislation.

Rep. Bob duced an act identified Bill 66 at the second session of the tember 9. It applied of not less than more than 54,000. County falls within tion range. 'The proposal, "Powers with Renewal," stipulated counties having not less than 50,000 than 54,000, according most recent federal census, no municipality ing authority such county shall undertake any urban redevelopment the undertaking first authorized by duly qualified city or town at an election held pose, in the manner by the governing city or town." Effect of the would have been to ipal officials in of their authority to an urban renewal but leave them to say It fected not only Dothan City following other Mayors and ford, Cottonwood, Gordon, Madrid, Kinsey and Cowarts.

THE On County Board To Fight Move By City By TEX MIDDLEBROOKS Two members of the Houston County Board of Revenue and Control said yesterday they will fight the City of Dothan's litigation to force reapportionment of the board. One member, W. E. Yance of Columbia, District 4, said that he will not do anything about the city's plan to get more representation on the board. "I don't think it is our (Board of Revenue) place to fight Dothan in this matter," Yance said.

"It would be termed a personal thing if we did." Another member, J. B. Davis of Dothan, District 5, said he wants to see what the city is going to do before he makes any statement. Harvey Hicks of Ashford, District 3, could not be reached for comment. W.

G. Bond of Brannon Stand, representing District 1, and Joe W. Calhoun of Cottonwood, District 2, both said they "have to fight" Dothan's attempt to change the make-up of the county's governing body. Calhoun said that after a careful study of the audit of the county's general fund, he is confident that Dothan is getting its fair share of the county's tax money. In saying that he will fight Dothan on the reapportionment plan, Bond, said Dothanites seem to have "forgotten who made Dothan." He indicated that it has been the farmers and people living outside of town that has caused Dothan to grow.

Probate Judge Carl Sellers, chairman of the Board of Revenue, said that any plan which will assure equal representation for every citizen on the board would be all right with him. Sellers noted chat Dothan (Turn To Page 6, Col. 4) 15,000 Protest Viet Nam War WASHINGTON (UPI) -More than 15,000 demonstrators, some of them beatniks, many of them well-dressed adults, picketed the White House and marched in the nation's capital Saturday to protest the U.S. role in the Viet Nam war. "No more war no more war," they chanted as they swarmed from the White House to rally in the shadow of the sunwashed Washington Monument.

Present in the crowd were the bearded youths wearing dungarees and accompanied by lank-haired girls. But the large majority of the demonstrators were neatly attired adults who kept the demonstration an orderly one. There was only one threatening moment of serious violence. Police and demonstrators quickly broke up a scuffle between a handful of counterdemonstrators and a group of marchers carrying flags of the Communist Viet Cong. There were a few individual arrests as blows were struck on other occasions but on the whole both sides confined themselves to taunting each other.

APPROVE PROTEST Quick approval of the massive protest came from Communist North Viet Nam and Red China. Radio Hanoi announced it was releasing two U.S. Army prisoners in honor of the demonstration. And in Peking, the Communist Party newspaper Peoples Daily said protests would sweep America and "reduce the U. S.

imperialist system to ashes." The main aim of demonstrators was a demand that U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam be halted. A delegation of marchers headed by 81-year-old Socialist (Turn To Page 6, Col. 6) 23 SHOPPING CHRISTMAS DAYS DOTHAN EAGLE "Let There Be Light" -Genesis 1:3. ALABAMA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1965 Charter Plane Fatal For 13 HILLSIDE AIR CRASH The tail west of Salt Lake City yesterday.

section is all that remains of a Thirteen persons, en route to a footDC3 charter plane that crashed and ball game in Albuquerque, N. burned in the foothills of the died. (AP Wirephoto) Oquirrh Mountains 20 miles south- Bama Displays Aerial Might To Sink Auburn By DOUG BRADFORD Eagle Sports Editor BIRMINGHAM Nebraska scouts who watched the University of Alabama humble Auburn 30-3 for the Southeastern Conference championship at Legion Field here yesterday will no doubt carry this report home: Don't pass the football against the Crimson Tide. And they might also add: But you can expect Alabama to throw it. All of which means that the Tide was passing and completing and playing a lot of aerial defense in knocking the War Eagles off the top SEC perchand doing so in record-breaking fashion.

Crimson quarterback Steve Sloan rewrote the record books in his final regular-season game. He, of course, will lead Bear Bryant's men against Nebraska on the night of Jan. 1. Sloan set two new Alabama records and tied another in riddling the young Tiger pass defense. He finished with 13 completions in 18 attempts for 226 yards, three touchdowns and a two-point conversion.

The 226 yards gave him a 1965 figure of 1,499. The old total yardage in a season record was held by Harry in 1945. Another Sloan record is the best passing percentage for a per cent on 97 of 160. Clell Hobson had the old mark of 58.8 set in '51. Elated Tide Prays, Celebrates Victory BIRMINGHAM bama and Auburn glory is over for The prize is hands by stronger the game which By ED DRIGGERS Eagle Managing Editor The "holy war" that sends Alaagainst each other on the gridiron of another 12 months.

Alabama's to keep 'til wrested from her warriors than those who engaged in 70,000 witnesses beheld here at Legion Field. The score was 30 to 3. And the Alabama Orange Bowl special rolled onward ward Miami. There could be burn who went home to plan for its encounter at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis. There was both prayer and pandemonium in the Alabama dressing room where Coach Paul Bryant spoke briefly to his jubilant team.

The prayer came first. and the place went wild. "I don't have the vocabulary to tell you how proud I am of victory here yesterday for Au- you," he said. SEC crown well. it." SLOAN'S DAY "Wear the You deserve It had been Steve Sloan Day in so many ways and he wore a grin as broad as Birmingham.

Somebody wanted to know how he thought they did it. "Our coaches did a real good job of scouting," he said. "Our linemen really worked (Turn To Page 2, Col. 1) Colonial Brown 'n Serve Rolls Are Quick To and Oh, So Good. Bakers of Good Colonial Bread 68 PAGES 4 SECTIONS PRICE Crash Aboard general belief, and offering further confusion and misconceptions about here, there is no law that requires voters before Dothan can institute an urban G.

M. Harria legal Eagle regarding what was beduly enacted could be invoked become opHarrison wrote Secretary if the law had as a public of its introlegislature. replied: Reference that the act introduced in Session of pass both legislature. governed by a which made it local applicaof such bills none was 66." Governor George The Eagle record of such Stembridge introas House special legislature on Septo counties 50,000 and not Only Houston this popula- directed at Respect to Urban that "in populations of nor more to the decennial or houssituated in any have power to renewal or project unless shall have been a vote of the electors of the thereby affected, for such purprescribed body of the law exists came to light while The LAWRENCE OAKLEY Death Claims L. T.

Oakley, Dothan Lawyer Lawrence Thomas Oakley, 56, a Dothan attorney at law since 1931, died at his home, 409 N. Park about 8 a.m. Saturday following a heart attack. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity with the rector, the Rev.

William C. Acosta, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Hill Cemetery with Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home directing. The body will remain at the funeral home until 2:30 this afternoon when it will be taken to the church. The family has requested that flowers be omit- ted.

JOINED NAVY Mr. Oakley was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. F.

Oakley of Columbia. He attended Georgia Military Academy at College Park, and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He began his law practice here shortly after graduation. His work was interrupted in 1944 when he resigned as judge of the Court of Common Pleas to enter the Navy. Mr.

Oakley served on the U.S.S. Wisconsin in Pacific combat as a lieutenant. He was aboard when the Wisconsin accompanied its sister ship, the (Turn To Page 6, Col. 2) Christmas Parade Is Ready To Roll Dothan merchants are visitors here tomorrow for ing six bands, five floats, Santa Claus. Specials will be offered ing the 4:30 p.m.

parade. orations will be at 4 p.m. The stores will be open until 8:30 p.m. or 9 p.m. Monday.

Parade Chairman Edwin Whitehead said the Retail Merchants Association plans to make the parade an annual kickoff for Christmas business so that shoppers can see what the downtown really offers. Jake Behr, president of the Retail Merchants Association, described Friday sales as "fabulous." Dothan stores were offering after Thanksgiving specials and business was so good that "we couldn't wait on according to Behr. Santa riding a city fire truck will lead off the holiday parade. He will throw out at least 50 pounds of hard candy to children along the parade route. The line-up will include the Dothan High School band, the Dothan High football team, a Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

float, Miss Dothan Mabel Emily Crawford, Miss Ashford -Brenda Marie Mills, Miss Ozark -Kandy Blohm. Enterprise band, Bob's Feeds float, National Peanut Festival queen Carolyn Tice of Enterprise, Little Miss Peanut-Sherree Donley of Colquitt, Miss Second Tragedy Hits Salt Lake In 16 Days SALT LAKE CITY, Utah football charter plane groping storm struck one hill and west of Salt Lake City on sons aboard. Wreckage of the Edde yards across a canyon between the two hills. Bodies were scattered, most of them burned beyond immediate identification. Only the tail section and a sheared-off wing were discernible in the charred ruins.

An identification team from the FBI planned a body-by-body check. The Civil Aeronautics Board sent a team of examiners. The nine passengers and four crew members were en route from Salt Lake City to Provo, 35 miles south, to pick up more passengers for a flight to Albuquerque, N.M., and the Brigham Young-New Mexico football game Saturday. The charter was arranged by the Cougar Club of Provo, a Brigham Young booster group. No football players were aboard.

FOUR PHYSICIANS The passengers included four physicians, a dentist, an attorney, two businessmen and the 17-year-old daughter of the pilot, Garth Edde, co-owner of the airline. The crew numbered Edde, a copilot, stewardess and an extra pilot. All 13 were from the Salt Lake City area. The DC3 made an instrument takeoff from the Salt Lake City airport just after daybreak. "There never was an indication of trouble," an Edde spokesman said.

"We didn't hear anything more after it was airborne." The craft was flying at low altitude following the Oquirrh Mountains chain which marks the west side of the Salt Lake Valley. The wing snapped off at the fuselage when the plane grazed the top of the first hill. The wing bounced into a canyon near the rifle range of Camp W.G. Williams, a training base for the Utah National Guard. NOSE-FIRST The plane careened off the first hill and plowed nose-first into the second, midway up the slope.

Fire apparently broke out after the first impact. C. W. Brady, Utah public safety commissioner, said an unidentified man told him he saw the plane flying south at a low altitude. Brady quoted the man as "wondering why the plane was so low." Apparently there were no witnesses to the actual crash in the unpopulated Camp Williams reservation.

The crash was the second in the Salt Lake City valley in 16 days. Forty-three persons were injured fatally on Veterans Day when a United Air Lines Boeing 727 jetliner crashed and burned at Salt Lake City Airport. VICTIMS LISTED Passenger victims of Saturday's crash included Dr. Antoine Dalton, Dr. J.

Bernard (AP) A two-engine its way through a snowcrashed into another southSaturday, killing all 13 per- N48 Airlines DC3 splintered 500 Critchfield, Dr. Marion E. Probert, a former Brigham Young football player, and Dr. Roger W. Parkinson, all physicians; Dr.

Gordon K. Lewis, a dentist; T. R. Gledhill and Jim Peterson, businessmen; Richard R. Wilkins, attorney; and Diane Edde, 17, daughter of the pilot.

The crew members were identified as pilot Garth Edde, copilot Kenneth Myers, stewardess Norma Jenkins and extra pilot Calvin B. Higgs. Edde Airlines, founded in 1960 by Garth, Bill and Joe Edde, is a contract carrier which often transports athletic teams in the Utah area. It did not fly the Brigham Young football team to Albuquerque for Saturday': game. Gasoline Bomb Tossed At Bus In Rhodesia intended 1 a strip municHouston County to say "yes" program with the power would have afDothan and the Commission but the towns and their Councilmen: AshColumbia, Avon, We And the tied record: Most passes attempted in a season, 160, to share the top perch with Gilmer who threw that many 1946.

The Tide defenders gave Authe outcome of this one by putBrundidge a hard time with seven interceptions, a new school record. The previous high was six against Howard College in 1938. Tommy Tolleson also got on the record-breaking during the warm afternoon before sellout, capacity crowd of 70,000. Tolleson caught five passes to give him 63 for his career. The old mark: 60 by Al Larry (1948- 50).

The Tide left little doubt about burn tosser Alex Bowden of ting the scoreboard to work on their second series. Tackle John Sullivan recovered an Auburn fumble of a reverse at the War Eagle 42 and 'Bama carried it in seven plays later. Sloan hit flanker Tolleson with a 13-yarder in the drive and once on the 11 found favorite target Tolleson in the end zone. MISSED KICK David Ray missed his extra point kick, however, and Auburn still had hopes. Another Auburn mistake early in the second period put the Tide in scoring business again.

(Continued On Page 31) SALISBURY, Rhodesia (UPI) -African terrorists Saturday night hurled bottles of flaming gasoline at a bus in a Salisbury suburb. Arsonsists also set fire to a tobacco warehouse. The only reported victim of the attacks was an African child on the half-filled bus, who was badly burned on one arm. Thirty other passengers escaped injury. The firebombs were thrown at the bus in the suburb of Highfield.

Volunteer firemen quickly put out the warehouse blaze in suburban Msama siding after a number of bales of hay caught fire. Elsewhere, in the suburbs, three buses were showered with stones by African youths In another protest against the rebel white-ruled government ef Premier Ian Smith. The evening attacks followed the explosion of a fiery "Molotov Cocktail" in an exclusive department store (Turn To Page 6, Col. 5) expecting several thousand a Christmas parade featura dozen area beauties and by the various stores followThe city's holiday street dec- Graceville Marie Joiner, Newville Band, Miss Newville- Brenda Jeanine McCoy. Dothan Civic Ballet float, Girl Scout marching unit, Rehobeth band, Miss Rehobeth -Betty Whitman, Boy Scout marching unit, Cottonwood band Miss Cottonwood Nedra Johnson, City of Madrid float, Boys Club, Miss Headland Wanda Armstrong, Miss Bronze Peanut Carolyn Burks of Carver High, Carver High Band.

Among the Dothan High girls riding floats will be Ginny Haughton, Dothan first contest: alternate in Jeannie the Miss McEachin, Candy Coe, and Carol Hathcock. Also to appear in the parade will be Ann Avery Crawford and Marie Solomon. David Bowen is in charge of a floats, Sid Carling in charge of the bands and John Henderson is parade marshal. The parade will line up at Crawford and S. Foster Sts.

The route is north on Foster to Adams east on Adams to St. Andrews south on St. Andrews to Main; and west on Main to the First A Baptist Church. Football Scores SOUTH Alabama 30, Auburn 3 Georgia 17, Georgia Tech 7 Tennessee 21, Vandy 3 Florida 30, FSU 17 Ole Miss 21, 'State 0 Miami 0, Notre Dame 0 (tie) WEST Baylor 17, Rice 13 Brig. Young 42, N.

Mexico 8 N. Dakota 37, N. Illinois 20 Southern Cal 56, Wyoming EAST Army 7, Navy 7 (tie) Boston College 35, Holy Cross 0 to37 Amendments Face Voters no One of the largest constitutional amendments ballots in the history of Alabama will face voters in the state Tuesday. Thirty-seven proposed changes in the state constitution will be involved in the referendum including one which will give taxpayers an opportunity to approve a tax-break for themselves. The tax amendment, the fourth on the list, would allow Alabamians to deduct the amount of their federal income tax from their gross income before figuring state income tax.

Secretary of State Agnes Baggett said the ballot will be one of the longest ever put before voters and the largest since 45 amendments were placed on the ballot in 1961. Of the long list only seven apply to the state as a whole. The other 30 would affect only specified counties or municipalities. Under the state law, a local amendment must be offered to the people in a statewide referendum. The proposed amendments are as follows: Number One Authorizes a new $3,000,000 bond issue for the state docks in Mobile and upward to $10,000,000 for improving and expanding seaport facilities.

Number Two Reduces state voter literacy requirements to an eighth grade education or equivalent. MUSEUM FUNDS Number Three Authorizes a $1.9 million bond issue to finance a new space museum in Huntsville in connection with the U. S. Army and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Number Four Would allow Alabama taxpayers to deduct from their income the amount of federal income tax paid in computing net income for state income tax purposes.

Number Five Would "allow circuit solicitors to be renamed district attorneys. Number Six Would authorize the legislature to pass laws approving the formation of corporations for development or irrigation districts. GENEVA PROPOSAL Number Seven Would allow municipalities in Geneva County to acquire and dispose of all kinds of property and equipment to become a stockholder in new corporations, to lend its credit or grant funds or to issue bonds in promoting industrial growth. Number Eight Would authorize municipalities across the state to issue revenue bonds under the Wallace Industrial Act for expansion of existing industries. Number Nine Allows the legislature to fix and regulate costs and charges of courts and compensation of officers in Baldwin County.

Number Ten Allows Baldwin County to impose a new five mill district hospital tax on itself. Number 11 Allows the legislature to fix and regulate salaries of the tax assessor and tax collector in Bullock County. Number 12 Allows the city of Anniston to impose new five mill special school tax on approval of local voters. Number 13 Allows the legislature to fix and regular court costs in Dallas County. Number 14 Allows the city (Turn To Page 8, Col.

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