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wfflLlv mm Fair Generally fair tonight becoming partly cloudy Wednesday. Low tonight In lower Bos, hih Wednesday in 70s. More wemh-er data on Page 14.) Rnal Edition 10c Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. Tuesday, August 9, 1966. 20 Paget.

1 2 1 Year, 221 tt Day. War Not Worsening Despite Recent Plane Losses--LBJ the administration ed." there It kept at Its present size, -Said position as funds for the teacher corps, a higher appropriation for 1.1 I I anti-airline strike He said he would not describe on and five years If expanded to legislation pending Cg 750.000 troops. Johnson told a news confer Denies 8-Year Timetable was unchanged; that the the losses as unexpected but re-emphasized that they were "under our estimates on both helicopters and planes." ence that defense secretary Robert S. McNamara had checked and been unable to Johnson said that "we find any such report and "did WASHINGTON (LTD -Pres ident Johnson said Tuesday that administration had not recommended such legislation, but did recognize the fact that Congress from time to time considered legislation on its own initiative. On Civil Rights Declined to discuss pending civil rights legislation.

But be said the racial tension this summer in a number of not agree with it." Loims Under Estimates The president, asked by time, he said, the government was opening as many federal recreational facilities as possi. ble to families in crowded city areas. -Reiterated his interest In a summit meeting of hemispheric presidents, but left the impression that plans for such a conference were far from definite, he also left open a possibility that he might travel in the relatively near future to the Pacific, to such areas as despite aircraft losses In recent days he does not see any change for the worse at all In reporter to assess the military situation in Viet Nam In view sometimes have heavier losses than we expect" because of any number of factors such as weather, good luck on the enemy's part or "bad luck on our part. Would Wtlcome Peace He said he would welcome "anything that stands a chance of providing a reasonable the U.S. military position in of U.S.

aircraft losses and other Viet Nam The Chief Executive also' recent developments, replied: rfonioW th itinr of nurnort- "I don see any change for American cities could be helped appreciably by congressional passage of such pending it ems I Australia and New Zealand. ed Defense Department reports. the worse at all. Our plane which, according to published losses have been under those article, indicated it would take, we have estimated. Our settlement" and said he had "made clear that we are Cape Kennedy, Fla.

(AP) Here in an artist's conception of the Lunar Or-biter circling the moon 23 miles above its surface. Paddle-shaped solar panels draw power from the sun while dish-like antennae on the spacecraft's far side points back toward Earth ready to transmit photographs. helicopter losses have been eight years to end the Viet willing to sit down any time, under those we have estimate Nam war If the U.S. force any place in an effort to end the war. The meeting with reporters was held in the rresiacnis office with about 30 minutes advance notice.

Holds To Guidelines BATTEN THE HATCHES Moscow (AP) U.S. Navy Seabees are putting steel doors and window shutters on the American Embassy here as a precaution against hostile demonstrations. Despite the deterioration of Soviet-American relations over the Viet Nam war, there have not been any demonstratioa at the embassy In 17 months. But after regular U.S. air raids began on North Viet Nam in early 1963, angry mobs twice broke embassy windows.

Asked about the steps now being taken to fortify the 10-story building near downtown Moscow, an embassy spokesman said: "We are simply taking prudent steps to protect embassy lives and property, based on prior experience." In response to other ques ACINA SIMM RON tions. Johnson: WASUSN INITIAL OllT Said the administration Lunar Obiter Delayed a Day CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) Noisy radio data involving a fuel measuring system Tuesday forced a one-day postponement of an attempt to launch a Lunar Orbiter spacecraft toward an orbit about the moon to photograph the hidden backside, Surveyor 1 and nine potential astronaut landing areas. The countdown on the Atlas- would continue to use the 3.2 MOSLSMIOUD. per cent guidelines for price and wage increases, but there would be constant efforts to come up with some better system.

a tVNMIOTMCr moon ncrinii to turn Agena booster rocket pro I HMMTON gressed smoothly down to just Red Gunners Knock Down Three More U.S. Planes seven minutes before the planned liftoff. Then the block a 'Ceiling Zero' Lifts a Bit On Airline Talks house received some unintelligible radio signals from a system in the rocket that measures the rAfSIMIlfP PHOTOS, swroftrmo MISSION OAT A woro MASSIMUY, DATA ANALYSIS U.S. Marines battled a North four planes. But a U.S.

spokesman said there had been other amount of fuel and liquid oxygen in the Atlas tanks. witn a thunderstorm pre Vietnamese company through the night near the demilitarized zone and other American troops days on which more planes had been sent against the north al Ground War In South Intensifies dicted for the area 45 minutes WASHINGTON (UPI) -In 3ZZT loisi 4 Via ennnA nrronntr s4a though on fewer missions. spite of a reported "ceiling dded couW not6 find lhe Lotsts Climb to 32 DATA TAPtS LAUNCH MISSION CONTROL 1 HIM The three olanes lost Monday zero atmosphere, Airline source of the problem in time strike negotiators agreed Tues-'and called off the effort. were all Air Force Thunderchief Nam SAIGON, South Viet The launching was day under congressional prod an. fiehter-bombers.

the U.S. corn- (AP) North Viet Nam's p.m. ding to ttry again for settlement tracked a battered Communist battalion in the central highlands after It mauled a U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Company. Reports from the highland battleground said the cavalrymen counted at least 85 enemy dead and estimated at least 100 more were killed by U.S.

air and artillery fire. mand said. Two were shot down uled for 3:11 Wednesday. tiaircraft defenses knocked 60 miles northwest of Hanoi. down three more U.S.

planes This is how scientists hope the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft will help pick a landing spot for astronauts on the moon. High resolution pictures are to be made of a narrow belt across the lunar equator, upper right, and transmitted to a ground station, lower right. (AP Wirephoto Chart) The third was hit 55 miles Monday as American jets pounded the Communist north northwest of Dong Hoi. Only one pilot was rescued, and two are If successful, it would be the first payload sent into orbit around the moon by the United States. Seven previous attempts failed, six in the early days of rocketry between 1958 and 1960.

The Soviet Union succeeded with a record 139 combat missions. Ten American planes missing. Military authorities said the of their 33-day-oId dispute. Representatives of the five struck airlines and the International Association of Machinists (IAM) told the House commerce Committee, considering strike-ending legislation, that they would meet again Tuesday afternoon. Their promise to talk again followed a report from Labor have been lost over North Viet As the North Vietnamese Umnanv took heavv losses.

1 11 1 oroUKnc uie niunuer vi u.o. meaning perhaps 50 of the 150 planes lost above the 17th Par Nam since Sunday. More than 300 planes probably took part in the assault, since a with Luna 10 last April but it Kennedy Calls for Massive Aid Program for Negroes allel to 329. the ground war carried no cameras. picked up in South Viet Nam, mission may involve tnree or men were killed or wounded.

Nin Copttr Casualties The fighting was accompanied by a sudden spurt in helicopter losses. Nine U.S. Army and Marine choppers were casualties Monday. Two crashed and BLACKMONSTER SUITS Secretary W. Willard Wirtz that eight hours of trying Monday Kennedy said the country JACKSON, Miss.

(UPI)-Sen. the first face-to-face talks since could "buy time" witn con Edward M. Kennedy, the White House intervened Friends Find Body of Slain Texas Girl burned west of the highland warned Monday a national ra Sovief-Made Battle Gear Cropping Up in Viet Nam town of Pleiku, while seven struction of swimming pools to help cool summer tempers and parks and job programs in city cial schism could develop un- ended with a "ceiling zero, visibility zero" outlook. The House committee is less a massive spending pro more were damaged in other action. ghettoes.

gram is begun for "the upgrading of Negro life in America." South Viet Nam were defeated considering a Senate-passed bill to order the 35,400 strikers SAIGON, South Viet Nam U.S. Marine tanks caught a But he urged a "massive column of about 30 Viet Cong 15 commitment of national re I cannot think of a more (AP) Some types of Russian by U.S. Marines and in Opera tion Hastings last month. NO RED CARPET: JUST THE TACKS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -Two police cars escorting Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, from the airport into Jackson were disabled by flat tires Monday night. Police reported later that about 300 pounds of carpet tacks were found scattered on the highway from the airport.

back to work for up to 180 BURLESON, Tex. (UPI) -days. Friends of pretty Edna Louise sources to the upgrading of miles south of Da Nang dunng dangerous future for America military equipment never be Also Included were such items Operation Macon and killed 12 than the future we face if we Negro life in America." Speaking at the opening ban as light machine guns and hea The chief airline negotiator, Sullivan, 16, found her body late William J. Curtin, was nignt hidden in brush of them, a spokesman reported. let this situation develop as it has," Kennedy told 900 dele fore used by the Communists in Viet Nam have begun to crop up on the battlefield, a military He said this had raised the ene auet of the 10th annual SCLC vy recoilless rifle ammunition which, although not new.

have major witness calJed Tuesday im wnere ner ooy- my toll in the operation to 263 convention, Kennedy said, "We are spending $2 billion a month Describing the dispute as a gates to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. spokesman said Tuesday. killed. tragic impasse," Curtin urged. never before been used in South Viet Nam.

Equipment manufactured by Red China also was Among freshly captured "We may not have much time to defend the freedom of the 14 million people in South Viet Nam. friend and his cousin were shot to death. The petite high school sophomore had been raped and strangled. Roy Green, 18, a high school drop-out, has admitted raping equipment is a bulky "black-monster" suit used by to spare if we are to avoid a racial crisis in this country, but Hearing Recessed CHICAGO (AP) The Inter- captured, including field telephone sets and an efficient mine chemical warfare decontamina approval of the senate measure. Curtin said the strike has brought "staggering costs of the parties and the public." He said servicemen were among "Why shouldn't we make the tion teams.

I 1 the hour is not yet too late." Kennedy was key speaker at a "freedom banquet" opening detector. The heavy, black-rubber suit, along with a kit of Russian The equipment was taken tion "into separate societies of the rich and poor, the white and the black, the complacent and the despairing where each looks at the other with growing mistrust as the vise of apartness widens." state Commerce Commission hearing on the proposed mer ger of the Union Pacific Railroad with the Chicago, Rock Is- same kino 01 etron ior me zu million people of the Negro race right here in America me girl. But he said his ex- 1 a tkk ner(aranna those suffering and many had whose freedom and future is senator I lUll tdJ, Ll i IC1LU 111.1 U11U OinH! from units 01 tne worm Vietnamese 324B Division which infiltrated across the demilitarized zone between North and chemicals, is for use in decontaminating heavy weapons after a' gas or chemical attack. also at stake?" deplored a division in the na land and Pacific Railroad has been recessed until Aug. 15.

been "relegated waiting in air terminals" thL.uyL.. seeking transportation limited leave time. Alvarado, boyfriend of Miss Say Cambodia Not V.C. Refuge Police Use Gas To Disperse Demonstrators in 2 Cities Sullivan, and his cousin, Mark Free Rides Dunnam, 16, of Tarzana, and with rape on the basis of WASHINGTON (UPI) -The TOKYO (AP) A group of Cicero Next Major Target In Open Housing Campaign Civil Aeronautics Board has Green's statement. Americans, en route home from given the airlines permis a 12-day inspection tour of Cam State Visit MANILA (AP) Philippine sion to provide free transportation for Congressional Medal of LANSING, Mich.

(AP) -Police tossed tear gas grenades Monday night into gangs of youths throwing fire bombs, bricks, pop bottles and sticks at GRENADA, Miss. (UPI) -Hundreds of civil rights demonstrators cursed police and pelted their cars with bottles Monday night before being dispersed with tear gas, offi bodia, said Tuesday they found President Ferdinand E. Marcos evidence" of Viet Cong "no will make a state visit to the Honor winners and their wives to a reunion Oct. 13-16 in Los Angeles. The CAB said the free rides could be given between Oct.

9 and Oct. 22. I as sanctuary in Cambodia, rights workers Monday night: "I'm going to Cicero!" Cicero, an industrial suburb of 70,000 white persons which hugs Chicago's western border, once United States next month, and passing cars. there will be a demonstration Wednesday, probably in Bogan, a Southwest Side neighborhood adjacent to Chicago Lawn, where whites attacked a civil rights march column last Fri cers said. A spokesman for the South King's Aides Select Scene Of 1951 Riot is tentatively scheduled to visit Several persons were injured Washington Sept.

14-16. ern Christian Leadership Con charged by the United States. They said they were unable to verify that the Viet Cong was before the violence the harbored Al Capone's bootleg ond straight night of racial un ference said the demonstrators were attacked by police first after Negroes were turned using Cambodia as refuge or as gers. Strategy Session The civil rights rally was held rest in Lansing was brought under control. Four persons a supply line route away from the voter registrar's office.

CHICAGO (AP) Cicero, scene of one of the Chicago area's worst race riots 15 years were reported shot, none seri The melee broke up without Antiriot Clause In Rights Measure WASHINGTON (AP) Housei The House wrote' a major ago, has been named the next day. Jackson and Bevel said the Cicero march would take place this week, but would not say when. Stevenson Called Guard On July 11, 1951, a Negro bus driver, Harvey E. Clark, rented an apartment in Cicero. On July 12, he moved in some furniture.

at the Warren Avenue Congregational Church where participants of the drive for open housing met to hear Jackson ously. Negro and white clergymen, credited with police with keeping many youths off the streets major target of the open housing drive being conducted by civil rights leaders. arrest or injury, police said. Protest March Hecklers Fined CHICAGO (AP) Nine per and other leaders discuss strategy and disclose new target areas. Monday night, joined Tuesday Washington Area Resident Sells Boar! Livestock buyers from thruout Central Illinois keep their eyes focused on the Pantograph Want Ads.

Elmer Armstrong, R.R. 1, Washington certainly knows that to be a fact: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an with police patrols trying to passage ui a Droaa new civil cnange into the bill Monday rights bill was expected Tues- when it adopted an amendment aide of Dr. Martin Luther King told a rally of 1,000 civil prevent recurrence of the vio The Rev. James Bevel said That night vandals broke into lence.

sons who were amon? the ieer- day but a final challenge re-by Rep. William C. Cramer, R-mained to its key open housing aimed at preventing out- least a score of youths ling, taunting spectators at a been arrested both protest march on the Northwest and Negro since the Side Sundav have been fined side agitators from inciting ra At have white racial BOAR Registered Hampshire epproxl 'Root Out Delegation Asks Daley CHICAGO (UPI) A action by U.S. Atty. Gen.

the building and destroyed the furniture. A mob of 5,000 hurled bottles and bricks and homemade fire bombs at the building. The National Guard was ordered to Cicero by Adlai E. Stevenson, then governor of Illi flareups took a serious: from $25 to $100 for disorderly metely 400 lbs. Elmer Armstrong, wasn- Ingtoo, III.

Ph. 20-2720. turn Sunday night conduct. ciai riots. The amendment, shouted through with little dissent, would make it a federal crime, punishable by up to five years in jail or a $10,000 fine, for anyone to cross a state line with the pro vision.

Voting was to begin late in the day after the House completed its section-by-section consideration of the measure. It wrapped up the next-to-last section Monday night, writing a federal antiriot law into it, and leaving only two relatively! dozen business and civic Nicholas Katzenback against Slain Millionaire's Son Dies in Accident Magistrate James N. Sullivan meted out the fines" Monday when 16 persons arrested during the demonstration in the eaders from Chicago's Gage: "Communist influence in the nois. Martial law was declared Park neighborhood called on civil rights movement and in NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) intent of encouraging, inciting in the area. Seventy-two persons were arrested by police and 23 others Cragin neighborhood appeared Mayor Richard J.

Daley King's own organization." Monday and asked him to root- "We feel the marchers would before him. or taking part in a not. Cramer and manv other "Sold the Boor" was the word from the advertiser when he called to cancel the ad. If you have excess livestock tell the buyers watching tie Pantograph Want Ads about it. To place your od mail it Ph.

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till 6. Just 74c per day for 15 words or only 37c per day more for 28 words both on rhe special 8 day plan. Get that od in today. Hearings on seven persons in tne stop the agitators were jailed. were injured.

out "Communists" protest movement. speakers said the rash of racial noncontroversial provisions to be disposed of Tuesday. All actions taken by the House during the 12 days it has been working on the bill are subject Sir Sydney Oakes, 39. son of murdered millionaire Sir Harry Oakes, was killed Monday in an auto accident. The 1943 bludgeon slaying of his father, which was never solved, was one of the were continued to Sept.

8. The civil rights action was a or given a tree trip to any Though Cicero many Indus-Communist country they desig- tries employ Negroes, the town nate," Sheehan said. He said is not integrated. Many of the David J. Sheehan, an insurance broker and president of violence in some northern cities in recent weeks calls for a federal law to protect citizens protest against alleged discrim ination by realtors in the neigh- to separate roll call votes just hefnr final naapc.

the Chicago Lawn Chic Associa- Daley did not comment on the residents are of European de-lion asked Daley to request 'delegation's request. I scent. Bahamas' most famous crimes, borhood. against such violence..

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