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Show j'T'T " - ' For Classified, thone 521-353- Classified Deadline 1 p.ra. Other Tribune departments: "" News, information, all other scores, phone departments, Salt Lake City and Utah I Scattered thundersh owers, mainly late afternoons and evenings.li Windy at, times. Weather map is on Page 1 355-751- 1; 363-152- VoL 5. 191.No.iH9 Salt Lake City, Utah Both Sides Regroup Wednesday Morning Viet Battle Augustll, r 1965 Price Ten Cents A Kent Walker, 2, is not really a; nuisance despite charges by residents of a Burbank condominium that he has a habit of judge has ruled rocks throwing out his of yard. Superior Judge Harold F. Collins ruled on a suit asking for a preliminary Injunction to eject the boy. In 53 -Death ire r air Survives Flames By George Esper Associated Press Writer Bloodied Viet Cong and government battalions regrouped late Tuesday for fresh fighting in the battle of Due Co, which is shaping up as the wars heaviest single engagment of the summer. U.S. planes pressed attacks both north and "south of the border. A military spokesman announced a U.S. Air Force F105 Thunderchief was shot down in a raid on a bridge at Vin Tuy, 90 miles northwest of Hanoi, but the pilot was rescued. SAIGON, VIET NAM Bombardment In Titan H Compl ex By A1 Schay Associated Press Writer "by five-inc- We cannot make any supposition whatsoever as to the cause of the explosion or fire, said Capt Douglas Wood, public infoi mation officer for Little Rock Air Force Base, which commands the 18 Titan II silos ringing central Arkansas. Wood said the Air Force didn't know, at this point, what fed the fire. Air Force personnel, working first in asbestos suits because of heat and later using contained air supplies, because of smoke, pulled bodies out of the launch tube throughout the night. The missile, fully loaded with liquid fuel and weighing 150 tons, was in the underground tube but did not burn,- - Wood troops involved. Hundreds ATLANTA, GA. crowded into hastily established" registration offices in three southern states Tuesday to become the first persons registered by federal voting examiners. The federal government opened the offices in six Alabama and Mississippi counties and three Louisiana parishes Tuesday morning as part of its program for implementing a new national voting law. A total of 1,144 Negroes were registered in the nine counties. File Suit A newsman. at the scene, fn the central highlands 220 miles northeast of Saigon, said the bodies of 60 soldiers killed in the Viet Cong ambush of a government relief convoy Monday still lay along Route 19 east of Due Co. . Garrison of 150 Other casualties lay within the sandbagged camp, where a dozen American advisers and a garrison of about 150 Vietnamese troops held out against mor- Rescue worker dons mask and oxygen anpply Tuesday as he tar and small arms, fire of a prepare to enter Titan n missile complex in Searcy, Ark. lire, guerrilla siege launched June 3. U. S. jets hammered at Viet Cong concentration points. Ex-CubaSmoke still rose from some n disabled vehicles of the convoy, attacked on the march down 2nd Route 19 from Pleiku,-th- e 30 Area By Associated Press Corps Headquarters, Almost simultaneously, attormiles northeast of Due Co. The rains eased drought Heavy JusStates United for the neys knocked out two conditions in parts of the tice Department filed suit to Viet Cong one armored personnel parched Northeast Tuesday abolish the poll tax as a prere- tanks, By Sid Moody two trucks and a while continued rains caused carrier, Associated Press Writer quisite for voting in Alabama, 105mm howitzer. some flooding in west central Texas and Virginia. A former MIAMI, FLA. Florida. Action Heaviest new of the To take advantage in most Cuban lobsterman said fallen Showers have to the The civil action be, offices, appeared rights registration he turned on the caporganizations chartered buses heaviest since U.S. and Viet- drought areas of the North- Tuesday and organized car pools. Segre- namese air and ground forces east since Sunday, with some tain of the banana boat Seven Seas an argument over gationists made no attempt to thwarted an attempt by a rein- points recording heavy precipi- Fidel during and shot him and Castro in central tation. Amherst forced Viet Cong regiment in deter them. four other shipmates to death It was a historic day for the early June to drive from the Massachusetts recorded 4 before abandoning the vessel in Negroes who waited their him hills to the sea in the area of inches of rain in 24 hours. "before " the federal examiners. Quang Ngai, 330 miles northeast Showers also sprinkled the a small skiff. The crewman, Roberto Ramsouth Atlantic, Gulf Coast and Many had attempted repeatedly of Saigon.' irez, 35, told the story several A survey from the air showed parts of the Southern Plains. in the past to become registered voters only to be declared un-- , Viet Cong flags wre flying frqm A few afternoon thunder- hours after the rowboat was picked up in the Gulf by a Gerqualified, by local registration every village around Due Co, in storms developed around the man freighter about 60 miles the jungles of a plateau five mountains in the western officials. south of Miami. Ramirez was Cambodian miles from the Rockies. Selma Action carrying a loaded .38 caliber RIn Selma, AJa., where civil evolver in his belt. rights organizations mobilized Political Fend thousands earlier this year to Federal authorities said Ramdramatize the plight of voteless told them he had been deirez Sheriff Dallas' County Negroes, fending the Castro regime and Jim Clark, who used the law as that the captain, Rogelio Diaz, a weapon against the demon-- . had threatened to turn him 'over strators, declared himself to be to "authorities " when the ship nauseated as he watched a' where U was to line of more than 300 Negroes at Los Angeles Times Service legitimate state interest in the1reaJched TamPa undergo repairs. midmorning. conduct of elections. The federal WASHINGTON In Canton, Miss., county seat It was either me or them, filed suits The three states enacted their government Tuesday of Madison County, 150 Negroes authorities quoted Ramirez. taxes the turn shortly after. and poll jammed the examiners against Virginia to end their of the century, Virginia and Alasaid after shootRamirez , texeS) their desks in a storefront registhat the levies discrim- bama to discourage Negroes ing tiie captain, he walked aft charging tration office designed to ac- inate from voting and Texas to keep .where he shot the first mate and against Negroes. commodate no more than 50. The Justice Department an- the rising Populist movement; three other crewmen. He said The registrars urged some of nounced the he spared the life of the ship's suits, separate but from the polls. the applicants to return Wednes- similar, were filed Negro cook, who is missing. against city, Greater Burden day. We will be open six days county and state election offi. One Survived a week, one of them said. cials in each capital city as di- The Justice Department said, This isnt your last day. rected by the Voting Rights, Act however, that the effect of the An eighth crew member, Texas tax also has been to im- Elvin Burywaise, hid in a forLines Remain signet! last week by President pose a comparatively greater ward chain locker and survived. In Greenwood, Miss., through- Johnson. burden on Negroes than on He was found alone Sunday out most of the day, the lines $1.50 in Each Case whites. aboard the derelict ship with remained at near 300. The three suits differed someThe department said the tax three bodies. The voting examiners, some what from the one filed last Sat- burden is greater on Negroes Ramirez said he threw the of them Negro, were appointed to abolish the tax in Mis- since Negro incomes are lower body of the urday captain and one of . to in serve Plaquem-Monday in part because of the crew members overboard, sissippi in that they did not ac- than white Felines, East Carroll and East cuse state officials of deliberate each states denial of equal eduThe Seven Seas left Miami en iciana parishes in Louisiana, Le- discrimination by refusing to ac- cational opportunities to Ne- route to Tampa Saturday. Capt. flore and Madison counties in cept Diaz last entry in the log at 10 payment of the tax from groes. Mississippi and Dallas, Hale, Negroes. In each state, the government p.m. mentioned no Incidents as Lowndes and Marengo in AlabaThe new law said the poll tax- asked the court to order prep- the old ship headed south into ma. es, $1.50 in each case, bear no aration of new voter lists with the Gulf Stream. . All of the counties had become reasonable to any no references to poll taxes. When Ramirez was picked up relationship known in recent years for their resistance to Negro voting efforts. Lowndes county, where Negroes outnumber whites 4 to 1, had no registered Negro voters at all until late last year. Showers Drench said. Long Vigil Associated Press Wirephoto killed 53. Rescue teams explosion swept through complex and removed bodies of civilian workers remodeling missile site. . -- Nation Files Three Suits To Abolish Poll Taxes - .nsTexlliX 14-fo-ot Bury-wais- went. deadThe .Coast-Guaspeculated that whoever was operating the Seven Seas did not know how to switch to auxiliary fuel tanks. Three bodies Were found Monday when the Seven Seas was towed into Key West by a Coast See Page 1, Column 3 rd N.Y. Rejoices As Storms : Douse Area a (AP)-- In city that uses enough water each day for a quick shower for every man, woman and child in the nation, there was rejoicing Tuesday. The rains had come. For tiie first time in more than two months, the water in reservoirs " went up instead of YORK drought-stricke- n down. -- -- But the situation remained critical and Mayor Robert Wagner announced new restrictions and plans to acquire water from varied sources to help ease tiie shortage. Among other measures, Wagner said the city will purchase about 50 million gallons of water daily from private companies in the metropolitan area and tighten restrictions on use of water in such devices as air conditioners. . gee-wh- iz - If you think you have no faults that makes another on. V .., You can stop wondering now. Ma your problem, plus a Ip w dozen of their own. Bells wizards have solved .. . .I They have figured out how to give your telephone a memory and almost a brain. The new breakthrough is called ESS (Electronic Switching System). The nations first ECO (Electronic Central Office) went into service two months ago in Succasunna, N.J., with 200 customers. While Bell engineers keep careful watch on how ESS performs under actual commercial conditions, work is already going forward on ESS installations throughout the remainder of the country."" Once your neighborhood is switched to an ECO, here are some of the things youll be' able to Ido without talking to, an operatorj - Y Add a third party to a conversation already in progress. Set np a .conference call among four parties. Easy Dial Plaa Read frequently called numbers with two pulls of . the dial instead of seven. This flexibility-- , stems from the entirely new concept employed by ESS. It is made possible by a stored program control which contains, in magnetic memory form, millions of bits of information needed to provide the various T services. " : 4 LBJ in small clusters and talked Elated-Sig- ns quietly beside the fence that the from them flat, separated landscaped two acres of land in which the complex is buried. TheAir Force said the explosion occurred at 1:30 p.m. (CST) Mondayf trapping all but two of the 55 civilian workers inside the silo. 1 These things are not supNew York Times Service WASHINGTON (AP) The posed to happen, Wood said. WASHINGTON -P- resident condition of the nations econoWe have many, many safety Johnson signed Tuesday a seven my will determine whether fur- features. But the fact that it did s billion dollar and ther income tax cuts will be contradicts these safety housing bill and called it the happen adminisnext year, an proposed factors. Were trying to find out single most important breaktration official said Tuesday. what happened. through in the housing field in He said that keeping the ecothe last 40 years. Titan Experts nomy on an upward plane would be an overriding objective, and n Speaking to a large audience Seventeen members of a that administration experts have Investigation force arrived of congressmen, government ofnot yet decided whether addi- here early Tuesday. They in- ficials, labor leaders, and pritional impetus will be needed. clude men who are experts in vate builders gathered in the every phase of the Titan sys- Rose Garden, the President asTop Priority the Air Force said. tem, serted that only the Housing Thus, he indicated, economic President Johnson ordered the Act of 1949 approaches the signiwill be given precedence growth See Page 4 i Column 1 ficance of this measure. And In over other considerations such years to come, I believe this act as trying to reduce the budget become known as the single win deficit most important housing legislaThe official, a key man on fistion in our history. cal affairs who preferred to reThe bill consists of an expanmain anonymous, also said prosion of existing programs as posals for revising the tax strucwell as several new and arrestPer-son- s ture probably-wi- ll accompany WASHINGTON (AP) ing ideas; some of them providthe next tax reduction measure. who deliberately destroy or ed - by- congressional - RepubliWe would like to reform the mutilate draft cards could be cans. Many of the bill's seemtax system: so that $1,000 earned imprisoned for.five years land ingly minor- - provisions - would one way would be given approx- fined $10,000 under a bill passed have a profound impact on indiimately the same treatment as Tuesday by the House. viduals. , at pro- The President iook particular -$1,000 earned another way, he - The measure,-aime- d said. posed mass draft card burning care, in discussing the conIncreased Tax proviby pacifist groups, was sent to troversial vote of sion, to stress that it would be the Senate by a roll-caA few months ago, economists 392 to 1. The lone opposition carried out under the sponsorwere concerned about the effect vote came from Rep. Henry P. ship of private organizations. on business of increased social Smith (Copyright) security taxes in the first six months of 1966. They said this might result In a fiscal drag for a few Tops in The Tribune months since it would remove from the spending money stream with no immediate offUp-setting government expenditures. Before the recent announcement by President Johnson of a , substantial increase in the U.S. military effort in Viet Nam, GREAT LITERATURE as well as potboilers have been government economists had counted on the excise tax cuts written about the individuals struggle to find, his place in tiie and increased social security world. . taxes. Another income tax cut Thoreau retired to Walden Pond, was considered a possibility. rejecting) tiie values of the market Economic Drive place. Other individuals have made r compromises, some with uneasy con-- j Economists now hope that the some cynically, sciences, addto be $1,700,000,000 which is Whether in high literature," or ed to the Viet Nam buildup will low, the theme of mans conflict with give the right Amount of addihimself and society Is always fascitional economic drive. nating. The problem is that we dont Fess Parker, screen and know exactly how much will be the on official Viet star, tells hisjstory about tha Nam, spent lush jungle known as Hollywood, said. The $1,000,000,000 is a as he calls it, and his rough figure. If we knew what Is fight to learn the way of the jungle. going to be spent we could calYOU CAN find the complete story on Page C-culate the econwfflc effects. Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor told the American Bar Assn, in Miami Beach, Fla., SECTION A SECTION B Monday that the war in Viet Nam has dimmed prospects for Viet Nam Search -- Page 7 Theater Fare Pages 5 a tax cut next year. Editorial Comment Page 10 Tops in Comics x Page' Mr. Johnson has said that the SECTION C AND MORE , , , next income tax bill will be dePages 4 signed to give further reduction Sports Spotlight to those id low Income brackets. Television Listing Page 6 Bargain Days, 16 Law Experts Say - . five-tenth- Burn Draft Card! Fine - rent-subsi- ll Cmon Parker, Fess Is Hollywood a Jungle? ; Super Phone It Speaks for Itself Whites Rash Washington Post Service In some areas, whites rushed WASHINGTON Have you ever dialed to local registration offices in an your own home phone number and goteffort to counter the prospective ten a busy signal for a solid hour? Negro voters who showed up at Chances are that you have. And that federal offices. sciyouve wondered why those Ip Louisiana, the lines were entists in the Bell Research Systems shorter but faster moving than Laboratories hadnt found a solution to in Alabama and Mississippi this exasperating problem some simple (Copyright)way to signal that theres another call ' waiting to get through. . Test the System v Chuckle Todays complex. About 100 friends, relatives, newsmen and spectators stood Associated Tress Wirephoto Cross locates Titan H missile launching site where 53 died in tiie explosion and fire. Still an Jf, he was alone in the jgreen and white skiff, hjs pockets filled with ammunition and more in a baby food jar. He also had a jug of water and a bottle of prune juice. Find Bodies e After the gunfire ceased, said, the ships engines NEW There was no danger of a nuclear explosionLhe said, because the warhead had been removed while the civilian workmen updated the physical plant of the ?66 Tax Cut Admits mgs on Parched Region - ' Cause Still Unknown m of Negroes , Air Fbrce investigators swarmed the SEARCY, ARK. scorched launch tube of a Titan H missile complex Tuesday to find the cause of an explosion and fire that killed 53 civilians in the gun barrel of Americas mightiest missile. Two escaped. The tragedy was the worst in the history of the Titan II system', which includes 54 complexes that have been fully operational since December, 1963. Destroyer Other operations includedatwo-hou- r firingmission by the U.S. Destroyer Orleck against suspected Viet Cong concentrations on and near the coast of Thanh Hoa province, 200 miles northh east of Saigon. The Orlecks guns poured 290 shells into the targets. Spotters said the results were excellent. Vietnamese and American defenders of a besieged special forces camp at Due Co and a- - large government force attempting to lift the siege have killed 219 Viet Cong since Monday, the spokesman announced." He said this was a body count, not an estimate. Due Co is near the Cambodian border some 225 miles north of Saigon in the cen- " " tral highlands. The spokesman said goverti-e nl casualties, including, American dead and wounded, so far are moderate, but added: I describe them as moderate only because of the large number of By Gene Roberts New York Times Writer C-- 7. It Rocks em that LOS ANGELES (UP!) r . K.'r, - As Sun Goes Down, So Do Raindrops 5 363-151- 1; v 4 ' - : j j tele-visi- handy guide to the inside; 4-- 1-- Penney. Back-to-Scho- -- pge |