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VOL. LXXVIII. NO. 197
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WEATHER
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‘WORK PUSHED ON NEW LINETO GEORGETOWN. bas 610 poles and three switch- ing stations costing $15,000,
A lineman puts a splice tn
the new transmission line be-
oomdathid“quatityecabout=the:< brief-House-periodically-and: hear-show--and--Defence Sectelary-
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ing run from the Charlotte- town generating plant of the Maritime Electric Company
te Georgetown. The new line has been designated No. 4 Transmission line and is” be- ing constructed at a cost of- $350,000. It’s 33'4 miles long,
$20,000. and $22,000. It is about half completed and it will go into_service by the middle of
September. (See story page 2)
| predictable winds.
Cuban Seaman 5 Slayings Aboard Ship
S. Village Threatened — As Fire Changes Course |
By THE CANADIAN PRESS , A new satellite tracking sta-'in the central part of the prov- A forest fire raging through tion near Char'eston was within ince at Salmon River and Bron- prime timber on Nova Scotia’s Steen of a mile of the son. About 200 men. had been south shore changed direction flames Monday but was not con- fighting flames that ate through — Tuesday and for the oe eee in immediate danger 6,200 acres. consecutive day threatened | rain s heavy enough 250 people inthe village of There had been no rain in the to allow lifting” af the travel re Charleston. atea but humidity remained imposed Friday in the counties Described by forestry officials high. of Kent, Westmorland, Albert, as one of the worst in years, Heavy rain in New Brunswick St. John, Charlotte, Kings, the fire had burned more than | Monday doused both major fires Queens, Sunbury and York.
Mines Minister _ | Visits Sydney.
SYDNEY (CP) —
ier MacNoughtwrived, here
26 Colliery at Glace Bay.
Mr MacNaught said Labor Minister MacEachen had pian- ned to make the trip to Cape Breton, but was delayed in Mt- tawa hecause of the Vancouver waterfront dispute.
Near a new power transmission line Sunday. It had a 10-mile circumference Tuesday. Another major fire in re Scotia, at Dalhousie West nea Bridgetown in the aeaealie| Valley, was still out of control Tuesday but several light after- noon showers helped 125 men/| hold their own with the flames. | Ht has burned more than 400) acres since Sunday. | Meanwhile, Lands and For- ests . ee = SAIGON (AP)-Bloodied Viet tions on and near the cost of was a anso. wa Cong. guerrilla..and ernment Thanh bomber-from- Ontario- would-be - battalions nanan Tues- ee province ae made available to help battle \day for fresh fighting in the bat- "thes! Saigon, South Viet the fires in Nova Scotia. ‘It’s tle of Duc Co, which Nam's capital. The Orleck's the only plane we can get in |ing up as the heaviest fiveinch guns poured 290 shells the whole of Canada,” Mr. Hali- | gagement of the into the targets. Spotters said burton said. Smaller water war in South Viet Nam. the results were excellent. bombers owned by the province U.S. planes pressed attacks in South Vietmamese and Ameri- were unable to handle the un- both North .and South Viet Nam. can.defenders of a besieged spe- A military spokesman an- cial forces camp at Duc Co and ae ies S. Air Force F-105'a large government force at- underc was shot down in tempting to lift the siege have Tuesday” morning, fouth winds |. raid on a bridge at Vin Tuy, killed 219 Viet Cong since Mon- @ttermoon the wind s shifted to miles northwest of Hanoi, day, the spokesman announced. the west and drove the fire ‘North Viet-Nam’s capital, but The spokesman -said goverp- ment casualtie, including
- About 100. fren, many of ‘i Pilot was rescued. ‘oon onthe _fireline for two Other operations included ‘® American dead and wounded, 30
2,000 acres: since it broke out IN SOUTH VIET NAM .
en- in the
The south shore fire was
gonnson. to _U.S.._Congressional each. ..visit,.is occasioned__by_a
days, had. to shift equipment | from one flank to the other.
WIND SHIFTING Winds were too unpredictable in both fires for water bombers to be used. Spotter planes were | hampered—by—heavy—smoke.—-- Monday the -south shore fire! marched east and the men’ made a stand along the pic- R turesque Medway Riyer, one of ithe province’s best salmon
~ Alice-tn-Wonderland: Quality ~ Seen In Briefing By Johnson
gWASHINGTON (CP)- Senator | Morse, speaking in the Senate, ‘through the layne Morse. said. Tuesday said ‘‘it ig a—remarkable thing -triticized Gen. Maxwell Taylor, -ing-the-night-and-the-threat-ies-- there is an. ‘‘Alice-in-Wonder- to be able to go up to the White retiring ambassador to Saigon, |ened along the river. rt | Forestry,,.officials estimated when McNamara. . ia ithe fire was about 1% miles .@ “The Taylor. concept. .of fight. east_of Charleston. A few resi- ders this week on “the Viet new slep the United States has “jh “insurgencies’ has totally ‘éents in Viet Nam, under nig their “homes““Monday, ,—_then=re-
igs being given by President things are improving,
Nam situation. had to take in order to stabilize failed
briefing process, streams. The wind abated dur-.
|two-hour firing mission by the |US. destroyer Orleck against | suspected Viet Cong concentra.
Okanagan ‘Apple Crop Hard Hit
PENTICTON, B.C...(CP) — |Hard-hit Okanagan Valley fruit” growers -got more bad news, Tuesday.
A fruit industry spokesman
“moved “belongings On oe apple cep tele peme
normal ‘eellenaten made earlier |
.exe_troops held ot
far are moderate, but added: “I. pdeseribe them as moderate only’ ‘because of the. large sumber of ©
| troops involv:
SEE 60 RODIES
A correspondent at the scene, _jgn__the central highlands 220 miles northeast of Saigon, said |the bodies of 60 soldiers killed jin the’ Viet_Cong ambush of a
| | two-mile-long government relief
|convoy Monday still lay ‘along a ae east of Duc -Co.
Heavy Battle Continues For Duc Co Possession
U.S. jet planes hammered at Viet Cong. concentration.-points...
The action appeared to be the heaviest since U.S. and South Vietnamese air and ground for- | ces thwarted an attempt by a: reinforced Viet Cong regiment in early June_to drive from the. hills to the sea in the area of Quang Ngai, 330 miles north- east of Saigon.
HOIST ‘RED FLAGS
A survey from the air showed Viet Cong flags were flying from every village around Due Co, in the jungies_of a plateau five miles from the Cambodian frontier.
Collections Threatened
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Fire swept through the 20th floor of the 27 - floor University of
Texas main’ building Tuesday, |
lendangering a priceless collec-'
Other casualties “lay within tion. of items that once belonged
the seid bagned ohinp, where a |dozen Americans and a gafri-
to magician Harry Houdini ‘and | circus magnate P. T. Barnum. |
&
- Clamped
MIAMI (AP)—A Cuban sea- man who longed for his home- land told Tuesday of slaying five of his fellow crew members during a night of terror aboard the banana boat Seven Seas, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Aboard the Seven Seas he left the bodies of three of the eight crew members and a 17-year- | old Honduran seaman, who hud-
‘dled in terror for 18 hours in a
dark, smelly chain locker so small he could not stand erect.
“As I understand it, he ad- mitted doing them all in except the cook,” said Cmdr. W. C. Wahl, of the Key West Coast
|Guard base. ‘What happened to
the cook is the big question.” Ramirez was found drifting in
ithe 14-foot, ‘green-and-white skiff
about 60 miles south of Miami by a West German freighter. He was taken aboard, transferred. to a Coast. Guard patrol boat and taken to Miami Beach.
FBI and U-S.. immigration service agents clamped a tight \lid of secrecy on the inerrogey tion--of Ramirez; :
But another Coast Guard | , Spokesman said Ramirez ad- ‘mitted slaying five crew. mem- bers of the Seven Seas,, then
dmits
| Tight Security tid
On Probe
fleeing the ship when her en- gines went dead as she churned through rough seas toward Cuba.
“There is no word on the mo- tive,’ the spokesman said» The* only known survior of the act of piracy was Elvin Burywaise, who cowered in the chain locker as the violence flared Saturday ' might. After the gunfire ended, Burywaise said he thought the Seven Seas changed course southward toward Cuba. It had been heading from Miam! around. the. tip of Florida for drydock repairs in Tampa.
About two hours later, Bury- waise said, the ship's erigines went dead. The Coast Guard speculated that whoever was operating the Seven Seas did not know how to switch to auxtil- iary fuel tanks.
Three bodies were found Mon-
day when. the Seven .Seas..was..
towed into Key West by a Coast
- Guard cutter. One was on deck,
two in their blood-stained bunks below.
Wahl said Ramirez, who left this wife and three daughters be- hind when he fled Fidel Castro's Cuba, told interrogators that he left, the Seven Seas alone in the
skiff
Family Doctor Suggested Best In Hereditary Field
+ | BAR HARBOR, Me. (AP),--A Toronto specialist said Tuesday ‘family doctors are in the best | strategic position to advise par- _jents_about the risks of hered- ‘itary diseases’ in future off- spring—but she said the aver- age physician is not now ed- ucationally equipped .to do so. Dr. Margaret W. Thomp: “oe i _genetics counsellor. at the Hos- “pital—for—Sick—Children—in—Tor-— onto, made the statement after ‘declaring that six per cent of
son of about 150 South Vietnam- The blaze quickly spread {0 41; children born have a hered-
against mor. F and” Sina “arifis” fire” oa
The Oregon Democrat, who attended the first briefing Mon- day night, criticized it as “an Alica.- in - Wonderland exhibi- tion how the uripleasant can | be evaded and the failures ig- nored.”’
After Tuesday's briefing, for a group from the House of Representatives, Carl Albert of | Oklahoma, the Democratic ma- jority leader in the House, said
there is “reason. for cautious | optimism'’ about U.S. chances in Viet Nam.
‘trying to make the course
a deteriorating situaion.
STATEMENT SAID FAIR |
Senate Republican Leader | Everett Dirksen of Illinois said President Johnson's contention that Congress generally supports his Viet Nam policies is’ a ‘‘fair statement of facts."
Speaker John McCormack of the House of Representatives agreed with him.
Morse, saying the president is in Viet Nam palatable to Congress
guidance and direction,’’ Morse . said.
“Thanks to General Taylor Secretary McNamara, the Com- munists have proved to the World that -the United Statés cannot cope with insurgency on its own terms, but can only fight it by turnitig a guerrilla
|war into a conventional one fought bys“ American forces. | “Of course, nothing of that!
| kind was admitted at the White |
House yesterday.”
(Continued on page 3, col. 1)
53 CIVILIANS LEFT DEAD-
clpuemmerstenctcshen sete (ont treet eee
Missile Silo Fire Cause -
Mystery As Probe Begins
_SEARCY, Ark.}(AP)—U.S, Air Force investigators swarmed through the scorched tube of a Titan JI missile com-
plex Tuesday to try to find the *
cause of an explosion and fire that killed 53 civilians in the “gun barrel’’ of the mightiest US. ballistic missile
The tragedyxwas the worst in the history of the Titan II sys- tem, which inéludes 54 com- plezes in the United States that have been fully reine since December, 1963.
“We cannot make any suppo- | sition whatsoever as to the cause of the explosion or fire,’ said Capt. Douglas Wood, public in- formation officer for Little Rock Air. Force base; which tom-
mands the * Titan II silos ring- ing central Arkansas Wood said the air force
doesn't know, at this ee, what fed the fire.
MISSILE NOT BURNED The missile, fully loaded with
launch-
door, was closed. The increasing
ping -all -but-two-of-the 55° civil- ian workers inside the silo.
“These things are —-not--sup- posed to happen,’ Wood said: We have many, many safety measures. But the fact that it did happen contradicts these sa- fety factors. We're trying to find out what happened.”
President Johnson ordered the investigation. ’
Wood said most of the victims apparently suffocated.
“The fire probably burned less than —an—heur,"’—he—said. “But up to 12 hours later smoke was still billowing in the silo."
The silo is covered at ground level by a 750-ton door, which moves laterally on rails. The.
amount of smoke forced air out of the silo and oxygen that re- mained was consumed by the fire. =
INSIDE TODAY.
Two of the civilians escaped by fleeing through underground tunnel that-connects-the launch silo, an ‘access room ‘and the control centre—the three cham- bers of every Titan If complex.
One of the survivors, 18-year- old Gary Wayne Lay of Clinton, said he saw the fire flash into the tube. Smoke billowed after it.
The power failed and, with the huge door above closed, the
|tube was filled with darkness.
Lay__said he grouped his way around the launch tube until he found leading to the access room.
“It was horrible,” . from a ghospital bed. “I could) OM hear rie screaming and crying. | |
Somebody was yelling ‘help me!
God, help me!’ I couldn't see! ~
him in the dark.” Hubert A. Saunders, Conway,
8, of
tunnel when the smoke burst around him. He dropped down
the door to the tunnel!
he said| fie
the other survivor, was| — working above the door to the
‘turned when the threat seemed over this year.
The soft fruit crop from the jvalley that is one of Canada’s
F ire Destroys ‘major fruit producers was vir- i tually wiped out by severe
Chicken Plant __trosts tast winter.
| Now the apple crop is. ex-| PETITCODIAC, N.B. (CP) —|pected to be about 5,300,000 of undetermined origin boxes. Earlier estimates had | early Tuesday destroyed a chick- put the crop at 5,619,997 boxes en plant operated by Lioyd Col-|compared with last year’s total
pitts of nearby River Glade. | of 7,004,819. Six hundred chickens were des-| W. O. June, president of the, troyed. | grower-owned British Columbia The farm was owned by Marks Tree Fruits Ltd., said an exact
Digby Youth Is Charged -
YARMOUTH. N.S. (CP) — Robert Randall Comeau, 20, of: Digby, N.S., was charged with capital murder Tuesday in the | July 29 stabbing death of Thais Marie Haskings, 16, of Halifat’ |
Magistrate C. Roger Rand re- manded Comeau to the Yar- | mouth County jail for one week
eer a There was | assessment_ of ‘the crop will be | and ordered_a_psychiatrie ex-
mo estimate of the loss. lworked out by Aug. 15. ‘Lamination.
|
a
e a collection. ,, historical
the 21
Fire officials had no imme- \diate report on the cause of the "shed _ were no reports of
mi “eae and Barnum items were displayed along with ‘the Hoblitzelle Theatre art li- brary, donatd by Kari Hoblit- zelle, a wealthy Dallas theatre jowner and businessman.
The ‘curator of the collection, Dr. Frederick J. Hunter, said workmen had been converting heating ducts to air conditioning an the 20th floor.
Litary. disease_or defect, _and that o
at 3 per. c mt ‘are occu uch patients.
Hereditary diseases include such maladies as cystic fibro sis: muscular dystrophy; cer- tain types of anemia and of con- genital blindness and deafness; and Mongolism, a severe form of mental retardation. Heredi- tary. defects include such de- formities as cleft lip and palate.
She urged ‘a raising of the level of genetics teaching in medical schools,” so as to equip the average doctor with suffic- ient knowledge of the nature of |
these ills—and of the statistical |
. prospects of a given couple giv- ing birth to an afflicted child.
She said the family doctor, as distinguished from the scarce professional genetics counsellor,
“is in the best position to maks
any recommendation in regard |to having further children, ‘'be- cause he knows the family per- | sonally.””
Dr. Thompson made the re- marks. at’.a special, course on
medical genetics for university and other rchers. The course is bej conducted by
the Jackson laboratory for gen- eties-—research—at- “Bar Hatbot
and -ohns~ ~Hopkins= Atniversity <= MATE Baltimore, and is sponsored by
the National Foundation-March of Dimes organization.
She said that family doctora, with proper educational back ground in genetics, should be able to give some counsel on most of the hereditary diseases and defects. For example,’ they could furnish statistics that are available for some illnesses aa regards recurrence risks, wheré there already has been a defec- tive child or a history of the defect elsewhere in the family.
(Continued on page 3- col. 2)
Tragedy Takes Spotlight
Off Singer Frank Sinatra.
crew
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — Tragedy momentarily taok the spotlight Tuesday from singer
vacation off Martha’s Vineyard Island:
A 23 - year - old third mate aboard a luxurious 168-foot
yacht chartered by Sinatra was | ‘drowned before dawn when a dinghy swamped and sank about ~
a half-mile from the island.
The victim, Robert Goldfarb of New Rochelle, N.Y; another member, and two girls jwere rowing to the yacht from Vineyard Haven.
Capt. William Cannon of Hous- ton, Tex., skipper of the yacht,
said Sinatra and his guests “were shocked and appalled at the tragic event.”
“They feel a deep concern for the man’s family.”
Sinatra was not available for
Miss Mar- of Vine-
One of the girls, garet Whittemore, 21.
4 yar® Haven and Fort Lauder-
Frank Sinatra and a’ young television actress on their
Cannon said. |
ROBERT GOLDFARB |
were unable to swim to shore | against the wind and outgoing tide.
2 A ¥ sraduate of the Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, N.Y., Goldfarb had been a crew member on yachts and |-tankers.. He leaves a_ wife
identified as James 0. Grimes,- a steward. A spokesman for the Southern Breeze said his home was in Ireland.
The two men had spent the evening at a bowling alley and coffee shop at Vineyard Haven where both girls are employed . for the summer.
-OFFERED RIDE
Albert Brickman, operator a the establishment, said the quar- tet” played pool When it was time for the men /to return to the vacht, the girls offered to row them _— ine dinghy.
Since the Southern Breeze ap
sponses off Martha's Vineyard Is-
land a week ago. its passengers have Been the object of watch ing residents and vacation- ers. ;
The second crew member w as
and howled...
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- liquid, fuel and weighing 150 and ran into the tunnel, he said di fe ; ‘ Cinsablied ....0.0.4.;. 8%, 8 . : dale, Fia., said: “It was rough fier about an hour, Miss tons, was in the underground) pois " 13 | Lay suffered burns’ of the aad te waves bik wa sak fed eine alk ea ie Sm Most intefest was centred om tube but did? not” burn, Wood ete B jhead, arms and legs. He was the boat with water. It just’ sank andes js se t 100 yards fréin 19-year-old TV-eactress Mia Far’ said. ustesonsem there? ‘listed in satisfactory condition : ae 7 row and rumors that she amd There was no danger of a nu Comics ......2...00e0eee: : here. Saunders wefleced sense right gr as soe wed the a the gor gc Sinatra plan to wed despite the -Clear~ explosion, he said, be- | Fi —_...s | inhalation and also Was listed In ber} could pot. swim and Bob anc sg wevere de - ee 30-year difference in their ages. as ak air ae ne been a Finance rkets sseeeees | Satisfgetory condition. see Sahat Wak. Pines WEE Ga nag shore outst a breakwa- wiss Farrow portrayed Allisow \ joved while the civilian work-| ome see eee erent | The’ four air force-crew mem- “ - Mackengie in the TV serial Pey- men updated, thé physical plant, Editorials | -.--.....++-+.- @ | ners: whe reguiacty man the Te TEA TIME FOR BRITISH PRIME MINISTER ae Lae inthe oat and “We screamed for help and a ton Place. 4 of the complex. K — it ~~... 5 tan II complex remained in their ' : - jaunch was sent out to pick us Other ‘members of Sinatra's The air force said the explo- | ae voame Sones : control centre, the chamber, British Prime Minister Har- Mary, and son, Giles. They was taken on Samson Isie. FOUGHT TIDE up. And they went to the dinghy party include actress Claudette sion pecans at 2 om. EDT. cS U farthest from the launch tube,| old Wilson pours tea during are spending their vacation in’ (AP vie cable from Miss Whittemore and Chary! and cot Jim” Colbert and Rosalind. Russell (5:30 p.m. ADT) Monday, trap- | and were not harmed. picnic Tuesday with his fe Scilly Isles. This picture Lendes Navin. 2 ef Lincoln. Neb... Goldfarb could not be found. | and their husbands. © : ee jp i ‘ ere venules Sem war mamoanentnitte sci casilaeiieaa it al rite = eS wae mae ai oy Ne . z ae — _— ” " e " _