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mm mmiM county's nozrn Vol CXVI No. 285 Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Tuesday Afternoon, February 4, 1969 By Carrier Per Weak 40c Single Copy 10c Reds Are Waiting For 4 A ewTal Concessions since, io-od i- Planes American Hit Vietnamese; 200 Said Dead PARIS (UPI) Communist negotiators have decided to wait for concrete offers of "concessions" from South Vietnam before making any move to break the current deadlock at the Vietnam peace talks, Western diplomats said today. The diplomats said North Vietnam and the Viet' Cong would make no move to break the impasse over whether military or political issues will be discussed first at the talks until they found out exactly what sort of concessions the-South Vietnamese had in mind. South Vietnamese Vice Pres FN 7 A Arab Guerrilla Leader Promises Liberation War By Murray J. Brown United Press International An Arab guerrilla leader today vowed to mount a "war of liberation" throughout' Israeli-occupied territory.

In Cairo, Yassir Arafat told newsmen he would "escalate the Palestinian armed revolution in all parts of occupied Palestine to berome a popular war of liberation." He spoke" following his elec- -tion Monday night as chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organi- -zation (PLO), acombine of guerrilla bands and groups" of Arab refugees from Israeli-held territory. Only Solution Arafat said armedforee is their only solution. He ruled out "all political solutions." He is a leader of the fanatic El Fatah guerrilla band. In Amman, Jordanian authorities Monday accused Israel of sending two helicopters gun-ships backed by jet fighters into the area and strafing a civilian settlement, killing two women. According to Jordanian and Iraqui spokesmen it was the fourth Israeli air incursion and strike of the day into Jordan.

Both Jordan and Iraq, which keeps some 10,000 troops in Jordan, claimed downing two Israeli aircraft. In Jerusalem, Israeli spokesmen denied their craft did any raiding, Monday except for hitting Jordanian guns that popped at an Israeli patrol on the west bank of the Jordan. The Israelis reported no air losses. BORMAN ON LAND Astronaut Frank Borman, on a goodwill tour of Europe for the United State with hit wife and two sons, arrives at Premier Harold Wilton's official resi to a meeting at Buckingham He is the personal emissary UPI Cablephoto in South Vietnam's Central Highlands 235 miles Northeast of Saigon Monday and found the dead, who wore green jungle fatigues, the spokesmen said. Direct' hits from the bombs also destroyed 10 barracks structures, a network of.

bunkers and a food storage depot. In Saigon, the U.S. Command announced the close of three extensive military operations in central South Vietnam; The -campaigns occurred over a 16-month period and resulted in more than i 7,000 Communist Jroopskilled, spokesmen said. The spokesmen said U.S. losses' in the long-term opera- -tions were 1,096 killed and 5,312 wounded.

American officers also reported the loss of the 999th'--American helicopter 'shot down by Communist forces in South Vietnam. Groundfire downed the UH1 Army helicopter Sunday in the Mekong Delta about 75 miles south of Saigon. None of the crewmen were injured, Monday night in Saigon, a semi-official South Vietnamese broadcast said the United States would turn over 300 helicopters to government forces. The account said the move would allow the- Saigon regime to assume a greater portion of the burden of fighting the war -and lead to replacement of some U.S. troops this year." The South Vietnamese government announced today it was cancelling leave for" all civil servants during the Tet holiday (Continued on page 3) Sink USS Pueblo Were Dropped Plans To By Navy, CORONADO, Call nm tu.

ii u.uu iwn; i w. Command in the Pacific drew, up plans for a raid to free the crew of the Pueblo from North Korean captivity, but it never received a. go-ahead from higher up. The Navy also was prepared to destroy the intelligence ship By Jack Walsh SAIGON (UPI) American B52 bombers dropping 750-pound bombs from an altitude of 30,000 feet blasted a Communist jungle base camp and killed 200 North Vietnamese soldiers, military spokesmen Said today South Vietnamese plored the ruins of the camp NAACP May March In Lebanon LEBANON, Tenn. (UPI) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is reportedly considering mass demonstrations in support of a Negro teacher's aide who claims she was fired from her post for supporting her son's refusal to play "Dixie" with the school band.

In a statement released Mon- the. NAACP said notices had been sent to Middle Tennessee NAACP branches "to be on the alert for mobilization in the event that mass demonstrations in the Lebanon area are called for." Miss Hazel M. Land, NAACP field director, said she "also telegraphed the chief of the civil rights section of the U. S. Justice Department asking its intervention in the case, Mrs.

Marcus Caldwell claims she was fired from the $200-a month post at -Lebanon High School after her son, Charlesr-14, had been removed from the school band for refusing. to play "Dixie" at a pep rally. He said he felt the song "makes fun" of Negroes. Erwin Reed, Wilson County schools superintendent, denied the charges and said Mrs. Caldwell was dismissed because she hadn't done as well in her work (Continued on page 3) Watch Your Worker Ads WASHINGTON (UPI) From now on, unless you need something like a go-go dancer or a football tackle, you will be violating the law if you advertise for employes, by sex.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission printed new guidelines Monday which prohibit the placement of job openings under separate male and female headings except in rare cases where sex is a definite qualification for the position. The order, according to the commission, is retroactive to Jan. 24 when the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia ruled the guidelines constitutional.

Phofo Winners Nixon Plans ident Nguyen Cao Ky made the offer of "more concessions" without specifying what he, had In mind, when he called once again for private bilateral talks -with North Vietnam at a news conference Monday. Ky, who had just come from an hour-long conference with American chief Henry Cabot Lodge, emphasized that he was only prepared to discuss military matters in the private talks. I In doing so heTuled Out the biggest concession that" the" Communists havesought that political questions relating to South Vietnam should be solved before the military problems. Another development that was expected to hold up progress in 'the two-week-old talks was the impending 'visit of President Nixon to Europe. French government sources said the President would make Paris the first stop on his itinerary, The Communist negotiators, who have maintained' all along that there can be no solution except on the basis, of their five-point declaration of last November, may wait to see if the presidential visit will bring any new concessions.

Rest to try to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in America. He said he realized the department still had the "primary responsibility" for protecting the welfare of farmers. He called farm surpluses "a great bounty because We can deal effectively with hunger." The planned Florida trip, to Nixon's compound at Key Biscayne, was to begin on Friday afternoon and end Sunday evening pr early Mon- day. Dr. Henry' A.

Kissinger, Nixon's national security advi- ser, was to accompany him on the trip to discuss foreign It will be Nixon's first break from work since he entered the White Deaths Ed H. Gunneson Harvey C. Denson Mrs. Linnie Prater (See Obituaries Page 3) Are Announced in the Communist port after its capture of but wonsa Wonsan there was no green light on that either. Such were the highlights Monday of another dramatic day of testimony before a five-admiral court of inquiry.

Murphy to Testify Lt. Edward Murphy 31, San Diego, executive officer and navigator of the Pueblo, was scheduled to testify in open will be found News Journal, in today's Daily The winners in the annual photo contest are also announced today. They are: William Hayes of 115 East College first prize. Mr. Hayes had a perfect score and his entry was received first.

He received $50. There were two other winners. Mrs. Clyde Huddleston, of 106 Eventide was second and received $35 and Ralph Craighead of LeBeau Chateau was third and received $15. Bus Driver Is Arrested A school bus driver was ar rested by sheriffs deputies Mon- while Intoxicated and disorderly conduct, after complaints were lodged with the county sheriffs office.

The driver, Jack Campbell, ai former member of the coun---ty school arrested on Plainview rd according to the sheriffs office, He will have a hearing Thurs-" day morning In General Sessions court, dence, 10 Downing street, prior palace with Queen Elizabeth. of President Nixon. session today beginning at 9 a.m. PST. The one witness in the open bearing Monday was Rear Adm.

George Cassell, Chief of Staff for operations for the Pacific Fleet at the time of the Pueblo seizure. He is now deputy commander of a NATO naval strike force in the Mediterranean stationed in Naples, Italy. His testimony- largely re- moved any blame from the U.S. Air Force for not having assisted Bucher when he was radioing desperately for help off the Korean Coast Jan. 23, 1968.

Coas Jan. 23, 1968. 1 As it turned out, nothing was done. Cassell said he and Adm. John J.

Hyland, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, discussed putting reconnaissance planes over Wonsan the next day to determine the plight of the Pueblo. Cassell said he and Hyland and the staff also drew up (Continued on page 3) Counseling Center In New Space The Community Counseling Center is now In new offices at 218 Murfreesboro Bank Building. The space is furnished free of charge. The center was located at the First Presbyterian church, In free space. The Counseling Center is a newly organized community project to render assistance to couples experiencing marital difficulties by discovering their i i real problems and recommend ing solutions.

Panel conferences are set up for couples requesting counselingwith lawyers, doctors, ministers, and finance men. These professional people -donate their services and. no charge is made to the couples. Further information may be obtained by calling the Center secretary at 893-0212 on Mondays and Thursdays. "gives us the opportunity to recognize the many ways that electricity serves us daily In our homes and on our jobs to help make our lives more comfortable and productive.

It underscores the vital role electricity plays In the life and economy of our communffy." The Murfreesboro Electric Department is one of the more than 2,000 local publicly owned electric utilities which serve more than 30-million persons in 48 states. The electrical industry is one of the major industries in the Florida By EUGENE V. RISHER WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon continued his rapid fire meetings with the National Security Council today, this time to unfold his plans for dealing with the Middle East crisis. Nixon was likely to explain his Mideast decisions in his second presidential news conference Thursday morning. Even with the Mideast problem hanging heavy over the early days of his administration, Nixon tentatively plans a weekend trip to Florida Friday.

Nixon continued making the rounds of various federal agencies for-'" get-acquainted sessions Monday. He dropped in on the Department of Housing and Urban Development and told HUD's top officials they must "maintain the character of American life in our cities." HUD Secretary Rom-ney praised Nixon for "being a president with a deeper concern for urban problems than any president in history." In a stop at the Agriculture Department Nixon said he had given Secretary Clifford M. Hardin a special responsibility Other Developments In other Middle East developments: Israeli officials said an Arab terrorist granade killed two Arab boys and wounded eight other bystandersMonday in Israeli-occupied Gaza. The blast came shortly after Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan ended a tour of the city. In Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Riad appealed Monday to U.N.

Secretary General Thant to "put an end to Israeli barbaric acts" against demonstrators in Gaza. He alsq told his parliament Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser reached "very important" decisions the past week in talks in Cairo with visiting Soviet Communist party presidium member Alexander N. Shelepin. Riad did not detail the decisions. In Syria, the official Syrian newspaper Al Thawra said Iraqi leaders had ousted and placed under house -arrest their vice premier and defense minister, Lt.

Gen. Hardan Takriti. It said a power struggle in Iraq has reached a' peak, involving mass arrests and "terrorist activity." Before3 fV NASHVILLE (UPI) The FBI is apparently launching an investigation into statements made by State Rep. Robert Booker last month after the Knoxville Democrat helped elect the first Republican Speaker in the State House of Representatives in modern times. FBI agents contacted reporters for United Press International and the Nashville Tennessean Monday concerning their knowledge of what Booker, a Nogrc, said.

The. newsmen were asked for copies of stories they wrote about Booker following the election of Rep. William Jenkins, R-Rogersville, as House Speaker. Booker was quoted as saying a possible federal appointment was mentioned by Republicans wooing him for his vote in the speakership race. He said Democrats offered to "double" any GOP offer.

Congressman Richard Fulton, said earlier he would ask the U. S. Civil Rights Commission to investigate reports surrounding the incident, and state House Democrats called for a state investigation. FBI agents said they were asked by Nathaniel Kossack, acting head of the Justice De-Continued on page 3) Avery, Jones Seek Seat MILLINGTON, Tenn. (UPD Two Democrats and a Republican announced as candidates Monday for the 8th District special" congressional' election, bringing the field to 11 for the -March 25 balloting.

The two Democrats were former legislator J. B. Avery Jr. of Alamo and Ed Jones, York--ville, a former state agriculture commissioner under Gov. Gordon Browning.

The field seeking to fill the unexpired term of the late Rep. Robert A. (Fats) Everett included nine Democrats, and Independent and a Republican. Week United States, Mr. Landers pointed out, noting that it puts billions of dollars Into the economy each year, spends more than $2.5 billion on research and employs more than 3-mil-lion Americans.

He cited these other points: American electrical power capacity is greater than the combined production of Japan, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and West Germany. The United States produces 36 of the world's total electrical power while serving only 6 of the (Continued on page 3) In Maine By early today Greenville reported 18 inches of new snow, Milllnocket had a new 13 inches and other points In Maine and wetern Massachusetts had received from one to 10 Inches. Parts of western New York and Pennsylvania experienced (Continued on page 3) It-you cudglled your, brain until you saw double, today you may place all those clerks, owners and managers of local stores in their proper spaces. The answer to the more than 80 names and spaces, Navy Nurse Faces Six Month Term TREASURE ISLAND, Calif. (UPD A 25-year-old Navy nurse has become the first woman officer to be sentenced to a prison term in U.S.

military history but she probably wont serve it. Lt. (j.g.) Susan Schnall was sentenced-to-sixjnonths-at hard 1nfwi M.nflav nv a civ-man labor Monday by a six-man court-martial board, which earlier found her guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and violating a general order prohibiting participation in "partisan political demonstrations." Her civilian attorney, Richard Werthimer, said a little-known Navy policy will spare her any sort of confinement. Under the policy, Werthimer said, women sentenced to confinement for a year or less are not detained at all. Lt.

Schnall admitted at her (Continued on page 3) on suck Moves Near City Beach SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI A 200-square mile oil slick movad to within two miles of this coastal city today, pushed by steadily increasing onshore winds. All offshore Oil drilling operations were halted at the request of Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel who flew over the crude oil slick and found the pollution "more severe than 1 anticipated." The southwest winds blowing from the Pacific toward land were expected to increase during the afternoon to between 10 and 20 knots, endangering 40 mile of sparkling Southern California beaches. The Coast Guard reported Monday night that an aerial survey showed "the northwest edge of the main concentration has drifted slightly toward Santa Barbara and is approximately two miles offshore." During the past two days, offshore winds bad kept the (Continued on page 3) Electricity Aids Progress Theme For Special The Murfreesboro Electric Department will join with other electric utilities in the United States in observance of National Electrical Week, February 9 to i 15, according to W.

E. Landers, General Manager, "Electricity Powers Progress" is the theme of the special week, which also Includes the 122nd anniversary of Thomas E. Edison's birth on February 11. Landers said the observance Middle Tennessee Fair and cold today and tonight Wednesday sunny and a little warmer. Highs today mostly in the 40s, Lows tonight In the 20s and high Wednesday mostly upper 40s and low 50s.

West to northwesterly winds 8 to 16 miles per hour today becoming light and variable tonight and west to southwest 6 to 12 miles per hour Wednesday. Outlook for Thursday Fair and a little wanner. Snow Storm Plagues East, New Cold Wave In South By United Press International A snowstorm was tapering off early today after dropping more than a foot of snow on New England. Virtually all of the rest of the nation had fair skies. Strong and blustery northwesterly winds whipped at the huge New England snowfall, creating hazardous conditions, especially worker; Larry McFarlin, co-chairman; Tom Green, Middle Tennessee Heart Chairman, Nashville; Al Reeves, co-chairman, and Sara Young, Volunteer worker.

Staff Photo HEART FUND KICK-OfP These workers ond chairmen of the 1969 Heart Fund campaign attended the kick-off of the annual drive for funds. They arSi Mrs. Myrtle lord, Volunteer.