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i II IIHIIIW la WMWWMWlllllBM II Mil 1 II -II I IIW MIL BWMWPJ .1 IWWi Ill II lllfc 1 10 PAGFS 5 CENTS Democrat-Herald, Vol. CYII, No. 107 SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1967 Albany, Linr County, Oregon 'Fire in The Unrest In Searing Flames Ki Red China Continues Th ree Astronauts CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) An Apollo 1 astronaut cried "Fire in the spacecraft!" and in an instant the entire moonship was engulfed in a sudden fatal flash of By JOHN RODERICK TOKYO (AP) Peking radio reported today that Mao Tse- fire, the Apollo program director said Saturday. tung's followers in rebellious Sinkiang Province, where 100 persons were reported killed In recent clashes, have vowed to seize the government from ap Grimly, Maj.

Gen. Samuel Phillips told of the tragedy that killed the Apollo 1 pilots and set back America's man to the moon program perhaps months. Phillips who as program director headed up a pleminary investigation team probing the blackened wreckage of Apollo 1 said astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B.

Chaffee were waiting to pick up the count in a re- thearsal of their planned I i pointees of President Liu fchao- chi. The Mao-controlled radio also I i said Red Chinese army troops Feb. 21 launch date. in full battle dress paraded through the streets of six cities Friday to demonstrate their loy Planes Kill Two In Arabian Attack alty to Mao. The displays of military might were staged in Taiyuan.

capital of Shansi Province, recently captured by Maoists, as well as "The test started in the early morning, and the crew went inside at 1 p.m.," he said. "The hatch was closed at 2:50 p.m. "The spacecraft was closed and was pressurized with oxygen. At 6:31 p.m., observers in the pad area and on the TV monitor in the blockhouse heard a report originating from one of the astronauts who has not yet been identified that there was a blaze." Shanghai, Peking, Fukien, Paot ing and Lanchow in the north escort fighters whined across the mountain frontier and dropped an estimated 32 bombs during he 18-minute raid. west.

EDITOR'S NOTE AP cor-respondent David Lancashire was in the Saudi Arabian border town of Ntjran near strife-torn Yemen Friday whan it was bombed. Peking wall posters, Japanese ill I Til TT1 1 i ii if i I correspondents reported, said I took cover in a garbage pit. One group of 250-pound bombs Blockhouse crewmen said seven of the eight Sinkiang army divisions about 140,000 of the 160,000 men were loyal to Gen. Wang En-mao, the pro- they heard the words: "Fire in MAPLE LAWN PLACE (the old urkhart Estate) at 1951 Salem Albany, 1 beinf renovated with the reconstruction' coordinated by the Albany Parka and Recreation Department. The first phase of the renovation involved remodeling part of the downstairs to make room for croups to meet A picture pace showinr some of the furniture at the house, an achlteet'i sketch of how it will loook when three phases of reconstruction are completed and part of the remodeling- is on page 3 of today's Albany Democrat-Herald.

(Democrat-Herald photo by Tony Hay den) raised towering plumes of san and smoke as they missed a customs post by more than 150 yards. Six bombs fell near the- By DAVID LANCASHIRE the spacecraft! from inside Liu commander of the Sinkiang NAJRAN, Saudi Arabpa (AP) Two waves of Soviet-built jets town's airfield Military District. The situation in the province, Apollo 1 at the instant of death. They hoped to identify the astronaut who said it by listening to tape recordings made during the countdown. bombed this oasis town near Eight or nine unexploded Yemen as its residents awoke Legislative Tempo Said Fast' scene of 1960 border incidents bombs lay in the main street after the raid.

Government en with the Soviet Union and site of for sabbath prayers Friday. Saudi Arabian authorities said the planes were Egyptian. A split second later, fire "that gineers hurried to defuse them Powell to Pay Widow Jury Gets Baker Case China's five atomic explosions, was said to be tense. SALEM (AP)-The tempo of The Department of Commerce, senate passage, however, is as crowds gathered to watch. doubtful.

Gov. Tom McCall'i created in 1965, is scheduled to The Saudi Defense Ministry Nasser has threatened to at me uregon Legislature seems faster than usual for so earlv Peking radio said Sinkiang originated from inside the cabin penetrated to the outside of the spacecraft and surrounded the moonship in an instant proposed income tax increase is hdie on June 30, but the legisla said four persons were killed and three injured before antiair in the session. ture is exepcted to give it per tack or capture Najran, chief supply base for royalist forces of ousted Imam Mohammed Al-Badr in their struggle against There really is one big prob manent life. No other reorgani "split seconds," Phillips said. lem taxes, nut this subject has dead with neither party wanting it.

Finance Gov. McCall's budget will be announced at midweek. It will be based on his in WASHINGTON (AP) The Emergency crews had the pro-Mao "rebel" headquarters and members of the government and administration declared they would begin an all-out struggle to seize the leadership of the vast but thinly populated northwest region. craft fire forced the planes to flee and drop their bombs at random. Three persons were reported missing.

a lot of problems associated zation bills are being talked about. Fish and Game Bills have Bobby Baker case went to the BIMINI, Bahamas (AP) -Adam Clayton Powell said today he intends to pay $33,000 next Tuesday on the $164,000 with them. jury today. Apollo 1 doors opened in five minutes, he said, but were confronted with intense heat and the Egyptian-backed republican regime in Yemen's civil war. The town of 6,000 was bombed 45 days in 1963.

Here is a summary of the After U.S. Judge Oliver Gasch A 10-year-old girl and a boy court judgment held against expounded for an hour and a come tax proposal, so won't get very far. The Joint Ways and Means Committee is acting on very dense smoke. Twenty-seven him by a Harlem widow. have been introduced to make steelhead a game fish and to boost fishing and hunting license fees, but no action has been taken.

half on the law involved, the Egyptian officials admitted a rescue workers were felled by smoke dropping like At a packed news conference six men and six women retired raid on the town last October the small agency budgets, with were killed when a dozen bombs fell along the main street of this provincial capital. A Saudi officer said an Englishman was killed and 3 to 10 soldiers were status of the major legislation: Taxes The House Taxation Committee has voted to refer to the people a proposal for a 3 per cent sales tax, with food and drugs exempted. In this to ponder whether the former and said it was a mistake. its big decisions scheduled for dominoes as each rushed to help. secretary to the Senate's Dem Ombudsman The bill to cre President John F.

Kennedy Property Tax Relief Asked ate the office of Ombudsman to pledged U.S. assistance to Saudi killed or wounded when a stick Their efforts were in vain. the end of the session. Ten per cent salary increases for state employes and officials are on their way through bouth houses, ocratic majority is guilty of tax evasion, larceny, and handle public complaints Arabia in case ot aggression of bombs fell on a military Grissom, White and Chaffee package will be property tax limits. Hearings on the proposal will be held next week, and the House probably will send it to camp.

Other officers denied that against it and President Johnson has reaffirmed the pledge. against state agencies has been introduced in the Senate, but no action yet. Baker, 38, is charged with a camp was bombed. apparently died instantly. The only escape available to mem was to open the hatch doors SALEM (AP) A leading on this little island off Flonda, Powell said that would satisfy the original judgment won against him in 1963 for defamation of character.

Interest and penalties because of his long delay in paying have run up the amount. The money will go to Mrs. Esther James, 70, who sued Powell for calling her a "Bag woman," or graft collector for the police. Today Powell re Preliminary work on bases The raid broueht tne nrst otn Democrat introduced another the senate in about 10 davs for American Hawk ground-to- cial accusation by Saudi Arabia property tax relief measure in larceny, tax evasion, conspiracy and other offenses, but the central accusation in the three-week trial has been that he stole most or all of $100,000 in "sena with the wheels well greased. Education The Senate Education Committee is beginning work on new formula for distributing aid to local districts.

The bill to change Portland State College to a university of an Egyptian attack on its ter the legislative mriaay from inside the spacecraft, tne program director said, and scramble to safety. The spacecraft doors "can be air missiles has been started around the countjy. Najran is considered a likely spot for one ritory since Saudi King Faisal Soviets Accused Simpler Tax Sen. Edward fadeiey, state and President uamai AOdei Democratic chairman from Eu of the bases. Nasser of the United Arab Re torial campaign contributions" opened quickly with a crank- gene, proposed that state school At the United Nations Friday, public signed a cease-fire pact has been introduced, but no ac maae oy uuirornia savings ana u.

in(Teased from $160 Forms Favored ferred to her as "that delightful I ak0X Li ri' type tool Apparently, Saudi Ambassador Jamil M. Of 'Repression' a loan executives tion yet. If the sales tax is in Aiipusi idd. on meir uisuuie to $240 annually per child Baroodv said Eeyptian planes passed, the state's share of local reduce over Yemen. uomDings oi iaj- try.

Saturday, the badly He said this would In closing arguments Friday, defense attorney Edward Ben had dropped napalm oomos ano MOSCOW (AP)-The Chinese! SALEM (AP)-Gov. Tom Me school costs would jump from 27 charred bodies of Air Force Lt nrorertv taxes. ran and Jizan, anotner aauui border town, were reported last to 75 per cent. spread poison gas on Yemeni villages. He said not even U.N.

Fadeley said the $240 contribu Cols. Grissom and White and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chaffee were in widow. Powell, a Baptist preacher, said the money to make the payment would come from royalties from a long playing record of his sermons just released.

Powell had lured newsmen to Embassy in Moscow called an unorecedented news conference today to accuse Soviet police of Highways The Highway Com tion would be 40 per cent of tne summer. Twenty news correspondents Secretary-General Thant Call announced Friday that his drive to simplify the preparation and filing of Oregon individual income tax returns has gained the backing of the Oregon So mission proposal to increase gas an infirmary ltt miles from the watched from cover as eight Diood repression" against taxes 1 cent a gallon and boost cost of educating a child. He estimated this was in line with the average in other states, "sees fit to raise his voice on behalf of those people." nett Williams said these "flint-eyed, marble-hearted tycoons" knew what they were doing. He said they collected the money, which was mostly in $100 bills, after the late Sen. Robert S.

Kerr of Oklahoma "gave up on" a proposal he had Iluyshin bombers and two MIG Chinese students who visited Red Square Wednesday. ciety of Certified Public Ac Educators long have advocat launch pad where they were to blast off Feb. 21 to spend up to 14 days orbiting earth to test spacecraft operations. The bodies were expected to be transported to Houston, countants. license plates $5 a year is before the House Highways Committee.

But House Majority Leader Robert F. Smith wants to issue $60 million worth of ed that the state share be 50 Bimim with a promise of "several important announcements," but the event turned U.S. and Soviet newsmen were barred from the conference and had to pick up their MCLan learned ot tnis on per cent. Gov. Tom McCall pro meeting with a delegation head B-52s Use Fire Bombs On ungle Near Cambodia out to be more of a promotion previously backed.

The proposed legislation would have meant millions of dollars of new highway construction bonds as a ed by Portland accountant Wil for the record. for services. But arrangements were not complete. posed that this year, but the House Taxation Committee scuttled his proposal Friday, voting instead to submit a sales tax to substitute. liam C.

Carpenter. The producer, who was also material from those invited. The Chinese charged earlier that Soviet police prevented 69 Chinese students from placing a taxation on stock savings and Traffic Safety There are The accountants said they sup Grissom, 40, flew the second loan associations measures for re-examination of auto drivers and inspection of ported McCall's proposal because "the simplicity in prepar In his final argument, Prose SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) Giant U.S. B52 bombers the people. The $100 million income from the sales tax would eo to the schools.

cutor William O. Bittman ac Mercury spaceship and first manned two-man craft; White, 36, was the first U.S. astronaut to leave his ship and become a rained fire bombs on War Zone ing the individual return would be of benefit to everyone." They wreath on the grave of Joseph V. Stalin and roughed them up in a bloody scuffle. They said 10 of the students were "seriously cused the defense of maligning a dead man of blameless rep trated all their strikes in the lower part of the country as poor weather covered the northern portions.

During the raids, an Air Force F4C Phantom jet was shot down by Communist ground fire, U.S. headquarters said. McCall estimated his proposal would have meant another $150 million for the schools. Fadeley said his measure saia mat "tne new bill will make the determination of tax utation human satellite. Chaffee, 31, was a fledgling spaceman look present, said 1.3 million records nave already been ordered and he expects to sell 4 million.

Powell will get 22 cents for each one. Powell also said he would appear before the House committee investigating his qualifications to be seated in Congress "When my counsel advises me." The committee is due to start work next week and has until motor vehicles. The federal government is applying pressure to pass these. Other bills would fix a maximum speed limit. No action yet.

Pollution The Senate Com-committee on Air and Water beaten." today in an attempt to burn out the longtime jungle sanctuary of the Viet Cong near the Cambodian frontier. It was the second incendiary raid this month by the high ing forward to his first mission. The Soviets called the Chinese assertions "unpardonable lies." would provide about $80 million. He said that would be about a able income much easier by the taxpayers and will result in a more general filing of correct returns, which will simplify the Emergency Board Some day, every spaceman knew in his heart, it was bound to happen. It was too much to They said the Chinese created 12 per cent tax reduction if ap Quality is considering the bills to tighten the anti-pollution laws.

the disturbance by shouting flying Stratoforts. A U.S. military spokesman, anti-Soviet slogans and starting audit procedures and the audit of a great number of individual Averts Rail Tieup Elections There has been no hgnts. plied to all property. He said he is considering a stipulation that part of the money perhaps as much as 50 per cent be applied Feb.

23 to recommend whether Powell should be seated. action yet, but there is strong returns by the State Tax Com who announced the raid, said the results were not yet known. The two-man crew nursed the crippled craft out to sea in the Gulf of Tonkin, bailed out and were rescued by a U.S. Marine helicopter within about 15 minutes of landing in the water. In South Vietnam, two U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP)-Presi Mao Tsyun, identified as the press attache of the Chinese Embassy, told the news confer In the Mekong Delta. U.S. dent Johnson set up an emer sentiment to let teachers and public employes contribute to political campaigns. to tax relief for homes. He said Army gunship helicopters used gency board today to look into this could boost the tax relief ence that the Red Square scuffle hope that the perilous route to the moon could be traveled without loss of life.

But when it came, they thought, it would be in the far reaches of space, not this way. Going through a full-scale simulation of the launch that was to carry them aloft Feb. 21 for a two-week ride, Grissom, White and Chaffee were trapped searchlights to track down Viet Constitution the Senate Con for home-owners to as much as mission. In his inaugural message, Mc-Call said that he would lighten the "worry and bother on the individual of coping with income tax forms and by having most income taxpay a dispute between the nation railroads and six shopcraft un was one more example of col 27 per cent. Macao, Chinese Crisis Said Over lusion between the Soviet revi Cong guerrillas arming aooui ui sampans during the night.

helicopters and a light observation plane were shot down by ground fire Friday during wide- ions representing some 146,000 sionist ruling clique and the stitutional Revision Committee is holding hearings on a proposed new constitution. It would make few changes, being largely Helicopter pilots reported de-l workers. U.S. leaders." stroying 33 sampans and killing iy scattered ground fighting The action blocks a strike by ers report simply the taxable in Two Hearings on the workers for 60 days. In the northern nart nf the a rewrite job.

44 Viet Cong rrioay nignt ana this morning while flying "fire- come shown on their federal tax MACAO. (AP) Pro-Commu Labor The bill updating the nist Chinese leaders saidtoday Politics-Elanned Senate. To Probe Astronaut Deaths country, U.S. Marines reported 'he spacecraft when it was killing -45 Qjmmunists-k-threewept by the flash fire. actions with the help of artillery; Fire hot enough to ignite nep-barrages and air strikes.

In the seared and blackened the central coastal region, units of spaceship. Bodies of the astro- apprenticeship law was passed by the House this week, and everybody is for it now. The House Republicans favor a bill in SALEM (AP) The proposal west of Saigon. On these missions, one helicopter beams its searchlights on the enemy while two flanking 'Quake Recorded In Aleutians to let teachers and state em If no settlement is reached in the-meantime, -the workerswill be free to strike on March 28. Johnson set up the emergency board after being advised by National Mediation Board that a strike "threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive the country of essential transportation service." creasing unemployment bene the U.S.

1st Cavalry Airmobile were oauiy cnarreu. WASHINGTON (AP) Chairman Clinton P. Anderson, D- they had finally reached agreement with Macao's Portuguese government on terms to end the crisis that has existed since eight Chinese were killed here in riots last month. The agreement will be signed Sunday a spokesman for the Itn tiro Hia HpiccAm 'If Grissom we die," once gunship helicopters open fits. Labor bills against im "Division ana Vietnamese1 ployes take part in politics will have public hearings in Portland and Eugene in the next 10 days.

N.M., announced today the Sen with automatic weapons. porting strikebreakers and to marines killed 21 of the enemy, jsaid, we want people to accept BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) In air action over North Viet ate Space Committee will in Infantrymen of the U.S. 25th are in ansiv Dusmess, University of California seis establish a minimum wage have no chance. vestigate the accident which nam Friday U.S.

pilots flew 85 The House Elections Commit and we hooe that if anything happens to us it will not delay took the lives of three astro mologists recorded a large earthquake early today in the bombing missions. They concen- tee will conduct the hearings. Legislature The House is ex Division reported killing 9 more. U.S. headquarters said there were no casualties in the crashes of the two helicopters, one an Armv nraft anH Hie nfher a Aleutian Islands.

the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life." The astronauts were in their pected to pass a proposed constitutional amendment to allow annual legislative sessions about mid-week. But Senate passage McCall Comments on Sales Tax ine quaKe registered e.a on the Richter scale, which rates nauts Friday night. Anderson said the Senate inquiry will follow a probe to be made by a board set up by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. i in a pure oxygen the 1906 San Francisco quake at Marine craft.

The pilot of the Iff Ji environment, is doubtful. 8.25. The tremor was 2,400 spotter plane was listed as Droeram is explicit and the oeo-l measure we espouse SALEM (AP)-Gov. Tom Mc when the blaze flared up. During the countdown, minor troubles had been Government Reorganization Ero Communist Chinese uiam-er of Commerce said.

The spokesman said pro-Communist leaders will then order the lifting of the five-day-old boycott against sale of food, personal services, and payment of taxes to Portuguese. The agreement, he said, provided for the Macao government to pay $360,000 compensation to relatives of the dead and those seriously, injured when miles northeast of Berkeley pie know what it contains. Also, in putting millage in- missine Call made this comment on Fri Under this new proposition, stead of dollar limitations oni rieaaquaners announcea me reported with the communica- day's action by House Taxation Committee. the impact of the tax would not taxing units other than schools, termination of Operation Colby, ancj environmental control the new proposition raises the a search and destroy operation but it was not known "I haven't seen any figures on be known to the people at the time of the vote. With our pro- Homeowners Group Goes Ahead on Tax Limitation possibility of substantial in- north and east of Saigon by Whether the fire stemmed from how a balanced budget would be near Fox Island, seismologists reported, adding that it normally would not cause tidal action.

In Washington, the Coast and Geodetic Survey estimated the quake had occurred about 800 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The survey said it regarded the tremor as moderate and also said it would not set off gram anyone can sit down withjereases in property taxes with-'units of the 9th Infantry Divi- tnjs his federal tax return and figure out a vote of the people since sion. Headquarters said 14 ene-l The spacecraft and rocket constructed under the House Taxation Committee proposal. What little information we Macao police and Portuguese troops tried to suppress the out exactly what his state tax millage goes up with reap- mv soldiers were killed in the were not fueled and explosive PORTLAND (AP) The Ore figure would be ent that nothing will be done by the legislators, we are proceed have received indicates that the new plan would require in ex- riots. Moreover the House Taxation PraisaL oneration beeuh Jan 20 devices aboard the spacecraft Although less than overjoyed operation, oegun Jan.

zu. inactjvated with today's action by the Tax tMmmMmmaini Navy Capt. Walter M. Schirra gon Homeowners Association has abandoned hope of getting ing with full speed to take the Committee is advocating a de ce5" of one hundred million dollars a year in new taxes, or any seismic sea waves. parture from the income tax Committee, we recognize it is; Albany Weather tne legislative tax relief it wants and is going ahead with getting necessary steps to put the peti tions into circulation.

structure. We have emphasized the obligation of the assembly to Friday's high temperature, 54 petitions in circulation tor a IK "A meeting will be held at the our conviction that it would be enact tax legislation and we win degrees; this morning low, 51 per cent limitation. more than two and one-half times the additional taxes contemplated in the proposal of this administration. Submission of the suggested Portland General Electric Auditorium, 3700 SE 17th Port preferable to stay with the in-j continue to work with leaders come tax. of both houses to provide prop-: degrees: precipitation, 1.40 Weatherman Says: Mostly cloudy with shower tonight.

Rain again Sunday. Low tonight 40-45; high Sunday 50-55. Southerly winds 10-20 miles an This was reported today by Harold a. secretary of the land, on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m., to On the other hand the new erty tax relief And certainly we inches; Willamette River read ing, 17.96 feet, up 5.01 feet.

association. He said in a news constitutional amendment to the statement: proposal does adopt our general would raise no question about; recommendation that aid be dis-! the right of people to have a tributed through the voice in any such program sour. give the general public the reasons for our move in circulating the petitions now." The tax limitation sought by now steps into Grissom IVftPff) tfi Tliril as command pilot for the irifCfC IV I VI II jfjrst Apollo mission. Other I members of the backup crew Special Articles jwill Air Force Majors Walter Astronauts Lives 10 Cunningham and Donn F. Maple Lawn Place 3 jEisele, both space rookies.

Parents of the dead astro-Classifieds 8, 9 nauts were in seclusion, strick- Comics 8 en With grief. Crossword Puzzle .6 President Johnson sent per- Dear Abby 10 sonal messages to families of Editorial 6 the lost spacemen. Sports 7 I All three of the dead men TV Schedule 6 jwere married and each had two Women's News 4,5 'children. people would not assure the adoption of any clearly defined The Oregon Homeowners As- coation has patiently waited for ACTRESS GETS BONDS tax program, even if the voters 'One must caution, though, that, which so profoundly affects: LOS ANGELES (AP) Deb the new proposal would have the their welfare, approved the referral. If the bal the association would limit property taxes to U4 per cent of bie Watson, the former "Tam some action by the House Taxation Committee to place the 1 per cent tax limitation measure to a vote of the people at a spe ROCKEFELLERS NAME SON NEW YORK (AP) The son born early Thursday to Gov.

and Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller has been named Mark Filler, the governor's office announced Friday. lot measure were approved, the legislature would then work out a tax program. Under this pro my of television, just turned market value.

It would have been on the November ballot had not a technicality in the state taking over approximately! We recognize that, just as our 75 per cent of all funding of the proposal may not be a final an-operation local schools, andswer, neither is the product of a that would more-likely lead to 'party caucus in just one cham-state control than the 50-50 ber of the 18, has picked up 128,600 in gov cial election. "However, as it is quite appar ernment bonds bought from her earnings as a juvenile. cedure the people would be steering in the dark; where our count of signatures kept it off..