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A i3 Mormng Sentine Sv a Sv 4 X(X Xx 5T Vol 61 No 38 Page Established 1904 Waterville Maine Thursday November 191964 Dial 873 3341 vPricc Eight Cents 95 Military Bases To Get Carlson Death vjwewww I Is Postponed Bl By Kenneth whiting BB i '4irw a i VI Announces New Cutbacks 18 America Ao Word Yet: Tupper Blast At Saigon Airport By PETER Aft NETT from where xt least a dozen two battalions of elite fected installations are named I reached for cohiment More onELECTION Page 2 Accident Record One Gift Works Many Wonders At Senior High School Waterville Mother GIVE THE UNITED WAY "roth the UAR Em Tllllll Til HIT Hill Daughter Classmates Index 3 DAY SPECIAL LOTS REE 3 mm NEED A NEW INLAID LOOR I Pondering A Pussier DRIVE i Newport Police Officer Dies As Italy Boots Envoys In Spy Smuggling Attempt tl I iS naval shipyards Chart behind the Secretary outlines the disposal of military bases as of September 1964 (AP Wirephoto) CANDY PARTY Ail id Even though their courses are different MrsPatricia Rancourt 34 and her daughter Barbara both Juniors at Waterville Senior High School consult each other' when it comes to homework problems After a 17 year ab sence' from school Mrs Rancourt decided ie frnm wheraxijf lonaf Xnvan US Air forcejet planes are parked An Australian plane 60 yards away had just landed with supplies for victims of the floods that ravaged central Viet Nam last week US Ambassador Maxwell Taylor visited the bombing scene later Mdre security' men were rushed to the airport On the fighting front 115 US helicopters supported by Viet namese bombers moved at least learned that the Portsmouth NH and Brooklyn NY ship yards are among those sched uled to be closed by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara The newspaper alsd said it had learned from unim peachable source that the Bos ton naval shipyard would be kept open ReCord a Washingtdn source had been in formed that Boston would not be on the list of clos cm VMSMU1 MVO A Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara tells a Pentagon news conference that 9S more mili tary bases will be eliminated He declined to identify any of the bases which include some i 4 CI STOP LN5 AT BEST LOBSTER POUND 77 Co'UA Waterville TH J471I RIED CHICKEN RIED CLAMS and other good thlnca THE QUICKEN COOP Oakland return this fall in hopes of earning her diploma at the same time as her daughter in June of 1966 She dropped out during hersdphomorc year in 1947 They reside on Main Street (Sentinel Photo by owles) 1 a I i for LOBSTERS? two battalions of elite troops into the Communist' badlands northwest of Saigon It was be lieved to' be the largest US heN icopter operation in South Viet Nam About five battalions of land forces already were moving to ward Communist held objec tives Jnthe region of BenJJuc By late afternoon said a US military Spokesman the opera More on BOMB Page 2 Chuckle Give a book a' bad name and it becomes 1 movie (T WRR Gen Corp) 21 31 2 Gov Reed certified tbe election of Republican Congressman Stanley Tupper Wednesday on the basis of an official tabu lation giving Tupper 5006 per cent of the total vote The governors act drew a quick accusation of from the man Tupper apparent ly defeated by 203 votes Ken neth Curtis Curtis had asked Reed In a telegram Saturday to delay the certificate 7 He said Wednesday might better have waited trhtH the recount he has requested established a trend toward one candidate or the other The re count starts Nov 30 Curtis sent a telegram to Reed Wednesday night which he said was a protest" to certification OnInside Pages Businessmen hall excise tax cut plans Page 4 ire destroys poultry house 5300 hens Page 2 Weather Today air colde'rJ Cloudy spqw developing riday (Complete Report Page 2) Reed Certifies Tupper Says Curtis ibwctiill TT i Mass told the newspaper he had been to Id by McNarfiara that advance information had been given 411 senators and con gressmen of affected states Sal tonstall said he had received no advance notice and that news is good Sen Edward Kennedy' Mass! announced at New Eng land Baptist Hospital that he haiTlOt received any warning from McNamara AUGUSTA An aide to US Rep Stanley Tupper Majne said Wednesday night Mie congressman has not receiv ed any advance notice that the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Kittery Is to be closed office was asked to comment on the announcement by Defense Secretary Robert Mc Namara that 95 military instal lations In 33 states are to be closed aide said if the Kit tery base is one of those to be closed Maine senators ind con gressmen would receive word only a half hour before the af by McNamara at 3 pm Thun day Tbe' aide said the congressman expressed grave concern that the administration would consid er closing any installation vital to the maintenance and con struction of the subma rine fleet Tupper also questioned wheth er one man such as McNamara should have the power to make a that affects so many people sd many jobs and the defense posture of the Uni ted States the spokesman said Tupper himself and oth members of congress ional delegation could not bo eliminate surplus obsolete uni necessary defense Installation This has and will continue to bo 1 McNamara said bases can be closed degrade ingour military capabilities and Xtiat the action is' being taken afjer a year of studies He 'th a while a search for additional More on BASES Page 2 ton to find ajuitahle basis for negotiations over the 60 Ameri cans inrebel hands The doctor 36 from Rolling Hills Calif was due to die last Monday for spying a charge vehemently denied by the Unit ed States TO KENYATTA Gbenye addressed his mes sage tp Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya who on Tuesday at the request of the United States urged Gbenye to spare Carlson for humanitarian reasons Keqyatta Is chairnjan of special commission set up by the Organization of African Unity to try to end the civil con flict in the Congo Gbenye said that in view cl message execution had been postponed ADDS voice President Maurice Yameogo of Upper Volta added his voice to the appeal for mercy for Carlson His office sent a mes sage to Kenyatta saying Carlson was a civilian who had rendered important service in caring for sick Congolese It said his exe cution wpuld only complicate a settlement of the Congo prob lem Stanleyville broadcasts have said negotiations are being car ried on between Gbenye and the US consul there Michael Hoyt who had been held a virtual prisoner for weeks More on CARLSON Page action Curtlsiiald "raises strong of unfair partisan The telegram asked Reed to inform the 1st District i Total to date' WO 559 Goal $120800 Today Closings To Be Gradua I 1 i Says' Secretary McNamara LEOPOLDVILLE the The execution of US 'missionary Dr Paul Carlson was postponed un til Monday pending further negotiations with the Uni ted States rebel leader Christophe Gbenye announced Wednesday in Stanleyville Say Kittery (Closing BOSTON (AP) Record lings McNamara is scheduled to American said Wednesday in a announce Thursday Washinctnn rt I a it has iAAd ikat 4u I ben Leverett Saltdi a substantial contribution to localtax McNamara made public a 32 page booklet showing how de fense installations closed earlier have been put to what he called "productive civilian At tached was a memorandum by President 'Johnson saying: expect to receive a dol lar of value for every dollar we spend on defense do so has meant We'must By JAMES LONG ROME (AP) Two United Arab Republic diplomats were expelled from Italy 'Wednesday for trying to smuggle a chained drugged prisoner to the oreign Ministry in Cairo in az trunk la beled They left Rome Wednesday niglit Police said the crated man Josef Daham 30 had beefi a spy first for the United Arab Repub lic and later for Israel They said the Moroccan born bleached blond language expert was an Israeli citizen They said he denied having been a( spy but told a confused or incomplete story of a myste Klltllen Markets Sports News 1013 8 A WA? Cruiser Crashes NEWPORT (ZP) He'rbert Towne about 30 a Newport po lice officer i ctr about seven months was killed instantly Wednesday night when he was pinned beneath the wreckage of his police cruiser Officials said Towne was trav eling onV Route 100 when the accident occurred hear the Ridge Road exit to Interstate 95 Early reports from the scene Indicated that Towne'ifiay hive beinin pursuit of a soeeder when the' occurred' A broadcast from th leftist Jrebel city in the northeast Con go heard in Nairobi Kenya' i said that It was up to Wasbing Jet ighter Shot Down In see Ronald Lallmo RPh (Modern Drugs in An ollowing is a tabulation of deaths accidents and people hurt on highways this year to date as reported to Maine State Police DEAgS 1964 172 1963 Person Injured 7352 Reported Accidents 1 541 2 Good Morning! SAIGON South Viet Nam (AP) A Communist terror bomb planted in what was sup posed to be a military security area at Saigon Ariport explod ed Wednesday wounding' 18 Americans and several Viet namese "Tight security was 'tn force at the airport after Viet Cong mbrtan attack Nov oh the supposedly militarily secure base at Blet Hoa J5 miles northeast of Saigon That attack from inside the security zone killed four US servicemen and destroyed or damaged 27 US combat planes The bomb blew up in a restau rant beside the passen ger terminal A high barbed wire fence closes off the restau rant from the public but this did not stop the Viet Cong or its sympathizers The bomb was placed on a concrete Y)eamIlt' was a plas tic (gharge so called because the explosive is plastic and can be stucko a wall it had to have a fuse This would mean that despite security precau tions the terrorists had worked freely i The blast smashed the inferi or of the restaurant Sending tables chairs and masonry across the airport packing lot A Air orce officer was seriously Injured when the bus he was sitting in outside the res taurant got a volley of concrete debris through its windows Ten Americans were hospitalized Eleven other US Air orce men i were wounded along with three US Army enlisted men three US civilians The injured Vietnamese worked in the restaurant Most of the Americans were standing around the restaurantwaiting transport their mess es for lunch The restaurant is Inside the military security area of the airport only two buildings EXplosioTiiDemolishes Interior A United States Air orce demolition expert searches through debris of dining room offer plastic bomb explosion in the Air Vietnam restaurant at Tan Son Njut airport Above the man is a broken concrete beam atop which the plastic charge had been placed Eighteen Americans weta injured (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon) TRENDS Interiors i rious appointment and kidnap ing from a cafe on the Via Ven eto nightlife quarter Police said (it seemed almost certain that the diplomatic trunk with its built in chains metal headbrace and nailed own shoes had been Used be fore for human cargo The two UAR Kmbassy first secretaries caught trying to ease the crated man through customs at iumicino Airport Tuesday night were Ab del Noneim El Neklawy and Selim Osman El Sayed oreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat maeje a formal and energetic iB UAR Ambassador Ahmed Na guib' Hasim Saragat said the UAR (Embassy had diplomatic imndinity and privileged infractions of Italian criminal The UAR Embassy said (it was in thedark about the of the trunk The two embassy secretaries showed up at the airport "in a A truck which customs officials said they had seen ber fore'Tfie white trunk like box' which had for shipment aboard a jet airliner was la beled: the UAR Em bassy Rome to tiie oreign Ministry UAR Cairo It was marked "diplomatic mail 'Old ashioned" Atmosphere tyo hours of it wtui'ine grace of the powers By JERRY BAULCH WASHINGTON (A(P) Pentagon will disclose Thursday 95 more military bases 'which will be closed Included will be the long awaited selection of some shipyards to be elimina ted Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told a news con ference Wednesday the bases Army and Air orce as well as tiie Navy shipyards will be closed gradually over a period of years as were 574 others or dered reduced or eliminated since 1961 Some overseas bases will be included McNamara said they can all be eliminated in any way reducing our military strength or combat His words obviously were couched to forestall expected protests especially in the case of the shipyards McNamara would not identify the bases He said he wanted to allow time for notifying who should the in formation including members of Congress in the 33 states af fected But he added that even they will not be informed before Thursday McNamara provided figures however which indicate the closings will include some of the largest bases shutj sorf ar estimated the total savings at $500 fnillion a' year and said tills would: bring the figure for all bases closed since 1961 to over a billion saved annually 63000 JOBS OUT He said 63000 job positions both military and civilian will be wiped out by the new closings This approaches the 85834 job positions affected by the 574 previous bases shut downs McNamara promised to guar antee a job opportunity for ev ery career employe Whose job is eliminated and to protect indi vlduai'wbrkert affected And he pledged that the federal govern ment will help the committee find new and better use for the facilities I He said the 95 bases will turn back to private state and local government use 377000 acres almost 600 square miles The loss of jobs and pur chasing power involved McNa maraacknowiedged will be regarded as in some communities he Tsaid suggested that there is good newsTh these announcements not only for the taxpayers and the cit izens who are concerned about efficiency and economy in gov but specifically fo'the citizens of the many affected The facilities being closed Mc Namara said now be made jivailable to be put to their "best and under pri vate ownership will make Amusement'" ZU Charftirl Chasitif 7 Classified Ads 36 Comics 34 Crossword Punle 35 Snortsmen Rar Dear Abby 34 TV and Radio Editorials 22 Women Pace Laos light By Gardner bridge WASHINGTON (AP) An American jet fighter plane has been shot down by ground fire In Labs the Pentagon' an nounced Wednesday Therq was no immediate word on what happened to the pilot' Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara who told" of the incident during a news confer ence said rescue operations for the pilot were under way McNamara said the downed 100 was one of two jet fightersescorting a photo reconnais sance plane He said the escort 'jng aircraft opened fire on the ground' installation after the US fighter was hit McNamara sai reoonnais sance flights were begun at Laotian government request last May to detect North Viet namese Infiltration Into Laos and missions will eontln ue a long as IT More on PLANE Page 2 By ROBERT OWLES weekday begins and ends the same here for Mrs Patricla Rancourt and her 17 year old daughterBar bara iv 'J They spend the same six and a half a day five days Week in the same building sl though not ill the same' rooms And in the evening the same chore to be done S' lit tle thing called homework that 'be both mother and daqghter will be donning grad uation caps and gowns at Wa terville Senior High School in JunS of 1966 or the 34 year old Mrs Rancourt 1964 was the year of a big decision As the years passed since 4 947 when she gave up high school during her sophomore year she realized the value of what she missed by not finishing up THE DECISION was a posi tive one to resume Where she left off( The result is that both women in the Rancourt family are enrolled as juniors More on Pace 2 BEORE THE jwaj I CDtn DRIVE in rest I Don Be Disappointed See Us i3 Tlx CM fairfeud I Special HOODED SWEAtSHIRTS Med i Lg fig Red 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