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hN 19 0ri trill. UaKCkfMklt, i.m 2. 19(1 in GO? (Cttttnud irm Pt 1) (Cnflnu (tm Pt t) -n 1 i pclal committee to study I think could lay ing year are Ramey Foust, pres forms In procedure ol national nominating conventions. For- mer President, Dwight D. Elsen-games hower told th commute Mon-kan by CassTbegan his tall by saying that public relations is many times confused with advertising or sales promotion.

"Actually these ire three different types of promotion." ht added. "Public relations. however, Is in the third person. Publicity is only ten percent the program. If you don't hav a good product, the public will not respond." Borcher -said that public relations must be well planned.

The speaker indicated that he had "anopttmistkr wiew of the times despite all the serious talk about Viet Nam, the atom bomb etc. "1 am a great believer in positive things," he said. "Negative things cause people to worry, but positive things give" a person hope." ta talking on this subject, he gave several illustra Lj0wn a an rules for television operation. They televise football from th stands and they do th sam thing for con. (ventions.

Probably if we cut the convention to two days' Instead of four, would ret mor of- our sessions On TV." Bliss told a brief news enc he had read a statement to the national; committee In a closed session In which he said was deeply troubled by the Incident of th rifled desk at the party headquarters. Bliss fired Wiujam Cody Kel, ly, his principal aide, for forcing open the desk of. resigning fl. nance director Frank Kovac in a search for a list of blgcontrlb. utors to the campaign of Barry Goldwater, th defeated presb dentlal nominee.

Bliss said this conduct by Kelly was intolera. Kelly has said Bliss at first praised him for his search, then fired him. Baptists Hold Convention Near Newport A Missions Conference, sponsored Jointly by the Woman's Missionary Union and the Brotherhood department of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, will be held at Camp Carson, near Newport, July 5-10. The conference is planned foryoungmena nd young 1624 years of age, who are Mission Volunteers and those interested in missions. Pastors, educational directors and adults who counsel with young people in missionary education are Invited to attend.

There will be special conferences for adult leadership. The program schedule will in clude Bible study, discussion groups, personal conferences, fellowship, campfire services and inspirational messages. Program personnel includes Miss Edna Frances Dawklns and Dr. Franklin fowler of the Fore-1 ign Mission Board, Richmond, Virginia: Miss Beverly Ham-mack of the Home Mission Board Atlanta, Georgia; Rev, and Mrs. Carlos Owens, missionaries in Tanzania; Dr.

Nat Bettls, professor at Carson-Newman Col lege; and Miss Pitts Hughes, Baptist Student Director at Van- derbilt University, Directing the confarenc will be William Brown, Royal Am- bassador secretary, Brotherhood department; and Miss Frances Sulllvant, Young Woman's Auxil iary Director, Woman's Missionary Union, (Contlnutd'from Pag 1) NEW ASTRONAUTS Selection el six scientist-astronauts was announced by th National Aeronautics and Spec Administration. They are, from left, top: Joseph P. Karwln and Owon K. GarrioH; center, Edward Gibson Schmitt; bottom, Frank Curtis Michol and Duan E. Gravoline.

(AP Wirephoto) Public To Get Close Look AfNew Astronauts Mrs. Bowers Mrs, Wilson Bowers, 73, 18 Dortch St- died ia Nashville Hospital at 11:15 tjn, Monday af- tr short Illness. The funeral will be .2 pjn. Wednesday at McR eynolf Chapel, with burial In Memorial Gar dens Mausoleum. She was born In Montgomery County June 4.

1392 and was da tighter of thelatejohn and Mat- tie Vaughn Bowers, Survivors are her husband; two sons, l. uu-raa Bowers. Jr. both of Clarksville; two daughters, Mrs. Carl Judd, Vfr, Pff1ArVr.

Mft one brother, Jim, Bon Aqua, Teniwi 12 grandchildren; and five gret-grandchQdren, She was a member of the DiOOuung urovc daui v-ai Edice Fletcher Services for Eddice E. Fletcb er, 36, son of Mrs, W. T. Crawford, Clarksville, wereconducted Wednesday, June 23 at the Apple-gate Funeral Home in Uion.N.Y. Burial was- in the St.

Cemetery in that city. Mr, Fletcher was Mlied -JUne, 14 in an automobile accident in West Germany, where he had been since April of this year as anl European international territory manager for the Field Engineering Department of perry Rand, LNIVAC. He as a native of Clarks-ville, attended CUrksville High School and was a member of thej Cfacey Avenue Baptist 1 A veteran of the U.S. Airt Force, he was a member hi the! Cro ley Barnum American Le-j gion Fost of Mohawk, N.Y. Surviving besides his mother are his father, G.

Marble Hills, wife, Mrs. Patricia SiradT. Fletcher; two sons, Marshall and Gary; and daughter, Carol Fletcher, all of ilion, N.Y.; a brother, Marshal! Fletcher, Jeffersontown, Ky, five step-sisters and Oiie step- brother. Mrs. Moore Annie O'Brien Moore, 79, Saturday1 afternoon at her home on Moss Rose Road after an Extended -J Funeral servfcgf were conducted Monday at 2 p.nC at First Nazarene Church by the Rev.

Harold Graves. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery, McRey-nolds Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Moore was born in Cheatham Comty July 18, 1885, but had lived most of her life in Montgomery County. She was the' daLghter of the late John and Mag-gie Butler O'Brien.

Her husband, Moore, died November 4, 1959. JpM, and Elzie of Clarksville, James Nashville, and Albert Moore, Louisville, daughters, Mrs, Viola Haddock and Mrs. Geneva Sholar, Clarks-1 Ville; Mrs. Mildred Perrv and Mrs, Dorothy, Spencer, Detroit, a sister, Mrs, OraKrantz, WrR5viue, o-t i anuuiuuren anu 29 great grandchildren, She was a member of First Nazarene Church, Grandsons served as pallbearers, Sgt. Louis Seguin Services for Fetired Sergeant Louis J.

Seguin, 33, were con ducted Wednesday, June 16. Ser- vices were' held at Chapel 14, Ft. Campbell, Sgt; Seguin died Monday at his residence at Oak Grove, after an extended illness. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Toshiko a daughter.

Dawna; a son Michael, all of Oak Grove; a brother, Raymond Seguin! Nashua, New. Hampshire; three sisters, Mrs. RuthParzych, Mrs, Phyllis Parzych, and Mrs. vinlpt Mears. allot Nashau.New Hampshire, i rl Lurner cianage Luther Eldridge, 65, retired of IndM was killed Saturday in an auto accident.

Services will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Gall lee Baptist Church in Indianapo lis, Ind. by the Rev. W. Wil- liflmn.

i The body will be returned to Clarksville for burial Friday at i'l p.m. at the Sidney Cemetery on Old Dover Road.Prsyerserv ices will be Conducted by Rev. i. Winston at tne graveside. Foston Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements here.

ident Jo Watson, first vice president; 'Max Mears, second vice-president; John Reiber, third vice-president: William Drye, secretary and treasurer; Henry Marshall, tall twister; Gil ford Martin. Lion tamer; Dr. Landun Donry, John Hagman, Charles Campbell, directors. The new Lioness officers are Mrs. Mary Tarrents, president: Mrs.

Nancy Jacobs; vlce-presi dent; Mrs, Dorothy Harlanr sec retary, Mrs. Joan Mears. trees urer: Mrs. Lorene Smith. Lion tamer, and Martha Seay.

tail twister. U.5, Continued from Pag 1) lots reported destroying 32 build ings and damaging 20 'others. A U.S. Air Force B57 jet bomber was hit by Communist irroundfire as. it supported a ground operation miles from Saigon and crashed and burned in a rice field two miles north of the Saigon airport, U.S.

spokes men reported. The two crewmen ejected from the plane after the left wing caught fire, but one man's paracbute'failed to open, the spokesmen said. His body was recovered. The second alrmaa parachuted Into a river and. a search was being made for him.

The dead flieras the 430tb American killed In combat in Viet Nam. A second American plane, an RF101, was shut down at low al. titude on another raid north of the Hanoi line, and the pilot was presumed killed, spokes men announced. The plane was flying support for an attack by other aircraft on the Son La barracks and supply depot about 140 miles west northwest of Ha- noi. It has been the target ot several previous attacks.

sources reported an American adviser was tilled and. another wounded In a ma-l Jor engagement being fought by troops of Jhe Vietnamese 7th division near Cai Lay, in the Mekong delta about 45 'miles southwest of Saigon. The Vietnamese were reported battling a large Viet Cong force in the marshy area, but no other details were immediately lereVthah belicopters-r one of the strongest such forces ever- assembled In the Vietnamese war ferried the combined piratrooper force into the attack zone. The helicopters drew Viet Cong fire in the landing zones, and four crewmen were report ed wounded. U.S.

spokesmen said contact with the enemy aft er that, was limited to sniping, probes and mortar attacks. The Viet (jong concentration, if there was one, apparently got out. of the way" before the paratroopers advanced. The landings were preceded by heavjl air strikes by Viet namese and U.S. Air Force planes.

U.S. Marine Corps units have operated repeatedly on a small scale with Vietnamese units In central Viet Nam. But this was the first time American Armjf troops have been used along side Vietnamese troops. Tha American spokesman said the American paratroopers were sent in by the American commander In Viet Nam, Gen. William C.

Westmoreland, "at the request of the Vietnamese government under the authority previously granted him." In other ground action, 19 gov- ernment militiamen were killed and 9 others wounded wJien about 100 Viet Cong attacked a post at Mieu Ba hamlet "30 miles southeast of Saigon, The remaining defenders were forced to pull out of the Dost. asU.S. spokesman said, and air strikes -were called in two hours after sunrise. Shortly before noon a relief unit of militiamen re-entered the hamlet, apparent ly without resistance, Throughout the night, the Viet Cong kept up a drumfire of attacks against isolated out posts and installations. The weather over North Viet Nam was reported extremely bad today, with rain and clouds up to 40,000 Kosygin (Continued from Pag 1J A halt of American bombing of North Viet Nam, strict ad nerence to tne oeneva agree ments on Viet Nam, withdrawal of.

all American and Allied troops and weapons from Viet Nam and granting the Vietnam. ese people "the right to solte their fate themselves." Kosygin spoke at a rally for youths from 46 countries who graduated Monday from Patrice Lumumba friendship Unlversl. aay tne conventions ar cnaotic, marked ty "conrusion, noise, Impossible deportment." Elsenhower gave this formula tof producing' light and reason! at the Dominating conventions, which so often ar overwhelmed by hoopl and bedlam: th permanent chair- man dictatorial power 1 Nam tJoot-4 sergeants at arms, polic officer types perhaps. Limit demonstrations totlve. minutes; anything more than that is "spurious and phony." Cut, down the number of del egates and make the alternates sit In the galleries.

Finally, Eisenhower- turned toward a press table and, addressing reporters, said "I say all press, all publicity media, should be excluded from the floor." He added, "They have places. We cooperate with We want them but certainly we don't want them running around having interviews when we are having someone make a serious statement before a delegation." Eisenhower's formula drew this comment from William the party's vlce-presl dentlal candidate last year, who is on the small side: "I don't think lt makes so much differ ence whether the sergeants-at aims ar 6 -feet -4 or 5-feet-2, but something has to be done about television moving in anil taking1 over all of the choice space on the floor." Miller, who as national chairman managed, the last Republican' convention, added "If we could get together with' the Another (Continued from Pag 1) Dr. Wilson said the escape when Fleming, armed with a pistol, grabbed hospital guard Opal Blake and threatened to kill him unless the men were released from their cells. Blake complied, the men locked two other guards In their cells, kept Blake as a hostage and rode the elevator to the first floor, Wilson said. At the front guard the escapees placed a gun at Blake's back, a knife at his throat and told the guards he would be killed if they were, not let out.

The hospital superintendent said the men then stole a car from a couple bringing a hospital supervisor to work. The couple was not harmed. Blake was released unharmed in the downtown area a short time after the escape. The car' stolen at the hospital was found abandoned several hours later after police received a report from wom an who said five men had fled from the vehicle. Th woman said the men then stole another car.

Baxter, charged in the rob bery-murder of Nashville cab driver Joe DeMartlni, was captured after the six apparently split up to flee In separate directions. An unemployed service station attendant, Baxter was arrested two days after DeMartlni was found shot to death Jan. 11 lh the front seat of his cab near the Davldsonheatham County line. DeMartlni, th father of six children, was robbed of $14 In the brutal slaying. Baxter had not yet been tried In the cab driver slaying.

He had been ordered on May 24 to un dergo 30 days of mental tests. Captured early today, police said Baxter gave as his reason for the escape: "I was in so much trouble. There just didn't seem to be any hope." Marine (Continued from Pag 1) Viet Cong and kill them." But many officers here believe that, the Marines offensive role is limited until they get reinforcements. They say at present the Marines are stretched thin ly around the key sir bases al Da Nang, Fhu Bai and Chu Lai and are just holding their own in an area infested with perhaps 20 hard-core Viet Cong battalions, They contend there aren't enough Marines to go out on patrols all night and guard for tlfied positions In the withering heat during the day. Another question Is whether the South Vietnamese can be expected to make gains In their counterguerrllla war without the use of Marines In an open com bat role.

Brig. Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thl, commander of the Vietnamese army's 1st corps area, has encouraged such a tions tor his peiieis, inciutnng the increase in people attending jhurch, money being spent for books and other cultural aspects, and the increase In high school and college graduates, 'I think we have more to be hopeful about thjin for despairing." he concluded." Following the address, President Ga ss and Mrs. Lorene Smith, presented attendance and special service awards to the Lions and Lioness members PatnclTOppmam. past presi dent of the Clarksvule Lions Club and past District Governor in Kentucky, installed the new officers for the two clubs.

Lions officers for the com- Pilot (Continued from Page 1) population of 45,000.) told the passengers there was no danger and there was no "panic. "After the engine dropped, I lost almost immediately radio contact with San Francisco air port. "In seconds, a Coast Guard: rescue plane, was alongside of me. "I talked to him and he relayed my conversation to San Fran cisco ami led mjyto Travis (Air Force Base, 50 miles north of the airport takeoff point). I can't say too much for the radar people and all the help we got." The captain's calmness played a key role in the tense situation.

After the safe arrlvW at Tra. vis, he reflected oh the dram at. ic moment when No, 4 engine blossomed into a ball of fire. I had no idea what caused it," he said. It could have been a bird fly ing into the engine Intake or an engine failure." Asked his age, the captain sighed: "1 feel 80 but I'm in my 40s." Leaders (Continued from Pag 1) down in "the mines last week with guards what Avery grievances.

as hostages over said were minor Avery said the striking prison ers had cut wiring in the shaft! and. had "set off a dynamite charge in the mine after they assured us they were coming out with no trouble." The commissioner also an nounced he will 'recommend to Gov. Frank Clement that the! mine be closed as- unprofitable and a discipline problem. tie nas requested a meeting with the governor and state fls. cal officers to recommejidestab.

listment of a new type prison industry at the East Tennessee lockup at Petros. The meeting Is expected to take place next week. The big problem now is to find a suitable new industry for the prison that will occupy prl soners and also teach them needed skill. "ihe coal mines don't 'turn out employable people but the industries conducted at the other prisons serve as a real rehabil- itatlon programs," Avery said. member of -the Galilee Baptist CDurcn ot Indianapolis.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Eldridge; a son. James Eldridge, Gary, step-son, William Kendrick, In dianapolis; a daughter Mrs. Votle Allen, Indianapolis; eight brothers, Guy, Hopkinsvllle, Ky( Arthur, Chicago; Alger, Ardle and Raymond, Gary, and Cosby and Gus Eldridge, Indianapolis; three sisters, Mrs. Luvanora McCoy, Chicago, I11N and Mrs Mae Eldridge and Mrs.

Eula Broadie, both of Gary, lnd. Roy (Continued from Pag 1). tipning, also an ample supply of water that canbeusedinanemer gency. It will also give protection frbm blastas well as fallout A cuff said he was very glad to furnish the facility as a shelter. He said he realized, the importance of fallout shelters.

In his world tours he said he saw the danger we face. He said he would cooperate in any way he could. John D. Russell, Civil Defense Director," stated several more shelter LICENSES WERE SIGN ED last including military, The total signed last week will accomodate 1U976 peopleJle said supplies have been ordered and should start arriving in about 30 days. Montgomery County has now 16 shelters stocked that will'ac- comodate 5,432 people.

Russell said more places will be surveyed by the Federal Engl neers soon. Plans are to stock several hundred more spaces be fore the end of 1965., The Federal Government fur nlshes all the supplies in the shel ters, but there i a desperate need for additional supplies for com fort, Russell concluded. Tennessee Day Is July 13 At World's Fair "Tennessee Day" Is scheduled July 13, at the New York World Fair. 1 The Tennessee. National guard's 30th Armored Division Band will be featured on thepro- uovemor riam vieiucni, Mai.

Gen Van D. Nunally Ad jutant General, and other State dignitaries are expected to attend the ceremony. The 28-piece30thArmoredDl vision Band Is directed by War rant Officer Edward S. Pride, Nashville. It performed at the World's Fair in Seattle in 1962 and In numerous State and military functions over the past several years- Break-In Reported One 16-guage shotgun and one pistol were taken in a break-In at H.P.

Plumber's Grocery Store In Sango, the Sheriff's Department reported today. Deputy Sheriff Charlie Blnkley said he received the ca 11 today re porting the robbery at approximately 6 a.m. Deputy James Bowles Is investigating the break-in furtheri Blnkley stated. day, the second of the day, the conferees got. to this problem for the first time' and made no marked progress.

Fulbrlght, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com' But not even the regular U.S. astronauts project a more wholesome image than the six young scientists awaiting Intro. ductlon today at a news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center. They fr Frank Mi; chel, 31; Dr. Joseph P.

Kerwln, 33; Dr. Duane Gravellne, 34; Dr. Edward G. Gibson, 28; Dr. Owen K.

Garrlott, 34, and Dr. Harrison Schmitt, 29. Five are married and have children. The bachelor, Schmitt, is going to a family reunion In Minnesota Saturday. On average they stand just over 5" feet, 10 Inches tall and weigh a little more than 160 pounds.

Most, come from small home towns like Enid, Okla. (Gar-riott); Newport, Vt. (Gravel-ine); Oak Park, 111. (Kerwln); La Crosse, Wis. (Michel), and Santa Rita, KM.

(Schmitt). It is estimated the first moon flight is at least four years dis tant and none of these six men is expected to be along, their job probably will be to study the lunar surface later. Next in order is the Gemini 5 mission In August for Air Force Maj. L. Gordon Cooper Jr.

and Navy Lt. Cmdr Charles Conrad possibly Including a brief space walk. Walker (Continued from Pag 1) of China's use of subversion and insurrection as a means of aggression would be demonstrat ed. China would be kept out of South Viet Nam and other parts of Southeast Asia." In pursuing this policy, Gor don Walker urged direct nego tiation with the Viet Cong with aggressive efforts by the United States aimed at bringing the Viet Cong to the conference ta ble. Walker spoke here Monday night along with Vice President Hubert H.

Humphrey at the an nual meeting of the American Society of Corporate Secretar les. Humphrey predicted continued national economic prosperi ty but both business and labor against actions that would initiate a wage-price spl ral. He called on the "evolving nrivate public partnership" to keep the economy healthy. mittee, said rthe House group balked at the Senate version. Another session Is scheduled today.

There are money differences the House voted $3.37 billion and the Senate $3.24 billion- but no one expects any trouble in that department. Rep. ROss Adair of Indiana, senior House Republican conferee, told reporter money Isn't at issue, in any event, the authorlza. tion simply sets the celling for how much can be spent on for. elgn aid.

bill to appropriate the funds comes later In the ses. slon and can spark another foreign aid fight, Morgan, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Commit, tee, said that even though the conferees are just starting' to talk about the basic difference he is certain agreement can be won; In opposing an end to the pro. gram in its present form, Mor. gan is getting help from Adair, who calls himself an opponent of the foreign aid program. "As bad as the program is now," Adair said, Td rather have Congress write it than have an outside study group do the job." By ROBERT HEARD HOUSTON, Tex.

(AP) The public gets Its first close look today at (he men who may get the closest look at the moon yet projected the six new U.S. In science fiction a couple of decades ago a space scientist was usually "the mad scientist" an evil genius who almost de stroyed the All-America type hero. Kodar (Continued from Pas 1) first secretary of the (party's) Central Committee." Rumors that Kadar would Lresign as premier have been circulating since the ouster of Soviet Premier Nikita Khru- shchev in October 1964. Khrushchev's jobs of premier and party chief were filled by Alexei N. Kosygin and Leonid I.

Bre-zhnev. A similar division of la bor occurred in Romania in March, after the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-DeJ. The Soviet premier's ouster caused a wave of uncertainty In Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe. In Hungary, there was fear It would bring an end to a liberal trend In the Red regime and a revival of Stalinism. Kadar may have decided to postpone his resignation in order to calm the public.

He prob ably also didn't want to give the impression that the move was dictated by Moscow. Shots Continued from Pag 1) here, April 1. Only a few work-ers have returned to their jobs. Robert C. Turremlne, president of Acme, said this morning that the company Is optimistic that an agreement will possibly be reached In the near future, Prentice Lewis, of the United Rubber Workers Union, said he had homing new to report, Electoral (Continued from Pa I) vote according to split of popular votes, (2) a district rather than a statewide at-large system of electing electors or (3) elimination of the college in favor of a direct, national popu.

Non-Member Grou ps Invited Into UGF Jer McGuffee, president of the Clarksville 1 and Montgomery County United Givers Fund has announced that any agency desiring" entry as a participating agency in U.G.F. should submit a letter of appreciation to theU.G.-F. Office, First National Bank Building, of Post Office Box 55, no later than July 8, 1965. If any agency desires further Information, they may contact him at the First National Bank, Mr. Eldridge was a native of Montgomery County and moved to Indianapolis 25 years ago.

He was the son of the late Batson and Viola Eldrldga, and was a i role. ..1, lar election, '('.

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