Ventura County Star from Ventura, California (2024)

January 20, 1968

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Ventura County Stari

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Ventura, California

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Saturday, January 20, 1968

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THE PRESIDENT AND THE NEW SECRETARY DEENSE The White House released today this July 1967 photo showing President Johnson conferring with Clark Clifford $190 Million Wastef Spending Uncovered WASHINGTON (UPI) The General Accounting Office (GAO) yesterday said its watchdog activities in the last fiscal year uncovered at least $190 million in wasteful government spending The 2200 investigations the GAO made of government agencies in the 1967 fiscal year disclosed such items as $33 million worth of the wrong steam locomotives were sent to Thailand that the Army disposed of $94 million worth of surplus beds at a sharp loss while the Navy and the Air orce went into the market to buy bunks The GAO's annual report submitted by Comptroller Gen eral Elmer Staats also showed that the 4216 member agency spent $49 million in the same year to carry out its con gressional mandate to uncover waste in government said Staats not be the sole criteria by which contribution to the government should be mea sured The GAO is even more concerned with helping to make the operations of the government more Obituaries William Lins William Joseph Lins 76 of 25 Dunning St Ventura died today in a local hospital after a brief illness Mr Lins a longtime employe VtNTUIA COUHTVStarree Press SECOND RONT PAGE of Title Insurance and Trust Co REACTION TO CLIORD APPOINTMENT Hawks Cheer Doves riendly in Los Angeles came to the county in 1959 when he retired He was born Oct 14 1891 in Scotts County Minn He was active in the Senior Citizens Recreational Dance group and the 50 Plus Club of Ventura He was a member of the Holy Name Society and the Ushers of Our Lady of Assump tion Church Ventura (Continued rom A l) Maine before nominating Clif ford Chairman Mendel Rivers SC of the House Armed Services Committee said am confident the defense of the nation will be in good Sen Stuart Symington Mo another in the hawk camp de clared himself highly pleased Sen John McClellan Ark who has battled Mc Namara over the multibillion dollar TX warplane project for nearly six years said move into the Pentagon mean less arbitrariness in the making of important Sen William ulbright Ark a chief congressional crit ic of war policy said he was pleased and thinks Clif ford will keep open is a man with whom you can exchange views and he is not a said ulbright who has known Clifford more than 20 years rom Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty hailed the announcement that Clifford would succeed Rob ert McNamara as secretary of defense has a record of success dating back to the Truman ad ministration and should be able to restore harmony in the De partment of Yorty said of Clifford ulbright chairman of the Senate oreign Relations Com mittee said he could not catego rize Clifford's war position but assumed the newly designated Pentagon chief is in sympathy with policies think he is capable of re evaluating our said ulbright hope his appoint ment will signal a change in the present Sen George Aiken Vt indicated misgivings Aiken said he had heard reports that Clif ford had been of the most potent if not the most of presidential advisers in shap ing the Vietnam policies Aiken opposes The Vermont Republican said he wanted to hear more about outlook on the war be fore commenting at length At his news conference Clif ford said he intends to on the remarkable and unique of Mc Namara and that he does not contemplate any changes in the administration of the Defense Department He leaves a thriving law prac tice and an income that must run into six figures a year to take on the burdens and strains of the secretary of defense for $35000 a year Johnson said Clifford and he have no understanding as to how long he will stay in the post Cora Smith Services for Cora rances Smith 71 of 779 Ventura Ave 'Oak View will be at 2 pm Monday in the Ojai Valley Mortuary Chapel with the Rev Charles Lynch officiating In Surviving are sons Gregory of Pico Rivera and William of Cul ver City daughter Mrs Wil liam Martin of Ventura' 16 grandchildren and two great grandchildren Rosary will be recited at the Assumption Church at 7:45 pm tomorrow Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery Los Ange les riends may call at the Joseph Reardon uneral Chapel Ventura until 6 pm tomorrow Those who wish may make memorial contributions to the Community Memorial Hos pital Building fund Della ielding Mrs Della ielding' 88 of 2641 South St Oxnard died yesterday in a local hospital after a brief illness More Quakes Heavy Rain Hit Sicily PALERMO Sicily (UPl) A "Strong tremor rocked today and torrents of rain and hail intensified the plight of80000 survivors of worst earthquake in two generations The latest temblor the secondof the day and the 57th since Sunday jarred the already hard hit village of Camporeale flattening tents housing re fugees The new shocks along with one on riday and the cold weather and mud hindered the work of police and firemen still searching the rubble for bodies pickup 3rd pgh 038a: the death toll The death toll was 198 It migh go as high as 300 The series of shocks began last Monday Two Caught RollingMarijuana Cigarettes Three juveniles were arrested in Ojai on narcotics charges yesterday after a policeman re portedly caught two of them roll ing marijuana cigarettes in a parking lot Patrolman Howard Curtis said the police department received an anonymous phone tip a 3:30 pm He went to the scene and arrested two of the youths for possession of narcotics and the third for being in a place where narcotics was being used The ages ranged from 14 to 17 Two of the youths were placed in Juvenile Hall while the third was cited to appear CALIORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASS'N ING VZ tlKTVIAStar ree Press Merit Award Winner or Best Editorials 1966 1967 was burned when his Human Relations Confab Tackles Urban Problems ather Of Missing Seabee Ventura Savings and Loan 250 The second annual Human listed in critical condi Ventura General Hos was the was had car con unit urnment will be in Ivy Lawn Cemetery Montalvo Mrs Smith died Wednesday in her home after a brief illness She was born Sept 19 1896 and came to this county 10 years ago from the Los Angeles area Surviving are a daughter Mrs William Zenger of Los Alamos brother George Kitts of Los Angeles sister Mrs Pearl Randall of Meiners Oaks grand children Mrs Karen Smith of Los Alamos and William Zen ger Jr now serving with the Vernon (Gene) Starts 35 Ox nard Edison Co lineman who was severely burned Thursday is reported in satisfactory con dition this morning at California Hospital in Los Angeles Two other persons who were seriously injured in separate incidents Wednesday however are still tion at pilal Starts right arm touched an energized conductor on a power pole in the rear of 3551 South St Ox nard His right arm was am putated above the elbow He is still in intensive care a hospital spokesman said today Starts the father of three and a 15 year employe of the utility com pany lives at 4915 Perry Way Oxnard The vote was 304 9 with the op position Conservatives abstain ing en masse But the expulsion underlined determination to try to US Navy reassert his weakened autnonty over party followers rom time to time individual Laborite legislators even small groups of them have been cast but rarely if ever has so large a number been ousted Most of the rebels are likely to be restored in time provided they offer strong assurances of greater loyalty to the Labor government the sources said Expulsion deprives them of membership in the party cau cus where party decisions are made Joe Manuel Hernandez two year old son of Irene Hernan dez Hardison Ranch illmore accidentally shot by his four year old brother on Wednesday is still listed in critical condi tion at Ventura General Hos pital He was shot in the back while he and his brother were playing with a 22 rifle The bullet lodged in the left side of his chest Walter Hamilton 16 a hitch hiker from Rhode Island injured Wednesday when car in which he was riding struck by a trailer that broken loose from another Hamilton is still in critical dition in the intensive care of Ventura General Hospital The father arrived yes terday from Rhode Island LONDON (AP) Prime Min ister Harold Labor par ty today at least tem porarily 25 members who re belled by abstaining in a crucial vote of confidence in the House of Com mons' qualified sources reported At least one of the rebels right winger Reginald Paget had demanded that Wilson re sign as prime minister Another rebel was Michael oot leader of the left wing Chief party whip John Silkin ordered the expulsion after con sulting with Wilson and others Even without the votes the Laborites easily won the motion Thursday night ap proving proposals for cuts in social welfare spending Cheryl Mae Collins Cheryl Mae Collins 17 year old illmore High School senior died unexpectedly Thursday in a local hospital of a brain hemor rhage Miss Collins the daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Collins 3748 Pacific Ave Piru was active in the illmore Methodist Church and a member of Jobs Daughters illmore chapter She was born April 8 1950 in Helena Mont Besides her parents she is sur vived by brothers Richard of Ventura Dale Piru and a sis ter Katherine Services will be at 2:30 pm Monday in the illmore Meth odist Church with the Rev Shuey ujishiro and the Rev Bernard Weetman officiating The Skillin Chapel will direct arrange ments Mortuary illmore Clifford Tidey Services for Clifford Dean Tidey 62 father of Arthur Tidey of Ojai will be at 11 am Tues day in St Catholic Church Wofford Heights Calif with burial in the Kern River District Cemetery Kernville Mr Tidey died Thursday in a Bakersfield hospital after a long illness He was a resident of Kernville A retired aircraft ex pediter for Quadrant Engineer ing Co of Los Angeles Mr Tidey and his wife were opera tors and owners of a motel in Kernville He is survived by his wife Elizabeth A his son Arthur of Ojai sister Mrs Verna Halli gren of Northridge and three grandchildren Rosary will be recited at 7:30 pm Monday in St Church with the Mish uneral Home Oildale directing arrangements riends who wish may make memorial donations to the Los Angeles Kidney oun dation Los Angeles She was born Nov 9 1879 in Iowa Mrs ielding came to this county 21 days ago from Orange She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Baptist Church in Orange Surviving are a son loyd Paul of Oxnard daughter in law Mrs Eugenia Paul of Orange step son Leslie ielding of Temple City and three grand children Services will be at 2 pm Monday in the Melrose Abbey Chapel Anaheim with the Orange Eastern Star Chapter officiating Burial will be in Mel rose Abbey riends may call at the Payton Mortuary Chapel Oxnard today and tomorrow Jean Wood Services for Mrs Jean Wood 45 of 1101 Huntswood Way Oxnard will be at 2:30 pm Monday in the Bible el lowship Church of Montalvo Burial will be in Ivy Lawn Cem etery with Payton Mortuary Ox nard directing arrangements Mrs Wood died yesterday in a local hospital after a brief ill ness She was a registered nurse and lived in the county since 1964 Surviving are her husband Leonard daughters Sheryl Ann Susan Joy and Lynette Kay all of Oxnard parents Mr and Mrs Martin Verstelle of Ka lamazoo Mich brothers Albert of Kalamazoo and William of Spokane Wash Raymond Olinger Services for Raymond Olinger 80 of 2189 Woodland Ave Ojai will be Monday in redonia Kan with burial in Bellview Cemetery Lafon taine Kan Mr Olinger died Thursday in a local hospital after a long ill ness He was born Sept 29 1887 in Lafontaine A retired teacher he moved to this county five years ago He had been an in structor with Veterans Ad ministration in redonia Kan for many years Mr Olinger was a venteran of World War I He is survived by his wife Goldena son Raymond of Manhattan Beach daughters Mrs Betty Matthew of Santa Barbara Mrs Barbara Stalter of Bellview Wash sisters Mrs Vella Smith of redonia Kan Mrs Pauline Smith of Vernon Tex Local arrangements are under direction of the Ojai Valley Mortuary Wilson's Party Ousts 25 Rebel Members Severely Burned Lineman Recovering In Hospital Published dally by John Scripps Newspapers at 567 Santa Clara St Ventura California 93001 Telephone Area Code 805 643 W01 Second class postage paid at Ventura California Of ficial newspaper of th City of San Buenaventura Jullug Glus Editor Harry Bostwick Jr Business Mgr The Ventura County Star ree Press Is the result of consolidation which merged the identities of the following newspapers: The Ventura County Star June 15 1925 by Roy Pinkerton now president of the John Scripps Newspapers the Democrat later known as the Post 1883 and the Ventura ree Press established Nov 6 1875 1 Subscription rates: By carrier $225 per monthly by mall $225 per month $27 per year paid In advance from newsboys Comes To Oxnard To Search Relations Conference being held to discuss problems of high unemployment deteriorating housing and a dwindling tax base which combine to produce an urban crisis got under way this morning in Ventura Lee Babbitt a Los Angeles architect and also a member of the Los Angeles County Com mission on Human Relations was the featured speaker for this session which began at 10 am The confer ence was scheduled to run until 3 this afternoon Sessions were held in the Community Room at Mills Road A panel with (Dave) Davidson executive director of the Ventura County Economic Development Assn acting as moderator was planned for the afternoon session Panelists included Mrs Lyders president of the League of Women Voters Rev Austin pastor of the Bethel African Methodist Church of Ox nard George Chaplin Abex Corp of Oxnard Sal Sanchez Oxnard city councilman and Eugene Wheeler former coun ty planning director A 61 year old Chicago man has arrived in Oxnard in search of his Seabee son who has been missing since New Year's Eve Vigfus Johnson a Railway Express trucker said he stand waiting for word in Chicago and decided to come here himself and look for his 21 year old son Ronald Ronald who arrived back from Vietnam in October was last seen New Eve Bud dies at the Port Hueneme Sea bee base said Ronald took his date home and been seen since Ronald had been rooming with two other Seabees in an apartment at Oxnard Beach His father is staying with the two Seabees son apparently left the area in his 1957 MG hard top license MSP 800 Saturday January 20 1968 A 2 US Searches or Bomb With Super Powers HOT CREEK VALLEY Nev (UPI) Data from a nuclear explosion comparable to one million tons of TNT was fed into computers today as scientists pressed their search for a bomb with more bounce to the ounce The blast riday detonated at a new site 3200 feet below the sagebrush country of central Nevada was 50 times more powerful than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 The earth shook 200 miles away from ground zero in San rancisco while the tremor also rolled north ward and rattled windows in downtown Salt Lake City Government officials declined to give the exact mag nitude of the device but it was believed to be the largest US explosion since 1966 when a similar project regis tered in the intermediate yield range The test was conducted to aid in the acceleration of the US underground thermonuclear explosion program The test dubbed was conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission which is looking for a suitable area to experiment with the biggest underground nuclear weapons ever tested by this country The government rigged a network of 90 seismo graphs ranging from 90 to several hundred miles from ground zero to record shock waves US 6 which runs through Hot Creek Valley was closed by rock slides Some bridges showed minor cracks At the test site a snow and dust storm billowed hundreds of feet in the air and could be seen 20 miles away after the explosion US Public Health Service officials said no atmospheric radiation was detected was the third underground Nevada test in two days A low intermediate range device of 20 to 200 kilotons was triggered earlier riday at Yucca lat Located in the permanent test site area Another blast was detonated at the same location Thursday Lady Bird Sorry But Eartha Just Beginning WASHINGTON (AP) Mrs Lyndon Johnson says sorry the voice of anger and discord overshadowed suggestions on fighting crime But singer Eartha Kilt who raised her voice in protest at the White House said do so again Miss Kitt said riday she believes it should be ex plained that youth is rebellious and angry over the Vietnam war She said she thinks President and Mrs Johnson have any idea why there is juvenile delinquency and make an effort to get closer to the Meanwhile the White House said it had received hundreds of telegrams and phone calls expressing indig nation over Miss outburst It occurred at Mrs White House luncheon Thursday where 50 women guests talked about crime a problem the Presi dent rates among the most urgent facing America Miss Kitt had her backers too It was Mrs first venture in this field She happy at the outcome sorry that the good constructive things which the speakers on the panel said were not heard only the shrill voice of anger and she said in a statement released by her press office President pastor was among the telegram senders He apologized for any mannered stupid and arrogant by any American The Rev George Davis of National City Christian Church in Washington who has backed Viet nam policies from the pulpit expressed his backing of Mrs Johnson as well v' ft MIBr rw 4 EARTHA KITT DEENDS POSITION Says she'd "do it again" But along the way in inves tigating the effectiveness of the military assistance program the GAO reported in January 1967 that the Army shipped four steam locomotives to the Thai land government without first determining whether they would perform the function for which they were intended They When last heard from said GAO the Army was potential for the $23 million worth of locomotives Early in the 1967 fiscal year GAO reported that the Army had 52000 too many beds and plan ned to sell them The Navy and Air orce had asked for new beds but did not want the surplus stock because it was a different type When the two services heard that the GAO was looking into the case they quickly changed their mind and took 271000 of the extra beds and the GAO said this was a savings of $106 mil lion for the taxpayer Before GAO came on the scene how ever 250000 beds had already been disposed of and the agency guessed this cost the taxpayer $94 million Viet War Cost Delays New Missile Work New York Times News Service WASHINGTON The initial operational deployment of most advanced American inter continental ballistic missile has been postponed for nearly a year because of the cost of the Vietnam war and a desire to improve the reliability Defense Department officials said yesterday Other military and industrial sources said however that the missile Minuteman III had dis played no unusual problems dur ing development They expres sed a belief that the postpone ment was due entirely to the desire to hold down defense spending These sources conceded that lengthening research and devel opment work on the missile would undoubtedly improve its reliability but they pointed out that this would also raise costs by increasing overheads NY Indicts Mail Order Gun Company NEW YORK In the i federal action in the country against a mail order company dealing in firearms a federal grand jury here yesterday re turned an indictment charging unlawful shipping of pistols and revolvers to customers in four states The indictment named as de fendants a Nanuet NY sport ing goods store one of its part ners and a related mail order company with the same address as the store Carl Dwire Jr Gets Top Award (Continued rom A l) by the Chamber of Commerce was awarded to Paul and Ann Sheeter who made national news when they donated 700 orchid corsages to the girl friends mothers wives and sisters of Seabees stationed in Vietnam The Sheeters operate Paulann lowers in Oxnard James Barroca manager of the Oxnard Chamber of Com merce was named the Man of the by the Jay cees for his work in promoting numerous civic programs in Ox nard throughout last year I.

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