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Lexington Herald, Lexington, Thursday, June 15, 1967 Deta From u.s. WEATHER BUREAU A Rats FORECAST 1 Showers Figures Show High Temperatures Expected Daytime Thundey Precipitation Not Indicated Consult Local Farecest WEATHER FORECAST The western portion and the northeast coast area are the portions of A the nation expected escape showers and thundershowers today. Warmer temperatures are expected in the eastern third of the nation and it will be cooler in the northwest. (Associated Press Wirephoto Map). Area Forecasts Kentucky: Clear to partly cloudy through Friday with isolated afternoon and early evening thundershowers mainly in the southeastern portion.

Highs today, 86 to 94, with lows from 60 east to near 70 west. West Virginia: Partly cloudy through today with highs today, 80 to 86 east, 84 to 90 west. Fair and continued warm Friday. Ohio: Mostly clear, sunny and humid today with high temperatures from the middle 80s to the mid 90s. Fair with little temperature change tonight and Friday.

Lows tonight, in the mid to upper 60s. Tennessee: Clear to partly cloudy and quite warm through Friday. Highs today, 86 to 94, low tonight, near 60 northeast to low 70s west. In eastern sections, early afternoon and evening thundershowers are forecast today and Friday. Local Deaths And Funerals Jack Cook Jack Cook, of Rochester, died at 3:40 a.m.

yesterday at a local hospital after a short illness. Mr. Cook was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Cook.

He was a car salesman for Lagrew Motors. The body was taken to Whitehall Funeral Chapel, yesterday, and will be today to the Washburn Funeral Home in Drakesboro. Michael DeFilippo Michael DeFilippo, 85, of 666 Walnut Street, a retired brick and concrete worker, died at 9:50 o'clock last night at the St. Joseph Hospital after an illness of two years. Born in Italy, he was the son of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Mike DeFilippo. He was a member of the St. Peter Catholic Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Mary Silny DeFilippo; two daughters, Mrs. Curtis Lane, Lexington, and Mrs. Floyd Webb Lakeland, two sons, Richard B. DeFilippo and Michael A. DeFilippo both of Lexington, 21 grandchildren.

The body was taken to the W. R. Milward Mortuary-Broadway, where friends may call after 6 p.m. today. Steve Allen Mabley Steve Allen Mabley, 15, of 848 Angliana Avenue, drowned yesterday in the Kentucky River at Camp Nelson, Garrard Co.

(See story elsewhere in today Lexington Herald). Mrs. Charles Pruitt Services for Mrs. Wanda A. Pruitt, 34, wife of Charles Pruitt, I of 613 St.

Anthony Drive, will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. today at the Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by the Rev. J. G. Floyd.

Burial will be in the Hillcrest Memorial Park. Bearers will be Robert Crow, Bobby Tucker, Norman Barker, James Carr, Tom Carr and Donald Lunsford. Mrs. Nancy Lee Slade Mrs. Nancy Lee Slade, 85, of 914 Aurora Avenue, died unexpectedly at 5:05 p.m.

yesterday at the Central Baptist Hospital. She was taken to the hospital earlier, following a fall. Mrs. Slade was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

James Atchison. She was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. William Allen of Lexington, and Mrs. R.

C. Mastin with whom she made her home: a son, William Lancaster, of Lexington; two sisters, Mrs. Ida Rhorer, Springfield, and Mrs. Roscoe Lovelace, Jellico, and five grandchildren, Roger C. Mastin Vallejo, Mrs.

Robert Ridley, Los Angeles, Mrs. C. D. Dickerson, Lexington, J. C.

Wells, and William Lancaster, Ariz. The body was taken to the W. R. Milward Mortuary-Broadway. Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending the arrival of Mrs.

Mastin from California. Woodrow W. Hamm Woodrow W. Hamm, 54, of 1761 Gettysburg Drive, died at 2 p.m. yesterday.

(A more detailed account appears elsewhere in today's Lexington Herald). Mariner 5 Locks Eyes On Wrong Bright Light PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Mariner 5, whirling toward Venus, locked its sensor "eyes" on the wrong bright light earth's Wednesday, instead of the bright star Canopus, and space scientists ordered it to "stop that." Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory signaled the spacecraft at 6:40 p.m. EDT to start searching for Canopus. Once locked on the star, it would stop its whirling motion, while still heading in the right direction.

"Mariner is geared to pick up a light level 50 per cent of that of Canopus," said a spokesman. "But it was still so close to the earth, that it locked on the earth's bright reflection. "We had to tell the spacecraft to stop that, start whirling again and then start looking for Canopus The 540-pound spacecraft was launched at 2:01 a.m. EDT Wednesday from Cape Kennedy, Fla. just two days after the Soviet Union sent up a Venusbound craft four times as large.

Scientists, etc, 6th graf ta04674. 2,000 Miles From Venus Scientists hope to bring Mariner 5 to a rendezvous with Venus on Oct. 19. For 26 minutes, electronic probes will try to penetrate the planet's perpetual cloud cover and discern whether the planet can support life. In five to 10 days after launch, scientists will press another button to signal Mariner 5 to correct its course to bring it to within the 2,000 miles.

If the maneuver fails, another can be attempted. But if this fails, the craft will pass Venus 42,600 miles away. By Oct. 19, the craft will have character clues Yoluble. Gourmet GALLA The overly critical diner who flaunts his knowledge of food and wine, is building up his own ego and compensating for early privations.

1967 The Ledoer Syndicate, Inc. Youth Shot As Violence Erupts Third Day In Row In Cincinnati CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) Racial violence erupted for the third night Wednesday in scattered parts of Cincinnati. A white teen-ager was shot and there were several reports of fire bombing. James Shirk, 15, was shot by a group of Negroes in a passing car a mile north of the downtown area, police said. He was rushed to General Hospital where he was reported in poor condition.

Police reported use of fire bombs in several places. Unruly crowds formed, then dispersed as cruisers and National Guard jeeps raced to the scene. Windows were smashed in the old trouble spots and as far away as Western Hills. At least 28 persons were arrested by 10 p.m. including a group of 17 young Negroes at one Avondale street corner who were charged with failure to obey the prohibition against rioting.

Guardsmen backed up police in the arrests. Riot Act Read Ohio's Riot Act was read by police supervisors Tuesday night and Walton S. Bachrach read it over the radio Wednesday. Under state law, authorities can take any action disperse crowds after the act has been read. The large new Kroger Co.

lawn, 11 miles downwarehouse in suburban. Woodtown, was reported on fire. Lt. Col. Francis B.

Folk, commander of the 1st Battalion, 147th Infantry Regiment, said his orders to the men were, "If fired upon, return fire and shoot to kill. The downtown area where some guardsmen were stationed outside large buildings and many taverns were closed was unusually deserted except for scores of well-dressed Negroes attending a church con- Miss Mary Owsley Henry Clay Librarian, Miss Owsley, Retires Miss Mary Owsley has retired after 45 years with the Lexington city school system. A native of Lancaster, Miss Owsley is a graduate of Transylvania College and holds a dethe University Kentucky. gree in library, science from She taught at Maxwell Street and Lexington Junior High Schools, was librarian at Lexington Junior. From 1956 until this month, she was librarian at Henry Clay High School.

Since deciding to retire before reaching retirement age, Miss Owsley has been honored at parties given by the Henry Clay faculty and the city system librarians. Torpedoed Ship Docks In Malta By COLIN FROST VALETTA, Malta (AP) The U.S. Navy ship Liberty, victim of somebody else's war, nosed into a Malta drydock Wednesday and a grim search for bodies began. Navy authorities said 24 men were trapped inside her holds, ripped by an Israeli torpedo and repeated strafing last week at the height of the Middle East war. The Liberty Malta on Wednesday morning, limping in under her own power at a slow five knots.

Ahead of her moved the U.S. destroyer Davis, her escort since the Israeli attack. Behind came an 1-going Navy tug. For Malta, once Britain's greatest naval bastion, the scene was reminiscent of World as the little convoy edged" into Valletta's Grand Harbor under the gray and orange sky of the Mediterranean dawn. Survivors lined the Liberty's rail, some with bandages covering their wounds.

These were the walking wounded. The more seriously hurt and nine dead already had been transferred to the U.S. Carrier America. The Navy announced in Washington Wednesday that the death total was 34. Maltese, long used to trouble at sea, debated how it was possible for the Israeli jets and torpedo boats to strike against a lightly armed U.S.

ship flying the American flag on the high seas. Shop Center (Continued From Page One) plans, three preliminary plans, seven final plans, three development plans and one building site plan. The neighborhood development plans are: Waverly, formerly known as Village Green, including property southwest of Stonewall Subdivision between the Harrodsburg and Clays Mill pikes; Stonewall, property south of proposed New Circle Road, extending to Cromwell Way and between the Harrodsburg and Clays Mill pikes, and Green Acres, property between Newtown Pike and Russell Cave Pike and bounded on the north by 1-64-75 and on the south by New Circle Road. The subdivision committee recommends approval of the Waverly and Stonewall plans subject to several conditions including Fayette County Board of Education staff approval. No recommendation is made on the Green Acres plan because it was submitted too late for the planning staff to review and make recommendations to the subdivision committee.

The subdivision plans slated for preliminary, consideration are Farm, 77 residential lots on 29 acres on Harrodsburg Road; Melbourne Industrial Park, 77 light industrial lots on acres between Newtown Pike and Georgetown Pike, adjacent to New Circle Road and the Fister property; Westmoreland, 14 lots off Versailles Pike. The subdivision committee recommends disapproval of the Beaumont Farm plan because street sections do not conform to minimum standards of the city's regulations and the land subdivision regulations and because the neighborhood development plan for the area not been approved by the commission. Senate (Continued From Page One) of the Armed Services Committee, noted that both the Senate and the House bills were for four years and that the conference committee that drafted the compromise had no authority to change the measure to one year. Dr. Bruce H.

Green, nati NAACP president, blamed outsiders: "We are seeing people around here we never saw before," he said. The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth of Cincinnati, a nationally known civil rights leader and close aid to Dr. Martin Luther King, disagreed with Green: "The whole society is responsible for what happened here.

Many Negroes came to the conclusion that our society will not respond to nonviolent appeals for Negro rights." The same leaders geared for a public hearing later Wednesday to air Negro grievances in attempts to find the cause of Cincinnati's first violent racial outbreak. Two Major Fires Two major fires erupted before dawn in the Walnut Hills section Wednesday, but 800 National Guardsmen backed police in restoring an uneasy calm during daylight hours. Both fires apparently were started by gasoline bombs. Damage at the Seybold Paper Co. warehouse was placed at Trouble In Dayton DAYTON, Ohio (AP) At least three persons were reportedly beaten Wednesday night when young Negro gangs went on a rampage of bottle throwing and window breaking on Dayton's West Side.

The trouble broke out in a 12- block area of West 3rd Street, the scene of racial rioting last September. A report monitored from police radio indicated three persons were dragged from their cars and beaten. One car being towed through the area was set on fire. Most of the city's police force converged on the area. Off-duty policemen were called The crowds would disperse as police arrived and then pop up in other areas.

There also were reports of attempted break-ins at several stores. and at the Modern Laundry Dry Cleaning Co. at $100,000. Guardsmen walked and patrolled the streets in jeeps. Mayor Walton H.

Bachrach said, "They'll be here as long as necessary to maintain law and Gov. James A. Rhodes sent the National Guard in Tuesday night at Bachrach's request. Police on Wednesday closed all bars and taverns and "all other: riot liquor areas. establishments" in Shuttlesworth disagreed with Green on motivation from outsides, saying, "I don't think outsiders could come inside and do what was done here," Negroes make up more than 100,000 of this Ohio River city's nearly half population.

But a spokesman said he believed only about 1,000 participated in the two nights of terror. A surgeon responding to emergency duty at General Hospital was among those most seriously injured Tuesday night. A brick was thrown through the windshield of Dr. John Faulk's causing him to lose control of the vehicle. He was in critical condition Wednesday.

Tuesday's rioting started at Rockdale and Reading roads in Avondale-the main scene of BALL GAME BOUND These happy youngsters are shown as they boarded a bus recently for a to Cincinnati and a Cincinnati Reds baseball game. The trip was sponsored by the Lexington Lions Club. Pictured are, from left, Craven Andrew Leech, 10; Sherry Fisby, 15, Sue Walker, 15: Grover Jones, chairman of the boys and girls committee of the local club and trip director; Debby Mason, 15, and Kerny Thomas Monday's violence-and spread III, 14. (Staff Photo). like wildfire to other widely scattered Negro areas -Walnut Hills, Peebles Corner, Evanston, Clifton and an area near Crosley Field, home of the Cincinnati Reds.

The scenes were a as as six -causing and firemen trouble in answering calls. The violence Tuesday started with a few window smashings, but mushroomed leading Bachrach to request the National Guard to bolster the city police force. Gangs of youths, with no apparent leaders, stormed through residential and business areas. There were unruly crowds on nearly every street intersection in the sections. Youth Patrol Force Helps 'Cool' Tampa TAMPA, Fla.

(AP) than 120 Negroes in white helmets fanned out over Tampa's five principal Negro nighborhoods Wednesday night, bent on keeping the peace after official warnings that serious trouble would bring massive police retaliation. The helmets, donated by police and hastily stenciled 'CYP' for "City Youth Patrol," popped up in front of on troublesome corners, and in restaurants as the CYP urged teenagers and young adults: "Cool it. We won't need any more trouble." The youths, some high school pupils some dropouts, most unemployed and volunteers were the Negro community's answer to the threat of renewed violence that hung over Tampa after an official ruling that a white patrolman committed justifiable homicide when he killed a Negro burglary suspect. Five hundred National Guardsmen and police riot squads remained on standby call. Sheriff Malcolm Beard said he would not use them unless new riots erupted, but he told Gov.

Claude Kirk, "At the first outbreak of violence we are going in with no holds barred." The sheriff won a gamble for peace Tuesday night when he pulled out reinforcements. Georgetown Oldsters Set June 28 Meeting At Park vention. Tense Quiet was elusive. I pulled out reinforcements. Danville will go over High Beverly Hillbillies" video series.

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Adult advisers picked by the youths themselves split the force initially into four 30-man squads. "We're going to patrol in groups of three," said one team captain, Robert Dixon. He added that each volunteer would be -sent to a neighborhood where he was known, and would depend on his own wits to smooth over any troublesome situations he encountered. Four Negro patrolmen were assigned to work with each squad, C. Blythe Andrews an adult adviser, said.

Andrews, editor of the local Negro weekly newspaper, said the, problems youths to the would cruising report any officers, who could alert police or other youth squads via the police radio. As word of the patrol spread, volunteers kept trickling into the Meacham Elementary School, just blocks from the original riot area, where one squad was formed. given instructions and issued helmets. The governor's office said Kirk was in touch with Beard "practically on an hourly baIsis." GEORGETOWN, -Retired citizens of Georgetown and Scott County will hold a meeting at 10 a.m. June 28 in the Community Room of the Scroggin Park Development.

The Rev. Dan Stone, minister of Faith Baptist Church, and C. A. Mifflin, executive director of the Housing Commission, will be in charge. Pancake Day Planned Pancake Day will be held June 24 at the First National Bank building the Kiwanis Club of Georgetown and Explorer Post No.

294. Serving will begin at 5. a.m. and continue to 2 p.m. Tickets be purchased from Kiwanis are $1.00 per, person and can Club members.

Profits from the sale will be used to finance activities of the Explorer Post, Kiwanis Club officials said. Kids Need Boosters The Scott County Health Department has told parents whose children will enter school this fall that those who have taken oral polio vaccine should have a booster dose before school starts. It is also recommended that. children who, received the vac-ing cine before were one year old should have a single dose of vaccine approximately one year later and again on entry to school. The vaccine will be available at the Health Department for all children previously receiving it here or may be obtained from a family physician.

Steam Engine To Visit Georgetown will be one of the route stops of the Saturday Southern Railway steam excursion. The departure will be at a about 10:15 a.m. (EST). Tickets for a ride to Lexington and Danville are available at the local station. Pulling the coaches will be Southern Railway Steam Locomotive No.

4501. Passengers taking the trip to Bridge, the second highest railway bridge in the United States. Passengers to Danville will have only a two-hour wait there before a return trip to Georgetown on the Royal Palm which will arrive here at 6:14 p.m. For many the excursion may be the last opportunity to see steam engine and to ride a steam-powered passenger train. The Steam Special has air-conditioned coaches.

The last steam-powered train to go through Georgetown was in 1953. There had been a tense quiet in the Negro areas Wednesday where armed National Guardsmen and police equipped with riot guns patrolled the streets in jeeps and police cruisers after riots Monday and Tuesday night resulted in more than 40 injuries and over a hundred arrests. andamage.from looting, windows fires was estimated at more than $1 million. Earlier Wednesday, a public meeting at City Hall turned into loud and angry wrangling session at which Negro spokesmen denounced the city government for ignoring their problems. Some Negroes stormed out.

"Stop the violence, get off the streets and then we can talk," Councilman Jake Held declared angrily after the meeting broke up. City officials held a closed strategy session after the public meeting. Loud Applause There was loud applause at the public meeting when Charles Collins, vice president of the local National Association for the Advancement for Colored he People, said the spotlight should be on City Hall for its long inaction Avondale and not on riot-torn section. Clyde Vinegar, a local civil rights leader, arrived late and denounced the "armed men" National Guardsmen outside the chamber. He then left, along with 20 to 25 persons from the audience.

Vice Mayor Eugene P. Ruehlm mann said all three political parties in the City Council are firmly behind the efforts to restore peace. Exact cause of the rioting still Gasoline Ignites; Man Suffers Burns A Lexington man was burned Tuesday night when gasoline ignited while he was using it to the floor of a house on Chestnut Street. Milton Furner, 32, was treated at University Hospital for seclond-degree burns on the right hand and leg. City firemen said Turner was scrubbing the kitchen floor at the home of a Mrs.

Hamilton, 656 Chestnut Street, when the fire started. The blaze spread to an adjoinhall and bedroom, doing several hundred dollars in damages before it was brought under control, firemen said. Four Get Degrees Four Lexington students were recently graduated from various universities. They are: Betsy Gillis, M.A.; Douglas S. Hall, Ph.

and Sumner P. Terry, B. Indiana University and Windell G. Reading M. Western Reserve University.

-traveled 212 million miles in its arcing path. In a straight line, Venus is 49.5 million miles from earth. "The solar panels on Mariner are working well, picking up power from the sun and providing said a JPL spokesman. "So far, everything looks successful." Experiments to study radiation in interplanatary space have been turned on. The $35-million craft will study radiation levels, atmospheric temperatures, pressure and density.

No cameras were installed because of weight limits. Wednesday's launch was the United States' first planetary probe in years. Scientists say they do not know whether Mariner 5 or the Soviet probe will arrive first at Venus. The Russians said their craft would travel for four months to the planet. Soft Landing In '70s The United States plans to eject its first probe into another planet's atmosphere in 1971, an advanced Mariner dropping a payload to Mars' surface.

American scientists plan to soft-land Voyagers, more SOphisticated craft, on Mars in 1973 and 1975. The United States conducted the world's only fully successful Venus probe, 2 in 1962, when the spacecraft' passed within 21,700 miles of the planet. It radioed information that Venus' surface had temperatures between 600 and 800 degrees above zero, too hot to support life as we know it. Student (Continued From Page One) be considered. The nature of these reports was not disclosed.

Judge Johnson said that he would hear the motion June 21, following an investigation of the psychiatric reports by the county attorney's office. Zeh was arrested on warrants charging him with contributing to the delinquency of a minor obtained by the parents of the juveniles. He turned himself in at police headquarters after he learned the warrants had been issued. The case was continued from May 24. Zeh had been free on bond.

Author In Film HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Jacqueline Susann will play a key role in the film version of her novel, "Valley of the Dolls." Granny Honored HOLLYWOOD (UPI) The Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County has conferred upon Irene Ryan the title of Honorary Senior Citizen for her portrayal of Granny in "The.

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