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ilxtm No More 'Gifts To Pownal: O'Brien 0 137th Year Serving Vtrmont No. 274 18 Pog.i, Only 10c SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1964 Israel Says Syrian Attack Started 2-Hour Border Fight mmmmmffmmm msmmwsmxmm 'L I I A ill the state gets 3 per cent of the money bet daily. Bartimo said he expects the track will ask the new Legislature for a permanent formula along the lines of the temporary one, which will expire automatically on April 1, 1965. He said the original 10-8 split was based on the assumption that an average of $400,000 would be wagered daily at the track. He said that assumption has never materialized.

"I hate to think of this," said Bartimo, "but, if we don't get the permanent adjustment, it is possible we may be operating for 20 or 30 days a year, just enough to protect our franchise." Bartimo's comments won no sympathy from O'Brien, the straight talking legislator who successfully pushed the legislative effort to legalize pari-mutuel racing in the state. "They've got the best seU up in the United States," said O'Brien. "I don't believe they need $400,000 a day to break even. "I'd like to see the audit of their books this year. Anyway, I think the track should be operated on the same basis that the people voted for when they approved racing in Vermont." O'Brien noted that a federal court which has ordered reapportionment of the Vermont Legislature has also ruled the 1965 Legislature cannot pass any legislation except that necessary for reapportionment.

In addition, the federal court has ruled the terms of office of legislators elected to the 1965 session will expire automatical, ly on April 1, 1965. "I don't think there will be any legislative action and the act will revert to the 10-8 split," said O'Brien. "That's the way it should be. "I fought for this (pari-mutuel racing) to bring more tax money for the state. The people voted for it on the 10-8 basis and they should get what they voted for." Income from pari-mutuel racing has become important to the state treasury, but O'Brien, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said he wouldn't vote for any measure to give the racetrack a permanent big share of the daily "handle." "I doubt that they'll get it," he said.

By VIC MAERKI The man who led the struggle to legalize pari-mutuel racing in Vermont pledged Friday to fight any move designed to give Green Mountain Park racetrack a permanent big share of the money wagered on the horses each day. 'Til never vote for It," said State Sen. John J. (Jack) O'Brien of South Burlington. "Let them pack up and go home first." Those comments from the peppery veteran Democratic state senator came in response to a track official's statement that a permanent and more liberal adjustment of the pari-mutuel tax split is needed "if racing is to continue to Vermont" Vincent J.

Bartimo, vice president and general manager of Green Mountain Park at Pownal, called for the permanent adjustment after the racetrack ended its second year of operation this week. "Based on my figures for two years, there is no question in my mind but that we must have a permanent readjustment," said the manager of Vermont's only pari-mutuel racetrack. He said the track's board of directors also agree on that point. Under the original law that legalized pari-mutuel racing in Vermont, a total of 18 per cent of the money bet at the track each day was to be taken from the pari-mutuel pool. Of that 18 per cent, 10 per cent was set aside to go to the track and 8 per cent to the state treasury.

In response to reports that the track was in financial trouble in its opening season in 1963, the Legislature agreed to give the track a bigger share of the 18 per cent. The 1963 and 1964 sessions of the Vermont Legislature passed new formulas designed to give the track temporary relief. Under the formula in effect during the recent season, the track received 13 per cent and the state 5 per cent during thoroughbred racing dates, with the state to get 9 per cent and the track 9 per cent of the daily "handle" if -the horse players bet more than an average of $200,000 daily during the season. For harness racing dates, the track receives 15 per cent and Russell Isaacson, 11, blind since birth, learned to dial telephone and ran up large bill for parents by calling around country for weather reports. (AP Wirephoto) Love of Weather Can Be Costly Council in New York and the U.N.

truce observation team in Jerusalem. The Syrian communique said Israeli artillery shelled two unarmed Arab villages in the demilitarized frontier zone and that Syrian forces countered with mortar and artillery fire against five Israeli border settlements and military positions. At U.N. headquarters in New York, Syrian Ambassador Rafik Asha charged that Israel attacked to "poison the atmosphere of the forthcoming U.N. General Assembly." With tensions heightened by Israel's decision to begin tapping the Jordan River and Arab threats to oppose it there have been a number of clashes in recent months along the 50-mile-long Syrian-Israeli frontier.

But Friday's battle was by far the most serious and the first involving a fullscale air attack. The Israeli military spokesman charged that the Syrians began the fight with machine gun fire, then lobbed mortar shells and finally brought up two World War II German tanks. The Syrians fired on the Dan Shaar Hyishuv collective settlements and inflicted heavy damage, hitting two houses, destroying electric installations and blowing up a fuel tank, he said. The Israeli radio said Friday night that a school, barn, museum and agricultural equipment were destroyed. The Israeli spokesman said the Syrians fired from five positions.

He said the German Panzer tanks were knocked out by fire from the Israeli tanks. He said the Syrian fire came from Noukhaile, Tel Hama, Azyziat, Tel Kapit and Tel Banias. When firing continued, he said, Israeli planes were ordered into the air and destroyed one position with napalm and strafed the others. The planes "finally smashed the Syrian positions at Tel Ham-ra and Azyziat areas" after the Syrians ignored a call by the United Nations for a cease-fire, the spokesman went on. The action developed in northern Galilee, where Israel's land reclamation and work to harness the Jordan River for power and irrigation irked its Arab neFghbors.

Blames Parts Shortage This is how Fishing Creek Reservoir, near Frederick, Md.t looks after summer-long drought that is running into autumn. Tree stumps are normally under 40 feet of water. Tower in background is water control valve, but generally just top is visible above water. (AP Wirephoto) VVesf Wetted TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -Israeli jets pounded Syrian border posts with napalm and gunfire Friday in the worst clash on the Syrian-Israeli border in years. Each side accused the other of starting the battle.

An Israeli army spokesman said two Israelis were wounded and two border settlements were heavily damaged by Syrian gunners. He claimed the Syrians began the fight by attacking an Israeli army patrol on Israeli territory. In Damascus, a Syrian army communique said seven Syrians died and 26 were wounded in 100 minutes of air and land fighting about 25 miles north of the Sea of Galilee. He said the Israelis suffered heavy casualties. Syria lodged an urgent complaint with the U.N.

Security Frustration In S. Viet Nam Atter Storm SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Communist guerrillas advanced south through flood-ravaged provinces north of Saigon Friday while in the capital Premier Tran Van Huong stood off two challenges to his new regime. It seemed symptomatic of the frustrations dogging South Viet Nam that at a time of national disaster, Buddhist students demonstrated demanding an end to Huong's young regime. And the High National Council that appointed him put him to hostile questioning. Helpless to stop the southward infiltration of the Viet Cong because of wrecked communications, Huong's government put on a military show of strength that cowed student topplers of Vietnamese governments.

Truckloads of troops, including elite airborne units, poured into Saigon. A company of airborne soldiers took up positions behind barbed wire at Dien Hong Palace, where the government was in session. No Violence There was no violence, although riot police and paratroopers eventually were used to hold back the 1,500 demonstrators. The youths, starting from Saigon student union headquarters, stormed through four police lines on their way toward the waterfront palace where Huong was answering questions before the council. Troops and fire trucks ringing the area halted the students.

Banners and shouted slogans from the marchers called first for a Cabinet reshuffle and later for Huong's resignation. The crowd eventually broke up after a delegation of students reportedly was permitted to present a petition. Dry East Stays That Way Mexico's President Completes Talks With LBJ learned that up-to-the-minute weather reports and forecasts could be obtained by dialing a certain public service number. "We didn't know it at the time," the father said, "but Russell was dialing this number day after day and getting the latest reports. "A few weeks ago, he found that other cities have the same service and he learned that the numbers were the same except that you had to dial an area code number first." Apparently Russell was curious about the weather in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

Big Bill "Last week, we got our telephone bill and it had over $20 worth of out of town calls which we knew we didn't make," Isaacson said. "When we called the telephone company we found out that they were all made to weather report numbers in other cities." The Isaacsons asked their son if he might have made the calls. "Right away he said he had called those places," Isaacson said. "He said he thought the service was free there just like for local weather. He felt terrible about it all." Cancel Charges When the telephone company learned who had made the calls and why, they canceled the charges, Isaacson said.

What about Russell now? "Oh, he feels better now that he knows we didn't have to pay and he promised to keep his calls local. After all, we have plenty of weather right here' A over the central Rockies would shift its rainmaking influence eastward to the dry region. The storm produced snow in the mountains and the Great Basin, including 7 inches at Craig, and 5 inches at Milford, Utah, in a six-hour period. On the West Coast, Point Arena, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, received 2Va inches of rain in 24 hours. There was hail in one thunderstorm at Astoria, Ore.

Temperatures were cool, except for quite mild weather along the Atlantic Seaboard where Worcester, had 63 degrees, equaling the record high for Nov. 13. in Week and experienced no trouble nationally or locally. American Motors the last to sign, cleared at both levels after a brief walkout. Rail Strike Threat Again For Nov.

23 WASHINGTON (AP) More than 150,000 members of six unions are preparing to strike Nov. against about 90 per cent of the nation's railroad industry. Government mediators continue efforts to head off the planned walkout over wages and fringe benefits. IVncis A. O'Neill of the National Mediation Board met for an hour and a half Friday with chief union spokesman Michael Fox.

He said his talks with both sides will resume in Chicago Monday morning. No Comment O'Neill declined to comment on Friday's session with Fox. Fox heads the railway employes' department of the AFL-CIO with headquarters in Chicago. The six shop unions are free to strike after midnight Nov. 19 when a 30-day mandatory waiting period expires.

The delay was imposed automatically under the Railway Labor Act when President Johnson named an emergency board to study the dispute between the railroads and 11 nonoperating unions, including the six shop craft groups. The six shop unions so far have rejected the emergency board's recommended wag increase of 27 cents an hour over three years. Ford May DETROIT (AP) Blaming a parts shortage which it attributed to strikes in four key plants, Ford Motor Co. laid off 33,500 workers Friday and forecast the possible shutdown of all its au-tomaking operations by next weekend. At the same time, Ford announced that it had agreed to a request of the United Auto Workers union for a meeting next Thursday of their top nego- VALLEY STREAM, N.Y.

(AP) Russell Isaacson is an 11-year-old boy with a fascination for weather conditions he has felt but never seen in his lifetime of blindness. Russell's parents Mr. and Mrs. Karl Isaacson said he began to show a deep interest in the weather almost from the time he first learned to talk. "He was always asking one of us or his brother or sister what the weather was," Isaacson recalled.

"He used to keep posted on the weather while at school by asking his what the weather was." Several weeks ago, he was taught how to dial a telephone by feel. A few days later, he the first powered plane flight made by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903. In the Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, the President asked the people to observe the holiday by giving thanks for their manifold blessings and to pray "that the forces of evil, violence, indifference, intolerance and inhumanity may soon vanish from the face of the earth and that peace, reason, understanding, and goodwill may reign supreme throughout the world." Johnson may spend the Thanksgiving holiday at the ranch. He plans to fly back to Washington Sunday, then return to the Texas hill country later in the week. Saturday the deer season opens.

And Johnson's neighbors can't remember his ever having passed the chance to get out before dawn and go after the white tails. Gillesfie County where the President lives is thick with deer plenty of them on Johnson's own scattered acres. Judge Jailed For Evading Income Taxes MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) -State -Supreme Court Justice Earl Welch was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for evading federal income taxes, but he termed loss of his position and his profession a severe punishment. Welch, 72, also was fined $23, 500 by U.S.

Dist. Judge Roy Harper who said the sentencing was "particularly unpleasant in this instance." Harper denied a motion for a new trial before imposing the penalty on a total of five counts of evading $13,000 in taxes during 1957-61. Welch could have received five years in prison and a fine a total of 25 years and $50,000 on each count. He was freed on $5,000 appeal bond. "I could not be but little more punished (if) this conviction takes me out of my position and my profession," Welch, a lawyer since 1911 and a justice since 1933, said in court.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Most of the nation's bone-dry eastern half remained rainless Friday while the well-soaked West got more rain and snow. There was a little light shower activity along a weather front system between eastern Maine and the Gulf Coast, and some light rain and snow fell in the northern Great Lakes area. This scattered precipitation did nothing to ease the critically developing water and moisture shortage which was marked by many field and woods fires, and severely shrunken reservoir supplies. Some hope was held that a widespread weather disturbance Shut Down tiating committees. The layoffs brought to 57,600 the number idled at Ford plants in eight states, with 24,100 of them on strike.

The UAW called out its workers in nine Ford plants a week ago in support of local-level demands being made for inclusion in at-the-plant agreements which supplement the company-union national contract. Since, settlement has been reached at two struck plants. But these were in assembly operations at Dallas, and Louisville, and in no way alleviate the company's reported parts shortage. Ford and the UAW reached accord on a new three-year-national contract Sept. 18.

But final and binding signing was made contingent on wrapping up local-level agreements between individual plant managers and 90 UAW bargaining units within the Ford industrial complex. Ken Bannon, UAW Ford department director, said the union's request for a new meeting of national-level bargaining teams was "to find out why," if full local-level settlement had not been reached by Thursday. He expressed hope there would be no need for the meeting. In agreeing to the meeting, Ford Vice President Malcolm Denise said: "We see no reason why the current ill-advised strikes should be continued that long." The UAW struck General Motors Corp. nationally in September in support of national contract demands, but after agreement at this level was reached it made a return to work contingent on the wrapup of local-level settlements.

As a result, GM was knocked out or crippled for six weeks. Chrysler the first to sign, set the pattern of higher wages and pensions, earlier retirement and broader insurance, JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) President Johnson and President-elect Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico discussed Cuba and a sweep of other subjects Friday then concluded what was described as an enormously helpful conference. No changes appear likely in the American policy of trying to isolate Fidel Castro and Communist Cuba from the rest of the hemisphere or in the Mexican policy of continuing to maintain diplomatic relations with Cuba. But diplomatic sources said all the emphasis was on a friendly interchange of views and improved understanding.

Wilder Girl Denies Guilt In Death Case WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. (AP)-A 19-year old girl pleaded innocent Friday to a charge of careless and negligent driving resulting in death, stem-' ming from the death of a White River Junction woman Wednesday night. Cheryl Ann Findley of Wilder was released in $1,000 bail. Her case was continued to Dec. 8.

She was accused of driving the car which police said struck Mrs. Mary Williams, 67, as she was walking across U.S. Route 5 in Wilder. Look East Page 11 Classified Comics Dear Abby Editorials Landers 16 6 4 12 1.1 Obituaries Sports Stocks -Weather Womens 1.1 14 6 11 4 i iii ii rim mmmmmmmmmmmmk And there could be no real negotiations on anything, since Diaz Ordaz doesn't take office until Dec. 1.

The visiting Mexican and his wife took off from the airstrip at the Johnson ranch in midafter-noon. 'Very Good Visit ''It's been a very good Diaz Ordaz said. Before the visitors left, a couple of American Cabinet officers came in from Washington on a small, swift jet. Johnson was switching back to domestic matters by adding Secretary of Labor Willar Wirtz and Secretary of Welfare Anthony J. Celebrezze to the parade of Cabinet members who have come to the LBJ Ranch for huddles on budgets and programs for the coming year.

Johnson introduced Wirtz and Celbrezze to the departing Mexican visitors, ushered them into an electric cart and, in a bouy-ant mood, took a couple of passes at a photographer. The photographer was squatting on the ground reloading his camera. The playful President made a run at him, horn blowing, then circled and made another. 'Honey, don't," Mrs. Johnson pleaded.

Johnson kept on, the horn still blowing, and photographer Ralph Santos of CBS went on loading missed by an ich. Whirled Away The President and his guests shifted to a helicopter and whirled away to a retreat on the Llano River, 25 miles to the northeast. After a speedboat spin, he herded them back into the chopper and headed back to the ranch. White House officials said the two secretaries would be overnight guests. Before seeing Diaz Ordaz off from the airstrip at the ranch, the President took his guest on a tour.

The tour standard procedure for all visitors took in the pastures and white-faced Hereford cattle, the red frame cottage of cousin Oriole Bailey, the Johnson family burial ground, and the rebuilt white frame house on the site of the home where Johnson was born. In a session at his library desk, Johnson signed documents officially proclaiming Nov. 26 Thanksgiving Day and Dec. 17 Wright Brothers Day in honor of -mm ailliliiaiipi? Psychic Powers? Linda Anderson, 15-year-old Lowell, girl, has blindfold set in place by her father, Arthur, during demonstration of her powers extra-sensory perception which her father claims she has. Linda was called on by Lowell police to help find Kenneth Mason, 5, missing since Tuesday.

After visiting boy's home and areas where he was last seen playing, she said boy was not in river, 'he is in a (AP Wirephoto).