The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida (2024)

December 20, 1967

Publication:

The Miami Heraldi

Location:

Miami, Florida

Issue Date:

Wednesday, December 20, 1967

Page:

63

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GULF IJM Action See inside back page of this section I COAST EDITION Wednesday December 20 1967 No 20 Most Complete Newspaper 4 Two Latin American Editions Are Published Daily 58lh Year 96 Papes 10 Cents What Education Report Will Say In the shuffle State School Superintendent Floyd Christian would lose his elective job The new public school board would appoint the superintendent And an entirely new job commissioner of education would be created He would serve a new education commission or Turn to Page 20 A Col 3 mine how their payments would be budgeted but a new nine-member Florida Public School Board would review each budget to be sure state programs were being fully implemented This would remove the State Cabinet which now serves as the State Board of Education from direct control of education The Florida Education Association with 35000 resignations in hand called off the planned school closing after Kirk agreed to a crash program to find solutions to the education problems why the new report has a far greater chance of success than previous reports to former governors expanded programs for the disadvantaged and the handicapped ELIMINATION of teacher tenure and a modified merit pay plan based on a new staff CONSOLIDATION of county school systems which are too small to do an effective job Local school boards would be left the power to deter But property owners now carrying the major share of school costs would get a big tax break Friday the commission meets to give final approval to the program and present it to Kirk Should Kirk or the legislators balk at the report Florida could find its school buildings shuttered by mass teacher resignations cation commission to oversee the work of all schools in the state including junior colleges and universities SALE of a half billion dollars worth of bonds to bring school plant abreast of needs After that the state would assume full responsibility for all new building KINDERGARTEN for all Florida children and greatly By BILL MANSFIELD Capital Bureau Chief TALLAHASSEE school system will have far greater state financing anti control than ever before if Gov Claude Commission on Quality Education has its way Another sure result would be added state taxes to produce as much as $400 million each year a revolutionary report calling for: PAYMENT by the state of 75 cents out of every dollar spent to operate schools from kindergarten through the 12th grade ABOLISHMENT of the Minimum Foundation Program State funds would be distributed on a per-student basis CREATION of a new edu- Won9t Be Johnson Offers eace in been praying been he said Lipscomb was buried in a squatting position with his hands over his head while rescuers dug him out with hand tools lie and a fellow-worker had been cb -n 'ng out a well when the cave-in occurred Muddy But Fi ec John Lipscomb a 70-year-old well-digger is hoisted to safety at Apex NC after being trapned eicht feet underground for six hours by a cave- Miicm Storms Tornadoes Man and Beasts Press Wirephoto President Hugs Baby of Robert and Judith Grieve uhile Air Force One refuels at Tracis AFB California LBJ Stops to Visit Wounded Veterans Seen Fight to Special Session Jan 29 Priority Given To Education By Herald Wire Services TALLAHASSEE Gov Claude Kirk Tuesday set a date of Jan 29 for special educational session of the Legislature w'hich he said could be the most important in Florida history The promised special session to act on recommendations of the Commission on Quality Education may be extended Kirk said to include constitutional revision roads and other subjects But he said the emphasis will be on education Kirk announced the late January date for the special session giving the most notice he has ever given the Legislature in a news conference after 1 learning the report will be 1 ready by Friday Asked if he would insist that any new or increased tax legislation be submitted to the people first for a vote he said not presuppose what I will Commission Chairman Jacob Bryan of Jacksonville and Coordinator Hugh Adams Superintendent of Charlotte County schools flanked the governor during the conference in a stuffy basem*nt room of the Capitol Although the preliminary report already has been issued Kirk repeatedly refused to comment on the recommendations for improving school system He said the early completion of the report will give him a chance to it at during the holidays He left for Colora- Turn to Page 20A Col 2 Deliver Vs From Evil LONGVIEW Tex (UPI) The policeman read the note on the windshield of a car parked in a no parking area It read: have circled this block 10 times and I have an appointment and must keep it or lose my job Forgive us our The officer wrote a note of his own It read have circled this block 20 years If I give you a ticket I will lose my job Lead us not into Stars Christmas Two-s tars saluted as though he were the sergeant and I the general he said turned on his heel and disappeared The lights came on There were Christmas trees on every corner Even the cold seemed less biting I turned the Locomobile in at the motor pool and telephoned the base hospital I was very fond of a nurse there Her name was Wilhel-mina and though sergeants Turn to Page 2A Col 1 Battling By United Press International Up to a foot of new snow fell Tuesday in the snow-swamped Southwest and torandoes raked Alabama for the second successise day The battle for life by man and animal against the elements in normally arid areas of the Far West was complicated by sub-zero cold in many areas Travelers warnings remained up in parts of California Nevada Utah Wyoming Colorado Arizona and New Mexico Flagstaff Ariz snow capital of the nation was literally up to its eyebrows in snow 66 inches of it 5 Vi feet of it In mountain passes of Colorado snow depths ranged up to 80 inches and winter was still three days away officially A tornado sliced into Birmingham Ala ripping the doors from three hangars and overturning eight planes at the airport A house trailer was damaged and trees uprooted on the west side Ground and air rescue units fought 15-foot snow drifts to delivery feed to livestock without food for as much as a week in Arizona Utah New Mexico and He Wants Viet Cong Saigon Talk WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson offered Tuesday night a five-point plan he said might be useful in ending the war in Vietnam But he rejected any idea of being and on that grave issue Johnson placed heavy emphasis on the possibilities of informal talks between the South Vietnamese and the Communist National Liberation Front as a pathway to peace The President gave his views to White House correspondents of the three major television networks in an interview taped Monday and shown Tuesday night while he was flying the Pacific to Australia for memorial services for Prime Minister Harold Holt Johnson say yes or no to a question about whether the US would settle for nothing less than a military victory But he said he thinks a fair solution could be worked out along these lines: THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE between North and South Vietnam must be respected in accordance with a 1954 agreement on that THE UNITY of Vietnam as a whole must be a matter for peaceful adjustments and negotiation NORTH VIETNAMESE forces must get out of Laos and stop infiltrating that country as required by a 1962 agreement SOUTH VIETNAM should be governed on the basis of one-man one-vote constitutional government he said an overwhelming majority of its people want GOOD RESULTS could come from informal discussions which President Ihieu Turn to Page 13A Col 1 HONORED GUEST: Center of activities at country club party has a long long long nose 1C STAY AWAY: Palestinian terrorists warn pilgrims to stay away from Holy Land at Christmastime 4A Kofoed 11D 11D Martenhoff 6D Sports ID Molner 8C 10D Movies 5E TV-Radio 9D Pearson 7A Weather 2A Pope ID Women 1C A Listener Ill Russia MOSCOW (UPD Gov George Romney of Michigan met in the Kiemlin Tuesday with Sonet Prempr Alexei Kosygin for more than two hours of talks on Vietnam the Middle East and Soviet-American relations Romney said after the talks he did listening than but refused to disclose any details of the conversations The contender for the GOP presidential nomination is on a precampaign world tour w'hich will be climaxed by a visit to South Vietnam He is the first prominent American to talk with Kosygin since the meeting with President Johnson in Glass-boro NJ last June The meeting lasted two hours and 10 minutes unusually long for foreigners not on an official visit to the Soviet premier Romney said the meeting was with my purpose of securing directly viewpoints on subjects of mutual have had a very interesting conversation covering such subjects as Vietnam arms control Soviet-Ameri-can relations and the Middle he told newsmen The said "I am proud of all cf you country cares about you because you care about the President told a Marine a wheel chair He handed a gold-colored pen to Army Pfc Roger Corbin Hamilton 111 telling him: me a note someday and tell me how you are getting In Canberra meanwhile new Prime Minister John Mc-Ewen said Tuesday that Australia will continue to fight alongside the US and its allies in Vietnam to make aggressive communism cannot overrun a free pledge came in his first nationwide radio and TV address a few hours after he was formally sworn in to succeed Holt Elements Other rescuers attempted to deliver food and fuel to families isolated from the rest of the world since the series of storms hit a week ago The storm-caused death toll stood at 46 About 100 persons were isolated at Willard and Ewing NM and others were on snowbound ranches near Ramah and Fence Lake NM National Guardsmen were attempting to break through drifts to reach them At Towaoc Colo Indian affairs officials appealed for federal aid for 2000 sheep and 1000 cattle without food for five days Another 1200 animals were reported isolated without food near 1 a i Colo Durango Colo had 22 inches of snow on the ground and Wolf Creek Pass had 80 inches Sales Tax 6 Pet In Pennsylvania HARRISBURG Pa (AP) General Assembly raised the state sales tax from 5 to 6 per cent Tuesday making it the highest in the nation The Senate approved a bill that temporarily would raise the tax for 18 months through July 1 1969 The House approved it last week nearly 10 at night when we returned Christmas Eve my left foot! Back home everybody was enjoying warmth and friendship and the joy of the season For me after a lousy war this empty belly and spirit Even the box I knew pop and mom had sent arrived I wras broke without a sou in my pocket and payday more than a week the future Christmas! It was for the birds and might as well have been Jan 19 Feb 7 If there was no joy in Mudville when Casey struck out there was less for me in Nantes I pulled up in front of the BOQ or whatever they called it in those days and opened the car door The general got EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT JOHNSON (UPI) President Johnson stopped at Travis Air Force Base Calif Tuesday en route to Australia In a surprise visit to the base hospital he told wounded veterans they had done good job in The President gave the wounded men ballpoint pens bearing his signature and told them to write him and let him know how they got along Air Force One made its first refueling stop at Travis on the 30-hour flight to Canberra where the President will attend memorial services for Prime Minister Harold Holt Other stops were scheduled at Honolulu and American Samoa During his 47-minute stop at Travis the major Vietnam airlift base the President spent 20 minutes at the base hospital talking with wounded veterans flown recently from the war zone fellows have done a good job in he Fame Escapes Some LONDON Only 58 per cent of 2000 Britons polled in a recent survey knew who UN Secretary General Thant was Thant was variously described as starting the war in Israel leader of the Communist Chinese Red Guard movement a pop singer an actor in horror movies a dressmaker and a Rally In Keep Heart CAPE TOWN South Africa (UPI) Surgeon Christian Barnard who performed first heart transplant operation said Tuesday night his patient had rallied in his fight for life against what may be rejection of his new heart Barnard said the condition of his patient Louis Wash-kansky was still serious but he showed a slight improvement after massive transfusions of white blood cells to counteract a in the white-cell count over the past 24 hours It was the first improvement reported in condition since he took a sudden turn for the worse at Groote Schuur Hospital after the onset of double pneumonia last weekend Barnard who performed the operation Dec 3 expressed confidence the rejection phenomenon could be halted or even reversed The human body usually rejects such foreign objects but Barnard ordered the so-called treatment to try to halt the process When asked you his reply was am always Hartke May Run As Favorite Son WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Vance Hartka (D Ind) said he may be a favorite son candidate for president in Indiana even if Jiis personal and political Gov Roger Branigin runs as a stand in for President Johnson a candidate I expect to win" Hartke told newsmen adding that he then would try at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago to reshape party polrnes Dark Day Is Lighted by Two Friendly Enemies Hard-line Republicans don't like the friendship between their big image Sen Ecerelt Dirksen of Illinois and President Johnson 12C I Remember Best YOU'VE GOT SHOPPING PAYS LEFT CHARLE BROWN I YOU'D BETTER GET ON THE -o Amuse Bishop Bourke Class Comics 2E Deaths 7A Dunaway 5E Financial 20C Goren 10D Heloise 20C 7D 7B 11D 3C 6E Cross 10D King By JACK KOFOED Herald Columnist It was biting cold in Nantes the day before Christmas 1918 The war was over thank God but everyone was in a rage to get home We thought of how it was there on the Day with the tree and loved ones turkey and presents A general came down from Chaumont headquarters a two-star one he was There was "much he wanted to do and far-flung places he wanted to visit So he was assigned a Locomobile limousine with me as driver I drove from hell-to-break- fast and it must have been fi I out He was a big man and when he smiled he meant it he said afraid ruined the day for you be Christmas a couple of hours and like you to have a nice He took off his gloves reached into a pocket and slipped 100 francs into my hand got a girl friend There are several good restaurants in this town Take her to dinner Live it up Christmas only comes once a Chuckle A committee meeting is where many a word is spoken in guess Immediate delnery on new 1968 Cheuolets Open tonight til 10 Luby Cheuole City 9200 27th Avenue Adv t' Editorials Page 6 Trip Stresses Our Pacific Commitments Panama Wo'dy Peaceful Smuggtars of the Year I.

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