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THE DAILY TAK HEEL Thursday. April 14, 1966 Dodd To RALEIGH (AP) Vernon Lemuel Dodd, a 19-year-o 1 d Salisbury youth, pleaded guil ty Wednesday to willful and malicious burning of personal property involving five fires last year on the North Caro lina State campus. Judge Raymond B. Mallard was expected to sentence Dodd later in Wake Superior court. Before accepting the guilty pleas, Judge Mallard told the former North Carolina State student he could receive up to 10 years in prison on each charge. Dodd pleaded innocent to charges growing out of a fire which destroyed Uullen Hail and damaged adjacent Peele Hall Feb. 22, 1965. Solicitor W. G. Ransdell said Dodd would be tried later, on these charg es. Dodd pleaded guilty to start ing fires which damaged prop erty at Danforth Chapel in King Religious Center and in Holliday Hall, Brooks Hall and Becton Dormitory, where he then lived. t State Bureau, of Investigation agent E. B. iPierce testified that Dodd told him and Ra leigh detective Lt. R. L. Bunn on April 2 that he started the fires. The youth then returned to Becton Hall where he started a fire in the "lounge, Pierce said. Dodd further told the offi cers, Pierce testified, that on March 3, 1965, he left "a Queen Azalea XIX Arrives To Start Wilmington Festival WILMINGTON, N. C. (AP) Queen Azalea XIX arrived late Wednesday to kickoff four days of festivities in the annual Aza lea Festival in Wilmington. This year's queen is Ulla Stromstedt, a star of the Flip per television series. She will reign over . the four days of the festival which starts Thurs day. The program includes a per formance Thursday night fea turing a folk singing group, The Bitter End Singers. -Balls are planned Friday and Satur day nights with a giant par ade Saturday morning. Mitch Miller, the television personality, will be master of ceremonies at the balls. Bar ry Sadler, the Ft. Bragg sold ier who wore "The Ballad of the Green Beret," will be parade marshal. Comedian Larry Storch also will ap pear. Gov. Dan Moore plans to ar rive Friday and stay until Sat urday. The annual azalea parade Saturday will attract 250,000 persons, festival officials pre dicted. A spokesman :for the festi val said that the city's thou sands of azaleas should be at their peak spring bloom by the weekend. In addition to the festival, the annual Azalea Open Golf Tournament starts Thursday at the Cape Feat Country Club. AKC GERMAN SHEPHERD puppies, 5 males and 4 fe males puppy shots, 5 weeks old. Also Siamese kittens. Call 929-2311 evenings and week ends. FOR RENT: LUXURY TWO bedroom 10 x 50 air-conditioned mobile home. $80 per month. Available April 18. Call 942-3268 or 942-1749. FOR SALE: LATE 1964 Suzu ki motorcycle, 80 cc. 1800 miles, mint condition. $275. Call 967-1971 1958 PLYMOUTH CONVERTI bte. For Sale.; ' exceptional ly good condition. $425. Call Ralph Willis 929-3272. FOR SALE 80 cc. Suzuki Scrambler 2 sprockets for road and field knobby tires ' only 3000 miles. In excellent shape. Must sell now. $200 Call 929-1574. FOR SALE ' 1956 CHEVRO let. Good condition. Call Wm. Clark, 942-5937. after 2 p.m. 306 C Mason Farm Road. FOR SALE. 1959 LAMRETTA SCOOTER. Excellent Mechan ical condition. Call 942-4245 after 6. FOR SALE: 1959 VW Motor, body, and interior in perfect condition. Many extras. Will sell for $650. Call 942-4089 aft er 11 p.m. ; Settin Pleads g 5 drinking party in the dorm" and walked to the Frank Thompson Theatre lobby, where he ignited several paint ings on a pegboard. "He stated he did not know why he did it," Pierce said. "It was some sort of impulse. He was sorry he did it and said he had not tried to con ceal it. He said he did not run from any of the buildings." John B. Dodd Jr., brother of the defendant and a senior at North Carolina State, said his brother was deeply de pressed during January, Feb ruary and March of 1965. Defense attorney Charles Blanchard asked John Dodd if he thought his brother was un der a . mental strain at the time of the fires. Dodd replied he thought his brother was having trouble with a girl friend and dis agreements at home last year. John Dodd said his brother is now employed at a cloth ing store in Salisbury and "has adjusted very well." Pierce said investigators had concentrated on Dodd since the middle of March after elimin ating other persons. Militant Buddhists Plan Orderly Rally SAIGON, (AP) Militant Buddhists planned a big but orderly demonstration here to day to emphasize their oppos ition to Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's military government. It was expected to take the form of a nonviolent march from the Buddhist institute to downtown Saigon. Such a parade route would follow streets marked by a ser ies of riotous outbreaks before the Buddhist hierarchy pro claimed itself in over - all command of the dissidents and called a halt to the rowdyism and arson last Saturday night. At the same time there was a report that Buddhists would drop their boycott of the pre paratory congress the , govern ment convened Tuesday to re commend steps for the trans fer of ruling powers to a civil ian regime. Radio Saigon broadcast a statement that the Buddhist delegates would take their seats in the congress today. Confirmation was lacking from the religious hierarchy. Buddhist factions were re ported making a house-to-house canvass to whip up support for the Saigon demonstration. Ky has vowed he will move brcefully because any further violent demonstrations. Last week in Saigon there were re peated clashes with police and troops, with open anti-Amer- lcan overtones. Authorities said that if th.i parade is orderly it probably will be unhindered by the gov ernment. There have been no demon strations in Saigon this week. They have continued, however, in the northern eenters of Hue and Da Nang. The Buddhists are demand ing steps toward a represen tative, civilian government in "a very short time," Presum ably meaning within two to five months. The military re gime has said it has no de sire to cling to power, but that AN EXPLOSIVE 2. IN . ill- JBtU III- 11 ji'iiiwifi;js on IM Ml fly w i m NOW PLAYING i 1 Guilty Fires Pierce said Dodd told him and Bunn he left his dorm the night of Feb. 8. 1965. and went to Danforth Chapel to pray. He said when he arriv ed he had "an urge to set fire" to Danforth Chapel and struck a match and ignited draperies. Pierce said Dodd told them he then went to Holliday Hall and ignited a stack of cards in the basement and continu ed to Brooks Hall where he started a fire in a trash can in a men's room. Dodd told the officers he then went outside and saw a crowd gathering at Danforth Chapel and went there to see what was going on. While there he heard there was another fire at Holliday Hall and said he went to as sist firemen in keeping people away from the building, offi cers quoted Dodd as saying. Admission rates at the More head Planetarium at the Uni versity of North Carolina, Cha pel Hill, have been raised for the first time in almost ten years. Prices are still low, however. it will take time to work out the orderly procedures for an election. A national preparatory con gress called by the government went through its second day Wednesday, but there was lit tle sign that it was making any solid progress toward sol ving the political unrest. The congress was convened to re commend steps toward elec tion of a civil government. It is taking up the question of a constituent assembly that would draft a constitution to be put to referendum. On the opening day Tues day, the congress was attend ed by only 92 delegates, about half the total asked to parti cipate., The Buddhists , boycot-. ted it And there were only two5 Roman 1 Catholics present ' as" observers. Wednesday the congress sent a delegation to try to induce absentees , to attend. Speakers insisted that the congress should be attended by Buddhist and Catholic leaders if it is to have any meaning. Some quarters here were said to feel there is a possi bility of agreement between the dissident political factions, using the congress as a forum. It perhaps might be based on agreement of the military re gime for quick action on the selection of the constituent as sembly. Whether any timing consid ered proper by the government would be accepted by the Budd hists, however, was an open question. Ky is known to feel confi dent he has enough backing from the military and other groups to stick in office through the present crisis if he desires. He also is known to feel that groups opposing his government do not have the powerful support they claim. Whether his assessment is accurate may be determined soon. y IS ON... STORY OF TODAY! '3 it : 99 Columbia pictures ot, MARION BRANDO SAM SPIEGEL'S 'OF r , M -'-. JCKH S) Shows at 2:00 4:24 i:4S 9:12 'Ducks For Tuck ' Reveal California Campaign Spirit LOS ANGELES (AP) Ric hard Tuck, a political jester thought funny by most every body but Richard M. Nixon and Barry Goldwater, is mak ing a serious bid for his first elective office. Tuck, 42 and a Democrat, wants to be a California state senator from Los Angeles county. He would like a little more serious image, but he knows that his fame as a political comedian may hurt him some. He enlivened the 1960 presi dential campaign with his pol itical tricks. "I have been told that my publicity will enable me to car ry every district but one my own," he quips. In a campaign where you can't tell the actors from the politicans, Tuck's sense of hu mor is still rampant. He's planning a campaign parade on a local lake with ducks carrying "Ducks for Tuck" placards. "I'm hoping to have the ducks trained in time for the June 7 primary," he says. Another campaign gimmick will be to give each member of the Los Angeles city coun cil an $87 jar of preserves. "The cow counties up north keep voting to take money away from Los Angeles and voting more money for coun ty fairs. I figure that makes each jar of Aunt Susie's blue ribbon preserves worth $87." Tuck announce! his candida cy at a campaign dinner for Gov. Edmund G. Brown, by placing a copy of an alledged telegram at each table. It said: "Dear Dick: I just learned that you filed for the state senate in Los Angeles. I want you to know that I've waited for this moment a long, long time. Pat and I are ar Mexico City Prepares For Lyndon Johnson's 'Informal' Visit Today MEXICO CITY, (AP) Mex ico is preparing welcome with all the trappings 'Uii "state for President Johnson s arrival to-J day. While the 24 - hour visit has been characterized as inform al, Mexican officials planned ' a 21-gun salute at Mexico City's International Airport. Presi dent Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, flan ked by all members of his cab- inet, will be on hand. Presidential assistants Bill Moyers and Jack Valenti ar rived yesterday to dicuss fi nal details of the visit with officials of the Mexican gov ernment and the U. S. em bassy. Johnson is slated to arrive at 5:30 p.m., (6:30 p.m. EST) on his first visit outside the United States since he became President. Diaz Ordaz will make a welcoming speech and Johnson will respond. Johnson then will drive to the official Mexican presidential residence, Los Pinos, for a courtesy call up on the Mexican president. The government today pub lished large advertisements in the morning newspapers asking people on the go... t ranging our schedule and will be out in your district some time in May. (signed) Richard Nixon." Comments Tuck: "I'm afraid Nixon will en dorse me and blow me out of the water." Tuck is the fellow who once put on a railroad engineer's cap in San Luis Obispo and signaled the crew to start the campaign train just as Nixon was starting a speech on the rear platform. In 1962 when Nixon was cam paigning for governor of Cali fornia, he made a speech in Los Angeles' Chinatown. He was greeted by Chin se girls who carried signs in English that read "Welcome Nixon" but underneath in Chi nese characters the signs ask ed: "What about the Hughes loan?" Billionaire Howard Hughes once loaned $200,000 to Nixon's brother to help bolster a fal tering restaurant. Tuck was the man w ho sneaked a beautitufl spy onto a Goldwater campaign train during the 1964 presidential campaign. She distributed to newsmen a humorous anti - Goldwater letter. Sample: "We ar happy to report that the railroad has assured us that flouride has not been add ed to the water on this train." But his favorite was the morning after the first Nixon Kennedy television debate in 1960. As Nixon stepped off a plane in Memphis and faced a bat tery of cameras and micro phones, an elderly matron wearing a Nixon button greet ed him. i "Don't worry about last night," she said. "He beat you but we'll get him next time." the Mexican people to turn out to greet the Johnsons, who will ,stay at the U. S. embassy re sidence. '. Friday morning the two pre sidents are scheduled to have 'a private talk at the Mexi can National Palace, i There are no major prob lems existing between the two countries and. both Mexi can and U. S officials describe relations as excellent. ' After his meeting with Diaz Ordaz, Johnson will place a wreath on the monument to Mexican independence, topped by the statue of a gilded angle, located on the Paseo De La Re forma. From there Johnson will go to participate in the ceremony unveiling a statue of Abra ham Lincoln, a gift of the American people to the Mexi can people. This is the main purpose of the presidential vis it to Mexico. Both presidents are schedul ed to speak at the unveiling. The statue, authorized by a $150,000 appropriation by Con gress, is a replica of the one standing in Lincoln Park in Chicago. go BURGER CHEF College budgets ansJ Burger Chef belong to gether. Burger Chef . . . where 50 will buy a com plete meal: open-flame broiled hamburger, a rich milk shake, and a heap of crisp golden fries. 337 W. ROSEMARY ST. OPEN 10 A.M. -11 P.M. Soft Coal Miners Continue Strike PITTSBURGH (AP) Soft coal miners, disgruntled with a proposed contract, stayed away from the mines again yesterday in defiance of a un ion back - to - work order. About 53.000 miners in eight states were off the job. Some were reported returning b u t there were no signs of a gen eral break as the strike mov ed through its third day. Representatives of the Unit ed Mine Workers and the Bi tuminous Coal Operators As sociation met behind closed doors in Washington in an ef fort to settle the dispute. The union and three inde pendent coal companies have reached agreement on a new contract calling for a wage hike that lifts toprated miners to $30 a day and includes another pay raise in 1967. But miners were dissatisfi ed with the pact. "Tony Boyle (president of the UMW) threw a wedge right into his own men when he okayed that contract," said Frank Popovich, 45, of Mason town, Pa., a mechanic with 22 years experience at Jones E. Lauglhin Steels Corp's gate way mine. MILD AND MELLOW MIST 4T 3-lD. Sfl (O) DA6 iioCO) PRICES IN THIS AD EFFECTIVE THROUGH SATURDAY, APRIL 16th. COME SAVE JANE PARKER 8-INCH fiPPLE STOCK YOUR FREEZER MARVEL ICE HI 27 "He gave the machine op erators and mechanics a $1.32 raise now and the other guys have to wait until next April to get a $1 raise. I'm a me chanic and that would benefit me, but that's no way to do things. It only creates frict ion," he said. "If that sort of thing keeps up, I can see the day when a timberman will tell an operator Tm not even going to carry a post for you! That's just no good for the Union." "Where did they get this pay raise business anyway?" said John Zvolenski, 46, of Pal mer, Pa. "That wasn't the is sue. "We want more fringe benefits, better vacation pay, a little more pension." In Illinois, Orval Stone, 56, of Johnston City, a shift su pervisor, said, 'Tm out be cause everyone else is. No one seems sure what we're get ting." "There's just too much hear say and nothing settled," said Paul McClelland, of Walton vine, 111., a miner for 28 years. "The whole thing is about contract terms. Too ma ny fellows are not getting rais es." O'CLOCK l-LD. DAG W-eallier Report Mostly cloudy and rather cool " Thursday. Highs Thursday in the 5K in the north, ranging to the 60s in the southeast. Friday considerable cloudiness and rather cool with oc casional rain or showers. New York Iads Tax Collections wAQiiivnTON (AP) New York led the 50 states in fed roi tav rrtlWtions during 1965, the Internal Revenue Service reported yesterday. Pur thp vpar which ended last Dec. 31, IRS collections reached SI 17.7 billion nation wide compared with $1114 bil lion during the 1964 calendar vear. Collections in New ork "last year totaled $21.1 billion, IRS said. However, it added that col lections in any one state don't necessarily indicate that stat es tax burden, since in many instances, a resident of one state may actually pay feder al taxes in another. Second largest collections for the year were in Califor nia with $10.68 billion follow ed by Michigan with $10.1 bil-". lion. IRS said. The tax collection figures are gross amounts and make no allowance for refunds distri buted during the year. RtCH AND FUIL-BODIEO USUI CHICLE BAG Q)3J 3-lb. ias 2.05 VIGOROUS AND WINEY 3.1B.M0210 "Super-Right9' Quality Heavy Corn-Fed Beef ROAST BONE-IN CHUCK LB. BONELESS CHUCK ROAST lb. 55c BONELESS SHOULDER ROAST lb. 59c THIS WEEK t
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