Friday, January 26, 1968

USS JOUETT

EVENING NEWS

26 JAN 68

(AP) TWO MOVES WERE MADE THURSDAY BY THE UNITED STATES IN CONNECTION WITH THE NORTH KOREAN CRISIS. NEARLY FIFTEEN THOUSAND RESERVE AIRMEN HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. AND THIS HAS BEEN FOLLOWED BY AN APPEAL FOR AN URGENT MEETING OF THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL. BOTH MOVES WERE MADE AT THE INSTIGATION OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. THE U-N APPEAL CAME AFTER MR. JOHNSON HAD CONFERRED WITH ARTHUR GOLDBERG, AMERICA'S AMBASSADOR TO THE WORLD PEACE ORGANIZATION. GOLDBERG FLEW BACK TO NEW YORK ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. ONE POSSIBLE SNAG IS THAT NORTH KOREA DOES NOT BELONG TO THE U-N AND IN THE PAST HAS GENERALLY IGNORED IT. U-N DIPLOMATS EXPECT THE SECURITY COUNCIL WILL MEET FRIDAY TO TAKE UP THE CRISIS TRIGGERED BY NORTH KOREA'S SEIZURE OF THE U.S.S. [text cut off]

(AP) THE OFFICIAL SOVIET NEWS AGENCY, TASS, DESCRIBED AS A "THREATENING ACT" THE UNITED STATES CALL-UP OF NEARLY FIFTEEN-THOUSAND RESERVE AIRMEN. AND THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER, IZVESTIA, SAID WHAT IT CALLED NERVOUS ANXIETY IN WASHINGTON OVER THE PUEBLO INCIDENT SUSPICIOUSLY RESEMBLES THE ATMOSPHERE DURING THE GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENO IN NINETEEN-SIXTY-FOUR.

(UPI) KENTUCKY SENATOR THRUSTON (THROOS'-THUN) MORTON IS CALLING FOR A WASHINGTON-MOSCOW SUMMIT MEETING AS A MEANS OF EASING COLD WAR TENSIONS. IN REMARKS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY IN NEW YORK THURSDAY NIGHT, THE REPUBLICAN LAW-MAKER SAID THAT A SUMMIT MEETING MIGHT UNLOCK THE DOOR TO SETTLEMENT IN VIETNAM, THE MIDEAST AND OTHER GLOBAL HOT-SPOTS.

(AP) TEL AVIV REPORTS AN EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE BETWEEN ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN KORCES AFTER THE ARABS LAUNCHED A SMALL BOAT ON THE SUEZ CANAL AT PORT SUEZ. THE FIRST BRIEF CLASH ON THE CANAL IN SEVERAL MONTHS CAME WITHIN HOURS AFTER ISRAEL AGREED TO LET THE EGYPTIANS START CLEARING PEACEFULLY.

(AP) RADIO MOSCOW SAYS COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA ACTED RIGHTFULLY IN DETAINING THE SOVIET UNION HAS COME TO THE PUEBLO. THE COMMENT IS THE CLOSEST APPROVAL OF NORTH KOREA'S ACTION REGISTERING OFFICIAL.

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(AP) SECRETARY OF STATE RUSK HAD SOME SHARP ANSWERS FOR NEWSMEN WHO ASKED ABOUT POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN CHARGES AGAINST THE PUEBLO CREWMEN. HE CALLED THE SEIZURE AN "OUT-RAGEOUS ACT," AND SAID HEATEDLY: "THESE MEN HAVE COMMITTED NO CRIME." HE ADDED THAT THE U-S HAS NO FIXED DEADLINE FOR THEIR RELEASE, BUT ADDED: "TODAY WOULD BE A GOOD TIME..."

(AP) PRESIDENT JOHNSON CONFERRED AGAIN FRIDAY WITH HIS TOP ADVISERS. BUT HE IS HOLDING BACK ANY NEW ANNOUNCE-MENTS PENDING THE U-N CONSIDERATION OF THE QUESTION. AT THE PRESENT TIME, THE PRESIDENT IS NOT CONSIDERING ADDRES-SING THE UNITED NATIONS.

(AP) THE F-B-I HAS CHARGED SEVEN MEN WITH PLANNING TO ROB FOUR BANKS AFTER BLOWING UP A POLICE STATION AND A POWER PLANT IN TWO SUBURBS OF SEATTLE, (-7 8,859). THE FEDERAL MEN SAY THAT SEVERAL OF THOSE ARRESTED WERE MEM-BERS OF AN ULTRA-PATRIOTIC GROUP CALLED THE "MINUTEMEN." THE F-B-I SAID AN ARSENAL INCLUDING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS, GUNS AND KYHUMITE ALSO WAS SEIZED.

(UPI) DOW JONES CLOSING AVERAGES...INDUSTRIALS EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE POINT OH SIX, UP ZERO POINT EIGHTY ONE RAILS TWO HUNDRED THIRTY ONE POINT SEVENTY FIVE, UP MNE POINT NINETEEN, UTILITIES ONE HUNDRED THIRTY POINT TWENTY FOUR, BOWF YERO POINT TEN, STOCKS THREE HUNDRED SIX POINT SEVENTY, UP ZERO POINT SIXTY TWO.

(AP) IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, THE WIFE OF THE SKIPPER OF THE PUEBLO HAS BEEN SHOWN A PHOTOGRAPH RELEASED BY THE NORTH KOREANS PURPORTING TO SHOW HIM SIGNING AN ALLEGED CONFESSION. MRS. ROSE BUCHER SAID IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE SURE WHETHER THE PHOTOGRAPH IS OF HER HUSBAND, COMMANDER LLOYD BUCHER.

(AP) REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE MELVIN LAIRD OF WINCON-SIN HAS CHARGED THAT THE U-S GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN FORE-WARNED BY NORTH KOREA NS THEY INTENDED TO MOVE AGAINST THE PUEBLO. LAIRD SAID THE COMMUNISTS MADE KNOWN THEIR INTENTIONS IN A RADIO BROADCAST EARLY THIS MONTH PROTEST-ING THE ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE SHIP.

(AP) SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER MIKE MANSFIELD HAS CAU-TIONED AGAINST ANY "RASH ACT" THAT COULD LEAD TO ANOTHER ASIAN WAR BECAUSE OF THE SEIZURE OF THE PUEBLO. MANSFIELD SAID HE HOPES THE U-N SECURITY COUNCIL CAN SOLVE THE CRISIS PEACEFULLY.

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SPORTS

(UPI) THERE IS A FOUR-WAY TIE FOR THE LEADERSHIP AFTER THE OPENING ROUND OF THE ONE HUNDRED-THOUSAND DOLLAR LOS ANGELES OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT. AT SIXTY-SEVEN...FOUR UNDER-PAR...ARE GENE LITTLER, DAVE EICHEL-BERGER, JIMMY CLARK AND AL GEIBERGER. SIX MORE PROS ARE TIED AT SIXTY-EIGHT. THEY ARE GEORGE ARCHER, DON BIES, DAVE MARR, GEORGE KNUDSON, RAY FLOYD AND DOUG SANDERS. ARNOLD PALMER FIRED A SIXTY-NINE. HE IS THE DEFENDING CHAMPION AND IS DEADLOCKED WITH CHARLIE SIFFORD, TERRY WILCOX AND DALE DOUGLASS. FOURTEEN MEN ARE IN WITH SCORES OF SEVENTY. INCLUDED IN THE GROUP IS BILLY CASPER, THIRD LEADING MONEY WINNER ON THE TOUR LAST YEAR. PROBABLY THE TWO-BIGGEST SURPRISES OF THE FIRST ROUND ARE EICHELBERGER AND CLARK. EICHELBERGER TURNED PRO IN NINETEEN SIXTY-SIX AND THEN TOOK OFF SIX MONTHS TO SERVE IN THE MARINE CORPS. CLARK WON THE AZALEA AND FORT WAYNE TOURNAMENTS IN NINETEEN FIFTY-TWO AND IS MAKING A COMEBACK ON THE P-G-A TOUR. PAR TOOK A BEATING WITH TWENTY-EIGHT GOLFERS BETTERING IT AND ELEVEN EQUAL-LING THE REGULATION FIGURE. FIRST PLACE IS WORTH TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

(UPI) BOB SEAGREN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALI-FORNIA ESTABLISHED A WORLD INDOOR POLE VAULT RECORD WHEN HE CLEARED THE BAR AT A HEIGHT OF SEVENTEEN-FEET... FOUR AND ONE-QUARTER-INCHES. HE ACCOMPLISHED THE FETE AT THE MILLROSE GAMES AT NEW YORK'S OLD MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. MEET RECORDS WERE SET BY BYRON DYCE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY IN THE ONE-THOUSAND YARD-RUN. HIS TIME WAS TWO-MINUTES...TEN AND ONE-TENTH SECONDS. LARRY JAMES OF VILLANOVA RAN THE FIVE HUNDRED-YARD EVENT IN A NEW TIME OF FIFTY-SIX AND ONE-TENTH SECONDS. MARTIN MCGRAY'S MEET RECORD WAS IN THE SIX HUNDRED YARD RACE. THE ATHLETE FROM SANTA CLARA YOUTH VILLAGE WAS CLOCKED AT ONE MINUTE TEN POINT-ONE SECONDS. AND GEORGE YOUNG OF COSA GRANDE, ARIZONA, WENT INTO THE BOOKS FOR HIS THREE MILE-RUN. HIGH JUMPER JOHN THOMAS OF BOSTON BECAME A MILLROSE WINNER FOR THE SIXTH TIME BY WINNING HIS SPEC-IALTY WITH A LEAP OF SIX-FEET...TEN-INCHES. OTHER OUT-STANDING PERFORMANCES WERE TURNED IN BY LENNOX MILLER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND LEON COLEMAN OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STRIDERS. MILLER WON THE SIXTY-YARD DASH IN SIX AND TWO-TENTHS SECONDS. COLEMAN TOOK THE SIXTY-YARD HIGH HURDLES WITH A TIME SEVEN-POINT-TWO. AUSTRALIAN RALPH DOUBELL CAPTURED THE HALF-MILE RUN WITH A CLOCKING OF ONE-MINUTE-FIFTY-THREE-POINT-FIVE-TWO-NINE SECONDS.

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(UPI) THE BIGGEST GAME ON THE COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCENE THURSDAY NIGHT WAS FIFTH-RANKED ST. BONAVENTURE'S SEVENTY-FOUR-FIFTY-EIGHT WIN OVER ST. FRANCIS OF PENN-SYLVANIA. BOB LANIER PUMPED IN THIRTY-THREE POINTS AND GRABBED TWENTY-THREE REBOUNDS IN LEADING THE UNDEFEATED BONNIES TO THEIR FIFTEENTH STRAIGHT WIN. IN OTHER GAMES BRADLEY ROUTED MEMPHIS STATE NINETY-TWO-SIXTY-NINE... OKLAHOMA CITY NIPPED ARKANSAS NINETY-TWO-NINETY IN OVER-TIME...AND PITTSBURGH DUMPED BOL WIN-WALLACE EIGHTY-THREE-SEVENTY-SIX. PROVIDENCE TOOK MASSACHUSETTS EIGHTY-THREE-SEVENTY-SEVEN...FORDHAM KNOCKED OFF RUTGERS SIXTY-SEVEN-FIFTY...WHILE KENT STATE WALKED OVER TULANE NINETY-THREE-SEVENTY-THREE. IOWA STATE WITHSTOOD OKLA-HOMA EIGHTY-SEVENTY...AND BAYLOR TROUNCED TARLETON STATE ONE-OH-ONE-SIXTY-SEVEN.

(UPI) IN THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION THURSDAY LOS ANGELES RALLIED TO DEFEAT CINCINNATI ONE-EIGHTEEN-

ONE-SIXTEEN...ST. LOUIS DROPPED BOSTON ONE-OH-FIVE-NINETY-THREE...PHILADELPHIA WHIPPED DETROIT ONE TWENTY-THREE-ONE OH-EIGHT...BALTIMORE BEAT SAN DIEGO ONE TWENTY-SEVEN-ONE-THIRTEEN...AND NEW YORK OVERCAME CHICAGO ONE TWENTY-SIX-ONE-EIGHTEEN. FRIDAY BOSTONQ CINCINNATI IS AT PHILADELPHIA...NEW YORK TRAVELS TO ST. LOUIS...AND SAN FRANCISCO PLAYS AT HOME AGAINST BALTI-MORE.

(UPI) THURSDAY'S AMERICAN BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION GAMES ENDED WITH MINNESOTA ROUTING NEW JERSEY ONE THIRTY-SEVEN-ONE-OH-FOUR... OAKLAND LOSING TO ANAHEIM ONE TWENTY-FOUR-ONE-SIXTEEN...AND DALLAS EDGING NEW ORLEANS ONE-OH-TWO-ONE-OH-ONE. THE FRIDAY NIGHT CARD READS KENTUCKY AT ANAHEIM...HOUSTON VISITING DALLAS... NEW ORLEANS ENTERTAINING DENVER...AND PITTSBURGH PLAYING MINNESOTA AT HOME.