PACIFIC COAST HIT BY RECORD STORMS; THOUSANDS VACATE CHICAGO, D~. 22 (UPI)--ClOSE TO 5,- 000 PERSONS flED SOME Of THE WORST fLOOD~ IN H~STORY ALONG THE PACifiC COAST TODAY. THE PRE-CHRISTMAS DELUGE fORCED EVACUATIONS Of ENTIRE TOWNS, BLOCKED RAILROAD TRACKS AND fLOODED SCORES Of HIGHWAYS IN CALIfORNIA AND OREGON. AUTHORITIES ESTIMATED BETWEEN 3,000 AND 4,000 PERSONS HAD ABANDONED THEIR HOMES IN NORTH COASTAL CALifORNIA AND NEARLY 1,000 WERE DRIVEN fROM THEIR DWELLINGS IN WESTERN OREGON. FOUR DISTINGUISHED VISITORS •••• Two GUESTS ARRIVED ON KWAJALEIN THIS MORNING fOR A DEATHS WERE BLAMED ON THE TORRENTIAL NE-DAY VISIT fROM THE PENTAGON. PICTURED ABOVE, fROM LEfT, ARE; J.W. SCHAEfE~ WEATHER--TWO IN CALifORNIA AND TWO IN WAJALEIN FIELD STATION DIRECTOR; VICE ADMIRAL J.T. HAYWARD, COMMANDER Of ANTI­ OREGON. UBMARINE WARfARE IN THE PACifiC; DR. HAROLD BROWN, DIRECTOR Of DEfENSE RE­ THE CALifORNIA fLOODING WAS THE K. ENGINEERING, AND COL. GLENN CRANE, COMMANDING Of riCER, KWAJALEIN WORST SINCE THE CHRISTMAS, 1955, DIS­ STORY ON PAGE THREE. PHOTO BY BELL TELEPHONE LABS. ASTER WHEN fLOODS KILLED 50 PERSONS AND CAUSED $100 MILLION DAMAGE. THE NEW fLOODS SENT STREAMS AND RIVERS ROARING fROM THEIR BANKS AND fORCED EVACUATIONS IN A DOZEN CALIfORNIA TOWNS. THE ENTIRE POPULATION Of FORTUNA, HOURG CALif., PREPARED TO fLEE WHEN THE EEL VOL 5 NO 1884 KWAJALEIN, MARSHALL ISLANDS TUESDAY 22 DECEMBER 1964 RIVER SURGED OVER A LEVEE AfTER fiVE INCHES Of RAIN. THREE TOWNS IN THE IN lODAY'S EEL VALLEY WITH POPULATIONS TOTALLING HOURGLASS S750 MILLION RESEARCH OK'D 2,010 WERE ALREADY DESERTED. CLASSifiED PG 6 THE MAIN RAIL LINE BETWEEN SEATTLE FOR GIANT NEW JET TRANSPOR CLUB NOTES 6 JOHNSON CITY, DEC. 22 (UPI)--PRESIDENT JOHNSON TODAY AP­ AND SAN FRANCISCO WAS BLOCKED WHEN A COMMUNITY PROVED DEVELOPMENT Of A GIGANTIC NEW MILITARY TRANSPORT MUD SLIDE HIT A fREIGHT TRAIN. SERVICES PLANE--THE BIGGEST IN THE WORLD--THAT WILL BE CAPABLE Of TAKING AT JET SPEED BETWEEN 500 AND 700 TROOPS TO ANY COR­ TFX CONTRACT PROBE LO~~~I~~:sHOURS ~ NER Of THE MAP. WILL BE CONTINUEDMOVIESTODAY 6 DEfENSE SECRETARY ROBERT S. McNAMARA ANNOUNCED AfTER A 1965 IN SPACE 4 BUDGET MEETING WITH JOHNSON THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD GIVEN WASH INGTON, DEC. 22 (UPI )--SENATE SPORTS 5 A GO-AHEAD TO THE $750 MILLION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. THERE INVESTIGATORS PLAN TO RESUME THEIR IN- WALL STREET 2 WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL $1 BILLION IN COST If A CONTEMPLAT­ QUIRY INTO THE CONTROVERSIAL CONTRACT WOMAN To WOMAN 4 ED TOTAL Of 58 Of THE PLANES IS BUILT fOR AIR FORCE USE AWARD fOR THE TFX FIGHTER PLANE, WH I CH 1-------------' SOME TIME AfTER MID-1968. MADE ITS MAIDEN fLIGHT YESTERDAY. McNAMARA SAID THAT WHILE HIS INTER­ SEN. JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, (DEM.-ARK.), YOUNG TURKS RELENT EST IN THE CRAfT If PURELY MILITARY, HAS SAID THAT HIS PERMANENT INVESTI­ THERE OBVIOUSLY ARE IMPLICATIONS Of A GATING SUBCOMMITTEE WOULD COMPLETE ITS ON COUNCIL OUSTER CIVILIAN COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL. INVESTIGATION Of THE TFX, NOW KNOWN SAIGON, DEC. 22 (UPI)--SOUTH VIET HE SAID THE PLANE WOULD HAVE CROSS AS THE F-III. THE ORIGINAL HEARINGS NAM'S YOUNG GENERALS WHO DISSOLVED TH TAKEOff WEIGHT Of 750,000 POUNDS--362- LASTED MORE THAN EIGHT MONTHS. HIGH NATIONAL COUNCIL SUNDAY AND AR­ .5 TONS--INCLUDING A "PAYLOAD" Of UP THE PLANE'S SUCCESSfUL fIRST fLIGHT RESTED 22 POLITICIANS APPEARED TODAY TO 250,000 POUNDS. HAS NOT CHANGED THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S TO HAVE YIELDED IN THE WAKE Of STRONG IT WOULD HAVE A RANGE Of 5,000 TO PLANS. AMERICAN PRESSURE. 7,000 MILES DEPENDING ON ITS PAYLOAD INITAL HEARINGS DEALT PRIMARILY WITH ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO OfFICIAL CON­ WEIGHT, AT A SPEED COMPARABLE TO THE THE CONTRACT AWARD TO GENERAL DYNAMICS fiRMATION, RELIABLE SOURCES SAID 550 MILES AN HOUR or A BOEING 707. CORP. THE DEfENSE DEPARTMENT'S MILI­ PRIME MINISTER TRAN VAN HUONG HAS IN- IT THUS WOULD BE SUBSONIC IN SPEED, TARY CHIEfS fAVORED THE BOEING fORMED fAMILIES Of THE ARRESTED LEG­ CO. AND NOT COMPARABLE TO THE SUPERSONIC THE NEXT HEARINGS WILL BE HELD SOME ISLATORS TO EXPECT THEIR RELEASE AS CRAfT WHICH NOW 15 ON THE DRAWING TIME DURING THE FIRST SESSION Of THE EARLY AS WEDNESDAY. BOARDS. 89TH CONGRESS. THEY WILL CONCENTRATE THESE SOURCES SAID THE RELEASE OF McNAMARA AND MEMBERS Of THE JOINT ON COST AND PERfORMANCE. THE HIGH NATIONAL CONCILLORS WOULD CHIEFS OF STAFF CONfERRED WITH THE THE PLANE HAS BEEN THE CENTER Of A MEAN THAT A COMPROMISE HAS BEEN WORK­ PRESIDENT AT HIS LBJ RANCH ABOUT THREE POLITICAL STORM SINCE DEfENSE SECRE­ ED OUT BETWEEN THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE, HOURS ABOUT BUDGET MATTERS. AFTERWARD TARY ROBERT S. McNAMARA AWARDED THE INCLUDING THE GENERALS, THAT THE U.S. THE CABINET MEMBER TOLD REPORTERS LUCRATIVE CONTRACT TO GENERAL DYNAMIC& WOULD SUSPEND AID UNLESS THE COUNCIL ABOUT THE NEW PLANE AND ALSO ANNOUNCED HE DEFENDED HIS DECISION ON GROUNDS WAS REINSTATED. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) THAT GENERAL DYNAMICS SCORED MORE As EVIDENCE Of THIS STRONG U.S. AT­ POINTS OVER-ALL IN EVALUATION OF DE­ TITUDE, TAYLOR HELD NO MEETINGS AT ALL SIGN, PERfORMANCE, MANAGEMENT AND COST WITH ANY VIETNAMESE TODAY, ACCORDING MCNAMARA AND JOHNSON ESTIMATES, ALTHOUGH BOEING RANKED TO AN EMBASSY SPOKESMAN. DISCUSS VIET NAM COUP AHEAD IN THE IMPORTANT PERfORMANCE JOHNSON CITY, DEC. 22 (UPI)--PRESI­ CATEGORY. MORSE STILL DISAPPROVES DENT JOHNSON AND DEfENSE SECRETARY AT STAKE IS A POTENTIAL PRODUCTION ROBERT S. McNAMARA TODAY DISCUSSED THE OF U.S. VIET NAM POLICY NEW CRISIS IN VIET NAM CAUSED BY THE WORTH $7 BILLION TO ,,0 BILLION. WASHINGTON, DEC. 22 (UPI)--SEN. MILITARY OVERTHROW SUNDAY OF THE CIVIL WAYNE MORSE, (DEM.-ORE.), THE SENATE' IAN HIGH NATIONAL COUNCIL. MOST OUTSPOKEN CRITIC Of U.S. POLICY BAZOOKA ATTACK ON U.N. McNAMARA TOLD NEWSMEN "WE DISCUSSED IN SOUTH VIET NAM, DECLARED TODAY THA WAS MOSTLY ANTI-GUEVARA VIET NAM GENERALLY" OURING TODAY'S DE­ NEW YORK, DEC. 22 (UPI)--THREE ANTI­ THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS SHOW THAT fENSE BUDGET TALKS AT THE LBJ RANCH, CASTRO CUBANS WERE SEIZED BY POLICE "THERE MUST BE A COMPLETE CHANGE IN BUT HE ADDED "WE ARE STILL RECEIVING LATE TODAY AS SUSPECTS IN THE BAZOOKA OUR POLICY AND IN THE PERSONNEL RE­ u CABLES FROM AMB~SSADOR TAYLOR "AND I ATTACK ON THE UNITED NATIONS BUILDING SPONSIBLE FOR IT." HAVE NOTHING TO REPORT ON THAT." HERE 12 DAYS AGO. MORSE, A MEMBER Of THE SENATE'S FOR McNAMARA DECLrNEO TO GIVE HIS REAC­ THE THREE WERE NOT IMMEDIATELY CHA~ EIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, SPECIFICALL TION TO THE LATEST COUP IN SAIGON, EO WITH THE ATTACK, BUT QUEENS DISTRla BLAMED SECRETARY Of DEfENSE ROBERT S. SAYING HE DEVOTED MOST OF THE MORNING ATTORNEY FRANK O'CONNOR SAID SEVERAL McNAMARA AND GEN. MAXWELL TAYLOR, U.S TO THE BUDGET AND WAS u NOT PREPARED" ARRESTS WERE EXPECTED SHORTLY. AMBASSAOOR TO SAIGON. TO COMMENT ON THE SITUATION. PETER JAMES JOHNSON, A NEW YORK AT­ HE SAID THE ADMINISTRATION MUST fAC FOUR OTHER TOP EXECUTIVES ATTENDED TORNEY SAID THE THREE CUBANS HAD "VOL­ THE fACT THAT ITS POLICY IS A fAILURE. THE MEETING AT THE RANCH. UNTARILY TURNED THEMSELVES IN." MORSE SAID IN A STATEMENT "THIS STANLEY Ross, THE EDITOR Of A SPAN­ CHAOS IN SOUTH VIET NAM IS THE FRUIT HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE ISH-LANGUAGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, EL TIEM­ Of 10 YEARS Of AMERICAN MISTAKES, wiT 12-23-64 12-23-64 PO, SAID THE BAZOOKA SHELL COULD HAVE NO THOUGHT FOR THE INTERESTS Of 14 3.9 AT 0749 1.0 AT 0150 BEEN fiRED SO THAT IT WOULD HIT THE U~ MILLION PEOPLE Of SOUTH VIET NAM." PAGE 2 HOURGLASS TUESDAY 22 DECEMBER 1964 PUBLISHED BY GLOBAL ASSOCIATES AT THE DIRECTION OF THE C~NDING OFFI­ CONGOLESE GO HOME WALL STREET TQDAY CER, KWAJALEIN TEST SITE, MARSHALL IS­ Moscow, DEC. 22 (UPi)--THE CONGOLESE THE STOCK MARKET WAS ALMOST TREND­ LANDS. CONTRACT DA-010021 AMC-90004 (y) EMBASSY, ACCUSED BY THE KREMLIN OF LESS NEAR THE CLOSE TODAY AFTER LAST (NI2367156 ) 35133A PMR WITH GLOBAL "HOSTIL£ ACTIVITIES," WENT OUT OF OP­ MINUTE SELLING PULLED A- NUMBER OF ERATION TODAY. ASSOC I ATES • PRICES BACK FROM THEIR BEST LEV~LS. THE HOURGLASS IS PUBLISHED DAILY THE EMBASSY'S LAST TWO EMPLOYES, EARLY STRONG GAINS IN E~STMAN KODAK, MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. DEADLINE FOR CHARGE 0' AF~AIRES GAST0N NGAMBANI AND UNION CARBIDE AND Du PONT WERE TRIMMED NOTICES IS 4PM THE DAY BEFORE PUBLICA­ A CHAUFFEUR, LEFT FOR SRUSSELS FOLLOW­ SUBSTANTIALLY. TION AND DEADLINE FOR NEWS ITEMS IS ING AN EXPULSION ORDER DEC. 16. SOVIET STEELS HAD SHOWN SIGNS OF IMPROVING lOAM THE DAY OF PUBLICATION. AUTHORITIES AT Moscow INTERNATIONAL A BIT BUT LATER TURNED FRACTIONALLY THE HOURGLASS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO AIRPORT DELAYED THEIR DEPARTURE TO LOWER LUKENS WAS AN EXCEPTION WITH A EDIT COpy RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION. SEARCH THE CHAUFFEUR. POINT-SIZED LEAD. THE SOVIET STATEMENT ENDING DIPLO­ CHRYSLER HELD A SMALL GAIN IN AN --------------------- MATIC REPRESENTATION HERE OF PREMIERE OTHERWISE EASEIR AUTO SECTION IBM DI~I EDITOR: NEIL PHELPS-MUNSON MOISE TSHOMBE'S GOVERNMENT SAID NGAM­ PED A BIT. LITTON, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ASST EDITOR: DECK VETH BANI'S CONTINUED PRESENCE HAD 'BECOME AND ZENITH TOOK FRACTIONAL FALLS. IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE OF HOSTILE ACTIVI­ STAFF: REBECCA LLEWELLYN TODAY'S VOLUME WAS 4,520,000 SHARES. I RUTH LONDON TIES AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION AND OF A TOTAL 1368 I SSUES TRADED, 484 I AUDREY STRATMANN SOVIET CITIZENS." WERE HIGHER AND 600 LOWER. I PEGGY TEMPLIN IT ADDED, "THE DIPLOMATIC REPRESEN­ AMERICAN EXCHANGE VOLUME WAS 1,450, TATION OF THE CONGO PERMITTED ITSELF 000 SHARES. BONDS VOLUME AMOUNTED TO IMPERMISSIBLE ACTIONS IN RELATIONS wt~ $7,250 ,000.