Avalanche-Journal (Newspaper) - October 24, 1972, Lubbock, Texas The South Plains LUBBOCK 50th No 308 36 Lubbock Texas Tuesday Morning October 24 1972 Price 10 Cents Full Leased Wires UPI Nixon Given Vietnam Report Peace Near Saigon Citizens Hopeful Skeptical Claims SAIGON AP Henry A secret conferences here have raised some hopes of early peace among the young and the educated of Saigon but skepticism and apathy prevail among the old and the unem ployed Monday the day of Kissin gers departure was a pretty day in the capital At clubs wealthy Vietnamese in white tennis togs flashed across the courts Shops were full of goods Along the docks the picture was not so bright A jobless stevedore in a green fatigue jacket sipped tea from a glass at a tin and cardboard stall and said Life is poor now If peace comes I will go home and grow rice and have a bet ter A foreman observed We think about our jobs first We dont think about peace or The proprietor of the stall a stocky man with a gray crew cut wasnt buying that He shook his head and said his neighbors all are discussing the comings and goings at the pres palace across the river We want he said but not under the Commu Nobody can live where the Communists He himself had fled his Me kong Delta horrie when the Viet Cong came he said Both his sons joined the army and one was killed You talk you the proprietor said Then he point ed to sign painted on a wall across the street When the North Vietnamese Communists withdraw then peace will Why do the people long so much for peace and peace nev er comes said an older man with a lined face There are too many people dead people of our own blood Why doesnt peace come He was not mak ing a point just asking One side must said the foreman Either the North Vietnamese or the Amer and South Vietnamese No surrender no A mile away at the law school of Saigon University stu dents in clean shirts studied posted grades Ten were asked if peace was coming before next year Five said yes two See REACTION Page 10 EXAMINES of thc Peace Wayne examines a 22 caliber rifle newly pur chased found beside the body of a man discovered in Mackenzie Park Monday afternoon The box for the weapon is on the ground at right LeCroy con ducted an inquest Staff Photo by Milton Adams City Students On Field Trip Find Body In Park By STEVE GAMES Stuff FOUR GRADE school chil dren and their teacher ered the partially decomposed body of a 31yearold man at State Park here about Monday Dead was Larry Con of 1906 10th Apt fi Justice of the Peace Wayne LeCroy said death apparently was caused by a gunshot wound Lubbock police recovered Police indicated the rifle was purchased from a department store here on Oct 16 They Hijackers Give Up Set Hostages Free ANKARA Turkey AP Four Turkish hijackers surren dered late Monday and freed the more than 60 hostages they held aboard a let liner for 38 hours at the Sofia Bul garia airport The four Marxist university students stepped off the Boeing 707 and handed their arms to Bulgarian authorities Officials in Ankara said they asked for and will get political asylum in neighboring Bulgaria Turkey refused thc hijackers demand for the freedom of 13 leftist prisoners but was re ported to be unopposed to giv ing the four asylum Tragedy Prevented BTA news agency said All the necessary action has been taken to secure the safe and rapid return of the passengers crew and plane to A Turkish news agency quoted a Bulgarian government as saying after the refusal the hijackers twice tended their deadline for ac tion They told officials in Sofia their aim was to tear down the regime and set up a MarxistLeninist The plane was hijacked in Turkey Sunday on a domestic flight with 71 passengers and a crew of 10 aboard The pilot and a passenger were slightly wounded in a shooting on board They were let off along with several other passengers when the plane landed in Sofia Turkish reports said 66 hos tages were still aboard when the hijackers surrendered to Bulgarian police Reports from Sofia said the plane had been parked on a side runway at the airport and was surrounded by security See TURKISH Page 10 Gold Star Awards Climax Fete Here By DUANE HOWELL Farm Editor AN 18YEAROLD college student from Acuff and a 15 old sophomore at Shallowater High School named Lubbock Countys top 4H Club boy and of 1972 here Monday night Max Thomas son of Mr and Mrs Troy Thomas and Grawunder daughter of Mr and Mrs Terry Grawunder received the coveted Gold Star awards at the annual countywide 4H achievement banquet at Vanns Catering Service Our main reason for surren one of the hijackers said was our love for the Turkish people We questioned the passengers and found that the majority were working people so we decided not to point our weapons against these people since fighting the administration which lackeys to American The hijacking touched off a squabble Miss Grawunder active in 4 Bulgaria and Turkey h each accusing the other of not hey too are fascist Turkish Rep George Mahon of Lubbock presented the awards highest 4H members can attain on the county level 0 Others Lauded About 70 youths also received awards for outstanding achieve ments in LS categories during said thc box thc weapon was inbearing the responsibility for as food and nutrition when purchased was found passengers safety Turkey the body reportedly had been dead for several days po lice said Services were pending at Rest had refused outright to nego with the gunmen The hijackers had threatened to blow up the plane and thc H for six years has received numerous honors in such pro Clovis Blast Kills Man CLOVIS AP man was fatally injured and four were hurl in what authorities de scribed as an underground ex plosion Monday at a grain Clouded Thieu May Have Balked At Plan AP Presidential aide Henry Kissinger returned to Wash ington Monday night to re port on his latest peace ne in Saigon Saigon statements indicated the at tempts fell short on an ac cord We made some was only comment on returning He conferred with Viet Cong Mark More For Death Page 10 Sec A he President Monday night and will meet with him again today There was no official guid ance on progress or lack of it as a result of the latest round of meetings In fact there was no official word on what was discussed But an apparent fail ure to reach agreement cen tered on a ceasefire plan and an interim Saigon government to serve until a final political solution is achieved Five Days Of Talks Kissinger has just completed live days of talks with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu the most intensive negotiations to date Asked at the Saigon airport if it had been a productive visit Kissinger re plied It always is when Im The Embassy issued a brief statement saying efforts toward an accord between the allies would continue We have made the statement said Talks will continue between us and the government of Vietnam It is not in the interest of negotia VETERANS ROTC Cadet Capt Gerald Jackson Texas Tech junior right and others salute fallen veterans Monday during Veterans Day activities at Atkins Junior High School Several other events marked the day which was a holiday for some Details Page 3 Sec A Staff Photo not m tne interest 01 Monday night lions to be more specific at j i They will convey the Airport Expansion Push Urged Here By VAUGHN HENDRIK Staff EXPANSION of Lubbock Regional Airport should move ahead without delay in order to utilize federal funds already in the bank and to meet demands of growing air traffic members of the Airport Board recommendations that construction be kept on schedule during a work session with the City Council at Tin Song a newspaper often reflects Thieu views said I On Wednesday however coun the general impression of win be considering servers was that in 197i Thieu and Kissinger in an t had been conducted in a very heated atmosphere in the face of the unyielding determination to stand part on its Position Maintained sale in an effort io reduce growth in debt service in thc 197374 operating budget Tentative Sale Eyed A tentative bond sale of million is proposed for next spring Of that total mil clothing home management home improvement leadership elevator food preservation health ice ey management and citizenship activities grain dust ignited causing the explosion A police lf She president of her local man said some welding work club is a member of believed underway when II It I Throughout the duration of lion is for construction the negotiations between the will bc delegation and however that for every SI million reduced in the bond sale Mahon Fete Set Today U S REP George H Mahon of Lubbock will be the guest of honor today at an evening bar becue and program in Fair Park Coliseum here The dinner at and the following budgeted debt public program at vice can be reduced about will climax an Appreciation Home here Sunderland was a Texas Tech I student and was born in Hor leftists and reforms by the government Faced with thc County 4H Council and is an lhe incident occurred at Thieu observers noted that the South Vietnamese had always maintained their clearcut posi tion to reject any lion contrary lo the interests off the South Vietnamese Tin Song continued A spokesman for thc and i Appi Day dedicated to the veteran Board members held a work legislator and chairman of the session of their own Appropriations Commit night with aviation tee 22 caliber rifle shells for the ton Kan He had been a weapon a satchel of of Lubbock years hooks and a note from here from Dallas scene of the discovery I He attended lhe University of alternate delegate to the District 4H Council Active In Shows Dan Judkins a teacher at a church school at 3517 K 3rd Place and four of his students were on a biology field Irip in the park when the discovery was made body was found Kansas and had done graduate work at thc University of Colo Slows Hunt Max rado Survivors include Joan the parents his wife Mr and Mrs R L Sunderland of Fair view a brother Lane in high weeds near thc bank of Sunderland of a creek which runs through the and a sister Mrs Joan Meyer park I of Wamego Kan 4AswSfc nf Lubbock Area SHERIFF Choc denies that jail visiting hours are based on the race of the Pace 1 Sec B GOV Smith is scheduled In sign in emergency million transferor funds to the Texas Tech Medical School Thursday Page 1 Src B State And Nation CIVIL Air Patrol is continuing a search for a light plane missing with four ministers including Harold McCullum of 1 Sec B ANCHORAGE Alaska AP Hampered again by weather thc Air Force refused to give up hope Monday as the search for a light plane carrying House Democratic Leader Hale Boggs and three other men en tered its second week The mission will never be I called off until thc plane is a spokesman said Mon At present its full speed But the spokesman Sgt Anderson said thc only tan gible grounds for optimism has been relatively mild tempera tures ranging between 30 to 10 degrees over the mile search area checked and rechecked by a fleet of military nnd private planes coring teams and Coast Guard I cutlers Rancho Milling Co El palace said he could Bennett Reaves confirm the Tin Song account the status of Pedro Sandoval of Clovis died en route to a hospital in Albu Mrs Jana Cobb assistant county home demonstration i agent said has been junior leader in many 4H by a Cannon and thc Embassy not go beyond its 29word stale Listed in fair condition at for thc dinner which to is sponsored by the county Farm Bureau units in Mahons Congressional District are Terminal Plan Dropped ion sale for per person approved SMi r 1 In Paris Nguyen Thanh million in a spokesman for the North April 1970 for a variety a bust n ir r ment delegation to the Paris a freshman at Memorial Hospital were peace talks told newsmen lhal Texas State University at Can yon has completed 4H projects in swine sheep beef cattle cot ton and grain sorghum produc tion agriculture and leadership activities He wants to become a He has shown animals at ev John Fenick Ben Byrd Doyle Goldsmith and Marcelino Gar ia All are from the Clovis area except Goldsmith who is a of Farwell Ferrick Byrd and Sandoval arc employed by a is still not In these he said world opinion cannot help asking the following Sec KISSINGER Page 10 ery major livestock show contractor Raymond Texas and at lhe American Mill Service Garcia is Royal in Kansas City Mo by El Rancho has exhibited seven champions i Authorities still were invests and six reserve champion ani mals He has participated in livestock judging Src TOP Iligo 10 for gating Uic incident early today Sandoval was dead on arrival at an Albuquerque hospital Mon night Todays Prayer Heavenly Father thank You for this wonderful sen son of the year Be with us always in all seasons Reader by Mrs Joe and station taxiways runway extension and a cargo terminal Plans fur a Texas Tech Museum H L Hub King of Brown cargo terminal have since Satc Farm Bureau or and master of ceremonies for lhe days activities issued a The Sb million runway io of dropped way and fire station projects lions in and out 11 wii hi n i t till L H re now underway half of theur hp on lland funds coming from the Aviation Administration for the program rc of whether they pur Board members went on to the cord Monday night in strong dinner This of the pro support that the northsouth gram is free runway be lengthened from its Aso on prn present feet to wil ho c of Washington BOARD 10 Big D Schools Urged Spare The Rod And The World BED Cross meeting is going on between South and North Korea in the Communist capital of Pyongyang Page 4 Sec A EDITORIALS COLUMNS Page 10 B MARKET REPORTS Papes 89 Section B FAMILY NEWS Pages 24 Section B PLAINS AGRICULTURE fl Section B Comic Dictionary NATIONAL DEBT An unhealthy condition that prevents the government from being fiscally fit RADIO TV PROGRAMS Pago 7 A SPORTS NEWS Pages 18 Section C TODAYS HOROSCOPE fi Section f COMICS 11 Section B Market Rallies On Peace News YORK Stock market prices rallied Monday for their second straight ses sion responding to now reports of progress toward a Vietnam ceasefire The Dow Jones average of 10 industrials closed up points at During the first half hours trading it jumped over 10 points but later leveled off The gain on top of a rise in the Dow Fri day analysts also linked to encouraging reports about Vietnam PALLAS API group which calls Dallas the cor poral punishment capital of the country is trying to pet the citys school hoard to change ils policy of dling pupils as a nary measure Mrs Duncan se of the newly formed N a I i o n a 1 to Abolish Cor poral Punishment in Schools recently told the board it ought to do so vol because It is only a matter of time before corporal punish ment will be ended because of federal Dallas school Supt has disclosed there were paddling cases in Dallas durins the 107172 This was almost four time more than in the 19701971 school year attributed the increase to what he called general un rest resulting from school desegregation dont think we ought to conceded hut until there is a Utopian society we will use it as a method of discipline It is n last also said he would resign rather than head a school system where such punishment was banned School policy in Dallas is that only the school princi pal or his immediate deputy may paddle a child prior consent from thc par cnts A teacher must first go through a hearing proc ess with the pupil and then have permission from the parents to the child Mrs Duncan claims that figure of not reflect thc true number of cases She also says that involve a number of minor ity pupils and parental per mission is not always sought Statistics indicate that when black children attend od black schools in black communities with black personnel they were not subjected to excessive pun she told ho school board Mrs Duncan is white Il is a tragic of racial to acknowledge that intc gration of blacks into white schools has served to brins about increased physical as saults on black school chil she said Although in Dallas schools are supposed to lake place in the privacy of the principals office it is claimed by parents that many actually tako place in hallways or in front of thc class Mrs Duncan who ap before hc Imard with a doctor from a local hospital said a com study thai New York City Chicago and Philadelphia have laws against the uso of corpora sro 10 Weather Map Page 9B and Vicinity Fair and wanner today with mg cloudiness tonight High 10 day Light Uw tonight near and variable i to lo i V r v r K Rl illy al r H T H 47 7s 41 47 55 41
