Bakersfield Californian (Newspaper) - May 2, 1970, Bakersfield, California THE WEATHER Temperatures Yesterday Low Today 61 Expected High Today Expected Low Tomorrow 60 Expected High Tomorrow Sunrise Sunset Rainfall Season Total Season Isabella Dam Reservoir Kern Hiver Flow In 966 els Out 739 cfs Forecast Fair and warmer today and variable KERN PRODUCTION 83 10 CENTS PER COPY MONTHLY DELIVERED MAY TWO SECTIONS 26 PAGES 275 Assessed Value Building Population Telephones Kern County Board of Trade Figures Class postage paid in Bakers Published daily by The California al 1707 Bye Scud Form 357fi of Address tn Bin California In Ground Assault 1ST DEATHS Nixon to Face Senate Unit WASHINGTON AP Responding to demands from the Senate Foreign Relations President Nixon has agreed to sit down with four congressional committees Tues day to discuss the use of ground troops in The first such dialogue in half a century was set up Friday when the Foreign Relations miffed because it hadnt been consulted in voted unanimous ly to demand an audience with the White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler said Nixon heard of the vote through a news The President thought it would be a good Ziegler The Senate and House committees deal with foreign rela tions and military Many of their members have ex pressed opposition to introducing ground troops in Cam a move Nixon said is designed to clean out North Viet Nixons announced before a nationwide television audience Thursday continued to stir up controversy in Congress and across the Foreign Relations Chairman Fulbright said in an In speech Friday night the decision shows a lack of respect for the Senates constitutional responsibilities in foreign The administration has followed the example of its discredited predecessor by succumbing once again to the in cautious counsels of its Fulbright But Nixons former President Lyndon in his first speech since leaving office over 15 months told a Chicago audience Nixon deserves the support of all the people who love He has he No spot in this nation is more than 30 hours away from and and from Phnom Penh or Vien or Johnson America cannot withdraw from the Others backing the Presidents move included Milton and John Edward in a speech al called Nixons actions He said the Presidents see 12 Cambodia Move Spurs Violence Students opposed to Presi dent Nixons decision to send American troops into Cam bodia have staged protests across the The Presi dent was burned in effigy at one KOTC offices were firebombed at two col leges and students clashed with police About rock throwing students fought with police at the University of Maryland in College early to 300 National Guard troops were summoned to back up police when the students sicked the Air Force KOTC armory burn By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ing ROTC uniforms and The university has An effigy of Nixon was burned at Union College in Union students blocked downtown traffic and to a local General Motors plant to denounce it as part of the war Firebombs were thrown through a cellar window of the ROTC headquarters at Hobart College in and a firebomb was hurled through the window of the ROTC NATIONAL NY Policemen to Stay on Job NEW YORK B City police patrolmen will stay on the job if the city keeps its promise to cooperate in a speedy legal resolution of a pay police union delegates have Patrolmen say they are entitled to a to pay ratio with police which would entail a raise of about a Haitian Rebels in Miami MIAMI CPI Haitian rebels who shelled eight days ago arrived in Miami early today to await a decision on their request for political asylum in the United Pan American World Airways said 118 Haitians were Their Octave said all but two of the 119 men aboard the three Haitian coast guard boats participated in the shelling Haitian officials claimed killed two persons and injured STATE State Justice Sworn In MONTEREY UP 24th chief Donald was sworn in Friday on the same spot where the states first constitution was drawn and signed in Administering the oath was Acting Chief Justice Stanley Wright was appointed by Ronald Reagan early in Moron Death Probe Sought SAN FRANCISCO DPI Attorney General Thomas Lynch lias called for the Santa Barbara county coroner to investigate the fatal shooting of student Kevin was shot while trying to put out a fire set by protesters at the Bank of America branch near the UC at Isla One Santa Barbara policeman said his rifle discharged accidentally as he jumped off a vehicle at about the same time Moran was wounded armory at Oregon State At Stanford police used a helicopter with a bright light in an attempt to break up a campus rock throwing disturbance involving about 100 to 300 demonstrators after an three shots were fired at Los Altos home of Stanley Army ROTC commander at Stan a university spokesman The shots struck the house but no injuries were About 500 Kent Stale University students broke win set fires and damaged cars during a march early today from the center of to the dent They Down with they had burned a copy of the Constitution say President Nixon has murdered the In about demonstrators at California Institute of Technology car ried signs reading The king is a Nixon and Stay out of Hell we wont 30 students shouted as they marched to the ROTC head quarters at the University of Tulsa in 200 students heard Thomas dean of the university graduate tell an antiwar The President has committed us to war and to I sense a feeling of In the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam an mass demonstrations were being planned for several Spokesmen The socalled Vie policy is nothing but a cruel and predicted that campuses will be closed down around the The New Mobilization Com another antiwar said it would sponsor mass demonstrations in and elsewhere on May see 12 Reader Index Business 25 2 Church 4 1 Classified 19 2 Comics 26 2 Editorial 10 1 Features 11 1 Ann Landers 14 2 Metropolitan 13 2 Oil 25 2 Radio 8 1 University of Maryland students shout at state police who formed a line to block demonstrators at the College Park See page AP Fan Short Blamed in Apollo Blowout SPACE Houston AP A short circuit in a fan inside a liquid oxygen tank is thought to be the most pro bable cause of the explosion which crippled Apollo the space agency deputy ad ministrator said George the 2 man in the National Aeronautics and Space said an investigation team has narrowed its search to the but I dont think anybody as of today can be positive that was the Low said the review board investigating the explosion on board the Apollo 13 service module has w ked out this as the most probable sequence of events short circuit in oxygen tank 2 caused combustion in the tank combustion caused a rapid increase in pressure pressure caused the tank to rupture thus released caused a panel of the service module hosing the oxygen tank to be blown away as the panel was blown it hit an antennae which disrupted the com The explosion caused Apollo 13 to lose most of its electrical and oxygen forcing cancellation of the moon land ing and forcing the three astronauts to move into the at lunar Low said the location of the short has been narrowed to a fan motor within the oxygen This fan is used to stir the liquid oxygen so that it will not form layers of varying pressure and He said this was the only electrical component of the oxygen tank working at the time which used enough elec power to cause a short hot enough to trigger the ex The he could have been in wires leading to the motor or in the motor Fuel for the he could have been the insulation of the see Apollo 12 Allies Slam SAIGON AP The Command said today that two American soldiers had been killed in ground fighting in Cam They were the first battle deaths reported in Cam although Americans have been killed in aircraft shot down over Cambodian A third American was reported killed when a crashed in Cambodian territory northwest of Sources said a second American aircraft had also gone but no details were The two ground troops killed were members of the armored Cavalry which is participating in the South Vietnamese invasion of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sanctuaries in Cambodia ordered by President The fatalities were announced as American troops drove deep into Cambodia and reached the headquarters zone of the supreme Communist command for South spokesmen at the scene said a North Vietnamese in fantry regiment had fled to the north less than two hours before the Americans and South Vietnamese moved The spearheaded by a column of overran several North Vietnamese and Viet Cong base camps with lit tle resistance and seized tons of But they were still searching for the underground command posts of the Central Office for South which controls all military and political operations against the southern half of South Eight thousand American and South Vietnamese troops moved Friday into the headquarters 30 miles in side Cambodia in an area known as the about 70 miles northwest of More than 100 raids dropped more than five million pounds of bombs on the area before the ground sweep The ground troops are part of a force of and South Vietnamese forces sweeping a 200mile stretch of eastern Cambodia in the joint invasion President Nixon ordered Thursday against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong across the Cambodian border from South Viet Four other South Vietnamese task forces with American ad visers have invaded the area known as the Parrots 55 miles to the and have penetrated about 30 miles into Cambodian The Command has reported 194 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops killed in the operation so 161 of them by tactical and helicopter American spokesmen have reported six Americans wounded in addition to the two officers said observation and gunship helicopters had been given clearance to fire on anything that moves in an area extending about three miles north and west of the ground operations in the Fishhook The zone contains some Participating in the massive clubbed Operation Total are hundreds of armored personnel planes and The Central Office for South or is the target of the troops operating in the Fishhook is a mobile headquarters and is only sometimes in the Intelligence sources said Friday that it moved north two days before Operation Total Victory But and South Vietnamese troops found a complex of con crete bunkers linked by a maze of and allied officers said this was the evacuated headquarters They sent in to pummel the and ground troops then began a massive search for the compounds former Sources said it was unlikely that any Communist officials would lie captured and that the main mission now was to search out and destroy the tions centers and installations used by Hie Communist com Even the sources may take some The allied force has met little resistance since it drove mm the Fishhook area Friday behind a massive air and artillery But helicopters ran into heavy antiaircraft lire as they shuttled in elements of the 1st Air Cavalry Twenty were reported hit and five were shot The Americans and South Vietnamese immediately sec 12 7 Indicted in Defects Case Theaters 9 1 Television 8 1 Sports 15 2 Vital 24 2 FORT AP Seven men have been in by a grand jury on charges that they conspired to pass defective parts for the controversial Fill fighter There was no mention in the 20count indictment of an Fill crash which killed two crewmen last 22 near Las nor the quent grounding of more than 225 of the planes delivered to the Air The brought by a grand jury at Little named three employes of General Dynamics the prime contractor for the and four of of two subcontracting Fifteen Fills have among them three in A wing breaking off because of a steel flaw caused the Nevada the Pentagon Assorted technical pro and pilot error were blamed for other It was unlikely that the parts figuring in the in could have been responsible for a a General Dynamics spokesman Four of the defective parts were for a which goes into fuselage and two for a the indictment It said the defendants placed new serial numbers on parts previously rejected by the General Dynamics material review board and sent those parts back through inspection to be bought by the company as Many of the parts were welded to hide the grand jury The indictment accused the four subcontractor officials of giving building supplies and entertainment to General Dynamics employes for the purpose of influencing and inducing favorable determination s by employes as to the acceptance or rejection of parts con unauthorized weld repairs as well as other One of the seven Neuman identified as chief of outside production for Genera sur Friday to authorises in Fort He was freed under Other General Dynamics employes named the indictment are James a quality assurance superintendent and Joseph resident in spector at subcontracting plants producing Fill com Also indicted were Harry Bass president and chief executive S e 1 o Manufacturing of Walnut Kenneth vice president of Blades Manufacturing of Melvin Selb plant manager and Steven assistant to the presi dent and public relations manager for both The are Fill sub Four other Blades and Selb employes were listed by the grand jury as coconspirators but not Woodrow Doyne Haywood and Charles The Little Rock grand jury heard more than four days of testimony before returning the sealed indictment April 23 and expanding it April
