Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - January 2, 1969, Burlington, Iowa Hawk Boy Wins Baby Derby Steven Matthew Heitmeier scored a double first here He was the first baby born locally in He was also the first child for his and Owen Heitmeier of Weighing 8 pounds and 2 he was born at in Mercy hos pital o win a scries of prized offered by men Hants as the first baby of the new Stevens father is a salesman for Bur lington Farm Machinery The baby was due at Christmas and his parents had decided on using Mat as a gift of the his mother When the baby didnt appear at the name Steven was add Nancy Sue daughter of and Phillip Bowman of Dallas was the only other New Years baby in She was born at also in Mercy She weighed 6 Nancy the Sue for her moth a who is Flu Fantasies Cause Concern While the Hong Kong and other flu strains have spread virtually throughout the the Health Service says fantasy and fiction are spreading its seriousness out of propor As a the National Communi cable Disease Center NCDC in Atlanta has run off what it calls a fact sheet on influenza to calm some current fears about the flu Facts and misconceptions about flu have blended to give it a greater emo tional impact than it may the NCDC says in the opening of its pam it is a un comfortable affliction fortunately it is rarely dangerous except among certain such as older people and those of all ages who are chroni cally The report will soon be dis to news media and state and local health agencies throughout the The health service has said all along that the Hong Kong strain is al though groups should be vac against the Yeti in USA Sheriff Doubts It there is no Abominable Snowman in Waupaca Wiscon Or if there hes no more abom than a Milwaukee prankster who commutes there for Report of strange happenings in the snow got national attention last week when a science reporter said on TV that conservationists in Waupaca had told him about a Yeti Abominable Snow But county undersheriff Loren Frazier has another He thinks the cul prit is just a 200pound bearded Milwaukeean who spends weekends in the resort Fraziers talked to some friends of the he says they may be the same group involved in a ghost prank in Waupaca last Frazier declined to name the but said If hes goofy enough to run around In that outfit during the hunting well just let him Weve got more important things to do than chase fic Fire Will Start Too Youve heard of starting a fire under a havent you asked Robert 2512 River as he used smoldering barbecue grill to start his car and his neighbors when the tern was subzero Tuesday morn this is just an updated ver Cion of Where In The Happy News Ushers In 69 By United Press International New Years Day wasnt all hangovers and fractured resolu Some of the news was downright The people some of that good news happened to had reason to believe 1969 might for them at a substantial improve over For Stanley and Hen Miller of New York had been assured by her physician 13 years ago she would never bear The Millers were attending a New Years eve party in Queens when Helen doubled over in Miller rushed his wife to a hospital and a after examining ordered her rolled into the delivery The Millers Helen snorted as attendants made her 190 pounds comfortable on a rolling Im not But she And af New Years Milter was permitted to look at her 6pound baby I didnt believe T was pregnant until I saw she Tm The resigned to being were Miller ran to a telephone and called his Hi he Guess what Helen had a baby Go back to Youre the elder Miller report Mother still shocked and daughter Beth Ann were doing fine last year was Leap and how those New York gals took advantage of There were marriage licenses issued in 1968 in New York an increase of 6 per cent over 1967 and the high est total And in Cape South Af rica year ago Philip became the worlds second heart transplant He celebrated today his first glass of a dip in the water at his favorite and a dinner party at which he sliced a birthday cake with one Blaiberg said he realizes he is living on borrowed time with his new he am optimistic enough to I will live another THE BURLINGTON HAWKEYE 132ND 148 PHONE 7548461 JANUARY 1969 22 SECTIONS PRICE lOc Israelis Retaliate Again War Threat 6Very Real In Mideast The Johnsons and Dog Saves Family WEST BURLINGTON It would be hard to convince the David Johnsons that the dog isnt mans best The barking of their Scottish awakened them at Wednesday just in time to grab their 5month old and flee their burning residence at 105 Scotty was unable to save her 5weekold The pup perished in the Most of the pos sessions were lost in the Fire Chief Robert Lawson said the blaze was caused by a de oil The Johnsons moved in with the Donald Tuppers of 2206 Flint Hills Tupper is Johnsons The Johnsons were checked over at Burlington after swallowing a quantity of Johnson received minor cuts on the arms and legs when he broke out a window to let smoke out of the house and to rescue Friends have been rallying round with pots and and other household goods to replace those by the Johnson is an exterminator in pest control By United Press International Jordan said Israeli jet fighter bombers attacked Arab posi tions in two parts of the Jordan River Valley with rockets and napalm today after attacking first with and tank Lebanon reported an Israeli threat to its New peace moves were reported underway today in the Middle but Haim chief of the Israeli general said in a prepared statement in Jerusalem the chances of a renewed Middle East conflict are very He said Israel could not hold out indefinitely if the situation He said Israel would deal with its enemies on a basis and that the army would strike back as hard as possible against Arab inflicting maxi mum Exchange Fire Jordanian and Israeli troops exchanged fire during the night south of the Sea of Galilee and there were reports of a rocket attack on an Israeli township near the Lebanese border Tuesday A spokesman in Amman said Israeli troops fired on a farm about eight miles south of the Sea of Galilee with machine guns and tanks at Twenty minutes later Mirage fighter planes plastered the area with napalm and Four other Mirages attacked the Dam area in the northern Jordan the spokesman Hit Nests A military spokesman in Jerusalem said fighters hqd been dispatched to silence Fatah guerrilla positions and sabotage nests in the village of south of the Sea of Neither side reported any A milan newspaper today published a rare interview with Pope Paul in which the Pontiff said intervention in the Mideast by the great Powers might be needed to halt the areas slide toward In Soviet Ambassador Mikhail was said to have carried a new peace plan involving France and the United States when he met today with British Foreign Secretary Michael Consolidate Defense The Lebanese cabinet met in a late night session Wednesday and then announced all defense of the country would be placed under the of the Premier Abdul Lah Yafi also announced a Election Records All Wet DBS MOINES wa ter pipe ruptured on the second floor of the Statehouse day and records for the 1968 election were damaged when water drained into offices on the first floor and the of said Secretary of State M e 1 v i n Synhorst said water poured into vault in his office where the 1968 election results and per manent election records are Water also flowed into the vault on the basement level of the Cant Assess Damage Synhorst was unable to esti mate the damage to the 19fi8 election records because I have On The Inside Area News 3 Comics 21 Crossword 22 Deaths 19 Editorial 4 TV 5 Sports 89 Womens News 6 no authority to open He said The canvass for the vote for governor was but I have to turn them over to the But I dont think itll keep Bob Ray from being a Republican Robert Ray de State Treasurer Paul Franzenburg in the November election for Official In 2 Weeks 4 The official canvass of t h e vote will be made by the Iowa General Assembly which con venes in less than two Synhorst If these re ports are damaged we will just have to contact the counties for Another spokesman in Syn horsts office said water was flowing under the vault door when he arrived at the office Wednesday at 1 He said about one inch of water had col on the Discovered In Basement The water pipe break was dis covered by statehouse security men when they noticed water flowing under an office door in the cafeteria on the basement In the water soak ed some of the records in the State Corporation but none was apparently damaged The carpeting in both first floor office and the basement office were also Synhorst It looks like the major cost will be for re decoration of the Paint on the ceilings of both the first floor and basement offices peel ed because of the water dam Statehouse repairmen said water drained into the vaults when a pipe on the second floor mens room He said the two inch pipe froze and was burst open by the wa ter Greek Is Hijacked ATHENS Greek airliner with 104 persons aboard was hijacked today and forced to fly to The hijacker was identified as a Greek miner who threatened to destroy the plane in flight when Greek jet fighters pursued Sources close to Olympic Airways said the identified in Cairo as George fired one shot What is the highest point in Oregon Auswer on Page Vietnam Casualties Nearly Doubled In 1968 SAIGON American combat losses in 1968 nearly equaled the number of GIs kil led and wounded in the first seven years of the Vietnam headquarters said Official not including the last three days of the showed servicemen dead and wounded iu The year saw heavy fight ing in Communist offensives in to Saigon and other major cities in February and From 1961 through military spokes men Americans have died and have been wounded in Another are missing in action or In fighting tempered by Communist and allied holiday last forces lost 113 men third lowest weekly death toll of the Spokesmen said Americans were A total of Communists died during the which included a guerrilla and a 24hour allied truce for It brought to more than the number of Reds slain in Truce Ends South Vietnamese losses for the week were 279 men killed and 901 Their figures for the war are not The Communists meantime eluded their New Years truce today and shelled two slamming 10 rockets into a Marine helicopter base at Da Nang and 65 mortar rounds into an artillery outpost in the central Losses were light at both spokesmen patrols had little luck finding Communist troops to fight but turned up another guerrilla arms cache west of bringing to 10 tons the amount of Red supplies found there in the past five In the Mekong South Vietnamese troops uncovered more evidence of the Commu nist arms buildup threatening Saigon 375 recoilless rifle 170 cases of nades and 350 boxes of through the fuselage of the plane at one point after the fighters came in pursuit and then were forced to turn back because of his Scheduled To Athens The plane was on a flight to Athens from when it was hijacked 18 minutes after becoming airborne and forced to fly first to and then to Egyptian authorities said the plane would fly to Athens after American Embassy in Athens said at least five of the 96 passengers on Uie Olympic airliner were including two women teachers and three airmen from the Air Force base at A police source told newsmen had been on the wanted list of the Greek securi ty services for antiregime ac Second Hijacking It was the second such incident in three months involv ing Olympic which is owned by multimillionaire ship owner Aristotle hus band of the former Jacqueline On two Italians hijacked an Olympic plane on a flight from Paris to Athens and forced it to return to They said they were trying to sabotage the Greek regime by discouraging tourists from going to announced a buildup of Leba nese forces along border with but denied rumors that Soviet and Ameri can ships were conducting special maneuvers in the In Fatah guerrillas said they had shot down an Israeli supersonic Mirage fight er south of the Dead But they said only the plane had been seen falling in and did not divulge the time of the downing or the weapons An Amman newspaper said Arab guerrillas had caused many casualties in a platoon of Israeli soldiers stationed outside the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied Israeli Air Force planes this morning silenced Fatah guer rilla positions and sabotage nests in the Jordanian hamlet of on the east bank of the Jordan south of the Sea of The attack followed an attempt by a guerrilla bazooka team to blast an Israeli The Arabs missed the The fighting continued what Pope Paul described as the chain of violence in the explosive Middle There were widespread re ports that Russia already was circulating a new peace plan for the JANUARY LANDMARK is John Catholic probably the citys most outstanding visual land visible for miles in any direction as the highest point in a Sketch by landmark for The more than a century is the focus of activity for the largest Catholic par ish in the Busy Start For New Year of Commerce 7 Hotel for Better annual 8 Iowa Southern Utilities Sigma Phi style James Madison junior high Hotel Bureau Executive Management Hotel Arthur Day in Burlington Nations annual Theodore Travel and Adventure 8 Me South American Adventure by Romaine WEATHER FORECAST cloudiness with slight chance for flurries and little temperature change A little colder with variable cloudiness partly cloudy aad LMT 10 Ugh RIVER STAGES dow LAST MONTH High of SI on 12 tied record tow of 12 uu 31st broke
