Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - May 21, 1969, Burlington, Iowa In The HawkE F orum Variety Of Views About Vietnam By LLOYD MAFFITT The HawkEye Forum held its pre miere at the Arion Tuesday night be perpetuate a small but enthusiastic Fifty mostly under at tended the cosponsored by The HawkEye and the and so wholeheartedly participated in the dia logue that they might have been argu ing yet if moderator John Schaefer hadnt declared the meeting closed after an hour and three The subject was The program opened with a disserta tion by James associate professor of religion at the University of who sketched the background of the Vietnam war against the year history of that coun try and traced USA involvement in the current IN MORAL TERMS McCue charged that both hawks and doves see the question of the war in moral terms and accuse their op of pursuing an immoral he called for a different per Second session of The HawkEye Forum is at 8 oclock tonight at Notre Dame High public discus sion on Science and Speak ers are George University of Iowa school of and Edward of Sponsor is Burlington Cath Social Action Pub lic is No in which Americans realize that what they are basically trying to do in Vietnam is to create and main tain a regime that will be sympathetic to Western that will be to our The speaker said that we have a dangerous way of deluding ourselves that we will have legitimized the gov of President Nguyen Van Thieu if we win the if the war ends with his government still in pow The National Liberation Front Ha noi is vitally interested in the ques tion of who would be in control of the country during any postwar period pri or to McCue and this will have a bearing on whether the war ends He ended his sum mary with the dour comment that The history of Vietnam tends to support the pessimistic McCue then threw the meeting open for In answer to questions he went over the history of Vietnam during and after World War re minding his listeners that Ho Chi Minn leader of the only group in Viet nam fighting the Japanese was known to be a but had American support as did a far more notorious Josef Stalin be cause it was opportunistic for the USA to support enemies of the Axis McCue charged that Ho was double crossed at wars end and the with American its dominance over only to be thrown out after a long in GOOD NATIONALIST For a brief time right after World War McCue Americans saw Ho as a good nationalist fighting a colonial but as sian relations deteriorated into the Cold they turned against because of his He said that the USA began giving the French financial support as early as 1950 and that the Kennedy administration opted for mili tary intervention in the num ber of Americans killed in Vietnam ranging from 11 in 1961 to more than in Don Henry of The an Ar my officer in said that there are a vast number of South Vietnamese who are not against Ho that the Viet lamese are basically not a politically oriented owing allegiance to their village chief and not taking much interest in politics beyond that that the USA has treaty obligations to fight or South Henry also declared that the USA Continued on Page 18 Where In The fXt Cau you name this famous in the southern Answer on Page THE BURLINGTON HAWKEYE 132ND 267 PHONE 7548461 MAY 1969 40 SECTIONS PRICE lOt Photo by Don Henry WHERE PICKETS paraded for 5 all that remained as mute evidence of the dispute day morning were picket signs stuffed into a curb side trash barrel at Borax Members of International Chemical Workers union Local 519 had returned to their jobs following a Tues day afternoon settlement with the Borax Plant Strike Over Production was getting back to normal at Borax Wednesday morning after settle ment of a strike by Local International Chemi cal Workers A 40centperhour increase over a 2year was approved by about a 31 margin in a membership vote Tuesday it was an by Minnie Dadis president of the Agreement was reached by company and union Tuesday They have been meet ing under auspices of the Fed eral Mediation Service since work stopped on April John manager of the firm at 817 said to day Borax employes re ported for work today and nor mal production has been re The settlement was a good In addition to improved fringe base wages were increased 20 cents and hour during the first year of the contract and on May 1970 wages will increase 11 cents an No one really wins a the company and the community all The 39day strike cost over in lost wages the manager We are pleased that the strike is over and hope in the future any differences can be resolved through negotiations while the employes stay on the Newton The plant here processes and WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy with oc rain or tonight or Thursday and little temperature Low to night high Thursday RIVER STAGES Burlington down IS Wapello change Keithsburg packages consumer principally and Bor axo hand for distribution in the eastern half of the Builders Deadlocked Completely No The first comment was by chairman of the labor relations committee of the Burlington Builders Wednesday morning after ne Tuesday with Labor ers Local The second quotation was from George business representative for the Baird added that the next meet ing of the parties to the strike likely will be at the call of Richard federal mediator from Cedar Up to 350 members of the local have been on strike since May halting work on about 25 major construction projects in Des Henry and Van Buren Fritzsche said nothing was settled at Tuesdays meeting and it was adjourned pending outcome of a union meeting Tuesday Baird said today that nothing concrete came out of the union Lifetime Career NEW YORK John who is running for another fouryear term as apparently believes enough is When told by visiting Mayor Teuvo Aura of that his job was appointive and lasted for Lindsay quipped For a lifetime Thats a not a Apollo Nears Moon SPACE Houston UPI For Apollo 10s astro the easy part was over Commander Thomas Staf ford and crewmen John Young and Eugene Cernan slept late as they finished their third day in They were less than miles from the their destination for 61 dangerous hours of scouting the The three hurtling faster and faster in the grip of lunar were to pass behind the moon at They then fire a blast of their rocket engine to into orbit around it at Their mission was to spend 2s days circling the moon in the Apollo spacecraft nick named Charlie Stafford and Cernan will cut loose Thursday in the Snoopy lunar landing machine and skim twice within 10 miles of the lunar carefully studying possible landing sites for Apollo 11 which hopes to touch down on the lunar surface in The astronauts passed the Great Divide in space where moon gravity overcame earth gravity at CDT while they were last long rest they will get until they are on the way home Saturday They were 11 minutes behind schedule to the pally because their original Thursday Most Dangerous SPACE Houston will be Amer icas busiest and most dange rous day in Astronauts Thomas Staf Eugene Cernan and John Young will awake at Before they sleep again they plan to give the moon lander its second manned practice with communications between earth and two separate and fly Stafford and Cernan to within of the moons It is final dress rehearsal for the first landing attempt by Apollo 11 in The long coast from earth ends in moon orbit late But Apollo 10s reason for existing is Taking All Precautions The astronauts were taking all precautions possible to reduce the chance of trouble and several times during the trip reported they were study ing their moon Skull one called The plan calls for followed by to enter the lunar lander at CDT after checking out its to separate from the mothership at At Stafford fires the moon landers big descent engine for the first of two close passes over the target site of the Apollo 11 at the two ships rendez vous and The astronauts say the rocket firing to begin the lunar landers descent to the moon is a critical It occurs behind the If that firing is three seconds too changing the velocity of the lander by about 13 miles an hour more lhan the lander would be on a crash course with the This probably would result in an immediate Less error might be correctable without such a drastic stf so long as the closest approach would not be nearer than Everyone Has To Wait Everyone on this side of the fence has to wait until you come around in acquisition to find you did you make it or didnt you make it type of Cernan said prior to the The lunar silvery with patches of and gold insulation clinging to its drops toward he moon after the first firing of its aJong the exact path Apollo 11 will take on its way to the planned landing July We proceed down to feet and again we are going the exact timelines and attitudes that the lunar landing mission will Stafford Apollo 10 will check its radar on the way down and pitch over on its face and take pictures of the landing site for three or four Then well light the big engine again to start a phasing burn to go to 200 miles above the lunar surface and end up approximately 350 miles behind John Young to check the rendezvous radar at the exact maximum range we could expect in a nominal Stafford The high point of that orbit will come behind the moon and the spacecraft will then drop toward the moon for another low On that Stafford separates the top or ascent stage from the bottom half of the landing craft and fires the ascent engine to simulate takeoff from the surface of the Critical Firing Another critical rocket firing occurs here when the lander tries to match orbits with the command The events are carefully timed to take tage of and a slight overburn of about three feet per over two miles per hour more than could delay the final rendez After the lander and the spacecraft dock and the space men reenter the Young meanwhile will have been running the spacecraft by himself and ready to go after the in case anything went you can say this is one rendezvous we have to Stafford The next time the spacecrafts whip around the front of the the spacemen will jetti son the top stage of the lunar module and fire its engine until the fuel is hurling it into an orbit around the After is a pretty long 16 hope to get eight hours of solid Stafford In an interview with UPI before the Cernan I dont have any fears and I dont have any at or wed do one of two Wed get those cies either psychological ly or materially on the or we wouldnt fly the But he said he could not say that he would iot be I dont think Id be a human being if I Spare Kennedy Asks Court LOS ANGELES UPI Edward Kennedy asked the court today to spare the life of Sirhan Sirhan for the mur der of his Robert A letter from Kennedy to the Los Angeles district attorney was presented to Superior Court Judge Herberg Walker in the courtroom shortly before the judge was to pass formal sentence on the 25 yearold Arab immigrant whose death in the gas chamber was decreed by a jury which convicted him of the assassina Walker has the constitutional authority to the sen tence to life if Man of Love The last of the Kennedy brothers wrote that my Senator Questions Ethics Of Douglas WASHINGTON John has asked the American Bar Association to rule whether Supreme Court Justice William Douglas has violated the canons of judicial Williams wrote William ABA re questing the ruling in connec tion with Douglas acceptance of an annual fee from a foundation with some Williams who have close relationship with the Las Vegas gambling Williams request came after the association said former Justice Abe Fortas relationship with Louis now imprisoned on stock fraud was clearly contra ry by the Salary Williams said Douglas had been on the payroll of the Parvin Foundation at a salary of a year and added that the principals of the foundation had been the subject of investigation by various agen cies of the includ ing the Department of Williams added in his letter to I am sure that the American Bar Association is familiar with Justice Douglas arrangements for accepting fees trom this whose members have close relationship with the Las Vegas gambling I am asking the question Does Justice Douglas acceptance of this annual retainer from the Parvin Foundation violate the canons of judicial ethics of the American Bar Association Opinion On Fortas The ABA opinion regarding Fortas was given after in earlier query by Williams whether Fortas had violated the canons of judicial The ABA Committee on Professional Ethics said Tues day it reached that conclusion on the basis of statements Fortas made in a letter to Chief Justice Earl Warren when he resigned last Thursday under severe The conduct of Fortas while a Supreme Court described in his statement of the was clearly contrary to the canons of judicial ethics even if he did not and never intended to intercede or take part in any administra tive or judicial matters affect ing the seven member panel said in a letter to ABA President William brother was a man of love and sentiment and He would not have wanted his death to be a cause for tak ing of another You may recall his pleas when he learned of the death of Martin Luther He said that what we need in the United States is not division what we need in the United States is not hatred what we need in the United States is not violence or but love of wisdom and compassion toward one Handwritten Kennedy in the handwritten said that he realized that many other considerations fell within the responsibility of the district attorney and that of the But if the kind of man my brother was is pertinent we believe it should be weighed in balance on the side of mercy and Gods gift of life Evelle Younger was asked what effect the letter might have on the states stand toward the May Get 70 Trip SPACE Houston who made Americas first sub orbital space flight in 1961 before being grounded with an ear is a candidate for a 1970 Apollo moon The space agency late Tuesday paired a Navy with rookie astronauts Air Force Major Stuard Roosa and Navy Edgar Mitchell and said they were candidates possibly for a They probably will be as signed to Apollo planned as a moon landing flight in late sources in the space agency A number of plans are being considered for optional missions and flight depending upon the outcome of Apollo 10 and a spokesman a native of East made the first United States space flight aboard the Freedom His spacecraft was launched by a Redstone vehicle on a 116mile high suborbital flight that lasted 16 Younger said that it was a decision for the judge but that the district attorneys office would point out that the recommendation of the jury was the death Sirhan Smiling Sirhan entered the courtroom today smoking a big smiling and appearing very casual on what may be his last appearance in He wore an blue shirt and chatted in an animated fashion with his Judge Walker read the Kennedy letter silently to himself on the bench but did not immediately disclose its Instead he instructed chief defense counsel Grant Cooper to proceed with his arguments for a new Walker has the authority to ignore the jurys tion for the but in 19 similar cases which have come before him he had done so only and that was at the request of the state penal flight trajectory was so ate they skipped three of the four course adjustments they could have made on the Ground controllers today re vised the time of the lunar orbit insertion rocket firing from to but said the discrepancy was of no As they drew closer to the moon today at they planned to transmit what promised to be the most spectacular of their color television Staf ford said the astronauts would point their tiny color camera first at the looming moon and then at the tiny ball of He said the camera would be left on while the spacecraft enters the lunar a period taking at least two Astronomers around the world trained telescopes on the lunar surface in order to compare notes with the astro Their sightings will go directly to the Smithsonian Institute and Houston Manned Space Center and the astro might be asked to look at the same places from lunar The only problem on Apollo and it was was bubbles of hydrogen in the drinking water I feel great we all feel just Stafford said late Tuesday night before the three spacemen turned Scheduled to awake at about 9 they were told to sleep late if they They The astronauts were awak ened at CDT today to the strains of On A Clear Day You Can See piped up to them from the up all Clean fore and acknowledged a Navy from the Thats Sounds like we got Pity Poor Penny The Peruvian UPI once look very glum for Penny the Penguin at the Point Defiance as the case may now in the midst of an unrequited love dance for the 18th straight Attendants are not sure if a Galapagos is a boy or a girl and the government of Peru will not permit any of Pennys kin to be removed from the Recently the zoo acquired two Humboldt penguins from South but they were devoted and turned on Penny so viciously as the case may removed from the penguin Penny is now berthed in room at the and the dance goes KISS FOR THE Gordon honorary referee at the Madison got a bonus when he greeted Relays Queen Donna
