Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - June 17, 1969, Burlington, Iowa Hawk Pilot To WASHINGTON UPI The Federal Aviation Administration recently adopted a system under which airlines and private planes are required to make reservations at five of the nations most crowded Making reservations is old stuff to but it is something new for To see how the system is let us wiretap one of the airport phone lines The Lighter Side By Dick West National Airport Im all of our lines are busy Please wait a moment and some one will help And thank you for calling National National Airport Thank you for May I help you WOULD LIKE RESERVATION I would like to make a landing reservation for 11 on July Very Will that be commercial or private Hold the line a you for Im our 11 landing has already been reserved for July Could you book me for a later landing One you for We have nothing available at all on the are booked solid for that Ive got to land Have you tried one of the other airports Not HOLD THE If you will hold the line a moment Ill see if I can landing space for you somewhere else in the you for There is an H landing available at Midway Airport in Would you like us to confirm for you Im afraid that wont My passengers will be expected to land in the Washington Can you suggest anything else We can put you on standby How does work You fly to Washington on the 4th and if there has been a landing cancellation in the meantime we will have a runway for What happens if there Isnt a cancellation That depends on whether your plane is equipped with thanks for your but I guess I had better try to make some other Youre very And thank you for calling National Beer Hoisted Des Moines County sheriffs deputies Tuesday continued their investigation into what many in the area believe is one of the most heinous crimes committed in several Amid reports that reserve stocks of popular brands of suds are dwindling due to brewery an unknown villain made off with 48 half cases of and 5 cases of Grain Belt beer from the 34 Raceways cool Deputies said racetrack proprietor Kelly went to the oval Monday and dis covered the lock had been broken off the cooler sometime since Sunday nights races Looking he discovered the ter rible the beer had there was naught but an empty Law officers have not yet captured the criminal and fear he may be hoarding the sizable supply of golden anticipa tion of a dry At six cans a he could keep his cool for nearly four THE BURLINGTON HAWKEYE Where In The 132ND 289 PHONE 7548461 JUNE 1069 14 SECTION PRICE Ifc New A Shau Valley Offensive Underway SAIGON command disclosed today it mounted a new offensive that swept back into the A Shau near Hamburger the mountain that was captured in a controversial and costly battle and then The new operation called Montgomery Rendezvous began nine days ago and has resulted in 106 Communists spokesman losses were listed at 21 killed and 130 wounded in fighting near the hill that overlooks the border of Size of the operation was not officially disclosed but a spokesman said it involved a force of 101st Division the same division that a month ago carried the brunt of an earlier Apache in which the battle for Hamburger Hill was A force can run anywhere from a few thousand to or more Fiftythree paratroopers were killed and more than 300 were in an 11day battle to capture the hill which is on the western edge of the A Shau Valley two miles from the border of A spokesman would not say how close the present fighting was to the Announcement of the new operation came as fighting flared over threefourths of South Ambush Military spokesman said and South Vietnamese troops broke a Communist ambush in the Central Highlands and turned back two ground attacks near the Demilitarized Zone and on the approaches to Saigon in a series of firefights which killed 211 Communist American losses in the stepped up fighting was listed as one dead and 56 South Vietnamese losses in the battles which broke out Monday and today were called The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese stepped up the level of their shelling attacks with barrages into 25 including Saigon where two rounds landed in the heart of the city but did no great One round fell a block from the Costliest of the salvos was a 17round mortar attack into Kien 70 miles southwest of where one South Vietnamese militiaman was killed and 17 civilians were Allied headquarters The two rockets fired into Saigon landed at with crashes that echoed through empty One landed in the schoolyard while the second hit in an outlying precinct one mile causing no casual Rockets Fall Short It was the first time since June 6 that Communist shells have been fired into Guerrilla gunners tried Monday to hit Tan Son Nhut Air Base but five rockets fell a mile Allied spokesmen reported light ground fighting Monday afternoon except for a clash 50 miles northeast of Saigon in which South Vietnamese sol diers reported killing 36 Viet Calling on ter gunships and artillery to help them in the 11hour the government soldiers lost three men killed and 13 according to their In two widely separated skirmishes about 50 miles from troops killed a total of 10 North Vietnamese troops while losing two killed and 10 wounded Several of the overnight shellings targeted key military bases involved in the defense of including the Bien Hoa Air Base 15 miles northeast of the city and the headquarters of the 25th Infantry Division 60 miles to the Formal Nomination WASHINGTON UPI Pres ident Nixon has formally nominated Kenneth a native of Walla as ambassador to a Nixon friend since college is president of Union Carbide 4how flat and BOSTON ac tor Nicol whose controversial portrayal of Ham let has sharply split marched off stage at an performance of the Shakespeare classic loudly announcing it was his last play on any Only minutes into the second act at the Colonial Theater the 30year old actor flung down the goblet he was using to a drink for the angrily away his belt and walked off The stunned audience heard Williamson say from behind the curtain it was his last play on any The stage Kevin then appeared and told the audience he would try and persuade Williamson to Moments Williamson appeared again on stage and in a choked Im burnt like Ivanov in he Williamson repeated his in tention never to appear on stage again and said I hate everything Ive done It is damnable to fake it out on I dont care what any critic its a bad Williamson did complete the which had an earlier run on where he also staged a ProChinese Communist SDS Faction WASHINGTON UPI A staff investigator told a Senate subcommittee today that the militant Students for a Demo cratic Society SDS is splin tered into seven factions with a group following a proChinese Communist line holding the upper Philip Manuel testified about the internal problems of SDS on the nations college campuses after another staff investigator warned that the organization is pushing a doctrine of violent dissent in high facto city slums and at army Manuel Identified the pro proChinese splinter in SDS as the Progressive Labor He said four Trotskyite factions rank next in Least Man uel were the adher ents of the proSoviet Communist party and a small West Coast group which he said follows MarxistLeninist doc Injunction Authority In the House the administra tion proposed that colleges be given authority to get a federal court which could be enforced by troops if to stop rioting The White House sent the proposed to a House committee which has been unable to get agreement on legislation to deal with campus Perman an investi gator for the Senate permanent investigations testified it is a well known fact that there is a constant communication and close con tact between the SDS in this country and similar youth groups in countries within Communist TUi In AM cities aad Answer op A GIANT it but from one angle a giant boiler near the Rock Wand railroad freight yard and a beer aign on a Front tav ern merged to give the impression that one of the breweries had wme to Burlington ky The 15footdiameter boiler pass ed through the city Monday en route to the Monsanto plant at As strikes at some major breweries con the availability of several brands of beer continues to Faiths Baby ADAM CLAYTON in said he felt vindicated by the Supreme Court decision which re stored his faith in the three branches of The Supreme Court said the House of Representatives was not right in denying Powell his UPI Photo Powell Undecided On Tax Credit Repeal OK By Committee oj WASHINGTON UPI The House Ways and Means Com voted today to repeal the 7 per cent tax credit for business as asked by President and drove toward approval of an extension of the income tax The also approved a one year extension of federal excise taxes of 10 per cent on telephone 7 per cent on which normally would drop to 5 per cent next The panel planned to approve an extension of the surtax later in the The acting Ways and Means Chairman Hale said there was no doubt about During a morning the committee voted a repeal of the investment tax credit effective April without any exceptions for small transportation or air and water pollution some congressmen From Cargo Planes To Mess Halls WASHINGTON UPI An Air Force efficiency expert who first told Congress of a billion cost increase for the giant cargo plane testified today that he now is assigned to studying costs for such minor programs as a bowling alley and mess who origin ally was blocked by Pentagon orders from testifying publicly last returned before a congressional hearing to cite other overcharges in Air Force weapons development pro a deputy for management told the Economic Com last November that the would cost about billion to develop rather than the billion originally Different Assignment He related today that almost immediately after his Novem ber he was shunted from considering cost control studies of all major Air Force weapons systems to other The UPI Adam Clayton buoyed by Supreme Court ruling that his fellow House members had no right to exclude said today he has not yet decided whether to seek the seniority rights he also lost or back Powell told a news confer ence at his island retreat here that he planned to return to Washington to discuss the situation with Democratic party I have not yet decided whether I will ask for restoration of the House Committee chairmanship or the back pay and money paid in Powell Powell was chairman of the powerful House Education and Labor Commit tee before he was stripped of his seat by fellow Powell sat on a dockside wall in the hot morning sun to explain his plans to newsmen who flew into Bimini especially for his news He said his ultimate decision will depend on my conversa tions with the Democratic party He said among the congressmen he expects to talk with are Wilbur Hale Boggs and Carl He said the question of getting his money back is not important at this Decision Main Thing The main thing about the Supreme Court decision which we established is that the principle of three branches of government has been reaf It affects not only me but 220 million Pressed as what he might do if the House leaders refuse to restore his Powell replied thats become secondary because I think the fact that we have fought before the Supreme Court to establish the principle of three branches of govern ment is more important than Adam Clayton But he You cant have a government in the United States that believes in law and order if the Congress of the United States does not believe in law and Powell arrived at the news conference aboard his fishing Adams He had sailed the boat from his home on another part of He told newsmen he was partial larly the ruling and called it a landmark Mondays 7 to 1 which also sent to the lower courts the question of right to back cleared up the last of the legal that have beset the Harlem lawmaker since 1960 and that figured in the March 1967r House vote to exclude And it threatened to put the House itself in the contempt of court role that dogged Powell for years after he refused to pay a judgment against a Harlem widow he called a bag woman for police bribe Under the courts members of the House them selves could not be subject to any eventual court order that might grow out of the The court said employes of tht House such as the arms could be defendants but not members But since the members would have to direct their employes to issue any eventual pay order for they do in effect hold the purse Some Pullout Troops To Stay In Far East WASHINGTON UPI Near ly of the first troops to be pulled out of Vietnam will remain in the Far Tist or it was disclosed The Pentagon said 9th Regiment of the 3rd Marine ticketed for Okinawa the man 1st Brigade of the Armys 9th Infantry Division will go to and about 400 Marines from the 3rd fighter support wing will be sent to Baud Far US With Navy men sche to board ships in the the announcement left only Army troops definitely slated for return to the continental United The will include Army reservists and National and the 2nd Brigade of the 9th Infantry and its supporting The made in both Washington and in revealed for the first time that only the 2nd Brigade of the 9th Division would be The 1st Brigade will remain and will establish divi sion headquarters in Members of 2nd Brigade will he assigned to other The Pentagon said the location for the inactivation has not yet been The announcement identified two National Guard and 18 reserve units that are to be included in the withdrawal and will be inactivated when they reach the United The National Guard units art the 650th Medical Detachment from and the 126th Supply and Company from WEATHER Ml FORECAST with Uttle tare si scattered storm Ml LAW M RIVER devi I if 7t
