Danville Register, The (Newspaper) - October 16, 1969, Danville, Virginia COOL TODAY THE DANVILLE REGISTER HUNDRED AND TWENTYTWO YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE HOME DELIVERY Week Daily FOUNDED FEBRUARY 1847 NO 28402 AP LEASED WIRES DANVILLE VA THURSDAY MORNING OCTOBER 16 1969 AP Source Dept of Agriculture SHARE S SHARE SHARE 781 PRICE TEN CENTS BEEF PRICE ON THE compares beef prices pound over ten year intervals since 1949 as well as the proportion received of the price per pound by the farmer wholesaler and retailer A packing industry spokesman says can expect to pay eyen more for beef uv the future if they want cattlemen to satisfy the nations increasing hun ger for the meat AP Wirephoto Despite Passions There Were Few Incidents Of Violence Hundreds Of Thousands Protest War In Moratorium Day Events By RICHARD BLYSTONE Associated Press Writer On campuses and city streets across the nation more than a half million Americans most of them young told the world Wednesday they want the Unit ed States to get out of Vietnam Biggest Yet They said it with buttons and armbands with marches in New York white crosses in Ore gon rallies in Baltimore and a small communion service in Iowa City in observance of Mor Day the biggest pro test yet against the war In counter demonstrations supporters of the Nixon admin Vietnam policy hoist ed flags to full staff and turned on automobile headlights In most places their tions were outweighed by the highly organized antiwar activi ties Some spokesmen said the antiwar ob were giving aid and comfort to the enemy Point Up Division The days events pointed up the division over the war but despite passions on ei ther side incidents of violence were few Disorders were char mostly by scuffles and There were also a few in stances of on cam pus At the State University of New York at Buffalo vandals threw paint and damaged furni ture and office the offices of the Air Force ROTC Vandals also ransacked the Army and Air Force ROTC of fices at New York University in New York City Scores of schools and colleges observed the for a pause in routine In only a minority participated ac and elsewhere the course of daily business mostly went on much as usual Clash At Gate In Washington that was the Nixon administrations official position undisturbed by a clash at a White House gate in which police repelled about 20 demon who tried to storm into the grounds Four Negro youths and a blonde girl arrested Later more 22000 per sons massed near the Washing ton Monument to hear Coretta King husband Mar tin Luther King was a strong advocate of a Vietnam pullout Silent March The civil rights leaders wid ow said While we spend bil lions of dollars for destruction in Vietnam we refuse to recog nize the necessities for life at home Afterward the protest ers bathed in orange light from handheld candles walked si to the White House Rallies and processions drew tens of thousands to hear such wellknown speakers as Sen Eugene McCarthy DMinn and Sen George McGovern DSD both of whom sought the Demo cratic presidential nomination last year as antiwar 10000 At Rutgers Speaking to 10000 persons at Rutgers University New Bruns wick NJ McCarthy declared that although President Nixon might hold military withdrawal from Vietnam to be a disaster history would call it a sign of great statesmanship McCarthy also appeared at a rally of more than 20000 in New Yorks Bryant Park There were two other New York ral lies of more than 10600 one with a midtown candlelight procession On Boston Common police es between 75000 and 100000 at a rally A Philadel phia gathering drew 15000 per sons and 10000 assembled in Minneapolis Sizeable crowds gathered in some relatively small cities In White NY a New York City suburb 5000 persons picketed draft board offices About 3000 persons linked arms and through NM In Burlington Vt about 4000 persons gathered at the State University in what ob servers called one of the largest political demonstrations in Ver mont history Demonstrations took place in every state and their partici pants may have numbered as many as a million Sam Brown coor of MDay told a Wash ington news conference he was gratified the people that they can work for change within the Democrat ic system he said adding that the response is helping develop The day have given hope to See PROTEST Page 2A To Climax Capitals MDay Observance Only Battlefield Protest Noted Was Platoon Wearing Black Bands Causes Ripple But Apparently No Waves i JL M I American Troops Now In Vietnam SAIGON AP The issue in the Moratorium northeast of Saigon There Charles Ryan said morel Americal Division Brig Gen t i t i 1 not LM rt i VM t I wide antiwar demonstration in the United Stales caused rip ple but apparently no waves among the lion troops whose presence in South Vietnam was protest battlefield protest re ported was the wearing of black oon of US infantrymen on pa trol near Chu Lai some 360 was no way of knowing immedi ately however similar if there were by j than half of the 30 in H Cooksey of Brents Americal Division platoon Va said Wednesday the country Associated Press leader 1st Lt Ro Encounters Barrage Of Demo Criticism On Nixons Welfare Plan WASHINGTON AP Secre Jary of Welfare Robert H Finch encountered a barrage of Demo cratic Wednesday in opening the Nixon welfare re form package questioning to Capitol Hill Two senior Democrats on the House Ways and Means Com accused the administra tion of inviting higher welfare coats while missing some of the neediest juvenile cases A third said it was ridicu Policemans Uniform Somalias President Shot To Death Assassin Held 7 NAIROBI Kenya AP The sembly Somalias parliament president of Somalia Dr Abdl was as Wednesday by a gun man wearing a police uniform immediately ar rested a policeman named Ab whom Radio Mo later identified as the assassin occurred in Las near the Ethiopian border Somalia where the president bad been inspecting regions It was the his birthday Radio Mogadishu later an that a been imposed in Mo the I capital and that security officers the streets body was re turned to the capital According to the constitution the president of the National As assumes power the death of the president Sheik Muktar Mohamed heads the assembly Prime Minister Mohammed Haji Egal was in California Tuesday and left by plane for Somalia when he heard of the assassination He came to the United States to at tend the Assembly in and was on a pri vate visit to the West Coast The prime minister visibly shaken by news of the nation arrived in Washington from Chicago and rushed through National reach a plane for New York Wednesday night He declined to make any comment Ambassador Yusuf Omar Azhari and his wife the daugh ter of the slain president ac See SOMALIA Page 2A lous spurious and incredible for administration to claim way to start Social Security benefit increases flow ing Dec 1 Left Early Later two committee Demo crats berated Finch on the House floor for leaving the hear ing early to fulfill speaking commitments in his native Cali fornia i The flurry came as the com began hearings on dent Nixons plans for a lion welfare overhaul and a 10 per cent Social Security benefit hike effective with April 1970 checks x Core Of Proposal The core welfare proposal is replacement of the pendent childrens aid program with a family assistance plan that j would family of four minimum federal pay ments of a year dies continue until the earnings reached a year Rep Al TUlman DOre the plan an invitation for exploitation by in and states Foresees Disaster The liberal eligibility require ments provi sions with states can only lead to disaster HUman said He complained proposal See WELFARE Page 2A sen of New York City told him Its just my way of silently protesting Personally I think the demonstrating should go on until President Nixon gets the idea that every American should be pulled out of here now Light Infantry Rosens platoon is from Char ie Co 1st Battalion In fantry Light Infantry Bri gade The acting commander of the Space Agency Reviewing Proposed Flight Of Monkey With Transplanted Heart WASHINGTON The and Space acknowledged Wednesday it is reviewing a proposed orbital test flight of a with a v is one of two subr NASA based on the work Christiaan Barnard African surgeon who pioneered in human trans plants v It would involve of fee effect of space flight coodi Morning Section Page C 12 Adi C II C 17 Panto B 8 A 8 B M B C 1315 Television C 12 Womens News C C tions on heart transplants in subhuman species A second study would deal with the effects of space flight on the mechanism of rejection of foreign tissues in living organisms Both proposals were submit ted by the General Electric Co Reentry Systems Department Philadelphia the prime tor on the Biosatellite 3 space which illfated monkey astronaut Bonny spent days in orbit last summer They were among about 20 suggested experiments recom mended to NASA by a commit tee from American Institute of Biological Sciences which had screened several hundred pro J v Tne proposals came to one of period ic notices to industry and the sciences that it would welcome proposals for future space experiments A NASA spokesman sized that the piu are not a formal proposal He said there is no schedule yet for Such experiments and no budget allowance When the NASA space sci ence directorate has the various proposals wiL make recommendations as to whether to entertain or in vite formal proposals the spokesman said From other sources it was that he didnt know enough about the incident to discuss ii at this time Kill Two Viet Cong Earlier in the day Rosens men had killed two Viet Cong one a woman with a rifle Four troop ers in an adjoining platoon were wounded by a grenade booby trap A group of 20 American civil ans assembled at the US Em jassy to deliver a petition with See VIETNAM Page 2A Beat Orioles 21 In 10 Innings IIM I V Those Mets Do It Again NEW YORK AP The in credible New took a commanding lead in the 1969 baseball World Series day by beating the Baltimore Orioles 21 in 10 in as the winning run scored on an error With a 31 game lead in the classic the Na tional League champion Mets need only one more victory to complete one of baseballs most amazing success stories They get their c nance Thursday in the fifth game at Shea Stadium After Ron Swobo da cut short Baltimores tying rally in the ninth inning with a sensational diving catch of Brooks Robinsons line drive the Mets took advantage of Bal timore misplays in the 10th to win it Jerry Grote opened the inning against relief pitcher Dick Hall with a pop fly double that left fielder Don Buford apparently lost sight of and let drop After Al Weis was intentionally walked and JC Martin pinch hit for winner Tom Seaver Pete Richert relieved Hall Martin bunted and when Richerts throw to first base hit Martin Rod Gaspar raced home from second base with the run Donn second in ning homer off Mike Cuellar gave the Mets a lead and Seaver protected it with a until the ninth when singles by Frank Robinson and Boog Powell set up Brooks Rob insons sacrifice fly for the League champs Hurricane Karas Course Erases Threat To US MIAMI Kara headed for the open Atlantic Wednesday erasing any imme diate threat to the United States or Bermuda Forecaster Neil Frank at the National Hurricane Center said Kara with top winds of 75 miles an hour was expected to main tain an course that would keep it over water At noon the hurricane was near Latitude 328 north Longi tude 73 west or about 250 miles southeast of Hatteras NC It might move rather slowly for 12 to 18 hours but then it should go on out Frank south of Cape May to exercise See FLIGHT Page 2A that Kara would reverse ward direction again While still a tropical storm Kara changed moved back south opposite Jack sonville It then shifted direction again and darted back up the coast The storm produced near gale force winds early Wednesday along the North and South Car coasts as it brushed with Thousands Of Young Marchers File In Candlelight Past White House o WASHINGTON Thou sands of young peace marchers filed in candlelight past the White House Wednesday night in a peaceful sober cli max to the capitals observance of Vietnam Moratorium Day For more than an hour in the chill autumn night they bore their little candles from the Washington Monument where they had massed for peace in a lengthy procession that ringed the mansion President Nixon he would not be influenced by the unprecedented moratorium So lie remained in the White House ate dinner and said nothing publicly as the proces sion filed by Before it was over some marchers returned to the monu ment cleaned up the grounds and r dispersed Although there had been an estimated 35000 marchers there were no tive incidents during the even v As a prelude to the White House procession Martin Lu ther Kings widow had stood un der the soaring floodlit monu ment and told the assembly the war in Vietnam has destroyed the hopes of black and poor Sam Brown chief architect of Vietnam moratorium works in his Washington headquarters AP Americans She said the son of slain civil rights leader had already vowed that he will not give his life on such a sacrificial A hushed attentive younf crowd estimated at more thaa 30000 huddled on the chill damp slope of the monument grounds as the capitals ance of the nationwide morato rium neared a climax Then the protesters mar shaled silently for the walk four and five abreast along the side walk up 17th Street to vania Avenue and the House The procession was si lent the handheld candles ing marchers in an orange glow In front of the mansion Mrs King lighted a foothigh glas shielded candle mounted in a brass standard surmounted by the peace symbol It was to bf taken later to a local church So orderly was the procession that parents with three or four children in tow had no difficulty staying with the group Mar shals relayed instructions to the procession through bullhorns They obeyed traffic signal and patrolmen The White House greeted this procession with twin lines of po lice and a bath of light having turned outward floods that usually illuminate See IA w Young Virginians By Thousands Give C7 j Energies To MDay Demonstrations By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Young Virginians by the housands gave their presence and energies a series of throughout the state in against the Vietnam Richmonds Capitol day ions Var From quare to college campuses and ity streets to the north east nd west they sat through each ins demonstrated m marches and sat through mem irial services Generally Peaceful Everything went off in a gen peaceful fashion as they ought in Virginia else where in the nation to seek owin public opinion for an im mediate moratorium in the Viet nam fighting The demon carried out their sched uled events in Richmond and with little apparent litch They little en from state or local although college acuity members and clergymen f various denominations were at the meetings Refuses Request Gov Mills E Godwin Jr met with a group of moratorium eaders during the afternoon hen a strongly worded refusing their request hat he appoint an official dele ation to attend the national an demonstration to be held 14 and 15 in Washington Godwin called the reading of the lists of Vietnam war dead purely a device to play upon emotions and called it a trav esty upon the sacrifices of patri otic Americans from a number of in dividual observations that the demonstrations were aiding the cause of Hanoi including one from Democratic David E Satterfield HI of Richmond and displayed many places there were few evi dences of counter tions f There was one show of milit ancy however among demon at Williamsburg about 700 and Mary See VIRGINIA Page 2A May Return To Television Work Bishop Fulton J Sheen Resigns As Diocese Head ROCHESTER NY AP The Most Rev Fulton J Sheen whose televised image in mil lions of American homes in the made him nationally known has resigned as the of Roman Catho lic Diocese The bishop may become a familiar face and yoice on television at the age of 74 Bishop Sheen told a news conference Wednesday he will return to New York City not to retire but to spend myself and be spent in any work the Lord sees fit to use Vatican had announced his retirement earlier in the day He said his plans include preaching conducting lecturing writing spiritual retreats and doing a nationally syndicat ed radio and television Were still working on said No specific is involved he added He gave no details Pope Paul VI granted Bishop Sheen the personal title of arch bishop in accepting his resigna tion which the bishop disclosed he had offered in person during a lengthy Vatican audience last May on his birthday I begged him to accept my resignation as bishop of Roches ter he disclosed With un bounded hope for future bless ings I thank the Holy not only for accepting my plea but also for naming one of our See SHEEN Page 2A Nixon Concentrates On Latin Economic Issues Takes No Public Note Of MDay AP Pur i suing a studied sual course President Nixon concentrated Wednesday on Latin America and economic no public no Vf JAU a cold weather system coming tice of antiwar dem down from the north Small era remained in effect from Ga to Virginia Beach and forecast ers cautioned small craft opera tors along the coast Although the White House re went out of its way in days to try to soften sentiment claiming noticable progress lor said He said chances are small caution until seas and winds subsided Sniper Shooting From Front Porch Kills Two Neighbors And Wounds Two PALM BAY Fla AP A sniper shooting from the van tage point of a front porch killed two young neighbors and wounded two others day in the quiet tion of this east coast vard County Sheriff Leigh Wil son said Wilson said his deputies ar rested Danny Thomas a 21 yearold college student who was held for questioning in the Titusville jail No charges were Wilson said numerous shots were fired as the gunman picked off his victims and pinned others behind cars Six guns were seized includ ing a 30 caliber carbine It looks like the gun had a let clip said Wilson After the gunman retreated inside the house police tried to i Nixon the Southeast conflict played no part in Nixons announced activities on M Day The President it seemed evi dent had decided in advance to sit out the day without anything that could be interpreted as As for the demonstrators they did not ignore Nixon Starting in late morning doz ens of pickets of varied sions including win the war began parading in front oft the White House See SHOOTING Page 2A Press secretary Ronald L Ziegler said Nixon kept in formed about the national pro test movement throughout the day through news reports and normal staff discussions Responding to questions Zie gler said he knew of no mem bers ofthe White House staff participating in Moratorium Day activities And he reported that no extra security tions had been taken at the mansion although men noted that guard the gates had been beefed up to some extent See NIXON Page 2A The We fit her Readies From Station Atop Register 1 VIRGINIA Thursday cloudy and warmer east Highs Thursday near 70 taillS able cloudiness with highs 65 to 72 except so to 85 in mountains Rather cloudy and not as cool and chance of scattered showers in mountains Thursday night Fri day variable cloudiness chance of scattered showers north por tion cooler west turning cooler east portion NORTH CAROLINA Vari able cloudiness Thursday be coming partly cloudy in after noon Not so cool west contin ued cool east Friday variable ight mwt Low DOWNTOWN WEATHER LOO Wednesday Temp Bar Wild i 3011 Calm M Mll CalM CalM Thursday 1 am 59 3019 Calm low to 1 am U high 65 Hour 9 pm 11 pm cloudiness turning cooler west j precipitation
