Emporia Gazette, The (Newspaper) - April 29, 1969, Emporia, Kansas 79th Year No 232 THE EMPORIA GAZETTE Tuesday the Day of April Racial Disturbances Flare Across Nation Four Pages Firefighters Fired Upon By Snipers By the Associated Press Firemen were the targets of snipers early today in WinstonSalem N C af ter a night of violence Mon day with Negroes clashing with police in San Francis co police and firemen fired at in Cairo and two fire bombings in a Negro district of Des Moines Iowa In WinstonSalem two bursts of gunshots were leveled at fire men as they sought to put out a rash of trashcan fires near a public housing development in a Negro section The firefighters finally let the blazes burn them selves out The disturbance in San Fran cisco broke out after police raided a headquarters of the Black Panther party Monday night A television cameraman was beaten by a group of Negro youths and hospitalized with broken facial bones Passersby were threatened cars were smashed and passing police cars peppered with bottles and rocks until a fog rolled in and cooler tempers Police arrested 16 Police said the trouble started when a squad car passed by Panther headquarters and found a man exhorting a crowd over a loudspeaker to at tend a rally there Thursday morning to Free Huey New Greeted by Rifle Newton a Panther serving a sentence for manslaughter in the death of an Oakland police man will have a bail hearing in federal court at that time Sev eral groups are sponsoring a rally to demand his release on When officers ordered the man at the loudspeaker to stop using profane language a crowd of several hundred Negroes became abusive police said Police reinforcements ar rived and officers entered the headquarters I was greeted with a in the said Sgt Ralph I yelled firearms and fell Police fired seven tear gas grenades into the building and one officer raised his 45 and let off four shots into the air over the crowd Good Evening One more big rain says a Laurence Street resident and It going to stock his basement Todays Forecast KANSAS Partly cloudy to night and Wednesday with chance of scattered thunder showers west and central por tions in the afternoon or eve ning Warmer tonight and east and central portions Wednesday Low tonight mid 40s to lower 50s High Wednesday 70 north east to the 80s southwest EMPORIA AND VICINITY Partly cloudy and warmer to night and Wednesday Low to night upper 40s High day 70s Weather Expected To Warm Rapidly TOPEKA AP A light frost glazed an area of north central and northeastern Kan sas early today but the state was expected to bask in wann er weather quickly Low temperatures ranged from 32 at Ft Riley to 42 at Garden City The Weather Bureau said temperatures today would climb into the 70s in western Kansas and near 70 in the east ern section The forecast called for lows tonight in the 40s The bureau said a low pres sure system developing in the western states would spawn a few thundershowers in western Kansas afternoon or Increasing cloudiness was forecast tonight and day Most rivers and streams swollen by rains over the week end were reported within banks and falling but at Tonganoxie Stranger Creek was out of its banks fr Emporia Weather From FAA p 60 degrees High Monday SB degrees Low last night 39 degrees Humidity 53 Barometer falling Wind SE 15 ft Kansan Killed in War WASHINGTON AP The Defense Department announced Monday the name of a Kansas Marine who died of wounds re in Vietnam He was Pfc David L Kitch en son of Mr and Mrs Paul F Kitchen 1409 W 6th Wamego FLOODED NEOSHO aerial photo graph taken westward from a point above Highway 50 east of Emporia shows the full width of the Neosho River as the weekend flood crested here Emporia is under the cloud in the corner of the picture Highway 50 stretches from the foreground into Emporia The 135 Bypass splits off from 50 in the left center of the picture Highway north of Emporia is blocked by floodwaters in the tipper center of the photo just below the wing strut in the foreground The picture was taken by Curtis Gibson Earthquake Prophets Guess Right Month But California Still Intact LOS ANGELES AP For months the prophets of doom had been saying that a devastat ing earthquake in April would send half of California sliding into the Pacific And Monday April 28 South ern California quaked The ground heaved enough to alarm people from the oceans edge lo Arizona Huge rocks tumbled down mountainsides Light fixtures swayed San felt a fairly se vere jolt for about 15 seconds On the top 24th floor of the National Bank building chande liers danced In San Bernardino east of Los Angeles it was a long slow roll er Tall buildings seemed to sway for several seconds in Los An geles Pompidou Becomes Official Candidate For Presidency PARIS AP Georges Pom who served Charles de Gaulle for six years as premier today announced his candidacy for the presidency his former chief abandoned Monday Pompidou 57 said he was of fering his country the will to maintain a continuity and a nec essary stability and the hope of preparing the announcement had been expected and he al ready is a favorite He an in January that he planned to nin in the next presi election but it was as then it would not be held until De Gaulles term expired in 1972 Part of the ceiling of the Southern California First Na tional Bank of Borrego Springs fell and the brick walls cracked A plate glass window in a supermarket crashed and a liquor store 30 bottles were broken The epicenter said the Cali fornia Institute of Technology was in the sparsely settled Bor region near the Sal ton Sea 200 feet below sea level At the northern lip of Ihe Sal ton Sea Jack Gillespie was at work in a gasoline station when the tremor hit He ran to the front door and saw giant rocks bounding down hie Sania Rosa Moun There were clouds of dust as the rocks bounced about like The quake was the worst Ive felt since the 1952 shock in said a Palm Springs policeman Thai central California temblor cost more than a dozen lives The quake registered on the Richter scale a method of evaluating earthquakes Quakes in that range most causing lit tle or no damage are common in California But this was April The big earthquake scare be gan several months ago when various seers began predicting that April would bring a tremor which would split California in two and Ihe western half into the Pacific Scientists said Ihe rumors were nonsense Bui a book called The Lasl Days of Uie Late Greal Slate of California became a bestseller and Los Angeles Civil Defense Coordina tor William Frank received hun dreds of calls and letters asking what io do case an earth quake hit Vietnam Bombers Raid Near Cambodia Campaign Is Designed To Prohibit Offensive SAIGON AP The Command has launched another bombing campaign to har ass North Vietnamese troops in the jungles north of Saigon mil spokesmen reported today In a 24hour period Monday and today 36 dropped more than tons of explosives on North Vietnamese bases in the War Zones C and D The strikes ranged from 71 miles northwest of Sai gon to 55 miles northeast of the capital Some were within miles of the Cambodian border said the bombing concentration in War Zone C is the heaviest of the war with nearly 200 bombing raids flown along the Cambodian border in the past week The bulk of four North Viet divisions is said to be concentrated in these two zones For the past four years troops have battled enemy sol diers in the uninhabited square miles of War Zone C but all the fighting apparently has resolved nothing Two North Vietnamese divi sions operating there have al ways been able to replace their losses from bases across the Cambodian border using Zone C as a staging area for attacks into populated areas and allied bases to the southeast Sources said some captured documents mention another ene my offensive in the summerau tumn months but intelligence officers have been unable to de termine any firm trend The aim of the stepped up raids is to prevent the North Viet troops from getting or High School Orchestra Gives Concert Tonight The first high school orchestra concert for many years will take place at oclock tonight in the Emporia High School audi torium Featured on the program will be Mozart Second Concerto for French horn and orchestra with David Kingsley soloist The program is under the direction of Don Kile and Philip Burch The public is invited to attend without charge tr T Ellington to Receive High Honor Tonight WASHINGTON Presi dent Nixon turns over the White House to a jazz and jam session honoring Duke Ellington at which he will award the famed musician the presidential Medal of Freedom The medal is the highest civil ian award of the government and is given by the President the White House said to per sons who have made exception ally meritorious contributions to the security or national inter ests of States to other significant public or pri vate The occasion is a presidential tribute for the 70th birthday of Edward Kennedy Ellington the hometown Washington boy who became a jazz giant as a pian ist composer and band leader With Ellington in a front row seat watching some 15 jazz per formers will give an ton concert in the East Ball room after a dinner presenting a sampling of some of the more than numbers Ellington composed The President who plays the piano a bit himself has aged his guests to break into a jam session after the hourlong formal program Vietnam War Critic States Opens Tonight Totals Are Distorted PARIS AP The price of The Emporia Stale Players production of William Shake speares Twelfth Night will open at tonight in the Col Ues were always termed com lege at lhc bat he said Building The play will run is hiding the real number of Thc Pentagon advised me it Saturday battle deaths from the pub is official policy for the ranking f j n dentS many aie aCd in a combat fc C o o a lieutenant or even a Sen Stephen M Young D Ohio said many of the to determine whether gold dropped in Paris today mately American deaths in a GI m combat or due to a It sold for an ounce designated accident accident or compared to Monday aft or incident should have been One Cause Changed er President Charles de Gaulles listed as battle fatalities The Pentagons official total ancl Young a member of the on Vietnam combat deaths Armed Services and showed that Americans an early critic of involve had been killed action as of ment in Vietnam said conceal April 3 surpassing Ihe lo ing the true number of battle fa tal for the Korean is a clumsy effort lo deceive the public aboul casual lies in most unpopular and undeclared war The number of combat killed and wounded have become so Comments About the world wars were more deadly recent his are trying to hide Young said he had found deaths often arc formed acci or when they result from such things as the collision of helicopters during a firefight or when a truck driver loses control under fire and sol diers die in the wreck before that on March 10 uau a market unset Franco me Hollar the British pound French franc opened T r lhc market recovering as due to combat from Mondays sharp decline Legislator Blasts Docking At Meeting Here Gov Robert Docking received and Fred Roush Attorney for a here Monday the K A S went over i vi uiv Ul Wl UUK c In World War II such fatali m remarks made by lation passed in nnd Representative Raymond Senate pertaining I o E King who said and discussed the legislation with the governor is acting like an immature child the Flood Delays Cleanup The flooded Cottonwood River passed in me senate will has thrown a crimp into Ihe Em in lhc minds of the an boards o seven mem i LU tho board members One of the more passed in the will require he snid The win f Empo 1 el RESCUED FROM RAMBLING rescue from the Emporia Fire Department rescued Doug las wearing firemans coat and Robert both of 1215 Sylvan and both students at Kansas State Teachers College from the swollen River near the County pona Spring Cleanup according Kansas property Ills to Cly Manager V A Basgall remarks wore prepared for the t Empo 1 el As long as Highway is regional meeting of the Kansas now six men Accor din closed by flood waters south of Association of School Boards II c 1 member m si Emporia city sanitation trucks held at He be a Pon ted I S incl w m are unable to reach the sanitary Governor Docking for serve f m I s land located two and what he termed his faulty and 1 ly sV w c he no south of he city he said irresponsible policies concerning will be placed on The As a result cleanup activities the school for T four if lir r tmm scheduled for this week have Dr M A t Te Se been postponed until next week Uve Director of the K A S by the board 31 will the Emporia It will rc i i schuol to for menially children within five yews lie minimum for in ami I he reimbursement for tn In liis in lie tax pol Nearly million in properly tnx will result from two major and highway measured vetoed by lhc governor and overridden last by the he sii it This is to gov ernor who has been dipping inlo lhc surplus lo balance bis Dr I lie Governor when he listed three programs which IK felt necessary 1 The state structure is not According to Dr Mc there ire loopholes in the income lix brackets which need dinned nnd there are no for poor per sons on sales lax for food and drugs 2 New should lc funded it the time they nre en acted he X He warned schonl board members that ihe dates of distri bution of school should not be changed from October the change could serious Farm bridge southwest of The boys hnd launched a canoe about northwest It minutes later Neither of the youths was seriously injured The firemen pic lured arc from left Larry Magsam Robert Lawson in charge of rescue and Thomas ly Ihe state budget Represent alive King said he favored raising the corporate lax and lhc income lax to bring Sec Legislator pg 12 Emporia Seven More Are Rescued From Floods Highway Is Open Again Water Receding Emporia firemen rescued sev en more people from floodwaters in the area Monday as the Neo sho River returned to its banks and tiie Cottonwood grudgingly started to recede The bottom dropped out of the Neosho River flood this morning as the meas was reported at six feet The at I stood at feet still feet out of its banks A Emporia Fire De rescue squad pulled two Teachers College students from the Cotton wood River Monday nearly two hours after the youths canoe capsized pitching the pair into the icy waters Lyon County Sheriffs officers said the youths 22yearold Doug las Hime of Augusta and 23year old Robert Boyer of Overland Park both living at 1215 Sylvan in Emporia launched their canoe one and onehalf miles west and one mile south of Em poria The craft capsized min utes later just north of the Coun ty Farm bridge they said Officers said Boyer walked out of the flood area and called for aid from the Sardis Church He had with Hime ami walked back into he river to try to locate him officers snid Meanwhile the rescue squad and a plane from the Emporia Municipal Airport piloted by Dean Morford of the Kansas Flying Service accompanied by David began the search Searchers were not aware that Boyer had walked back into tho flood officers said Morford quickly spotted Boyer who had taken refuge on the bridge and he was picked up by the Fire Department boat Morford was called off of the search since it was believed that only one youth in the water However as Morford turned to return io the airport he spot ted the second boy to a log jam around a bend in the river channel At the rescue team of Lieut Robert Lo gan Firemen Tom Euler ind Larry the youths to the edge of the flood wa ters Both were taken home by Sheriffs officers apparently nei ther seriously harmed by the ordeal said The rescue squad answered another call Monday evening to pick up five persons stranded at the Rocky Ford Bridge south east of Emporia in a car Firemen said the five who gave their names as Steven Jones Ronald Jamtis Fred 1 Arndl Betty J Arndl and Robert L King had attempted to cross the flood plain from the south The car stalled in deep water and three of the men walked out Sec Rescue 12 Charges Are Filed Against Man for Intimidating Train WINDSOR put AP Wal ler is going lo be tried 13 on a charge of n train He lifl it by parkins his ear iii Canadian Hnil way tracks to get even for a delay l n crossing II wasnt Ihe first time Brisc bois bad been held up at a CNR crossing but it was the longest Eighteen minutes The top f my bead was ready lo blow off I vowed right hen and here lo them if I bad lo go lo the Supreme he snid of his recent experience When the train finally passed M drove bis car fhe tracks and left it here He slopped outside to smoke and wailed for another irnin to come U did The engineer slopped backed tip moved forward nnd slopped A police car was summoned trouble asked lhc officer replied lie hero of the common man Im going to hold him up for 18 Youre gonna WHAT explained The officer left lo seek the ad vice of a higher authority officers or dered to move his car He refused Brisebois was arrested on a charge intimidating the train a rarely used misdemean or charge A defense fund which has at small donations from sympathizers in Windsor as well as Detroit Is up to
