Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter (Newspaper) - June 16, 1969, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter Volume 43 Number 218 32 Pages Two Sections Fond du Lac Wisconsin Monday June 16 1969 Average Dally Circulation May 10 Cents a Copy NEW ALICE IN DAIRYLAND Judy Schultz is crowned by her predecessor Miss Bobbie Thoreson at left as the two up in the Alice coronation look on day night at Goodrich High School up were Sandra Meissner left of Chili ond and Miss Jacqueline Albee right of Mukwonago first Commonwealth Reporter Photo Powell Ouster Vacated By High Court Opinion Judy Schultz New Strike Halts Power Flow MILWAUKEE consin Electric Power Co ing about customers in 15 southeastern Wisconsin ties was confronted early today a walkout by more than union members Officials said the utility ex- to be able to deal with any problem that ing on approximately 650 em- ployes of supervisory status to operate and maintain ment The walkout was called at midnight Sunday the moment at which a two-year contract ex- Federal mediators said three hours of contract talks produced no progress Sunday in getting either side to modify its tion An official of the electric com- pany said a stumbling block in the contract talks involved un- ion participation in setting of work and safety rules He called it an attempt to achieve a veto power over certain company decisions Counties served by the utility are Calumet Fond du Lac By HARLEY Of the commonwealth Reporter Miss Judy Schultz a tall brunette from South Milwaukee became the state's 22nd Alice in Dairyland Saturday night at Goodrich High School Her crowning by Miss Bobbie Thoreson the retiring culminated a one-hour flawless coronation program in the Little Theatre Australian Version Of Crash Confirmed SUBIC BAY Philippines AP Three American officers con- firmed today an Australian cap- version of the evente that led to the collision between the U.S destroyer Frank E Evans and the Australian aircraft K is the hardest tiling in rier Melbourne the world to stand up here when you know you have 13 girls behind you who also should be wearing this she said graciously Miss Schultz the second waukee suburbanite in two years to hold the title is 5 feet 9 inches tall She has brown eyes Reports To Madison She officially began work as Wisconsin's salesgirl with a State Death Toll At 415 By the Associated Press Deaths of five persons in two separate accidents raised j consul's 1969 traffic fatality ure to 415 today compared with 501 on the same date in record crown the moment she was 1968 The victims were among 12 crowned but is not due to i persons who died in weekend report to Madison and the State __________ A I Department of Agriculture until Wednesday Three youths died Her schedule will include in a collision 9 meeting with Donald Jon 151 near Behnont in Wilkinson state agriculture fayette County The victims w T 5 secretary a later were Richard Wilson and Tim other department officials both of Platteville and a luncheon with them Christen of Belmont day she will begin a short j whose car collided with a Nixon Urges Federal Aid For Airlines WASHINGTON AP ing note of the nation's clogged airports President Nixon posed today a billion federal aid program to be largely by an increased tax on airline tickets and on general aviation fuel The purpose of air tation is to save the President said is a message to Congress Purpose Not Served This purpose is not served when passengers must wait in- terminably in terminals when modern jet aircraft creep at five miles an hour in a long line waiting for when it takes longer to land than it takes to travel between cities or when it takes longer for the air traveler to get into an port than it does to fly to his destination Continues 10 Years The President proposed that the program for construction of airways facilities and ment be increased to about million annually for the next 10 years It contrasts with an age of million appropriated in each of the last 10 years Nixon also proposed federal aid for airport development in fiscal 1970 of million and in fiscal 1971 of million with continued expansion leading to a total of billion in the next 10 years The airport aid funds be matched by state and local governments so that this strongly increased program wil i permit financing of billion in new and expanded airport the President said The programs would be from a separate count similar to the highway trust fund now used to pay for the interstate and other ly aided road programs Source Of Funds The special fund would come tax of 8 per cent on line tickets for domestic flights This is an increase from the current 5 per cent tax of on passenger tickets for most international flights beginning in the United States including Puerto Rico and Hawaii Such flights are not now taxed tax of 5 per cent on air freight waybills There is no such tax now Opposed MADISON ers from throughout Wisconsin will meet Tuesday in Madison to organize opposition to a introduced in the Assembly The would allow any son to join or refran from ing a labor organization This special meeting is being held in order that we adopt not only strategy but a program to see that this is soundly de- officers of the CIO wrote to members A hearing on the is uled before the Assembly Com- on Labor later Tuesday Sponsors of the proposal are Assemblymen Kenneth Merkel George Klicka of Milwaukee and John C Van Hollen of Chetek High Losses Reported As Thais Attack SAIGON AP Thai backed by withering fire from U.S dive bombers copters and artillery battled a Viet Cong force early today 20 miles east of Saigon Military spokesmen said they killed 212 enemy in six hours while suffering only six Thais killed and seven wounded No American casualties were reported Spokesmen said it was the biggest battle Thai troops have fought since they arrived Tunis one of Britain's leading in Vietnam in September 1967 j military commanders in World Associated Press Snipers Fire At Officials ent Jay Sharbutt reported from the battleground the Viet Cong swarmed out of rubber tions against the artillery base of the Black Panther Division under cover of a heavy mortar barrage shortly after midnight 3 Attacks Launched CAIRO 111 AP A assaults with machine warehouse was destroyed by ire in Cairo early today and firemen said they were driven away from the turning building by sniper fire at least twice The fire apparently was ed by a bomb police radio said The police radio reported at least 10 other firebombings but fire officials said they turned out to be false alarms Police returned fire in the di- rection of the sniping The shots came from a site near the Pyramid Court public housing complex The mostly Negro complex was a focus of violence that brought National Guard troops into Cairo for a week in April guns rockets and hand grenades but were beaten back each time by the 300 Thai defenders and American U.S Air Force dive and Army helicopter gunships strafed the enemy with rockets and machine guns while American artillery units raked them from nearby bases That broke the ground at- said one American cer ers was called into the city from nearby DuQuoin The Illinois Bell Telephone Co in Centralia reported cables had apparently been burned near Cairo and outgoing calls had been interrupted It was not learned ly if there were any injuries Police Chief William Peterson ordered all taverns closed lice said they would not com- ment on the situation ately However one officer said in response to a question there had been no arrests But the Viet as troops of the Regiment of the Viet Cong's 5th Division to harass the base with mortar and small arms fire until daylight spokesmen added When they withdrew the Thais found more than 600 tar shells rocket-propelled and hand grenades that the enemy never got a chance to use U.S Copter Hit During the battle a U.S Army Cobra helicopter gunship was hit by enemy caliber machine gun bullets but made it safely back to the Thai base War II died today He was 77 AP Wirephoto British War Leader Dies LONDON AP Earl ander of Tunis one of Britain's leading military commanders in World War II died today He was 77 The cause of death was not immediately announced The last man off the beach when the British were ed from Dunkirk in 1940 Earl Alexander later led British forces in Burma and North ca In 1943 and 1944 he was the commander in chief of all allied armies in Italy before being named supreme commander o British and American troops in the Mediterranean Along with fellow Field Mar shal Viscount Montgomery o Alamein Alexander was one o Britain's top military strategists in World War II His combat reer began in World War I where he rose to battalion com- mander and was wounded three times in action In 1945 while serving in Italy was named by King George Pay Claims Not Decided By Justices WASHINGTON AP The Supreme Court found today the U.S House was without power o exclude Rep Adam Clayton in March 1967 Chief Justice Earl Warren Our examination of the elevant historical materials eads us to the conclusion that petitioners Powell and a group jf Harlem voters are correct and that the Constitution leaves he House without authority to exclude any person duly id by his constituents who meets all the requirements for membership expressly pre- scribed in the Constitution Warren's opinion ed instances in which the House had refused to seat other ed representatives in the past However the chief justice That an unconstitutional action has been taken before surely does not render that same tion any less unconstitutional at a later date House Is Powerless He What evidence we have of ingress early understanding confirms our conclusion that the House is without power to ex- the attack followed stepped VI as governor of -A tax of nine cents a gallon on all fuels used by general cram course at Patricia UP Stevens Charm School and make her first public Mrs Blanche truck containing the two aviation c Hegedus 53 f Dane Dodge Manitowoc ance at the Wisconsin Dairy land Richard Kern 45 both of ferson Sheboygan Washington Walworth Ozaukee Racine which does not include the com- airlines now pays two 0 gallon to tte to me New Trial Denied MEMPHIS Term AP Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Arthur Faquin Jr today again denied James Earl Ray a new trial The action was the latest step in an increasingly complicated effort by Ray to take back a guilty plea he entered March 10 up Viet Cong thrusts against U.S and South Vietnamese bases in War Zone D where the Viet Cong's 5th Division is based On March 16 the enemy division lost 168 men killed ing to overrun the same Black Panther Thai unit Three prisoners were cap- da a ceremonial post he held for six years His titles included later Tunis and baron rideau of Ottawa Born in 1891 he was the fourth son of the Earl of Alexander was promoted to major general at 46 the tured but two died of wounds lest Briton ever to achieve the The other was being ed spokesmen said In earlier fighting Sunday U.S Infantry Division troops claimed they killed 40 en- rank Winston Churchill ed him minister of defense in 1952 In 1958 he suffered heart at- tack but he recovered to emy in a battle 30 miles appointments as constable of west of Saigon One American tower of London and lord Foods Association s umm er Milwaukee died Sunday when r fundT cents Dr conference their car plunged into the t T into tne separate aviation fund Jr T wounded lieutenant of greater London U S headquarters reported 32 Rock Kenosha Waukesha and Her full-time job in the River at the foot of ai Milwaukee keting division earn her Milwaukee street The car a starting salary of per Kern's body was located Rush Is Chosen month which will be increased in 30 feet of water by searchers i WASHINGTON AP to next month when a state about four hours after the dent Nixon formally announced raise goes into effect and to an's body was seen floating in today he will nominate Kenneth after six months of work the river Rush president of Union Rejects Job Offer Waukesha County authorities bide Corp to be ambassador to She had been offered but Laurie Newton 9 of West Germany I Con on Page 18 Col 6 died Sunday in a on Interstate 94 near T 117 T Five persons were More Liberal r hospitalized m waukesha Til ft Mark G Robertson 18 of Eau r leaded By r Leader was MM Saturday night J when the car in which he was PARIS AP After since World War II days beside a 25 years in the shadow of Gen president of the Charles de Gaulle a former i Assembly since 1952 school teacher called Georges The victory had been Qn The Inside Pompidou will succeed the forecast and was never in as president of France from the minute first Though promising fidelity to I rums came in Sunday Fired as j the policies of De Gaulle De Gaulle's premier a year ago I has pledged to be more i Pompidou 57 rolled up a bigger I liberal particularly in foreign I margin in Sunday's election affairs and to enlarge I than the himself gained his government to bring in new I in the 1965 presidential election faces and ideas Official returns for all of Financial Page 18 His style also is France and pan of the 39 to be fess grating to I overseas areas gave Pompidou 19 fri ands and allies than De 57.78 per cent of the total while Area 21 Gaulle's often high-handed un- his main opponent interim compromising manner President Alain got 42 2 One of Pompidou's first acts i per cent But about 31 per as president is expected to the 29.5 million registered the appointment of Jacques voters stayed away from the as premier double the has been one of who abstained three years De Gaulle's most faithful ago Local 2 Page 3 Editorial Page 4 Women's 6 Page 7 Peanuts Page 9 Action 11 To Page 23 Sports Page 25 To Page 27 Comics Page 28 Bridge Lesson Page 23 Classified Ads Page 29 To Page 31 Obituaries rocket and mortar at- tacks but said only 11 of them caused casualties or damage Douglas Is Absent WASHINGTON AP tice William 0 Douglas was ab- elude any who meets the re- for membership These qualifications as set forth in the Constitution are that a representative must be at least 25 years old have been a U.S citizen seven years and a resident of the state from which he was elected Powell argued and the court agreed that a congressman who met these qualifications codd not be kept from taking his seat Officials of the House relied primarily on another tional provision one that says each house shall be the judge of the elections returns and qualifications of its own bers Fund Misuse Charged Powell a New York crat was kept from taking his seat after a select committee of the House had found him guilty of gross misconduct as a con- gressman and recommended that he be censured fined and stripped of all seniority He had represented predominantly gro Harlem for 22 years and was chairman of the House and Labor Committee A specific charge was that he had misused public funds Powell was re-elected and took his seat in the Congress last January When two federal courts here rejected his claim that he had been excluded from the Congress he appealed to the Court Some observers suggested the case threatened a collision be- tween the legislative and cial branches of government But this did not dissuade the Headquarters also today when the Supreme Court from ruling for enemy gunners shot down and i Court assembled to announce j Powell destroyed an Army Cobra decisions Variance Is Seen f ship Sunday in Long Khanh Telephone calls to his office Our system of government province 50 miles east of referred to the press requires that federal courts on gon wounding one American It cer who told reporters Douglas occasion interpret the raised to the number of was out of town to receive in a manner at variance U.S helicopters lost in the war honorary degree Con on Page 18 Col 5 In the far north along the tian border North sappers attacked an American paratrooper artillery base m the A Shau Valley for the second day in a row Sunday The ene-i Warmer Weather In Return Needles Calif The low was 33 By fhe Press Warm weather returned to at Mont early day my lost 51 killed while wounding Wisconsin today after a only seven Americans i chilly weekend The earlier attack The only precipitation Bounded Joseph B durng thr 24-hour perod that Fair partly cloudy north ie U.S lr commander early oday was M warmer today and tonight with on- a trace ai tan chance of brief showers assault on Ap the west portion this afternoon or Mountain was hit in the northern Milwaukee County tonight Tuesday partly cloudy and knee by several small La Crosse the highest chance of showers Not shell fragments was state temperature of 73 Sunday much change in temperature ed in good condition aboard a Other peaks were Eau Claire today mostly te the 70s hospital ship Ford du Lac Madison Lone tonight in the 50s Rock Superior and Beloit 70 tb Bay 67 Wausau and Park jwe Eleven paratroopers killed and 46 Bounded n Saturday were 32 killed The weekend the and bv 66 aid Milwaukee 63 The state temperature 4 4 A LINE OF WRECKED cars marks the path of a bull- dozer through a new car lot in Milwaukee ar unidentified person apparently took the bulldozer from a nearby tractor plant drove it over the cars abandoned the machine and fled The damage to 14 cars also including a lamp pole that was knocked down was estimated at more than AP Wirephoto equipment and bunkers was 43 at vio A oU o- 55 p.m fil 1 -on to 5 dc r Midnight 55 r vc am gj aH K in Noon Min 44 54 50 51 67 74 the ratio the Sunset temperature was 102 at Tuesday
