Greenfield Recorder Gazette and Courier (Newspaper) - October 21, 1969, Greenfield, Massachusetts 248 October 21,1969 Pages 10 NORTH VIETNAMESE SAIL FOR HOME Ten North Vietnamese rescued after a storm in international waters off the coast of North Vietnam three months pull away in a junk from a U. S. Navy escort Vessel off the coast of North Vietnam as they head for The junk was purchased by the U. S. Navy and escorted into international waters off the demilitarized zone where the men then headed toward the Sharp Fights On Cambodian North Vietnamese troops killed seven wounded 18 others and damaged two helicopters In two sharp fights Monday near the Cambodian border north of The U.S. Command said 16 of the enemy were south along the other American air cavalrymen exchanged machine-gun and rifle fire for nearly three hours with North Vietnamese troops 58 miles northwest of Two helicopters supporting the ground troops were hit by machine-gun fire which wounded three but the made It back to their spokesmen said two Americans were killed and two were wounded on the and two enemy bodies were found on the North Vietnamese force apparently took about 150 troops of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division by surprise as they waited in a landing zone 85 miles northeast of Saigon for helicopters to pick them up after a reconnaissance North Vietnamese opened up with a 25-round mortar and machine-gun and rifle killing five Americans and wounding 13 before the company could take helicopter gunships and raked the enemy and 14 North Vietnamese soldiers were reported killed In the 30-minute the lull in the war continued In its seventh South Vietnamese headquarters reported a slight increase in terror It said the Viet Cong attacked three hamlets along the central coast and shelled two district towns in the Mekong killing three wounding 18 and kidnapping Investigators began a search for the cause of a fire that extensively damaged the USO Club in downtown The fire broke out about midnight Monday and burned for an U.S. officials said so far there was no indication of casualties were but scores of Vietnamese living In nearby buildings fled into the streets with as much of their belongings as they could firemen confined the flames to the rear of the USO U.S. Command announced that another 2,300 U.S. Marines are leaving South on fage Endangered By Old-Style Writer Mass. Jack the beat generation writer whose books ushered in the current generation of died early today at a St. in his hometown of Lowell said the who was In his late 40s, suffered a hemorrhage Monday night and died about 5:30 a.m. first book was titled Town and the It was a frankly autobiographical work detailing his youth in Lowell and later encounters In New his most famous book was the a freewheeling account of his travels through the which popularized the notion of a original intention regarding the term had to do with the Idea of a term he used for the concept of people rejecting the materialism of the 4 14 7 14 Page 10 11 6 8 Page 12 Ads Page 15 followed by increasing cloudiness tonight and lows 35 to 45; variable cloudiness and cool Congress has been told pockets of 19th-Century-like working conditions in U.S. Industry are endangering the safety of working testimony before congressional committees came on a clutch of bills Intended to provide a comprehensive occupational health and safety program for the painted a bleak picture of the situation in some estimated 600 to 1,100 out of a total of 6,000 uranium miners will suffer lung cancer because of exposure to group of British scientists found 60 workers out of 500 employed by a southern mill suffered by breathing cotton leads to chronic bronchitis and The British did the test because they found the disease among their own workers in England who were handling Imported American materials such as laundry soat sugar cane fiber and even moldy silage also were tabbed as among substances that can cause damage to Changes For CITY Sweeping changes in the way bishops help the Pope rule the Roman Catholic Church have been approved by majority votes In all nine of the world synod of a synod source said approved by Pope Paul the changes would mark the end of what some liberals have called an that has ruled the Church for source said the bishops were in on the heed for broad expansion of the principle of bishops sharing in papal 146 synod the source were nearly In unanimous agreement that a synod should be held at least every two years and possibly every year to advise the If they are not handled with special legislative targets are unsafe pipes total job showed 14,000 workmen die annually because of job another two million are disabled for anywhere from a day to In the last four years more have died on the job than In And five times more have been lost to accidents than In Safety codes laid down by major the states and insurance companies are consisting more of recommendations than legislation covers only selected such as coal the congressmen were told there are twice as many game are safety Inspectors at the state and federal the half-dozen bills before the strongest are the administration proposal favored by business and the measure of Rep. James backed by measures would encourage a uniform code in the prod research into safety and work toward a comprehensive set of In the latter It Is much of the danger still is undetected because smaller firms either do not keep figures or do not report An estimated 500,000 Japanese leftists staged rowdy demonstrations against the Vietnam war throughout the country The most serious clashes occurred in where 480 persons were arrested and 20 policemen were leftists also made abortive attempts to set off explosions at two American bases near But most of the radical students used Molotov cocktails against the than 75,000 policemen had been 25,000 of them in Shops and offices closed shop windows were boarded up or and millions hurried to get home before the turnout for the International Antiwar Day a four-year-old observance which has never caught on outside big Shinjuku railway station Just outside Tokyo was a main target of students who hurled fire bombs and rocks at the buildings and Trains In and out of the station were station was the scene of violent attacks during the demonstrations a year and the demonstrators caused an estimated million from Okinawa said an estimated 50,000 persons took part in rallies on the island and others of the Ryukyu About 15,000 demonstrators gathered In Naha to demand the Immediate return of Okinawa and the scrapping of the security newsmen the militant students were fighting the the three opposition parties held orderly rallies attended by many the U.S. Air Force's base 30 miles west of 24-year-old Kato drove past the guards in a rented car containing He was arrested at the west side of the and in the car was a paper on which was explode runway at cost of young Japanese threw a paper package of gunpowder into the American base at five miles from but it did not The Japanese Points Out Value Of Pa. Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis took the witness stand today to contradict earlier testimony by an associate medical examiner who said Dinis had told him he did not think an autopsy on the body of Mary Jo Kopechne was said he had first sought an autopsy on July 20, one day the young woman's body was recovered from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's automobile in a tidal pond on that Dinis Miss body already had been flown to Pennsylvania for burial in nearby testified before Judge Bernard C. of Common Pleas Court In the second day of a hearing on petition to have the body of the 28-year-old secretary exhumed for an says an autopsy Is vital to an inquest he has scheduled into her Dr. Donald R. associate examiner for Dukes testified Monday about a telephone conversation he had with Dinis July 24,or Mills quoted Dinis as you're quite sure of your diagnosis of death by answer certainly Mills Dinis said don't think an autopsy is do and I answered I Mills today denied he had discussed the advisability of an autopsy with He said he only discussed whether or not the physician was satisfied Joseph F. counsel for Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Kopechne of Berkeley who are opposed to the objected strenuously again and again as Dinis sought to give his reasons for pursuing the Investigation into the girl's death and his need for an Fernandes assistant to asked the Massachusetts prosecutor whether he was satisfied with the investigation conducted by the am not Dinis said loudly just as Flanagan shouted an is not Mr. determination to whether he is satisfied or commented in sustaining the ob- reference to the death of Mary Jo what Investigation If any has your office Fernandes objection on this was overruled and Dinis district attorney has endeavored to speak to the parties who were present prior to and after the estimated time of death of Mary Jo Kopechne but has been unable to do of the witnesses was Flanagan then asked that this answer be ordered it cross examination by on Page FROM HEARING Mrs. Joseph mother of Maiy Jo is escorted from the Luzerne County Court House last night by an unidentified family friend after a night hearing on a petition to exhume her daughter's body for an Mary Jo was killed in an automobile accident driven by Sen. Edward She is buried near Wilkes Problem School Department may have a rubbish which the schools use for most rubbish disposal are giving trouble and the schools Want to quit using them anyway because of air but the town doesn't want to collect the Selectmen yesterday discussed a school department request for rubbish collection but decided it would be better if the schools contracted for The board said it would be too expensive for the to pick up each H. administrative assistant to the superintendent of said today the schools already have a limited pick-up arrangement with a contractor who has supplied large rubbish storage containers to three schools and some incinerators are being so there is no immediate expect the School Committee will discuss it at the next he Somalia A military coup overthrew Somalia's elected government early today less than 24 hours after the funeral of assassinated President All self-styled Revolutionary Council said in a revolution was staged to save Somalia from the corrupt malpractices of the ruling council said it will all the bad things left Somalia will be led by responsible and tribalism will be council announced that the country had been sealed off from the outside world and that airports and seaports were Some 400 Americans live in this sun-baked coastal city and in other parts of In full battle dress with fixed bayonets took control before dawn amid an unusually heavy was no official word on the whereabouts of Prime Minister Mohamed Ibrahim but his beachfront house was under military was criticized this week by local newspapers which accused him of selling public lands at drastically reduced prices to political violence was reported by persons walking about the was assassinated by a member of his police guard during a tour last week of drought areas In northern The country had been palm following the apparently because and the alleged killer were from the same who was elected In June 1967, was given a state funeral in Mogadishu The parliament had been expected to elect his successor within a and on Page Threats to Massachusetts from the hepatitis outbreak that forced Holy Cross College to cancel its football season after the team contacted the liver disease have according to Dr. Allan director of the Red Cross blood Kliman said another outbreak occurred we couldn't handle Teacher Cannot Be ANGELES A Superior Court judge has ruled that Angela Davis cannot be barred from teaching in a state university on the sole ground that she Is a party of California regents fired Miss a 25-year-old Negro assistant professor of on Sept. 19 after she acknowledged being a an appeal through school administrative she was permitted to go on teaching a Philosophical Themes in Black at the University of California at Los a hearing Monday on a taxpayers suit filed by faculty supporters of Miss Judge Jerry Pacht held her firing to be said if she could be ousted for being a the regents could fire teachers for being members of other Added For first stage of a comprehensive program to serve the area's mentally disturbed and physically handicapped is expected to get underway within two Walter T. revealed today the state Department of Mental Health has released for planning and acquisition costs for an additional Sanderson St. new building will be an addition to a facility at 20 Sanderson St. which has been completely renovated at a cost of The Franklin County Mental Health Center at 153 High St. will move to the new think this puts our area foremost in the state in the field of helping the retarded and mentally disturbed Rep. Kostanski variety of programs will be offered when the complex Is fully It will be headed by a director and staffed by about 20 according to Anthony associate area director for Franklin and The center will work closely with Franklin County Public which constructed a of its new facilities especially for mentally disturbed is what the program will workshop to train the mentally 111 and physically handicapped so they can seek employment in the domestic training unit to teach the handicapped how to prepare food and take care of other household day-care center for adolescent and adult retarded people who otherwise might have to be care for children and with programs which will assist parents to keep children at home who otherwise may have to live away at specialized schools and pre-school nursery program and classrooms for a number of children with learning said he Is on Page MPH Hits in La. Gale force winds from 100-mile-an-hour Hurricane Laurie began whipping Louisiana's offshore waters near the mouth of the Mississippi River powerful storm lost forward speed during the morning as It moved sluggishly through the Gulf of The New Orleans Weather Bureau said Laurie would have a slow and erratic movement today but that a drift toward the northeast was 10 a.m. the New Orleans Weather Bureau located Laurie at about 230 miles south of New Weather Bureau's 10 a.m. advisory said Laurl was poking along at about five miles per hour with a predicted slow and erratic movement during the of residents along Louisiana's vulnerable low coast fled inland for fear of being trapped in a danger the eighth hurricane of the curved more to the she could move onto Mississippi's devastated by Hurricane two months or even farther east to Alabama or hurricane was in force from to 600 to her shift to the the Weather Bureau said the threat to the Texas and west Louisiana coast had that the hurricane hurricane sent whipping the sea for to the north and east of most extensive exodus Monday was from Lafourche Parish to the west of New where civil defense asked some 25,000 residents to move to refugee centers at Raceland and Day For You The Tel. 772-0261
