Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - April 2, 1970, Hutchinson, Kansas The Hutchinson News 98th Year No. 273 16 Pages Thursday April 2,1970, Kansas 67501 MO 2-3311 Price 10c On In Air War Tempo Intensified In Mideast TEL AVIV and Israeli planes clashed today along the length of their embattled 100-mile frontier as tanks and artillery dueled Syria claimed its fighters and antiaircraft guns knocked down five Israeli It added that Syria captured the pilots of a Phantom and French-made Mirage that crashed inside its while it lost two of its own The Israelis claimed that they shot down three Syrian and lost one whose crew was seen parachuting into Syrian In Zone Damascus said fighting started in the central and southern sectors of the cease-fire line between the two countries and then spread to the whole Israel and Syria said the focus of the Israeli attacks was the Rafid facing the central Golan Israel now claims to have shot down 20 Syrian planes since the 1967 Middle East war as well as nine Egyptian last Until the end of 1969, the Syrian border was the quietest of Israel's Then Syrian at- tacks and the Israelis were quick to There have been several major tank battles in the Rafid region in recent Israeli and Syrian spokesmen have both claimed an increase in infiltration by Syrian troops in past weeks into the Golan and also reported daily shooting The military command in Tel Aviv also reported that Israeli troops killed two Arab guerrillas in a skirmish early today on the Golan The Israelis also claimed that guerrillas based in Lebanon resumed their campaign against Israeli border settlements after a lull of several placing two explosive charges under residences at the border settlement of The Israelis said the charges were Fingers High Court for Crime Jail Census Monday John McClellan JEFFERSON John L. contended today that the Supreme Court is responsible for some of the sharp rise in crime the past Many of the court he have had an adverse on effective law emboldened the criminal and enhanced his chances of escaping punishment while frustrating and hampering law enforcement Since 1960, said the Senate's chief crime the Supreme Court virtually revolutionized the way in which justice in its be ad- ministered on both state and federal believe that the tone of enforcement is set at the McClellan said in a talk for the Governors Conference on Urban He repudiation of traditional interpretations and the rejection and overruling by the Supreme Court of long-established precedents and the invoking of newly contrived technicalities to effectuate an acquittal or the reversal and dismissal of convictions of the proven guilt have an adverse impact on effective law Some of the Court McClellan seem to strained and illogical constructions and to the invoking of specious technicalities in criminal disposition has produced a rash of decisions which have diminished and disparaged the valid rights of society while inflating and exaggerated rights of the He said there were serious adverse impacts on law enforcement from the court's decisions in the Escobeda and other He also asserted that the court has nullified and rendered unenforceable all state laws on must stop pampering agitators of stop coddling criminals and stop condoning McClellan told the governors believe the right of the citizen to be safe transcends the right of the criminal to be We will never have safe streets and safe homes until we get the self-confessed criminals and other felons off the streets and into jails where they The he cannot withstand a soaring scourge of Ask New Hostage Hijackers Still Grounded at Seoul SEOUL - Socialist member of Japan's parliament arrived here today to help government officials win release of 100 passengers and crew held hostage in an airliner hijacked by Japanese students who want to go to North Abe hurriedly flew in after the hijackers several hours earlier agreed in principal to release the passengers in exchange for a new Japanese Vice Transportation Minister Shinjiro Want Identification The Samurai hijackers asked that Abe come to Korea and identify whom they said they could not recognize by sight in a reply to proposal Weather KANSAS - Partly cloudy and warmer lows generally in 30s. Friday partly cloudy to cloudy with chance of highs in 40s. Hutchinson Weather Wednesday's 34 at 1 31 at 6 40 at noon Record 90 in 1928; record 12 in 1936. Southwest 5 30.00 Sunset Thursday 6:56 p.m. Sunrise 6:15 weather map on page 2) that he be put aboard the grounded since Tuesday at Seoul's Kimpo International in place of the Shigeru Japanese Cabinet announced the agreement earlier in set free the then we will allow you to fly said Defense Minister Chung over the plane's you agree to do I won't talk to you any should realize that you are on Korean not in he Okay to Land The hijackers say they want to go to North and the North Koreans say the Boeing 727 jet can land in Pyongyang and the passengers and crew will be returned to Japan But the South Korean government is still trying to get the passengers while the hijackers are reported afraid that the South Korean air force will shoot down the plane if the passengers are not Two American men are among the the rest are today Centennial Committee Is Formed Hutchinson will celebrate its 100th anniversary July 4, 1972, and plans for a centennial celebration are being A steering committee has been organized and met Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce offices to discuss the Bud Chamber of Commerce said the steering committee's purpose is not to manage the centennial but to assemble information to turn over to an operational The committee agreed that the centennial should be locally organized and believe we have enough local talent to do just about anything we want Janner No decision was made as to length of the The committee will ask all civic and service organizations to write to the only other Hutchinson in the United States of comparable to see if that city might have been chartered at about the same Letters will be sent to bordering states to determine if any nearby cities share the same charter Steering committee members in addition to Janner are John Peter Willis Mrs. Howard Les and Jack Accusation At Paris PARIS - North Vietnam and the Viet Cong accused the United States today of deliberately drawing Laos and Cambodia into the Vietnam There was no immediate comment from the four delegations at the 61st session of the Vietnam peace talks on the French government's proposal for an international conference to neutralize Laos and Nguyen Minh acting head of the North Vietnamese told newsmen at the start of the weekly conference session that the Nixon administration not only determined to continue its aggressive war in South but has now extended it to the whole of the Indochinese Fears Raised in California By US Troops Smog to LOS ANGELES - The next step toward cleaning up automobile pollution in California may make Los smog scientists With 1971 model the state of California will require control of emissions of oxides of These oxides are byproducts of Scientists know that oxides of nitrogen are bad for plants and They also know that the oxides are a factor in production of along with sunlight and But scientists are not altogether sure precisely what role the oxides play in the smog generating process. In some experts believe that a moderate reduction in the level of oxides of nitrogen in the air over Los Angeles will make the smog than cause it to The California Health Department cautiously acknowledged the possibility in a report which of the experimental findings indicate that with effective hydrocarbon moderate reductions of oxides of nitrogen may not further reduce smog In fact some of the laboratory data indicate that moderate reduction of oxides of nitrogen emissions may negate some of the benefits gained from hydrocarbon Auto industry scientists are less of nitrogen at very low concentrations are of the reaction that produces at very high concentrations they are inhibitors of that said a top scientist at General The auto industry says it's the unburned the smelly fumes from that are the chief And the California Health Department to a of hydrocarbons alone will reduce eye tation and ozone and aerosol and the greater the degree of hydrocarbon the greater the reduction of the smog But the same report also says that in sufficient quantities nitrogen of the oxides of be injurious to damage and impart an undesirable color to the The auto industry scientist don't think the oxides of nitrogen are a health problem at present Then he shrugged his shoulders and it's all the standards are For Vietnam Veterans Boost Med Care WASHINGTON - President Nixon moved today to expand the specialized medical programs of the Veterans Administration to meet the needs of the men returning from Nixon asked Congress for an immediate appropriation of million for the fiscal year ending this June 30 and another million in the VA's medical care budget request for fiscal year 1971. The Veterans Administration lias a medical budget of billion for the current year and has asked Congress to approve billion for next am determined that no American serviceman returning with injuries from Vietnam will fail to receive the immediate total medical care he Nixon said in a commitment will require more than dollars to it will require sound management of existing VA wise use of existing personnel and equipment most importantly a sensitivity to the needs of our personal as well as he The President said the million supplemental appropriation he requested would be spent in May and June partly to clear up the excessive backlog of dental claims of Vietnam It would provide funds also to improve the staffing of existing specialized medical especially the spinal cord injury centers and the care carry out plans for taking hemodialysis units into the homes of veterans suffering from serious kidney and help meet increased needed drugs and Turnabout Friday Hoping it may also signal a turnabout in the The News will publish its 8th Annual Turnabout Edition On that day the readers of this family journal become the producers - the feature writers and advertising Nearly 100 from all walks of life will have a part in the 36-page While it is a labor of love for the Turnabout there is a financial reward for the Chamber of Each year a portion of day's advertising revenue is donated to the In Viet War US Losses On Upswing SAIGON - The North Cong dropped off by about 50 per but a fresh upsurge of fighting reported today sent U.S. casualties rising toward a high for the Eighteen more Americans were reported killed and 138 wounded in more than half a dozen ground the loss of three helicopters and 65 rocket and mortar Twice as many rocket and mortar attacks had been reported in the previous 24 the largest number in eight But despite the a spokesman for the U.S. Command said enemy activity was still at a high Battlefield communiques reported 61 101 South Vietnamese and 552 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops killed in the past 48 The American dead included a brigadier the fifth U.S. general killed in the Vietnam During the same 48 another 343 Americans and 264 South were reported the U.S. Command reported that 79 Americans were killed in action in Vietnam last the lowest weekly toll in two But it was clear from the casualties reported in the past two days that this week's will be announced next Thursday - will probably set a record for the A U.S. spokesman said enemy rocket and mortar attacks were still above the Enjoy the It May Not Last Long Story Page 12) That's salubrious Enjoy it. tomorrow may bring something First completely cloudless skies in almost a week greeted Kansas Thursday as citizens saw their first sunrise in six Brisk melting of the deep snow cover is occurring with temperatures moving well above freezing after they dipped to levels that set an occasional new date All of which may be but an interlude between winter A new surge of this brand of weather is moving inland from the By Friday this latest development will engulf Kansas from northwest to southeast bringing colder plus a chance for showers or - you guessed The big storm which deposited as much as a foot of wet flakes over the state Tuesday and Wednesday has moved out of Kansas and now is venting its wrath over the northeastern United Nearly 8 Inches In Hutchinson which got its heaviest April snowfall in 32 years with close to 8 the additional fall Wednesday afternoon fell a couple of inches short of the April 7-8, 1938 The afternoon produced a series of light snow some and finally dried up completely with only traces of additional precipitation on top of the original of an j A night of rather feverish activity to keep trouble spots on Fifth division highways free of drifts ended for division maintenance crews after the wind subsided and skies became clear before Wednesday afternoon and night division crews had trouble on west of one bad spot six miles west of the city in the Rayl Hill area and the second at the Adams corner junction of the Other problems occurred on in the Pratt A. A. division said the crews have been alerted more trouble might develop if the new storm moves in Friday but added no further difficulty should result from what is on the ground Because of the rapidity with which the snow was melting the problems on township roads of Reno County also should fade The long needed surface moisture will start to make its presence felt through mud after the snow is Overnight freezing conditions produced numerous slippery spots on Hutchinson Gutters that were choked by melting snow and water became solid ice barriers overnight in some downtown The morning low of 22 degrees at 6 a.m. would have qualified for an April 1 record breaker but it fell 10 points short for April 2. In 1912 there was a drastic flareback which plunged the thermometer to 12 above zero on April 2 and that record Hutchinson has experienced some other April marrow chillers and the coldest recorded morning for the Month of Showers was 11 degrees above zero on April 14. Topeka's 14 broke a date record that has stood since 1936. Garden City also had a 14 minimum but that was no record Deepest snow measurement which finally emerged from the Wednesday production was one foot at Harveyville and Chase into Cambodia A By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Cambodian government said today U.S. forces have no right to pursue North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops into Cambodia during The White House said Saturday U.S. commanders were free to pursue the enemy into Cambodia under the policy of hot us a new map of Southeast So far as is no American troops have invaded Cambodia during but U.S. artillery and frequently have attacked enemy positions inside South Vietnamese recently attacked a Viet Cong stronghold two miles inside Cambodia under an agreement with Cambodian officers on the to its policy of strict said a Cambodian government will not in fact accept the right of pursuit carried out on its Military sources in Vientiane said Laotian air force gunships and artillery killed about 50 North Vietnamese soldiers who attacked a government outpost five miles north of the retaken American support base at Sam Thong in The - Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg has won selection by the state Democratic Committee as candidate for governor of New says he prefers to get into the party primary June 23 the hard WINTER SPORTS Photo by Jim of Dillon Recreation area given to Recreation Three local census crew Headers now receiving special training in Salina will I conduct a special head count Monday using records of such diverse institutions as Kansas Industrial Hutchinson Community College and nursing The idea is to get an accurate count of people living in or otherwise connected with these Inmates of the city and county as well as j persons with no fixed | will be among those counted in according to C. manager of the district census office headquartered in In some of the larger census takers will visit all-night parks and missions trying to track down the he Hutchinson is expected to have few floaters and the search here will not be so Grant said Robert Kansas penal has been authorized to conduct his own enumeration of Kansas In the case of which is short of crew chiefs will help They will go through reformatory records Monday to get the head count and will also conduct a few interviews with inmates if The crew chiefs involved in Monday's count are Mrs. Lillian R. 222 East 11th; Mrs. Opal O. 309 East 15th; and Mrs. Donna R. 216 North They have made special arrangements with nursing home HCC officials and other administrators of local institutions in advance of the Grant said all KSIR HCC rest home residents and floaters - in anyone who happens to be in Reno County when counted except vacationers and travelers with fixed addresses - will be considered Reno County residents and listed as Local motels received a similar survey Problems Develop The mind-boggling census operation has not been without its and Grant was in the process of trying to iron out a few of them He said he had done little but answer the telephone all morning to clear up misconceptions about the One problem has been caused by census publicity in Sedgwick especially broadcast media he These reports inform Sedgwick County residents that they are expected to mail back the census forms they receive in the This is correct but only for Sedgwick Grant Persons in other counties who saw or heard the broadcasts have been mistakenly mailing in their The Salina office received some 25 of these forms Thursday Grant emphasized that a 11 Reno who received a form in the mail should hang onto it until a census taker comes by to pick it Persons who have not received a form will be contacted in he In Reno every fifth address is to be contacted in the latter Many persons have called the census office asking why they had not received Grant Intercepted Letter SAM The Dodge Dear Confused motorists with ski racks are if this is Hutch i
