Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - August 21, 1973, Hutchinson, Kansas The Hutchinson News 102nd Year 49 16 Pages August 1973 Kansas 6623311 B 4proucT of staffing secret air war See Page 3 NEW ORLEANS UPI President visibly tense after disclosure of a possible plot to assassinate said Monday he ordered secret bombing in neutral Cambodia in 1969 to save American lives and bring a quicker end to the Vietnam In his first personal response to critics of the secret Nixon claimed that appropri ate members of Congress were informed of the action and the Cambodian government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk ap proved of Im proud of what weve the perspiring President told members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW at their national con If American soldiers in the field today were similarly threatened and if the price of protecting those soldiers was to order air strikes to save American I would make the same decision today that I made in he told the cheering VFW delega Nixon said North Vietnamese troops had concen along a 10mile strip on the bor and added The suggestion that these staging areas for enemy supplies and artillery a few thousand yards from American troops were neutral territory exempt from bombing and counterattack is It was not the United but the North Vietnamese Communists who violated the neutrality of The President flew to New Orleans from Key then left after the speech for the Western White House at San In the speech he said Sihanouk approved the bombing and even invited him to visit Cambodia while the strikes were in Nixon said he directed that the Cambodian bombing be kept secret because otherwise the Cambodian government would have been compelled to The bombing would have had to stop and American soldiers would have paid for the disclosure with their the President The secret bombing included raids in the sanctuary areas inside Cam reported in the opera t i o n a 1 record as having occurred in South between March and May The two primary critics of the bombing and its coverup have been Stuart acting chairman of the Senate Armed Services and Harold a committee Their criticism has not been aimed so much at the bombing itself as at the fact false reports were given to the committee reporting the bomb ing occurred in South Vietnam rather than Nixon was informed Sunday night at Key Biscayne by Alexander White House chief of that the Secret Service had uncovered the possible conspiracy to assassinate the Nixon agreed to a change in the route of a motorcade into New Orleans but refused a sugges tion that he cancel the Louisiana The presidential limousine was thoroughly inspected and hundreds of security agents watched over the the 12mile route into town and the auditorium where Nixon Hughes said Monday that Nixon missed the issue in his He said the Vietnamese and other Communists knew of the that only the Ameri can people and Congress were kept in the Hughes in a statement also questioned the need to keep the bombing secret for so many Nothing Nixon said in this speech alters the facts that he lied to the American people and the administration gave false information in official reports to Hughes The President drew loud cheers and applause from the delegates when he criticized those who disagreed with the 14 months of secret bombing in I find that some of the politicians and some members of the press who enthusiastical ly supported the administration that got us into Vietnam 10 years now are critical on what I did to get us he It was Nixons first public appearance since July when he went to Kansas City for the swearingin of FBI Director Clarence The Presidents tone was combative and his speech was reminiscent of the 1972 cam His voice rose several times during his talk that contained themes of his past campaign speeches need for a strong defense and claims of having achieved an honora ble peace in Southeast He drew the loudest cheers when he declared No future American president should ever send Americans into battle with one hand tied behind their The President did not refer to the Watergate scandal and made only passing reference to the congressional orders halting bombing in Cambodia on But he said the United States would lose its standing as an international power unless we stand by our When the bombing was halted last Nixon soundly criticized Congress for ordering the action which he said undermined the credibility of the commitment to the Cambodian PSST President Nixon listens to a whis word from VFW Commander Patrick Hutchinson Telephoto Carr before addressing the VFW convention Monday at New Investigator links Paschal to milk kickbacks Crash kills Hutch man A Hutchinson man was killed in a accident shortly after noon Monday to bring the states automobile death count to seven in a 24hour Two other accidents in Hutch inson Monday afternoon sent a total of seven people to hospitals for treatment of and an Argonia Kyle re mained in critical condition at Wesley Medical Center in Wich ita Monday after being injured in a automobile acci dent Sunday A Russell boy died Monday night in another motorcycle mis In a woman who heard the report of an accident drove to the scene to discover the victim in a crash was her and a Hutch inson police dispatcher to an ac cident which involved his wife and The accident at 17th and the Rock Island railroad crossing resulted in the death of Herman 1818 Edge Goes down bank Schrag was going ac cording to police when Tire blast kills worker ELLSWORTH A truck tire explosion proved fatal to Lonnie Monday morning at the Farmers Coop Service Station at the son of and Arlyn died at Monday at Francis According to Bob Williams of the Ellsworth Police Depart Bradford and coworkers were airing up the tire at the time of the explosion at The coworkers left Bradford with the tire heard the explosion and found him with massive head injuries and bleeding He was rushed to Ellsworth County Veterans Memorial Hospital before being trans ferred to He arrived at Francis at He died of severe head Bradford began work at the station Weather KANSAS Mostly sunny and hot highs low 90s north east to near 102 southwest fair and mild Tuesday lows mid 60s northwest to low 70s southeast partly sunny and hoi highs In HUTCHINSON WEATHER Mondays high 98 from 2 to 5 low 67 at 6 Record high 106 in 1918 record low 48 in Winds 05 Barometer Sunset Tuesday Sunrise Wednesday his car was struck by the train The impact carried his car over an embankment and demolished a railroad crossing sign oh the west side of the i According to head brakeman the car pulled onto the track in front of the train and was struck just be hind the front The car landed on its Schrag was pronounced dead at the Four killed Four persons were killed and two injured late Sunday when two cars collided headon six miles east of Salina on a county One of the cars was later struck from the rear by a pickup truck and exploded and Killed in one of the cars was Colette of and Spencer Burch also of Killed in the other car were Burnace and his wife Powell was the Marion County Saline County sheriffs depu ties said after the two cars col the Powell car was struck from the rear by a pickup truck driven by Ray New Jones was listed in fair condition at Johns man A former Liberal Her man now of was killed Sunday afternoon in a crash at the east edge of also in Saline Hutchinson police officer Lar ry Cook responded to an acci dent near the intersection of 4th and Hoagland Monday which involved his wife and daughters and All were treated and released at South Hospital but a passenger in the Cook Brenda 536 East was hospitalized with a deep laceration to her right heel and fractured Driver of the other vehicle was Eric 3007 East A passenger in his Wil liam 27 West was treated and released at South A ac cident in the first block of East 27th about sent Te resa 4500 North to North Hospital where she will have surgery Tuesday for injuries to her left wrist and A passenger on the Deb bie East was treated and released at Driver of the car was Lila of 50 29th Stewart of Rus sell was killed Monday evening when his motorcycle collided with a car at a county road in southwest of The car was driven by Ferdi nand of Schwien was alone on the Photo by Glenda Helbert CROSSING SIGN crumpled by fatal Brenda gains steam MIAMI UPI packing winds of 90 miles per changed course Monday night and appeared headed for land Tuesday morning just west of the Gulf coastal town of The National Hurricane Cen ter said the the seasons second had taken a turn to the southsouthwest and if it hits the Carmen region heavy rains will spread over the northern slopes Tuesday afternoon and cause serious Northwest Mexico has al ready been plagued by serious flooding unrelated to Brenda in recent The flooding claimed several At 7 center was located near lati tude longitude The position was about 50 miles north of Forecaster Neil Frank said the hurricane was moving towards the southsouthwest at 6 and if this movement continues through the night the center will reach the coast just west of Carmen Tuesday Tides were expected to be 5 to 10 feet above normal west of the landfall position and hurri cane force winds were expected to be felt in Carmen by early By John Lee The Hutchinson school board met in closed session Monday night to hear charges that Harland Paschal accepted kick backs on school milk purchases amounting to as much as By the meeting at the insurance offices of school board president Norval had not broken up and no state ment had been released by the Still to corne was a meeting with No word was given by Kline about the substance of the meeting when met with reporters at 10 The board had just finished a session with a former secretary of the Phyllis She was ac companied by her Stewart Although no information was to come from the meeting until after Paschal met with the board the apparent topic of discussion was given by a pri vate investigator who had prom ised board members not to dis cuss his findings until the board met Monday Paschal arrived at the office building at He de to comment to reporters and strode into the Lees Word While the board Don the investigator who was retained by a group of Hutchin son residents about six months told reporters of his find His investigation had dis Lee that for about five years Paschal had accepted kickbacks from the Milk Pro a dairy concern affil iated with Producers Tip Top 921 South Through an arrangement worked out with Lee the company mailed a monthly check addressed to Pas chal at the Hutchinson The which varied be tween and a Kennedy convicted on driving charge See page 5 UPI Kennedy oldest son of the late Robert was convicted Mon day of negligent driving that resulted in an accident which at least temporarily paralyzed a teenage He was fined You had a great father and you have a great District Court Judge George Anastas told the 20yearold Use your illustrious name as an asset instead of coming into court like who pleaded inno cent and did not was accompanied to the crowded court by his and his Edward A vehicle driven by Kennedy and carrying six other persons including his brother overturned a week ago at an intersection on this vacation David and two girl passengers were Francesca De another said Kenne dy was driving the Toyota about 15 miles an hour but accelerated and swerved at the intersection to avoid an ing car operated by Merrill Joseph Kennedy I thought we were going to make it when the car driven by Kennedy got back on the and then it Miss De I was Defense counsel Wayne Holmes said if Kennedy had not speeded the Lindsay car would have cut them in Lindsay testified he was moving 35 to 40 miles per hour when he saw the Kennedy vehicle coming toward me in my He said he braked his car and swerved left as Kennedy swerved to the and the investigating testified Kennedy said the accident was entirely his Miss De said there were seats for everyone in the Kennedy vehicle but assistant District Attorney Robert Mooney said it had a capacity for only Sandra driver of a sightseeing testified she saw the Kennedy vehicle prior to the accident and People were hanging all Some were standing today Crossword Womens news Sports Deaths 5 67 911 12 r a college classmate of Kennedys uncle Joseph who was killed in World War posed a question in admonish ing young Kennedy as to whether a jail sentence was a deterrent to highway accidents and said he did not think He said a seriously hurt person is more of a deterrent to a defendant in highway acci dent The prosecutor did not recommend a jail sentence on the a misdemeanor carrying a maximum jail term of up to two years or a fine or The courtroom was filled with about 20 newsmen and 60 About 250 persons stood outside and at one point made so much noise that the judge ordered the windows The most seriously injured in the crash was Pamela of She suffered a serious back injury which left both her legs Lee were then picked up by Paschal in The arrangement was not no Lee because the school paid the company from invoices that were sent from the firms Two systems Lee there were alle gedly two separate bookkeeping one for the and one through which the kickbacks were Lee said the alleged kickbacks were figured on a half cent charge for every carton con in the Hutchinson school The school paid the dairy company seven cents for every he saying the total alleged kickbacks amounted to about The investigator would not disclose the names of the per sons who hired saying he was forbidden by state statute and the terms of his license granted by the Kansas attorney generals office to do The charge for milk paid by school students is four Lee with the remain ing three cents picked up by the Lee said he had been working on the heart of the case for about 30 and his search had tak en him to Topeka as recently as the past two He would not say why he had been to but he hinted that he was looking into alleged irregularities at the Just enough He added that persons who asked him to investigate Paschal had just enough specific infor mation to bring me in on One of the things the persons wanted to Lee was why no company other than Pro was allowed to sell milk to the schools through the years when the alleged kickbacks were to have been Lee said that he had brought Reno County Attorney Porter Brown into the matter during the past Confirming Fri day that his office was looking into the Brown told The News Monday that he had not yet started to examine the matter in Brown added that when he had learned of the special meet he asked some school board members if he should He was Brown that he was definitely not It was not readily apparent why Drumhiller was brought into the As a former secretary for the school she worked on various parts of the clerical oper ations at the superintendents The system of alleged kickbacks as described by could have left her ig of any alleged No comment When she left the meeting at about 10 she refused to talk with reporters who were gathered at Klines insurance of The reporters were not allowed into the but were promised by Kline that a statement would be issued be fore the night was News men waited on the front steps of the who is presently in the last year of a three year told newsmen early this summer that he would be paid for the current In he has the use of a car and a monthly expense al lowance of Paschal came to Hutchin son from Jefferson in January of For eight he had been the principal of the High School and completed re for a doctorate at the University of Colorado during that Before going to Pas chal had been superintendent of schools at Fort The budget for the school food services the largest food system in the was pegged at when budget figures for 197374 were unveiled in No comparison figures from earlier years are available be cause food services were budg eted under the management of The budget for food services appeared in the budget for 197374 after a new state educa tion finance law went into Crush coup Laos AP Laotian government forces pur sued rebel stragglers in the Vientiane area Monday after crushing a rightist coup that raised questions about the fu ture of negotiations with the pro Communist Pathet A curfew was in effect in this Its fewer than inhabitants showed little apparent concern over the 10hour air and ground oper ation to overthrow Premier Souvanna Thao an exiled led the invaders across the Mekong River from Thailand before He was pronounced dead after govern ment forces shot down one of four light bombers that the small rebel force pirated from the Laotian air force during an attack on the Vientiane Prime rate due to climb again NEW YORK 14th increase in the prime interest rate this raising it to another new record of 9 V4 per was announced Monday by First National Bank of Five other big banks followed suit immediately across the Intercepted Letter JOHN MATOUS Football Coach Hutchinson Blue Dragons City Dear The smell of football weather was hardly In the air Hutch
