Independent Record (Newspaper) - June 2, 1965, Helena, Montana OLD IRON LEGS ARRIVES Stahl Californian was ed in Helena today after he completed a hike to the Capital City from the Helena Chamber of Commerce and the Post Office ment welcomed Stahl when he arrived From the left are John Wall chamber president Stahl Lawrence Wendel master and Jo Enright who met Old Iron Legs last year in San cisco Staff photo by Kim Larsen ft ft ft Gets Big Welcome Man 83 Ends California To Helena Walking Tour My Kim Larsen Helena was in a tizzy this ing as two groups hurriedly got a reception committee together to meet John Old Iron Legs Stahl 83 who walked into town from California The Helena Chamber of Com- merce and the Post Office De- wanted lo give Stahl a big welcome when he completed his walk today Nearly Missed Him The plans began early this morning when it was reported that Stahl was in Jefferson City But Stahl didn't get his nickname of Old fron Legs for nothing Before the welcoming committee was organized Stalil was one mile outside the city limits A group from the chamber rushed out and met Stahl who was making a call from a telephone booth probably wondering if someone was going to meel him He has an invitation from Gov Tim Babcock for him to call on chief executive A meeting with the Governor was at today Post Office Joins Welcome The Post Office delegation headed by Lawrence Wendel also showed up to make ing a bigger for old hiker who has walked more llian miles during his lime Slahl is a retired Post Office employe He worked as a clerk in Park Calif They made a mistake in he said Stahl thinks he should have been a carrier instead of a clerk since he likes to walk Also on hand lo greet Old Jron Legs was Billie Jo daughter of Mr and Mrs liam F Enright 528 N Warren Enright met Stahl in San Francisco year when she was working there Slahl has been sending cards to Miss letting herja matter of about three weeks 1 know about his progress on the expect to be in Oregon I'll be i long walk from the Golden good state of Montana i His first card lo Miss I due lime was dated April 6 day he A card May 17 said This started the hike Today is the he wrole Leaving San Francisco this and all going well Will arrive there in four or five or He sent a second card May 1 from Calif So far so he lold Miss Enright In will indicate thai I have been coming righl along And right along he did come He made he trip so fast because he walked only 500 miles of il He accepted rides the rest of the way When Wendel asked Slahl how Continued on Page 10 U.S Marines Kill 20 Viet Gong Saigon Viel Nam A Patrolling U.S Marines killed 20 Viet Cong today in the Shu Lai sector 52 miles ot Da Nang without suffering a single casualty This appeared lo be the biggest toll evsr taken of the Red enemy by American ground forces on such patrols of the border nist gunners downed two U.S Navy planes during a raid on a radar slation about 70 miles from Hanoi A rescue pilot said there was no chance the five American crewmen could have survived Heavy Casualties Dispatches from he highlands lold of heavy ment losses in a Viet Cong at- tack on the district town of Le Thanh and a triple ambush that followed in which the death of two Americans an officer and an enlisted man was More than 175 mese troops were killed or ing as a resull of the ning of Le Thanh and Hie ed bushwhacking of government In Montana June Is Bustin Out All Over With Fair Weather By The Associated Press June was buslin out all over with sunshine in Montana today But clouds and rain hanging on like a habit for so long stayed close with a promise of showers Thursday Meanwhile government cies in Billings report the River and ils tributaries are rising nearly one foot a day Lowland flooding was predicted wilhin two weeks Helping the flow along was quite heavy rain in ern Montana Glendive got 1.14 inches Harlem 80 Miles City 42 Malta 40 and Lewistown 37 However weather showed improvement in the extreme easl Wednesday although the er Bureau said was a good chance for some showers or Sky conditions were clear in the region Wednesday morning Whitehall's 73 was Montana's warmest temperature Tuesday heaviest loss of crews since the forces on the road from Pleiku 25 miles lo the northeast The total of U.S dead in com- bat in Viet Nam rose to 403 The two planes were both from the 7th Fleel carrier Midway They were lost in an attack on a radar on the coast Aboul 70 miles of Hanoi An Skyhawk with one aboard plunged into sea about a mile off No parachute was observed A few minutes laler a second modified Al with four crewmen hit and crashed about half mile inland a military spokesman said It had been diverted to the area to search for the plane downed at sea There was no report of results of the raid on the radar tion It was the American air raids on Viel Nam began in February In other strikes North Viel Nam Five from the Mid- way reported knocking down a span of a bridge about 65 miles south of Vinh Kour from Ibe Mid- way reported destroying two cars battering the approach lo a concrete bridge and damaging a wooden bridge 55 miles south of Thanh Hoa Four destroyed a ferry landing and a barge and damaged three railroad cars at Vinh Kali In the ground war the Viel Cong inflicted heavy losses on government forces in a triple ambush after the guerrillas over- ran a district headquarters near Pleiku Bui U.S paratroopers in another action Tuesday night turned the tables on Viet Cong and ambushed them killing four Timetable Posted for Space Flight of Two Astronauts Cape Kennedy Fla Here is a for the Gemini 4 flight of astronauts James Divitt and Edward White based on a Crew awakened breakfast shave shower fi Final phys ical don space suits Crew enters craft 9 Blastoff of Titan 2 achieved Divill maneuvers Gemini 4 to within 400 feel of orbiting burned out second singe and flics in for- mation with it of first orbit White begins preparing for craft exit begins proach to wilhin 20 feet of on Space suits pressurized opens hatch exits craft on tether uses space gun lo maneuver close lo second stage and takes pictures craft is over southern United Slates p.m White rc-cnlcrs spacecraft Hatch closed cabin pressurized suits p.m fires jcl thrustors to separate Gemini 4 from spacecraft by 16 miles p.m McDivitt to begin overtaking ond stage again p.m McDivill closes to wilhin 10 feet of stage then arates by several miles After this maneuver McDivill and While return lo main pose of flight lo determine how well man withstands longed exposure to space envi After 97 hours 50 utes aloft they arc to land in Atlantic Ocean 400 miles west of Bermuda at Monday It's Go for Astronauts By John Harbour Fla America's arid the miin who will pilot him into the heavens were given a bright green light today for their epic flight Thursday in the Gemini 4 Conditions are as good as we can hope for be at tins of the said mission director Christopher C Kraft Jr The weather craft launch hicle network and everything looks in green condition Blastoff is scheduled at 0 Kraft echoed an curlier mistic statement by command A McDivitt We've gol a good spacecraft anil it looks like we're going to have a good McDivitt said We are McDivitt and fellow Air Force Maj Edward II White man who will step out of the Gemini 4 spacecraft and in weightlessness on their second orbit of he earth There was the chance too that these two rookie American astro- would gel close enough to their booster rocket on their early orbits to enable While lo touch booster ing his weightless walk The space agency had said earlier that hey might get as close as 20 feet to the booster But mission director Christopher C Kraft said that there is ing holy 20 Would the mission last four days as Kraft said that the decision would be made time after the first 24 hours of flight when he astronauts had a chance to evaluate their fuel supply for their maneuvering jets and experts looked at the decay of lie orbit It was a demonstration of the flexibility of the flight plan There was no hurry about the decision Kraft indicated partly because officials wanted the astronauts lo recover from the maneuver The prospect for their nearly were put in glowing terms a mission review panel of experts We couldn't look said Kraft Vol 171 Helena Montana Wednesday June 2 1965 22 Pages Two Price Ten Cents German Incident Protested The U.S Expels Russian Diplomat Washington Slate Department declared a Soviet diplomat persona non grata an unwelcome person for activities incompatible with his diplomatic it was an- today The Soviet diplomat is Stefen M Kirsanov a first secretary at the embassy in Washington David Henry director of the State Department's Office of Soviet Affairs summoned Soviet embassy counselor ander I to the ment Tuesday and told him sanov must leave tlie country soon as practicable Robert J Closkey press officer told a news i conference McCloskey declined lo go into details when asked the specific j charges against Kirsanov He said no deadline was set for the diplomat's departure McCloskey had a no com- ment when asked whether was in con- with the expulsion from Moscow on May 11 of Morris D cultural attache of the U.S Embassy in the Soviet cap- Red Demonstrators Enter y Damage U.S Army Mission Heidelberg U.S Army today sharply protested the invasion of the U.S military mission in Germany by 300 Communist demonstrators who tore down the American lag and damaged the mission building Tuesday Gen Andrew P commander in chief of the U.S Army in Europe sent the written protest to his Soviet counterpart Gen Petr K Religious Groups Call for Ouster Of Viet Premier Saigon South Viel Nam Elements of four religions called today for the ouster of Premier Phan Quy Quat Extremist representatives of the Catholic Buddhist Cao Dai and Hoa Ilao faiths petitioned Chief of Staff Phan Khac Suit and the National Legislative Council to name another premier They charged thai Quat had failed lo unify nation in ils against communism since he took office last February Elliott Roosevelt Elected Mayor Of Miami Beach Miami Beach Elliott Roosevelt newly elected mayor of Miami Beach says his major goal will be lo wipe out the city's image as a re- sorl whose permanent residents all are pensioners lie promised 1207 Hawser federal housing for young lies GRADUATING CLASS Marc entire graduating eighth grade class at School today accepted his diploma from his teacher of eight years Mrs Ann Korling who incidentally also is his mollier Mare was one of six students in five grades taught this year by his mother at the school He is a star pupil and has won academic honors in Kiwanis Club and Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers competition Staff photo by Dan Brown Helena High Will Graduate Biggest Class in History At Commencement Thursday The largest class in of Helena Senior High will be graduated Thursday in monies beginning at fl p.m in he gymnasium Malcolm chairman of he Hoard of for Helena public schools will award diplo- mas lo 402 seniors in the ex- Addresses will be given by Vic ling Susan Eagle graduating senior and Jack Holt parent graduated at the head of the school's largest class with a 5.00 or straight A grade age for four years He is fhe son of Mr and Mrs M C average during his four years at School music groups will play and sing selections during the commencement proceedings Thursday The Senior High band will play the processional and re- An all-night Senior parly and breakfast will follow the tion Ife was elected a Democratic tional from da in Red Chief Sees U.S Driven Out of Viet Nam Moscow Communist par y chief Leonid Brezhnev predicted today The American aggressors will inevitably be driven out of Viel Nam terms for a Viet Nam Brezhnev I said the Soviet condemn the filthy piratic war of the imperialists in Viet Nam demand an end lo the United aggression against DRV Viel withdrawal of American forces of arms from he of South Viel Nam and the granting to the people of a chance to setlle affairs themselves Brezhnev's remarks were In a message to a sored international trade union conference in Hanoi capital They were ried by Tass the official news agency nre Mr and Mrs Victor J Kic ling 402 S Baccalaureate exercises for he class were conducted Sunday in gymnasium with Die liam Burhardt as the speaker The Rev I C also wasc featured on the program State National Weather Forecast Helena and and warmer through day Low tonight 45 High day 84 Tlie official Helena ture at I p.m was Marina Oswald Weds in Texas Kale Texas Marina wald widow of President John F Kennedy's assassin and an tronics she met a month ago began married life day in a white brick house on quiet in a Dallas suburb Mrs Oswald 23 a blonde and Porter 27 a divorced father of two were married in small north Texas farming community Tuesday Koshevoy He demanded that the Russians take immediate to prevent any further of this nature An earlier U.S Army ment said thai Easl German lice were present but look no effective action Protest Viet Action The demonstrators were testing U.S action in Viet Nam letler disclosed thai a flag incident occurred last month at the U.S mission in Postdam Berlin The previous incident had never been made public 1 lo you lion of he American flag for second lime in less lhan 30 days and vicious and destruction perpetrated by an uncontrolled mob of Easl man hoodlums against U.S erty and Ihc house and grounds of U.S military liaison sion on Potsdam in violation he righl of O'Meara wrole Demands Punishment In addition lo preventive ac tion O'Meara demanded ment ot those involved lion for damages and renewed Soviet assurances of the safely of the mission staff Informed sources said the viels made no attempt to slop the demonstration although the esl Soviet military barracks was less than a mile away U.S Flags Desecrated The U.S Army said flag pole was broken two S flags desecrated and U.S vehicles overturned or damaged All windows on Ihc floor were broken kitchen was damaged and paint splattered c -11 building g rector of fhe service office said I he official East German news ihc wheat will average 14 per agency AON said he crowd cent protein and grade No 2 or was House Passes Excise Tax Cut Measure Washington IT Tim House today a lion excise tax cut ing a quick slash averaging in the tax on an automobile The roll-call vole ww 401 lo 6 The now goes to the ate which is set to give It quick handling If the Senate passes the a number of excise es would be repealed outright July 1 including those on elry luggage and toilet rations The automobile would he cut three percentage points Japan Will Get Large Share Of State Wheat Bozeman Nearly a half million bushels of hard red spring wheat recently sold to Japan will come from Montana stocks The Montana Agricultural and Conservation ice said Montana's share of bushels will come from stocks in land Roosevelt and Sheridan counties Movement of the grain will begin immediately The current sale follows the shipment of trial lots which ured up well to Japanese baking needs marched on Ihc mission building belter Most of the wheat after tov Irani attending a rally in acquired by the un- own Potsdam where 1 tier price lamese spoke lations GOP Calls for Free World Viet Nam Conference j ISy Waller cans called for a free world SI II I 62 44 Belgrade 12 CO Cut 61 40 Dillon 07 42 68 34 43 Great Falls 68 45 Bismarck 44 Calgary 41 3.1 Denver 63 73 are necessary to win tlie war in Johnson's recommendation for re- Viel Nam The GOP Policy Co-ordinating peal of a Act j 111 I I i t I conference on Viet Nam and an- Committee said io a states can ban Lewistown New Orleans 63 N York City 77 58 bt M Phoenix 30 Id Ore TO 40 06 37 31 Louis 80 13 58 37 Salt Lake 13 Livingston C7 39 San Fran 61 52 Miles City 05 n 70 W CO Seattle 51 Spokane 72 50 88 67 SlMc 03 01 Butle Dillon 10 Havre 01 Kftllspcll 37 Miles City 42 National precipitation Chicago 63 Denver 05 51 Paul 30 New York City 50 fit 37 hey arc sending a learn of congressmen lo find out what is wrong with Atlantic Treaty Organization At the same lime House publicans declared they have moved lo implement 45 of the pledges made by the GOP form The broadside of GOP policy statements plans and proposals came from Die Republican ordinating Committee and from the House Republican ence GOP policymakers avoided ad- the use of nuclear ons in urging President Johnson to employ whatever measures made available at a news compulsory union membership lhal Johnson should call a conference of such nations as will join us in balding nism in Viel Nam Questioned about the call for all-out use of power lo curb Viet Cong Senate Republican Leader Everett M Dirksen of Illinois said the matter of nuclear weapon use was not discussed by the policy group We tried to avoid meticulous specifics if I may pul il lhat way he said The same kind of avoidance of specifics appeared in a policy committee's report on job which did nol mention GOP National Chairman Hay said there had been no tion on this issue Mouse can Leader Gerald n ford of Michigan supplemented by saying that policy on such would be made in congress rather lhan in Ihc co-ordinating committee Questioned about a statement lint Ihc Johnson administration has failed to enforce both the Idler and the spirit of civil rights laws Ford said the Republicans were referring to the fact that the attorney general had instituted only four school integration up to last April 1
