Jefferson City Post-Tribune (Newspaper) - December 26, 1968, Jefferson City, Missouri VOL 103 NO 133 Warn FINAL EDITION lOc JEFFERSON CITY MISSOURI THURSDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 26 1968 Accused child Iowa surrenders in Pamela Powers still missing DAVENPORT Iowa AP Anthony Erthell Williams charged with abducting blonde Pamela Powers on Christmas Eve turned himself in to police today but the girl remained missing Desk Sgt Ernest Lester said a young Negro walked into the police station and said Im Anthony Erthell Williams I un youre looking for me Detective Lt John Ackerman said there was no doubt the man was Williams a claimed minister with an arrest record including four sex charges Police charged Williams with child stealing after Pamela the daughter of Mr and Mrs Mer lin Powers of Des Moines dis appeared from a junior high school wrestling tournament at the Des Moines YMCA Hes very calm and cool said Ackerman of Williams Hes very polite and well dressed and clean And hes a gentleman to us anyway He knows his rights and has decid ed to remain silent Meanwhile about 50 officers resumed the search in snow covered countryside near Grin nell Iowa 40 miles east of Des Moines where orange stretch pants and white bobby sox were found in a roadside waste re distraught father identified Wednesday the arti cles of clothing as those of his daughter Davenport police said Wil liams had four cents in his pock et when he turned himself in and police paid a SI taxi for his trip from Rock Island HI across the Mississippi River to the police station The search for Williams had centered in Davenport where his car was found abandoned Christmas Day Williams told officers he had telephoned a lawyer in Des Moines Henry T McKnight who advised him to turn himself in Williams asked to see a min ister when he arrived at the po lice station I dont think theres a very good possibility of finding her alive said Dan Maher of the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Inves as he coordinated the search near Grinnell over an area of about 300 miles The search party Included po See KIDNAPING page 3 Apollo on true course tor f home Anthony E Williams surrenders Ceasefire ends fighting resumes SAIGON AP Resuming offensive operations after a 24 hour Christmas ceasefire US forces caught more than 200 en emy troops on the move north west of Saigon and killed at least 53 with bombs rockets and the US ported There were no American cas The enemy soldiers ted in two groups Wednesday night and this morning by scouts from the US 1st Air Cavalry Division leapfrogging in helicopters near the jungled borders of Cambodia US and artillery went into action in an area 63 miles northwest of Saigon and only two miles from the Cambodian frontier In addition to the 53 men killed numerous second ary were a US communique said indi cating direct hits on tion stores The 24hour allied ceasefire for Christina ended at 6 pm Wednesday The Viet Cong had proclaimed a ceasefire until 1 am Friday but as soon as the allied truce ended American ambush patrols moved out into night positions and US bombers swung back into action with four raids during the night At dawn today larger allied units resumed sweeping operations north of Saigon and in the lowlands south of Da Nang A US spokesman said 15 major Amer ican offensive operations were under way from the Mekong Delta to the demilitarized zone The US Command an that American combat deaths last week dropped to their lowest total in five weeks with 838 spite intensive allied operations to stave off the Viet Cong offen sive allied intelligence officers say may be shaping up A total of 202 South Viet troops were reported killed 12 more than the week before while 2118 enemy dead were reported an average fig ure US headquarters said that during the 24hour allied Christ mas ceasefire 133 incidents of enemy activity were reported and 47 were considered signifi cant because casualties oc curred Spokesmen said two Ameri cans 34 enemy soldiers and 15 South Vietnamese were killed during ceasefire The wounded included 36 Americans and 35 South Viet One of the two Ameri cans killed was a crewman aboard a light reconnaissance plane that was hit by ground fire Christmas morning Meanwhile the US Com mand awaited another Commu nist radio broadcast proposing further meetings to negotiate the release of three American prisoners whose return was of last weekl Everyone hopes for another meeting but we have no indica tion of when or where it will be a US spokesman said We hope to get our nen back The only way well get word is over a radio broadcast An unprecedented 2V2hour meeting Christmas afternoon between five US and five North Vietnamese representa tives collapsed apparently in a wrangle over procedures The Communists claim the National Liberation is the sole au representative of the South Vietnamese people while the Saigon regime refuses to do anything that might be construed as giving the a status equal to Saigons in Par is An communique issued today in Penh Cambo dia quoted the three prisoners as urging American troops in South Vietnam to mutiny or sur render We call on American GIs in Sruth Vietnam to demand to go home refuse to go to the battle front and avoid needless death the communique quoted the prisoners as saying If you clash with the Viet you should lay down your arms and go with them as prisoners Their treatment to you will be the same as ours was lenient and humane The communique also quoted the captives as saying We now all clearly see this war as aggressive and brutal A similar statement was broadcast by the Viet Cong ra dio It gave no hint of when the three would be freed SPACE CENTER Houston AP Eager to return home after their historic orbit of the moon the Apollo 8 explorers streaked faster and faster to ward the earth today on a per fect course that is to land them in the Pacific Ocean Friday morning Were happy to report the earth is getting larger com mander Frank Borman said this morning Looks like youre going to hit the earth instead of Venus joked astronaut Gerald Carr the ground communicator At that time Apollo 8 was 138000 miles from earth zip ping along at 3600 miles an hour Air Force Col Borman Navy Capt James A Lovell Jr and Air Force Maj William A An ders reported they were well rested after lengthy sleep per It was the best shape they have been in since they started the momentous journey last Sat They were extremely tired after completing 10 orbits of the moon Wednesday and were told to get as much rest as possible for Fridays critical reentry through the earths atmosphere The spacemen were in good spirits as they chatted with Carr this morning receiving the dai ly news report from the inters tellar Times and hearing the latest about their families Asked about the weather An ders said It looks like its snowing out right now He was dumping waste water which freezes as it hits icy cold space Lovell reported that his star tracking navigation checks were matching ground computations extremely well Do you want to turn off your radios and come in without us queried the ground Apollo 8 was on such an accu rate course that a second mid course correction maneuver planned today was cancelled Controllers said the craft would make a slight adjustment just two hours before reentry The astronauts are to slam into the heaviest part of the at Friday at 24700 miles an hour If the craft comes in at too steep an angle it could break apart from the tremendous forces exerted on it If the angle is too shallow it could skip off the atmosphere flinging the as deep into space to a point where they would not have enough oxygen to survive er return trip The ship must hit a gree reentry 26 slot at an altitude of 400000 feet To maintain a relatively con stant buildup of gravity forces nearly six days of astronauts will make a 30000foot from about 180000 feet back up to 210000 feet before nosing over into their final descent After enduring reentry tem up to 5000 degrees Fahrenheit Apollo 8 is to para chute into the Pacific Ocean 1000 miles south of Hawaii about am EST Friday Weather conditions were report ed satisfactory in the planned recovery area Splashdown is scheduled about 75 before day light Hawaii time the first darkness landing of a US manned space flight Unless there is an emergency recovery forces will let the astronauts float in the spacecraft or in See APOLLO page 3 Questioning of Pueblo delayed crewmen LS Israeli jetliner attacked by Arabs at Athens airport ATHENS AP Two Arab terrorists attacked an Israel jet liner with machine guns and hand grenades today as the plane moved to take off from Athens Airport An Israeli pas senger was killed by bullets that poured in through the windows and the plane caught fire Greek airport police rushed out on the landing strip clubbed one of the terrorists on the head and seized the other as he tried to flee Each of the Arabs a hand grenade before opening fire at the El Al Boeing 707 as it moved for take off on a flight to Paris and New York with 37 passengers and 10 crew mem bers It was the terror ist attack against the national Israeli airline in six months Last July 23 a group of Pales tine commandos hijacked an El Al Boeing out of Rome and took it to Algiers No one was killed in that incident The passengers and plane were eventually re leased In Beirut Lebanon the same Palestinian Arab guerrilla or that planned the July hijack claimed responsibility for todays attack Our commandos are respon sible for the incident said a spokesman for the Liberation of Palestine Leaflets scattered by the two gunmen on the tarmac also identified them as members of the organization report said a passen ger also had been wounded by the gunfire but police reported later none had They said a stewardess twisted her leg get ting out of the burning plane and was the only other casualty The dead man was identified as Leon Shirdan a 50yearold maritime engineer and a retired Israeli navy commander He was flying to New York and Buenos Aires on business his firm the Maritime and Civil Engineering Co of Haifa re ported It is planning a shipyard in Philadelphia Only one of the grenades hurled by the attackers ed It blew up under the planes right wing damaging one of the four engines and puncturing a fuel tank The other grenade fell under the nose of the plane but failed to go off A policeman said See ISRAELI page 3 Union officers arrest ordered KANSAS CITY war rant of arrest has been issued for Melvin Branson of Jeffer son City after a in returned by a US grand jury The indictment returned last week charges unlawful attempts to embezzle steal and convert to his own use various sums during the years 1964 1965 1966 and the first half of 1967 The sums totals more than Branson was Identified as sec of Laborers In Union of North America Local No 662 of Jef ferson City The office of the clerk of the court said today execution of the warrant has not come back Warmer Jefferson City and Central Missouri Mostly cloudy and warmer tonight and Friday with a chance for light rain Low tonight 35 to 40 High Fri day in the 40s Precipitation probabilities tonight 50 per cent Friday 70 per cent SAN DIEGO Calif AP Navy officials changed their minds today decided to de lay until Friday the start of in tensive interrogation of the 82 surviving USS Pueblo crewmen That left a full day today for medical examinations The crew was restricted to two buildings for an estimated ten days of the examinations and debriefing One building is their sleeping quarters The other 20 yards away is the RX Club the where they and their families have spent most of their first two days at the US Naval Hospital here sitting in small family groups around the vast room The Navy refuses to describe the debriefing procedure except Great society funds boosted WASHINGTON AP In the twilight weeks of the Johnson presidency Democratic admin are feeding farewell doses of federal funds to pet programs The objective says one de parting Democrat is to create plenty of momentum to pro pel the programs past possible budget slashes in the early months of Richard M Nixons Republican administration The latest example came this week and involved one of the Johnson administrations favor ite urban Cit ies Officials disclosed that Seat tle Wash is receiving a million bundle of federal grants tp move its Model Cities pro gram off the drawing boards id into action This was the first time the fund for sup Model Cities grants had been tapped but Robert C Wood acting secretary of Hous ing and Urban Development said other cities with plans un der review can expect a deci sion shortly V Before Nixon moves into the White House on Jan 20 officials said its possible that nearly a score of other cities will receive similar grants These include Atlanta Baltimore Boston and Cambridge Mass Charlotte NC Denver Colo Detroit and Highland Park Mich Ala Philadelphia Portland Maine Portland Ore Reading Pa St Louis Mo Tenn Tampa Fla and Waco Tex Funds for preliminary plan ning of Model Cities projects were exhausted a month ago when 22 cities were added to the 125 communities already chart ing federally sponsored attacks on urban blight While Great Society planners say the surge of grants was motivated by their belief that the Model Cities approach is the best way to upgrade city slums they concede it will have the ef fect of firmly entrenching the program before the change in administrations They believe Nixon and his lieutenants will feel compelled to continue allo cations under standards set by the Democrats The momentum theory is being applied to other Great So ciety programs too Take the Concentrated Em ployment Program On Dec 6 Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz announced that his de and the Pentagon had agreed to expand this program to train 5600 hardcore jobless for government jobs at defense installations in 41 cities Re of the trainees will be underway before Nixon takes of fice At the same time the Labor Department is renewing individ ual CEP contracts While some of the departments news re leases say the projects are being continued for another year investigation revealed that in most instances contract funds will run out next summer when any decision not to refund the projects would generate po heat on the Nixon admin Theres no indication the White House is the moving force behind the recent developments Two weeks before Nixons elec tion Budget Director Charles Zwick had sent a memo to all department heads urging them to be considerate of possible needs of the incoming adminis tration in January leaving to them decisions on moves pur chases and other actions that can be that such ac tion can be tailored as closely as possible to the new adminis trations policies and pro grams Although Nixon himself has not publicly complained lican governors said they were acting with his blessings earlier when they adopted a resolution accusing the Democratic admin of rushing through politically motivated changes in government policy that would hamstring and embarrass the new President The resolution was not ic but Gov Ronald Reagan of California said the governors were unhappy about proposed See SOCIETY pife 3 to say the crew will be ques about all phases of its conduct from the time of the capture last Jan 23 to the crews release Until the completion of the de briefing and a subsequent in by the Navy as routine crewmen have been ad vised to discuss no details of their experience with outsiders and to be guarded in what they tell their families Consequently their relatives main impressions thus far have been that despite reports of bru tal treatment by the North Ko reans the crewmen spirits are high Physically however the men are changed They lost from 20 to 40 pounds each From their families accounts all were beaten at least once and some may have been tortured The mother of Duane Hodges 21 a fireman who was killed when the North Koreans cap tured the Pueblo last Jan 23 said shes satisfied the skipper Cmdr Lloyd M Bucher gave her a complete account of her sons death He was standing on deck bending over destroying secret papers when he was hil by ene my fire said Mrs Jesse D Hodges of Creswell Ore Capt Bucher told us he wished it had been him Officials tried to stay in the background Wednesday ing what they called a good oldfashioned Christmas for the crew and families The crews full 11nionth pay was made available sailors withdrew an average 4 cash each The post ex change was open and the crew bought watches toys dolls and a bow and arrow set Most crew members and their families attended either a Prot communion service or a Roman Catholic Mass and aft exchanged presents Two crewmen and their families attended a Jewish Hanukkah service Then came Christmas dinner roast turkey prime ribs of beef and rainbow trout with full trimmings Families then returned to the lounge in the other end of fee Pink Palace as the RX Club is dubbed and conversed until late evening Babysitters looked aft er children After the debriefings the crew is to receive several days liberty in the San Diego area Then a court of inquiry into the Pueblo incident will open at na val amphibious base at Corona do Calif Vice Adm Harold G Bowen will be presiding officer Such an inquiry said Capt Vincent Thomas Pacific fleet public information officer is routine in all major incidents involving Navy ships He added that the inquiry will be open to the public except when classified information is being discussed Christmas day fire damages city home A Christmas tree exploded and caught fire Wednesday night at the residence of Alex ander Bell Jr 710 Lafayette St Bell told firemen that the Christmas tree exploded and the fire spread so rapidly that I had to go next door to a neighbors to call the fire de Firemen arrived at the fire at pm and quickly extin the flames Three pumpers and 11 men responded to the call No one was hurt According to firemen 80 per cent of the first floor of the brick structure was destroyed includ ing toys for the Bells children In addition the second floor was damaged by smoke Cargo jet crashes Commander comes home Navy Cmdr Lloyd M Bucher skipper of the USS Pueblo and wife Rose had a glad but tear ful reunion Christmas Eve at Miramar Naval Air Station San Diego Mrs Bucher is the former 1 Rose Dolores Holing daughter rf Mrs Frank Roling 303 E Ash ley St She was a leading cam for release of the Pueblo and its crew during the 11 months since the ships capture by the North Koreans AP Wirephoto ANCHORAGE Alaska AP A PanAmerican World Air ways 707 jet crashed at Elmen dorf Air Force Base here on takeoff early today The plane on a charter mall flight carried a crew of three Their fate was not immediately known Tlie jet crashed about am The planes des was not known but the field is a regular stopover for flights operating between the states and the Far East The big cargo plane crashed and broke into flames about a half mile off the end of the run way Authorities said were no buildings IB tte
