Kingsport News (Newspaper) - March 28, 1970, Kingsport, Tennessee JUST 50 YEARS LATE ATLANTA Gov Lester Maddox Friday signed into law 50 years loo late Georgia's ratification of U S constitutional amendment the one gives women the right to vote The man who wilh giving women the vote in 1920 was on hand Maddox made it official that women have voting rights they won across the nation ago The ratification commemorates the anniversary of the League o Women Voters White House Says Bunker Rumor False KEY BISCAYNE Fla White House Friday denied reports President Nixon was displeased wilh the performance of Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in and planned lo replace him The diplomat has come under fire from some American planners for his strong support of South Vietnamese Nguyen Van Thieu the view of his critics condoning Thieu's jailing of political opponents Press Ronald L Ziegler told newsmen during a brieling at the vacation While House Bunker will come lo the United Stales in May for extensive consultations and then return lo Saigon to the post he has held since April 1967 as the top-ranking American in the war zone There are absolutely no plans to replace the Ziegler said There is no displeasure on the part of the President whatsoever in relation to Ambassador Bunker's actions in Saigon His long record in service as ambassador speaks for Uself There was a report President Nixon was displeased because he did not get a completely candid report from Bunker on the jailing by Thieu of Ngoc Chau a member of South Vietnamese National Assembly Chau arrested for having contact wilh North Vietnamese agents and claimed he was acting with the knowledge of high-ranking Americans a claim that has not been denied by the Americans President Nixon was asked about the Chau affair at his news conference last Saturday and would not comment beyond saying that Bunker was holding consultations with Thieu on the mailer In a related development Ziegler was asked to on reports from Saigon that American warplanes were bombing Communist positions across border in Cambodia He said it had long been a standing policy that American forces could return hostile fire from across the border and denied there had been a change in policy that would further expand the war into Cambodia Nixon arrived here Thursday for a long Easter holiday with his family McNair Upset By Hickel NEW YORK UPI South Carolina Gov Robert E U S Interior Secretary Walter J Hickel Friday for telling a West German firm that he would vigorously oppose its plans lo build a petrochemical near S C unless the company meets standards McNair said ho firm Analin and Soda Fabrik BASF has officially agreed to comply with all water standards rules and regulations which are in effect in the stale Truckers Want Mediation WASHINGTON UPI New contract negotiations between the Teamsters Union and the nation's trucking industry reached an impasse Friday and the union asked for federal mediation The deadlock in fhe negotiations covering some truck drivers raised the prospect of scattered strikes by next Wednesday that could lead to a nationwide lockout hy the industry The existing contract expires at midnight Tuesday Frogmen Search For Body BUENOS AIRES UPI Argentine coast guard frogmen t cling on anonymous telephone tips Friday searched fhe muddy waters of the River for he body of allegedly slain Paraguayan Consul Waldemar Sanchez Sanchez was kidnaped by terrorists Tuesday Anonymous phone calls to radio and television stations early Friday said his captors had executed him and dumped his body into the river because the government refused lo exchange two political prisoners for his release Wild Chase Ends LEXINGTON Ky UPI Three Cleveland jail fugitives who held two women hostage on a wild two-state police chase were back in custody Friday each under bond After a chase by more than 100 police officers Thomas E Thomas 20 James Sykes 22 both federal prisoners from Mississippi and David Lee Carpenter 19 of Lakewood Ohio were captured Thursday night near here at a roadblock Postal Negotiations Favorable WASHINGTON UPI The president of the letter carriers Friday old his members he was wilh progress in negotiations with the government loward a permanent settlement of the postal strike and they should say on their jobs In a telegram to all local union presidents James H Please advise your membership that performance of government after two days of almost continuous negotiations satisfies our expectations of prompt and favorable results Laotian's Advance VIENTIANE Laos UPI Meo tribesmen under the command of Maj Gen Vang Pao and by the round-the-clock U S air strikes have pushed forward four miles from his headquarters at Long Cheng well informed military sources said Friday night The report on military activity coincided with a charge in Vientiane Generally fair skies wilh slightly milder High today low Outlook for Easter Sunday cloudy and cooler wilh rain likely High 55 low 29 Precipitation 6 for the month 1.62 Sunrise today p.m Humidity at p.m 50 per cent MM MM uH Christians Retrace Christ's Steps JERUSALEM of Christian pilgrims retraced Friday the steps of Jesus Christ to His crucifixion on Calvary while Israeli helicopters hovered protectively overhead As the pilgrims many of from overseas gathered at the St Stephen's Gate entrance to the old of Jerusalem Israeli jets were streaking Egypt on bombing raids While the pilgrims wailed for the traditional Good Friday procession lo begin a lillle more than 200 miles to Die west five Egyptian MIG jel fighter bombers were being blasted out of the sky One hour and 10 minutes after Hie brief A CROSS TO BEAR Kent Schneider 24 soon to be ordained a United Church of Christ minister carries the top of a tele- in a three mile walk-up and down Chicago's Michigan nue He said the pole represents man's communication hangup a contemporary style of crucifixion Schneider will continue his daily walks until tomorrow Easter day DPI photo Troops Quell First Sihanouk Uprising PHNOM PENH Cambodian government announced Friday its troops had smashed a Viel uprising in support of deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk It closed the nation's international airports and urged restricted movement within the capital itself The official Cambodian news agency said five demonstrators were killed or wounded by army troops in provincial capital of Kompong Cham where Sihanouk supporters went on a rampage Thursday sacking the courthouse and provincial governor's mansion After being fired on by army forces in Kompong Cham demonstrators seized several trucks by force and got within two miles of Phnom Penh before they were hailed and arrested by soldiers loyal to the government of Premier Lon Nol The government said the rioters were incited by the Viet Cong The incident was the first reported clash between pro and elements in the country since the former chief of slate was by the National Assembly on March 18 It was disclosed as Saigon reports said South Vietnamese troops with air and artillery support had thrust two miles info Cambodia Friday killing 53 Communist soldiers in the first major attack against North and Viol Cong forces encamped in Cambodia In the Laotian capital of Vientiane nearly 30 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong diplomats were stranded early Saturday at the airport after Laotian authorities ordered they remain there instead of being laken to Communist embassies or hotels in town The Communist diplomats ordered of Cambodia by the government had arrived from Phnom Penh aboard an International Control Commission plane that was five hours More On Page 8 Col 1 air battle the pilgrims shuffled forward lo follow Christ's footsteps lo His death upon the cross on Calvary Chanting the mournful dirges of Christendom's most sorrowful day the pilgrims wound through narrow alleys of the Via Doloresa packed shoulder to shoulder in its narrow confines Before them shuffled the heads ot their religious communities burdened under replicas of the cross on which Christ In narrow doorways and alleys along the route long-haired hippies and heir in and lee shirts watched in silence More On Page 8 Cot 1 Kingsport News KINGSPORT TENNESSEE 37660 SATURDAY MARCH 28 1070 VOLUME XXXIII No 63 2 SECTIONS 18 PAGES 10 CENTS Air Strikers May Be Cited For Contempt By United Press International As Easier weekend air traffic began lo pile up at major U.S airports a federal judge in Washington set in motion contempt of court proceedings Friday the striking air controllers union U.S District Judge Gerhard A Gesell ordered lawyer F Lee Bailey and officers of the Professional Air Traffic Con- trol Organization lo show cause by next Wednesday why they not he held in contempt for defying a court ban on the air controllers walkout Bailey initially contended the walkout was not a but simply a case of controllers calling in sick and fatigued and that therefore court's restraining order Wednesday against a did not apply unless individual controllers felt obliged to comply The air controllers like all other federal employes are forbidden to strike Penalties under a contempt citation are at the discretion of lie judge They usually amount to fine for each day the violation is con- Meanwhile the air controllers sick-out continued through the third day with the Federal Aviation Administration claiming thai operations were near normal and PATO insisting that it was seriously disrupting the nation's air system As Easier holiday travellers began crowding into terminals the effect of the slowdown worsened Tn New York airlines posted warnings that departures might be delayed as much as five hours and that arrivals could he expected lale by as much as three hours Delays in is planes lale in reluming from earlier given as the reason At O'Hare International in Chicago the FAA reported departure delays of one lo two hours because regional air traffic control centers were nol staffed sufficiently lo handle additional traffic Inbound flights were delayed as much as an hour and most airlines canceled some flights lo keep closer to schedule Judge Gesell's show cause order was issued against Bailey Michael I Rock fhe board chairman and James Hays the union's president Israelis Notch Five MIGs By United Press International Israeli jets swirling in dogfights three miles above Egypt shot down five Egyptian jets in five minutes Friday shattering the craft wilh cannon and sile fire Israeli spokesmen said Egypt said ifs MIGs shot down one Israeli jet and aged another in a massive air battle ing 40 aircraft In other action coming as holy land pilgrims marked Christ's crucifixion Israeli jets also struck at Arab gun sites in Jordan after a barrage of Katyusha rockets hit Israel's Dead Sea potash works near the Biblical city of Sodom In the Beirut area at least four persons were reported killed and six wounded during a series of new clashes between Arab guerrillas quartered in Lebanon and rightwing groups The big air battle broke feet above the area of Suez Canal's northern terminus at Suez City when Egyptian interceptors challenged Israeli air force planes attacking Egyptian military targets in their 12th raid since Monday A Tel Aviv military spokesman said the Israeli warplanes blew one MIG apart in air and sent four others spiraling to earth wilh and missiles destroying more than million worth of Egypt's air force Egypt said it lost only one plane with all others returning safely to base Friday's air battle was biggest victory claimed since Sept 11 1969 when Israel announced ifs air force shot down If Egyptian jets in dogfights over the canal Since he 1967 Middle East War Israel has claimed to have shot down 102 Arab Egyptian ami 17 Syrian including 66 the most sophisticated warplanes in the Arab war machine In the same period Israel has losing 19 aircraft 18 of them jets The new air battle came as fhe Israelis pressed intensive air operations believed designed to prevent the stationing in the Suez Canal area of the new antiaircraft missiles the Russians are delivering lo Egypt along with Soviet crews to man them Tlie judge furthermore amended the Justice Department's request lo require that Bailey also show cause why he should be to remain as counsel in the air controllers case Gesell said he did so because government's allegations raised a question of some import if a lawyer admitted to practice before the court should appear to be in contempt of the court As the Easier weekend crush of travelers threatened lo lengthen light delays at major airports both sides in the controversy fought a battle and countercharge The Federal Aviation Administration said the sick-out a failure and nationwide flight operations were continuing safely wilh a minimum of delays The Professional Air Traffic Control More On Page 8 Col 1 Candidate Says State Needs Ideal By ELLIS BINKLEY Political Editor W Maxey Jarman a potential candidate for Republican nomination for governor believes slate should be run on a like basis he told the Kingsport Kiwanis Club here Friday Jarman retired board chairman of GENESCO the world's largest wearing apparel manufacturer of Nashville made the talk with his left arm in a sling the result of a fall in he bathroom he ex- What slate government needs like a business is fo set an ideal for next 10 years and then try to achieve he said Concerning education he said hat less emphasis should be placed on teachers and more on character development of students in the lower grades and high school He said more emphasis should be placed on cultural development such as an appreciation for music literature art and the like He also said Tennessee needs to plan highways for 10 years in the future only in Tennessee but all over the stale He said at the present he didn't know how it should be done Jarman also expressed concern Over pollution from commercial sources automobiles and municipalities He included litter and noise as part of this classification The industrialist suggested that the waste now going into the air and streams be put lo use by industries and municipalities The potential gubernatorial candidate put crime welfare and correctional institutions More On Page 8 Col 1 Judge Rekindles Kopechne Death Case BOSTON judge who presided over a secret inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Sen Edward M Kennedy's car recommended further legal action in with the accident it was learned Friday Judge James A Boyle of District Court called for further process in the case but did not spell out course of legal he had in mind according fo a reliable source Boyle according lo source concluded some of the witnesses at the four day inquest that Jan gave contradictory testimony concerning he circumstances surrounding accident on Island across a channel from Martha's Vineyard Boyle's report and the 764 page of inquest testimony have been impounded pending a decision by authorities lo move for further criminal Though Boyle has power lo push ahead with prosecution of the case he lefl it up to Massachusetts Attorney General Robert H Quinn and District Attorney Edmund S Dinis lo decide what the further process should be Dinis took fhe initiative Jt was announced Thursday Dukes County Grand Jury would reconvene in Edgartown April 6 to reopen the Kopechne Jury foreman Leslie H Leland who made formal request tor recalling the panel denied Friday it was Iho district attorney's idea However Leland said he reached his decision after consultation with Dinis Miss Kopechne a Washington secretary who worked in campaign of he lale Sen Robert F Kennedy of New York died July 18 when Edward Kennedy's black sedan the Massachusetts senator at the off a narrow plank bridge into a tidal pond Leland in an interview said the grand jury would begin its investigation by reviewing all available documents about the case After that he said witnesses probably will be called but he would not go into detail The proceedings which held in secret at the old Edgartown Courthouse where inquest also was conducted may last a week or more
