Laurel Leader-Call (Newspaper) - April 22, 1970, Laurel, Mississippi 59th 95 TELEPHONE APRIL 1970 PRICE 10 CENTS MEMBERS UF GREATER LAUREL TRIP COMMITTEE AND NEIGHBORING OFFICIALS Plane to visit Urban Renewal Projects In Four Alabama Cities Laurel Studies Sister Cities By SUE DeLOACH Writer Accom of cities In a sister were being shown some 60 Laurel and area business and civic leaders The Greater Laurel Trip Com and representatives of Collins and Waynes boro left Laurel at 7 Wed morning aboard a chart ered Southern Airways jet for the tours first stop Buses were boarded at t he Muscle Shoals Airport and Flor ence was after a wel locki at part of the Muscle Shoals TVA On To Decatur Decatur was the next where Charlie executive Decatur Redevelopment was to be host for The Laurel group was to view high rise housing com plex for the its recrea tion day care centers and Central Business District which was formerly the two cities of Decatur and has a mall project link come by Mayor William ing the two quite similar to the Laurel CBD pro On the agenda in Florence I ject which will link downtown Laurel and the Gardiner Continuing on to where Wednesday night will be a dinner and first meeting with that citys municipal anc Continued On Page Two were looks at the citys overall its Central Business Dis urban renewal its college area project and its gar housing A was made to the Auto Workers Prepared To Says Reuther ATLANTIC UPD United Auto Workers UAW have set their goals for 1970 contract talks with the nations four car and UAW President Walter Reuther says the union will be prepared to strike to back up its We dont want lo but if we cant get equity at the bargaining well be prepared to Reuther said Tuesday after delegates to the UAW Convention approved contract demands proposed by the UAW Priority Hems The priority items on the list substantial wage in return fo quarterly cost with no limit on the The UAW in in return for guaran teed annual wage agreed to an annual costof living adjustment with an 8 cent hourly limit per year but with liny additional increases to WALTER REUTHER be made up at the end of the retirement with Continued on Page Twoi WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy to tonight and Thursday with scattered showers and thund most numerous to night and Turning somewhat cooler in west and north portions High today 82 to low tonight 66 to Temperatures recorded in Laurel for the 24hour period ending 7 were 87 56 at 7 72 no Wind at 10 was south flit 8 RIVER STAGES Merrill up Little change or slow rises in next 48 Guards Patrol Kansas Campus Marks Earth Day By United Press International Americans joined forces to day in an effort to clean the earth and the air around There were demonstrations bizarre and teach lee litter pickups and even officia The idea of it all is that pollution of the land and water must cease if humanity is to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley officially declared today Earth Day in New Jersey William Cahill was to sign a creating an environmental protection de in the state depart Rebels Capture Trinidad Base HEAVIEST LOSSES Reds Down 8 Aircraft SAIGON The Command today announced the loss of four warplanes and four helicopters over South Vietnam and It was the largest loss announced at one time of American aircraft this The aircraft losses coincided with reports the South mese command now has two large armored and infantry units in Cambodia in border operations that have killed 221 Viet destroyed 90 build ings and seized an arms Terrorists penetrated to with in a block of the presidential palace in Saigon blowing up a civil defense building and wounding two A Navy A4 Skyhawk jet crashed in the lower panhandle of Laos today and its pilot was Two Air Force crashed Tuesday and both pilots were An Air Force Phantom photo plane was shot down April 16 and both crewmen were The helicopters lost over Vietnam included a Army luey that went down near the Green Beret Camp at ak 290 miles northeast of The helicopter losses Continued On Page Two New York Nelson Rockefeller officially e s t a in a a New York Environ residential area near the embattled University of Kansas campus marred a curfew Tuesday night but stopped when National Guard troops were sent to the No injuries were but three bullets slammed into i ment Proposes Institute Illinois Paul Simon proposed that the state set up an environmental institute at a major public High school children in Cape a fire truck responding to an alarm and a police car was fired The shots cracked the silence of an 11hour curfew ordered by Robert Docking which ended at B More than 225 National Guardsmen and 30 state policemen were on standby The sniping halted abruptly when two squads of National Guard troops were sent to a residential area northeast of the university campus where two street fires were Indications are that they were simply harassment shots and not really intended to said Dennis assistant city Military jeeps manned by guardsmen escorted police on patrol through this city of All buildings on the campus were under tossed from passing Others were busy with similar tasks across the Students in Los Angeles hung black balloons from marking sites of environment Continued on Page Two LATE NEWS FLASHES JEW Sets Election Date JACKSON John Bell Williams today set June 2 or a special election to fill a vacancy in the Senate and one in the House of The vacancies were created by the resignations of Merle Palmer of Pascagoula and Oscar Mackey of Water Thank Soviets MOSCOW Cuban and Soviets for the fuel and today by thanking the against Grenade Injures 21 By United Prest International A terrorist hand grenade Injured 21 persons including six Chilean in on the occupied west bank of Jordan Israeli troops dueled across the eastern and western fronts Arab Must Stand Trial will stand Joan Tunney murder of her daughter TODAYS HUMOR A drunk sitting at the bar kept trying to spear the olive in his but without suc The man next to him be came so annoyed that he grabbed the toothpick and speared the olive on the first Big shouted the It was easy for you after I got him so tired he couldnt get highways picking were on up Utter Bogota Under State Of Siege Colombia Colombian army troops took defensive positions around the Presidential Palace and pa key sections of the city braced for another round of fighting with rioters support ing the return to power of former dictator Gustavo Rojas The government declared a state of siege Tuesday night after the second day of increasing rioting since Rojas apparent defeat in Sundays presidential Mobs Riot Mobs of the former dictators supporters smashed set overturned cars anc looted stores in this capital and other major cities of Colombia before regular army troops moved in to control They arrested an estimated 50C persons in reports said one person was Continued Page Two FOR DISASTER ASSISTANCE Nixon Creates New Council WASHINGTON UPD Pres ident Nixon proposed today a revamping of the federal governments disaster relief including loans lo help local governments make up property tax In a special Nixon told Congress he was creating by executive order a new national council on federal disaster assistance to bring under one tent the multitude of government activities in the disaster He pointed out that in 1969 natural disasters caused 300 deaths and caused an estimated billion in property The President urged sion and extension of a number of activities already carried on by federal agencies to help states and The key new provision was that the government be author to loan money at favorable interest rates to local govern ments which sustain heavy losses in property taxes be cause of a major The Nixon administration ha been giving intensive study to disaster relief operations since the killer Camille struck the gulf coast last year There was widespread criticism afterward of confusion in the governments Use Viets As Shields Cambodia UPD troops slammed a 300round artillery barrage into Saang today in what their commander called raining before another at empt to recapture the town rom the Viet Cong and North Fernan dez predicted his men would take the village 20 miles southeast of Phnom Penh before Civilian Shields He credited the use of Vietnamese civilians as shields Tuesday for forcing the Com munist troops to expose their iring positions for the first time since they took the village last Their fire wounded five of the advancing Todays the Continued On Page Two Sending Men PORT OF SPAIN group of 80 army sympathizers of the black power movement Trinidad seized the arms and ammunition depot at mas army base Tuesday and fought today with loyal troops trying to take it One man on each side was The Navy in San Juan dispatched a helicopter carrier and a landing both with Marines to Trini dad and Whether they would land troops was not Living Costs Still Climbing WASHINGTON UPI The cost of living continued to climb in with American consumers paying per cent more than they did a year the government reported The Bureau of Labor Statis tics of the Labor Department said the cost of living index a per cent Continued On Page Two A spokesman at the residence of Prime Minister Eric Wil liams said the rebels were being contained but had control of the ammunition supplies at the one of the former Navy bases obtained by former President Franklin Roosevelt in World War II in exchange for 50 destroy The spokesman did not say how many soldiers were wounded in the fight but said about troops were sta at the base 11 miles from Port of He said the rest of the nation was calm and he only violence was at the ase where two persons were killed Seizure of the base was carried out in defiance of the governments declaration of modified martial imposed jy Sir Arthur to curb black power militants seeking more power Rumors circulated the black power militants also had seized o KNOCK ON DOORS I work every day around the Im Howie Hustles the never tiring Laurel Lead Classified I show your name and product to peo ple in every part of When Im on the job you dont have to cause I know my way Theres hardly a house in town that I dont visit every Call one of my assistants at 4280551 and tell her what you have to Shell help you phrase your ad to get quick re suits Puppies for German Shepherd Collie Phone The best way to find the of your choice is the Laure want The Guadalcanal normally carries about Marines and 150 Tho Spiegel Grove with a lesser number aboard is capable of disgorging and small landing Whether troops actually would land would on the Trinidad govern ment The last troop landing came in when former President Lyndon Johnson sent 400 Marines Dominican Republic foreign Trinidad and member of the into the tn including a British Corn which obtained inde in is made up of about 40 per cent 35 per cent East 18 per cent mixed and the remainder made up of whites and Black power militants demand a bigger voice in running the island Hold Pair In Burglary Jones County Chief Deputy Sheriff Brownlee reported two additional drink boxes have been burglarized in the county and Collins police are holding four boys for investigation in control of the twin island nations army but these reports appeared to be An army spokes man today spoke only of rebels seizing the Dispatches from San Puerto Rico said the Navy helicopter carrier Guadalcanal and the landing ship Spiegel both with Marines the Brownlee said the boys were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Collins on a Covington County for The deputy said Wayne County has a hold for the boys as well as Jones County when Covington County gets through with The two drink boxes at Duna gins Grocery on Highway 84 East were opened with a key and approximately in cash was sailed out of San Juan stolen from the coin before dawn Navy sources there said they were bound for Brownlee was scheduled to go to Collins Wednesday afternoon to interrogate the Colmer To Receive Award For Combating Communism Con gressman Colmer D Miss will be presented the 1970 Freedom Award from the Order of Lafayette Saturday The presentation denotes disting leadership in combating Congressman Colmer served as chairman of the PostWar Eco nomic Committee following World War He is a member of the National Forest Reservation Com mission and Chairman of the powerful House Rules Commit Colmer is presently com his 38th year in the House of Representatives and he ranks fourth in seniority in the United States He has prey been recognized for his outstanding leadership in consti government with special awards from the American Good Government Society and the Americans for Constitutional Ac Previous recipients of the Ol der of Lafayette Freedom Award WILLIAM COLMER include such personages as Senator John and mer Presidents Herbert Hoover Mendel Rivers i and Dwight Gen Douglas MacArthur and Omar Madam Chiang Kai Cardinal The award will be made at a formal ceremony at the Hotel in Washing Astronauts Credit Prayers For Safe Return SPACE Houston given the nation a dramatic tale of a fight for a quarter of a million miles away from Apollo 13s astronauts today describe to the next crews how they made it James John Swigert and Fred Haise told a national television audience Tuesday night they didnt know what happened when an sion ripped their spacecraft as it sped toward the but that it rapidly became obvious they were in very serious A loud bang and a shuddering vibration started the 87hour struggle that reveled the attention of the world on outer Swigert said the safe return was an answer to If youre asking me whether I I certainly told one And I have no doubt that perhaps my prayers and the prayers of the rest of the people did an awful contributed an awful lot for us gelling Just Keep Going Our became one of initiative and In a situation like that theres only one thing you can just keep The meeting with newsmen was unusual because it came after only the second day of a detailed debriefing instead of at its The pilots will interrupt it again Friday to discuss the failure before the Senate Space Committee in The three astronauts today a meeting with Apollo U Alan Edgar Mitchell and Alfred Worden and most of the rest of the astronaut They were to discuss the worst emergency Americans ever have encountered in While Swigert and Haise reported on their space the hoard of inquiry investigating the failure held its first meeting in a nearby building at the Manned Space craft Appears Wen Rested appearing and at ease before more than 100 said he had no idea what caused the rupture of one of the two high pressure oxygen tanks on Apollo service Its unique that we were only a few feet from the accident but the people on the ground bad a lot more information via telemetry con pressures and tempera tures and possible causes of the accident and perhaps a better indication right now than we do of exactly what caused The investigating board was relying to a great extent on this data to piece together the events that led to the The panelists hope to fix the blame and recommend tive actions in three or four Lovell had said before the April 11 blastoff from Cape Kennedy Apollo 13 was his fourth and last Bui he Tuesday night he would go again if the agency thought his crew should try and repeat the Increases Confidence Asked whether he wanted to fly again in Swigert laid I think that what this has done for if has Increased my confidence in the ability of this nations space program to lake an unusual situation and react to it and come out with a successful I consider recovery of a crew a successful said His first flight in space was as a substitute for Thomas who doctors feared would contract German measles last He still is Haise said he has worked with the space agency for 15 years as a test pilot and I dont figure to retire for another 30 so Ill just do whatever job the agency decides that is the best place I can be and contribute the 4
