Manitowoc Herald Times (Newspaper) - August 9, 1972, Manitowoc, Wisconsin 36 Pages Plus Supplement MANITOWOC Vol 317 Second Class postage paid at Manitowoc Wis MANITOWOC WIS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9 Price Fifteen Cents Senators to Vote on to Ban Sale of Handguns WASHINGTON AP The fore they would be illegal Senate has agreed to a final McGovern Sh river Drive Against GOP vote late today on a that would ban the sale of handguns not suitable for sporting poses One major amendment planned by Sen Roman L Hruska would exempt 7th Choice Not Embarrassed to be on Team Unity Top Effort os Democrats Line Up Their Campaign WASHINGTON AP In a unity show the Democrats have handed their vice-presidential nomination to Sargent Shriver and cheered the ticket's opening swings at President Nixon and Vice ident Spiro T Agnew I'm not embarrassed to be George McGovern's seventh choice for vice Shriver said Tuesday after the Democratic National Com- added him to the ticket We Democrats may be short of money We're not short of talent Think of the comparison and then you can pity poor Mr I first and only choice Sen Birch Bayh Spiro Agnew ill's chief sponsor The Democrats k Hruska's change's would weaken the enforcement provisions in the He called Hruska's amendment a key test and said he didn't know what the outcome would be The Democrats loved it If we have used valuable time in the selection of a vice- presidential McGovern the nation must wish the Republicans had made their choice with greater dealers from the sales ban with Purpose of the result that only Bayh has emphasized Drawn and importers would is aimed chiefly at And thus the lines were prohibited from selling the j cheap easily concealable drawn again this time with CHEMICAL TANKS EXPLODE Firefighters battle blaze in chemical storage tank area near Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro Calif Tuesday top photo At least 15 tanks up to -40 feet high and 20 feet around exploded and went into flames In lower photo a tank soars more than 100 feet in the -air The fire lasted about three hours AP Wirephotos Plan to Give Elderly Relief on Assessments Considered used by criminals but amendment contends it also would O t Via TYI Mercury Drops in Lakeshore I guns Hruska's would require disapproval by exclude the sale of many the Secretary of the Treasury quality weapons that he says of individual models of guns be- millions of Americans want for self-protection Hruska said a nightmare enforcement would be created by trying to hold 160.000 ed dealers responsible for cor- interpreting and applying the technical and com- plex standards The be at the initial distribution level Hruska said Bayh objected this would leave dealers free to dispose of present stocks Under his dealers who turned in their plies would be compensated byj the government Ended Record Keeping The Senate voted 71 to 21 MANITOWOC The woc Common Council is con- adoption of an nance which would give elderly property owners relief from cial assessments for permanent street paving The ordinance believed to be the first of its Kind hi Wisconsin was based in part on the state homestead tax relief act for the elderly The ordinance was given its first reading at the council meeting earlier this week and was referred to the Committee on Streets and Utilities for study Committee officials said the could have principal payments deferred indefinitely although deferments would be subject to review by the council every five years They would be required to pay only the interest on the principal using a sliding scale based on household income Interest rates would be six per cent for those with an al household income between and five per cent between and three per cent between and and two tier cent between and Get 10 Years To Pay Under the second plan the It was another one of those unseasonably brisk mornings Wednesday Temperatures dropped into the 40s in most state areas with a low of 39 reported at Black River Falls The 40 at Madison was a record for the date surpassing a 1964 mark of 42 Other lows early in the day ranged between 41 at Shell Lake and Mather and 51 at waukee Manitowoc's coldest reading was at 8 when 43 was recorded A rather strong low pressure system passed rapidly eastward across the state Tuesday companied by light rain mostly in the northeastern half of the state Green Bay had a little less than a fifth of an inch of rain during the 24-hour period ending at 7 Wednesday but the precipitation by the brisk winds ed flooding problems especially along the shores of the bay Manitowoc's rainfall was in- Tuesday but at times was pretty heavy ing visibility especially in the rural area When the winds began shifting the skies cleared The winds were gusty and quite strong during the evening hours but dried up the rainfall measured 01 an inch locally Some ground fog developed mostly in the southwestern portion of the state Highs in the state Tuesday were mostly in the 60s er Manitowoc never reached the mark maintaining readings mostly in the 50s during the daylight hours sion and modification to make it more able workable and Ul ordinance was subject to claimants would be given 10 years to pay the total ment in annual installments with no interest charge Abutting property owners mally are given five years to pay special street assessments and are required to pay six per cent interest annually on the un- paid balance Officials said that either of the two plans would cut the costs of elderly ants at least 50 per cent ily compared to the present plan There have been complaints that permanent paving projects worked a financial hardship on elderly property living on fixed and limited incomes The complaints were voiced in connection with the present ing project on South 21st Street and the proposed paving of North Fifth Street and land Avenue in 1973 Requirements Listed Tuesday to eliminate a 1968 re- for on the sale of all rimfire caliber ammunition Sen Brock who offered the amendment said the had driven many merchants out of ness and caused inconveniences to sportsmen By a vote the re- an amendment of Sen McGovern teamed with Shriver in place of Sen Thomas F Eagleton of Missouri who drew last week after disclosing that he had undergone shock treatment for mental sion in the McGovern and Shriver were to try and sustain the tum at a unity luncheon today with members of the ic National which winds up its extraordinary three-day meeting today with some ordinary business In addition Latin and caucuses were to meet separately with McGovern to air grievances that their favorite being represented in his Not All for Shriver In the balloting Shriver was given of the committee's authorized votes It appeared he might be elected unanimously But then Missouri Gov Warren Hearnes cast his state's 73 votes for Eagleton and Oregon cast four of its 74 votes for maverick Democrat Wayne Morse who is trying for a Senate comeback Guam had nobody present and its three votes weren't counted Shriver 56 former director THE DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee Sen George McGovern holds his new running mate's band high in the air in a victory pose after the ic National Committee approved the tion of Sargent Shriver Tuesday night in Washington AP Wirephoto Senate Sends No-Fault Auto Insurance to Committee Adlai Stevenson to CorPs and quire the registration of a killing any chance of WASHINGTON AP The Senate has sent back to com- a to establish a tional system of no-fault insurance apparently handguns and the licensing of handgun owners Adopted by an vote was an amendment by Sen Peter Dominick making the carrying of a gun in the y ambassador to France and action this year Kennedy outlined Everybody knows what this Democratic campaign in is all Sen the Word to Young We intend to go out and ask of our young not mission of a crime a to The Weather schools but to teach children not iust to complain about the quality of law enforcement but to enlist in our overburdened Partly cloudy and cool Turn to Page 2 Col 2 night and Thursday Chance of showers Lows on the high 40s and low highs in the Manitowoc Temperatures 4 p.m Tuesday 55 8 p.m 49 midnight 52 4 Wednesday 44 8 43 noon 55 Two Rivers Temperatures 4 p.m Tuesday 62 8 p.m 54 midnight 52 4 Wednesday 48 51 noon 53 Senators Against Recommitting WASHINGTON AP consin Democrats Gaylord son and William Proxmire I voted Tuesday against a no-fault insurance to the Senate Judiciary Com- The was sent to the committee British Policy of Internment Protested by Irish Catholics ren ager of the told the Senate It buries the simple as that By a vote Tuesday night the Senate approved a motion by Sen Roman Hruska Judiciary most court suits arising from This is a real blow at the traffic accidents and would re- American son said It affects every American home The pressure he added must have been strong Everyone was giving me this pious I'm for quire companies to promptly and automatically pay claims within limits of each for medical and rehabilitation ex- penses and for lost no fault But Magnuson continued We'll have it back on floor again in January The insurance industry was divided on the measure with fhe biggest car insurer State Farm neutral Such insurers Neb to send the Commerce as Aetna and Nationwide favor Committee measure to the Judiciary Committee for ther study Sens Sam J Ervin Jr D- Marlow Cook and Strom Thurmond ar- gued that objectionable sions and serious the deserve j study by the lawyers on Judiciary Real Blow But Magnuson countered the 17 on Commerce are iust as as the 17 on The industry collects lion annually in premiums and pays out billion Seriously in- victims recover only an estimated 16 per cent of their actual losses through court tions according to a Trans- Department study Ten states have no- Allstate and Travelers plans but only are opposed A large segment of the lawyers profession is against the concept Averts Court Suits The would do away with da and Massachusetts have laws which approached the eral goals in the drivers in two years have had a tion in bodily injury premiums The street assessment relief The special assessment relief would be limited to persons would be terminated if the sinH aged 65 and over whose hold income is less than annually and whose net worth is valued at less than To be eligible the property must be residentially zoned or claimants transferred title to their property or if they ingly misrepresented their condition to the city Claimants would be required to make application for relief to used and must be occupied city within 60 days of re- BELFAST AP Gunfire explosions and massive street demonstrations gave Northern Ireland a tumultuous day of Roman Catholic protest today against the British internment policy Buses were hijacked in fast and the border town of Newry A gang of youths stopped a freight train outside Lurgan and bombarded it with gasoline grenades British troops said they shot two guerrilla gunmen in the capital and three soldiers were slightly wounded Several thousand Catholics took to the streets of Belfast at 4 the hour when the Brit- ish Army a year ago today be- gan rounding up men suspected of being activists of the Irish Republican Army tb claimants one plan SPA PERI of a stop the IRA Nearly 300 are still held and the British re- leased 47 more Tuesday But the Catholics demand freedom for all and the end of the in- law Bombs Shots Heard Bombs and shots were heard in the New Lodge and districts of Belfast The army said troops fired at and hit a gunman in but the crowd dragged him away A mob tried to storm a police and army post in the Springfield Road and a burst sprayed its sandbag emplacements The ri- tried to ram the sandbags with a crane but the troops drove them off with rubber lets to London In the Falls Road another major Catholic precinct rioters ln the year since more than dragged three buses and special men were interned across the street I trial but the roundups did not i them Meanwhile Britain's trator for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw hurried to London to confer with Prime Minister Edward Heath after two days of talks with leaders of the Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP the ty of Northern Ireland's ate Catholics Whitelaw said he would meet with the SDLP leaders again Friday The Protestant Belfast letter claimed that at least 260 IRA gunmen and activists have been killed in the three years of religious warfare The Newsletter said its information came from police and IRA sources The government says its con- firmed total of 501 dead in the three years includes 54 IRA men But the guerrilla has a long tradition of South Viet Force Mauled House Committee Votes Emergency Disaster WASHINGTON AP A ministration million to help emergency dis- the recovery of economic was approved today by the House ity through technical aid in damaged communities tions Committee Regional It is scheduled for House mission million primarily SAIGON AP Hundreds next week subsurface stabilization in South Vietnamese rangers have Most of the money would b areas where ground surfaces replaced government for Of victims Of have been weakened by floods men badly mauled in a Tropical Storm Agnes and of ambushes only 17 miles and reconstruction for of Saigon Officers in the field damage to public facilities said 58 of the militiamen were The committee called this the Home killed and 55 wounded in million to speed up fighting Monday and undertaken by the federal to in rural The Rangers moving on foot government and by helicopters were The total is million maneuvering to get behind than President Nixon re- estimated 250 North in a special message to ese and Viet Cong in the Binh Congress July 17 Song rubber plantation east of included in the total are Highway 15 areas these The enemy forces ambushed Business a platoon of South Vietnamese tration billion for militiamen on a patrol Monday terest loans to an estimated along a dirt road between the homeowners and village of Binh Son and businessmen who sustained Thanh away EDUCATOR DIES CORVALLIS Helen Gilkey damages disaster relief fund million for state and Ore AP governments and a retired in the form of temporary I in secret its dead or heal member of the Oregon State j housing free food coupons University faculty and an inter- i unemployment compensation truffles died Monday restoration of public Development Ad- Call Manitowoc Dial Two Rivers OM
