Morgantown Dominion-Post (Newspaper) - June 2, 1968, Morgantown, West Virginia Helen Friend of Dies at 87 Conn. a blind deaf-mute who rose from her silent world of darkness to become one of the great women of the 20th died at her home less than a month short of her 88th The gentle woman who walked with kings and presidents in her lifelong crusade to help the world's died on her estate outside She had been in failing health for two At her side was her longtime Mrs. Winifred Her death ended an incredible of courage and determination that resulted in accomplishments unparalleled by any woman of her Despite her handicaps which led to an almost existence for the first eight years of her Miss Keller graduated from college with became a lecturer and world primarily in behalf of the Her phenomenal achievements won the acclaim of the world and a host of honors from U.S. presidents and many foreign Few who knew her in her most active years could really grasp the true realization that his charming lady with gray blue eyes and regal bearing was once a helpless and pitiful child of whom a doctor is alive and that is Helen Keller only alive when the doctor made his It took a quiet young Anne to unlock the brilliance of a keen intellect that was to amaze the It was agonizingly slow and painful at months until Helen finally learned the meaning of the word and several years before she walked into the parlor of her Alabama home and murmured haltingly to her astonished parents her first intelligible am not dumb From that day with Anne Sullivan whom Helen called always by her her talents multiplied with amazing By age 16 she was of normal educational advancement and at 20 she entered Radcliffe College in Mass. Through her writings and work she became renowned the world Her courage gave strength to millions of handicapped Helen Adams was born June 27. 1880. in Ala. The daughter of Capt. Arthur H. and Katherine Adams Her father was a property owner and newspaper editor but a man of modest At 19 the blonde youngster was stricken with a mysterious brain fever that left her blind and a deaf Because of his lack of there was little Capt. Keller could do in the way of advanced medical on 2-A) r HELEN KELLER Dominion BoSt VOL. 3, NO. 32 THE High in Warm WEST JUNE 2, 1968 76 PAGES IN 9 SECTIONS PRICE 15 CENTS McCarthy Rap Rusk SAN FRANCISCO Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene appearing face to face on national agreed Saturday night that Secretary of State Dean Rusk Common Bible Viewed i C i 1968 New York Times News Service Roman Catholic Church and the United Bible societies announced Saturday a major step toward a common long regarded as an essential element for progress toward a common faith in Christian The two bodies here and in headquarters of the predominantly Protestant Bible their agreement on a document entitled Principles for Interconfessional Cooperation in Translating the The document represents the culmination of almost five years of work by Roman Catholic and Protestant approved recently by Pope Paul VI and the executive committee of the United Bible It paves the way for joint effort by the two bodies on all stages of Bible from new translations and analyses of basic Hebrew and Greek texts to production of complete common Bibles in all of the world languages and almost of them in which no translation In an article prepared for the current issue of the Italian Jesuit the Rev. Walter M. the Jesuit priest assigned by the Vatican to with the Bible stressed the importance of the accord for He recalled the elements of suspicion and Catholic belief that the Bible societies were agents of heretical the Protestant idea that Catholics were forbidden to read the had long prevented common One factor easing the path to common Bible work was the growing measure of agreement among Roman and Protestant scholars and exegetes on both linguistic and interpretive would not remain in office if either of them becomes The senators from New York and seated at a circular table for a confrontation before Tuesday's California seemed to have no major disagreements on most basic The program moderator finally commented that the two men did not seem at odds on almost to which McCarthy quickly interjected that he thought they on Dean McCarthy has said repeatedly he would fire Rusk as responsible for errors in judgment which have led the United States into deep trouble in Southeast By a flip of a the first question went to He was asked what he would do in Vietnam that President Johnson is not McCarthy said he would the He said he would not have a Secretary of State such as Dean Rusk making the statements he has been making and he would accept the National Liberation Front in a South Vietnamese McCarthy said he would not have Vice President Hubert H. declined an offer to participate in the a slip of the while negotiations were going on in The two candidates were questioned by three newsmen on the American Broadcasting Company and Kennedy said he would be opposed to McCarthy's position of a coalition on South UPl Telephoto USING A BUCKET for a Marines pass the time at Khe Sanh playing baseball near an outdoor barbecue A short time such activities would have been out of the The North Vietnamese siege has been lifted from the giving the men time for BLOCKS DESTROYED Viet Cong Drive Deep Into City SAIGON Cong commandos drove deep into Saigon Saturday forcing American and South Vietnamese defenders to Top Hanoi Negotiator Expected at Paris Talks PARIS impending arrival in Paris of North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minn's special envoy raised expectations Saturday of a possible breakthrough in the deadlocked Vietnam talks between Hanoi and Le Due a close associate of Ho and a ranking member of the Hanoi party's was due to join the North Vietnamese negotiating team in the coming week after consultations in Peking and Moscow en Tho is known as a and neither American nor Communist conference quarters anticipated an immediate major switch in Hanoi's tough approach in the talks which resume But Tho was believed carrying a mandate to instead of merely marking as has been the performance to date of Xuan the formal leader of the North Vietnamese MILITARY CONTRACTS GE's Profits Probed By JOHN W. FINNEY i C l 1868 York Times Service Defense Department is proposing to pay the Westinghouse Electric Corp. nearly million that auditors of the Navy and General Accounting Office contend represents excessive profits on nuclear submarine The defense Defense Contract Audit Agency does not contest that Westinghouse may have made more profit than expected on the But the the department's on military argues the Navy was at fault in approving the contracts if they called for undue and that Westinghouse was entitled to the The expected to be decided shortly by by the Defense was described in general terms in recent congressional testimony by Vice Adm. Hyman G. He called it an example of how defense contractors were able to take advantage of the While the admiral did not identify the defense officials acknowledged that the case involved Westinghouse contracts entered into 10 years ago for reactor pumps for atomic Charles H. Westinghouse vice president for government declined comment on the matter because it was to discuss a case pending before the contract audit As described by Rickover and General Accounting Office this is how the case Westinghouse was given a general fee contract to construct reactor power plants for nuclear It was also given authority to Good A ISN'T IT discouraging to contemplate that tomorrow's history will consist of today's current Wall Street enter into negotiated subcontracts for components with the injunction that it was to exercise that reasonable prices were charged on the Under this Westinghouse's Plant Apparatus Division awarded two contracts to Westinghouse's Atomic Equipment of for 84 the other for for 35 The Navy consented to the but required cost breakdowns to help establish the reasonableness of these Westinghouse then submitted cost breakdowns indicating that the prices on the subcontracts included about a 10 per cent But on checking the subcontracts in 1962. the General Accounting Office concluded that the profits actually ran to about 40 per cent and that the government had been overcharged about Navy auditors concluded that the profits ran to about 60 per cent and that the government was being overcharged nearly destroy whole city blocks in a scorched earth war against Communist Guerrilla bands pushed to within three miles of the Presidential Palace in fighting through narrow alleyways of the teeming Cholon district in western It was the deepest penetration of Saigon since the third wave of Viet Cong assaults began May 25. Snipers abandoned buildings which were set aflame and razed by American and South Vietnamese forces firing bazookas and recoilless rifles and a shower of rockets launched from U.S. gunship Three city blocks were On another Saigon just northeast of the South Vietnamese marines battled about 800 Viet Cong trying to cut the Bien Loi Bridge and prevent allied reinforcements from entering the Air Force jets strafed the One strike severed a fuel pipeline leading to the Tan Son Nhut air Incomplete casualty figures Saturday night said the allies killed at least 204 Viet Cong in the Saigon fighting and 269 more around Hue and Khe Sanh in northern province action which cost 14 U.S. Marines killed and 102 Americans A U.S. Army combat correspondent reported seeing the Viet Cong open fire on a group of South Vietnamese Boy Scouts holding up a Red Cross The boys were following South Vietnamese troops to treat civilians caught in the One of the scouts was killed and another the army reporter 20th Transplant Made in New York 1968 New York Times News Service Surgeons at New York Hospital Saturday undertook the world's 20th heart using the organ of a Bronx building superintendent who shot himself in the The recipient was not Doctors in Canada and Argentina meanwhile struggled to save two earlier transplant a retired butcher in Montreal and a noodle vendor in Buenos Strike But Youths Still March PARIS defiant students led by barred leftist firebrand Daniel marched in Paris Saturday in a massive new protest against the Gaullist But the nationwide strike movement crumbled everywhere in France as President Charles de Gaulle held the nation in firm De Gaulle met Premier Georges Pompidou and the cabinet and the government charged afterward that the had been unleashed by Communist and leftists with the express aim of overthrowing the Gaullist Fifth Republic and the president The nation was generally in a holiday mood and the fight appeared to have gone out of militant union and opposition political leaders who two days ago claimed that De Gaulle was pushing the country toward civil But students in the Left Bank Latin Quarter of Paris continued their resistance with a big defiant new march that started at the old Montparnasse railway behind a large banner The students linked arms and blocked all traffic in their line of They maintained order with their own police At the head of the marchers was the extreme leftist student leader barred from France after triggering a French student uprising that mushroomed into the nationwide strike whose West German nationality had allowed French government to bar him from returning to slipped across the border earlier this week by dying his bright red hair nicknamed the had been hiding out from police in Paris since making a brief rance at the Sorbonne but Saturday afternoon he emerged in broad daylight but his hair was still The students marched a mile to the the University of Paris building long occupied by sit-in They chanted with but quieted down when they passed a At one the marchers let a marriage procession pass through their applauding and whistling at the bride in her white On the labor further progress was registered in negotiations to get millions of striking workers back on the Tentative agreements were reached in the state-owned gas and Paris public transportation A general movement was expected by when the Whitsun weekend holiday De Gaulle Faced Challenge 1968 New York Times flying to Germany last Wednesday and conversing with French army President De Gaulle had faced a grim personal challenge from his Georges and the possible defection of many Gaullist The drama of those two related by authoritative includes an acrimonious confrontation at tha Elysee Palace Tuesday night between the 77-year- old president and his chosen convinced that the country was sinking into chaos and dismayed by the president's silence and is understood to have told De Gaulle that he had only two either to call new general elections or resign the The premier is understood to have argued that the referendum announced five days earlier was inadequate response to the country's mood of The confrontation included a personal exchange in which the president accused his premier of having betrayed according to the not necessarily aligned with The following morning De Gaulle took a drastic French together with his at the height of a national Having felt the reins of his control slipping gradually from his hands during the preceding weeks and being faced with a challenge even from the head of his the president had to know where the army He found the army obedient and ready to help if necessary with all the means at its GOOD READING INSIDE SECTION A Hospital U. 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