Muscatine Journal (Newspaper) - November 15, 1971, Muscatine, Iowa Briefly peaking Bus strike averted DAYTONA BEACH Fla AP Greyhound Bus Co drivers remaining on job after an ilth hour decision by the president of the mated Transit Union to post pone a Sunday noon strike deadline for five days In postponing the strike John M Elliott advised union ne by telegram from Washington D ct that he was celling up a toplevel bargain ing session between union and company representatives here Tuesday A strike would halt Greyhound operations in all states east of the Rocky Moun tains and have a partial affect on states west of the Rockies Troop strength cut SAIGON AP The US Command announced today that US troop strength in Viet nam by last Thursday totaled 188300 men a drop of 2800 men during the previous seven days and 4200 more than the ceiling set by Pres ident Nixon for the end of No The command also an that 11 more small Army units with a total author strength of 420 men had teen pulled back prior to trans fer home or deactivation Nixon has announced another cut for December and a cut in January Satelite launched Kenya AP Italian and American scientists launched a scientific satellite off the coast of Kenya today to probe the earths magnetos phere The satellite and its US Scout rocket were sent up from the Italian govern ments launch platform in For mosa bay off Malindi The sat ellite went into an or bit miles above the earth to radio back information on magnetic and radiation phenomena Iowa soldier killed HONOLULU A P A Du buque soldier died at an Army hospital here Sunday apparent ly of injuries receive he was beaten on the head with a baseball bat during an attack early Saturday The victim was identified by hospital spokesmen as Spec 5 James Kolfenback 22 Police said Kolfenback and three other soldiers were at tacked by four local men as the soldiers left a Honolulu night spot before dawn Saturday Kol had been in critical con dition since the attack Man dies hunting CRESTON Iowa 56 Des Moines was found dead three miles north west Saturday the ap parent victim of a heart attack while hunting Dolls body was located in a ditch near his daughters home in after he was reported missing by his wife Opal He was hunting atone at he time of his death officials said Wants pot legalized IOWA CITY Iowa of five candidates for the Demo cratic gubernatorial nomination State Sen John Tapscott Moines says in a copyrighted interview in Mondays edition of the Daily lowan that he favors legalization tf marijuana Tapscott a Democrat stressed the need for major reordering of priorities in states approach lo the problem of drug abuse wul colled for lie elimination of socalled moral istic laws dealing with tte use of marijuana Fox to quit post Iowa Walter Fox superin tendent of the Mental Health In here has announced he Is leaving his post for a position in Arizona Fox submitted his Sunday lo James com of State Depart ment of Social Services Kox IIP IMS accepted a job as of Bureau of Mental Health for Arizona His becomes effective in February Officials said no re placement has been named Fox ms headed the Mount Pleasant facility MUSCATINE JOURNAL Established 1840 No 267 151971 Zip Code 52761 Muscatine Iowa 18 In Vietnam Price lOc 3 US copters among 4 dow State champs Journal photo by Harold Blake 18 Medina testifies at trial FT MEADE Md AP Former Capt Ernest Medina testified today he gave Col Oran K Henderson a body count of 2028 civilians killed at My Lai and deliberately with held information that he had seen all those bodies of Viet civilians in one place He said Ernie is there any thing else you want to tell me Medina said I said there was not and Im a fa ther three children I would not let anything like that happen Medina was a company com mander in the Uth Brigade which was commanded by Hen derson Henderson who is ac of concealing the slaugh ter of civilians contends he was not told that there had been indiscriminate firing Medina who was acquitted of charges in connection with My Lai and since has left the Army said Henderson and two other officers made a special helicopter trip to his location in the field two days after the March 16 1968 incident He asked me how many noncombatants I had seen killed said Medina speaking at a fast deliberate pace I gave him the answer 2028 the Same answer I gave to the divi sion commander the day pre vious Miners refuse to go to work despite new contract CHARLESTON W Va AP coalfields re relatively quiet today as many miners balked at their unions request to end the long est nationwide coal strike since 1949 Some maintenance crews were reported lo be preparing mines for work this morning but thousands of miners re fused to enter the pilS despic the new threeyear contract One more day aint going to kill us now that weve bten off 41 davs Martin president of UMW Local at Amigo W Va said Sunday night Gov Arch A Moore Jr who helped negotiate the new con tract admitted its pay increase provisions were out of line with lie federal Pay Boards guide lines of nay boosts of 55 per cent but he said he was opli mislic the miners will gel what the contract calls for Moore said he will personally seek approval by the Pay Board Joseph E Moody president of he industry association said the pact would increase oper ators labor costs by If per UMW President W A Tony Boyle pegged the in at 30 per Me de scribed the pay as no and said miners were entitled to these catchup provisions pay provision Moore v Countdown said calls for an increase oE a day to mechan ics electricians and heavy equipment operators over the life of the contract Other min ers would go to a day a increase He said the pact calls for im mediate raises ranging from to a day Another major provision in the new contract would double the soft coal industrys contri butions to the miners welfare and retirement fund from 40 to 80 cents on each ton of coal Injured hijacker facing charges CALGARY Alta AP A Calgary man who hijacked JMI Air Canada jetliner Friday night has been charged with interfering with trans facilities The young man Paul Cini was reported in satisfactory condition in a hospital with a concussion and gash in his head Cini described by he planes pilot as completely deranged bent on was arrested early Saturday after he boarded a flight during a slop in Calgary and forced il lo shuttle back and forth over the border before crewmen sub dued him Iowa weather Fair mid with 1 o ns In mid 10s Tuesday m o s il y sunny Hide change in temperature und fit to 70 Southerly winds hemming Precipitation 5 per cent 10 per ent High 73 tow during n i R lit 38 Sunrise Tuesday sunset MR V At that time I did not tell him that I had suspicions that these people were shot by members of my own command He asked me if 1 was aware of any shooting by members of my command I said no Medina said it was at that point in his conversa tion with Henderson that he made the comment about being a father who would not permit the slaughter Medina said he told Hender son the civilians were killed by helicopter gunship and artillery fire I kept the information from him that I saw the 2028 bodies together in one group Medina said Medina said he deliberately did not tel Henderson about the conversation he had with his platoon leaders the night before in which he asked about killing civilians He said Lt William L Calley Jr who was convicted by courtmartial of killing at least 22 My Lai villagers hemmed and hawed The body count he got his men Medina said was 50 by Lt Galleys 1st Platoon 50 by the platoon commanded by Lt Steven Brooks and 6 by the 3rd Platoon commanded by Lt Jeffrey LaCrosse SAIGON AP Two US helicopters collided in the air today another one crashed aft er a mechanical failure and a South Vietnamese chopper hit a mine as it and blew up Four Americans and six South Vietnamese were report ed killed and five Americans and three South Vietnamese were injured The helicopters collided about 70 miles northwest of Saigon as they were returning to refuel after landing South Vietnamese troops on an operation 10 miles east of the Cambodian border All four crewmen aboard one of Uie helicopters were killed and the four crewmen aboard the other aircraft were injured The US Command said an investigation was being made to determine the cause of the collision A third US went down Sunday 21 mEes west of Saigon after a mechanical failure the US Command reported Three South Vietnamese troops were killed and one of the American crewmen was injured A total of 8020 US ters and planes now have been reported lost in the Indochina Avar River Stages LaCrosse 72 fall 1 Lansing missing Dam No 9 missing McGregor missing Guttenberg 82 fall 6 Dubuque missing Davenport 81 fall 1 Muscatine 821 rise 04 Keokuk 56 rise 3 A South Vietnamese ter was landing infantrymen 80 miles north of Saigon and JO miles from the Cambodian border this morning when it hit a mine and exploded Field re ports said three South Vietnam ese were killed and three were wounded In Cambodia Phnom airport was closed to com flights after three rock ets hit the airfield The small barrage about 7 am caused no damage the Cambodian com mand said but a second salvo of three rockets at am set the home of a civilian work er afire and wounded a Cam bodian airman Among the flights canceled was a US Air Force cargo plane coming pick up an ele given by Premier Lbn Nol to Adm John S McCain Jr the US commander in chief for the Pacific McCain is giving the animal to the Los Angeles Zoo It was the third time in a week that the airport had been shelled In one attack on Nov 10 more than 30 persons were killed and nine aircraft were destroyed or damaged South Vietnams central high lands had its first major battle in months over the week end and the Saigon govern ment reported 163 North Viet and 29 South Vietnam ese killed The battle occurred 225 miles north of Saigon and 11 miles from the Cambodian border The South Vietnamese also reported 32 of their troops wounded out of a battalion of about 400 men The losses in that some South Viet positions were overrun A communique reported that seven North Vietnamese weap ons were captured in the battle This plus the fact that the South Vietnamese battalion was part of the weak 23rd Infantry Division cast serious doubt on the South Vietnamese Com mands claim that 163 of the enemy were killed Whaf s inside The freeze is over Prepare for freeze I mean phase two Editorials Comics Womens news Sports Daily report Obituaries Classified 4 5 673 14 14 1617 As ag secretary nominee Butz remains under fire WASHINGTON AP Earl L Butz of agriculture says he is severing his ties with business but his decision failed to mollify Senate critics Opposition to Senate con of Butz developed around charges that he favors big business over the family farmer and that his director ships with the four companies might represent conflicts of in terest Butz agreed that retaining the directorships would create conflicts and said in an interview Sunday night he is resigning all business con and placing his stocks in a blind trust He labeled his critics charges as political Butz 62 of Lafayette Ind sad he has notified the Ralston Purina Co International Min and Chemicals Co Stoke ly VanCamp Co and the Standard Life Insurance Co of Indiana he is resigning from their boards Written resigna tions will be submitted in a few days he said His position on the board of the JI Case Co a ment manufacturer was termi Defenders in bunker A Cambodian soldier peers out from a mu MVH while North Vietnams crock flth i along mile 6 near about n thorn with and mor HI northeast of Penh iis e them with nausea 18 days he Cambodian defenders of fris loi crouched in bunkers with their wives about a year ago when the firm merged with Corp he said Thats not enough said Sen Fred R Harris DOkla Its a matter dating back to the time of Ezra Taft Benson Hes been on the side of big business Butz dean of continuing edu cation at Purdue University was an assistant agriculture secretary under Benson during the Eisenhower administration Hes the best example of the big rich corporation against small farmer Harris said Getting rid of that stock is not going to change that Sen Milton R Young R ND said 1 think his interests would be about the same de spite resignations from busi ness connections I dont think a man should have been ap pointed in the first place who had all those longtime inter ests Young continued TAVO large farmers organ split in their evaluation of Butz nominated by dent Nixon to succeed resigning Clifford M Hardin National Grange delegates meeting in Charleston expressed support for Butz and Grange National Master John W Scott said I think Dr Bulz has a knowledgeable under standing of farm problems and can intelligently direct his ef forts toward general improve ment of the agriculture in dustry In Corning Iowa the dent of the National Farmers Organization said would throw government support to ward a policy of liquidating all but farmers hundreds of thousands of rural commu and of our small towns NKO lcc Stalky said he has Senate Agri culture Committee Chairman Herman for permission lo testify In tion to at committee hear Ings
