New Castle News (Newspaper) - January 15, 1969, New Castle, Pennsylvania NEW CASTLE NEWS EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR NEW CASTLE JANUARY IfM We PER WEEK BY COPY lie 25 17 85 blast Nuclear carrier Enterprise damaged in explosion By BRUCE A. COOK and EDWARD N. INOUYE PEARL HARBOR mate Girard Trahn stared with disbelief into a 20- foot deep hole in the flight deck of the nuclear carrier USS he moved me out of that ment last Soot and grime covering his clothes from hours of the 23-year-old sailor from Central was among dozens of crewmen ly ssc or serious hen explosions s- j fire the Big the Navy said today 25 men e 17 were missing and 85 Identities were 8 killed in ambush on convoy By JACK WALSH X SAIGON troops ambushed a U.S. truck convoy northwest of military spokesmen said The Red force lost 115 dead when the Americans fought back with armored artillery and air The spokesmen said eight Americans died and 13 were wounded in shattering the attack on the 50-truck convoy along a wooded stretch of Highway 239 between Dau Thieng and Tay The Communists struck with rocket grenades and automatic pons fire but were thwarted by armored personnel carriers and helicopter gunships that ed the Later another ly protected American convoy was ambushed on a road eight miles away while traveling between Tay Ninh City and Cu U.S. forces defending the trucks reported killing seven Red The attacks came in the area where allied commanders have said Communist are In neighboring nist commandos attacked the Laotian army's ammunition depot near ning the compound in an early morning Weather Western Pennsylvania Mostly cloudy and cold with a few snow flurries north Variable cloudiness and not quite as cold with snow flurries ending south Highs mid 20s to mid 30s. Fair and cold Low upper teens to the 20s. Thursday partly cloudy and Highs in the 30s. Weather statistics for the 24- hour period ending at 7 a.m. follow with last year's data in Maximum temperature 27 Minimum temperature 22 Precipitation trace of snow River stage 6.16 feet KAMI Hawaiian Islands OAHU MOLOKAI Aill 1OO HAWAII LOCATION OF FIRE A fire broke out on the flight deck of the nuclear carrier USS Enterprise yesterday while it was 75 miles southwest of This spots the location of the withheld while families were being least two Lawrence County men are reported safe aboard the They are Mate 2.C. Fred son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Spigler of 308 Milton and Thomas Wat son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Watkins of 415 Park The Enterprise re- turned to Pearl Harbor showing the scars of the tragedy which one shipyard worker said put it in the condition he had seen any ship since World War The inferno ignited at the onset of a practice bombing mission at sea 75 miles southwest of Fifteen planes were The ship and her crew of men were preparing for their fourth tour of duty off Training flights were in progress with 14 planes already launched when the explosions Capt. Lee and flames swept across 75 yards of the rear end of the flight deck shortly after 8 a.m. The planes were loaded with bombs and 20-millime- ter ammunition to be used in a mock attack on the small island of a frequent bombing target used by Navy carrier planes before ment to The blasts and blaze ripped three large holes from the flight deck to compartments three levels and touched off a rescue mission involving dozens of emergency helicopters and more than persons from jumped or were blown overboard by the said a Navy Some crewmen were trapped in compartments just below the flight he He said the ship's eight nuclear reactors deep in the hull not Injured Taken To Hawaii While the fire fighters battled the military helicopters from Hawaii ferried nurses and blood to the returning with the most ly injured crewmen to Tripler Army near Three ships which nied the Enterprise on the training nuclear frigate USS the guided missile destroyer USS Stoddert and the picket er USS searched the 76- degree water for missing Helicopters also plucked several men from the The search continued out the night and into The fire was controlled while the carrier made her way back to arriving at p.m. She berthed near the still visible hulks of the battleships USS Arizona and USS which were sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. The twisted metal chunks of airplanes were strewn about the cables dangled loosely into gaping pipes melted by intense heat curled into grotesque steel plates were buckled and the rear end of the flight deck was charred At more than 1.000 persons responded to a public appeal for blood donations and in downtown Honolulu several hundred other volunteers showed up at Queens Medical Sixty-four men were treated at about 10 were flown by Air Force jet to the Army's Brooks Burn Center at Fort Sam and others were treated and released at the 100-bed hospital aboard the LBJ asks billion budget VIEW OF EXPLOSION This is an aerial view of damage on the flight deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise at Pearl Harbor yesterday after explosions and fire swept the ship lolling at least 25 crewmen and destroying 15 five men were injured and 17 Tbe carrier was on a training cruise when it was hit by the Nixon agrees to review suggestion by Johnson to retain special tax By JAMES WASHINGTON President Johnson today proposed a record billion budget and asserted that every dollar was needed to meet America's in the quest for justice and In the final budget message of his five year he threw down what amounted to a challenge to his Republican successor Richard M. Nixon and to the Congress to find any place to economize on his spending proposals without jeopardizing national security or the Johnson's budget for the 1970 fiscal year beginning next July 1 forecast a billion But achievement of the which would ease the credit pinch and relieve inflationary was conditioned on congress approving billion in proposed Without them there would be an billion His chief tax tentatively supported by Nixon for a Families to get aid in kitchen Student's cow named champion Mesfa meeting slated State of Union message brings cheers to Johnson Union and company negotiators of Mesta Machine Co. met today at the Federal Building in Pittsburgh along with state and federal Gil vice president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace also met with the negotiators in an attempt to settle the three and one-half month old strike of Local 2178. Today's meeting was the first time in the lengthy strike that the international vice president has met with company WASHINGTON us Lyndon B. son begged a grieving nation in his first presidential appearance before Congress in the sad November of 1963. The failure to continue his he said in his final appearance as would bring for our A tired Commander in Chief in his last days in sadder than any of you that peace evaded his from Congress Tuesday night the affection and cheers that had evaded him in his last years in Almost powerless he asked Congress to extend his great to it by name for the first time in many for model more for medical care for the more for job 13 per cent more for those on Social Security And he asked a joint session of Congress to extend its hand to his Richard M. Nixon will need your just as I he is entitled to have Despite their fiscal Republicans generally joined the Democrats in a salute to the who broke with tradition in returning to Capitol Hill to deliver his final State of the Union It was perhaps the warmest and noisiest tribute he'd ever received from News index A six-month federal project to provide food management assistance to is being undertaken locally by the county Agricultural Extension A corps of 10 women will be hired during the next few weeks to serve as extension nutrition They will receive specialized training in foods and nutrition from Mrs. Ruth Extension home These aides will visit in homes teaching better use of foods and how to improve the family These local women will be selected from the communities in which they will This educational activity is being conducted in all 50 states by the Federal Extension Service of the U. S. Department of Participating homemakers and their families will be taught by person to person contact in their Prime objectives of the program currently being launched by the flight Experts predict Soviets forming space station By DUSKO DODER MOSCOW viet cosmonauts rode a Soyuz 5 spacecraft today into earth orbit and began maneuvers leading to a link-up with Vladimir in Soyuz 4, launched Western experts predicted the Soviets would launch more Soyuz vehicles soon and all would lock together and begin forming a space station circling the The four Soviet all on their first space matched the group of four U.S. Gemini astronauts in 1965 as the largest contingent of spacemen in orbit at In two the Gemini fliers but did not link Tass said watched from his craft as Soyuz 5 sped into revoir in outer he called to the three newcomers hurtling toward If the link-up will be the first between two Soyuz 4 and started a program of joint experiments in Tass said Soyuz 5 had attained the same angle to the A k I manned space vehicles and may lead to an immediate try for one of the Soyuz 5 cosmonauts to join in Soyuz 4 in an unprecedented space The Soviet news agency Tass said the three newest Col. Boris Alexei and Lt. Col. Yevgeny had communication with Alexei equator as 51 confirming the link-up was Soyuz 5 was circling the earth once every 88 minutes and 42 27 seconds slower than in Soyuz 4. Today's achieved an orbit ranging from 124 to 147 miles above the Tass varying five miles at each point from Soyuz 4. It was the first major step in a program to establish earth orbiting manned space stations for future Yevgeny ry Never before have two manned space vehicles docked in although America's Gemini program included ups of manned Gemini with unmanned Agena Soyuz 4 spacecraft is capable of staying in orbit 30 and some space observers Page Business Classified Comics Cross Word Editorial Cooperative Extension Service of Ellwood City the Pennsylvania State Obituary University Society get the most from the Sports food Theatres improve the nutritional TV Log values of the diet among families with limited Pilot area In Lawrence County is one of 18 pilot areas designated to initiate this Mrs. Thompson will direct the Application forms for aide jobs are available at the Lawrence County Agricultural Extension 206 Post Office Bldg. Women will be hired from those applying before Jan. 25. Training will begin during the next week and these aides will be at work in the area before the end of Mrs. Thompson will consult and work with other serving agencies and organizations at city and county levek including use of the Food Stamp Plan and other resources that help homemakers with family National attention was focused on critical nutritional needs last year when a food consumption survey by the Agricultural Department revealed that the quality of diets in the United States declined in a 10-year period from 1955 to 1965. One on page 3) President Johnson billion extension of the 10 per cent surcharge on individual and corporation income taxes which congress enacted last The special tax is now scheduled to expire June 30. Nixon Goes Along Nixon said from his vacation retreat at Key that he would go along with the proposed for the present at reserving the right to review the question after he moves into the White House next He ated what he said often during the election the tax should be removed as soon on page 2) David Clark of Enon Valley Rd. exhibited the grand champion Milking Shorthorn cow in the junior division yesterday at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show in son of Mr. and Mrs. John is a sophomore at the Pennsylvania State University and was a 1967 graduate of Mohawk Area High As a member of the Future Farmers of he showed grand champions four years at on page 3) Death record Jan. Mrs. Cora Ella 85, of 332 Kurtz St. William B. 90, of Pittsburgh George F. 76, of Fla. Ella C. 75, of Ellwood City Robert Edgar 85, of Catalina RD 3 Harry 0. 71, of 208 Nathaniel Edward 88, of 468 Ave. Fox conducts probe on GOP have thought it possible that the Soviets would its crew at least once use it as a manned lab flashing back periodic reports to Soviet v. opened his second day in his 15th He took pictures of earth and said he was Tass said his Soyuz 4 was a spacious craft with a separate compartment for definitely capable of taking on another man in a space has corrected his orbit to a maximum of 147 miles above the earth and a minimum of 129 Tass He periodically adjusts his position toward the sun to recharge Soyuz 4's solar Each Soyuz 4 orbit takes 88 15 Dist. Atty. Kenneth E. Fox Jr. is investigating an allegation that the Lawrence County Republican Party received a from a New Wilmington businessman for a promise of two state Justice Department investigators returned to the local Highways Department garage yesterday but sources said the officials are no longer in the Fox launched his investigation after a story appeared in The News yesterday in regard to charges by Charles H. a partner in the Penn Machine Tank that he gave the to Arnold county GOP in the form of two Ferver contended Satz informed him that contractors who donated to the party would be given work during the Satz denied the promise of work but admitted the money was for work Fervor performed last Ferver claims his contract for crushing stone and renting equipment to the state was severed after E. Spangler Jr. was dismissed as county highway But Satz said the contract was ended because Ferver was overcharging for his services and While the operation of the highway garage and the donation are reportedly separate in a letter to John C. state GOP contended Spangler's firing is coverup for something Jordan could not be reached today for but he is aware of the problem Fox said his investigation will continue until a conclusion can be reached in regard to violation of state criminal He this such a decision cannot be Informed sources say that
