Newport Daily News (Newspaper) - August 8, 1969, Newport, Rhode Island Weather Saturday Sun Rises Soil Tides high P.M tow P.M Thursday's Temperatures high 81 low 10 Local Forecast Fair tonight near It- Fair and less humid tomorrow Detailed Report on Page I NO NEWPORT B AUGUST 60 cents PRICK TEN PAINFUL AFTERMATH Israeli soldiers are helped up embankment after their bus background struck in Arab mine The blast sent bus over embankment near El Israel killing two and wounding dozen others The incident sparked a series of reprisal by Israeli fighters into by Jordan AP by cable from Tel Aviv Israeli Jets Strike Arab Mine Kills Two In Bus By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Israeli jels attacked Inside Jordan ior third day after the Arab its killed in raids on three Israeli arid military the northern Jordan River i The Israelis called the Arab claim tc figment of imagination Later however Israel fighters bombers screamed across the border into Jordan to pound rocket positions which fired -on Israel's Dead Sea in Sodom Thursday night a Tel Aviv spokesman said The Jordanians an- but all Israeli planes returned base the said The several hundred commandos carried out the night and said they the attacks of their kind since war Guerrilla casualties were not An Israeli spokesman in Tel Aviv said the report that several hundred guerrillas raided Israel He 60 Senators WASHINGTON AP stricter control over Pentagon spending ara hailing victory over ihs end its allies on the Issue of auditing defense contracts Sen Richard S Schweiker a series of three of them which a bipartisan coa Thursday recouped some of the their effort to block the missile defense system Schweiker a Senate called the action a Uon of the mood of- and the military spending has out hand Isn't that It's ty Sen William told a man Proxmire is a of senators frying to cut of billion procurement The Wisconsin Democrat difficult fights on many other amendments the super tranV port a new aircraft and the Advanced Manned Strategic expected today on the amendment of Sen Thomas Nixon Will Disclose Welfare AP three major networks will coverage night of Nixon's ari dress tp the nation programs Coverage will begin at 10 p.m EOT Nixon in his speech to the nation tonight is expected tc a replacement fpr the U.S welfare a guaranteed income and tives to get people oft welfare jobs The President also reportedly will announce a shift in the fed ral program from community action to developing job opportunities The address to be carried by radio and Is uled for 10 p.m EDT Executive branch and Capitol Hill sources say the President will ask Congress an income of a year lo She average family of four This would ne'er payments lo wage earners who make subsistence salaries out ol job training The counseling and training grams would be consolidated and funded by block grants states an automatic share of federal tax revenues about billion the first a minimum of about a month fpr each of the 6.5 million sons who receive aid to ent children the largest and most costly welfare program benefit of a month in all adult fare programs such as old-age assistance and aid to the blind and disabled The federal ment would supplement the present sliding scale The on Page 2 F which would million in funds fpr the The Senate lop on eight use pf chemical and warfare CBW agents ing Thursday rejected the pf Sen Thorn as to bar deployment of siles pf the amendment for of- major contracts brisk debate by senior members ho Armed Services Committee to head it off Chakman D- Miss np hearings or report further study He was especially critical granting the A move the Democrat tp table the er and thus kill It was defeated 51 tp 14 a by deep th's and reconsider it Six of pf the amendment were freshman Re- publicans Schweiker even with Thursday's vote his faces an uphill But he added knocks il out and a conference fails in the measure he will nsk the Senate to it again Senior members pf the Armed Services ly against the amendment and they will be the he untrue communique issued in Am Jordan bj the Straggle Command said the guerrilla's destroyed four Is four half-track three miles of telephonE wire and several and buildings said Al Fa tah most powerful of the guer organizations and com the Palestine Lib era lion Army carried out the at- tacks along a fron 15 minutes midnight Oi and artillery fire troops six miles north of night that 90 minutes Jordanian forces suffered no casualties he said e also reported that an is patrol to cross tie cease-fire line south Sea of Galilee heavy The Israelis report of concerned a spulL pf the Dead Sea They said it was hit earl in Jprdan causing damage to power lines no casualties A spokesman said the fire was re- Israeli jels and tanks attacked Jprdan Thursday in the pf The In- creased activity along the ijordan came amid re- ports that President Gamal Ab- of Egypt on Syria Jordan and Iraq to en- arge operations against draw Israeli tne Suez Canal bombed and strafed Jordanian positions Continued on Page 2 SAIGON AP The heaviest in nearly IWP months was reported Vietnam Thursday But U.S military spokesmen said It was too early o tell whether it was only a break in the war lull or the prelude to renewal of major en- emy operations i More enemy and allied were reported since Wednesday than in any such since June 18 when he current lull in major ground fighting began Allied communiques reported a sharp in ground just south of zone in the coastal lands south of Da in the and in War Zone D northeast of Saigon Along with this the Viet Cong on Thursday made the biggest in since the lull began and a commando squad successfully invaded a U.S convalescent hospital at Cam These two at- tacks accounted wounded as well as heavy damages according lo revised Casualty figures re- leased by the U.S Command Allied military spokesmen re- ported at least 147 enemy diers killed actions since midnight lied 14 cans killed an 154 wounded 17 South Vietnamese troops killed 51 wounded and one missing and 14 Vietnamese civilians killed and nine wounded But a spokesman for the U.S Command said the sharp in- Warrants Go To Slumlords John Gage chief of the city's minimum vision has closed of warrants issued for the prosecution of landlords have failed to maintain minimum standards S O'Brien city said today he be- s Is to 10 warrants h a v e been issued by the court and given to the police lo he served pf those for whom been issued not be learned today Three Deny Vagrancy Police Raid Hippie Commune Here Police today were top busy to release any information on arrests of a reported six persons yesterday In an ted hippie on Spring St Street Information that four ot those would be arraigned in District Court this proved only partially Three were charged with being idle having no visible means of support and living st All three ed tp tW charge Judge J Sullivan continued cases IP Aug 22 and set ball each Tlie defendants were I McNamara 21 of iua N V James K Longacre 22 of San Antonio Tex and Luis Natal 18 Of N J Richard Leclair Spring where the took place yesterday afternoon ad- mitted today thai 14 ami are sharing tht apartment he family pays a tall boarded Lee lai r head at the communal living this morning asked a Providence M i 11 P n of the American Civil Liberties defend these arrested He said most of those ing the apartment are cither students pr legitimate and not transient A person picked uu In the raid yesterday was not in court this morning said Le clair because he belongs Id the local bourgeoisie isn't Two female juveniles w e r 6 being held this morning far transfer to Providence Family Court Police were quoted as saying raid was re till i of numerous complaints neighbors concerning and frequent comings and go ings today called the ar- rests at which he Vas sent a selective h arras s- Ho indicated the were acting on their own to force the commune put P Some in npt arrested he said with were This is he saM charging police neither nor a search warrant Let's face lie said it's a lousy neighborhood anyway Nobody around there would complain If is said clair Ihen we're going lo dp right back If need he to protect ourselves and sur we can couple dred more up here Declining IP define his ing he said Maybe the law spend a night In jail for change Police comment Continued on Page Lull On Viet crease in ground necessarily an indication of In- creased enemy initiated ty We are catching him on the spokesman said We may be catching him be- fpr he gels ready 16 do thing the actions were initiated by allied forces I'd to characterize it as in- creased action It's too cad y to be specific about the significance Other U.S officers said they see no North Vietnamese massing alons the fnr a the heaviest fighting there than two months v U.S troops forces Thursday at three points within a area just south of the central The U.S Command re- ported 82 North Vietnamese and eight 24 Americans At least three North companies of more than 100 men each in military men The fighting along the was triggered by infantrymen from the U.S 5th Mechanized Division and troops from the Division who flushed out three North companies they know were in the 7 But officers at the in Dong said is indication yet that the North Vietnamese are in- Couple Two dents taken 1 in connection ble slaying last plead innocent s morning to charges be- ing fugitives The pa Robert 25 of 113 Gormley St Portsmouth and Carol Ami Richards tlie same Fall Tl i v e r appeared before Judge George E Driscoll in Fall Riyer his morning Lewis was ordered without but Mrs Richards was released un- -dor bond their ca s e s were continued to Sept 5 the couple has teen they will be District L e w i s is charged counts of murder while Mrs ard is ing information a bout a The two to in the com- The charges stem from Anthony X Tosco 22 of Fall River and Balke 26 of Both were shot back of the head Then their bodies were set afire They were found early last Saturday in a grassy area off a in the end of Tiverton creasing their forces along the DMZ or massing for any sizable assault into South Vietnam The Marine officers declined 16 estimate the of the North Vietnamese below the DMZ but they said it is not substantial The indicates that four North Vietnamese mum of in the northern half Of the DMZ or just to the north of the zone in North This is a march away from South nam's northern frontier down two American observation trs miles southeast 61 Da Nang and joist Airborne were rushed in the crews exchange of rifle fire in one enemy and one can were killed and 11 cans were wounded Three pi the helicopter crewmen also wounded The U.S Command said thai helicopters have lost in 15 less previously showed The command said the revision reflect considered beyond and have since been found repairable Another American helicopter was lightly damaged when e t troops on a flight of pers flying reconnaissance sions in Ilia Central Highlands 280 miles northeast of Saigon The helicopters returned His Air Force were anil Continued oil Page P R 0 V ID E AP Frank doubt that he will be a in 1970 this told -a years isn't i VI have every expectation of staying around v stayed making an make at my at in Licht said he was in no to announce his During the wide-ranging conference tlie jerte report should not be liken n total and should lie with great care proposes a the Social fare has been set up to study government authorized IMS General a publican is of the Navy el a waul a cal statement at hews Licht 1 want make someone else's I have tried cal in Licht a been coming in: and making hen returning tb being ary of Licht said report I report come He said he prepared by a headed by stale Sen: Laliberte Licht is 1363 act lo give ori reorganization ary These recommendations will made after all leads are said The governor hat four recreational and hot services to the iR Island have been given tate approval County Urged Educators Ask Mental Health Merger The superintendents of the six school districts in Newport County have recommended IP their school a special committee to study for regionalizing and mental re- ardalion services lor the The study report prepared by group of five educators was tp school last The group with John L Jurke former superintendent Bristol High School as to accept ah offer 1 Salve IP use ight of the former er ol Hppe in mouth of Re- Interdisciplinary Center Health for the ty The six superintendents mot Monday and decided to ask for the I special IP he repprt and make specific tp be ready NPV 1 would mean Hie center would not be ready before next semester The initial plans were that it be ready by tember F said day the committee would try to work out all problems of the center before it is accepted lire signed by the six school superintendents read it is the the superintendents pi in the county that on broad and a positive and plan Inward improved services for our the areas of mental health and special the pf Salve College is a tremendously generous ple of be- tween the public schools and higher education Two out in An acceptable framework fpr direction administration and be sel forth before organization is formally set up cj real budget for t h year already is approved Snd The receiving designating the special and ming his study r tp be available fpr con- with the special com- They also recommended ing Mary Christopher president of Salve Regina Col- lege and Carr of of at Salve Regina College time lo lake P their kind offer of locating center at the REGAL SETTING FOR OPERA Six of seven bers in cast of ting Newport Music opera based on Cinderella Story last night Stage U 4 foot of in Great The
