Newport Daily News (Newspaper) - August 12, 1969, Newport, Rhode Island Weather Wednesday Sun Rises Sets high P.M Low P.M Monday's Temperatures high 80 low 68 Local Forecast Fair and cool tonight lows lie Tomorrow lair near SO variable winds tonight Detailed Report on Page 2 ESTABLISHED 1846 124 NO 187 R i TUESDAY AUGUST Home Delivery 60 cents weekly TEN CENTS FAREWELL APPEARANCE Young singers who have delighted local audiences during vocal programs of port Music Festival make final appearance at connoisseur at The Breakers Saturday Singing quartet number are soprano Rose Wildes soprano David Griffith tenor and Wayne Turnage bass Seated in back wailing their turn are Ivanka mezzo soprano Barbara soprano and Gene West tenor Photo Cover Deficit Music Will Return By T CURTIS FORBES While it is h there will be Jazz or Folk-: Festival season of the Festival is assured The music event devoted to a revival romantic was heralded as an artistic success ated a deficit smaller been anticipated The deficit by the sponsors the port meeting M rs Langley da lion d Th e de I wa j during the in the great hall Breakers Most of the audience s in wear and went oh fo a reception Vernon after the concert Mrs thanked sons who Had helped vai and announced plans for- next year's festival will be- gin at once next year's festival will follow the same small concerts in The Elms The Breakers and Marble House as in year's val There was a question whether Adams which has been proposed as a site for larger concerts will be next summer final concert Sauls the foundation's general director said he w a s pleased wilh way the val Sauls was assistant artistic administrator at Metropolitan Opera before ready 01 suming his position here an As member of the Met he was aware of cess in the rooms of maintained by Preservation Society of Newport County That to i light years Jazz a nd Folk Festivals presented an Opera Festival featuring the Metropolitan Opera for festival was un- questionable success but er or not it would work in Fort Adams exposed 16 the of fog rain and humidify is a Even having recent con- did not prevent dampness from affecting the instruments lo such an that some of of the mechanical piano were unable to be used and a violin unglued The uncertainty of weather conditions almost demands that the musical events be held in an al least a semi enclosed location such is done at in the The festival also raised other questions such as whether the halls where it has been held are large enough to sufficient to cover the cost of the operation Capacity Greal Hall at The Breakers is 400 persons The Elms and Marble House accommodate only 200 persons each On the plus side attitude of the musicians wilh respec to lie was favorable Following the announcement there will on Page 3 The Newport Restoration foundation has come under at- ack by a Fair Welfare er for allegedly removing income housing from an already housing market In a -10 page report Robert Mien a 22 worker charged which is many old colonial homes with moving in and taking a large number of low income units iff the creates a greater scarcity and thus serves o drive Against this background charged the ion with high pressure in forcing tenants o u t if their homes John Perkins Brown director if the foundation was able for comment today The report Cohen said was compiled through information received the city tax assessor's office and It stales that since last the foundation had 43 pieces of property for Cohen said 24 families and 41 individuals have been removed Tom their homes by dation There are 21 others ing in houses owned by the foundation In five cases he alleged ilies were put under extreme pressure to move Although families have been evicted in the that they were put out some have received eviction notices rom the sheriff Beyond the treatment of Colien stated the Folk be music vals at least another Isreal Siperstein to the state public works director disclosed this TJie announcement ed reports that festival ducer is ing for site for the The ducer is looking for a site in the County area Although he w ants to move has said he the state con- condemns the present site the state costs of the lures at field said the perty probably will be con- before the end of year bul of construction could eral months The area at the field is in path of the Newport Bridge cess highway 128 Towns Hit By Shells 14 Red Attacks End Battlefield Lull SAIGON AP Enemy troops shattered long field lull early today shelling 1 82 allied towns and bases across Vietnam The Cong and North followed up ground attacks oh lied positions iii the streets of two important towns north of Saigon While the reported in retreat on some fronts a U.S Army brigade base camp at Quart Loi 65 miles north of gon came under rocket snd morlar attack late tolay A spokesman for ton W Abrams commander of U.S forces in Vietnam It's probably start of their fall campaign but there is no in- dication how long they'll be able to sustain it e if it's anything more than a high point so far One of Hie sharpest battles broke out at a U.S artillery base blocking infiltration roules from to Tay Ninh miles northwest of Saigon The base was hit with al rickets mortars and propelled grenades U.S artillery fired back and in the 54 North and 9 killed in he hour-long fight field reports said Thirty-nine Americans were wounded The biggest enemy push came in an area near the Cambodian border north of Saigon There about from two divisons at- tacked a dozen American bases around An Loc s provincial capital 60 miles north ol Saigon Loc 10 miles farther north and Quan Loi four miles northeast of An Loc Military spokesmen said the Communist command had planned fo use more men but Ihan 100 strikes ing the past five days along the Cambodian border and the of there to men disrupted some my units trying to move inlo at- lack position Tlie spokesmen said he ene iny's aim was to seize An Lot Loc Ninh or even i only for a short lime and lish a de facto provisional government for propaganda victory This one we definitely were ready said one officer There allack broken up before it really got going on Page 2 Fuel Shortage Threatened Claim SPACE CENTER Houston II Neil A Armstrong and Edwin E Aldrin Jr reported today they were dangerously low on fuel as they neared the moon and said quick action by ground lers enabled lo make a safe landing were very concerned about running low on Armstrong told a news ence the report on the historic mission We had lo the ing because ol the crater and were close lo our legal limit on com- mander reported Armstrong said il he nad forced to hunt another 15 or 20 seconds for a smooth landing point the landing attempt would heen Armstrong and Aldrin de- scribed their final de- scent to moon on July 1 12 during which computer alarms flashed and they had to take manual to avoid crashing in the I we pretty well under- stand what caused these gram Aldrin said II was the fact computer was in a process of solving the landing problem and al Ihc same time we had vous radar In up con- dilion and this tended to add a additional o the com- puler operation i The rendezvous radar keeping track oi Col- lins orbiting overhead in the command ship It told us for a brief the computer was reaching a point of being overprogrammed or having loo many jobs waiting for it lo added Un- fortunately it came at a point when we did not want to be trying lo solve these particular problems We lo be able to look window antl tity features so hat we could pinpoint the We realized we had 2 ble abort situation to contend Armstrong said Bul our procedure throughout was lo always try to keep going as as we could so we could pass these types of problems Control the astronauts to slop asking the computer to dis- play landing Information In- slead ground passed up the information in a series of matic We really have lo give the credit lo the center in this Armstrong said They were really people who really came through and helped us and said which Is what we wanted to hear But alone had to fly away from the menacing crater I had no difficulty climbing down Ihc ladder In Ihc Armstrong lie nian to set foot on moon July 20 We had no problem ing Aldrin who followed strong by 20 minutes We found out mobility on Ihc surface better tlian we had an- We found that standard loping technique one foot in front of another was the best way to get around Kangaroo fashion two feel it s lime also worked hut not is he said We found we had to two to hrce steps ahead on the moon compared with one or two steps on earth Armstrong and Mi- chael Collins who orbited the moon while his companions ex- below lold the story historic flight al a news conference today They had been released Sunday from Continued CD Page 12 Shortage Laid To Restorations communities He says the dation was causing fear and resentment in the Point d u e to the g e n era 1 rounding the foundation snd the high handed way in which it operates He cited the case of a home owner who land Fo an in- dividual not connected with the foundation When the house ended up in the hind six months later the previous er was very The report made three the NRK fully explain lo all interested people what it is doing and it lo do the NHF remove no more each has found adequate housing which he considers ade at cost to his present housing and that if necessary the NRF help t h n tenant to find suitable housing for each low-income housing unit the in a the NRF create low-income housing unit Cohen urged a meeting of the minds in the alleged situation caused by the tion if the process of d i s c u s s ion and negotiation should Cohen staled there is legal recourse able lo concerned Under the general laws of Island under V h i eh the foundation was ed a may not hold in excess of 000 Cohen said He the foundation owns property sessed at In his Cohen that the foundation is ing valuable work in ing Newport and increasing property values However at the time many people primarily low income people who are hil the hardest by the housing are being displaced find it difficult if not impossible find suitable housing Cohen said he has delivered a copy of Ills report lo the Council for consideration at morrow night's meeting He said he will send the governor a copy Ferry -I i Lichl will sigh t he ferryboat Newport the morrow at aim office The ferryboat will one and that ill be Ib ils final destination in where it become part of tucket JI ode Rhode Island Already Ahead i y Of Nixon's Standards President Nixon's proposals for modifying the nation's welfare program cannot be considered a giant step forward for Island or other progress Frank Licht said today These have tion had an effect on entire already gone far beyond the in- Landlords Charged With Unsafe Housing V Aj Howard in District pleaded innocent charges of failing to tain minimum h o u s i n g standards They we re n d e r bail be- fore Judge Arthur J van Charged with provide a safe means of egress leading to a safe and open space al ground level at 77 B u r n s i d e Avc was Dr Lewis Arnow of 33 Bull St The same charge was fora is the owner of a house al 77 Gaifield St t h e s Frederick M Gillies of 31 St were failing lo provide means of egress leading to a and open space al ground arid failing to provide fire capes directly accessible to each apartment at Hsll St The cases were continued to Aug 22 posed by the President The governor said in a ment he plans to advise dent call upon Rhode Island congressional lo a concerted effort fo and extend the program so that it will benefit the greatest possible people of Rhode land In his nationally televised ad- dress last Friday Nixon minimum welfare ment ot family oE an unrestricted Sharing of funds with the slates The revenue sharing proposal bicht a concept long advocated by the slates which find themselves increasingly lo meet the spiralling cost of public services and continually hampered by the complex federal governing the allocation of eral money The governor said he hopes that more than the proposed be made available for Licht director of his comments toward the minimum proposal Rhode provides about for the family of four re- eiving assistance Licht said and is making orts to develop effective day programs The President's will have their greatest effect not on states hours but on tales which have not met public welfare as governor said 1 hope efforts will more fully compensate such as ours and bet wien level of assist ance in will be corrected he or he Island provides about month for each individual in welfare family while Therefore t am pointed in the obvious fiscal in- these Lichl said Their unequal im- on stales and heir apparent disregard of the depth and variety of the social CAR HITS TOUCH UPSETS Overturned auto operated by Arthur Costa Jr of NcV Bedford traveled 30 feet from curb after striking the porch at home of Robert Sullivan of 575 Spring St Auto narrowly missed truck parked in driveway but struck an auto parked in an ad- Joining driveway owned by Daniel 573 Spring st Daily Driver III Auto Bits Rolls Over i A New Bedford Mass According lo taken ill while driving his aulo jnn Morion Avenue at Spring Street Saturday struck the porch of a Iwo story house The car overturned on its roof and landed yard of hedges bordering the erly Arthur Costa Jr 38 was operating easl on Morion lice Cosla was ill before marie the lurn onto Spring Streel into side After making turn van property from edge of curb and on its on lop ot hedges bordering Sulli by Coyne of Connection Si easi on Avenue at when her slopped at Spring Street on Spring Streel he crossed in- lo the south bound lane mounted the curb and struck the porch at the home of Mrs Robert Sullivan of 575 Spring slopped al Spring said ho looked wn wiping with heard a bang and when I a Ihc car on its adjoining driveway was hit was Sullivan said Costi was from The auto narrowly Mary Boucher of 577 Spring St and missed a truck owned by Robert van parked in the yard The aulo of Daniel C of 573 Spring St parked in an her ot 51 St the Ire Department Wagon arrived He was taken missed to Newport Hospital by the rescue wagon where he w 3 treated and released Damage to the porch and hedges w t s estimated at more than The Costa auto was Damage to the Bolhouse vss more I h in
