North Adams Transcript (Newspaper) - November 25, 1968, North Adams, Massachusetts YEAR NO. 141 Adams Adams Williamstown NOVEMBER 25. 1968 PAGES TEN Rescue Attempts in A -yn 78 Men Trapped He d Up N. W.Va. nuff of triggered by a small explosion early ruled out the immediate possibility of sending more teams into deep mine shafts to look for 78 men missing for five puffs are what scare the hell out of coal company official Alder Spotte told a news conference said rescue such as the two which probed the mine's tunnels could be walking into dangers of fire from the small blast blew smoke from the Llewellyn scene of the great impact when the first explosion ripped the Mountaineer Coal Co. No. 9 mine last The midnight shift was about to finish its tour when the explosion Tlie other 21 managed to reach safety or were of the two units to enter the mine went as far as 4,500 found some slight traces of concussion but no evidences of the missing two teams entered the mine in an area least affected by the explosions and one its way toward the Llewellyn long as we have no assurance the fire is Spotte cannot send men an engineer for Consolidation Coal parent firm of said the puff didn't have any effect on the was unable to say whether it had increased the new explosion confirms the theory there is an explosion mixture of methane gas and coal he one team went to a place where they could detect explosive gases and see coal we decided to pull up and reassess the Spotte told the news conference ended at 11 a.m. still have hope we can get a rescue team in there without endangering their he teams using bits poked through nearly 800 feet of shale and earth in boring holes to the roof of to Discuss Government Posts With Top YORK President-elect Richard M. Nixon will be talking this week to Republican governors and senators about federal appointments and Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes apparently leading the whose state went for Nixon over Democrat Hubert H. was expected to meet today with the 1968 presidential winner at Nixon's office suite in the Pierre GOP their names not yet also were understood to be on Nixon's office schedule for the Immediate was no that New York's Republican Nelson A. would be among the early Rockefeller who contested Nixon for the GOP presidential is mentioned as a choice in the Republican that takes office Jan. 20. and his family spent a quiet from hurly-burly walks between their Fifth Avenue apartment and the Plaza at the foot of Central where they had a late President-elect and Mrs. their daughter Julie and prospective son-in-law David Eisenhower went to morning services at the Marble Collegiate Church where Miss Nixon and the grandson of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower will be married Dec. 22. Dr. Norman Vincent in his pastoral asked God's guidance and for the President and the At the end of the Dr. Peale asked the congregation to remain in place while he stepped down from his pulpit to greet dear the President-elect and his his entitled ' er is on Your Dr. Peale God loves you is the greatest truth ever God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and He just puts His big arms around everybody and hugs them up against of underground sensitive microphone was dropped through the three-inch hoping to pick up sounds of men's Consolidation officials said the microphone could pick up whisper at 100 rescuers on the surface heard only the gurgle of water and pebbles dropping from the cavern's roof against the explained the water came from underground mountain streams punctured by the drills and the water seeped Says Press Distorted of Ala. News reports of the meeting by American Catholic bishops in Washington last week have drawn criticism from Alabama's ranking Church Most Rev. Thomas J. archbishop of the said Sunday that newsmen incorrectly reported the substance of the meeting at which public response to artificial birth control was Toolen ordered that a five-page explaining his interpretation of the meeting compared to what the public was told by be read at all masses in Alabama this past news media in their unfortunate search for the sensational and controversial have unhappily distorted the substance of our ideas to the point where almost the exact opposite of what we said was conveyed to the said Archbishop archbishop said that the bishops agreed upon a pastoral letter responding to a number of practical problems and questions confronting Christians and the least of these was the highly publicized response to the teaching of the Church contained in the recent encyclical the immorality of artificial methods of is precisely because of the effect of this publicity that it is necessary for a clear statement to be made to you Toolen said in the archbishop said the beart of the affirmation given by the bishops concerning the controversial encyclical was contained in this portion of the pastoral encyclical is not a negative proclamation seeking only to prohibit artificial methods of In full awareness of population problems and family it is a defense of life and of a defense which challenges the prevailing spirit of the encyclical is a positive statement concerning the nature of conjugal love and responsible a statement which derives from a global vision of an integral view of marriage and the first at of a sound archbishop think that most of you realize that this was hardly the impression conveyed by news accounts reporting the of our shafts but presented no threat was like a faucet said one don't think much else can be Spotte are open to We have received letters and telegrams from many people including scientists and are ooen to any and will evaluate all of hit at the heart of the fear harbored by many of those awaiting of brothers and fathers trapped in the when he was if there were any plans to seal the is not in our he public relations representative for the United Mine was asked how long men could survive far as I record underground is 18 he Accident Leads to Rescue Of Abducted Calif. - A traffic accident provided the break needed for the safe recovery cf a 3-year-old New girl and the arrest of a Fresno man charged with abducting Willis 39, was arrested Sunday by FBI agents and charged with kidnaping Brenda Ann who was taken from a stroller in front of a grocery store near her home last and the gifl bad been brought here for treatment Friday after Castile apparently fell asleep at the wheel and his car left Interstate 40 about six miles east of a small community seven miles southeast of agents quoted hospital spokesmen as saying the girl became hysterical while being treated for minor injuries and told nurses that Castile was not her Because of difficulty in understanding the girl's the FBI was not called into the case until the girl was kidnaping charges were filed against Castile in New Orleans he was placed under said the girl would be taken to her parents by the FBI the next available is to be before a U.S. commissioner in after his release from the Spokesmen listed his condition as but declined to describe the extent of his Holyoke Youngster Mass. A search for a missing 7-year-old boy continued today in vacant apartments after canals yielded no trace of youth over the said Scott Allen was reported missing Nov. 17 by his Mrs. Diana of the Holyoke Power Co. and volunteers drained the canal network but a search of it proved said the many vacant apartments and cellars in the boy's searched - Two U.S. jet planes were by MIG fighters and surface to air missiles and downed over North the U.S. Command announced Craft In a terse the Command said an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft and an armed which often accompany reconnaissance were downed in separate presumably bombing and strafing was used in attempts to rescue the downed the command adding that all further details were being withheld until rescue Radio Hanoi had said an American reconnaissance pilot had been captured after his plane was shot down 175 miles north of the demilitarized the American ground and air forces killed 155 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers in three clashes northwest and southwest of while suffering five Americans killed and 10 and Bases Hit But enemy gunners fired more than 200 rounds of rockets and mortars into five South Vietnamese towns and a dozen allied bases Sunday Military spokesmen said 13 Vietnamese soldiers and seven civilians were while the wounded included 25 South Vietnamese 36 civilians and at least 16 American 187 enemy troops reported killed in clashes the weekend saw some of the hardest fighting since the halt in the bombing of North Vietnam on Nov. 1. of the three ground fights centered 70 to 75 miles northwest of Saigon along the Cambodian border where the enemy command reportedly has massed 15,000 to 20.000 The third was in the Mekong Delta 45 miles southwest of Info Enemy American troops from the 1st Air Cavalry Division ran into about 150 North Vietnamese troops at daybreak today a mile from the Cambodian the American troopers pursued helicopters spewing rockets and machine-gun fire raked them from the Air Force bombers also attacked the enemy headquarters said that during tlie 3i2-hour 52 and five Americans were killed and 10 Americans in the same helicopter on reconnaissance missions an estimated 200 soldiers four from the Cambodian The attacked the enemy force with machine-gun fire and 2.75-inch rockets for killing at 54, There were no American casualties in action in the delta came morning when U.S. 9th Infantry Division troops observed several enemy infantrymen made an assault into the touching off a 512-hour Headquarters said 49 Viet Cong p 5 I were Who Talked With Predicts 'The Road Is to A member of the Senate Foreign Relations who recently talked with Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin in came away feeling road is to Albert Gore reported Sunday on a European tour to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in and He made the trip Sen. Claiborne and returned Saturday senators are members of the Foreign Relations Gore heading its disarmament He said they were told at the American embassy in Moscow that they were the first American officials to see Kosygin this said he took no formal message to the Soviet but wanted to impress on and thinks he the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia last August threatens to wipe out progress made easing tension between the United States and two Gore said he told the Soviet have a of in avoiding a nuclear responded that they have not only a mutuality of interest but a common responsibility for world Gore quoted Kosygin as saying that the road toward disarmament must be negotiated m perhaps beginning with an agreement not to deploy These weapons are designed to knock an enemy's intercontinental ballistic missiles from the haven't changed my feeling about the need for Gore he come back feeling the road is said Kosygin told him it would not be possible for the two countries to negotiate if one has a significant nuclear edge over the premier's remarks appeared to be directed Richard M. who asserted in a nationwide radio broadcast Oct. 24 that America must be able to negotiate with the Soviet Union from weakness but with the persuasiveness of respectable and evident a Kosygin told Gore and would mean each side would work to strengthen itself and an escalation of the arms race would report on the conference last Tuesday was taken from a summary prepared by the American whose representatives took Under the normal rules for interviews with heads of no direct quotation is told the two senators that the Soviet Union is committed to peaceful coexistence with the said Kosygin appeared surprised when he said the invasion had had a chilling effect on steps toward Cains in Paris Unveils New Austerity FOR Mrs. Al Romano hugs husband over ring ropes after he knocked ouf Herb Walker of N. Y. in 48 seconds of first round af state Armory here Saturday It was first boxing card here in 10 on sports More Air Are Hi Fla. planeloads of travelers forced to Cuba at gunpoint by separate teams of returned to the United States with strikingly similar stories of the latest acts of air Hijacking A Pan American Airways commandeered by three gunman over the Atlantic Ocean after leaving New York for San landed in Havana Sunday minutes after the first hijack victims of the weekend were flown to Eastern airliner en route to Miami from Chicago was taken over Saturday night by a team of five men who forced their way into the cockpit at then stood their victims a round of 78 Eastern passengers were returned to the United States in a plane chartered by the U.S. State Cuban authorities released the stolen jetliners and crews a few hours same charter plane was dispatched back to the Communist island and retrieved the Pan American passengers early captains said they learned their crafts had been hijacked when men entered the identical Pan American Capt. Alvin Walker didn't take us long to I told Sit We go to on the Eastern pilot Robert Silver said that when his abductor pointed a pistol and ordered the new looked at him and smiled and no We're on the initial tensions passengers on both planes reported their kidnapings took on an almost restive stewardess Nancy Corson said one of the hijackers gave her and insisted that she serve the passengers a round of passenger David Ruxton of Chicago said he was told the drink was on gentleman in the back with the Joseph and Ellen Hunoval of South said the apparent leader of the Pan American hijackers sat with them for awhile and described him as 24, told him that he was interrupting the first day of the couple's honeymoon he said he was very and sorry to inconvenience The franc strengthened in Paris today and the government announced new austerity There was a stampede to buy dollars in Germany but other transactions on Europe's markets gave little clue as to whether the world's monetary crisis was Unloading Marks Foreign who had figured on an upward revaluation of the began unloading their huge mark hoardings in Frankfurt and the West German bank sold about million U.S. dollars for sold briskly in Paris but at a slower rate than last Tuesday before the Paris markets were closed to dampen leaders and financial experts watched closely for indications of whether President Charles de Gaulle's new austerity program can save the franc from Gaulle announced over the weekend he would not devalue the declaring that would only reward The official rate is about five to the official quotation of the franc today 4.9575-4.96 to the It reached a level of 4.974 last forcing the Bank of France to Official parity is 4.937. Apparently Bolstered The franc had apparently been bolstered by De Gaulle's decision to get the economy back in but holders of francs still seemed anxious to shift their money into some other volume of the Paris gold market was compared with million on last week's final trading One gold closed at up from last Unofficial trading last week had seen the price of a ingot soar to of the more surprising results was the rush to the dollar in where the government announced last week it would not revalue the mark half an hour the opening in the West German bank lost about million of the pile of billion it bought up in last week's speculative in Frankfurt said the rush was due apparently to a desire of speculators to convert their mark holdings back into The U.S. dollar was at 3.9795 to the compared last week's low of 3.97. Currencies Gain The sharp rise in the dollar pulled other currencies even the but dealers reported few transactions in the French was a flight of the franc to the mark and other currencies that brought on the monetary German commercial banks maintained their restrictions on the limiting transactions to 500 marks worth at a rate of 69 marks per 100 Island Rail Road Strike Cause of Huge Traffic YORK - The Long Island the usual mode of travel for 90,000 commuters between Long Island homes and New York was halted today when trainmen failed to show up for work in a schedule generally took to their cars to reach the creating traffic jams and cramming city subways at points on the reported a six-mile backup on the Grand Central Parkway beginning at the site of the World's Fair Other highways also were unusually railroad instituted a revised schedule at a minute after midnight this No trains moved after that railroad said the stoppage was an illegal 1,600-member Local 517 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen said the schedule the first major revision by the line in 20 would cut down drastically on overtime Long the nation's largest commuter also carries about 80,000 one-way fares illegal action is in direct defiance of a restraining order granted last Friday Judge Walter the line's spokesman J. general chairman of the union said Sunday that the schedule changes were made without proper consultation with the but that he ordered his men to obey the court returnable Dec. 2. railroad spokesman replied that rules requiring 25 days notice in advance of a schedule change had been carried He said the union was informed Oct. 25, new timetable is not Nobody is losing their spokesman said the schedule was changed to provide better utilization of savings in five additional and reductions in running runs were made he by shorter waiting periods at stations and shorter in the union spokesman said the trainmen would lose a year in overtime due to the new He also said the trainmen needed more time to study the new new timetable reset about 600 carmen slowdown a couple of months ago crippled service but did not shut down the were nervous about France's monetary one dealer money market is in a very high state of It's We don't know what will happen that currency would rush to gold did not Prices were up slightly on London and Continental gold In London the price opened at an cents higher than last then slipped back about 10 Dealers reported demand was only Still Barometer Gold a nf public confidence in but not the reliable one it once Since the market was the free price of gold has been allowed to Buyers take a much larger risk then they could buy with a guaranteed floor of an ounce and the U.S. gold reserves fed the markets were luit some dealers feared it could be only a calm before the storm later in the prices went up sharply at the opening of trading on the Paris Foreign stocks also were and the hike in prices was especially marked for German Maurice Couve de will address the National Assembly Tuesday and Is expected at that time to spell out details of the plan to cut government He and Finance Minister worked over a draft of the Who Snapped Jackie's Picture N.J. - A photographer who snapped pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy as she took a Sunday stroll in the country has been charged with said Mrs. Onassis complained that she had been frightened by the Philippe J. C. as she walked alone at the estate where she is staying with her husband and said the photographer drove his car onto the grounds and hid it in a They said he broke away when they tried to catch him and he was stopped after a chase on foot of nearly a a New York City resident who works for Al Ain Actualities of was freed on bond for a hearing in Municipal according to Police Chief Frank J. Onassis was wearing a black black turtleneck and Authorities said she asked that the pictures not be They were confiscated but photographer said he met Mrs. Onassis on a road near the estate and talked with her in He claimed she did not want her picture taken because she did not have her makeup ranch house for an indefinite stay in this foxhunting country of rolling hills and Cashier Is Robbed of Police said two men escaped with an estimated in weekend receipts after robbing the general cashier of the hotel hotel spokesman said the Robert Hannon of was carrying a canvas bag with the to the mezzanine cashier's office about 9:10 a.m. when accosted by one man who was joined by said Hannon was nudged with what he believed was a gun and told to lie on the floor without looking at the men apparently fled a stairway from the mezzanine to the lobby and out the east entrance of the Nov. 25 Fair and cold Fair and colder
