Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - April 15, 1969, Oakland, California Oakland A RESPONSIBLE METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER YEAR NO 105 F TUESDAY APRIL 15 1969 lOc DAILY A MONTH Heyns Hits The Tribune Spending Myths on Recommends Cuts Told By Nixon J 5 5 py Disorders Special to The Tribune SACRAMENTO lor Roger Heyns of the Uni- versity of California at ley told community leaders yesterday that they and other California citizens are misled by myths about campus events and are themselves becoming part of the threat to education's environment Addressing Sacramento's in- f 1 u e n t i a 1 Comstock Club Heyns said that most faculty and students oppose both campus radicals and ence from the outside Their criticism is not that the public is angry about pus disruption most students and faculty share that angers them is the use made of the turmoil to attack the institution itself The chancellor cited a state-wide poll in which the number of those supporting political control of campuses had grown in two years from 18 to 31 per cent This wavering of belief in democratic ideals by the California citizenry and its leaders causes to further doubt the older credibility Heyns said At this point the chancellor drew for support on a ment by Lt Gov Ed ecke As the lieutenant governor so perceptively noted in a speech last week what is ging students is not Marx it is Heyns said the same Jefferson whose ideas are the bedrock of America's democratic ideals Somehow you are allowing yourselves to be placed in a of the foundations of tms Heyns told the club members Your composure is slipping and your criticism is becoming wilder You may respond that the poll did riot talk to you but to other people I know Heyns told them He knew better he said from having talked to hundreds of Californians in his four years as chancellor of them have been Continued Page 4 Col 1 Million Damage In Hangar Blaze EWING TOWNSHIP A huge hangar at the Mercer County Airport be- came a raging inferno today as fire swept through the building and destroyed about 50 aircraft First estimates set the age to aircraft alone at well over a million dollars airport manager John T Stephan said OAKLAND MUNICIPAL ELECTION APRIL 15 1969 Incumbent FOR John H Reading FOR ft J A FOR CITY Alan A FOR SCHOOL W M N PERALTA JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT Dechow Fair Tribune Korean Reds Shoot Down 31 Aboard a complimentary vote for all unopposed incumbents on the ballot State Gas Tax Boost Veto Hint By ED SALZMAN Tribune Capital Bureau SACRAMENTO Gov ald Reagan may veto raising California's gasoline tax by one cent a lon starting June 1 The assembly and senate morrow will consider a com- promise authorizing a six-month levy to pay for damage w streets bridges and public buildings from this winter's floods The measure is expected to clear both houses with ease But Reagan made it clear at his weekly press conference today that he has not ted himself to sign the meas- ure even though key assembly Republican leaders agreed to the compromise He said he is still collecting and assessing reports of storm damage and will until the reaches his desk before making a deci- sion A Reagan spokesman said the governor will not impose the tax unless he feels that it is absolutely unavoidable In January Reagan pledged to Californians that there will be no new taxes this year Even though he could not have foreseen the floods at that time he apparently feels that he would be violating his promise if he were to sign the measure The authored by Continued Page 4 Col 4 A II t 4 f President Nixon unveiled day more details about budget cuts said to represent choice and potentially lar decisions The only cy to wind up with more ey is the Justice Department Announcing new spending figures for each agency under a revised budget calculated to produce a 85.8 billion surplus in the fiscal year starting July 1 Nixon revealed more than half of the billion in tions he is claiming come out of defense and programs and scaled down legislation to increase Social Security benefits The cut in planned military spending put at billion was attributed largely to GI in Vietnam a cutback of the missile program proposed by former President Lyndon B Johnson and modification of chases of short-range attack missiles Another SI billion of the re- was attributed to whittling down another son plan never transmitted to Congress but included in his January budget to in- crease Social Security fits Nixon called for a 7 per cent increase in those benefits and proposed liberalization of the retirement test so retired sons can retain their benefits while receiving increased out- side earnings Johnson had proposed a 10 per cent boost at a cost of billion Johnson's budget envisioned outlays totaling billion Uncontrollable changes such as interest on the national Navy reconnaissance plane similar to this Air Force model is missing over Sea of Incident Challenge To Nixon Policies WASHINGTON AP President Nixon was ed with a severe international challenge today when North Korea claimed it shot down a U.S Navy electronics plane that allegedly penetrated its air space The plane an EC121 naissance craft carried a crew of 31 Vice John B Colwell deputy chief of naval tions told newsmen outside a congressional committee room where he was testifying on other matters that it was a clearcut case of international piracy and a breach of inter- national At the White House press secretary Ronald L Ziegter said Nixon was awakened atiu boosted these ed total of to a billion Budget Bureau Director ert P Mayo said The Nixon budget he ed assumes outlays of billion The original Johnson fore- cast of a billion surplus Continued on Page 5 Col 1 about the incident Ziegler de- to specify the hour but he said Nixon was awakened by a telephone call from his special assistant for national security affairs Dr Henry A Kissinger There was no hint of how or whether the White House would respond to the North Koreans who seized the Mayoralty and Issues Up to Voters Today Voters were going to the polls today to decide a variety of issues including the Oakland Important school elections are involved in both Alameda and Contra Costa Counties Richmond voters will choose from 15 school board dates in a hotly disputed race and also will decide on er to raise the school tax rate Oakland voters also must select three school board members with two bents facing serious lenges The third incumbent is unopposed Voters in the Peralta Junior College District will ballot on three trustees only one of whom is opposed Polling places in Alameda County close at 1 p.m and those in Contra Costa County at S p.m Tragedy in a Town By LEE BYRD REXBURG Idaho APi Betsy Anderson 16 a quiet well liked sophomore at dison High School was in the back seat of a car driven by her father Lights came up fast from the rear Suddenly impact Betsy was killed Residents of a nearby farm house rushed to the door upon hearing the crash Through darkness they saw two twisted autos And they said they saw another it was white roar up and stop The white car's driver Drake Smith 18 and ger Bruce Ard ran to the dent Smith shouted to the Call an lance And the sheriff ry Betsy's family had been on the way rural after spending Saturday ning at Idaho Falls Sfo had taken in a movie while her parents Mr and Mrs Ross Z Anderson square danced wow at midnight young Smith a friend and senior at Madison High tered first aid to the ors as did Ard while fighting realization that Betsy was dead Betsy's parents and three occupants of the collision's other car driver Teddy choff 21 Kent Zollinger 19 and Kenneth Firth 18 were taken to the Rexburg hospital None was critically hurt As the ambulances away Deputy Sheriff Blair S e i p e r I briefly questioned Smith and Ard He knew both Most everyone knows one in the Rexburg area The town has a population of about Seipert says the two told him that they had been about 200 yards behind the Bischoff car and had not seen brake lights before ii crashed into the Anderson car Seipert liked and respected Smith So did his classmates and friends He was some An honor student who was halfback on the football team President of the school Agriculture Club The deputy sent the boys home then went to the tal to ask questions larly of Bischoff Zollinger and Firth What I learned ly is that Teddy Bischoff and Drake Smith were in a drag Seipert says Bischoff had gotten ahead Early Sunday afternoon tht of Drake's parents Mr and Mrs Irving Smith about six miles from Rexburg Drake answered I am told there was a drag Seipert said and that Cai i want to come down and give me a statement Yes sir said Drake Young Smith told his Vn tA with Seipert gol cleaned up then called Brad Jensen a close friend for the ride to town We drove around for a while says Jensen We cussed it I asked him if he wanted to go to the sheriff's office Drake said no that he wanted to go home and get his father to come in with him Then he said I ought to kill myself I thought it was just an expression that he d i d n t mean it I told him it wasn't that bad that it was but not that bad Later a neighbor was Jllg Lfi i 111 the kitchen The youth went into his bedroom Drake do you want a piece of called his mother No thanks was still at his desk waiting for Drake Smith Came an gent radio call from the A shooting at snooting nmr an ambulance Drake's body lay on the floor of a blood splattered closet a massive wound in his neck was his shotgun ship Pueblo in Janu- ary 1968 in an area 200 miles from where search operations were launched for the EC121 crew But the situation appeared likely to put to a test Nixon's presidential campaign ments of last year saying the United States should not let it- self be pushed around by fourth rate powers Speaking of the Pueblo zure before his election Nixon declared that unless the United States reacts to those small slights you are bound to encourage bigger slights and you are going to have more Pueblos In a new Nixon said I say we've got to stop that kind of action against tue stales fore it gets started Seriate Republican Leader Everett M Dirksen of Illinois and Sen Hugh Scott the assistant GOP leader told reporters they were informed that the plane was a sitting duck for any fighter attack They said it was unarmed and Reaction in Congress was serious but it stopped short of demands for retaliation Sen John Stennis c h ai r m a n of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the incident creates a very grave situation But he said it would be up to the President and his military ad- visers to decide on an response Sen Peter H Dominick a committee ber said the United States should issue a pretty strong warning to the North reans and should begin viding armed protection for its reconnaissance vehicles But he said he is not sure w h e t h e r the United States should retaliate explaining I'd like to learn more of the details first Sen Howard Vv Cannon Continued Page 5 Col 7 School Aid Cut For Michigan WASHINGTON The Nixon administration an- today it was taking steps to cut off federal funds to the first northern school district found to be violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act The Ferndale City School District in Michigan has been told it is not in compliance Title VI of the act and will be offered an opportunity for a hearing before an pendent examiner Ferndale schools were ble for some in al funds for the current school year While existing federal grams are not immediately affected by today's action the Education was notified that nf funds for new programs are now to to deferred Title VI bars use of federal funds for programs in which there is racial discrimination Cross locates center of air search for missing Navy with 31 persons New Duels Keep Mideast Boiling By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign News Analyst ninth consecutive and French envoys will meet For the day Egyptian and Israeli ar- tillery battled across the Suez Canal today Egypt opened fire on Israeli troops entrenched on the east bank according to an Israeli spokesman starting along the southern pan of the waterway and spreading north some 70 miles to El The Israelis fired back to silence the sources of the Egyptian the spokesman said Another battle took place across the Jordan River cease-fire line south of the Sea of Galilee when Israeli and Arab gunners dueled for four hours Israel and Jordan both charged the other the fighting United Nations observers restored the cease-fire in both locations I n iiipMjir.aiiv: sources said King Hussein of Jordan plans to form a new guerrilla organization In con- trol the Arab commando groups that oppose him They operate from Jordanian tory in attacks on Israel cording to Israeli officials The sources said Hussein's new group would be set up as a rival to the fanatical Al tah and similar organizations In New York the Big Four ambassadors to the held the longest of three meetings seeking some basis for a Middle East settlement The American small world again Thursday Vrom Jerusalem the Eliav Simon a top Middle correspondent re- ported that Israeli Premier Golda Meir said Soviet and French policies in the area would undermine the Big Four talks which have been opposed by Israel on the grounds a settlement must be Continued Page 4 Col 1 Vast Search Started in Sea of Japan Compiled from AP and UPI TOKYO AP North rea said it shot down a large U.S reconnaissance plane day and the ed one was missing with 31 persons aboard raising fears of another dent Sen Everett M Dirksen n ill congressional leaders had been informed by the White House that two MIG jets had shot down the plane off the North Korean coast A North Korean broadcast claimed the plane intruded deep into its air space and a fighter plane shot it from the sky with a single shot The Pentagon said the Navy EC121 reconnaissance plane was on a track 50 miles off the North Korean coast It was an easy target for North Korean jet fighters A big search was in progress for survivors in the Sea of Japan about 95 miles southeast of the North Korean port of Chongjin This is about 200 miles north of where the intelligence ship Pueblo was captured off the North Korean port of Wonsan Jan 23 1968 The North reans claimed the Pueblo in- its waters Washington said she was 25 miles off shore The Pueblo's 82 ing crewmen were released about four months ago While the Pentagon did not immediately confirm that the North Koreans had shot down the plane Vice Adm John B Colwell deputy chief of naval operations termed the plane's loss n clear cut case of inter- national piracy U.S military officials in pan and South Korea declined to give details on the search on last radio contacts with the missing plane on possible military alerts and on er the United States or the Command in Korea had Continued Page 5 Col 4 Four Verdicts on Sirhan Possible LOS ANGELES fate of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan rests with a jury thai must weigh this How ill hour yesterday and resumed at today The defense contended that mind was so blurred thai the crime didn't meet the killed F The bantamweight year-old Jordanian Arab who put a gun to the head of the New York's senator last June 5 watched stolidly as the jury of seven men and five women filed from the courtroom to fix the degree of his crime Instructed by Judge Herbert V Walker io be uninfluenced by pity for the defendant or by passion or by p r c j u d i c e him jury can re- turn any of four possible degree asked by the the of life in prison or death The penalty would be determined by the jury in a separate asked by the the term of five years to life in prison one io 10 murder But it did not ask for the other possible verdicts of manslaughter or outright quittal The judge said the would sit until 4 p.m The begin about as a foreman LIFE RAFT Jurors chose Bruce 0 with a Ph.D in engineering and a job as analyst for ar aerospace firm The jury deliberated lor an Talks Predicted PARIS Secret talks between the South government and the Viet Cong could begin early next month a Saigon official close to the peace negotiations said today He said thai although offer for such contacts apparently took the Viet Cong by surprise the are expected to accept so that the private sessions could be- gin within three weeks Other Saigon delegation ifl ClaiS said guerrillas and their Liberation Front organization might agree to outside tions but not until South nam's regime is changed Vote Today Polls Are Open Until 7 p.m
