Ottawa Herald (Newspaper) - April 11, 1968, Ottawa, Kansas 72 95 OTTAWA HERALD APRIL 66067 10 cents 12 pages Warsaw Picked By Communists As Talk Site WASHINGTON AP De spite an official Hanoi proposal that peace talk preliminaries be held In a White House spokesman said to day this government Is pressing for an appropriate site In neu tral Presidential press secretary George Christian told reporters that the selection of a neutral site should to achieved promptly through mutual agree ment with no effort on either side to make the site selection a propaganda This apparently represented a for the present at of a Hanoi first disclosed through fre Russian news agency Christian said the Tass report was later confirmed by a mes sage received through our bassy at The United States govern ment has proposed a number of neutral countries as possible sites for and we have not yet had any response to this Christian read Ing carefully from a prepared On serious matters of this It Is Important to conduct talks In a neutral atmosphere fair to both When asked to whom the statement should be Christian said to Pressed again on this he Insisted It Is my personal of what a neutral country would He did state that the neutral sites suggested by this country had all been proposed before the North Vietnamese proposal and that no additional sites had been suggested The Warsaw report came In dispatch from Hanoi by It was also learned from re liable sources today that the Democratic Republic of nam has now suggested Warsaw as the venue of a preliminary meeting with a representa Tass went No other details on the pro were The Tass dispatch from Ha noi noted In expressing won der about the position on Phnom Penh that Prince Norodom Sihanouk had agreed to a Viet meeting In his capital and promised all conditions will be created for The North Vietnamese propos as described by re ferred only to a preliminary meeting In No mention was made of a possible site for peace talks that might result from The North Vietnamese posi tion has been that first contacts must deal with an unconditional end of bombings and oth er acts of war against its terri Informed diplomats In London reported Wednesday that India Six Die In Wake Of Kansas City Violence KANSAS CITY AP A ond straight night of racial vio lence left Kansas Citys Negro East Side with a toll of five at least 20 wounded and the rubble of more than 75 fires of incendiary origin All of the dead were They were shot to some victims of the intense crossfire that flared at times between gro snipers and police supported by National Another Negro was slain in Tuesday nights initial Two guardsmen suffered shot neither A fireman was wounded in the ab domen and underwent There were more than 60 HELLO AND nights commission meeting drew a large crowd that came to welcome Ottawas new Lamar and say goodbye to the outgoing mayor Charles Williamson is holding a box containing a key to the city and the gavel he pounded and according to Commissioner Lyman Corlis for six Williamson Bows Out As Mayor As Phillips Sworn Heres How They Died KANSAS CITY AP Four of the six persons slain In sas Citys racial disturbances were shot by unknown police said Officials said only two of the all of whom are Ne were known to have been shot by One was accused of looting and the other of en gaging In a gun battle with of The list of dead since the trouble began Tuesday night and the police version of what Beyond the press secre had offered New Delhi as the tary refused to elaborate In any site for Vietnam peace way upon the statement In spite The choice of Communist of reporters Insistence that he country for the preliminary indicate whether it represented meeting would Insure the kind a fiat turndown of the new of security conditions and gen North Vietnamese proposal and eral atmosphere that North that he provide some definition Vietnam evidently would Senate Passes Notice Slum Money Available WASHINGTON AP The Senate has served emphatic no tice it wants money to provide summer jobs for needy youths and preschool aid for slum chil Acting in the wake of civil dis orders that lashed many cities heeding a members call for a memorial to Martin Luther Senate ed 5 to 2 Wednesday a mental money from which the House had stripped funds for these The bipartisan which found 34 Democrats and 20 publicans aligned to send the back to conference with the represented a rare re volt against the tions of veteran Senate Committee Key items in the dispute are million for the summer million for the preschool Head Start program and million for a program of federal aid to school districts with enrollments swollen by children of military personnel and federal The House had allowed ing for the jobs or for Head Start and only million for the socalled impacted areas Jacob noted the House acted on the measure a week before last weeks slaying of King in Mem which touched off urban violence only now subsiding in many Christina Woke announced this morning she will seek reelection to her office as clerk of the fourth Judicial Miss Woke administers records of the Franklin County branch of the District She will be seeking renomination for the office on the Republican Ticket in the August primary By ROSIE LISTER For a moment it looked like some hot subject was going to come to light at the City mission meeting Wednesday room was packed with It turned out to be Ottawans present to say farewell to May or Charles Williamson and come the new Lamar Guests included members of the Chamber of the Ottawa Industrial OID the outgoing mayors fam ily and other friends of the two Bob Grabham expressed the thanks of the Chamber of merce and the retail committee for Williamsons help and operation during the past six George speaking in half of the Association and the expressed similar thanks to Williamson and to com missioners Lyman Corlis and Harry As one of his last official acts Williamson signed the tracts for the construction of the new tennis courts in Forest After a 14minute business Williamson commented briefly to the For the most son while in the position here in the middle I think I have had very clear sailing for the most He commended the department heads and the other city es for their work during his years as Thank he Ive had a real enjoyable six At that Corlis manded Williamson for leading up to the adjournment of the Although caught guard by Corlis abruptness for a the crowd quickly realized he was leading up to Corlis began by presenting a key to the city to the man who has bestowed the same honor on Ive heard you say so many times that a key to the city should never be presented but because of service well he said In presenting the Corlis then withdrew from a a box containing the gavel which Williamson had used during his Corlis said the gavel is pretty well cracked from but has for William son as a A gold plaque is attached bearing his name and term of After the Phillips was called to the front to be sworn in as the new After the Phillips was He spoke about the new responsibilities he to do a job you must know your he And I have many in He professed a lack of knowledge in the various city and said he will be relying heavily upon the ment heads for It will not be my intention to interfere with the routine in any of those he If I seem to be confessing to or bragging an abundance of I dont mean But the should be operated within he I should know more about city government than I or Phillips commenting about the years he spent as a reporter covering about commission meetings in Turning to the representatives of the news he added It looks a lot different up Mayor Phillips said he is proud to have been but I dont expect to please The main function of the commission is a policy body as a he Phillips said he would like to see the commission room filled with interested 40th Was Rod Steiger SANTA AP In the Heat of the Night won five including picture acclaim and best honors for Rod at the 40th Academy Awards Katharine was named 1967s best motion ture actress as a perplexed mother whose daughter plans to marry a Negro in Guess Whos Coming to The accolades of movieland were and there were a few surprises Wednesday Considered hotter tenders than Hepburn were Faye Dunaway of the explosive Bonnie and Clyde and Anne the neurotic who duces a youth half her In The Steiger was acclaimed by Sid ney the boyfriend taken home to Dinner and the gro costar of Steiger in Heat this way Hes probably the greatest actor in the In accepting his Stei ger thanked Poitier for giving him understanding of racial Both In the Heat of the Night and Guess Whos Com ing to Dinner dealt with the cial Mike nominated a year ago for Whos Afraid of Virginia won this time among directors for his second The Supporting honors went to George the chain gang convict of Cool Hand Luke and to Broadways telle Parsons in Bonnie and her second movie and first important film the southern sheriff who reluctantly lets a Negro detective from help him solve a nosed out two other also favored nominees Hoffman as a confused youth in The Gradu ate and Warren Beatty as the ruthless bank robber Clyde row in Bonnie and The glittering motion picture Academy televised and broadcast through the United States and were presid ed over for the 14th time by Bob Egg Hunt Details When the thundering herd hits Forest Park at 10 Saturday one thing will be realized at once Its director of the Ottawa Recreation has staked out the annual Easter egg hunt to the point that it resembles a version of the Fifth Armys war The area around the shelter house will be the central hunting A loudspeaker will be situated in that area for directing the Also helping with the hunt will be Ottawa Boy Scouts and Girl The event is open to all children in Ottawas Unified School District 290 from three years of age to third grade A total of plastic each containing two large eggs and jelly will be Some of the bags will include extra candy and others will have eggs marked with a Numbered eggs may he taken to the following the hunt to be redeemed for a There will be six divisions of children this rather than two divisions as in last years The divisions and the areas which they will search are area just west of the shelter in area inside the lighted baseball KINDERGARTENERS The area just east of the intersection of the eastwest road and the baseball FIRST area south of the eastwest just across from the shelter SECOND of the northsouth road at its intersection with the eastwest THIRD east of northsouth director of the recreation said each area will be clearly marked with a sign designating the age There also will be marked boundaries enclosing each At no Cox will parents be allowed to help the children They are asked to remain outside the perimeter of the Roads near the hunting areas will be blocked to traffic for the safety of the Most of the fires were out by Some were allowed to burn because of sniper Firemen were pinned down at three locations during the The violence resumed around nightfall Wednesday after a day of uneasy During the peak of violence police sealed off an area from 27th to 34th streets between Prospect and about 24 square Snipers challenged police and guardsmen from rooftops and shooting and running or driving from vantage point to vantage The snipers were countered with tear gas and by strike forces of police rifle squads and supporting Other police officers served as rooftop spotters for their riflemen At one point in the heat of the battle National Guardsmen quested and received more am An additional guard force patrolled a perimeter of 24 blocks by 16 blocks around the devastated State way patrolmen supplemented depleted police units elsewhere in the Warren Hearnes dered 700 members of a tary battalion from central and eastern Missouri to Kansas bringing guardsmen on emergency duty here to approx The governor locked over the situation himself Wednesday and said there wts no need for federal troops at Ms We can say the troops we have here along with the highway patrol and police are doing a job everybody can be proud he told A force of 40 guardsmen in an armored car rescued two lance drivers pinned under their vehicle by sniper fire while they were on an emergency call to pick up wounded An curfew until 6 today was invoked on both sides of the state A unit of 64 Kansas National Guardsmen was at principal intersections of Johnson across the line from Kansas Missouri cars without legitimate business in Kansas were turned Public schools in Kansas and Kansas began their Easter vaca tions a day early today because of the Parochial schools In both cities followed suit Classes are scheduled to resume Tues 30shot Tuesday night by who said he was looting a liquor store at 19th and George 50 Shot Wednesday night at 30th and Prospect by an unknown Michael be to be the son of George shot by an unknown person at 30th and Prospect Paola Guard Unit Among Kansans Called To Duty person at 30th and Bluis by unknown persons day night at 30th and Albert 21Shot by police Wednesday night at 31st and Park during a gun battle with Police said the four persons slain Wednesday night In a fur ious gun battle at 30th and Prospect were sniper but it was difficult to determine for certain because of the In tense Set Again In KC KANSAS CITY A Bus Davis has called a curfew in Kansas City again tonight to extend from 7 until 6 oclock tomorrow The mayor was preparing to broadcast the statement follow ing a meeting with Hearnes and Police Chief Clarence Kel ley in Kelleys Repre of the FBI also at tended the Davis ordered liquor stores to close at 5 and ordered a halt in the sale of ammunition and Weather COUNTY and locally warmer Friday clear to partly cloudy and continued unseasonably warm with southwest winds 15 to 30 Low tonight 50 to High Friday 80 to High temperature The National Guard artillery battery of Paola is going on active The announcement came this morning in a dispatch from Washington which announced the callup of several Kansas Guard Included was the 2nd Battalion of the 130th The of the battalion is at One unit of the battalion is C Battery at That unit is equipped with 105 MM According to this mornings Department of Defense reservists in the units have 30 days notice to report for The office of the Adjutant General at Topeka said about noon that the Paola unit would be going to TOPEKA AP The call of National Guard troops an today will involve 541 officials from the State Adjutant Generals office The callup will take all Kan sas units of the 69th Brigade w ith the exception of the 3rd tallon of the 137th Infantry which was organized just last Decem In the 995th ance company is being Joe state adjutant said the Kan sas National Guard troops have until May 13 to report to their mobilization Philip assistant adjutant said it was not clear yet whether the May 13 date is for the men to report to their or to their mobilization The mobilization station for the 69th Brigade units Is Mobilization sta tion for the 995th Maintenance company Is said the training of he 69th units is rated sufficient that they could be committed to bat with eight weeks additional Here are the Kansas units which are being called up Headquarters and ters Military police medi cal headquarters and headquarters Troop 114th Me 3rd Armored Cavalry platoon and Troop Main Headquarters and service 130th support and maintenance Battery 2nd 130th Ar Battery 2nd 130th artil Battery 130th Artil Headquarters and ters 1 st 137th Company 1st 137th Second rifle platoon and wea pons Arkansas Company 1st 137th Second rifle platoon and wea pons Company 1st 137th Second and third rifle platoon and weapons Headquarters and ters 2nd 137th Kansas Battalion Law Company 2nd 137th In 2nd 137th At Second rifle platoon and wea pons Company 2nd 137th Kansas 995th Maintenance Maintenance platoon head quarters and mechanical main tenance section 995th ance Curfew year ago 38 record high this 90 in 1930 record low this 21 in Hourly ending at 8 today 9 54 64 10 50 11 48 72 1 2 9 10 11 Noon 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 3 4 5 6 7 48 48 48 50 46 50 8 56 Barometer 169th Engineers 1st and 2nd platoons Bridge 169th Engl neering Council Headquarters and ers 169th Support Kansas A 169th Support B 169th Support Kansas 169th Support Battalion Kansas 169th Support Aircraft Maintenance Johnson was or dred today by Robert Dock ing at the request of the John son County Docking made the general cur few effective from 7 until 6 The governors order also bans sate of alco holic beverages and flammable liquids beginning at 6 to City of Pomona fire hydrants will be April weather
