Port Angeles Evening News (Newspaper) - August 5, 1969, Port Angeles, Washington Y port Angeles August 1969 101st Issue of 54th Year 18 Pages 10 Cents Treatment called adequate Three POWs released by Hanoi may deliver 10 SAIGON AP The government Is negotiating se cretly with Hanoi to arrange for the return of 10 North Viet fishermen rescued by the Navy last week off North Informed sources said The sources said the United States wants to return the fish ermen as quickly as particularly since Radio Hanoi announced Monday that three American servicemen held cap tive in North Vietnam have been It was not immediately learned where and how contact with North Vietnam was being but the Lao tian seemed the likely officials said only that the Hanoi government and the International Red Cross had been notified of the American desire to return the men as soon as possible if they want to go the lull in major war action American and South Vietnamese forces re ported 113 enemy soldiers killed in seven scattered Only nine rocket and mortar aU tacks were reported during the the lowest number since May The days communiques listed a total of nine Americans wounded and one The Command also announced two more American helicopters were shot down in the Central raising to the total number of helicopters re ported lost in the The last North prisoner held by the United 14 were re leased last 21 during a 36 hour ceasefire agreed on for a strip of North Vietnamese coast line 25 miles At that time American bombers and war ships were still attacking that part of Vietnam prior to the 1 bombing The Embassy said at the time that the release of the 14 seamen was intended as an ac tion of good and that the United States hoped it would lead to further prisoner re But Hanoi released no Americans until the three it turned over to a group of Amer ican pacifists in the North Viet capital The 14 seamen were captured during a naval engagement in international Their lease was arranged by Ameri can and North Vietnamese dip in and a boat from a Navy transport put them ashore near the North Vietnamese city of According to the Com five of the North Viet fishermen it now holds were sighted last Tuesday by a helicopter on a sampan that was sinking in international waters 25 miles northeast of Dong The helicopter dropped a life and the de stroyer Renshaw picked up the The following the Command the destroyer Meredith rescued five more fishermen adrift on three rafts in the Tonkin The 10 North Vietnamese are reported in good They are being kept in Da The United States now turns over all North Vietnamese cap tured In ground fighting to the South Vietnamese which reportedly now holds some A large number of them are said to be from North The United States in July list ed Americans as missing or most of them men downed in North Enemy returning captured documents and other sources have fled at least 343 as known cap Awaiting their sons homecoming and Lyle hold letter from Rumble Tax relief written into reform WASHINGTON AP The House Ways and Means Com wrote a billion addi tional measure of tax virtually every taxpayer r into the reform A committee spokesman said the revising tax rates in the lowest and some middle now assures every low and middle income taxpayer in normal circumstances at least 5 per cent tax relief by Chairman Wilbur Du D called the committee into special session on the eve of House debate on the to ap prove the Mills earlier had told the House Rules Committee he was calling the session to do what I thought we were doing in the first a tax rate reduction of at least 5 per cent for every The Democratic Study an organization of moderate and liberal Democrats in the had said the committee did not meet that The group issued an analysis contending that the reform might provide no reduction for as many as three million or four million with Incomes roughly between and on their fam lly situation and the deductions available to The DSG and some ed Democrats outside its ranks have been pressing for a chance to offer amendments to the tax reform when it is debated Wednesday and The Rules Committee skir mishing came a day after the House completed congressional action on a sixmonth compro mise extension of the income tax Mondays 237170 House vote assurances extension of the 10 per cent surcharge only through But an additional six month at 5 per is included in the tax reform 1 he entire extension is need the Nixon administration if inflation is to be brought under a group of Demo crats wants to knock the addi tional 13 per cent extension out of the reform which comes up for debate Wednesday with a vote planned for They also seek an opportunity to offer an amendment readjust ing the proposed income tax rate reductions in the The critics want to give less relief to upper bracket taxpayers and more to those in the middle Bribing witnesses laid to Dennis of charged with two counts of bribing witnesses in a case pending in Superior surrendered himself Monday and was brought before Superior Court Judge Joseph appeared with a bonding company but without an He told Judge Johnston he did not want to be but asked to be released on which had been set at Judge Johnston said he would delay hearing all matters in the including until was charged July 14 and pleaded innocent to clurg es of unlawful sale and furnishing of narcotic and contributing to the delinquency of a The two alleged bribery incidents occurred on or about July 19 and July 21 ac cording to the They They involved witnesses Robert Dempsey and William according to information filed in Superior In other court action Sharon Gail Port was sentenced to not more than 15 years in suspend ed on condition of good behavior and her serving 30 days in She was charged with grand larceny by Sentencing of Thomas King 304 Front for unlaw ful use of marijuana was de ferred for six months with dis missal pending good behavior and his serving 30 days in Probation for Kathleen 1903V Sixth was revoked and she was sentenced to not more than 15 years in prison for grand lar suspended on condition of good behavior and her ing 30 days in Vientiane is point of arrival Laos AP Looking gaunt after months In North Vietnamese prison three prisoners of war arrived in Vientiane tonight and described their treatment as They landed from Hanoi in an International Control Commis sion plane in company of an American pacifist group that went to the North Vietnamese capital to pick them After huddling with Em bassy officials inside the the three came out to meet They seemed somewhat Robert Franchot Frish a Navy pilot from San acted as spokesman during the Asked about their treatment In prison he replied I do not want to jeopardize other prison ers still My treatment has been praised the treatment he was given by North Vietnamese doctors to a wounded right arm suffered when his plane was shot His rm hung limply by his With him were Wesley Lewis an Air Force pilo from and Douglas a seaman ap prentice from The doctors were very busy giving treatment to their own Frishman It would have been easier to amputate my arm but they op on me and removed my I still have my Frishman reported the main diet of the prisoners was based around soup and pig It may not sound very good but they had a way of preparing it that made it he Frishman said he had not been He added that the treatment of the three prisoners by the North Viet had been adequate and that relatives of other prisoners should not Rumble did not speak during the Hegdahl said nervously that the main activities during their imprisonment were sweeping smoking cigarettes and listening to the Voice of Viet the North Vietnamese propaganda The three looked gaunt and pale but otherwise They wore blue dungarees and rubber Ho Chi sandals without They were escorted by a fourman pacifist mission from the United States headed by Rennie The North Viet turned the prisoners over to the pacifist mission They had spent from 15 to 28 months in Tough luck AP Rob ert Shelton purchased an entire Western town set on a desert site 15 miles out of town for Thursday as a tour 1st Thirty minutes a thun with winds up to CO miles an hour flattened 18 of the towns 20 Cinema Center Films had the set constructed at a cost of for the recently motion picture Monty Walsh Lee Marvin and Jack Ice cream enjoyed An unidentified Coast Guard youngster put the finishing touches to a dish of ice cream Sunday as the Air Station staged fun and games for base personnel and dependents in honor of the Coast Guards 179th Guard photo by SN Dave Ferry plan proposed by Kitsap lawmaker OLYMPIA AP A plan to keep ferry fares down and build a toll free bridge across Puget Sound by way of Vashon Island was unveiled Mon day by State Beck submitted his proposal to Dan chairman of the Toll Bridge which will meet here Wednesday to consider an increase in ferry The veteran legislator pro posed that in no case should there be an Increase in the reg ular automobile and passenger fares exceeding 10 He called for removal of the 15cent differential on the Seat tle to Bremerton route over the three other Kitsap County to South Edmonds to Kingston and Seattle to He urged the governor to ask the legislature to authorize use of the surplus Puget Sound Re serve financed from onefourth of a cent of gasoline for maintenance and Moon walker observes 39th birthday SPACE Houston AP Moon explorer Neil Armstrong celebrated his 39th birthday today with his 18 quar antine pals and only 26 candles for his Armstrong and his Apollo 11 colleagues Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins were in their day of isolation in tended to keep possible lunar bugs from getting loose on All remained in excellent total employment shows gain WASHINGTON AP The nations total employment to show u moderate growth in the economy in while the jobless rate increased slightly of a rise in the labor the government ported Total employment rose more than half a million to mil lion last the Labor De Search for plane chile CAP The Chilean air force searched the Andes today for a Navy believed down with 16 per sons n board in a heavy ation of It now Is set aside for debt service on Beck said seven additional ferries are and the 1970 special legislative session should be asked to authorize three of with the cost to be paid out of the Puget Sound Reserve He proposed that a consulting engineer be hired to investigate conditions at the bottom of the sound at the site of the proposed Vashon Island bridge With this he the state should seek to have Interstate Highway 90 extended to the Naval Beck also suggested that the State Highways Department re vise its method of reporting fer ry system saying the present system gave people an incorrect Impression that the Bremerton run was losing mon ey and the others were profit Vandals burn up car of elderly couple Vandals apparently poured gasoline on top of an elderly Port Angelos couples 1952 model car late Monday night and set It on Archie Berry and her 330 4th said THi CLOCK Tourists out on the streets early this morning potshots playing heck on new building Man sitting on scaffold while ington School front cleanup job Tom Hosteller working on his new lands if PRINCE AP A youth wth limited flying experi ence took over the controls of a amphibious aircraft and landed it safely here Mon day after his father died it the planes The plane carried 12 passen John Dorr of Santa Moni a student moved to the pilots chair when his John Dorr suf a heart fine fishing trawlers arrive in Victoria AP Two Soviet trawlers arrived in the provincial capital of ia Tuesday after boarding par ties were placed aboard by officials inside the 12 mile fishing The two Soviet boats were among three accused of fishing within Canadas 12mile limit The skipper of the Washington Maggie was fined and his salmon catch was A department spokesman said the Russian vessels the German Titov and the other both 120foot side were boarded miles off Tofino on the west coast of the 130 miles northwest of Fisheries Minister Jack Davis said possible charges against the Russians carry fines of up to and confiscation of both vessel and catch under the Coastal Fisheries Protection chief of the departments conservation and protection said it would be at least Wednesday before charges could be Ottawa and the Russians would need to appoint The Russian trawlers are part of a soviet fleet of 30 trailers and four processing The fleet has been under surveil lance off British Columbia and Washington for more than two In on Vancouver the skipper of the Mar mar said he thought his 34foot boat was in He had no electronic navigation Fisheries Department spokes men called his case minor com pared with that of the Russians and those of two Japanese ves sels whose crews were fined fur fishing inside the British bia limit earlier this The Russian fishing fleet re mained 1630 miles west of Long off Vancouver after the Canadian and authorities are concerned it may have been taking salm Russia is not a signatory to any agreement which restricts fishing for salmon to territorial waters of each How Houghton They do agree in The trawlers are the first Soviet vessels seized inside the Canadian they had retired for the night when they noticed a flash of fire In front of their house about 11 The who are both in poor health and havent been able to use tho car for four said they saw flames leaping from the cars top and notified the fire The fire was out on the Port Angeles Fire ment hut gas odor was strong and matches were found on the A full tank of gas was in the parked about 50 feet from the under a street Berry It might have blown Berry She said she had no idea who might have done such an act unless someone is insane or a Berry said the only other incident she could recall con the car was when two teenage boys came to buy it about six weeks The battery was so they took it to a nearby station to have it Berry They told rne theyd be back in half an but never re It was a brand new bat Berry is 80 and hard of inner has high blood pressure and heart Shooting victims body found SEATTLE body of a Seattle man shot here Thursday was found Mon day buried in a trunk In rugged southwestern about 40 miles east of Vancouver Seattle police said an ant told them where to find the body of Gerald lice said the Informant the shooting at a Capitol Hill apartment Burns fatal to state SAN Texas Two Washington state National Guardsmen died at the Arrays Burn Center here Sunday front burns suffered in a training c ident last week at the Firing A third titan injured In the same accident remained in cal
