Port Angeles Evening News (Newspaper) - September 14, 1971, Port Angeles, Washington Official count is 37 dead after rebellion AP set about the task of put ting Attica State Prison in or der today after bloody clashes in which a battery of peace of and National Guardsmen was pitted against the baseball knives and gasoline bombs of rebellious Thirtyseven men Nine of the dead were hos of the group of 38 guards and prison employes held for four days by the con victs inside the prison It was a rainy but quiet day today in this western New York village where the sound of helicopters and ex tear gas grenades were heard Officials were trying to iden the dead piece to gether an account of what led to the and put the prison system back on its rou Relieving guards and er personnel who had been on extra duty during the long hours of securing ade quate supplies and preparing meals were priority considera they But state officials were faced early in the day with a federal court order forbidding them from interrogating any of the subdued inmates until attorneys could counsel with District Court Judge John Curtain scheduled a hear ing on his which also in prison officials to ad mit doctors and nurses to in spect medical care being given injured Attorneys for the state withheld comment un til the hearing later in the State correction officers at Sing Sing Prison in Graining locked prisoners in their cells until after the funerals of the slain Attica Officials said the move was a safety And in there was a brief uprising this morning in the City where inmates barricaded themselves in the They were quickly driven out with tear gas and returned to their OSWALD SURVEYS CLUTTERED PRISON YARD Russell New York State Commissioner of surveys the clutter in the prison yard at Attica State Prison where nonrebellious prisoners were kept through five days of AP port Angeles Evening Nexus September 1971 Issue of Year 18 Pages 10 Cents Gravel pit request Pullout saves city planners a chore A last minute withdrawal of a request to operate a gravel pit in the city saved the Port Angeles planning commission from making a decision at its Tuesday night Representatives of Construction told the commission before the meeting they were withdrawing their request for a rezone of a two acre site at 13th and M streets because they couldnt fight all these people and you A group of area residents had faithfully attended three meetings on the proposed rezone and on hearing the withdrawal one man said They realize theyre Oakes retires from Olympic State Bank Retirement of Merrill Oakes as president of Olympic State Bank in Port Angeles and election of James Stepp to succeed him were announced The change will be effective Oakes has been associated with the bank since 1943 and has been president for 19 He remain associated with the business in an advisory Stepp has been manager of the 6th and Pine branch of Peoples National Bank of He also is an assistant vice president of Stepps election by directors of Olympic State followed acquisition of a majority stock interest in the bank by Joshua chief administrative officer of Peoples Olympic State will retain its name and status as a state chartered bank and will not become a branch of it was The bank was 30 years old last Sato report untrue A report that First National Bank of Port Angeles has been purchased by a Seattle bank is not according to James president of First There has been no he and there is no intention of CLOCK Vince Reed gazing at his landscaping project plastic heel left lying in the gutter John Waynes yacht anchored in the harbor Margaret Holm getting back into routine after year in There is too much pressure against A few were still One woman asked the commission if the withdrawal meant needed time to gather more ammunition to try and sneak the gravel pit in another The commission members smiled indulgently and explained any request for a gravel pit would have to come before them for a As far as Im Commission Chairman Harry Hunt request is THE COMMISSION formally tabled the application pending a written request for withdrawal from It is doubtful whether the planning commission would have allowed the gravel pit in the city Hunt said he couldnt see where the zoning ordinance makes any provision for a gravel pit anywhere in the he was afraid if the rezone was it would open up the area to other In another rezone this one from the city Public Works Department the commission voted to send it back to the city telling them to follow rezone THE CITY is requesting a rezone to an Industrial Park of approximately 101 lots situated between D Street and the Tumwater Access Road along Lauridsen The area is now zoned residential and the main property owners are the county and We cant approve member Rennie Anderson We dont know All the commission knows is the area is to be used for vehicle storage and and a temporary ice skating NO SITE plans for screening or affect of the land use on traffic patterns were included with the citys application as required by the zoning The planning commission also tentatively approved a request from the Community Action Council CAC to open an automobile workshop at 116 8th with two provisions approval from the Fire Department and a solution of the parking CAC Job Coordinator Jim Burk told the commission the workshop had to be moved from its present location three miles west of the city to reach more In order to get federal funding next we must reach more The new location will be more central and allow for people to walk to the Burk The workshop is primarily instructional to train youth and give them something to There is a particular demand in this area for this type Burk The commission members recognized the merit of the workshop and thus favored approval even though the area around the workshop has not been The commission instructed Secretary Robert to post the area advising the residents of the request for the In a final the commission formally asked the city council for a joint work session as soon as possible to discuss revising the present zoning ordinance to reduce the time required for annexation to the news roun SAIGON AP Angered by the killing of a Vietnamese youth by an American Vietnamese on motorbikes threw firebombs at ve in Saigon and Hue Mon day WASHINGTON AP Pres ident after hearing busi ness opposition to any post freeze wage board without gov has called in farm leaders to dis cuss his economic In San Democratic gov issue a proposal that fu ture wageprice restraints be accompanied by restrictions on dividends and BRUSSELS AP Closing ranks for negotiations with the United the six Common Market nations have agreed on a uniform monetary policy to include a call for Washington to devalue the a presidential commission has submitted a re port recommending that the na tion work to tear down barriers to its exports and move the world toward complete free AP Defense attorney Lee Bailey says the testimony of a former rifleman at My Lai could clear Ernest Me dina of one murder In testimony Gene Ralph Oliver told the court he shot and killed a boy near My Lai and that Medina did not order the Oliver said after the child was felled Me dina cease Pasco High closed after McGovern not hurt in hail of rocks SAIGON AP George McGovern was rescued by military police and Marines tonight from a hail of rocks and firebombs hurled against a GEORGE McGOVERN church where he was meeting with South Vietnamese students and a leading antiwar was trapped in the Ro man Catholic church with sev eral associates for about half an He emerged shaken but unhurt under the protection of the troops summoned to the The identity of the rock and firebomb throwers was not im mediately One wit ness described them as young South Vietnamese motorbike ri ders often called The South Dakota Democrat is on a visit to South He went to the church to talk with South Vietnamese about political prisoners and al abuses in Vietnamese The senator returned to his downtown hotel under an armed He said he didnt know who the attackers I really dont now what it was all I was there as a guest of the group seeking pris on he told Shortly after we arrived the fireworks I had no way of knowing whether the people outside knew whether I was there or The incident began with the firebombing of a Jeep some 20 yards from the church en witnesses The meeting then was disrupted by the shouting youths who hurled rocks and flaming bottles of gasoline at the McGovern and the others withdrew to a church office according to one wit they were pinned down for about half an During that according Demo governors call policy inequitable fighting Still no progress in the dock talks SAN FRANCISCO AP Another bargaining session was scheduled this afternoon in the old West Coast longshore strike that has idled dock workers in 24 Negotiators spent 2 hours in closed session Monday but would not a Seattle judge has ordered steamship and stevedoring firms to show cause by Wednesday why containers and bulk cargo unloaded there before the strike should not be The striking International and Ware Union has offered to remove such cargo from wharf but the employ ers the Pacific Maritime has High School was closed Tues day by school officials after a day of sporadic fighting between groups of black and white stu School officials said the student facility would reopen Wednesday after a day of put ting our plans and procedures in order and to firm up our work ing relationship with of Schools Thomas Boy sen said the closure was ordered after a number of indi vidual fights and a large distur bance involving about 200 schools shortly after classes were dismissed No serious injuries were re but police were called to clear school grounds and quell further small disturbances dur ing the Boysen said he was confident the school can be opened peace fully He said about 10 students directly in would be SAN AP Democratic President Nixons new economic policy as have declared that future wage price restraints should be ac companied by restrictions on dividends and They agreed unanimously to present that proposal to the National Governors Con ference and seek its adoption on But Republicans can block it easily since approval would require a threequarters They arent going to get if I have anything to say about said William Milli ken of vice chairman of the Republican Milliken said any talk of a freeze on profits is and Republican governors are not in any event about to en dorse a Democratic statement critical of the Twenty of the 29 Democratic governors and 20 of the 21 Re publicans are on hand for the San Juan So 12 Re publican votes would be enough to block the Whatever the Marvin Mandel of the Democrats new said the critical statement is the policy of the Democratic and it will be pre sented to the Nixon has invited the nine member conference executive committee to the White House Thursday to discuss with him the economic restraints to be instituted after the wageprice freeze ends In their statement the Demo crats said the Nixon program wont create the jobs the nation needs and is not ef and in accord with the priorities of the people Actions and proposals ad vised by the administration fail to achieve our economic goals and fail to assure equity of ei ther benefits or the Democrats said in a statement approved Monday The wageprice freeze extracts the greatest sacrifice from the the small busi nessman and the to McGoverns press Frank they tele phoned the Embassy for The outburst at the church appeared to be part of a new surge of senti ment which flared on the sur face in other demonstrations in Saigon and On the the Command announced four helicopters were shot down and a fifth crashed from un known causes in the Mekong The helicopter on the edges of the U Minn Forest south of marked the highest number of chop pers reported shot down one day during an operation since the Laotian drive last Associated Press correspond ent Richard Blystone reported from ports listed no In Saigon a Navy petty officer was severely burned when two youths on motorbikes hurled a homemade bomb into his pickup truck outside Navy It was one of four fire bomb ings in the South Vietnamese capital but the only one to cause At least two ve were the Command Also in a group of disabled South Vietnamese vet erans demonstrated in front of the Embassy for improved and a group called Catholics for Peace urged the removal of American occupa tion troops from No incidents were Field reports said five fire bombs were hurled at mil police vehicles and trucks and cars belonging to American civilian contractors during a demonstration Mon day night in Unemployment in state is above mark AP Unemployment in Washington state continues to soar well above the national average de spite efforts to reverse the a report prepared for Dan Evans The states seasonally adjust ed unemployment rate has climbed to per com pared with a smaller gain na to said the report issued Not as many students on the way up School District 21 following the trend School District 21 is following in the footsteps of the rest of the nation when it comes to school The Board of Directors learned at its monthly meeting Monday that the district total in all grades is 103 down from one year The total is after the first with in the elementary in junior high and at Port Angeles Senior People moving from the area and The Pill have a lot to do with the loss of Superintendent George Ellis said The trend nationwide is fewer students in the lower primary FIGURES FOR THE district would substantiate that Here is a breakdown of the total number of students in elementary schools by grade 308 and kindergarten Other figures show the need for more room in the junior high Roosevelt has 863 students in a building designed to hold Roosevelt will be expected to absorb the majority of the 387 sixth graders next but will pass only 294 on to the senior In the next school the school will have to take in most of the 442 fifth graders of today while sending 290 to the high school Stevens Junior High now has 354 students in a building designed for just about that Next Stevens will have to take in 145 sixth graders while sending only 126 to the nigh school The fifth grade total in the Stevens area is now In other the board 4 as the date for the school districts final budget As the regular meeting date was the board moved to change the regular board meeting to Set 23 and 24 as dates to tour several school buildings to check on maintenance and repairs made during the The tour will start at 10 and the first school will be Dry Employed two on the classified They are Ramona Jane who will be employed as an Indian Counselor working in the Federal Aide program funded by Johnson OMalley Act This is a replacement Arlene Sullivan was employed as a Teacher Aide and Tutor in the Federal Aide program from the same Heard reports from Miss Geneva third grade teacher at Jefferson on integration of science with other subject areas in the Heard a report on the introduction of elementary physical education in the grade schools from Ernest Feser and Dan Clarified lines of authority and responsibility in District 21 by the organizational which was gone over due to recent additions and changes of certain job Saw written reports from certificated staff members attending summer school and the use of summer Prison Baltimore scene of uprising AP About 200 inmates barricaded themselves in the City Jail cafeteria today and police forced them out with tear The men were returned to their No injuries were re The uprising occurred just one day after a rebellion was put down at a state prison in where 37 persons were Inmates there had held 38 persons hostage since According to Baltimore po inmates took possession of the cafeteria about and re fused to come Police said they moved in with tear gas hour Some 50 police said the inmates had no The City Jail has a pre dominantly black population of Police reportedly pulled back within two hours after the uprising Everything is secure reported a prison official at 9 Prison officials and city po lice never deemed the situation important enough to notify state Howard deputy warden at City said the uprising was a follow up to the Attica To my knowledge the only cause was the thing in Parks Its a wonder its not more widespread through out the Reaction to prison riot is divided By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Public officials penologists and private citizens reacting to the bloody end of the inmate in surrection at Attica Prison have divided sharply over whether the use of force was President in a tele phone conversation with Nelson ex pressed support for the gover nors response to the rebellion that ended with nine hostages and 28 inmates Nixon particularly supported Rockefellers refusal to grant the prisoners demand for com plete amnesty for any criminal acts committed during the up aides to the two men One authority on Vernon who once spent four days talking down a riot at Michigan State charged that new York officials mishandled the What happened at Attica was said now a criminologist at Florida State He called the move an appalling The state was legitimizing he There was no reason to kill An other 24 hours of talking wouldnt have done any harm and it might have saved the lives of 28 inmates and nine The primary reason for the use of force is always to create an image for the said author of Violence Be hind Introduction to Correction and the ing When Prisoners
