Progress-Bulletin (Newspaper) - January 6, 1970, Pomona, California La Verne Outlaws All Gambling Story on Page Bl Vol. 85 Number 342 TUESDAY JANUARY 6, 1970 HOME EDITION PRICE lOc a month 2 Sections 20 Pages Welfare Facing Veto WASHINGTON President Nixon is ly io veto the appropriations 10 run the nation's education and welfare DPI has In the While House already is soliciting votes in Congress to sustain a Bryce N. Nixon's counselor for con- gressional circulated an analysis of the to Republican members ol In an companying Harlou lappens a early event of ibe new congressional vear is to be Senate on the still pending appropriations followed by a presidential veto of that should it pass in iis present form this followed by and House consideration of the All of may well transpire before Feb. 1." Snowstorm Hits Dixie By United Press International A major snowstorm bothered Dixie today and freezing temperatures penetrated the gulf In the midwest there was subzero Heavy snow were m effect for tions of 17 states from Louisiana and Arkansas to the Atlantic There was hitter cold in the It was 29 below at Mont. The subzero cold spread into the Great Lakes It was 10 below at 14 below at and 26 below at Cedar Illinois Central commuter trains m Chicago delayed as much as minutes a road spokesman the cold caused rails to than 4 inches of snow fell in northern Roads north of Atlanta An inch of snow accumulated in Alabama and parts of Two inches more was From two to four inches blanketed and middle portions of Pasadena Board Going on Trial LOS ANGELES The Justice Department and the Pasadena Board of Education are the ad- today in the governments first school dis- crimination trill on the West The U.S. District Court trial was slated to get under way with preliminary The board has said the case need not have gone So trial if it had been given one additional work out our own plans and for Dr. Joseph a board maintains the government singled out dena to make an Efforts at reaching an out of court settlement frustrated he because the government adamantly demanding total integration by next throughout all the deadline had been September 1971. I feel this would have been Engholm said He snid the community needs time to adjust to the idea of plus lime to raise funds to implement Guerrilla Troops Hit Marine Camp SAIGON Guerrilla troops bombarded and men a U.S. camp on the ern coast this inflicting the heaviest American losses in a single battle in two 11 dead and 59 Fifteen of the attackers the U.S. Command said it had not determined whether they were Viet Cong or North Vietnamese were found dead inside and outside the camp after the nearly four-hour Almost Viet Cong troops shelled hamlet 20 miles farther down the coast and military spokesmen said 17 Vietnamese were 14 of them civilians The mortar salvo occurred four miles from the sue of the My Lai The Weather Variable high cloudiness today with fair Increasing cloudiness Gusty surface grinds east and south of Pomona today and Expected high 65; low 37; Wednesday's 63. Tire high Monday 59; low this 37. t- IN TODAY'S P-B A Ian Moon sr Grounded TELLS OF DRAMA Charles D. who helped overpower a would-be hijacker over Florida stands with his family as he describes his pan in the drama after landing in Strimple is a Passengers Grab Him Hijacker Foiled By Bad Landing A man attempting to hijack a Delta Air Lines to land was thrown off balance by an intentional bumpy landing at Jacksonville International port today and overpowered by three Authorities said the identified by the Duval County Sheriffs Office as Anton 41. of Ind. was held on an assault to murder Robert chief of investigations for the sheriffs said the would-be hijacker attempted to seize con- trol of the plane as it Jacksonville by his knife to the throat of stewardess Sharon The flight originated in Pilot Maurice Kuenze slammed on his brakes sarily hard when the aircraft touched throwing the man off Starratt Three passengers ly jumped on Starratt and overpowered The cer identified the passengers as Charles D. an off-duty policeman from Franklin Dale Hall of a and W. J. Hillard of Green 5-foot-S and 140 is an inactive member of the Orland Police Department's re- serve The stewardess told officers whipped out the knife after returning from the plane's where he had gone after telling her he was ill. As she helped him back to his the man put the knife to her throat and want to go to Don't land in Starratt The pilot was notified by an- other Janet soon after the hijacking attempt began Airline spokesmen said the pilot and other crew bers persuaded the man to let them land in Jacksonville ting up the attempt to capture Reagan Offers To Improve SACRAMENTO Reagan proposed today to the good life better in nia during the 1970s with cleaner air and water and mere protection for citizens against drug peddlers and shady Quality of life was the note of fourth of the The Republican chief expected to seek a second term this election called on the legislature to pass an Clean Air LAv in an out effort to rid the skies of He opposed further drilling for oil in the Santa Barbara Channel until there are proof safeguards against er disaster such as the oil spill one year Reagan also proposed creation of a Department of Consumer Affairs and an Office of ics and Drug Abuse 12-Page Proposals His proposals came in a 12- page address prepared for very to a joint session of the legislature and broadcast live over more than 20 television stations and 50 radio The legislature opened its 1970 session Monday with cans holding narrow control in both 41-39 in the bly and 21-19 in the Reagan set the mood of his speech when he tone and spirit of the must be on quality rather than And he spoke several times of preserving magic Of The governor directed a ial appeal to the youth of with whom he often has quarreled over his education to Col. 1, Kopechne Inquest Kennedy Aides Take Stand Sec. Page 9 7-10 Classified Ads Comics 8 Crossword 9 Jeane Dixon 5 Comments 4 Editorial 2 Entertainment 9 Financial Obituary 4 Rattles Straws 3 Sports Television S Women 7 Mass. Joseph F. Gargan and Paul S. who Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said helped him dive m an attempt to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne the night of dy's Chappaquiddick Island auto testified today in the closed inquest into Miss In accordance with court ders that they remain neither revealed what they But Kennedy said in his televised speech a week after the accident that Gargan and Markham returned to the accident scene with him and hint in his unsuccessful search for Miss He said they still were with him when he dived into the channel separating dick from Martha's Vineyard and swam the 200 yards back to the Girl Testifies Also testifying today was one of the five Robert F. Kennedy campaign girls who with Miss Kopechne had attended a out on Chappaquiddick before the Six men were at the cookout including Markham and First on the stand was Miss Rosemary 24, an at- tractive secretary with brown hair who now works for the Children's Foundation in Her purse was found in car when it was pulled from the pond where it fell from the narrow dike Miss Keough said previously that she left the purse behind after using the car lier to pick up a radio at her motel room on Martha's Doors Brought Meanwhile a pair of apparently from the passenger side of were brought into the courthouse in the rear of a station wagon by state The purpose of their presence could not be determined who was the in- lead-off witness remained at his home in nis Port where he said he would stay for the duration of the inquest in the event his mony was needed Leaving the courthouse day after some two hours of Kennedy appeared as relaxed and affable as the of the inquiry He told a crowd of men that not only did he re- spond to alt the questions asked of him by James A. who is and but that he did so m most complete way All five girls filed into the courthouse shortly before 10 when the second day's proceedings all but Miss Keough ex- That Kennedy apparently was successful m getting a chance to place on record all of his story was evidenced by Kennedy's own account of his testimony Monday and by the ground rules laid down for the inquest by Judge James A. Leaving the Dukes County courthouse after some two hours of Kennedy as relaxed and affable as the solemnity of the inquiry He told a crowd of newsmen that not only did he respond to ail of the questions asked but did so in most complete way possible Choosing his words Kennedy went the end were a couple of points thought it would be useful to add to help with the He did not Judge Boyle had forbidden witnesses to discuss testimony outside of the when asked whether his mony had paralleled the ally televised he offered one week after the July IS dent on nearby rather not characterize the testimony but would say The manner of the 37-year-old senator who emerged from the old courthouse Monday was in vivid contrast to the haggard figure who came through the same double white doors last July with a two- month suspended jail sentence for leaving the accident scene and with his political future thrown in Kennedy was reportedly fied by the rules of procedure announced at the out- set by Judge Boyle and made available to the press by the to Col. L ALAN State Lawmakers Proposed Bills DDT SACRAMENTO An election year campaign to purge California of smog and persistent pesticides ed in the legislature Proposals ranged from out- lawing DDT and the producing internal combustion engine to fining an air polluter a day and creating a state commission to zone California coastline against uncontrolled The measures represented the vanguard of an expected deluge of conservation hills as lawmakers quickly sized up the concern for preserving the quality of the natural The stiff fine for air polluters was proposed in a massive package drafted by a special committee of the Assembly Transportation Under the the attorney or the local district attorney could civil charges against polluters such as factories who broke smog control laws and It is similar to a 1969 law which levies an identical fine against The bipartisan committee also proposed eliminating the use of lead m gasoline by 1974 as a means of reducing a that Assemblyman John F. estimated would increase the price one or two cents a He said petroleum companies would be forced to concert Top Officers To Discuss Gl Pullout SAIGON Top can military officers will meet in Honolulu next Monday to work out final arrangements for the withdrawal cf U.S. troops that will in- clude the 1st Infantry informants said An official announcement from the Pentagon naming the 1st Division is expected It was understood that some of the units to be withdrawn ready have been and the purpose of the Hawaii ing will be to work out the tics arrangements to meet ident Nixon's deadline of April 15. refining processes and pass the cost along to the Among its major the committee also called for adoption by the state Air Resources Board of guidelines for regulation of tural approval by the board of electrical power plant expansion if the plant is powered by fossil fuel and development of exhaust sion standards for new cars that have been driven The commute said there currently is regulation of agricultural burning in and no regulation in areas without air pollution control The test would be aimed at assuring that actual production vehicles meet the same standards as those of a manufacturers' Sen. Nicholas prepared to offer again a banning the sale of the internal combustion engine in California by 1975. An identical was passed by the Senate last year but was drastically watered down and defeated in the Sen. John A. Col. Two Other Astronauts Also Hit space agency said today it had grounded Alan L. the fourth man to walk the and two other astronauts for 39 because they violated rules for safe The National Aeronautics and Space Administration the action against Bean who strolled the lunar soil on the Apollo 12 moon Apollo 7 pilot Walter fum and Joseph P. A space agency spokesman said the men were grounded in December but he said he was not sure what day the punitive action took A space agency spokesman said the men were grounded in December and will return to flight status Jan. 23. imposed this on the official He said it would have no manent effect either on their licenses to pilot jet airplanes or their careers as The space agency spokesman said Bean's violation was for taking off in a jet plane from Ellington Air Force Base outside Houston Dec. 17 without getting a departure Bean he was cleared for a the spokesman Cunningham and Kerwin took off Dec. IS from Ellington at separate jets without listing an alternate airport as their NASA 37. a civilian astronaut from Santa was a member of the first three-man Apollo crew which flew in earth orbit in Apollo 7 m He was navigator on that the only one he has made in 37. a medical doctor and Marine flight surgeon from Oak was a member of the first group of scientist astronauts selected in 1965, and is in training for a flight expected in 1972 aboard ca's first orbiting space 37, was a member of the Apollo 12 crew that landed on the moon in His crewmates were Charles who walked the lunar surface with and Richard F. a Navy captain astro- had never been in space before Apollo 12. He is a native of and his parents now live m Fort Slain Union Leader Sons Claim Slaying By MIKE FEINSILBER Pa. The two sons of Joseph A. charged their mother and sister were murdered by and was the killings resulted from the recent United Mine Workers The Kenneth of and Joseph of 0. said in a bitterly worded statement sued in nearby and our little sister are They were shot to death while they slept by assassins whose sole interest was to kill is no doubt that these horrible misdeeds arc an outgrowth of our father's mosi recent bid to win election to the presidency of the United Mine Workers of Miners in the soft coal fields walked off their jobs m sympathy for the The two both said they sent a telegram to UMW headquarters in ton asking that no top union officials visit the funeral home or attend the funerals of the The three family members were murdered m their beds at their home near this town in the heart of the soft coal Authorities sought a motive for the ders which some officials were Their bo- dies were found Police believe than one killer was At nine caliber bullets were used in the killings which ably occurred New Year's or New Year's NEWS
