Progress-Bulletin (Newspaper) - May 20, 1970, Pomona, California I. Number 110 WEDNESDAY MAY 20, 1970 Price lie Per Ptr 6 Sections 68 Lawyers Bid for Peace A well established part of Establishment headed for the nation's capital iv lo join the students already thronging the itol to lobby for an end to the war in said more than 1.000 East Coast mostly from New York and including a former attorney general and ambassador to the United were spending today on what they frankly ed a lobbying nl by such prestigious legal names as former Gen. Ramsey Clark and former sacor ihe attorneys broke teams visits to each House Senate ime administration officials also were included he the same some 1.500 local lawyers set up session in a church auditorium to plan a irate Ve plan to continue on the lobbying effort after New Yorkers said one of the Washington explaining why they weren't joining the offices have been filled in the two with students lobbying for an end to the he majority of the lawyers are according but many are senior partners and well-known names include Robert i of the New York University Law arid tard former chief judge of the Appellate sted among the sponsors are New York Mayor i V. Lindsay and former UN Ambassador Ar- ie New Yorkers said in a statement they are by the action of the President in extending war into .Ve are deeply concerned that the divisions by this war endanger our fundamental they seek to fulfill our responsibilities as and candidates for admission to the by iking directly with our elected representatives administration officials to advocate immediate from the earliest possible lination cf our involvement in Indochina and a irn to the rule of law at home and leagan Lauds Policy Dn Indochina Defending President Nixon's Gov. Reagan raised the spectre of of U.S. troops being dragged to concentration Ve have to insure they will all come gan told an enthusiastic audience of 500 night at a 550 a plate Republican dinner as a vd of 200 youths outside chanted n behind a police t's time to bring our children up instead of them the governor don't think our needs any alibi or nor do I offer sagan said today's students a brighter and er informed generation than ever before we ie it that he must teach them there are gs men must be willing to die eagan departed from his prepared text for 5 minutes to defend President Nixon's action in He said he felt the element of surprise meant no prior consultation with Congress fas essential for its 2 said the offensive has been beyond one's because it has recovered supplies than we even knew the North lagan appeared at a testimonial io raise money for Assemblyman Clare a grape grower elected in a special election a r ago today by a 50-vote margin among more i 60.000 votes ie freshman legislator is a special target of this who hope to wipe out the one- Republican edge in the Assembly by unseating The Weather ary sunshine today and Thursday with patchy clouds Expected high 77; low 54: Thursday's 82. The high Tuesday low this 55. IN TODAY'S P-B Sec. Page Bridge 12 Child's Puzzle 15 Classified Ads 2-7 14 Crossword Puzzle 5 Dateline 11 Jeane 13 Doctor Comments 5 Editorial 2 Entertainment Financial 15 Ml Obituary 4 Straws 11 School 6 Security You 6 Sports 1-4 Television 13 Women 6-8 of Animals 13 Black Students at Fresno Smash Windows in Rampage BSD Rally At Cal Poly Ends in The Cal Poly campus was calm again today after a Black Student Union rally Tuesday commemorating the birthday of Malcolm X ended in a slugfest involving students and pus security President Robert C. Kramer gave students the option of skipping classes for the rest of Tuesday one demand made by black but would net give in to student de- mands Tuesday that the flag in front of the building be lowered to half mast in honor of Malcolm X's Kramer reported two male students were injured along with Sue naging editor of the Cal Poly who was struck on the back of the head during the melee which evolved when dents struggled with campus police to lower the Campus officials gave this account of the The hassle started at a rally honoring the birthday of Mal- colm X conducted in the free speech Ron a and physical education his speech by charging to go to the administration building and wer the flag to half mast in honor of the slain hero of the black About 150 students at the ly started moving toward the administration building where two white students lowered the half Two campus security officers walking by the crowd noticed the flag and reported the dent to Kramer who ordered the flag to be Another campus guard ar- Col. 1, Instructor Theft Suspect A former part-time sociology instructor at Pitzer College in Claremont has been named as the chief suspect in a Los eles bank robbery and a series of robberies of Harry 35. was accused of robbing the National Bank April 14 with a woman Gale Melvina 23. Los eles detectives said Miss inson poses as is pregnant and carries a pistol in her purse and one strapped to her Investigators said Truly is a member of the Black Student Union Alliance and was a of the Black Pan- ther Parly at the National Con- ference for New Politics in cago in 1967. who has a master's de- gree from Cal State Los was hired to teach two courses at Pitzer last He taught there during the fall but resigned to return to school to earn a who also taught at Cal State attended Lemoyne College in American University in Washington and He was graduated from San Francisco State Col- lege in 1962 and has lectured at Fresno State College and Los Angeles City He once worked as a parole of- ficer at the Youth Training Center in Police hold a warrant for the couple's AGAINST V-P Peace Corps Director Joseph H. wears a borrowed helmet as he continues his partnership with Vice President Spiro T. in a charity tennis who hit golfer Doug Sanders in the head with a golfball five months smacked a serve in the back of the team lost 6-i and 6-1. Ocean Oil Spills Target of Nixon WASHINGTON President Nixon proposed to Congress legislation to strengthen the authority of the Coast Guard in protecting against oil He also requested ratification of three international ments to combat oil pollution in international waters and said he would seek a million propriation to establish an ready authorized revolving fund to clean up of oil The proposals were outlined in a 10-point message to Con- gress in which the President noted that increased shipping has greatly increased the er of oil spills and their threat to the marine Nixon proposed a Ports and Waterways Safety Act of 1970. allowing the Coast Guard to vessel traffic in the in- land waters and the territorial seas of the United It would also empower the Guard to regulate ing and storage of dangerous cargoes on the to set safety requirements for wa- equipment and and to establish safety zones or other cess in and near U.S. Nixon also urged the tion of two new international conventions developed in sells last year under the pices of the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative an agency of the United One convention would wer nations to take preventive action against vessels on the high seas which pose an nent pollution threat to national The other would impose a strict civil liability upon the owners of vessels causing tal pollution regardless where the vessel is at the Nixon asked Congress to bring U.S. legislation into con- with the convention if He urged as of amendments to the 1954 Con- vention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by which would set international controls on discharge of oil on the high seas and prohibit its discharge within 50 miles of the He said the amendments still require ratification by other tions but that he is directing U.S. authorities to apply them to U.S. vessels as soon as Con- gress enacts the implementing Negro Held In NAACP Man's Death Ga. 16-year-old Negro boy was ar- today and charged with murdering a long-time local leader of the National tion for the Advancement of lored led to the suspect by witnesses and around the said they found a caliber pistol in the boy's Ballistics tests were being run to determine whether the gun was used in the day night slaying of James M. 57. who was found shot to death on the sidewalk m front of the local NAACP of- Georgia law prohibits dis- closure of the name because of his W. local president of the said he may have been the intended He said his chapter had been stantly in and his habit of working late at night was well Law said there was no tion of racial overtones in the killing of a black man long active in NAACP Floyd was shot in the chest at close Police said they found on his South Vietnam Forces Drive 13th Front Into Cambodia SAIGON The South Vietnamese army drove a 13th spearhead into Cambodia and Phnom Penh dis- patches said the U.S. 7th Fleet had sent in more ships to help South Vietnam tighten its c k a d e of the Cambodian Below Phnom a pronged Allied force made up of the Cambodian newly arrived Cambodian trained in South Vietnam by the and a force of 1C.OOO South Vietnamese a noose around a Com- munist The new South Vietnamese drive with American support crossed the frontier 120 miles northeast of Saigon near the Due Lap and Bu Prang Green Beret camps which have been the objective of Communist The sanctuary across the border has long been a North Vietnamese bombers struck ly into the sanctuary area and then the mostly units of the South Vietnamese 23rd Infantry moved in with American air and logistics Some large American forces have withdrawn from Cambodia and the new drive left to 50.- 000 troops in correspondent Robert in Phnom said Cambodian military sources re- ported radar picket ships of the U.S. 7th Fleet had been sent into the Gulf of Thailand to help the South Vietnamese ade of the southern Cambodian The U.S. Command has made it clear the U.S. Navy is not actually blockading the coast since it is stopping only Viet Cong and North Vietnamese shipping and not any ships of neutral But the radar picket ships help the South Vietnamese navy find blockade The South Vietnamese force drove into Cambodia and moved 25 miles westward to Col. 3) Firebombs Ruin Computer Center F R E S N 0 students with pipes windows at Fresno Slate College today lowing a firebomb attack which destroyed school's new SI million computer Tuesday A group of about 100 students roved through the campus breaking windows and other students poured out of buildings as fire The black students ently wore by an recommendation not to rehire eight lecturers m the school's ethnic studies program including the program's we have our ethnic studies program you have a shouted one of the rampaging The group overturned tables in the cafeteria and down bookshelves in the Classes were brought to a virtual The fire department said the resulting fire caused by the firebombs was snuffed out by 11 less than 30 minutes after the bottles were Officials said fire damage to the building was minimal but Senator Charges the firebombs struck the causing extensive damage to the SI million com- puter Black students have taken strong with the ration throughout the school year on several The dispute started fall when they protested the col- refusal to hire a Black Muslim lecturer who was under indictment for draft Last month black residents from West Fresno on campus against the administration and in support of five students and a chemistry professor charged with holding an administrator in a conference room against his will March 19. The students denied that ing dean Phillip Walker of the school of arts and sciences was unlawfully Criminal charges against the professor concerning ihe incident have been Walker announced that eight of 12 staff members of the ethnic studies program faculty would not be One of those not mended for rehire was Richard the chairman of the gram. Curbing Would the Enemy By CARL P. LEUBSDORF WASHINGTON Asst. Republican Leader Robert P. Griffin charged today that ate supporters of curbs on U.S. activities in Cambodia are ing and comfort to the Michigan made the assertion after Re- publican Leader Hugh Scott praised his Democratic counter- Mike for stressing that sponsors of the curbing ment are trying to work with the President by backing up his determination to get U.S. forces out of Cambodia by July 1. am hopeful we can work out a consensus rather than a said Scott who has been working to resolve the He indicated that any re- strictions effective after July 1 might be helpful in reaching an But Griffin charged that the pending amendment off options and ties the hands of the commander in chief in areas where he has lities and does make what are essentially battlefield know it is not the intention of the sponsors to aid the he course it is But it does aid the is very dangerous the Michigan can gives aid and comfort to the We shouldn't do Sen. Frank said he hopes for adding is nothing here to He is cosponsor of the proposed amendment with Sen. John Sherman Mansfield said Tuesday sort of might still be reached in the struggle to cut off funds for operations in Cost of Living Up Six Tenths of 1 WASHINGTON The government reported today ing costs rose of one per cent in continuing Subway Crash Fatal to Two NEW YORK A dis- abled Independent Line subway tram being moved to a layup track rammed broadside into another train that was being switched during the rush period early killing two persons and injuring at least 50. The most of whom were believed to be not ly were taken to nearby At least one person was reported to be in critical the nation's worst inflation in 20 The continuing the six per cent annual price spiral of more than a pushed the Labor Department's con- sumer index to 134.0. index means it cost last month to purchase every SIO of ly needs in the 1957-59 on which the index is The Bureau of Labor tics said food prices rose three tenths of one per cent in but all of the rise was due to higher restaurant Grocery prices remained un- Housing roe of one per clothing of one per transportation 1.4 per cent and medical care was up of one per ceni for the
