Statesville Record and Landmark (Newspaper) - September 6, 1968, Statesville, North Carolina in tht of tht Dairying and Industrial of North Carolina STATESVILLE RECORD a LANDMARK 94 SEPTEMBER 1968 214 Teacher Strikes Closing Schools SLOW TROOP MOVE RAPPED GOLD MEDAL WINNER a part is hugged by Randy after the dog was named winner of a dog food manufacturers gold medal award as Americas Dog Hero of Ringo saved Randys life in by stopping traffic on a busy highway where the youngster had The award will be presented September NO MUD TONIGHT Thomas Arnold Loyd survived all the hazards built into a tour of duty in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne division only to lose his life in a freak traffic accident two months after re turning to the United He was killed in Harnett county the night of August when a horse stumbled into the path of his motorcycle as he was returning to his duty station with the 102nd Airborne at Son of and route Tom was a member of a large fam leaving five sisters and six brothers yet he was an individ even unorthodox by the standards of there was no pretense or hypocrisy about He simply lived life receiving and returning in his own way the love and under standing of those who knew him His Grady Loyd of has attempted to it up in the following poem which we are happy to pass on for the comfort it provides others Down In Iredell Orders down from headquarters read Were taking Beulah Have your field gear packed and ready The Big Ranger needs a All of the squad But the command Leave the We need just one to help us But get the best of the The flight took off through cloudy skies There were many trials along the When the Jump Master ready Came the answer Thomas He bailed out high over chilly Jordan And when the silk had opened wide That hand of faith that brought him there Set him safe on The guard at the gate Pass on trooper To where souls are forever From the Honor Guard came a joyous Another Screaming Eagles arrived We can we cant under But some day well all be told Why the Big Ranger needed our point man To patrol his streets of No mud water of Hes clean and fed and dry No fear of no ambushes In that garrison in the Rufe and Cordia count one missing When they muster the troops down here But old Horn will not be AWOL When the reveille sounds up WHERE CREDITS important point has been missed in the continuing controversy over the handling of disorders which developed in Chicago dur ing the Democratic national con That point is that the Negroes had too much sense to let them selves be used by the manipula tors who the whole including Dick the comedian who is no longer For that it was pri marily a white show and this has proved somewhat embar rassing to those who have been encouraging Negroes to mob action and civil by appealing to black dis this the police billy clubs were falling largely on the heads of white yippies and with a few young innocents and caught up in the This moved the columnists and commentators and a num ber of delegates who hoped to disrupt the convention to cry Those are our children out there maybe But our chil dren were not out there nor were many of the children of the black people of And the attempt to break up the convention was stopped at far less cost in life and prop erty than would have been the case if Chicago blacks had fol lowed the lead of their Dick For that they deserve credit but we doubt if it would get much space in the report to be submitted by still another blue ribbon WEATHER and a little cooler tonight and Satur Local temperatures for the 24year period ending at 6 today 85 STATESVILLE SHERRILL and Judy LAM BERT borrowing a scrub bucket and mop Jimmy going to the fair for the first time Jesse DAVIDSON describing a moun tain excursion Sheriff LeRoy REAVIS shaking hands with all comers at the fair Ray GOSNELL winning a blue ribbon on each of the three articles she exhibited at Ire dell County Fair Renee EDWARDS winning trophy as That Girl Deputy Gene HONEYCUTT needing the as sistance of two New York City Facing Threat Of Walkouts By A strike threat public were open today for Teacher walkouts closed schools in other Only 14 hours before a threatened the Philadel phia Federation of Teachers and the school board agreed Thursday on a con tract for The union won pay increases rang ing from 9600 to Thousands of school children across the nation were having an extended vacation as teach ers struck or boycotted classes after the scheduled reopening of Teachers want more better working condi tions and a greater say about school Stay Away In children were out of school while represented by the Michigan Education Associ ation and by the Michigan Federation of away from In 30 Michigan school teach ers worked without contracts while negotiations Classes are to start Monday for New York Citys million public school But the head of the United Federation of Albert said he recom mended a Teachers vote Sunday on whether to A strike would be over the board of educations refusal to reinstate 10 teachers dismissed last spring from a Brooklyn experimental school The teachers also protested a plan breaking up the New York See Page 2A Two Schools Are Crowded Overcrowded conditions have developed in two of elementary schools and students who have come into the system from outside the city will probably be reassigned to schools where there is space and smaller teacher Kornegay said this morning that the overcrowding had developed at Pressly and schools and he had asked the parents of students living outside the system to indicate a preference of a school for These students could be sent to Avery Mills or Mulberry Street Schools where they could be dis among the grades where teacher loads are not so The first grades are affected most of the superintendent When parents of students living outside the system applied for release from the county schools and assignment to a city school they agree to accept assignment where space is These released by the county pay per year About 200 students in all high school and junior high schools are attending the city schools and live in the By Chamber Of Commerce Bond Referendum Is Endorsed president of the Statesville Chamber of Com announced today that the board of directors of the chamber had voted unanimously in favor of the forthcoming hos pital bond referendum to be held next September Steele stated that there were many reasons why the directors took this action favoring the bond if States ville and Iredell County are to be a growing community it must continue to improve its service establishments such as hospitals and Other reasons that Steele stated the board realized in taking action were that the entire bond issue funds are to go into the hospital plant and equip ment demand for hospital care can be expected of our people due to our population growth and medical medicare and if we are to stop the necessity of our citizens to go out of town for medical we must provide ade quate hospital facilities which in turn will attract more physi particularly of the types that are not now practicing such as orthopedic and Present at the board in addition to were James Robert George Eugene Fred B Dr Glen Hol Wilbur Paul Maury Nathan Andy and NATIONS NEWEST aircraft carrier USS John Kennedy will be commissioned Saturday in Newport Among the expected guests at the ceremonies aboard the ton ship will be the late Presidents Jacqueline Kennedy his and who is the ships UPI Cholon Blast Mississippi Delegates Assassination Fatal To Eight Will Support Wallace Threat Related SAIGON satchel charge full of TNT exploded tonight in the predominantly Chinese Cholon sector of rocking the entire capital with an enormous blast and reviving fears of a Viet Cong attack on the military police said at least eight persons were killed and that the death roll probably would go to Other victims were feared buried beneath a 40foot pile of rubble raised by the destruction of two On the infiltration routes to Saigon soldiers flying into battle by helicopter killed 114 Viet Cong guerrillas and cap tured 134 suspects Thursday in two sharp clashes that sized the mounting guerrilla pressure against military police said at least six bodies were found in the Cholon explosion which destroyed two buildings and shattered a wide area of shops in the area known as Saigons twin They said there were at least 13 confirmed Five persons were pulled from the wreckage alive and UPI correspondent Raymond Wilkinson reported from the scene that 10 to 15 persons were rushed to seriously More persons were trapped in the rubble and and South Vietnamese teams worked to free Authorities said the satchel charge apparently was exploded by Viet Cong Military Police Danny Winfield of Ponca in charge of the MP part of the rescue said the extent of damage indicated there were SO to 75 pounds of TNT The 122 millimeter rockets the Communists have used recently to bombard Saigon contain about 15 pounds of There were no reports imme that any Americans were killed or wounded in the scene of numerous Viet Cong terrorist and South Vietnamese rescue teams rushed to the scene within The explosion destroyed a Vietnamese information office building and a restaurant next It followed a series of terrorist attacks earlier this week and a warning by National Police Director Tran Van UM that Communist squads were slipping into the city for an inside attack this While South Vietnamese troops skirmished with smaller Viet Cong units on the outer fringes of troops fought two sharp battles in attacks on Communist base camps believed set up for another attack on the Feature Attraction LOS ANGELES There will be a debate in the Hollywood Bowl Sunday between the Ant watchers Society of America Front Street is being made by the State Highway New lights are being installed and chan and the Los Angeles Zoos Ant of traffic will be regulated on a different basis than Workmen were busy Thursday A 1 1 A t I 1 i I The all white executive committee of the Mississippi regular with the backing of John Bell re the nominees of both ma jor national parties Thursday and threw its support to presi candidate George Wal Williams said he concurred fully in the committees ac ion and gave his personal en to the former Alaba ma predicting Wal lace would carry Mississippi by a heavy margin in the 5 The decision was announced after Williams conferred with the committee at a downtown Crowds Still Going To Fair The crowds continued surging through the gates of the Iredell County Fair in numbers yesterday for the fourth day in a Over of Thursdays undaunted by a few sprinkles of in creased the overall total for the four days over the previous years comparable period by This years Thursday attend ance was a whopping as compared to for last years Thursday said Clyde fair man For the third consecutive a bright new bicycle was pre sented as a result of a Thursday lucky winner was Susan the daughter of and Forte Jordon of Debra David Susan is a fifth grade stu dent at Davidson Elementary The meeting was called by State Democratic Chairman Leon Bramlett following the eviction of the states regular delegation from the Democratic National Convention in The accepting a recommendation by the creden tials voted to seat a biracial loyalist delegation which pledged to support the partys A slate of electors pledged to Wallace as an independent can already has qualified for a place on the ballot in Missis Wallace is running in sev eral other states as a third party a former congress man who lost his Democratic seniority for openly backing Re publican Barry Goldwater in had strongly hinted earlier he would endorse There had been some specula tion the executive committee and possibly Williams might come out for Republican Rich ard Williams told he had decided to support the for mer Alabama governor regard less of the committees action because he felt Wallaces philos and beliefs are nearer to the people of Mississippi than any other The in a sate menl read by said a vote for Nixon in Mississippi will Ixj both a wasted vote and help to Hubert The election of Hubert Hum as president would be an utter the committee BOARD TO MEET County school board will meet Monday at 8 Chairman Robert Garrison will WASHINGTON UPI If death at the hands of an assassin was Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen told law I hope he waits till the frost comes and the barn swallows are Thus did the 74yearold orator nonpareil of the Senate brush off threats on his life over the last six Dirksen lightly related the circumstances to newsmen revealing that he has been constantly under guard by the Secret FBI and local policemen since the threats began last who adopted a fright wig hairstyle long before the hippies and once wanted to be an described three specific death threats reported by the last on two days before the Democratic convention I was supposed to have been assassinated in my he He said police the sheriffs the FBI and Secret Service all guarded him and arranged to have him met by other officers when he arrived in Chicago the following The guards followed him throughout the week during a series of Illinois campaign Dirksen and at one point he asked them to lay off when he was scheduled to visit a small country But they told You have just exactly nothing to say about Dirksen He said police told him would be assassins knew the exact moment during the week that he left Decatur on a charter flight to Czech Leaders Hold Meeting On Occupation PRAGUE vak Communist party chief Alexander Dubcek today sum moned the full central commit tee of the nations Communist party to discuss the agonizingly slow withdrawal of Soviet troops from the looking weary after days of leading hie country back to Sovietstyle normalization on time borrowed from the was followed to the central committee building by a carload of men who apparently were Their lity could not be A small group of about 40 wellwishers awaited him at the doors and set Dubcek to smiling with a nosegay of flowers as he brushed He was nied by National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsky and presidium member Gustavo Only Husak publicly promised the singly restive Czechoslovaks their leaders would never consent to a return of repres sive Mood Of Panic These comments were ad dressed to a nation settling markedly into a mood of panic and gloom over rumored press censorship and the seemingly endless occupa The mood was heightened today by word from vak kept out of the press by the that demonstrations would seep the nation this weekend and provide an excuse for tightening the occupation The daily newspaper Zeme Noviny said Russian officers still suspect around every It said Czechoslovaks must bear in mind that the ways of thinking of these people are entirely different from Viewpoints Cited The Prague correspondent of the Soviet Communist party underscored the division of viewpoints saying many Czechoslovaks do not yet have a correct understanding of the essence of the process of He said normalization would require complete exposure of The whole leadership of our parties agree that in no circumstance do we intend to nor shall we to Stalinist condi newly elected presidium member Gustav Husak said in comments broadcast Nobody here has any inten tions of carrying out any arrests or he adding that proSoviet conservatives are mistaken if they that their time has NEW effort to cure traffic problems at the intersection of Miller Avenue and West eater installing the lights and other work will be done next
