Steubenville Herald Star (Newspaper) - June 28, 1968, Steubenville, Ohio low 52 to 60 Generally growing warmer Saturday 11 56: Thursday 74: Thursday 34. STEUBENVILLE home Complete News of Mingo Junction and the Area VOL. 163, NO. 19 PHONE 282-5311 JUNE 28, 1968 24 PAGES Edition Single 1AP Weekly by Copy carrier Daily AIGON AWAITS CONG OFFENSIVE MEMORIAL MODEL Sculptor Bannie Bufano and San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto inspect the 12-foot model of proposed memorial to four assassination victims - Abraham Dr. Martin Luther and John and Robert The body of the statue is a stylized St. Francis with a mosaic inlay midsection of the assassination The project has approval and would be made from the metal of guns turned in to police during the mayor's weapon call-in Size of the statue will depend on the number of guns turned in. Move May Be Crippling Setback Senate Group Delays Action On Weapons Control Bills WASHINGTON - The drive for stronger gun control already beset by delays and apparent adverse public has suffered what may be a crippling The latest blow was a 7-5 vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday to delay further consideration of weapons control bills until July 9. concerned about the passage of responsible firearms legislation had better realize that this was a real Sen. Joseph Outlook Dimmed The outlook for new legislation urged by President Johnson had been dimmed previously by a slowdown in the House and by a sharp reversal in an initial flood of mail favoring strong gun controls after the of Sen. F. Congress had seemed moving toward speedy action on a measure to prohibit interstate mail order sales of all firearms and ammunition and to ban their over-the-counter sale to nonresidents of a This would have extended to rifles and shotguns the restrictions provided for pistol sales in the recently enacted crime control Stricter Law Sought But the first of this Johnson also asked Congress for laws requiring the national re- of all guns and the licensing of their Immediately reported their mail had reversed itself from favoring control laws and was running heavily against the particularly those requiring This came after the National Rifle main opponent of called for a letter campaign against the In an apparent move to the registration controversy from affecting the mail order ban Johnson asked in his message that the registration proposals not delay ment of the bills already before ' Postponement Voted But his plea didn't seem to have any effect When the Senate committee Sen. Tydings proposed an amendment adding the registration and licensing provisions to the mail order which was approved by the House Judiciary Committee last After extended debate on Sen. Quentin N. moved to postpone further consideration of the legislation until July 9 and his suggestion was 7 to 5. 2 Court Appointments Opponents Claim Gains in today's Amusements 17 Ann Landers 10 Bridge News 16 Comics 23 Puzzle 19 Deaths 2 Editorials 6 Good Health 12 Heloise 18 Horoscope 10 Financial 2 14,15 Television 16 Women's News 8, 9; 10 WASHINGTON - Opponents of President Johnson's naming a new chief justice are claiming increasing support in both parties and the offensive seems to have taken the Senate Democratic leadership by The centered so far largely on a petition being circulated by Senate is little more emphatic than I anticipated it would Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said Thursday don't know what these people can commented Sen. James 0. chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee which will consider Johnson's appointments of Abe Fortas as chief justice of Jhe United States and Homer Thornberry as associate justice of the Supreme Would Replace Warren Fortas would replace the retiring Earl Warren with stepping up from the U.S. Court of Appeals in to fill the vacancy created by Mansfield and Eastland commented in the wake of two major Robert P. r ' a Bamboo circulator of the claimed support of most of his GOP colleagues and some Democrats and said really think the nominations can be -A question was raised in the Judiciary Committee about whether a vacancy really exists on the court since President Johnson when announcing Warren's it was to the appointment of a qualified Clark Called The committee called Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark to testify on the question July 11. But the Justice Department hastened to cite what it called numerous precedents for approving court appointees before a predecessor actually stepped Republican Leader Everett M. who said he won't sign the Griffin petition but has not taken a public stance on the said is a fine If no vacancy exists there is nothing to There are 18 signatures on the to Page 4) Saturday and Sunday Roast Beef Dinner Spaghetti or Gnocchi or coffee at Hollywood Lanes Viet Troops Placed on Full Alert Red Infiltration Reported Stepped Up in Capital Area SAIGON - Viet Cong infiltrators were reported pushing in toward Saigon and Vietnamese forces in the capital were placed on full alert to meet a possible new major AH leaves were canceled in the Saigon military Supply and administrative clerks were confined to quarters and told to be ready to Senior U.S. officers said no alert was necessary for American as fully alert all the time as we can said Red Gave Details It was that South Vietnamese authorities were holding a high-ranking Viet Cong official who gave the government valuable details of the enemy's threatened third offensive against The said to hold the rank of colonel or lieutenant colonel in the enemy command's capital military was captured about a week has been important to us tactically for military a source South Vietnamese intelligence sources said enemy infiltration in the capital military district has been stepped up within the past 48 Defenses Bolstered At military headquarters inside the nerve center for combat operations around the defenses were bolstered with additional machine guns and Such infiltration by the Viet Cong has always been followed by an attack in the This time they are expected to hit the same areas they did during the offensives in February and the Chinese quarter in the southwest part of the and Gia a suburb north of the Intelligence sources have reported that captured documents and prisoner interrogations indicate the Communist command is planning a full-scale attack on the capital late this month or early in Massing Around Saigon The U.S. officers is to strengthen Hanoi's bargaining position at the peace negotiations in Informants estimate that 12,500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops are within a 25-mile radius of The U.S. Command has 6,000 troops on the edges of while 4,000 South Vietnamese are stationed inside the To blunt the threatened about 10,000 allied soldiers have been patrolling intensively within a 15-mile arc of The Saigon area also has been given top priority for air strikes bv bombers in a campaign to smash infiltration and supply corridors from rear staging An average of 50 have been hitting enemy positions each t - I 3 Area Worker Dies In Fall Alan Boyd 19, of 231 Brooke View was injured fatally Thursday when he fell 42 feet from atop a scaffold at the Ohio Edison power plant construction project at Mr. an employe of Townsend & was working atop the scaffold when it reportedly He was born Nov. 18, 1948, a son of Boyd M. and Anna Mary He was graduated in 1966 from Follansbee High School and attended the Weirton Branch of West Liberty State where he was a member of Beta Sigma Epsilon fraternity and played He was a member of Olde St. John's Episcopal Besides his he leaves a Marsha both at home and his paternal Mrs. A. B. Bennett of Friends may call at the James Funeral today from 7 to 9 p.m. and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and vices 2 Rev. Mr. Samuel W. Highland Hills Memorial t Flamingo OWNERSHIP TRANSFER Donald V. president of the Ohio Power Co. and the American Power Thursday at Columbus announced the transfer of ownership of one unit of the Cardinal generating plant at Brilliant to the Buckeye Inc. m Half Ownership Transferred Hanoi Envoy w o Sees Defeat Buckeye Power BufS At Khe Sank Cardinal Plant Unit PARIS - The spokesman for North Vietnam's peace talks delegation today American evacuation of Khe Sanh amounted to grave defeat for the United the delegation press said the United States had been to from the base just below the demilitarized zone in South He said the U.S. Military Command's explanation that the base was no longer essential made him think of the fable of the fox and the Unable to reach a bunch of the fox went away saying were sour Idea Scratched If there was any hope that the U.S. evacuation of the base was part of an over-all plan of de-escalation acceptable to North Le quickly scotched retreat constitutes a grave defeat for the United tactically as well as he told a news long as the United Stales Insists on pursuing its war of the United States will not avoid whatever tactics are Move Seen Retreat U.S. military commanders once decided to defend the base at all They are now forced to retreat from the he Le said North Vietnam wants but goes hand in hand with and we reject a pax more than one month of official conversations and 10 the American side has refused to stop unconditionally its bombardments and other acts of Le shows the bad faith of the American King's Brother Espouses Cause Of Fired Men A revolutionary concept in the nation's electric utility industry came to reality yesterday when the Ohio Power Co. transferred ownership of one of two generating units of its Cardinal on the Ohio River at to Buckeye and organization of 27 Ohio rural electric It was a million The one of Ohio's largest and most has two 615,000 kilowatt generating units and was designed and built by Ohio Power Co. It has been in full operation since July of last Plans for joint ownership of the Cardinal plant j ' - were announced in 1963. Announced By Executives The announcement of ownership transfer was made this morning by Owen president of and Donald C. president of Ohio Power and American Electric Power at a press conference with Governor James A. The Cardinal plant is tied into the system Ohio Power which in turn is in with the systems of the state's principal The 27 will receive their power from these utilities at 200 points throughout the The companies in addition to Ohio are The Cincinnati Gas and Electric Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. The Dayton Power and Light Monongahela Power The Ohio Edison Co. and The Toledo Edison Co. Cardinal Operating a corporation jointly owned by Buckeye and Ohio has been created to operate the plant for the benefit of the two Encouraging Development of this which has been characterized by the Federal Power Commission as an encouraging development in institutional relationships in the would not have been possible to Page 4) 3rd Court Appearance Scheduled for Sirhan LOS ANGELES - Intense security precautions are being taken at Los Angeles County Central Jail today appearance in a by Sirhan Bishara charged with murdering Sen. Robert F. Today's court third since the June 5 assassination and his first in three was set up for a But Russell E. said he planned to ask a three-week continuance for time to give the case more Parsons said he wanted to study the lengthy transcript of the county grand jury proceeding June 7 that led to indictment one count of murder and five counts of assault with intent to commit Wounded Recovering The assault charges were filed on behalf of five wounded in the fusillade of bullets that felled the Democratic presidential The most seriously wounded of those Paul western regional director for the United Auto Workers was reported Thursday to be making satisfactory progress toward Today's proceeding at the where Sirhan formally was charged with murder three weeks originally had been scheduled for the Hall of Justice where he is to be Measures Not Complete The location was changed security measures at the hall were not The County Board of Supervisors has authorized installation of protection at an estimated cost of because of numerous threats against Sirhan and New walls and heavy steel doors are being installed in a 13th floor room which will be To Page 4) ST. Fla. - The Rev. D. brother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King has vowed to help 211 fired the battle of St. to regain their jobs with a pay In a speech following the arrest of 45 protest marchers Thursday King declared that would prevail and down the walls of City in this resort town of 180,000. Some 300 demonstrators and supporters packed into Second Bethel Baptist Church to hear King's emotional speech as lightning cracked ana rain poured down KING SAID HE had heard that his life had been but said he was not He told a man is not willing to die for what he believes he should not Two plainclothes policemen were assigned to watch King during his say if you the city administration can't pay another quarter to sanitation then we will walk the streets every day until you he shouted over cheering and clapping in the old THE 211 WORKERS have demanded an Increase of 25 cents an hour in wages on salaries ranging from to an City Manager Lynn Andrews fired the workers - all nut one of whom are Negroes - after they went out on strike May 7. A confrontation with brigades of police came at 5:47 when marchers attempted to turn off a parade route approved by City Manager Andrews and move toward City At least eight squads of St. Petersburg and Clearwater police and Pinellas County deputies numbering over 100 marched in to block the f ' Warmer A ir Heads For A rea Increasing cloudiness and warmer weather is forecast tomorrow for the Upper Ohio It will be cool again Skies were cloudy over Ohio this with temperatures in the 50s. light showers occurred Thursday night and a few were reported early this but amounts were mostly A clearing trend was expected this afternoon and with temperatures below Lows for tonight will be mostly in the 50s. A low pressure system in the Dakotas early today and moving eastward will give increasing cloudiness over Ohio with warmer weather and a chance of showers by Saturday
