Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - July 11, 1969, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE DAILY TRIBUNE Fifty-Fifth INFORMING THE SOUTH WOOD COUNTY AREA OF WISCONSIN Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin 54494 Friday July 11 1969 Single Copy 10 Cents Once-Over THE DAILY TRIBUNE Best not to say it BOSTON AP Tilford Dudley director of tional affairs for the United Church of Christ said he was kidding when he boarded an American Airlines plane and asked the stewardess how long it would take the plane to get to Cuba But he was convicted Thursday in East Boston Dis- Court on a charge of disturbing the peace and was ordered to pay a fine Judge Guy J Rizzotto told Dudley he was amazed that a man of your high education and a member of the bar would make a crack like that Dudley 62 a Harvard Law School graduate was headed home to Washington from his Church's nial meeting when he boarded the plane State lice took him off it after the pilot refused to take off Dudley was released in personal recognizance ing appeal Still on GRAND JUNCTION Colo AP A huge truck hauling equipment to a road project in backwoods country near Grand Junction was halted by a flat tire Inside the tire workmen found an arrowhead Two don't make wight KANSAS CITY AP A new telephone directory has just come off the presses for the Kansas City area and already there are two wong numbers They belong to David Wong and Toy Ming Wong No right numbers are listed important people AUSTIN Tex AP Personalized auto license plates were placed on Texas cars in 1968 state Auditor George McNeil reports The plates cost each nof really that easy NEW YORK AP Mrs Billy Graham says that the formula for a good marriage consists of two good forgivers Pick a man you can adjust to she advised young women interested in marriage The wife of the evangelist spoke to members of the Christian Women's Clubs Friday Vote is almost close BEND Ore AP The Bend school board finished its recount of a vote first counted as on the proposed million budget for The recount which is a defeat Warm again Partly cloudy skies warm temperatures and more humid weather were on the Wisconsin Rapids weather scene today Fair skies and warm temperatures are expected to continue tonight The Saturday forecast calls for partly sunny skies continued warm temperatures and a chance of afternoon or evening thundershowers The cranberry forecast calls for a low temperature tonight in the The high temperature Thursday in the city was 86 the low 63 The 6 temperature was 64 tation totaled 11 inch Thursday SEWS WOULD Nixon lauds Thieu election proposals WASHINGTON AP dent Nixon said today new peace proposals by President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam should open the way at last for a rapid settlement of the Vietnam the Com- will begin serious In a lengthy statement hailing Thieu's suggestions for a cal approach to a settlement Nixon If the other side genuinely wants peace it now has a com- prehensive set of offers which permit a fair and reasonable settlement If it approaches us in this spirit it will find us ABM compromise seen in Senate Pointing toward the moon A the white side the Apollo 11 spacecraft which sits on the huge Saturn V rocket that wiU carry three astronauts into space for their moon landing This view shows the rocket on its pad at Cape Kennedy Fla where the historic flight will start next Wednesday The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin will enter th eir spacecraft from the white room after walking across the access bridge at center right after riding up the through the service tower beside the rocket AP Wirephoto Countdown under way for Apollo 11 CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP With the countdown for their moon landing mission under way the Apollo 11 astronauts day receive their final major prelaunch physical tion Neil A Armstrong Edwin E Aldrin Jr and Michael Collins planned several hours with tors The exam determines if they are healthy for their de- manding eight-day flight and also provides baseline heart rate respiration and other data for in-flight and com- parison For the past month doctors have been drawing complete medical profiles of the three spacemen who are to start their voyage to the moon at EOT next Wednesday Pre- vious major physicals were completed June 16 and July 1 The information will be important when strong and Aldrin walk on the lunar surface July 21 It will provide clues to when the astro- might be tiring in the un- familiar gravity field on the moon While the astronauts are on the surface doctors in the sion control center will monitor heart rate oxygen consumption and the temperature of the cooling water as it enters and leaves the system The latter will be an indirect measurement of the amount of heat produced by the body The lengthy countdown for the launching of the mammoth rocket started on schedule at 8 p.m Thursday after two cians climbed into a first stage fuel tank to find and stop a leak in the helium pressurization tem They corrected the problem by tightening a nut at of a helium storage bottle The helium is used to pressurize the fuel tank and operate certain valves Dr Spock free of prosecution retrials ordered for others WASHINGTON AP The Senate appears to be moving toward a compromise which would bar deployment of the Safeguard missile defense tem but would step up testing of radar and computer nents probably at two Pacific test sites Sen George D Aiken the Vermont Republican who ed the Senate closer to com- promise Thursday by stating Safeguard could not be approved without modifications predicted a program could be worked out acceptable to both a substantial majority of senators and the Nixon administration I don't think the White House is so narrow-minded as to object to a workable modification of the Aiken told a reporter He said he has been in touch with the White House often in recent weeks At the Pentagon Deputy of Defense David R kard would not rule out the possibility of compromise The question of a mise is a matter which will have to be dealt with by the Packard told ters It's not in my hands He's running it At the White House Press Secretary Ronald L Z i e g 1 e r again predicting the tion will win the fight did not discuss the of a com- promise Negotiations behind the scenes are expected during the next few days with any showdown votes at least two weeks off At the moment the possible compromises before the Senate as amendments Limit the Safeguard gram to research barring any deployment or site acquisition Sens John Sherman Cooper Ky and Philip A Hart D- Mich introduced the proposal Provide for installing com- puter and radar elements at initial Safeguard sites in North Dakota and Montana for re- search and testing but bar de- ployment of the missiles selves Sen Thomas J tyre introduced this amendment Proponents of each mise find the other proposal unacceptable But Aiken and Senate cratic Leader Mike Mansfield IMt ky NEA Inc Yes that's Apollo BOSTON AP The 1st U.S Circuit Court of Appeals re- versed today the convictions of Dr Benjamin Spock and three other men found guilty last year of conspiring to counsel young men to avoid the draft The court freed Spock and one of the other graduate student Michael further prosecution But it ordered retrials for the Rev William Sloane Coffin Jr chaplain at Yale University and Mitchell Goodman an thor and teacher from Temple Maine The four were among five tried before a U.S District Court jury here The fifth de- fendant Marcus Raskin of Washington was acquitted The appeals court held that the conviction of Spock and the three others was not consistent with the 1st Amendment to the U.S Constitution which tees free speech The court agreed with the de- fendants contention that criticism of the draft and of the Vietnam war is free speech protected by the 1st Amendment even though its fect is to interfere with the war effort The court ordered the retrials of Goodman and Coffin on legal technicalities It found errors in the trial submission of the charge to the jury The court's decision was a majority opinion A dissenting opinion filed by one of the judges on the three-man nal urged that all four ants be freed Spock and the others could not immediately be reached for comment Spock's office in New York said the widely read pediatrician was boating off Cape Cod Spock Coffin Goodman and Ferber were given two-year prison sentences Spock Coffin and Goodman also were fined apiece and Ferber was fined Spock and the others were in- on the basis of an anti- draft rally held on the steps of Boston's Arlington Street Church in 1967 Today's chuckle In one respect the fashioned kitchens were ter than the modern they had old-fashioned wives in them Amputate toes of man hurt in paving project MARSHFIELD A rural consin Rapids construction worker had three toes on his right foot amputated at St Hospital here following an accident on a paving ject here Listed in satisfactory condition this morning is Alvin Erickson 30 Rt 4 Wisconsin Rapids an employee of the J L Sullivan Construction Co of Wisconsin Rapids the general contractor for the project According to police a paving finishing machine ran over Erickson's foot shortly before p.m Thursday His foot was pinned between the wheels of the machine and the steel forms upon which the machine rides of Montana indicated during de- bate Thursday there is an area of compromise between the two amendments since both ed continued antiballistic I would think as a suggestion perhaps it would be possible to achieve the same results if we had testing going on at such missile sites as and Mansfield told the Senate Asked later if use of the two Pacific test areas might be the modification he has been ing for Aiken said It's tainly possible In announcing his insistence there be a compromise Aiken became the senator to de- clare himself opposed to the administration's ABM program as it are 48 who have said they will support it and two who remain undeclared Sen Winston L Prouty Vermont Republican col- league told a reporter he ex- to decide his position by next week The other ted senator John J Williams has said he will not state his position publicly Aiken said in his speech that even though the legislation as written could be approved by as many as 51 or 52 votes in this Senate which I doubt we would be in an extremely weak bargaining position in coming arms talks with the viet Union I believe it is absolutely essary for President Nixon to have a much larger number of votes of this Senate ing him when we enter into such a he added Sen J W Fulbright chairman of the Foreign tions Committee and a strong ABM critic agreed with Aiken that a good solid vote on a compromise would strengthen President Nixon's position Unions seek grape boycott Food store owners and agers in the Wisconsin Rapids area have been requested by the executive board of the tral Labor Council to attend a meeting next week to discuss store operators participation in a boycott of California grapes The meeting has been uled for p.m Tuesday at the Labor Temple William Apfelbeck recording secretary for the council said the owners and managers again will be asked not to offer table grapes for sale The council last year voted to take part in a nationwide boycott of grapes in support of vineyard workers who have been ing with California growers over wages and working conditions the past several years Pickets were set up last mer at two Wisconsin Rapids stores handling California grapes According to Apfelbeck if the store operators do not agree to cooperate in the cott council members might again set up picket lines A spokesman for the local owners and managers said the operators did not wish to make any public statement at this time on the matter sonable Hanoi has nothing to gain by waiting Nixon noted that at his June 8 Midway Island meeting with Thieu the two presidents de- clared our readiness to accept any political outcome which is arrived at through free tions President Thieu proposed free elections settle the war ing the Viet Cong can pate if they pledge to renounce violence and abide by the re- sults of the Thieu called for international supervision to insure conditions fair to all Observers in Saigon said Thieu's proposal was unlikely to end the stalemate at the Paris peace talks since Hanoi and the Viet Cong's provisional government insist the United States must withdraw all its troops and the Thieu regime must step down as the first steps to end the war The President described Thieu's proposals as marking the culmination of a long ies of steps by the South and American ments all of which together demonstrate clearly the sincere desire of our two governments to negotiate an honorable and rapid settlement of the war In saying he and Thieu have declared themselves ready to accept any outcome arrived at through -free elections Nixon underlined the word any Ronald L Ziegler White House press secretary said there had been general tation between Saigon and Washington during the tion of Thieu's speech inviting the Communists to participate in free elections to be super- vised by an international body Ziegler said the White House had a full text of Thieu's re- marks before they were ered He likened the tion to that which preceded the May 14 address putting forward an peace plan The presidential spokesman responding to questions left open the possibility that a re- view of further withdrawals of U.S combat troops from South Vietnam promised for late gust might be accelerated should the current lull in ground fighting continue However he said that while the level of fighting was being watched and assessed carefully it was too early to determine whether it represented a signal from the other side Nixon in his statement said Thieu put forward a statesmanlike and fair proposal deserving the support of all who seek peace If the other side is prepared or serious negotiations and willing to abide by the free choice of the South Vietnamese Nixon said this should open the way at last for a rapid settlement of the con- The President called upon the leaders of the other side to respond in a spirit of peace and let the political issues be re- solved by the political process Scout planes carrier watch Soviet ships JACKSONVILLE Fla Additional U.S reconnaissance planes have joined the lance of a Soviet task force moving slowly and boldly ward Cuba in an unprecedented show of the Soviet flag A Navy spokesman said today aircraft from the attack carrier Independence moved into the shadowing operation that ready included the U.S radar picket ship Thomas J Gary and planes from bases in Maryland and Maine The spokesman said the eight Soviet ships were about 260 miles southeast of Jacksonville at midmorning moving in a southwesterly direction This position would be less than 600 miles from Cuba where the task force is expected July 20 The USS Independence was about 80 miles from ville on a previously scheduled training mission Its aircraft in- clude Vigilante jet sance planes with two crewmen each and eyes planes carrying crews The Soviets have made it clear their intention is to send the Russian warships on their first visit to Premier Fidel tro's Cuba The force is ed to stay through the July 26 revolutionary celebration in Cuba or Soviet naval day which falls on July 27 The maneuver is viewed by some U.S military sources as possibly a response to the ly visits by U.S destroyers to the Black Sea near Soviet tory And it provides an for the Soviet navy to practice keeping submarines in operation for extended periods away from support The task force is comprised of a guided missile er of the Kynda class a destroyer that can ry missiles a destroyer that can be armed with missiles two con- submarines a sub tender and two oilers Trial of former Nekoosa mayor to begin Tuesday The trial of Vernon P Ruder 51 former mayor of who is charged with four counts of theft is scheduled to get underway at 9 Tuesday in Wood County Court Ruder is charged with theft through misappropriation of funds turned over to him for investment in a corporation he organized The alleged theft in- from each of four complainants The original complaint was by H B Flower consin Rapids on behalf of self and his wife Helyn on June 2 1965 shortly after Ruder left Nekoosa Bernard and Damon Kuklinski both of Nekoosa have since signed com- plaints against Ruder Wood County authorities lege that Ruder set up a cor- in 1959 and solicited funds from the four ants and other area residents to finance a private water ity in Minnesota It is further alleged that the corporation never owned any land where the well was to be dug Ruder who was arrested in Palos Park 111 in June 1968 has been free on bond after pleading not guilty to the charges in County Court here in August 1968 Dist Atty Walter said he expects the trial to last about three days E
