Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - August 15, 1969, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin ge 20 THE DAILY TRIBUNE to eight ms said he drugs here the de and arsement nee in can be the U.S Bronx t on the rs range For the n refunds aid Fifty-Fifth INFORMING THE SOUTH WOOD COUNTY AREA OF WISCONSIN Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin 54494 Friday August 15 1969 Single Copy 10 Cents Military expect rate of Viet attacks to continue for time then hit new high SAIGON AP U.S tary spokesmen said today they anticipate Viet Cong and North Vietnamese attacks will ue at their present level of 20 to 40 a night then shoot up to an- other high point before Sept 2 U.S headquarters reported 41 enemy racket and mortar at- tacks and eight ground fights from 8 Thursday to 8 today with 78 of the enemy killed in the ground action U.S casualties were 11 killed and 88 wounded the command said while South Vietnamese ties were described as light More than 150 allied bases and towns were hit with rocket mortar and ground attacks ly Tuesday in what the U.S Command considers the first high point of the Communist command's fall campaign Since then the attacks have dropped off gradually to be- tween 20 and 40 a night a U.S spokesman said and they are expected to remain at that level for awhile U.S analysts expect the next high point slightly in advance of Sept 2 because that is the 24th anniversary of Ho Chi proclamation of the of Vietnam The Viet Cong said today it had launched a new and ex- tremely hard-hitting offensive of punishment and promised that it would continue on an inter- mittet lightning strike basis The Viet Cong's Liberation Radio said the new offensive was designed to show our iron will that the longer the cans prolong their war of aggression the more they will bleed and die The broadcast claimed sive victories earlier this week in our new offensive of lightning attacks and said Viet Cong forces will un- flinchingly go forward with ilar simultaneous lightning at- tack and will develop to the est enlarged guerrilla warfare U.S spokesmen said the iest ground fighting continued to be along the Cambodian border north of Saigon U.S gence officers estimate there are to North troops in the area and say they are trying to seize con- trol at least temporarily of a provincial capital in the Tay Ninh An Loc or Song to score a propaganda victory In continuing efforts to blunt a new enemy thrust 50 U.S bombers dumped up to 750 tons of bombs on North Vietnamese positions both to the northwest and northeast of Saigon Some raids were within a mile of the Cambodian border Three American helicopters were reported lost including an Army supporting U.S in- battling enemy troops 26 miles northwest of gon The chopper exploded in the air at about feet ing all eight men aboard We don't know whether it was hit by enemy fire or ly said one officer It also could have been a tion The enemy troops attacked the night bivouac of the Di- vision Infantrymen with tars machine guns and rocket grenades then pulled out after 30 minutes Headquarters said enemy losses were not known but six Americans were wounded The enemy also initiated four more of the eight ground fights while the other three were touched off by allied patrols The enemy attacks included a double ambush in which two South Vietnamese soldiers were shot in the back and then be- headed a U.S military man reported One American was killed and 15 wounded The ambush occurred just be- fore noon Thursday on the mam coastal highway 105 miles east of Saigon From concealed positions Viet Cong troops slammed 50 rounds of mortar shells plus rocket grenades and machine-gun fire into an can convoy escorted by a U.S armored column and about 100 South Vietnamese militiamen When other South Vietnamese militiamen were rushed up to reinforce the convoy they also were ambushed Two Vietnamese among the reinforcements were reported missing in the action but were later found in the vicinity shot and beheaded by the the U.S spokesman said This kind of atrocity is a tle he added When it comes to the reasons for it I don't know The fighting lasted about two hours as the Americans fought back with the cannon on their tank and machine guns mounted atop their ar- mored personnel carriers American bombers and copter gunships also joined in the battle Bodies of six enemy soldiers were found in the area south Vietnamese casualties were re- ported as light Damage to the convoy also was light and it continued to its destination the spokesman said North Vietnamese troops also ambushed a U.S convoy 47 miles north of Saigon wounding three Americans and causing light damage to the vehicles Twenty enemy soldiers were killed headquarters reported ery ES i Once-Over THE DAILY TRIBUNE Volcano exploded DENVER Colo AP Robert F Gonzales has been awarded a judgment because he ed a drink called a Volcano exploded in his face Gonzales of Jefferson City Colo had sued a Denver restaurant for claiming he was burned about his hands and face when the drink he was served ex- The default judgment was awarded in Denver District Court Violent language FLING Wales AP It took 50 policemen to quiet a crowd of Welsh hymn singers who became so in- censed over a question of language that they started tin owing lighted cigarettes at each other The midnight battle erupted among participants in the National Music Festival over whether to sing the hymns in Welsh or in English Two thousand people packed the town square when the cigarettes began flying Police linked arms and moved in The fracas was stopped after 90 minutes and nine persons were arrested One-way ticket TANGIER Morocco AP Police rounded up American British and German hippies whom they considered flea-bitten and dirty and gave them a public bath and haircuts Police said many had overstayed their three-month tourist visas Those who had money to travel were escorted to the airport or piers The rest had their passports seized Police spokesmen said the passports would be ed upon presentation of a valid one-way ticket out of Morocco A spanking Wash AP An wood Manor here had reason to be cross with her children They were playing with her wallet hid it in a bage can and forgot it then the garbage collector emptied the can The contents were taken to the dump In the afternoon the mother and several neighbors searched the dump for the wallet for about 20 and found it with its still intact Fair weather The weather bureau predicts fair weather for consin tonight and Saturday with little change m The lows tonight will be 52 to 02 and the high Saturday should be in the 80s Wisconsin Rapids had a high Thursday of 85 and a low at 6 this morning of 61 degrees BERRY'S WORLD You blame all our problems on Dr blame them on Queen Lawmakers caucus on budget again MADISON AP Wisconsin Republicans lawmakers again today in a ing effort to resolve differences over estate spending and taxing in Attempts to solve the budget dilemma failed Thursday after several hours of times Assembly GOP leaders and dissatisfied Senate Republicans who joined Wednesday with Democrats to defeat the proposed billion budget prepared by a ence committee Assembly Speaker Harold Froehlich said he and other Assembly leaders met with the Republicans to see if there's anything we could do They gave their blessing he said to a second trailer get which the dissatisfied Republicans proposed The first so-called trailer introduced by Senate to the conference com- provided about lion for urban projects to aid the disadvantaged Minority Republicans planned an expanded version of the with school aids being a prime consideration They propose in- creasing the guaranteed tion behind pupils in public schools from to during the second year of the and aiding union school districts Several minority Republicans apparently would vote for the compromise budget only if the Senate and Assembly passed the expanded trailer Other senators it appeared might be satisfied with passing the trailer in the Senate As soon as we get the trailer said Sen James Devitt emphasizing the word we'll pass the ence committee report We're starting blackmail The Senate can't base their vote on the conference on what we do on the trailer because that's retorted Earlier Republicans rejected a proposal to ask Gov Warren P Knowles to intervene in the budget stalemate Sen Allen Busby kee made the proposal but failed to get a majority vote in caucus Knowles has not been a party to the budget deliberations since his record billion budget proposal was discarded by con- months ago He's long com- Democratic Sen tin Schreiber of Milwaukee The time is past Lt Gov Jack Olson should be in on it too The problem's gotten so vere I'm willing to sit down with the governor and work this Schreiber said Senate Majority Leader Ernest Keppler R Sheboygan said he will introduce a to allow the state to continue operating on the spending level He said an additional million would be needed during the to take care of growth and inflationary es Keppler said he planned to raise some taxes just enough to make up the deficit Wisconsin has been operating on the billion budget since the current biennium be- gan July 1 Weary lawmaker Wearing a pensive look ate Majority Leader Ernest Keppler advises newsmen Republicans are still deadlocked over budget Keppler told news conference after GOP caucus Thursday he needed three more votes to pass AP Wirephoto Delay in NDP approval costs city federal aid Delay in the approval of the proposed urban renewal plan for Wisconsin Rapids has cost the city nearly half a million lars in federal aid according to Quinn Smet redevelopment director As each week passes without approval of the program non- cash credits for improvements made by the city in 1966 are lost Smet pointed out Three-fourths of the cost of the Neighborhood Development Program is paid by the federal Bridge bonding proposal tabled MADISON A lion bridge bonding proposal was tabled by the Joint nance Committee Thursday ter several members questioned the priorities listed by the De- of Transportation The carries a total price tag of million after the local share of costs is added It would provide half of that total in two years Subsequent approval would be re- quired to release the balance The should be considered an emergency piece of tion because many of the es in Wisconsin are from old age over use and un- der said man Jerome Quinn R Green Bay There is a real threat to public safety he said government and the remaining is paid by the city However the city's share may be in non-cash credits for money already spent improving streets and sewers and building lic facilities areas posed for development These improvements can be credited for only the three years prior to the date on which the ment of Housing and Urban De- gives final approval of the program In the city's application to HUD these credits were ed in the estimated cost of the program and therefore the city's share was considered ready provided In the early part of April the Redevelopment Authority anticipated approval in June and federal approval shortly thereafter Had this federal approval come early this summer Smet said the city would have re- non-cash credits for work done in the summer of 1966 The city spent that mer which was applicable The federal aid this would bring amounted to This amount appears lost and never retrievable Smet said chuckle Some schools are going to be so crowded this fall that they may have to add Hooky Playing to the curriculum Fighting in Ulster British brought in BELFAST Northern Ireland AP British troops moved by air and land to Belfast today as Roman Catholics themselves behind ing trucks and toppled posts and prepared for battle Six hundred British troops were due to arrive at er airport near Belfast in early evening Hundreds more moved to the city by land London said the troons were entering Belfast as friends of all the people in that city in der to ensure that if humanly possible there will be no further loss of life Northern Ireland's six inces known as Ulster are still part of Britain though they have some autonomy in tic affairs The troops came after a night of vicious fighting in which 5 persons were killed and 192 were wounded Prime Minister James appealed to Roman Catholics and Protestants alike in a television broadcast For heaven's sake stay off the streets he said Stay m your homes and do not do anything that will exacerbate the situation He blamed the outlawed Irish Republican Army for Thursday night's violence At the same time the Irish Re- public announced it was calling up reserves of its armed forces and a spokesman in Dublin said the action was taken to have the troops in readiness for a operation He did not explain further The Roman Catholic south ready has several hundred troops along Northern Ireland's western border to support and supply field hospitals set up to wounded fleeing from Northern Ireland In Dublin itself a crowd of several hundred people screamed as the Union Jack was ripped from the flagpole of the British Embassy About 70 Dublin police guarding the embassy watched sively as the crowd pounced on the flag and ripped it apart in a tug-of-war Barry Murphy the docker who climbed from ny to balcony to reach the flag said he and others were going north to help the fight for civil rights An embassy window was broken and another cracked by Fighting between the police and Protestants on one side and Roman Catholics ort the other ebbed as morning came But hatred seethed between the Catholic minority and the testant majority and Ulster's worst outbreak of violence in nearly 50 years appeared far from over The Royal Air Force flew 600 British infantrymen from land to fill the gaps left by Brit- ish troops called to action in Londonderry for the first time since World War I Londonderry was calm but uneasy Another 600 men of the Royal Green Jackets were being re- called from leave and put on standby because of the ness of the situation in Ulster the British Defense Ministry an- There were fears that the night of violence in which at least 42 persons were treated for gunshot wounds may add new fuel to the noting out Ulster cities Chicago teachers near strike over contract CHICAGO AP The cago Teachers Union president says he believes there will be a strike because the school board has reneged on the May agreement that ed the first strike by public school teachers in the city's tory John E Desmond spoke Thursday night after the un- ion's Executive Board agreed to recommend approval of a strike at the meeting Saturday of the union's policy-making House of Representatives He said a strike referendum Sept 2 would be the next step and if a majority of the ers approve a walkout would be called Sept 3 the first class day of the fall semester The mood of teachers is ter and Desmond said because the Board of Education will not live up to the con- tract we signed in good faith last May A two-day teacher walkout in May ended with a pact ing a pay raises starting in September er a supplemental budget which the board has approved for final four months calls for monthly increases of only starting in November The big issue here is not money or vacations it is breaking the mond said Equal or better says board Compare teacher pay offer here with scales elsewhere in Valley Is the salary schedule offered by the Wisconsin Rapids Board of Education which has been rejected by teachers comparable to what other school districts will pay during the school The Wisconsin Rapids tion Association's Welfare Com- which represents the teachers in negotiations con- tends the offer is well below the average throughout the state for school districts similar in size to Wisconsin Rapids The school board however contends that its offer is above or at least in line with other districts in the Wisconsin Valley Conference Stevens Point Marshfield Antigo and Merrill These five districts have already settled on con- tracts for the coming school year The other district in the conference Schofield has not yet settled for the coming year on contract terms The board here has offered teachers with bachelors degrees a salary ranging from to and those with ters degrees from to 367 The Welfare Committee has held out for a con- tract calling for teachers with bachelors degrees to get to this fall and to throughout 1970 Those with masters degrees would get to this fall and to in 1970 Howard Junkman Welfare Committee chairman said this week that the final offer is below the average mum for teachers with elors degrees and below the average maximum for those with masters degrees in com- parison with districts of similar size throughout the state He added the average length of time required to reach the maximum throughout the state is slightly over 10 years while the offer would require 12 years to reach the maximum at the bachelors level and 13 years at the masters level In the five districts used for comparison by the Board of here maximum salaries will be reached in 12 and 13 years in the two categories the same as in the offer A board statement Thursday states that Wisconsin Rapids is the only district in the state which grants per year longevity at all levels at the 2 Teacher salary comparison District Marshfield Stevens Point 1969 Stevens Point 1970 Merrill Rhinelander Antigo Average 5 districts Bachelors Masters Wisconsin Rapids Board offer WREA proposal for 1969 WREA proposal for 1970 Table above lists the teacher salary ranges for five Central Wisconsin school districts alone with the proposals made by the Wisconsin Rapids Board of Education and the Welfare Committee of the Wisconsin Rapids Education Association The Stevens Point district has approved a contract so that the ranges for the last four months of 1969 arc listed as are the ranges for all of 1970 in that district
