Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - August 21, 1969, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE DAILY Fifty-Fifth INFORMING THE SOUTH WOOD COUNTY AREA OF WISCONSIN Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin 54494 Thursday August 21 1969 Single Copy 10 Cents Flight from flood Dottie Hanna 19 carried an infant relative as she and two young com- panions fled from their homes in W Va Wednesday The village White Sulphur Springs was virtually destroyed by Little Big Creek AP Wirephoto Once-Over THE DAILY TRIBUNE Two killed as Czechs demonstrate in Prague No coy PHILADELPHIA AP Nobody could ever accuse Jerry Schall of being coy First he rented a billboard to tell the public that Jerry Schall loves Barbara He has booked a commercial spot on prime time over television today to show viewers what Barbara looks like while he reads some poetry inspired by his fiance They marry this Sunday It's just my love for explained Jerry To be blunt honest and to the point it's my love for her that inspired me Beavers fight pollution SUNDANCE Wyo AP Beavers on a creek here are helping man fight stream pollution A tanker overturned and spilled gallons of gasoline into the creek But beaver dams trapped the gasoline until it could be removed and kept it from running downstream into the Belle Fourche River Sunny and warmer The forecast for Wisconsin calls for fair with lows of 45 to 55 east and south and mostly in the 50s northwest tonight Friday will be sunny and a little warmer with highs in the 80s except that temperatures will be lower close to Lake Michigan The high in Wisconsin Rapids was 70 the low 46 BERRY'S WORLD NEA Inc you ready for the revised estimate for completing your Nurse ready with the smelling R C E PRAGUE AP Police and riot troopers made repeated tear gas and attacks today to break up a giant sians go home demonstration here on the first anniversary of the invasion of The chanting and screeching demonstration was permitted to run for 40 minutes before the police and army riot units fired tear gas and moved in to clear the crowd of about in downtown Wenceslas Square By midafternoon the square had been cleared more than at any time in three days of tumult over the invasion anniversary The government announced that two persons had been killed many wounded and more than 320 arrested in ing Wednesday night Today's protest action against a year of Soviet occupation be- gan at the stroke of noon with ear-splitting blasts of horns from nearly every vehicle in the dense midtown traffic This was according to a sive demonstration program that started at dawn with tens of thousands of Prague citizens walking to work in a protest boycott of public transport and shops Czechoslovaks mostly young people poured into Wenceslas Square at noon They broke into chants of Russians go home Russians go and long live Dubcek Alexander Dubcek headed the ruling Communist party Warsaw Pact troops invaded a year ago to crush the Dubcek program of democratization There were also hooting de- rogatory chants of for Gustav Husak the pro-Soviet party leader who Dubcek last April Many Czechoslovaks stood on the sidewalks applauding as the young demonstrators started a slow-moving parade through the square and into the major at one end A few minutes later the great crowd surged back through the square to the opposite end site of the St Wenceslas Statue and National Museum symbols of protest the past year against the occupation Several hundred massed around the statue and some climbed it This has bean den since Husak took over Riot units in armored cars rolled into the square and com- manded the crowd to disperse setting off choruses of whistling Shell after shell of tear gas was fired near the statue but three times the crowd choking and coughing returned One group of young vaks was seen charging the armed riot police with their fists In Brno Czechoslovakia's second largest city swinging police broke up a minute demonstration by about persons in the central square The crowd had been placing candles and flowers at the spot where a young student was killed in the Russian over a year ago Truckloads of Czechoslovak soldiers were in Prague's Square when the noon demonstration began In the early stages many of the young soldiers were seen smiling provingly at the demonstrators After the order for the crowd to disperse the trucks parked crosswise blocking nearby streets to keep new throngs out of the square A huge military and police force was in reserve in the back streets of downtown Prague The size of the crowd and the growing tension increased chances of a violent flareup like that which occured Wednesday night Two persons were killed eral wounded and more than 320 arrested in the riot the ment said today It claimed those killed or wounded were shot by criminal and unemployed elements among the rioters But the only gunfire seen by Western newsmen at the scene came from police ing over the heads of the crowd Nearly young Czechs built street barricades on at least six downtown points and peppered police vehicles with bricks paving stones and de- bris Helmeted police dispersed the mobs with tear gas firing Leaflets circulated earlier had warned that Stalinist teurs might start trouble to vide a pretext for martial law and the installation of a Moscow regime tougher than the present one headed by party chief Gustav Husak Today's chuckle The joy of What a woman experiences when all the children are finally in bed Deadlock on teachers pay apparently broken Laird To vote on tentative Pentagon agreement next week to cut men money WASHINGTON AP tary of Defense Melvin R Laird today announced new Pentagon spending cuts of billion in- a reduction in the armed forces He warned frankly that grant is approved for city sewer work A grant of for storm and sewer installation in the annexed areas of Wisconsin Rapids has been approved by the federal Department of ing and Urban Development Mayor Donald Penza reported today The city had originally asked for million when it applied for federal aid in 1968 The cost of the work which includes the installation of a trunk line sewer from the corner of 1st St and Pepper Ave to the corner of 24th and ton Sts totals million The city raised in a bonding issue in June 1968 in tion of the program The remaining of the cost is expected to be raised next year Construction is expected to be- gin in the fall according to Public Works Director Alan Engler Besides the trunk line there will also be sewer con- struction in residential areas of the annexed areas he added These cuts will reduce our to meet current com- In addition to the worldwide manpower related to any new Vietnam Navy will inactivate more than 100 ships including the ship New Jersey The Air Force Laird said at a news conference will cut its training flights except for the Vietnam area by flying hours between now and next summer The Army will cut its non- Southeast Asia operations maintenance and training by approximately million The defense chief told the news conference the spending reductions are required by Con- gress and he pointed out that the Pentagon had already trimmed billion in tures earlier from the defense budget fiscal year which began July 1 Laird said he will strive to make sure the reductions have the least possible impact on our readiness but I want all the American people to know that there will be an inevitable weakening of our worldwide military posture Laird's news conference was the second scheduled within 24 hours by the cabinet members most concerned with the nam war and the Paris peace talks Secretary of State William P Rogers told reporters day that in spite of the surge of enemy attacks last week in Fifth day of fighting in Da Nang foothills SAIGON AP Three com- panies of U.S infantrymen killed more than 100 North 31 miles southwest of Da Nang today as the cans battled their way toward the wreckage of a downed copter in which eight men are believed to have died It was the fifth day of hard fighting in the rolling foothills 31 miles south of Da Nang where sweeping American and South Vietnamese forces have run into heavy resistance since Sunday Associated Press correspondent Richard Pyle reported from tne area that hundreds of ments including South infantrymen and U.S Marines poured into the battle zone By nightfall more than U.S and South Vietnamese were committed to the biggest sustained battle since the Com- munist command launched its fall campaign Aug 12 Military spokesmen claimed more than 400 North killed in the fighting since Sunday Many were by artillery and helicopter gunships At least 27 Americans have been killed and another 150 wounded field reports said Pyle reported that medical evacuation helicopters were running all day lifting out American casualties The helicopter was shot down Tuesday amid heavy fighting on ground It caught fire in the air when hit then exploded when it hit the ground and said all aboard must have been killed Aboard the aircraft were Press photographer Oliver Noonan of Norwell Mass who had been covering the fighting and seven soldiers including a battalion er Lt Col Eli P Howard Jr 41 of Woodbridge Va the ther of five children U.S intelligence officers mated there were to troops from the North 2nd Division in the re- gion As dusk approached waves of Air Force dive bombers dropped more than pounds of bombs and napalm in efforts to dislodge the North Vietnamese from fortified ers U.S artillerymen fired dreds of rounds but the can forces were reported ing toward slowly About four miles away other American infantrymen battled more North Vietnamese In the Saigon region a North Vietnamese force was ly preparing to attack an ican armored column day night when it set off a flare This touched off a fight that continued during the morning Reports from the battlefield 45 miles northwest of Saigon said 32 North Vietnamese sol- diers were killed in the initial fighting while six Americans were wounded and two armored personnel carriers damaged As the enemy's fall campaign entered its 10th day allied quarters announced that the opening round of attacks jumped the number of men killed in action on all sides last week to their highest weekly level since mid-June The U.S Command said 244 Americans were killed and wounded the largest number of dead since the week of June 21 and far above the 96 killed and 489 wounded week before last Vietnam the over-all level of action during the last two months has been somewhat less than it previously was Although Rogers avoided ing so specifically he indicated another withdrawal ment by President Nixon can be expected within the next 10 days The administration has an- it would make a deci- sion by the end of August on whether to order additional U.S withdrawals Nixon in June ordered the tial cutback in U.S troop strength in Vietnam this mer By emphasizing the of the war Rogers indicated Wednesday the is relying heavily at the moment on replacement of U.S troops with South forces to achieve its ob- in Vietnam As for the peace talks Rogers There certainly has been very little progress U.S Ambassador Henry ot Lodge has returned from is for consultations with Rogers and President Nixon beginning today in San Francisco No decision yet on Green Beret murder charges SAIGON AP The nary investigation into the Green Beret murder case ended at Long Binh today with no cation whether the eight U.S Special Forces men accused of the killing will be brought to trial The investigating officer Col Harold Seaman of Hampton Va whose function is similar to that of a grand jury will for- ward his recommendations to Maj Gen George L Mabry commander of U.S support troops in Vietnam Henry B Rothblatt of New York civilian attorney for three of the Green Beret officers said he believed Seaman might make his recommendations within a week The seven officers and a geant are charged with murder and conspiracy to murder Rothblatt told newsmen he and other attorneys for the men had moved that all charges be dropped He asserted that the charges were made on the basis of a rumor that had no basis and the action was taken as n kind of emergency measure Tentative agreement has been reached between negotiators on terms of teacher contracts in the Wisconsin Rapids School District for the school year The agreement is subject to ratification by the teachers and the Board of Education but there is very little question that it will be Henry Bennett board president said today The agreement was reached during a four-hour closed sion involving the committee the Welfare Committee of the Wisconsin Rapids Education Association which represents the district's 307 teachers and Neil nian executive secretary of the Wisconsin Employment tions Commission who has the dispute As a result of the agreement schools will open as Bennett said training is scheduled for next Monday and Tuesday and es will begin Wednesday Terms of the agreement reached after about seven months of negotiations have not been announced and will not be released until both parties the school board and teachers have ratified the Gunderman said in a brief ment Wednesday night Howard Junkman Welfare Committee chairman said today the committee feels the ment is acceptable and will recommend that the teachers ratify it Bennett said the school board negotiators also will recommend ratification of the agreement The teachers are to meet at 7 p.m Monday at the Labor Temple and the board will hold a special meeting either day or Tuesday night to act on the agreement Bennett said he did not be- lieve it would be fair to either board members or teachers to have them learn terms of the agreement through the news media before being informed of it individually Terms of the agreement will be announced at the board meeting before action is taken so that anyone wishing to discuss it with the board will have an opportunity to do so he added Bennett declined to say er the agreement is similar to Long list of problems awaits legislators MADISON AP Proposals to fund new welfare and tion programs head a list of un- solved problems facing the when it returns to ison in the fall one which the teachers com- contends was worked out with the mediator on Aug 4 The agreement represents a departure in some nett said from the proposal an- by the board last week as its final binding offer The board after sending to all teachers asking whether they would accept that offer has had no Bennett noted The offer last week which was rejected by the fare Committee provided a starting salary of for teachers with bachelors degrees Teachers with 12 years ence and no post graduate its would earn but would advance to after ing 23 post graduate credits Under that offer teachers with masters degrees and no experience would earn and would receive after 13 years experience The proposal which the fare Committee said was ed out with the mediator Aug 4 but which the board ed would this fall have paid new teachers with bachelors de- grees with increases up to after 11 years and a maximum of after 12 years experience and 23 extra credits Master degree teachers would have started at and received after 13 years Under the same proposal throughout 1970 bachelor degree teachers would receive to start after 10 years and after 12 years experience and 23 extra credits Master degree teachers would receive to start and after 13 years Predict cranberry growers headed for record year WASHINGTON AP berry growers are headed for a record year predicts the culture Department The crop estimate based on Aug 15 conditions was for 1.6 million barrels nearly 11 per cent more than last year and 16 per cent more than in 1967 Reduced crop prospects in New Jersey and Washington state were more than offset by larger output expected in Wisconsin and gon the Crop Reporting Board said New Jersey production was forecast at barrels down 5 per cent Wisconsin barrels up 11 per cent ington barrels 20 per cent less and Oregon barrels almost 16 per cent more than last year This month's on way to becoming driest August here in 44 years Brown lawns and wilting dens abound in Central sin this month a needless reminder that barring a minor deluge in the next 11 days we are headed for an abnormally dry August And if present predictions arc true this could be the driest August in Central Wisconsin in the past 44 years The average August rainfall here is 3.47 inches but only 25 of an inch has been re- corded so far in the first two- thirds of this month In past 24 days only 41 of an inch has fallen In the driest August recorded here in 1948 80 of an inch of rain fell a total which may not be matched this August Total rainfall for this mer however is still above average due to wet months oi May June and July Rainfall since May 1 totals 17.68 inches about 3.65 inches more than average But the rainfall totals don't tell the story as far as the farmer is concerned too much rainfall in early summer almost none in mid-summer The drought this month hasn't done considerable age yet observed County Agent Louis Rosandick Wednesday though borne crops could be in- jured by prolonged continuation of the dry spell Com which is in high has not been affected to any great extent Younger corn however is showing signs of firing with the bottom leaves appearing dry due in some cases to both a lack of nitrogen and the dry weather Rosandick explained The alfalfa so far has vived the dry spell well because of its deep tap roots ever the clover with shorter taproots is not producing as well as expected Most oats in this area arc ripening and have not been in- jured Rosandick noted If the dry spell continues tor several more days firing can be ex- in new seedings larly he concluded The wet spring and early mer resulted in a plentiful quito crop which appears to be diminishing However the 2
