Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - September 14, 1971, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE DAILY TRIBUNE Fifty-Seventh INFORMING THE SOUTH WOOD COUNTY AREA OF WISCONSIN Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin 54494 Tuesday September 14 1971 Single Copy 15 Cents Death toll at 40 in Attica rebellion PICKING UP WEAPONS A policeman and guard collect baseball bats and other weapons from the exercise yard in Attica State exercise yard D where rioting prisoners had set up a stronghold and held 38 hostages for five days In the background are improvised shelters used by the prisoners to tect themselves from the rain CAP Wirephoto Once-Over THE DAILY TRIBUNE Rehfeldt is still optimistic about teacher negotiations Goldilocks ate here MILWAUKEE AP Who's been eating my Mrs Bonita Jablonski might have exclaimed She prepared a kettle of stew in the afternoon and invited two friends for dinner At about 4 p.m Mrs Jablonski 28 took her ter Nina 3 for a walk leaving the stew simmering on the stove of her second floor apartment An hour later she returned and found someone had used her milk chute to break into the rear door of the apartment Inside she found nothing disturbed except her stew The kettle was empty except for one potato left at the bottom and a dirty soup bowl and spoon were left on her kitchen table The culprit evidently not a little girl was nowhere to be found Getting cooler The forecast for tonight is variable cloudiness in the north part of Wisconsin fair in the south and cooler with lows between 36 and 43 degrees Wednesday should be partly cloudy and cooler with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s Thursday through Saturday should be partly cloudy and cool with scattered thundershowers in the north portion Thursday and over the state Friday Lowest cranberry bog readings tonight should be be- tween 28 and 34 Wednesday night 20 and 28 degrees Wisconsin Rapids had a high of 71 and a low of 51 Monday with a 6 reading today of 53 degrees The Wisconsin Rapids Board of Education and teacher representatives are making progress are having an exchange I'm still reported Donald Rehfeldt board Personnel Committee chairman Monday His brief remarks on the negotiations with the Wisconsin Rapids Education Association underway for several months echoed a similar report of a month ago The board Monday approved minutes of negotiating sessions Aug 11 and 25 and the Personnel Committee an- future negotiations this Thursday and Sept 29 The minutes were not made public and a board discussion Monday of negotiating progress was closed to the public Monetary aspects of current negotiations were considered by the committee Rehfeldt said and possible percentages of increases were discussed but it was agreed by the Personnel Committee that this is a matter for the entire board to decide Rehfeldt also reported that negotiations have begun with custodians for 1972 In another matter Monday the board unanimously rejected a request by the Evangelical Free Church to rent the Woodside School gym on days for worship services and Sunday School City Atty Kenneth Hill told the board such rentals would be legal at a fair rather than just nominal fee since they did Construction started on CATV tower here Actually lady I do this because in today's highly industrialized society handicrafts are becoming very R C E After two years of delay in securing a suitable site con- struction has begun on a community antenna television tower for a system that will serve the South Wood County area The CATV tower and system are being constructed by Community Video Inc a firm organized by eight local businessmen Erl Odegard spokesman for the company said today the tower site is located about five miles east of Wisconsin Rapids in the town of Grant Portage just east of the in- of County Trunks W and FF He said work on the tower for the receiving antennas and on laying of cable began last week According to Odegard the site was approved recently by the Federal Aviation Ad- ministration Because FAA approval was delayed for some time Odegard said only certain portions of the system can be completed before winter Expected to be completed this year is laying of cable to serve areas on the East Side of Wisconsin Rapids from Baker Dr south to Two Mile Ave and from 20th St west to the river Cable for some areas on the West Side mostly south of Grand Ave also is expected to be completed this year The balance of construction within the city limits will be resumed next spring Community Video ers will be located at 2140 8th St S in a new building to be constructed this fall Odegard said that depending on construction progress and weather the first subscribers may be connected by Nov 15 However he added that for service are not being taken yet pending arrangements for procedures He said an announcement will be made shortly Subscribers will be to receive Channels 7 and 9 from Wausau Channel 13 from Eau Claire Channels 2 5 and 11 from Green Bay Channel 3 from Madison Channel 8 from La Crosse and Channel 4 which will be Community weather service In addition Community Video has made application to the Federal Communications Commission for microwave 2 not entail religious instructions in the schools as prohibited by law Ben Hanneman suggested granting the request could bring a conflict if the school was to be used for other functions on Sundays and could open the gates for other requests School Supt R E Clausen noted that the district has rented schools on a one night basis to organizations but not on a continuing basis such as the church requested Hill told the board a proposal to increase its size from seven to nine members would be legal but that he wanted to study further the proposal to do so by electing at large bers In another action the board unanimously approved senior citizens to buy noon lunches at Howe Mead Rudolph and Vesper Schools at the same price as teachers per week The lunch program will be open to anyone over 60 years of age whether a member of a senior citizens organization or not The board amended its earlier position not to bus any junior high students living less than two miles from school and agreed to bus four students living along W Grand Ave west of 21st Ave and along 2nd Ave S south of the Ar- mory because of the hazards in those areas Also to be bused will be five Mead School students living in the same areas Two other requests for busing 2 Levy fines in tipsy driving cases Two motorists were fined each after pleading guilty Monday in Wood County Court to driving while under the in- fluence of intoxicants Harrell S Applebee 25 Rt 2 Nekoosa who was charged Sept 6 in the village of Port Edwards had his license revoked for one year and Duane A Hamm 37 1911 Alton St charged by Wisconsin Rapids police Sept 9 had his license revoked for six months ATTICA AP The Monroe County medical iner said today that all nine hostages killed at Attica State Prison during the four-day rising died of gunshot wounds Dr John F Edland said There were no cut throats or any kind of mutilation The bodies of two more were found today cial sources said bringing the total dead to 40 There was no immediate ex- planation of how the gunshots were fired from where or by whom Related Stories on Page 9 But in Albany Tuesday uty Correction Commissioner Jim Van said there were witnesses to the slashings And he said it was proven the prisoners had made zip guns This is definite These ons were he said Edland conducted autopsies Tear gas used in Baltimore inmate protest BALTIMORE Md AP About 200 inmates barricaded themselves in the City Jail cafeteria today and police forced them out with tear gas The men were returned to their cells No injuries were re- ported According to Baltimore lice inmates took possession of the cafeteria about and re- fused to come out Police said they moved in with tear gas about one hour later Some 50 police said the inmates had no hostages The City Jail has a pre- dominantly black population of inmates Police reportedly pulled back within two hours after the uprising began Everything is secure reported a prison official at 9 Prison officials and city lice never deemed the situation important enough to notify state officials Howard B Parks deputy warden at City Jail said the uprising was a follow up to the Attica uprising To my knowledge the only cause was the thing in Parks said It's a wonder it's not more widespread out the country Parks discounted speculation that the uprising was stirred by militant forces There's not a strong tant force in the Parks said Or if there is I haven't felt it on eight of the nine slain tages The ninth victim guard Carl Valone died in a hospital Monday shortly after the prison was recaptured The hospital said Valone died of gunshot wounds The medical examiner said the locations of the gunshot wounds on the hostages varied Some he said had been shot in the head while others had been wounded in the chest or back Some Edland said appeared to have been beaten before their in the back and buttocks and the others about their faces According to all official re- ports Monday the only guns re- bel prisoners were carrying were gas projectile guns Most of them were armed with clubs fire bombs and makeshift knives officials said The gas projectile guns the officials referred to fire ters that are about the size of soft drink cans The medical examiner said the gunshot wounds that killed the hostages were made by bullets of the type fired by standard arms The bodies of two more prisoners were found today unofficial sources said bringing the total dead to 40 According to all official re- ports Monday the only guns re- bel prisoners were carrying were gas projectile guns Most of them were armed with clubs firebombs and makeshift knives officials said The bodies of the nine tages and prisoners who died in the clash were taken to the roe County medical examiner Carl Lupo a supervisor in the office said the tages died of gunshot wounds and not slashed throats Jerry Houlihan a spokesman for the prison said Monday several of the hostages had their throats slashed There was no comment on where the gunfire that killed the hostage guards had come from whether from law cers storming the prison or from guns which may somehow have been in possession of the inmates Earlier in the day U.S Dis- Court Judge John Curtain of Buffalo issued an order in- prison officials not to interrogate prisoners on the events of the past four days un- til the prisoners had been by attorneys At a hearing in Buffalo ney Herman Schwartz argued that it was imperative for yers to be admitted to the on today He said there was a danger of informal reprisals against inmates adding that virtually every prisoner in one cellblock faces criminal and needs advice from a lawyer An assistant attorney general for the state Joseph J Ricotta contended that it would be gerous for outsiders to the prison today He said eight prisoners are still at large In the prison Outside the prison walls this morning a group of lawyers doctors nurses and legal tants awaited the outcome of the hearing Prison personnel meanwhile set about the task of putting the prison back in order It was a dark rainy but quiet day today in this Western New York village where the sound of gunshots helicopters and ex- tear gas grenades were heard Monday Officials were trying to the dead inmates piece gether an account of what led to the bloodshed and put the prison system back on its tine Relieving guards er personnel who had been on extra duty during the long hours of trouble securing quate supplies and preparing meals were priority tions they said But state officials were faced early in the day with a federal court order forbidding them from interrogating any of the subdued inmates until attorneys could counsel with them U.S District Court Judge John Curtain scheduled a ing on his order which also in- prison officials to ad- mit doctors and nurses to in- spect medical care being given injured prisoners Attorneys for the state withheld comment un- til the hearing later in the day State correction officers at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining locked prisoners in their cells until after the funerals of the slain Attica guards Officials said the move was a safety measure State Corrections Russell G Oswald who ordered the assault Monday said autopsies had showed that two of the slain hostages had been killed prior to the time state police guards sheriff's 2 Copter pilot rescued 10 civilians from My Lai FT MEADE Md AP A former helicopter pilot testified today that he landed in My Lai during Charlie Company's sault on the South Vietnamese village to rescue about 10 civilians an old man women and children Apparently Thompson thought they were in said Dan R Millians 24 now a student at Fort Worth Tex He referred to then WO Hugh C Thompson who was flying an- other helicopter Millians testified at the martial of Col Oran K son who is charged with trying to conceal the slaughter at My Lai To present petitions on track relocation tonight Backers of a movement aimed at forcing a referendum on the expenditure of city funds for purchase of property for railroad track relocation said today they would present petitions bearing signatures to the Common Council at its regular monthly meeting tonight The council session starts at 7 o'clock at the Courthouse The signatures if validated by the city clerk's office would meet the requirements for direct legislation as specified in state statutes Mrs Helen Oberbeck one of the approximately 30 persons involved in the petition culation issued the following statement today in regard to the I wish to thank the many people who helped circulate these petitions and to give credit to the many many people who signed the petitions in an atmosphere of and propaganda The people will continue to exercise the right to petition as guaranteed by state statute Mrs Oberbeck said the referendum would give the people of Wisconsin Rapids the chance to decide whether they favor the spending of city funds for the project We the petitioners will gladly abide by the decision of the people at the she added Another spokesman for the group said today that Mayor Donald Penza's charges and those contained in a local radio editorial that the petition movement was purely political really is not the truth The relocation project calls for moving of some downtown trackage and construction of new switching yards Mayor Penza and Alderman Harvey Schneider head of a special relocation committee have declined to release cost figures because the city is still in the negotiation stage with the railroads Mayor Penza's views and explanation of the project were contained in a speech to the Rotary Club Monday An article on that presentation appears on Page 3 of today's Daily Tribune Millians told the jury he had seen bodies in a ditch and bodies in the northwest quadrant of the area while flying low He also said he had seen a noncommissioned officer fire a shot into a ditch and kill a Vietnamese Did you consider that der or unnecessary asked defense attorney Lt Col Frank Dorsey I would say said lians Q You made no report of A No sir The military prosecutor Maj Carroll J Tichenor had asked whether Millians ever was questioned about what he saw in the village Q While you were in Vietnam did anyone contact or question you? A No sir Q Were you contacted by the brigade commander regarding that A No sir Q Was the observation you made a matter of common knowledge in the A Yes sir Henderson was the brigade commander The prosecution contends knowledge of what happened in My Lai was so widespread in the unit that Henderson should have known that there were allegations of atrocities In an interview Monday derson said the jury is being conditioned like an audience being sold soap It's a selling Henderson said in an interview after the presented its 40th ness Monday I don't see from the over-all testimony a damn thing that helps me but ing points a finger at me ther Most of the prosecution in the cover-up martial now in its fourth week have recounted the bloody sault on March 16 1968 when more than 100 unarmed ians died before the guns of American soldiers Herderson decorated and wounded in three wars is charged with failing to gate the allegations of war crimes thoroughly failing to re- port them to higher ters as required by Army lations and then lying twice to an Army board of inquiry He was commander of the ical Division's Brigade parent unit of the task force which assaulted My Lai McGovern unhurt in barrage SAIGON AP Sen George McGovern escaped shaken but unhurt tonight from a barrage of rocks and fire bombs hurled against a church where he was meeting with a group of students and political dissenters McGovern and several ates were trapped inside the Roman Catholic church office for about 30 minutes They were rescued by U.S military police and embassy Marine guards summoned to the scene The identity of the rock and throwers was not but one witness de- scribed them as youthful riders who roam gon on motorbikes Vietnamese combat police and soldiers sealed off several city blocks around the church The senator a leading critic of the Vietnam war and the Nixon administration's policy is on a three-day visit to South Vietnam He went to the church to meet with a group of about 40 Vietnamese who wanted to talk with him about political prisoners and alleged abuses in Vietnamese prisons Today's chuckle The way most fishermen catch a fish is by S E fl R C HIV E
