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II*mooh and Apollo 11 landing site.».r— t«•* lt;t ;y'* * *All w^s quiet in Pulaski Sunday night as riot-trained policemen patiroled the streets to prevent a repeat of a near-riot Saturday night*Racial s|rife flared hpre Saturday as one Negro man was knifed, a gang of white men taunted the Negro community and. fired'at apolice car.A . state police car was wrecked in a cha^e which ber gan during the disturbances on Randolph Avenue early Sunday moaning. Numerous arrests have been made and .more wiU be .mhde* according to Police Chief C. E. Comer Jr.. Comer1 said that riot-trained policfe from Radford, Christians-burg and Blacksbimg were on hand Sunday night* but all was qqiet .during the night.One shooting incident was reported to police at 4:50 p.m. Sunday and arrests have beenmade. ' .‘-t Policed indicated that thes - ■he said. ^A high-speed chase begpn around- 1:30 a.m. Sunday when Trooper M. R. Craig, accompanied by Deputy Rodney Scott and Patrolman B. E.Sur-ber tried to stop a car load of white men in the Randolph Avenue area, said Sgt. W. T. Holloway of the highway patrol.:; Craig^s car pursued the fleeing vehicle, from which shots were fired at the police car. as It crossed the railroad track*The chase'continued to Route 100 where the cars collided as the police car attempted to stop the vehicle it was pursylng.The police car then hit a trailer truck and careened into a rtree on the left side of the highway, according to Holloway. The truck, which was also traveling south, and the fleeing vehicle failed to stbp at the scene of the accident a mile north of the Wythe County line, Sgt. Holloway said.*..All three police me A receivedcuts and bruises in. the wreck in public and carryingcon-which demolished the police car. cealed weapon, and ^allace The. car which they; were lt;wr- Leroy Edmonds, 216 Johnson St., suing later wrecked at Poplar Pulaski, who * was charged with Camp in Wythe Cdunty. being dnink in public and recklessThb driver of the car, who driving.has been identified as Charles Hayward Fitzgerald, of the BigDouglas Cook, of Pulaski, had Railroad section was arrestedbeen -charged with reckless drtv- Sunday afternoon artd chargeding, hit and run and failure to with three counts of feloniousstop for a police officer. assault. ,« Cook aftd five* passengers in ' ....the ear have been charged with Fitzgerald, was charged withfeloniously shooting at police of- firing a strbtgun at thrfe Negroficers. Passengers in-the car ttteti, Carl Bourne, apJwere identified as James Harry St.; Charles AUen Jr., 307 MapleBoone Jr., 19; Gary Kyle Bar- St.; and John Lee Calloway, Thax-rett, 20; Bot*y*Joe Weeks, 23; ton Road. A. shotgun pellet was Terry .Andrew Martin, 22, “and said to have gone through Charles A. Barbettini, 19. They Bourne's shirttail.were all said to be Pulaski County residents.Two other persons were arrested during the disturbances onFitzgerald was accompaniedby two other white rtt$n who were said not to be Involved.Pellets from a shotgun blastRandolph Avenue. They were broke1 the windshielda caridentified as Delilah Mae Coleman, 23, a white woman, .who has been charged with being drunkbelongings toJgUchajjd Roseberry.trouble has been brewing for a week. It flared at^:15 p.m. Saturday on Randolph Avenue when thecutting occurred.Clifford Andrew^, 40, of Commerce Street, Pulaski, has been charged with felonious assault with a deadly weapon in the cutting of Michael Porter. Porter, a Negro, was cut on the chest. He was treated at Pulaski General Hospital and released, according to police.Andrews; Jwas arrested and placed in the Pulaski County Jail. He is free on bond, pending.a hearing. * *Piedmont StrikeComer reported that thetrouble is siid to have begun nearly a »week ago when Fitzgerald had a dispute With some Negro men and had been brewing: since that time. lt;Halts-V taComer emphasized that more arrests are expected to be made in the incidents. ' ,Man can go to the moon but he cantt go anywhere by airliner today from New River Valley Airport.« i. Six days after Piedmont Airlines resumed passenger service at the Dublin facility, flights stop-Comer reported that car loads y ped again today, of white men, driving through the Piedmont Airlines closed downtake off from Atlanta at~ll:55 a.m. It may not even start,” said Faucette.The YS-J1 is a northward flight with a final stop in Washington, D. C.The strike began this morning at: 1:30 when the crew of aNegro section of town, riled up” the ^ people there. He indicated that the white men were shooting from; the car as they drove.All* available Pulaski policemen, Pulaski County deputies and state police were used Saturday night tqA quell the disturbances. . 'Comer denied rumors teat police fired any shots. There “wasn't a shot* fired” by police,its entire operation this morn-: ing as the result of a idiot's'strike. ; fJ. S. Faucette, local Piedmont manager, said at 10:45 a.m. that he had received,no official word blit understood tee shutdown wascoming. Bote flights of theFH-227 turbojet arrived there this morning.• The evening flight of- the new YS-ll propjet was scheduled toPiedrpont flight walked (off the plane ati-100 DaysOf Love^ And Prayei‘f ayetieville/ Ni C. Bndergird our leaders and out Airport, according to Piedmont sonMmintty with prayer and lov#public information director. Wai- lt;ter Rollins.The . controversy centers around a Piedmont Airlines decision to reduce the number of pilots on Its Boeing 737 Jets from three to two. lb. strike was palled by the Airline Pilots Association representing the approximately 370 Piedmpnt pilotsay this daily guide stlmulati your thlnklngtnd action.July 3i-_ LOVE, THENSHARE. John L3:3S. If yeW a . I.have love-one for another. “Help ua to fcwow,eur Fi« ther. that we most have love before we caat there. It.” Tmdmy l will he pontiindy Iom. :t .-■■■■ ■.A» •
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Pulaski Southwest Times
Pulaski, Virginia, US
Mon, Jul 21, 1969
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