Hide Article Text (OCR)
Mosf Activities PeacefulBy The ASSOCIATED PRESS camp-outs and burned effigies Firebombs damaged buildings of President Nixon, at four college campuses in the Support was registered in nation today as students contin- some quarters for Nixon’s useof American troops in Cambodia and criticism was leveledearly this morning at the ROTC,go home for the rest of the outThe New Leftued protest against the war in Indochina and he killing of four Kent State University students in Ohio.wasYoung Republicans chusetts at whatBlazes of suspicious origin hit j “the actionsother schools,inthey of radicalbyMassa-building at the University of Nevada in Reno, but damage was slight. Other schools where firebombs were set off included the University of San Francisco, Colorado College at Coloradoweek. They vowed to stay there lizes the campuses.”He also asked the state’s 92withCollegeSprings and Ohio University at leftist Athens.calledseventhreeROTCincludingat Casestudents.”The Rev. Billy Graham described the nation's crisis today City during theas the “most critical period since the Civil War.” The evan-Westem Reserve in Ohio.More than 80 colleges and universities were officially closed%and the National Student Infor- gelist condemned both studentmation Center at Brandeis Uni- violence and use of live ammu-versity in Waltham. Mass., said nition on the campus.Young people blocked traffic at a few locations in New York freshman, saiduntil Sunday.Meanwhile, a group of about 40 students at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., calling themselves “Strike Back” called for resumption of classes which had been called off for the week. Charles Smith, aKeene spoke on the WNBC TV “Today Show.”Most other activitiesmonopo-two-year junior colleges - 750,000 students and the state’s private colleges with about were 100,000 to close, and many of peaceful Wednesday and today them did. but there were incidents of vio- “I want to make it very clear lence that brought National that closing the campuses...isGuardsmen to schools in Ken- r it in any way giving in to those tuckv and Illinois and new who preach and practice vio-rushmorningperiod to pass out antiwar liter- [vor ature.“closing down clashes at the University of Wis- lence,” he said in a statewide the college and placing it in fa- consin.ofviewpoint ’ of thestudents at 337 institutions have left classes to join the antiwar strike.In other incidents, demonstra-National Guardsmen shot and killed four students at Kent Monday after several days of disorders and antiwar protesta particulardamages the integrity At Florida's Miami Universi- Ivy League school, ty, about 300 students stood David Keene, chairman of the* Ishoulder to shoulder to block en- Young Americans for Freedom, try of faculty members to the said in a television appearance administration building. that “idealistic” students wereStudents pitched tents and being used by radical leaders, camped out on the grass at the “You don't see any of he University of Akron in Ohio Weathermen being shot,” hetelevision talk. “This four-day Students at the University of period is support for those who Missouri and Syracuse Universi- believe in nonviolence.”ty burned effigies of PresidentNixon during rallies.California Gov. Ronald Rea-Pennsylvania withState Universi-tors blocked traffic, entrances on the campus there, to school buildings, held campus Three firebombs were thrown,where they had been ordered to! said. “They know enough to get quence of current events.ty, with 18 campuses, was ordered closed. Ohio State Univer-gan closed the entire state col- sitywas closed b its presidentlege and university system to- shortly after Gov. James A.taling 28 campuses until Mon- Rhodes said all Ohio schools exday, asking that the 300,000 stu- pesiencing unrest should bedents reflect “on the grave se- shut.(See “Campuses” Page 2)Quote of the week, from an East Central student: Chea ters invariably lose . . . but not alwaysUA67TH YEAR NO. 4T*► p.a **ADA, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, MAYm1197020 PAGES10 CENTS WEEKDAY, 15 CENTS SUNDAYNew Violence FearedIrelandAPIEf-WASHINGTONforts to prohibit U.S. combat troops in Cambodia have been defeated in a dramatic House session punctuated by angry outbursts on the floor and cheers and hisses from the galleries.Even an amendmentversifies experiencing unrest in his state.In the nation's capital, plans by the New Mobe—the New Mobilization Committee to end theWarin Vietnam—to stage amass demonstration at the White House Saturday ran into Presi- Justice Department resistance, dent Nixon said endorsed his de- The government turned downthe request to hold the protest in front of the White House but thecision to send U S. troops into Cambodia—and opponents said would give him open-end au--went downgivethority to wage war to resounding defeat.In parliamentary sleight of hand uesigned to prevent a flat ban against U.S. troops in Cambodia from coming to a vote, the House approved the amendment by Rep. Paul Findley, R-111., 171 to 144—then immediately killed it 221 to“Pm not for one of these amendments, not one,” House Armed Services Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C., said in urging no House action on Cambodia. “I'd take theNew Mobe said it would be heldthere anyway.Mayor saidbeingan madeWalter Washington alternative site wasavailable on theWashington Monument grounds, but New Mobe project director Ron Young said the students will rally as close to the executive mansion as they can get.Debate on the Kent State slayings spilled over for a second straight day in Congress. Senate leaders of both parties—Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Hugh Scott—joined in asking for a presidential commission to investigate the incident.Six Kent Stat- students met with Nixon for nearly an hour. They said later they urged the President to name a commission to probe the slayings and war also to listen to students more, night.policy. Late Wednesday the White House con-The admonition to listen to firmed Nixon had called in col-what the nation's youth are saying also came in a private letter to President Nixon from Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel. The secretary expressed fear that some administration policies appear “to lack concern for the attitude of a great mass ofDUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - The implication of two cabinet ministers in a plot to smuggle arms to the outlawed Irish Republican Army raised new fears today of another summer of violence in neighboring British-ruled Northern Ireland.Prime Minister Jack Lynch told the Irish Parliament Wednesday night that he had fired Agriculture Minister Neil« . ... ■ . i #.....,...This young man in a wheel chair was one of about 500 students at the University of Oklahoma who staged an anti-war demonstration T uesday that led to a clash with about 100 police and Highway Patrol Troopers. Three young men were held in jail after the students surrounded a campus police car as officers arrested one demonstrator who was carrying a Viet Cong flag. (AP Photo)Americans—our young pie.’’Hickel alsopeo-lege presidents who serve on theAssociation of American Uni-versities for a conference today. R] . Fjnan„ Mini,,erIn Baltimore Wednesday ,,, ?y ?, , mance Ministernight. Sen Edward M. Kenne- Chf(es. Haufhe5' a , dv* D-Mass.. said he will fight to ,n§ mfoima ion which purport-bar funds for continued U.S. ed to connec hem woth an al-Southeast le^d attenlPt t0 unlawfu“y ™-port arms.Boycott Likelymilitarv actionAsia. HeNixon meet with a group of college presidents to discuss widespread campus unrest over hisincoupled the pledge with a plea for an end to violent suggested that campus dissent.But House action on the Findley resolution gave no clear in-(See “House” Page 2)Viet Cong Control WaterwaySAIGON (APIUSFindley toats are planning an assault upamendment as a last resort.“The President of the United States is doing exactly right with or without this Findley amendment,'’ Rivers said.“President Nixon is American bo vs andthe Mekong River to help open a 60-mile stretch of the water-wa^ to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, officialsaid today. Thevyousaving arecommitted to the same objective—it’s as simple as that.” Then drawing loud hissesfromdrawing the antiwar-dominatedspectators in the packed galler-Rivers added: “I want tosources reported the operation will begin Friday.If the operation materializes, the Navy boats will be in for some sharp fighting. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces dottedOpposition leader Liam Cos-grave said the arms were intended for an illegal organization, and it was generally assumed that he meant the IRA and Roman Catholic extremists in Protestant-ruled Ulster.The firing of the two ministers and the resignation of two others sympathizing with them— touched off a sharp crisis in Lynch's ruling Fianna Fail party, pitting the moderate prime minister and his supporters against hard-liners who want toNavy dia without seeking congression-j A spokesman for the U.S. cover would be provided for the re lands bv anya. approval. Command aid he had no com-Ttie operation would take half ment on the reports but added:of the 500 Americans involved “If there is American partici U.S. or South Vietnamese air-all the way to Phnom Penh. The pation. we will announce it at craft, or both,source said there will be 40 the appropriate time.”U.S. boats and 60 South Viet-OklahomaUniversityssaultflotilla, but it did not clear whether these would, means necessary.K Lynch’s control of the govern-benamese craft.The South Vietnamese part of the operation was first disclosedappropriate There also were reports that U.S. 7th Fleet aircraft carriers were maneuvering in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam butarealongCong most ofby the Foreign Ministry in an the intention was not clear.unprecedented public announce-we haven’t patri-les,talk about somethin^ heard much about hereotism.”The angry outbursts from the f! -or came when the House vot-waterway and control the ferryat Neakthe ment of a future operation.In announcing the operation, the Foreign Ministry said«aircrossingmiles southeast Penh.Luong, 37of Phnomedtheto limit all debate onCambodia amendments to a period that gave each speaker 45 seconds to state his case.Rep. Donaid W. Reigle Jr., R-Mich.. grabbed a microphone.wheeled around to face the gal-ler es and demanded: “HavePresident Nixon has said he would not send American forces beyond 21.7 miles into Cambo-=111111! I f 11I I1111! 1111 | | f H11111111111111 If1 Oh! Motherhood!ChoraleersGive\SpringFlingFridayIn a related development, it was learned that the government is considering an amphibious assault at the big port of Kompong Som—formerly Sihan-oukville—and the Cambodian base of Ream, reported to be threatened by North Viet-Vnamese troops only 20 miles away. Ream is 15 miles southeast of Kompong Som. Presumably the Southment did not appear threatened.But Laborite Conor Cruise O'Brien told Parliament he had found a “vast sense of Protestant fanaticism'’ in Northern Ireland confronting “the growing strength of the Irish Republican Army.” He warned that extremists were building up to “a festival of destruction orNORMAN (AP) - The 16,200 students at the University of Oklahoma were to have their say today in a campus vote on whether to boycott classes in an anti-war protest Monday, and a collision is certain regardless of the outcome.If the majority of the students support the approximately 2,000 who have demonstrated for two days, they are assured of a confrontation with OU President Dr. J. Herbert Hollomon, who has declared he will keep classes open.A “no” vote on the resolution would be a bitter blow to the demonstrators, and likely would have no effect on those determined to boycott classes.Gov. Dewev Bartlett metAmerican Student Union, Todd.Bartlett’sJim the peace and insure the safety of our citizens.” press secretary. From 300 to 350 Oklahoma Doug Fox, said the students j Army National Guard troops reurged the governor to use re- mained on alert in armories instraint in use of National Guard five communities in central Oklahoma — El Reno Minco,troops, and the governor expressed hope there would be no violence.“All we’ve done is open thePauls Valley,Chandler.Seminole and. . Several hundred students oc-lines of communication between cupjed the ou administrationmy office and the governor's of- building for about an hourfice,” Moffitt said after the Wednesday, and crowds estimat-hearing.The OU Interfraternity Council went on record Wednesday in opposition to the proposed strike and to violence by either students or law enforcement agencies, but supporting peaceful demonstrations.ed at 2,000 students participated in an unofficial strike called by Moffitt on Tuesday night.Except for a few flurries of fist-swingingno violenceWednesday’sTheWednesday night with three stu- Bartlett issued a written statement Wednesday saying. “Violence will not be tolerated inViet-slaughter next July or August.” Lynch said the plot in which the two ministers allegedly were involved called for the arms todent leaders at the governor’s mansion in Oklahoma City student body president Bill Mof- this state in any form. As gov-fitt; his assistant, Mike Keller, ernor, I will take whateveramong students, was reported indemonstrations, demonstrators applauded some of Hollomon’s remarks when he addressed front of the administration building, but they jeered when he refused to take a stand onthem inand president of the OU Afro- steps are necessary to secure i Vietnam and Cambodia.namese are'seeking American be shipped from the European;support for this amphibious assault should they decide to carry it off.Sources said the Americancontinent under the guise of a regular military shipment.Cosgrave said the arms were worth $192,000.osuSenateSue Albert AppealsMATLOCK, (AP) — A storkEnglandatyou ever seen a sadder sight in your life?”Spectators cheered and theyand der bThe fleet e\ T1*■* ipere gaveled to or-aaira nature reserve near here is supposed to become a mother next Tuesday, but she doesn’t seem to be able to cone with the-fcanger n the House reel the tide of dissent andof thecopeprospect and keeps off herfall-Ada High School’s prizewin-ning Choraleers will present a “Spring Fling” Friday at 8 p.m. in the Junior High auditorium.The chorus, directed by Mrs.Bettv Woods, has won a state'sweepstakes award for the past four years and was judged the best class BB school chorusthe poet, Robert Frost, attending.The concerteludes:program inpart Phnomof the task force inPenh operation on River will includeaipri V 1natiorNixon4. 1 * /%. VlltroopsThesweeping many co'Lge campuses over decision to send U.S. into Cambodia, antiwar strikes, marches and sit-ins, which multipliedrapidly after the killing of four Kent State University students Monday, continued to mushroom Wednesday.Gov, Louie B. Nunn of Kentucky ordered state police andNational Guardsmen “with mounted bayonets and liveing on ner egg.A stork laying an egg in captivity is a rare event,'' said Eddie Hal-lam. curator of the RiberNature Reserve, this one isn’t fant-minded.entered in the1968 Tri-State Enid. TheMekonggunboats armed with .58-caliber machine guns and two 350-foot “Ye Followers of the Lamb,” long landing ships to be used asLuboff, command posts.The landing ships also will help carry back any of the 200.000 Vietnamese living in Phnom Penh who want to returnjhe Lynch said Haughey and Bla-the 38ney repeatedly denied involvement in the reported plot. ButdisclosureOver HoffmanRulingFor Release Of Accused MarinesLynch’sFerguson; “Kyrie,” soloist, Jack Cooper: “PoorMan Lazrus,” arr. Hairston,“Deep River.” “If I Got My“and very in-aSheandm? in* i 1am-V'ion onto the University of Kentucky campus to enforce a curfew in the wake of an antiwar protest. Gov. James A. Rhodes of Ohio called for theis very clumsy, we are having all sorts of problems with her.”Hallam his staff have :o watch the bird constantly to make sure she does not damage the egg •vith her foot.“She ishedcompetition in chorus has performed for many civic functions and was presented to the Oklahoma Music Educators in a 1969 concert.Tickets for the spring concert are $1 for adults and students and 50 school students children.Men’s Chorus; arr. Ringwald:Ticket,” arr. Wagner, Denny Northrip; “Frostiana,” noems bvsoloist,gavedence to reports from London of arms activity on behalf of the IRA.Police sources in the Britishere- j STILLWATER, Okla. (AP)—lor acts of violence as a meansThe Oklahoma State University of accomplishing or effecting student senate voted Wednes- any industrial or political ends, day night to file suit challeng- Student senate president Ran-Rob-poemsert Frost, “The Road Not Taken,” “The Pasture.” Come In,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Chooseto their homeland.The 60 South Vietnamese navy gunboats will have mixed American and Vietnamese crews incapital said IRA agentsbeen actively trying to buy machine guns, rifles, pistols, grenades and ammunition in Europe and the United Kingdom.One pilot was hired to fly 10 tons of “machine parts” from Vienna to Ireland but discov-ing the constitutionality of me dy Hopkins of Sand Springs in-have OSU Board of Regents speaker troduced the bill, saying, “Weguidelines, after Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman was denied per-to delivermission speech.Hoffmana campusscheduled toneed to clean up this thing once and for all. Otherwise it's going to be thrown back in ourPOTEAU, Okla. (AP) -HouseMajority Leader Carl Albert, DOkla., has made a strong demand to the Marine Corps commandant to release from the brig five Marines accused of civilian murders in Vietnam, an Oklahoma attorney for one ofcollege cents for high and youngerseemed when sheaston-laid the said Hallam.tStepDouglas:The program concentrates on Needs Me,music of America, including a en Teens;section on “Frostiana,” music from a total work of seven country songs commissioned in 1958 for the 200th anniversary of the incorporation of the Town of Amhert, Mass. Themusic was first performed in. go all the way up the river, the Something Like a Star, music |others only half wayThe Foreign Ministry said the flotilla also will be protected by South Vietnamese troops, preformants said. Thev added that,some of the American boats will lt;’,red h‘s cf'g° was small armsHe refused the job and informedbv Randall Thompson; “A SteD To Thespeak banstudent-of1 1959 with the composer, Ran-immediate shutdown of all uni- *-i lilt ill............ ijl dall Thompson, conducting and ' — — ■— — —■ i _____ __________Rear,” arr. “As Long As He ” arr. Leyden, S^v-“O Burv MeN’Varr. Wagner, Men’s Chorus, soloist, Bruce Bonar; On A Wonderful Day,” arr. Leyden, Sophomore Sextet; “Today, arr. Simon, Junior Sextet; “Mama Look Sharp,” arr. Hunter; “MacArthur Park,” Webb arr. Woods, and “Softly As I Leave You,” arr. Simon.J*sumablv riding in attack boats long with their U.S. infantry advisers.Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops have seized control of all the villages along the Mekong from the border northto the Neak Luong ferrv crossing, 37 miles southeast of(See “Navy” Page 2)the British police, who in turn informed Lynch.Four Irishmen recently were jailed in England for attempting to buy arms for an uprising in Northern Ireland. An anonymous letter Wednesday to a London newspaper said nine members of the IRA planned to kidnap Prime Minister Harold Wilson's son Giles and demand the jailed Irishmen's freedom as ransom. Both Wilson's sonwasat OSU May 15. But the was voted by a faculty committee because the speaker guidelines.By a vote of 23 yes and four abstensions, the senate moved to institute the suit.The Senate also appropriated $1,550 from Student Association funds for legal fees and court costs.The Senate attacked the constitutionality of both the regents' policy and Oklahoma Senate Bill 729, which limits persons who may speakThe billfaces every time a controver-jthe Marines said Wednesday.State Ses. Gene Stipe, represial speaker is invited.”“If we take this to court, we can win, and without violence,” Hopkins said.Four faculty members on the committee voted to ban Hoffman's appearance after Hopkins offered the motion in order to force a vote.Earlieron campus.denies the*Wednesday, protest leaders announced plans for a meeting at 3:30 p.m. this afternoon on the ROTC Paradesenting Lance Cpl. Randell D. Herrod, 20. of Calvin, Okla., said Albert expects an answer from Gen. Leonard Chapman sometime this week. Albert was inPoteau in connection with a civ-i suit.The five Marines “have already served more' than 60 days locked up, and it will soon be 90said.up,days,” StipeHe added that he has pointed^ , _ .. . . ... ,°ut that Army personnel ac-Ground. The time coincided with cusecj jn Laj massacrethe cadets schedule for drills. have been restricted to the base,OSU officials have warneduse of,the anti-war demonstrators theynot jailed.4 iThis shows rank discrimina-and his 88-year-old father were campus facilities to any speak- will be arrested if they try to tion,” the Oklahoma legislator being guarded by police today. I er advocating crime, sabotage, invade the parade ground.j said.Hickel, Nixon Advisor Hit Administration Attitude Toward YouthWASHINGTON (AP) - TheNixon administration attacks onIMoffett resigned as director of the Office of Students andyoung dissenters have been de- Youth, nounced as “inflammatory rhetoric bv the President’s“A continued attack on the young—not in their attitudes soHickel, who said he had corn-muchas their motives—can serve little purpose other thanfurther to cement those atti-ownyouth advisor and gently criticized bv a Cabinet member.«/Within hours Tuesday, a letter to the President from Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel sug-administration hasposed the letter for Nixon's eyesThe 25-y e a r -o 1 d Mcffett,named to the post within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare last September,wrote.gest;shownathe lackof concern foryoung people was made publicand Nixon appointee Anthony J.said at a news conference today only, wrote that administration tudes to a solidity impossible to his decision to resign was madepolicies appear “to lack concern penetrate with reason,” Hickel when Nixon announced theCam-for the attit .de of a great massof Americans—our young people ”He politely suggested that Vice President Spiro T. Agnewbe muzzled on the subject ofstudent dissentMoffett, whose rumored resignation became official today with a strongly worded statement on the administration's attitudes toward youth, was lessi diplomatic.bodia incursion.“My decision was made about halfway through that speech,” he said.Moffett said recent events have confirmed what thousands“That the President and hiz most trusted advisers do not view themselves as leaders of all of the American people: that they do not have the best interests of youth in mind: and, most tragically, that they will sanction even the most vicious tactics against young people and other legitimate political dissenters.”He announced, however, the 11 other members of his staffand praised the efforts of HEW!dissent turns to violence it in-Secretary Robert H. Finch andjvites tragedy.”Education Commissioner James• *E. Allen, his direct boss, to communicate with students and other young people.He decried the President’s characterization of rioting students as “bums” and his state-Mment that the death of four Kent!State).”“A tone has been set by this administration that has tended to increase polarization,” Moffett said in an interview Wednesday night. “The inflammatory rhetoric in the air bvcampus crisis consultations with college officials.and suggested Kent State students, duringwhich, they said to repo they told the President thlt; Although Nixon earlier had a lack of communicatioi declined to meet with 37 college tween the c/.ministration and university presidents on the students.campus response to U.S. military action in Cambodia, theThePresidentof students already believe: 1 were remaining on their jobs mind us once again that whenState University students by National Guard bullets should 41administration officials did not White House confirmed that the help the situation there (Kent heads of nine campuses conferred in Washington Wednes-Hickel pleaded with Nixon to solicit the views of individualday night with the President. Nixon spent nearly an hourmembers on the current i Wednesday afternoon with sixpromised them a full inve tion of the shooting deat Kent State.Hickel's assertion the a istration cannot afford to ate the nation's youth wadictably well received,
Newspaper Details
Ada Evening News
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Thu, May 07, 1970
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 20 Jul 2020
Other Publications Near Ada, Oklahoma
Ada Star
Ada Sunday News
Ada Weekly Democrat
Ada Evening News
Ada Ada News
