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DEADLINE CLOUDY The forecast for Fairbanks and vicinily is mostly cloudy this afternoon, partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, high this afternoon upper 50's low tonight upper 30's, high Wednesday around 60. Chance of showers 10 per cent today and tonight, 20 per cent Wednesday. High yesterday 62, low last night 37. Temperature at 11 a.m. today was 48 with southwest winds alg knots.

Record high for this date is 85, set in 1950, record low 32 In 1931. Sunrise tomorrow will be at 4:53 a.m., sunset p.m., total daylight of 18 hours 1 minutes, for a loss of 7 minutes from today. (See WEATHER, Page 2) Zatopek Fired VIENNA (AP) Col. Emil Zatopek, a former Olympic champion runner, has been fired from Ihe Czechoslovak army, Ihe Vienna newspaper Express reported. The newspaper said Zatopek told it that shortly after Gustav Husak took over as Communist party chief, "I received a letter firing me from the 'army.

After Oct. 1, 1369, I will no longer belong to the military." He said he probably would join a sporting goods firm near Prague. No Agreements SINGAPORE (AP) Indonesia will not take part in any collective security arrangements with its neighbors, the new Indonesian ambassador to Singapore said today. "We will not get involved in any defense agreement," said Gen. Sunarsu as he arrived to take up his post.

"Our primary interest is to boost the economic relations between our country and our neighbors," Visiting Burma RANGOON, Burma (AP) Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield arrived in Rangoon today for a three-day visit including a meeting with Gen. Ne Win, the chief of state. The Montana Democrat, who is touring Southeast Asia, came from Jakarta. In a meeting there with President Suharto, He was told that Indonesia must continue to receive generous foreign aid if it is to fulfill its five-year plan for economic development. Japanese Seized TOKYO (AP) A Soviet patrol boat seized three Japanese fishing boats with a total of 10 crewmen in northern waters today on charges of violating Russian territory, the Maritime Safety Agency said.

It added that the three vessels were fishing off a Soviet-held Kurile island. Anders in Oslo OSLO, Norway (AP) U. S. astronaut William A. Anders was received by King Olav today on his arrival in Norway.

Anders, Frank Berman and James A. Lovell Jr. made the Apollo 8 expedition lo Ihe moon last Christmas, Spies Rounded Up SEOUL (AP) Six spies, in- eluding two sent from Pyongyang, were rounded up in two recent raids. Fee Killed In Wreck Charles David Fee, 53, of -1637 Second and Broadmoore Acres was killed about 8a.m. yesterday morning on the Taylor Highway when the truck he was driving went over a 250-foot embankment.

The accident occured at milei 111.7 according to the State Troopers. An official for the State Dept. of Highways said Mr. Fee was planning to go to work for that department, but hadn't, yel been employed. Surviving is his widow, Caroline of 4637 Second and six children.

They are: Harold Billafd of Fairbanks, Ted Fee of Charles Fee and Rosemary Fee of Hayward, Roxanna and Robert Fee of Anchorage. Funeral services are pending. VOL. XLVII Daily News "America's Farthest NorthDaiiy Newspaper Since Member of The Associated Press 1 54 Per Copy fAlRBANKS, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1969 Twelve Pages No. 195 TgJLMounts in Camille's Wake WA Limited Martial Law Is Imposed GULFPORT, Miss.

(AP) Mississippi Gov. John BeU Williams imposed limited martial law along the state's hurricane-crushed Gulf Coast today as the death toll rose to 128. The order restricts the movement of people in the shattered area. Afississippi Adj. Gen.

Walter Johnson made the VOLPE IN FAIRBANKS-Jack Coghill of Nenana, left, a member of the NORTH Commission, greets Gov. Keith Miller, Secretary of Transportation John A Volpe and Secretary of the Interior Walter J. upon their arrival at Fairbanks International Airport this morning. (News-Miner Staff Photo) Cabinet Officials Here for Briefing Three secretaries of President Richard Nixon's cabinet arrived in Fairbanks this morning as well as the governor of Alaska. Arriving at approximately 10:30 a.m.

at the International Airport on a U.S. Coast Guard jet from Anchorage were Sec. of Transportation and Mrs. John A. Volpe, Secretary of Interior and Mrs.

Walter J. Hickel and See of Commerce Maurice Stans, who "hitch-hiked" a ride north after missing a commercial plane in Anchorage. Also aboard the plane with the secretaries was Gov, and Mrs. Keith Miller. Secretary Stans arrived in his 1 hunting clothes.

He was to fly immediately to Wood River to hunt for sheep with Alaskan guide BillVVaugaman. The'other two secretaries and Gov. Miller have a full schedule. Upon arriving at the airport they went to the Patty Building on the of Alaska campus for a briefing. In the closed-door briefing in the Nanook lounge the officials heard H.

D. Scougal, deputy commissioner of highways; John "Jack" Coghill, NORTH Fire Condition Looks Favorable ANCHORAGE (AP) The Bureau of Land Management said Monday the situation with the Swanson River forest fire looked "fairly favorable." The BLM said that if favorable conditions continued, the big blaze would pose no threat to populated areas, and no major problems would be anticipated. More than 3,200 BLM firefighters and military personnel were battling the fire, which has now covered 79,030 acres. New Slope Wells DALLAS, Tex. (AP) Allan- tic Richfield Co.

said Monday drilling have begun at the S. E. Eileen and Toolik No. 2 sites on the Slope tract owned by itself and Humble Oil 4 Refining Co. Commission member; John Garland, Fairbanks airport manager, and Dr.

Robert Weeden, Dr. Charles Behlke and Dr. Kenneth Rae from the University of Alaska speak. Following the briefing the party was to go to the Travelers Inn for the noon meeting of the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce where Volpe was to be the featured speaker. This afternoon Volpe toured Federal Aviation Administration DA Asking For Inquest The district attorney's office told the News-Miner it will ask the district court here, today, for an inquest into the North Slope accident which took the lives of two Fairbanks carpenters -a fortnight ago.

If the request is granted, a coroner's jury would be assembled to consider the findingsof the state's inquiry into the accident in which Moses Sloan and Merlin Christenscn died when a freshly-poured concrete slab under which they were working collapsed. Two other men were injured, not seriously. The accident occured on Atlantic Richfield's Prudhoe May main camp site, and was apparently caused by inadequate shoring of the concrete. The men were employes of Hamstead Construction Co. Inc.

of Anchorage. Both the Alaska Stale Troopers and the State Labor Dept. sent investigators to the accident site who have conferred with the district attorney's office on their findings. An aide in the DA's office said this morning that the decision to seek an inquest was based on the evidence that has been compiled, ff the inquest request is granted by the state district court, a coroner's jury would be picked lo determine the legal cause of death, and recommend what action, if any, should betaken. facilities here and the Alaska Railroad which for many years was an arm of the Dcpt.

of Interior and now under the Dept. of Transportation. At 6 p.m. Volpe and his wife will be guests of honor at an invitation-only dinner sponsored by the Republicans at the Steak Pit. There will be a public reception at 8 p.m.

at the Travelers Inn which is also honoring IJoyd Burgess, former Alaska GOP national committecman. Wednesday morning the group will fly to the North Slope and Prudhoe Bay for lunch and an inspection trip. From there they will fly to Barrow and then lo Anchorage. This afternoon the wives were honored guests at the home of Mrs. Louise Saarfo, 333 Farewell St.

in Hamilton Acres. martial law recommcndalion to discourage sightseers. Johnson explained the move and said "people will be arrested if they don't move on when they're ordered to." Sightseers had turned the area into "a carnival," Johnson said. The coast "needs discipline," he added. "I have 2,000 men under arms and I've got to bring in another 2,000," Johnson said.

The death toll spiraled this morning with the discovery of 23 bodies in an apartment complex in nearby Pass Christian. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was scheduled to tour the ravaged area Wednesday, his office in Washington said today. Nixon Promises Disaster Funds SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) President Nixon has moved swiftly to provide $1 million in federal disaster funds for Mississippi devastated by high winds and tides of Hurricane Camille.

Responding Monday to a plea ised thai more money would be allocated when the full damage to public property Is determined. The Western White House said Nixon was kept informed of the hurricane damage as the storm slammed into the Gulf Coast Sunday night centering its impact on Gulfport and Biloxi. Nixon was on the golf course at Uie Camp Pendleton Marine Base, 20 miles south ot his oeeanfront home, when his staff announced the President had declared Mississippi a major disaster area. It was the fourth day in a row that Nixon has played golf, flying to various Southern California courses by helicopter. Nixon plans a schedule of work in the mornings, recreation in the afternoons and long, free weekends during his California stay.

The crash of a light plane al a New Orleans airport and the death of its four occupants added to the grim picture of devastation left by the giant storm's 190 mile an hour winds and swamping tides. The plane was loaded with medical supplies for the stricken Gulf Coast but crashed and burned on takeoff. The victims were not identified. Another problem rose in the Pascagoula area at the eastern end of Mississippi's Gulf strip. State Sen.

Merle Palmer said snakes were so bad "we had to organize to fight them." State Sen. Nap Cassibry, who is coordinating the Civil Defense operation on the Mississippi coast, said the "final toil will be between 150 and 200. "We know there are more bodies," he said. Any damage estimate to the resort area would be premature, Cassibry said, but he added that damages lo coastal military installations alone could run up to $500 million. Gulfport Mayor Philip Shaw took issue with Cassibry and said reports of casualties in Gulfport had been "greatly exaggerated." He said most of the low area were evacuated before the hurricane hit Sunday night.

He added that he knew of only 31 bodies recovered "and there might be a few more when clearing is completed." Civil Defense and other officials set what Ihey termed a "war council" for later in the morning to tighten up operations in the hard-hit area. Rescue workers uncovered 23 bodies in the modern 3-story Richelieu apartment complex in Pass Christian. Bag Israeli Jet AWAIT EVACUATlON-Five persons await rescue on railroad tracks between Gulfport, and New Orleans as their large frame house was lifted by the 150 mile-an-hour winds ot Hurricane Camille and left on the tracks. AnotherFlareupAlongSuez TEL AVIV (AP) An Israeli warplane was shot down over the Suez Canal today and (he pi- Jot was parachuted to safely and was seen taken prisoner by the Egyptians, the army announced. The Israelis carried out an air strike after Egyptian artillery opened fire during the morning and afternoon.

The Israelis said the air strike lasted 20 minutes and did not say immediately whether the plane was shot down by an Egyptian fighter or antiaircraft fire. The flareup along the Suez Canal came after an Israeli patrol, searching for Arab terrorists, surrounded a hut in the refugee camp of El Mauzi in the Gaza Strip and called for the occupants to surrender. A gunshot, fired from the hut, slammed into an Israeli officer's submachine gun and grazed his hand. The troops riddled the hut with automatic fire, went in and carried out the bodies of three Arabs and several weap- ons. Two men sprawled unharmed in the dust, their hands stretched out in surrender.

It was the only violent inci- dent in a search of the camp's 10,000 refugees aimed at uprooting an Arab terrorist cell the army says has boon operating Soldier Drowns, Second Missing One Ft. Wainwright soldier was drowned and another is missing when a rubber raft capsized on the Chcna River about 1 a.m. today during a combat maneuver. The dead man's name was withheld. S.

Sgl. Ronald Clement, -1146 Gth Street, Ft. Wainwright, is missing and a search has been started for him. All three men on the raft were attached to the craft by safety linos, so the drowned soldier was retrieved when the raft was pulled into shore. The last anyone saw ot" Clements he was swimming towards shore.

Three other men were pulled Eielsoil Family saved, Czech Armored Units Used To Disperse Large Crowds PRAGUE (AP) Armored units swept into Wenceslas Square Tuesday and helped riot police with clubs and tear gas to clear the National Museum and St. Wenceslas Statue, symbols of protest against Soviet occupation. Police used tear gas after charging with clubs into the crowds. The square finally was cleared of all but police. About 12 armored personnel carriers and police water cannon rolled into the historic square as city police swung their truncheons to clear a crowd away from the statue and museum.

Fifteen minutes after the appearance of the armored personnel carriers, the area around the Wenceslas statue had been cleared. Most of the crowd running Into the thousands was pushed back to the end of the first block of the long square. The armored units appeared after' an army helicopter had circled downtown Prague, watching the rush-hour crowd gather on both sides of the square to stare sullenly al the statue and museum. IVfeanwhile, Communist party chief Gustav Husak whitewashed the Soviet invasion of of Czechoslovakia and repudiated the the country's historic week of popular resistance to it one year ago. Husak said the Czechoslovak people were unprepared A and shocked by the entry of Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops last Aug.

20-21 because they "had been operated on by right-wing propaganda" and because then-party chief Alexander Dubcek and his associates had withheld information on their dealings with Moscow. Addressing party workers in Prague, Dubcek's successor said the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria "decided with a heavy heart to take the step they loon because of fear for developments in Czechoslovakia, fear for Uie Socialist camp and because they had lost confidence in the Czechoslovak leadership and saw no other way out." In his 90-minute speech, Husak referred to the invasion as "the entry of armies" and to the Dubcek regime merely as the former leadership, without giving names. He said the public wrongly "interpreted as an occupation" the presence of uninvited foreign troops. was the strongest of numerous statements post-Dubcek leaders have made justifying the invasion. The general belief was that hy going so far on the eve of the invasion anniversary, Husak was attempting to shut out rivals among pro-Soviet extremists in the Czechoslovak party.

from the Chena ami sa The accident occured early today as men of the 559th Engineer Co. (combat) of the 171st Brigade ivcre attempting a combat river crossing as a part of platoon operational readiness testing. Witnesses said Sgt. Clement, now missing, saw the raft was in trouble and dived into the river. Capt.

David R. Kaiser, commanding officer of the 559tli, also jumped into the river to give assistance. Pfc. Mann, a military policeman, finally was able to drag the raft ashore. S.Sgt.

Charles B. Hickman and Pvt. Evan A. Mangold, both of whom were aboard the raft, were taken to Bassett Army Hospital for treatment. Hickman was released but Mangold remained for observation.

His condition was described as good. Six riverboats and a helicopter aresearching the river from where' the accident occurred near the Ft. Wainwright golf course to the University Ave. bridge. Military police also are stationed on all bridges in the area.

Apparently the three-man raft got about half way across the river when it tipped over, dumping the men into the river. Sgt. Clement then dived into the water with Capl. Kaiser going in about a minute later. Clement apparently swam out to the man who drowned and got him on the botlom of the over-lurncd raft, but eye-witnesses said the man was in "bad shape" and rolled off intolhcwateranddrowncd.

Plans to Attend For Rededication Special activities for the six members of Carl Ben Eielson's family have been planned while they are in the Interior for the Salurday rudedication ceremony for the Eielson memorial at Eielson AFB. The six include two of Eielson's brothers, two sisters, a niece and a ricphew. They are Oliver Eielson. Arthur Eielson, Mrs. Alma Eielson Osking, Mrs.

Raymond Barnard, Mrs. Eileen Mork, and Elmer O. Osking, The visitors will be hosted at lunch Friday by the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce. They will be given a touroflhe University during the afternoon, and they will be guests al the Pioneers Home in Fairbanks that evening. The visitors will remain in the Interior until Aug.

26, The Eielsoir memorial at the entrance lo Eielson AFB was destroyed. Carl Ben Eielson was killed in Siberia on Nov. 9, 1929 ashe and his mechanic Earl Borland were returning to a crippled fur ship caught in the arctic ice off Siberia. Eielson was the first to fly from Alaska over Ihe North Pole lo Europe. Saturday's ceremony isopento Ihe public.

begins at 2 p.m. and will be followed al 4 p.m. Salurday with a flying demonstration'by Ihe Air Force's Thundcrbirds precision flying team. in the Gaza Strip for a month. The search was parl of the largest security operation the Israelis have conducted in the area since they captured it from Egypt in the 1967 war.

Shortly before dawn, a curfew was imposed as dozens of troops encircled the camp and others began a house-to-house search. A helicopter hovered overhead, carrying an Israeli who used a bullhorn to give orders in Arabic for all males over the age of 15 to go to the school quadrangle. About 2,000 men were checked. Ten suspects were arrested. Sources in Beirut said today that Lebanon has given conditional approval lo U.N.

Secretary-General Thant's proposal to station U.N. observers along the Israeli-Lebanese frontier. Thant sent letters to the two governments Saturday suggesting that the observers could serve as an effective means of preventing incidents along the cease-fire line. A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Monday his government had "absolutely no comment yet on the proposal," and Radio Israel carried a report lhat the Lebanese had rejected Thant's suggestion. The government of Iraq announced that 12 Iraqis will go on trial in Baghdad on charges of spying for Israel.

They include nine a Moslem and two Jews. Among the 12 are a stewardess for Iraqi Airways, a woman shopowner, a retired army officer and two airline stewards, it was announced. three cabinet officers here don't impress me none. Ill take Ihe kind of Secretary you can sit on yourkneeanytime.".