The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 20

A 20 Tin: i.ouisulu:, ky Tll'SDAV MOUM MAY GI Photo Essay Wins Republicans Call for Fortas To Quit Court 1 III 4 ff III Staff Photo by Larry Spitzer AS EXPLOSIONS HIT, firemen prepare to abandon a pumper on Kentucky Street. They were driven back briefly, but soon returned to continue dousing the plummeting flames. Numerous blasts occurred during last night's blaze, shaking both the ground and the nerves of those nearby. Fire Razes Chemical Plant Continued From Page One raindrops, glistened on the polished hoarse and on the Hind-nian was dark and silent. In the distance down the town's main street the ml sign on the Square Deal Motor Co.

flashed on and off "Uy Thursday morning there wore few-people who did not know that Little Duck was home or almost home. "They stood over the glass-shielded body and let their tears fall upon the glass and people spoke softly in the filling station next door and on the street outside. "As the coffin was lifted upon the (Gibsons') front porch and through the door into the front living room, the silence was broken by cries of grief, I'he sounds of anguish swelled and rolled alone the hollo w. Little Duck was home." Is Author of 'Stinking Creek" But Fetterman brushed aside praise for work such as this yesterday. "Everything fell into place," he said.

"These were good, wholesome mountain people. I told them what I wanted to do and they agreed, letting me move in like I was one of them. And there was a lot of luck in what I did, since all of the elements of a good story were there." Fetterman, a puckish-looking 49-year- Sugar Substitute Called Hazard; U.S. Ban Urged WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Gaylord Nelson, urged the federal government yesterday to ban except on prescription the sale of products sweetened with cyclamate, a sugar substitute.

"Tens of millions of children and adults across the nation are unwittingly being exposed to potentially serious health hazards by the unnecessary consumption of cyclamate-sweetened soft drinks, cereals, desserts and 'sugar'-coated pills," Nelson declared. He said there is scientific evidence that cyclamates can cause a variety of ailments, including high blood pressure, liver disease and skin irritation. Nelson said proposed Food and Drug Administration guidelines would limit daily consumption to 1,150 milligrams for a 50-pound child. He said the content in some soft drinks is so high that a child would exceed that limit by drinking a single bottle. Nelson said proposed FDA regulations require that the amount of cyclamates in milligrams be printed on product labels, along with a statement that adults should not consume more than 3,500 milligrams a day and children not more than 1,200 milligrams.

He said bottled soft drinks can contain between 380 and 1,440 milligrams. 3Iulaysian Reds Accused Of Threatening Elections KUALA LUMPUR (AP) Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman charged yesterday that Communists are "trying to wreck the country's general elections Saturday by resorting to violence." Rahman told a news conference on the island of Penang that the Reds are striving also to destroy democracy in Malaysia. He was referring to the fatal police shooting Sunday of a Labor Party worker who attacked three officers when caught painting anti-election slogans, and an earlier incident in which Labor Party workers beat a detective to death. the gift Continued From Page One But in conversations after yesterday's session, several members expressed incredulity at his apparent insensitivity over his outside sources of income. Sunday, he confirmed Life magazine's charges that he received and later returneda fee from the Wolfson family foundation.

He said he planned to advise them on civil rights and religious projects. Last summer it was disclosed that he accepted a $15,000 fee, raised from wealthy businessmen, for teaching a law seminar at American University here. Yesterday Sen. Jack Miller, R-Iowa, who had opposed Fortas' nomination last summer, called for his resignation in the wake of the latest disclosure. Sen.

Strom Thurmond, repeated his suggestion from last summer that Fortas should consider "if the faith of the people in the integrity of the Supreme Court would be better served by his resignation." Douglas Speaking in Brazil Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iovva, said Fortas should be impeached if he does not resign. No other official publicly supported this view, and some of the justices' antagonists from last year were more muted in their comments.

Sen. Robert P. Griffin, the Michigan Republican who spearheaded the anti-Fortas drive last year, issued a short statement expressing his concern over the "appearance of impropriety." He added that the Life article "raises most serious questions which need to be resolved." The Los Angeles Times yesterday called for the resignation of Fortas because his action "has irreparably harmed his usefulness on the high court." The Washington Post said Fortas' explanation of his relations with the Wolfson family foundation "is not good enough." Meanwhile, Justice William 0. Douglas missed yesterday's session of the Supreme Court because he is making a paid speech in Brazil. Douglas' wife, Cathy, is with him on the trip.

They left Friday and will return a week from today, his office said. The expenses, travel and hotel are being paid for by a Brazilian education group, Faculdade Candido Mendes, the Brazilian Embassys press officer said. Nigerians Braced For Counterattack By Biafran Troops LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) Nigerian troops have braced for a Biafran counterattack 3 '2 miles south of the former secessionist headquarters of Umuahia, a high command spokesman said yesterday. Federal troops claimed they seized Umuahia April 23. but Gen.

C. Odu-megwu Ojukwu, Biafran commander, labeled the claim "a mischevous lie." The Biafrans have admitted moving their administrative headquarters out of Umuahia, however. Ojukwu claimed that the battle for Umuahia was still raging and that the secessionists now threatened Aba, a major commercial town the federals seized last September in what was to have been their "final push" against the Biafrans. The Nigerians refused to comment on Ojukwu's claim about Aba. The International Red Cross committee in Geneva said, meanwhile, that the food and health situation in Biafra had improved.

Prof. Jacques Freymond, vice president of the committee, said record lifts by Red Cross planes in recent weeks had raised the flow of food supplies above the original targets. Neurosurgeon Wins Big Award for Drug Los Angeles Times-Washington Post Service BOSTON Dr. Tracy Jackson Putnam, senior consultant in neurosurgery at Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, has won a $75,000 award for his discovery of an anti-epilepsy drug. It is the biggest individual award ever made for accomplishments in modi- cal research.

The money comes from the Dreyfus Medical Fondation, and will be presented to Dr. Putnam in Boston May 14. The award is for the discovery of diphenylhdantoin, known under its trade name of dilantin, for the treatment of epilepsy. Dr. Putnam and a colleague, Dr.

Houston Merritt, reported discovery of the drug in 1938. Since then it has become the most widely used of all anti-epilepsy drugs. Diabetes Group to Meet Dr. Robert French of the University of Kentucky and Dr. Neal Sanders of Children's Hospital in Louisville will talk to members of the Jefferson County Lay Diabetes Society at 7:30 a.m.

Thursday at Norton Memorial Infirmary's assembly hall. The society also will hold its annual election of officers. rman old, is a native iif Danville, Ky. lie lias boon with the Louisville newspapers for 12 years, first as a reporter on The. Louisville Times and then as a reporter-photographer for The Courier Journal Times Mayahie, spending about six years with each.

lie also is the author of a hook, "Slinking Creek," a text and photographic study of an Appalachian community. Felterman, who was graduated from Murray Stale University and did graduate work at the University of Kentucky, is married to the former Kvelyn Manor of Decatur, Ala. They have two daughters and one grandchild and Inc at 4125 Greenhi'iar Road. Yesterday's Pulitzer Prizes were not. officially announced in Now York Mo afternoon, hut word of IVtlonnaii's award reached Louisville hours earlier.

"People kept congratulating me, Iml they wouldn't say what for heeaii.se official word hadn't come in," said Fetter-man. "They just smiled and acted a little mysterious. Finally 1 got someone to tell nie they thought 1 hail won a Pulitzer Prize." The trustees of Columbia University made the final choices for the prizes on recommendations by an advisory committee. They were announced by Ailing President Andrew VV. Cordior of Columbia.

Paper, Writers Have Won 1 The prizes, each of which carries a cash award of $1,000, have been awarded annually since 1917. They were established in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Tost-Dispatch and publisher of the New York World, who died in 1911. The Courier-Journal or a staff member has won a total of four Pulitzers since the prizes were established. Besides the two recent ones, the newspaper was awarded a Pulitzer for an editorial on World War I in 1918.

In 192(i, reporter William I). Miller was honored for his work in Floyd Collins' entrapment in Sand Cave, Ky. In addition, Robert York received the award in 1956 for a cartoon in the Sept. 16, 1955, edition of the Louisville Times captioned "Achilles." It depicted the bulging figure of American prosperity tapering to a narrow heel labeled "Farm Prices." As for Fetterman, readers in this area may rest assured that he doesn't intend to rest on a laurels, which include a Na tional Hcadliner Club Award for photojournalismalso for the "1'1'c. Gibson" story.

"Ten years from now," lie said, "I don't want people to say, 'There's John Fetterman. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1909, but what has he done Kentucky Joins Suit Against Price Fixers; Asks lor Damages The State of Kentucky has joined other states in a suit against the 15 plumbing-fixture firms found guilty of illegal price fixing and against the Plumbing Fixture Manufacturers Association, a trade organization, Assistant Atty. Gen. David Mur-rell said yesterday. Kentucky is seeking damages of about $100,000, he said, for fixtures purchased for about 100 slate building projects, including construction at universities and parks.

The suit in which Kentucky is a participant was filed Nov. 11 in Eastern U. S. District Court, in Pittsburgh. Louisville City Atty.

Eugene II. Alvoy said his office had no plans for bringing legal action. He said that any action taken by the city would be in conjunction with action taken by other cities. He added, however, that as far as he knew the city had not recently purchased any plumbing fixtures from any of the firms. for a careerist mom! matlhews.

Bycks 'J etU vis, adding that at midnight, "all we are is worried." Also within a block of the burning area were the Carloading Company, 1401 Kentucky, and the Lumber Supply Company, 1406 Kentucky. On Kith, between Kentucky and Zanc, firemen fought to keep the blaze from spreading to the Kentucky Porter Product Finishes Paint plant; Superior Paper, and Distillers Grain, Inc. Before the night was over, 24 regular fire companies and two volunteer units were on the scene, according to Major W. J. Vollmer.

Some 125 were at the site, with an entire off-duty shift of 100 men called to duty, Vollmer said. Four more volunteer Hlast Damage Tul al $125,000 CINCINNATI (AP) Damage was estimated at $125,000 yesterday in an explosion that blew the top of a vinyl acetate storage tank at the Tresler Oil Co. terminal plant. Officials said a valve apparently malfunctioned which brought about a vapor buildup and led to the explosion. units Dixie Suburban, Buechcl, McMa-hon and Fairdale were on standby duty at engine houses in the city.

While police and firemen concentrated their attention on controlling ths blaze and curious crowds, thieves took advantage of the disaster to loot several stores. Police said burglars broke into an food store at Dixie and Hale at 10:53 p.m. Pieports from the area said that merchandise was being carried from the store. At 11:13 p.m., a large group of thieves was seen breaking into a pawn shop at 18th and Broadway, and police were sent to the scene. Another pawn shop, Gabe's, at Preston and College Streets, also reported a break-in after midnight.

At 11:30 p.m., police reported that three men were running west on Broadway at 19th Street with their arms full of merchandise. At the some time, a break-in was reported at the Cleaners, in the 1900 block of West Broadway. A liquor store at Hancock and Chestnut streets reportedly was broken into at 12:40 a.m. Some stone-throwing incidents were reported, but details were unknown. There were no further reports of damage or injury.

Continued From Page One pouring from the company south towards Kentucky. But the two units held their ground, pouring a flood of water at the onrushing blaze until it was stopped. At one point, the firemen were driven from the pumping units by the heat. It was believed that no Bronoco workmen were at the yard when the fire broke out. A company spokesman in Ashland said the firm normally employed only 12 to 15 men.

He said all should have been off duty during night hours, and no watchman was normally on the premises. Dodson said the firemen were concentrating their efforts on preventing the fire from spreading to adjoining areas, especially several nearby industrial firms. One of them, the Porter Paint Co. on the northwest corner of 15th and Kentucky and directly across from Bronoco, contained tens of thousands of gallons of stored solvent, according to James II. Davis, Porter president.

"They'd go like a gas tank," said Da U.S. SciKtlc Brings Contempt Action Against McSurclys WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate yesterday cited a Kentucky, couple for contempt in connection with an investigation of riots. Alan and Margaret McSurely, both 32, had refused to produce books and records for the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee. The subcommittee had said the records sought would have helped in pinning clown causes of rioting in Nashville, in April 1967. The McSurely couple, allegedly attended, the night before Ihe riots began, a meeting addressed by Stokely Car-michael.

The Justice Department will now be notified of the contempt action and it will have responsibility for prosecution. Freight'Cur Derailment Stalls Traffic on Oak Two Louisville Nashville Railroad freight cars were derailed at a Ninth and Oak overpass yesterday and jarred loose a piece of wood that smashed the windshield of a passing truck. No injuries were reported. The accident caused traffic in the east-bound lanes of Oak to be halted about two hours. Normal traffic was restored at 11:45 a.m.

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There are so many of them now that have been apprehended in these disorders, and now a lot of the younger ones have been joining them. Looks like a good deal to them, I suppose." Haendiges said' that the tactics of juvenile gangs also have changed, i "We've always had incidents wher they might pick on a lone couple, but now they go from one place to another, he said. may 0 down a whole block or two blocks or over a whole neighborhood." The captain said tint police also run into "more (defiance now than there was previously." Once a youthful gang starts building in Haendiges said, "it gets as big as it can possibly get until they're disbanded by the police." And in the meantime, "the larger the numbers, Ihe braver the nucleus." LEXINGTON RD. 68-262 1 OR 89715 1 332 S. FOURTH OR 373P.