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The Holland Evening Sentinel SUBURBAN DELIVERY WEEK DAY EVENINGS Zeeland, Saugaluck, Douglas, Wist Olive, Hudsonville, Himiton, East SaugOuck, Montello Park, Central Park, Virginia Park, Perk. Mauatawa Park, North Shore Drive and District No. 2 SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR NO. 5 HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, 49423 FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1970 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS FREEWAY ACCELERATED--State Highway Director Wenrik E. Stafseth (center) points out the route I-196 will take through Ottawa county.

With him are State Rep. Melvin De Stigter (left) and Sen. Gary Byker, both of Hudsonville. Construction of the final 24-mile stretch between Grandville and Holland will start next summer, accelerating the schedule by IVi years. The freeway will run from Grand Rapids to Benton Harbor.

(State Highway Department photo) Local 1-196 Link To Start in 1971 State, Rep. Melvin DeStigter and State Sen. Gary Byker announced jointly today that 1-196 construction between Holland and Grandville will begin next summer. The Hudsonville Republican legislators said this marked a speed-up of a year and a half in the construction schedule, Byker and DeStigter said the Highway Department had informed them that the 24-mile stretch of freeway will be finished in late 1973 -or early '74. Completion oi the Holland- Grandville section will finalize work on the major road.

The Senate Votes To Repeal Resolution WASHINGTON (UPI) --For the second time in less than a month, the Senate voted Friday to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, used by the Johnson administration as the legal basis for expanding the Vietnam War. Nearly six years after Congress enthusiastically approved it in 1964, the Senate adopted a concurrent resolution killing the resolution. The vote was 57 to 5. On June 24, the Senate added a repealer as an amendment to the controversial Foreign Military Sales Act which is now in conference between Senate and House negotiators. The vote at that time was 81 to 10.

The concurrent resolution, unlike the military sales bill, does not i President Nixon's signature to take effect. The Tonkin resolution authorized the executive branch to "take all necessary steps, including the use of armed forces" to repel Communist aggression in Southeast Asia. The Senate action came a day after the House in seven minutes all but undid an antiwar measure the Senate had taken seven weeks to approve. Five Found Guilty ATHENS (UPI)--A special military tribunal today found five more persons guilty of antigoverument crimes and sentenced three of them to jail and two others to exile, Weather Fair to partly cloudy tonight, low 57-62. Saturday fair a warmer, high 82-87.

The sun sets tonight at 8:23 p.m. and i tomorrow at 5:19 a.m. The temperature at 11 a.m. today wes 71. Temperature at Holland State Park: air 65, water 61.

For the 24 hours ending 5 p.m. yesterday the instruments recorded the following: Local Report Maximum, 74. Minimum, 57. Precipitation, ,11, One Year Ago Yesterday Maximum, 81. Minimum, 62.

Precipitation, none. VISIT THE NEW Candy Corner Featuring Homemade Fudge At Yum Yum Shop Adv. 1-196 freeway will then be open from 1-94 near Benton Harbor to its junction with US-131 and 1-96 at Grand Rapids. Construction cost of the new Ottawa County freeway is estimated at $23.7 million. "Both Rep.

DeStigter and I have had voluminous correspondence and numerous discussions with highway department officials on this matter," Byker said. "I believe these contacts have been successful in convincing them the priority nature of this program, and I'm gratified by their decision to accelerate it." "I think it's also important to note the effect the interest shown and action taken by Ottawa County residents has had on this decision," DeStigter said. "I believe the many letters, phone calls and personal conversations our citizens have had with the Highway Department had a very significant impact." Byker added that he and De Stigter have also been working toward an agreement with the department for bringing highway M-21 up to higher standards. He said that negotiations on this project are continuing. Lawyer Kidnaped In Colombian City A NI A Colombia (UPI)--A lawyer who has served as Colombia's ambassador to France, Brazil and the United Nations--Fernando Londono---was kidnaped Thursday by a group of men, his family said.

An unofficial source said a member of Londo's family later received a telephone call demanding $200,000 ransom for his release. Londono was driving from Manizales to his ranch when he was seized. In addition to his ambassadorial posts, Londo has held ministerial positions in the national government and has served in Congress. He is a prominent member of Colombia's Conservative party. Motorist Killed WHITMORE LAKE (UPI) Terry Paul Thompson, Arbor, was killed early today when his car crashed into a tree at the intersection of Joy and Whitmore Lake roads.

Police said the road was wet and Thompson's vehicle skidded. Woman, 70, Drowns At Kollen Park The body of a woman identified as Mrs. Georgia Harris, 70, was recovered from Lake Macatawa this morning about 250 yards west of where articles of clothing were found on a fence at the water's edge by a parking lot at the exit of Kollen Park. Holland police said identification was made by a son-in-law of the woman. Medical examiner Dr.

Warren Westrate ruled death by drowning Police said Mrs. Harris was last seen about 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the downtown area. Officers said the woman recently moved from an apartment and was living with her daughters and other relatives in the Holland area. Police could not determine when the woman entered the water in what they said was an apparent attempt to take her own life.

Holland police, Ottawa county sheriff's' water patrol and the Coast Guard launched dragging operations of Lake Macatawa near Kollen Park after a sweater, a pair of shoes, eye glasses and a watch were found on the fence shortly before 8 a.m. and reported by Park Jacob De Graaf who was making a routine inspection of the park. Police said they found a note in the clothing on the fence which bore the name of Mrs. Harris and an address in Holland. A belt and a comb were found on a shorline retaining wall on the water side of the 4-foot high chain link fence where the clothing was found.

An employe of the H. J. Heinz Co. found the body floating in about five feet of water in a lagoon at the extreme western end. of the enlarged park area.

The body was recovered at 10:30 a.m. by Holland officers in a small boat. The body was taken to the Dykstra Funeral Home. Arrangements were incomplete. Ambassador Seeks Funds For Earthquake Victims WASHINGTON (UPI) The Peru Earthquake Voluntary Assistance Group, after a meeting at the White House, has issued an urgent appeal for cash donations to house homeless Peruvian earthquake victims.

Taylor G. Belcher, U.S. ambassador to Peru, told the group Thursday 800,000 victims must be housed before the heavy rains come this fall. Massive Police Search Held for Abducted Girl Helicopter Wreckage Is Spotted Gen. Casey's Craft On Jungle Hillside; No Bodies Seen by It SAIGON troops struggled in torrential rains today to reach the wreckage of the downed helicopter of Maj.

Gen. George W. Casey on a hill near the Cambodian border. The U.S. Command said combat had dropped to its lowest level since American troops left Cambodia 11 days ago.

Cambodian government sources in Phnom Penh reported Thai troops had entered Carn- bodia to help protect a tiny border hilltop enclave around the ancient temple of Preah Vihear, 190 miles north of Phnom Penh. It was the first lime Thai fighting men had come into Cambodia since the Lon Nol government asked help from Bangkok to fight the Communists. There were these other developments: --Only one major ground engagement was reported in Vietnam. Four Americans died 300 miles east of Saigon when Communist troops ambushed them with a mine and small arms fire. Guerrilla casualtie were unknown.

--American B52 bombers flew eight missions overnight in South Vietnam and an undisclosed number in Cambodia anc Laos, U.S. spokesmen said. Al the raids in Vietnam were ir the vicinity of the abandonee U.S. Marine base of "Khe Sanh Communist guerrillas Thursday night mortared the road junction town of Souvanna Khili in Southern Laos astride a highway to the Laotian sourn ern military headquarters ai Pakse. They missed a govern ment barracks and hit civilian houses instead, killing 10 anc wounding seven.

Four of the dead were children. --Military sources in Saigon said today the United States was paying most of the one to two million dollars of estimated costs for South Vietnam to train 10,000 Cambodian troops. The International Red Cross prepared to return 62 disabled North Vietnamese war prisoners and 24 detained fishermen to North Vietnam Saturday at the Demilitarized Zone. Cambodian spokesmen quoted Premier Lon Nol as saying about half the estimated 72,000 Communist troops in his country had returned to Vietnam. The spokesmen said it appeared those who stayed behind had retired to isola'ted areas to refit and reorganize during the monsoon season.

Air observers who spotted the wreckage of Casey's helicopter in rainy twilight Thursday on the jungled hillside saw no bodies near it, raising a possibility the general and his men survived and escaped into the woods. 'ABDUCTION SITE Three young boys watch as Lansing police try to get a description of the man who kidnaped 16-year-old Laurie Murningham Thursday from this gift shop on Lansing's west side, where she was working at the time. Laurie is the daughter of former Mayor Max E. Murningham. Police said the girl, abducted by a lone Negro male wearing dark trousers and a straw hat, was wearing a white blouse, blue skirt, red belt and brown sandals.

(UP! telephoto) Nab Victim In Holdup In Lansing Offer $5,000 Reward For Return of Former Mayor's Daughter LANSING (UPI) The former mayor of Lansing today broadcast a plea for the safe return of his 16-year-old daughter who was kidnaped Thursday during a robbery. But police reported no fresh clues in their search for Laurie Murninghan, daughter of Max E. Murninghan. The girl was abducted from an antique shop where she worked. Witnesses described the kidnaper as a lanky Negro, about 25 years old, who wore dark trousers and a straw hat.

An anonymous $5,000 reward with no strings attached was offered late Thursday for the safe return of Laurie Murning- Storm of Accusations Trailing Census Count WASHINGTON (UPI) --The Census Bureau counts the population of the United States once every 10 years and then prepares itself for angry shrieks. It is hearing them now. From Mississippi to Michigan, from Philadelphia to Gallup, N.M., the methods and most especially the results of the 1970 U.S. census are'coming under fire. Congressmen are denouncing the census on the House floor.

Newspapers and radio stations are conducting their own campaigns to find any noses that went uncounted April 1. Mayors and Chamber of Commerce officials are demanding complete recounts. In one place, a group is suing the Census Bureau to stop count. Some of the complaints are valid and some are sheer outraged local boosterism. In Suitland, outside Washington, Census Bureau officials are trying to sort out the complaints and make corrections where errors are found.

"The figures we have put out are preliminary, really preliminary," a bureau spokesman said. He said a number of errors already had been run down, both on the basis of outside complaints and internal checking, and no objection to the bureau's findings would be dismissed out of hand. But the Census Bureau has its sticking point, and it occurs at the drop of a suggestion that it has made a total botch of the should do it all over again. The spokesman said that while local complaints of errors are cheerfully checked out, there is no provision for complete recounts of a city or county "because it never has seen found necessary." He said the mistakes thai have been found "generally speaking, produced insignifican changes," and there is not the slightest loss of confidence in Suitland about the validity the methods used in counting this year. But there is in some places out in the country.

In a United Press International check of state and local officials after Rep. Bill D. Burlison, called for a "missed persons campaign," a strong distrust of the bureau's "mail-back" system emerged. The bureau spokesman said J87 per cent of the census forms sent to homes were mailed back and that census takers went to (or are on the way) to every one that failed to respond. In some cases, he (Continued on page 6.) Israelis Claim 3 MIGs Downed By United Press International Israel said its pilots shot Soviet Union and Egypt had set up an array of SAM3 and SAM2 down three Egyptian MIG21s in missile sites barely 15 miles a "quick and short" dogfight I from the Suez Canal and that over the Suez Canal today and then continued with their 51st consecutive day against Egyptian Russians were manning the SAM3 missiles against Israel.

of attacks! Israel also has charged that! canal positions. Egypt said its planes hit two of the Israeli aircraft. A Cairo announcement said a total of 24 Israeli and Egyptian planes were involved in the air battle in the Qantara region over the northern sector of the Russian pilots were flying in the canal area and possibly over Israeli territory but today's announcements made no mention of Russians. From Cairo, a top Egyptian official said his nation's new antiaircraft system along the asserts waterway, that two cana sra el asserts it planes were hit and that all Soviet-operated and has been Egyptian planes returned safe- raiding it daily--will determine 'y- ithe outcome of the Middle East Cairo said earlier 56 Israeli conflict, aircraft raided Egyptian positions in the canal area, an unusually heavy raid. Today's was the first dogfight since Israel reported that the GALIEN REALTY DOES IT With Homes For Living The Wav to Sell Real Estate Adv.

AT THE TOP Being birdbrain is fun, especially when the bird happens to be your friend. Bonnie Poyer, 11, of Bloomington, found "Chirp" the robin two and a.half weeks ago, a refuges from the nest. Bonnie fed the bird worms and he got stronger and began to fly. Evidently "Chirp" likes it up on Bonnie's head, because that is his official perch these days. Who says there's no room at the top? (UPI telephoio) Name Man In Beating And Robbery ALLEGAN (UPI) A warrant was issued Thursday for the arrest of a "Stan Christiansen," (proper spelling unknown) in connection with the beating Fred Lemley, 34, of Allegan, who was robbed of his $15,000 silver dollar coin collection in the basement of a local bank' Wednesday.

Lemley had made an appointment with his assailant, I whom he had known for sever-' al years when the former, now a car salesman, was a teller at the bank. Lemley said his attacker made the appointment to meet him at the First National Bank and Trust Co. to possibly pur-1 chase part of his collection and struck him with a blunt instrument after he had withdrawn the coins from a safety deposit box in the bank basement. Allegan County Prosecutor George Greig issued the warrant for unarmed robbery. Officials Warn Of Police Strike WASHINGTON (UPI)--There could be a nationide police strike unless law enforcement officers are included in a law guaranteeing preminum pay for overtime' work, police spokesmen have i told Congress.

Robert B. Kliesmet a Jerome Dudzik of the Professional Policemen's Protective Association testified Thursday before a House labor subcommittee that is considering an increase in the minimum wage and extended coverage of the law requiring IVi pay for overtime. "As become better organized, and gentlemen we are getting stronger and more unified," Dudzik said, "the probability of a nationwide police walkout could be a possibility." Pope, Dutch Cardinal Hold Talks in Vatican British Units In Ireland VATICAN CITY (UPI)-- Pope Paul VI met today with Cardmald Bernard J. Alfrink of the Netherlands in a private (UPl)-The British Army an- audience that was his first "ounced today 15,000 soldiers BELFAST, Northern Ireland Laurie Murningham han, 16, who was kidnapped during an afternoon robbery of the antique shop where she was a clerk. Miss Murninghan, who is white with long blonde hair, was forced to accompany a gunman who held up Gallagher's Gift Shop for $60 after she told him she didn't have change for a S20 bill, police said.

Late Thursday, local broadcasters played a tape recording by Ernie Boone, a prominent local black resident, promising the reward money for her safe return. Boone gave his telephone number and promised communication by code number if someone offered information. "I will deliver the money," "Please call me at personal attempt to iron differences with the liberal' at "Monday Dutch church. Protestant parades. The Pope had not met with a The troops pressed their Dutch churchman since nationwide search for weapons, Dutch clergy voted early a spokesman said, and in two year to make priestly raids south of Belfast found ove that 4,700 rounds of ammunition and would upset 900 years of church, a 22-caliber rifle this morning.

law I He said there will be a tight Alfnnk arrived an Rome security guard on the bor er days ago for talks with the with the Rep ublic of Ireland Pope on the thorny problem of Mondav tho 0 celibacy and experimentation in Order "parades." Helicopter pa- The reward was donated a- I nonymously, police said. There (have been no ransom demands. in a broadcast televised by WJIM-TV Thursday night, issued a plea for infor- the Dutch church. trols will be flown over trouble spots. All 11,000 British troops stationed in Northern Ireland Proclaims U.N.

Day WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon today proclaimed i will be mobilized in addition to Oct. 24, the 25th anniversary 4,000 policemen. About 6,000 to the ratification of the U.N. 7,000 troops will be on duty in Charter, as United Nations Day. Belfast alone.

Plane Overturns Injuring Pilot A pilot believed to be from Hampton, N.H., was injured around 1 p.m. today when the single-engine pontoon plane he was flying overturned on Lake Michigan shoreline at Macatawa Park about 250 yards south of the south breakwall of Holland channel. Witnesses, residents in the area, removed him from the cockpit and administered first aid. He was taken to Holland Hospital for treatment of head lacerations. No ore on the beach was injured; perhaps cool weather keeping them from the beach area.

The plane was registered to a Lloyd F. Lindberg of Cook, BLUEBERRY PICKER CAROS Old News Printery 74 W. 8th Adv Minn. Ottawa countv sheriff's officers and Holland Coast Guardsmen at the scene they were unable to find any flisht plans. It was not known whore he took off from nor where he was going.

Witnesses said the pilot apparently attempted to land on the water about 100 yards from shore and the plane bounced two or three times before hitting the shoreline and Hipping over from front to back, landing on its top. Depulies speculated the pilot may have attempted to pull up before hitting the shoreline. The pilot was alone in tho plane. His lunch was in the cockpit. Deputies said he was corning into shore in an easterly direction.

He was flying a Luscombe Model 8E two-seater. abouts of his daughter and advised the abductor that "Mrs. Gallagher is not seriously injured. Therefore, do not harm an innocent girl and cause yourself greater 1 According to police, the man entered the shop on this State Capitol city's west side about 2 p.m. and picked up several items to buy.

When Miss Murn- inghan said she could not cash his $20 bill, he pulled a gun and ordered her and store owner Mrs. Christine E. Gallagher to lie on the floor. Police said he then apparently changed his mind and hit Mrs. Gallagher with a pistol and shoved her into another room.

Then he scooped about $60 out of the cash drawer and forced Miss Murmmghan to leave with him. Police were searching for a late-model white-and-blue car believed to be in the vicinity at the time. Mrs. Gallagher was treated and released at a local hospital. She was unavailable for comment.

Miss Murninghan was dressed in a white blouse, blue skirt, red belt and brown sandals. Her father, now in the real estate business, served as mayor from 1965 to 1969. Premier Dies in Fire 1 REYKJAVIK. Iceland --Premier Bjarnc Benedik- tsson, 62, his wife and their 2- year-old grandson were killed Thursday night in a fire that destroyed the premier's summer home. NORM VANDER Power-Hand Tools Expert At Van Wieren Hardware Adv.

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