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The Evening Sentinel LIVERY WEEK DAY EVENINGS SUBURBAN DELIVERY WEEK DAY EVENINGS Zetland, Saugaluclc, West Olive, Hudsonville, Fennville, Hamiton, East Saugatuck, Montello Park, Central Park, Virginia Park, Jenisen Park. Macatawa Park, North Shore Drive and District No. 2 SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR'-- NO. 9 HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, 49423 WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1970 TWENTY PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS HANDSHAKE BEGINS TALKS--General Motors Vice President Earl Bramblett (left) and United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock shake hands over the bargaining table today in Detroit as the company and union opened contract talks. Wood presented GM with a list of demands that would cost the Big Three auto builders more $3 billion over three years.

(UP! telephoto) UA Gives GM Pact Demands Detroit (UPI)--The United Auto Workers formally opened the 1970 auto contract negotiations today by presenting General -Motors Corp. with a list of demands that would cost the Big three auto builders more than $3 billion over three years. GM, which employs 395,000 of the 700,000 hourly paid auto workers in the United was asked to pay more than half the tab in wages and fringe benefits to a payroll which totaled $4.243 billion in 1969. UAW President a Woodcock, accompanied by his team of negotiators, presented the demands of the nation's second largest union to the GM bargaining team, headed by Vice President Earl Bramblett. The two shook hands in GM's llth floor bargaining room, and Bramblett said he hoped both sides' "can "get" down" to business right away work out a sound agreement that will be fair to everyone." Woodcock's shopping list, totaling nearly $1 billion in wage and fringe benefits during the first year, includes a substantial pay hike, restoration of the old formula in figuring cost of living increases on a quarterly basis and a $500-a-month pension for all workers with 30 years of service regardless of age- On Thursday, Woodcock is scheduled to present the same demands to Ford Motor then take the list to Chrysler Corp.

on Friday. i before meeting Woodcock, Bramblett told reporters "the auto industry is at a critical point in history-" Auto sales in the United Slates this year are expected to dip below the nine million mark, including imports. GM, the world's largest manufacturing organization, expects to submit a counterproposal to the UAW demands sometime next week after getting an "overview of the total demand of the union," Bramblett said. This would be the earliest in recent auto negotiations that the company had come up with a counterproposal. In the negotiations, Bramblett said, "we would have to consider the past, the present and the future." "Asked if this would be a good time for the industry to go through a strike in view of the declining sales, Bramblett replied, "I don't think there is a good time for a strike, either Weather Becoming fair and less humid with showers ending tonight, low 58-68.

Thursday mostly fair and not as warm, high 76-84. The sun sets tonight at 8:20 p.m and rises tomorrow at 5:23 a.m. The temperature at 11 a.m. today was 73. Temperature at Holland State Park: air 71, water 67, The red flag is flying.

Overnight rain, .22 inch. For the 24 hours ending a yesterday the instruments recorded the following: Local Report Maximum, 86. Minimum, 69. Precipitation, .05. One Year Ago Yesterday Maximum, 88.

Minimum, 63. Precipitation, none. 'or us or the union. Everybody Today's session, Bramblett said, would partly be devoted to setting up dates for future negotiations and a schedule to discuss the issues. "It is time for both parties to accept the fact that we have a far greater community of interest than of i Bramblett said.

"We must achieve greater cooperation in meeting the challenges and demands which face our country today." Foreign auto builders, Bramblett said, "with labor costs only one-quarter to one-half of ours, are making important inroads in U.S. markets and U.S. jobs." SCRATCH PADS 3 Lbs for 75c Old News Printery 74 W. 8th Adv. Plan to Speed Up Defense Program Given President WASHINGTON (UPI) --President Nixon received a far- reaching report today from a special panel recommendations for streamlining tne Defense a a achieving substantial savings in years to come.

The report described as "a fundamental reappraisal'' of the Pentagon's operations was written by a study commission headed by Gilbert W. Fitzhugh, chairman of the board and chief executive of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Fitzhugh told Nixon the group's recommendations would have little impact on the current budget but if implemented soon could achieve savings in subsequent years. He noted that many of the recommendations could bo instituted by presidential order while others would require approval by Congress. Nixon, in receiving the report, promised to read it this weekend.

-He immediately instructed Defense Secretary Mclvin R. Laird, who was present when the report wns handed to Nixon, to give it "(ho highest priority possible." The President swung bark into his White House duties following a day away from Washington which he described ar "breaking out of the isolation booth." County Calls Sewer Meet On Tuesday GRAND HAVEN William L. Kennedy of Allendale, chair- pi an of the Ottawa County Eoard of Commissioners, today called a meeting Tuesday at p.m. in room 106 of the Ottawa county building for an informal discussion on waste treatment for the Black River and Lake Macatawa basin. Kennedy explained that the county board feels such a meeting is necessary because "Holland city officials were nol present at the July 13 board meeting to explain the present plan ot solid waste water treatment and how it could serve the surrounding area." The invitation is directed to the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners, Zeeland City Council, Holland City Council, Holland.

Township. Board, Zee- 1'and Township Board and Park Township Board. The county board Monday devoted an hour and a quarter to discussing Holland city's proposed sewer treatment improvements. The county board on June 23 had asked federal authorities to withhold temporarily federal grants for Holland's program, pending a report of Bauer Engineering on the spray irrigation method. Holland's program calls for secondary treatment and phosphate removal at the existing treatment plant.

In voting down Holland city's request 11-7 to withdraw its opposition, the board in asking another discussion meeting left the matter of who shall attend to Chairman Kennedv. Leaves Hospital HOLLYWOOD (UPI) --Jimmy Durante said today he was leaving St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica for a month-long vacation in Del Mar, after recovering from an inner ear inflammation. Artist Has Heart Attack VINEYARD HAVEN. Mass.

(UPI) --Famed American artist Thomas Hart Bcnton is recuperating at Martha's Vineyard Hospital after suffering a heart attack at his summer home on this resort island. Benton is 81. Abductor Offered 'Sanctuary 7 Police Ask Citizens' Help in Search For Laurie Murningham LANSING (UPI) A rabbi today appealed to the kidnaper of pretty Laurie Murninghan to release the 16-year old girl unharmed, turn himself in and use churches and synagogs ss a sanctuary. "We will not testify against you. We will not even identify you.

This is a ministerial prerogative," Rabbi Philip Frankc-1 said at a news conference attended by Laurie's father, Max E. Murninghan, former mayor of this Michigan capital. Churches are "sanctuaries of love and compassion," Rabbi Frankel said. He, Murninghan and Father Jerome MacEachin, a Roman Catholic priest, announced at the news conference as the massive search for Laurie entered its seventh day that a Tri Faith Laurie Murninghan Reward Fund had been set up and there was $16,500 in it. "This fund will be made available to the abductor if he turns himself in with my daughter alive," Murninghan said.

No trace has been found of the long-haired blonde girl and her Negro abductor. On Tuesday, Lansing Police Chief Dorold Husby asked local residents to search their property for any sign of Laurie and the man who abducted her at gunpoint last Thursday. "I appeal to all to search their own property, including woods, anywhere somebody could be held against their will," he told a news conference. Husby there was "np point" in spreading the massive search to other areas unless evidence warrants it. Miss Murninghan, daughter of former Lansing Mayor Max E.

Murninghan, has not been seen since she was taken from her summer job at Gallagher's gut shop by a robber who pistol- chipped the owner and took Police have checked 786 tips --55 of them Tuesday--and appealed to citizens to phone in more. "The magic one has not yet been received, or if it has we haven't discovered Husby said. The $6,000 reward offered for her safe return has drawn least two extortion attempts and one was a deliberate hoax by two young men that cost "thousands of dollars" to track down, Husby said. The two men, Ronald R. Schooler, 23, and Michael Brown, 28, both of Haslelt, pleaded guilty in Ovvosso District Court Tuesday to charges of "willingly giving a lalse Each man was sentenced to 30 days in ordered to pay S500 restitution and fined $100'.

"It's unfortunate that we have these kinds of people around-these harassers." he said. Police also asked residents of this State Capitol city to check the homes of neighbors who may be on vacation. Highland Park 'Quiet' HIGHLAND PARK (UPI) -After the first relatively quiet night here since Saturday, Highland Park Mayor Robert Blackwell was expected to decide today, whether to continue an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew for the remainder of the week.

South Viets Clear Communist Camps ONLY MASTS VISIBLE--Nine persons died early Tuesday after the 349-foot iron freighter Eastcliffe Hall san.k in the St. Lawrence Seaway after striking a rock. The ship sank within three minutes in 40 feet of water. The freighter sank on the Canadian side of the seaway about a mile southwest of Massena, N.Y. (UPI telephoto) Longshoremen Strike in Britain Divers Are Hampered In Search LONDON (UPI) --Britain's 47,000 longshoremen a MORRISBURG.

Ont. (UPI) probably within the next 24 j--Divers were hampered by hours, and to use troops for the first time in 44 years. Union leader Jack Jones said, "We are prepared for a long strike." Officials said the new Conservative party government, facing its first major challenge, already had prepared plans to declare a state of emergency cargoes ot perishable foodstuffs. They said it also was prepared to ration some commodities, if the strike drags on for several weeks. The signal for the total ports shutdown for the first time the 1926 general was given by a conference of longshoremen's delegates at the end of a three-hour session.

They voted 48-32 to reject a a i a agreement Strike Hits From Laos To Da Nang Purpose of Sweep Is to Prevent Cong Drive in Autumn SAIGON (UPI) --A strike force of 5,000 South Vietnamese troops with' U.S. air and artillery support has opened a major offensive below the city of Da Nang to clear out Communist bases all the way to the Laotian border, Allied military sources said today. Major fighting also was reported in Cambodia where Cambodian troops and American-trained Cambodian mercenaries were battling for the fifth day to recapture the resort town of Kirirom on the main highway south to the Gulf of Siam. In Laos, the Vientiane government reported the recapture of a Communist hill position at Turtle Shell Ridge, nine miles northwest of occupied Attopeu, in fighting which killed 49 Communists and four government troops who had air support. The government also retook the rice rich town of IMoulapamok, near the Cambo- av.uw longsnoremen a a and to use troops if ra i saualls and mist todav as i 1- I struck all the nation's seaports a to TM STM the Co mm u- attempted to recover five more bodies from the sunken Great Lakes freighter East- cliffe Hall.

The hip, carrying a heavy cargo of pig iron, tore open its bow on the rocky Chrysler Shoal on the wrong side of the St. Lawrence Seaway before dawn Tuesday. It "sank like a rock" with the loss of nine lives. Divers used fire axes today to try to smash open the heavy cabin. But the bad weather and underwater light made the Dayan Raps Russian Involvement By United Press International Israeli planes hit Egypt today for the 55th consecutive day, and Israeli Defense Minister Scottish Transport and General Moshe Dayan said Soviet mili-1 Workers Union and the General additional currents or dislodge tary involvement in Egypt was and Municipal Workers Union, the sunken ship in passing.

Five on "the increase. He also re-j The Transport and General, eastbound freighters were exp "foreign volunteers" Workers union represents aboutlpected to be anchored during reached Monday night between LI LO ld; Ulc longshoremen's leaders and! wooden doors of the ca tam poTeSyers and Four umons were involved. addition to the Transport and I eratlon difficult General Workers Union they were the Watermen, Lighter- men and Tugmens Union, the Nine westbound freighters were forced to tie up at anchorages along the seaway so that they would 'not create were serving with Arab guerril- 85 per cent la forces in Jordan and Leba- longshoremen, non. of Britain's Egypt said 20 Israeli planes 0 qerS Reports Port Tewfik, Suez, Callah and -3 struck military positions at Qantara and that ''our air defense systems engaged the at- no Egyptian casualties or losses, the report said. Israel said its planes hit Egyptian military targets and carried out an hour-long Prospects Dim For Talks on Viet 2S Damages Offices the afternoon.

nists withdrew southward. Allied i military sources said the South Vietnamese drive began July 7 outside An Hoa, 25 miles southwest of Da Nang and 350 miles northeast of Saigon. South Vietnam is barely 60 miles -wide at this point and the object of the drive was to sweep to the Laotian border. The Vietnamese with U.S. Marine and other advisers were flown into the jungle battleground aboard an armada ot U.S.

helicopters. One of the main purposes of the sweep was to prevent a threatened North Vietnamese and Viet Cong drive on Da Nang this autumn. Spokesmen said the South Vietnamese hoped to clean out Communist cache areas and bases in advance of the monsoon rains which hit this region in October. A spokesman said the government troops, some of them The 349-foot freighter was veterans of the drives into carrying 21 persons, including I Cambodia, were setting up the 6-year-old daughter of the' artillery bases as they moved chief engineer and the captain's westward--bases which would teen-age son when it sank before dawn Tuesday after going aground. cretary of State William P.

in L-jLCtdiy UL OLdLC UUdlll i i I Rogers said today the In I a prospects "are not too! BELF AST, Northern Ireland it for fruitful negotiations! (UPI)-A. defend the area against future Communist penetration. The drive began after Communist units infiltrated Da Nang and distributed propaganda leaflets warning of trie impending autumn offensive. Size of the South Vietnamese was estimated at least INFAMOUS TIGER CAGES'--This exclusive photograph of the infamous 'Tiger Cages' at the Con Son Island prison in South Vietnam was released Tuesday by Life magazine. More than 500 political prisoners are said to be confined there -half of them women, one a girl only 15 years old.

Some of the prisoners are shown looking up from pits where they are confined. (Life photo from UPI telephoto) WATERMELONS, 70c EACH Fresh Apricots, $4.39 Red Raspberries, Flat $4.99 Potter's Market 240 E. 8th Adv. WHOLE PORK LOINS, 59c Open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.

thru Fri. Northway Foodlinc Ib. Adv. DE NOOYER CHEVROLET Closed 3 P.M. Wednesday, July 15 Employe Picnic Adv, tacks on Israeli settlements Cambodia.

I neighborhood earfv I several battalions of govern- The spokesman said the buezj Rogers made an unscheduled se rious incident following iment Rangers, the elite of the targets included artillery em-, appearance at a regular mid- on dav's unexpectedly peaceful' South Vietnamese armed for- placements in the northern and "day State Department briefing. ro testant parades. ces. No major enemy contact southern sectors. for reporters, apparently in a 1 bi as came only hours'was reported.

Dayan, answering questions effort to stress the continuing' after Northern Ireland's leaders There has been a rise of in an Israeli parliament session interest by the United States in! pra ised the trouble-free Orange' terrorist activity in the Da in Jerusalem, said Soviet in-1 negotiations and its willingness Order parades and said they i Nang aiea and recently major volment in the Egyptian want 0 accept "any settlement marked "the turning point in'forces of Communists entered machine had increased, rather a ed upon." i the campaign of disorder." 'the Khe Sanh area to the than decreased. He said he sees "a reasonable' An army spokesman said northwest. U.S. B52 air strikes He said not only were Soviet prospect" of a negotiated peace I Tuesday the 3,700 British troops i were reported to have killed advisers with SAM2 and SAMS, acknowledged that the flown to the province as more than 400 of these troops in missiles only 15 miles west of Cambodian operation decreased I reinforcements two weeks ago one phase of the Allied efforts the Suez Canal but that Soviet short-term outlook. "Tie will be withdrawn soon but no to prevent major North Vietna- reductions were planned in the mese and Viet Cong attacks.

basic peace-keeping force. Allegan County Plans For Data Processing ALLEGAN County Commit sior.ers Tuesday voted to purchase a centralized data processing facihtj at an approximate cost of SK5.000. The facility is expected to be in use by to the breakwater, climb onto ious departments in pilots were flying operational 1 prospects for a quick negotiated missions over other parts of the settlement are not too country. He did not report any he said. Israeli-Soviet aerial clashes how-, said Israel had learned; SWPTjf that foreign volunteers "from JL various countries" were serving with Arab guerrilla forces in Jordan and Lebanon, but he did not identify the countries and said Israeli troops had not yet clashed with them.

$250,000 Storm Damage Reported Near Cleveland By United Press International An estimated $250,000 damage was caused by strong winds in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Garfield Heights. Fifteen to 20 families were forced to leave their dwellings Breakwater, Safe it and walk ashore. about six months. Four young people walking along the windswept and wave damnened breakwater of Hoi- Larry Fallin said the four The cost of the facility dampened breakwater ot Hoi wwe about a a QUl on the include tho mach and tram- land Harbor this morning were breakwater when they realized i ing and programming, washed into Lake Michigan but they were being swept into the all managed to swim to safety before help arrived. The Holland Coast Guard dispatched a 30 foot utility boat after the call was received at about 9:40 a.m.

The four were identified as Decline Assessment The Coast Guard estimated i WASHINGTON (UPI) The wind velocity at between 20 and 25 knots. Red flags were flying at Holland State Park and' no White House today declined to endorse an assessment by Secretary of State William P. swimming was allowed because Roge that the operation f'filC 1 i. of heavy seas. after the roof of an apartment Larry Falling, 23, and his The Corps of Engineers has building was carried away by brother, David, 21, both of urged persons not to use the gusts.

Clark Lake, and Colleen Cook, piers or breakwaters for fish- 19, and Geanne Ostveen, 20, ing or recreational purposes Fears Campus Unrest WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said today the outlook is ominous for more unrest on college campuses when the new term begins in September. both of Wyoming, Mich. They managed to swim back "THE CALDWELLS" Tonight Only 7.30 P.M.

Calvary Baptist Church Young People Welcome! Adv. during periods of rough weather. A sign warning of the dangers has been posted. SPECIAL Bucket of Wings, $1 Mister Bill's, Tel. 396-2517 Adv.

in Cambodia gave Communist China new leverage with Hanoi. Thousands Demonstrate REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy (UPI) --Thousands of demonstrators lit bonfires, set up roadblocks, stoned a bank and attacked a Communist party office today in the second day of protests against selection of a rival city as regional capital. -'SPAPERI iWSPAPERI.