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28 1967 papers by Poughkeepsie News- Poughkeepsie, N. Saturday Evening, September 9, 1967 34 Pages 10 Cents Square Refused Admittance: Man Found Hanged at By ROBERT STEARNS The body of a city man who tried to commit himself to Hudson River State Hospital was found banging from a fence on the hospital property last night. Sheriff Lawrence M. Quinlan said today that Kenneth Decker, 45, a part-time mover, attempted suicide Thursday and was taken to the state hospital for voluntary commitment. Mr.

was not admitted to the hospital. Dr. Herman B. Snow, director, said today that hospital employes involved in the case were not available le over the weekend and he was unable to ascertain complete details as to why the man, was not admitted. Mrs.

Ruth Decker said her husband slashed his wrists at POUGHKEEPSIE OFFICIALS have pulled a fast one on Newburgh office holders, Instead of rowing themselves in a race they substituted this fair crew, Preparing to cast off en route to the race today were, from left, Nancy Shannon, 18, Susan In Commemoration Race their 563 Main St. home early Thursday and city police took him to Vassar Hospital where he signed a commitment paper. She said the police then took him to HRSH and left him there under the impression he would be admitted. Dr. Snow confirmed that Mr.

Decker was refused admittance on Thursday. He said that because of a past history which couldn't be disclosed, Mr. Decker was told he couldn't be admitted on a volun-. tary paper but would need the certification of a medical authority. The hospital director explained that on a voluntary commitment, the patient can leave at will, but when admitted under a doctor's certification, the hospital has a stronger hold on the patient.

He said admitting personnel noticed no suicidal tendencies or Mr. Decker would have been held. Mrs. Decker said she called the hospital at 8:30 a.m., Thursday, and was told her husband had gone home. She said she became concerned and called police who started a search.

Hospital Sheriff Quinlan said a patient found Mr. Decker's body at about 7:30 p.m. yesterday, hanging from a fence along the hospital property line near the Children's Home. The sheriff said a belt had been used in the hanging. Dr.

William G. Thompson, assistant county medical examiner, gave a tentative, verdict of suicide. Atty. G. Gordon Liddy participated in the investigation.

Mrs. Decker said she was the main support of the family which includes five children aged from 11 to 20, all at home. She said her husband had worked parttime for a local moving company. McCornac Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements. Ford Strike: Layoffs Spread DETROIT (AP) The United Auto Workers union strike against Ford Motor Co.

already is affecting the national economy with layoffs in allied industries. Some of Ford's other 7,000 suppliers said they had not been affected by the strike, but would be if it dragged on. The 160,000 Ford employes at B52s Aim At Big Guns Pointed South SAIGON (AP) U.S. B52 bombers aimed tons of explosives today at North Viet: namese. guns threatening the South, after fighter- bombers dodged heavy defenses and flew within 20 miles of Red Chine to blast a jammed rail yard.

Three waves of the eightengine B52s struck artillery and rocket launchers in the zone to prevent them from harassing U.S. Marines in northern South Vietnam, already busy chasing reinforced Red troops. The B52s also made one of their. infrequent raids north of the zone Friday night to attack the Communist gun positions. The big planes generally stay: away from North Vietnam avoid Red surface- to-air missiles.

Red Rockets Despite the B52 raids, Communist rockets hit the sandbagged Marine outposts at Con Thien just below the DMZ and wounded 40 Marines. Some sharp ground fighting continued in northern South Vietnam, where allied forces are trying to keep the enemy off balance and foil whatever strategy the Reds have for their built-up forces in the area. South Vietnamese troopers sweeping in Quang Ngai Province, the southern boundary of the threatened five-province northern zone, reported five running fights with a fastmoving guerrilla force. They said the Communists left 40 dead. They also reported capturing 17 wounded guerrillas and 27 weapons.

In the air raids far above the DMZ, the U.S. Command said, American pilots encountered Soviet-built missiles, heavy a antiaircraft fire, and Communist MIG fighters. The MIGs fled when Air Force jets. challenged them. Despite the heavy fire, no losses were reported.

in South Vietnam, Communist ground fire brought down a Marine F4Phantom, the 204th announced. combat plane over the South. The two fliers aboard parachuted and were picked up safe in the Tonkin Gulf. Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP) Michigan Gov. George Romney accused President Johnson today of keeping the real facts of the Vietnam war from the American people by a "systematic continuation of inaccurate reports, predictions and withholding of PAGING THE INSIDE NEWS Bridge Page 2 Comics Page 13 Crossword Puzzle Page 8 Editorials, Columns Page Highland News Page 14 Obituaries Page 9 Society Page 3 Sports Pages 6, 7 Theaters Page 2 Wappingers News Page 14 Church News 5 'Family Fun 16 Pages plants in 25 states walked off the job at midnight Wednesday when their works contract expired.

No negotiations on a new contract have been scheduled but union and company representatives will meet Monday to set up a timetable for resumed bargaining. The Budd one of Ford's major suppliers' laid off some 1,000 of its 5,000 workers Friday at a Philadelphia plant where Budd makes stampings, tools and dies for Ford. The Dana Corp. laid off 800 workers at its frame plants in the Detroit suburbs of Ecorse and Trenton. The jobs of another 1,000 workers were imperiled at Raybestos-Manhattan plants in.

Passaic, N.J., where Ford transmission parts are built. Among the major vendors who said they would 'be hurt by protracted strike were Bendix Kelsey-Hayes Mcquay-Norris Manufacturing Co. and Aluminum Corp. of America. Director Estimates: $140,000 Needed Next Year For County Anti-poverty Work Keil, 18, Nancy Tschuin, 19, and Korlee Moore, 19.

City Manager Theodore W. Maurer and Mayor Richard W. Mitchell, plan to wateh. Poughkeepsie Journal Photo 'Ringers' Row in Newburgh Bay The mayor of Newburgh was in for a surprise today. He had challenged Poughkeepsie officials to a Hudson River rowing race to commemorate a championship America Singles rowing race in Newburgh bay on.

Sept. 9, 1867. Poughkeepsie Mayor Richard W. Mitchell and City Manager Theodore W. Maurer accepted the challenge.

But, unknown to. Mayor Joseph Mullin, they substituted fair young women. The race 100 years ago was between James Hammill and Walter Brown and the purse was $4,000. The race today was to have been a four-boat relay with Poughkeepsie represented by Maurer, Urban Renewal Director Robert Richards, Planning Director Harold Weber and City Engineer Kenneth Pierce. Newburgh's team was to include City Manager Paul McCauley, Urban Renewal Director John S.

Stillman, City Engineer William G. McEvilly and City Planner Barry Benepe. Mullin said he challenged Poughkeepsie "in the interest of building good will between two cities." Wappingers Falls: Church Officials Silent On Report of Barring Priest Roman Catholic church officials declined today to confirm or deny that a priest-instructor at Mt. Alvernia Seminary, Wappingers Falls, has been barred from saying mass in St. Mary's parish in the village.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Charles B. Brennan, pastor of the church, would say only, "It is an ecclesiastical matter that has been properly reviewed by church authorities and the matter is Asked whether the Rev.

Jude Mili had said mass regularly in the parish, Msgr. Brennan, replied, "I've, told you all I'm going to say." The Most Rev. Joseph M. Pernicone would say only "no comment." Bishop Pernicone is auxiliary bishop of the New York Diocese and episcopal vicar of Dutchess and Putnam counties. Meanwhile, the center of the controversy, Father Mili, was in Vassar Hospital where he underwent an operation two days ago.

The hospital reported his condition satisfactory but said he is not accepting any telephone calls. An advertisement in yesterday's. Poughkeepsie Journal asked, "Why has Father Jude Mili, and even more important what he represents, been barred from St. Mary's parish?" It described Father Mili as "a priest who has confronted and spoken out on the real moralissues of our day (poverty, racism, war and peace, the need for growth in community)." The advertisement, presented Senator Kennedy's Tour Featured: In Sunday's Poughkeepsie Journal It isn't every day that a United States senator visits the offices of the Poughkeepsie Journal. It isn't every day, either, that the Poughkeepsie Journal presents to its readers photos of its staff and of its daily operation.

But last week was unusual in that Senator Robert F. Kennedy took time out of a whirlwind tour of the city to visit this newspaper and swap greetings with the people who produce it. Tomorrow's Journal will include a full page of pictures of the senator's visit. The three worst killer diseases heart disease, cancer and stroke. Their annual toll is tremendous.

But the SurgeonGeneral of the United States, William H. Stewart, believes we are making prodigious strides toward controlling all three. In tomorrow's Family Weekly he contributes a lead article stressing system of regional medical programs is spreading fast across the entire country bring the most progressive medicine to every grass roots community. a a medical aspect to another. feature in Family Weekly.

"How to Keep Fit-Without Will Power' is its title and it tells how celebrities of 'the world keep trim- and in the process prolong their lives. Also in Family Weekly, the stern and loving father of TV's Lorne Greene, discloses that he wasn't always the upright citizen- -was, indeed, juvenile delinquent. In addition, the Journal will bring you the latest in local, national and world-wide- as well as full coverage of sports. At least $140,000 in cash or equivalent in services will have to be raised in Dutchess County next year to continue all phases of the economic opportunity, or anti-poverty program at the present million dollar level, John Murray said- yesterday. Murray, executive director of the Dutchess County Community for Economic Opportunity, made this appraisal at the rural opportunity center, Millbrook.

Murray's forecast of 1968 needs climaxed an educational session sponsored by the Greater Poughkeepsie League of Women Voters with the goal of developing greater and wider understanding of the Community Action Program sponsored by the county OE0 committee in cooperation with the federal anti-poverty program. Murray said programs administered by or through the committee this- year are costing $704,000 of which $86,000 has been provided in cash or services within the county. Cash income $15,000 from the Board of Supervisors, $3,000 from the Poughkeepsie Common Council and $5,800 in fees from day care centers and other sources. Murray placed the cost of the Neighborhood administered Youth Corps, pro- a separately gram, at $200,000 and the cost of the Upward Bound program, an educational project at Marist and Bennett Colleges was estimated at $169,000. Directors of this last program said the national average cost of this program is approximately $1,200 annually per student.

In placing the minimum contribution from within the county next year at $140,000 Murray said OE0 committee programs this year were funded on a basis of 90 per cent federal funds and 10 per cent local. In 1968, he continued, the share, from within the county will rise to 20 per cent of the federal grant. Murray told county supervisors present that the OE0 committee will seek an increased appropriation from the county and he added, "I don't know where we will get the balance of the increased money or in kind services. Prior to Murray's presentation of the financial picture and needs of the county OE0 committee, directors of the opportunity centers and heads of other projects described their programs and accomplishments. The thread running through these presentations was that the programs are getting at the roots of poverty problems, that 0EO is getting the poor involved in the mainstream of the life of the county and its communities.

He didn't say whether the Newburgh team had been working out in advance. But the race certainly won't put a strain on Poughkeepsie's officials. They plan to watch the four girls row from the gently rolling deck of a yacht. The race was scheduled for later today with results published in Sunday's Journal. Msgr.

Martin, Once of Beacon, Dies at 74 Years Msgr. Edward R. Martin, 74, former chief chaplain of the First Army and twice. decorated for heroism and meritorious serve ice, and a former Beacon priest, died Wednesday in New York City. Before joining the 'Army in 1925, he served for five years at St.

Joachim's parish in Beacon. Former Dutchess County Sheriff C. Fred Close today recalled that for three years prior to the priest's departure from the county, he had appointed him a deputy sheriff chaplain. The priest was a close friend of the late Supreme Court Justice Gordon Flannery. "He had many friends in the county," Close said, "and while he was not a veteran then, he attended many meetings of- the Dutchess County American -Legion." Msgr.

Martin, pastor emeritus of St. Angela Merici Church, the Bronx, was a Roman Catholic priest for 47 years and had a 27-year career as a chaplain. He served on the front lines during most of World War II. He retired' with the rank of colonel in 1952, two years after he had been designated a monsignor. Msgr, Martin: served in Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe in World War Il.

For his wartime service he' received the Legion of Merit. In 1948 he earned the Soldier's Medal by racing twice into the blazing headquarters of the Kings County Lighting Brooklyn, to rescue three workers. He was a native of Union City; N.J.. the son of a foreman in a ribbon factory. Burial services will place in Long Island National Cemetery, Pinelawn, on Monday, after a solemn Requiem Mass to be celebrated at 10 a.m.

in St. Angela's Church, by the Most Rev. John J. Maguire, archbishop coadjutor of the New York Archdiocese, Beulah Kills 13 on Martinique; Roars Furiously Toward Haiti as an "open letter to the Catholic bishops of the New York Archdiocese" was signed only "Concerned Christians of St. Mary's Parish Falls, N.Y," It claimed that "many hundreds" of persons have signed a petition stating their desire for a church where different sides of important issues can be heard.

"Are the voices of these people to go it asked. Various members of the parish contacted today denied any knowledge of the situation. Jesse McHugh, Ulster Leader WALLKILL, N.Y. (AP) Jesse McHugh, 59, recently elected Ulster County Republican vice chairman, died of an apparent heart attack Friday night while addressing a political meeting in the nearby town of Shawangunk in Ulster County. A native of Wallkill, McHugh served as supervisor of Shawangunk for 14 years, retiring from that post in 1965, In 1961 he was chairman of the Ulster County Board of Supervisors, and served on the board as majority leader for many years.

Later, McHugh served as secretary in Albany for State Sen. Ogden L. Bush. He was elected vice chairman of the Ulster County GOP Committee last July 10. Survivors include three sons, of New York City; Jesse of Allis, and Chris, of Wallkill; a sister, a brother, three grandchildren.

His wife died several years ago. MIAMI, Fla. Hurricane Beulah, killing at least 13 persons on the French island of Martinique, roared on with steadily increasing fury today toward Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Homes were destroyed, flood waters poured three feet deep down streets in Fort de France, and banana crops were flattened as Beulah roared across Martinique. Her winds were up to 100 miles an hour and building as the storm thrashed on a westnorthwest course across the Caribbean, Great danger was posed, to the vulnerable south coast of Hispaniola, where many of the past have piled up heavy death tolls.

Beulah was centered at latitude north, longitude 65.0 west; about 200 miles southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico. From the eye, gale winds crashed outward 125 miles in all directions. A hurricane watch went into effect for all of Hispaniola and the Weather said definite hurricane warnings would go up later today for the island embracing Haiti and the Domin- ican. behind Republic. Far Beulah in the turbulent tropical Atlantic, tropical storm Chloe churned the waters with 50-mile an hour winds, but offered no immediate threat to any land area.

And off the Florida east coast, a tropical depression kicked up rough seas that kept small craft in port t.in Florida and the northern Bahamas. Five children were among the victims as Beulah lashed' Martinique with torrential rain. Officials said over 100 families were left homeless by the deluge. Walker Scores Warren Report In Wappingers School Speech WAPPINGERS FALLS- "Those people on the Warren Commission were former General Edwin A. Walker told an audience of 200 last night in Wappingers Junior High School.

In telling about the death of President Kennedy, Walker said, "I've got more information than the Warren Commission knows I've got." The report by the commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in the assassination. Walker added, "On Nov. 21st, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a political prisoner- on Nov. 22nd Lee Harvey Oswald was a political prisoner and I'm not saying he was other things, "On Nov. 23, Oswald was sentenced to death by an extraordinary federal.

political tribunal on Nov. 24th, Oswald was liquidated by Jack Rubenstein Ruby) legally, publicly and officially--a planned execution." Walker said, "The only honest shot fired in Dallas was fired at Walker (me) didn't like me and I didn't like that skunk." The former general who resigned from the United States Army in 1961. said that Jack Ruby picked a police station to See WALKER SCORES page GEN. Poughkeepsie Journal Photo WALKER.