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49 Singls Copy Pries Lower Pric for Carrier Delivery Details Page 10 Unoicifll Vol. Cll No. 22' Coovright 1968 Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company MINNEAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1968 mtm I I0C Tracy Finds Luck, Good or Bad, Rides With Tornado By SAM MARTINO Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer TRACY, Minn. Picking aimlessly through the scattered remains of the small, frame house, Mrs. Janet Barret, 18, talked quietly Friday of the frenzied scramble for shelter as a tornado thundered into this small, southwestern Minnesota farming community.

"We were on our way to the basement when the tornado took the house," she said. She began to weep. STORM PHOTOS, REPORT PAGE 17 a few scratches on hands and arms and a back injury, his wife in a bed a few yards down the hospital corridor with bruises and a back injury. TALES OF similar good fortune were plentiful. Jim Forbregd, 47, for example, completed construction of his basement just three weeks ago.

After ushering his wife and three daughters into the basement, he covered them with a blanket and threw himself across them in an attempt to protect them. "I could feel one of them (one of the girls) slipping out from under me as the tornado struck the house," Forbregd said. As he reached frantically to pull her back, a pile of debris fell on top of the family. It was not enough to injure anyone seriously. It' was enough to hold the girl from slipping away.

And then there were those who remained un-Tracy Continued on Page Seven through the rubble that covered the streets. They were walking in what was left after the tornado killed nine people and injured more than 125. A few blocks away, Paul Gannott, 71, lay in the Tracy Municipal Hospital, his head wrapped in bandages, blood oozing through to the pillowcase from a gash in his head. The Gannotts were lucky. With no basement in their home, the retired Tracy farmer and his 61-year-old wife had no place to hide.

"There wasn't time anyway," he THE GANNOTTS don't remember how it happened, but "when the house was gone, me and my wife were sitting on the floor in the front room." Whereupon, Gannott said, he and his wife walked out of the wreckage hand-in-hand to be picked up by rescue workers and taken to the hospital. The elderly couple was not in serious condition yesterday Gannott with the head wound, "My mother was in it." Mrs. Barret, with her husband, two brothers and a sister, made it to safety as the twister hit shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday. The body of her mother, Mrs.

Barbara Hol-brook, 50, was found 150 yards away. A WOMAN appeared, placed her arms gently around the woman's shoulders, and the two of them moved slowly away, stepping cautiously Dr. Spock Is Found Guilty Gov. LeVander Plans to Run Again in 1970 By ROBERT FRANKLIN Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer DULUTH, Minn. Gov.

Harold LeVander eschewed his usual plug for Nelson Rockefeller in a speech to the Minnesota Republican convention here Friday, and obliquely announced plans to run for re-election in 1970. LeVander was applauded when he told delegates that his "Decade of Decision" programs need "the strong, progressive spirit of a Conservative, problem solving legislature with whom I would like to work in 1969 and 1971 and 1973." dendants merely had been exercising their rights of free speech and public assembly as guaranteed by the Constitution. The four men are expected to carry their cases to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary, as part of their crusade against the war in Vietnam and the draft. fe 1 45 M'il BOSTON, Mass.

(UPI) A U.S. District Court jury Friday convicted pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock and three co-defendants on antidraft i racy charges. One man was acquitted. The 12-mem-ber jury deliberated 7 hours Spock and 23 minutes before return- OVERWHELMING MARGIN I ing a verdict to Judge Fran-nis i.

State GOP Adopts Antirachm Plank By BERNIE SHELLUM Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Kent Kobersteen AERIAL VIEW SHOWS EXTENSIVE WRECKAGE OF SOME HOMES IN TRACY Thursday night tornado damaged hundreds of homes and businesses 'Resurrection City's' Permit for Park Extended One Week SENTENCING is expected in two weeks. Besides the 65-year-old Spock, the defendants were the Rev. William Sloane Coffin 43, chaplain of Yale University; Mitchell Goodman, 44, author-teacher from Temple, Maine; and Michael Ferber, 23, of Buffalo, N.Y., a Harvard graduate student. Marcus Raskin, 34, codi- rector of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washing ton, D.C, was acquitted. The trial had lasted 19 days.

THE JURY found that none of the defendants counseled young men to turn in their draft cards or their classifica tion cards, but said all except Raskin committed overt acts, which were listed in the in dictments: to counsel, aid and abet young men to evade the draft; to aid and abet young men to turn in their draft cards; to aid and abet young men to turn in tneir classification cards; and to hinder and interfere wth the Selective Service System. Ford, in his charge earlier in the day, instructed the jurors to disregard the mor ality or legality of the Vietnam war and the draft. THE DEFENSE claimed during the trial that the de- 15-acre site near the Lincoln DULUTH, Minn. A platform plank which identifies white racism as a main cause of racial strife was passed by an overwhelming margin Friday by the Minnesota Republican state convention. By voice vote more than 1,300 del- egates defeat- eni ed a proposed amendment which would have deleted all reference to white racism.

(STATE GOP May Not Endorse Nixon Page 12.) In so doing, the party. became the first in the United States to endorse the central conclusion of President Johnson's Commission on Civil Disorders, said Frank C. Kent, a Negro, who heads Minnesota's Commission on Human Rights. THAT IS highly significant, Kent said, "because it's not enough for the experts to ft Freeman Cuts U.S. Wheat Quota 13 Pet.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (ITI) Agriculture Secretary Or- ville L. Freeman Friday announced a 13-per cent cut in the federal wheat planting allotment for the 1969 crop in an effort to cut surpluses and boost farm prices. Freeman said that in addi tion to the cutback in plant' allotments, his depart ment will offer diversion payments to farmers who hold planting below their allotments. All told, he said, is an acreage cut ot aoout 18 per cent from this year's level.

THE 1969 crop allotment was set at 51.6 million acres, compared with 59.3 million for the 1968 crop. Under the government's wheat program, due to expire at the end of 1969, farmers who comply voluntarily with planting allotments become eligible for government price support loans plus direct support payments. Freeman said support loans on i9S9-crop wneat win oe kept at the present level of a national average of $1.25 a bushel. IN ADDITION, on 43 per cent of each participating farm's expected production, farmers will get additional payments bringing their total returns up to the full "fair" parity price, Freeman said. Wheat parity last month was $2.63 a bushel.

The 1968 planting allotment also had been cut 13 per cent from 1967 after a bumper, price-depressing 1967 crop. Preliminary estimates indicate that the 1968 crop may set a record of 1.55 billion bushels and increase the surplus. "THE REDUCED 1969 allotment," Freeman said in a statement, "will make it pos sible to strengthen farm or ices and to reduce our carryover by around 100 mil lion bushels." He said his decision fol lows closely the recommen dations from a grain ad Wheat Continued on Page Seven Vested Interest Leads Him to Pop Question Saturday, June 15, 19S8 1 67th day, 199 oo this vtar Sunrlii 5:26 a.m.! tunitt 9:01 p.m. Dick and Jane had been going together for about five years. When Dick finally pro posed to Jane, his friends be' gan razzing him about marry' ing into money.

Jane's fa ther. vou see, was a news paper reporter. "Come on, admit it," his friends chided. "You're after Jane's dough." "You're wrong," Dick re plied to his friends. "I've spent so much money on that girl I'm marrying her for my money." On this date in 1752 Ben Franklin and his son launched a kite in a thunderstorm.

You can bet that old Ben waa.the talk ot the ladiet' coffee parties the next day. coal Twins Win, 2 to 1, Over Baltimore End Losing Streak at 6 Edina Beats Hibbing, 12-4, for State Title (Details In Sports Section) make the findings. The political process has the power to make the changes." With language used in the riot commission's report, the plank holds: "The causes of recent racial disorders are embedded in a massive tangle of issues and circumstances social, political and psychological which arise out of the historical pattern of Negro-white relations in America. "Despite these complexities, certain fundamental matters are clear. Of these, the most fundamental is the racial attitude and behavior of white Americans toward black Americans.

"Race prejudice has shaped our history decisively in the past; it now threatens to do so again." IN ITS OWN language, the plank says, "We also recognize that such white racism has been one of the main factors responsible for the ex- GOP Continued on Page Seven Minneapolis plaint will be made by the Human Relations Commission or by the courts, said Naftalin. "I may not prejudice the courts," he said. NAFTALIN made his statements In a confrontation with nearly 50 of the 2 Suspensions Again Demanded By RICHARD P. KLEEMAN Minneapolis Tribune Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. The poor people's campaign Friday received a one-week extensionuntil June 23 of its permit to occupy a Washington park with its shanty-town "Resurrection City." In granting the extension, which allows the depleted population of the mud-mired encampment to remain until after next Wednesday's mass demonstration, the National Park Service recognized that clearing storing the area it to its and re-original Fair Skies Seen Fair skies and cool weather are expected to prevail in the Twin Cities over the weekend, according to the Weather Bureau.

A high of 68 is forecast for today, with a low tonight of 45. Sunday's high is expected to be 70. Winds willl)e from the northwest today at 8 to 15 miles an hour. Precipitation probabilities are less than 5 per cent today and tonight. Sergeant It was the first time the governor has announced plans to seek a second four-year term, said his news sec retary, Robert Hinkley.

AS IN SPEECHES to district caucuses, Thursday night LeVander avoided mentioning the name of Rockefeller, the New York governor, his preference as GOP presidential nominee. But partisans of Richard Nixon applauded yesterday when LeVander noted: "Everyone is entitled to his first choice and many of you have not agreed with mine." The governor angered many Nixon backers by endorsing Rockefeller after persuading many lower level' conventions and Republican workers that the state delegation should remain uncommitted. YESTERDAY the governor called for a presidential nominee like Abraham Lincoln, one who "must rekindle the spirit of brotherhood and say softly and sincerely, 'With malice toward none, with charity for But LeVander received his LeVander Continued on Page Seven Tribune Photo by Dwight Miller tors in his outer office at 2:30 p.m. Lucien (Scotty) Stone, rural co-ordinator for the Minnesota poor peoples march on Washington, reread a letter that had been pre- Protest grassy condition additional time. might take THE PARK SERVICE did not rule out the possibility of further extension of the permit, which the Rev.

Ralph David Abernathy sought to have renewed for one month. With all these possibilities still open, it could not be predicted whether the park service action yesterday would be accepted by leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), sponsoring the campaign, or whether, if rejected, trouble might ensue at the for Twin Cities The same trend is expected over most of the Upper Midwest, the bureau said. Skies will be partly cloudy today over North Dakota and South Dakota. Predicted regional highs: Minnesota, 58 to 65 in the north, 62 to 72 south; North Dakota, 60 to 66; South Dakota, 64 to 72; Wisconsin, 60s in the north and extreme east, in the 70s in the south. Musgrave II sWivma Memorial.

But Mr. Abernathy spoke of the campaign's Washing' ton presence yesterday, tell ing the National Press Club, "We're not going anywhere. They will certainly have to take us." IN HIS remarks, Mr. Aber nathy provided the first rough financial balance sheet of the campaign, now nearly six weeks along: He estimated it had cost $1.5 million and that more than $1.3 million had been received in donations, leaving SCLC "in the red but out of the lower scale of the red where we were several weeks ago." Mr. Abernathy also dis played, for the first time, i willingness to withdraw the campaign from Washington "if we get a proposal.

"We'd be delighted to get a proposal so we could leave Washington," he declared. "It rains too much here More than inches of rain have fallen since the camp opened. Mule Train Riders Arrested, Released DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. C3) Mule train riders of the poor people's campaign were arrested at an interstate hign way Friday, but then accepted a compromise offer by Gov. Lester Maddox and were released.

After the riders had been held for several hours, their leaders agreed to resume the trek on the highway during a light traffic period early today. That still violates a state law, but Maddox offered to waive it. Douglas County Sheriff Claude Abercrombie announced that all charges have been dropped against 67 persons accused of violating a state1 law prohibiting pedestrian and nonmotorized use of the expressway system. Then the riders boarded school buses and were taken to Zion Hill Baptist Church in Douglasville, 30 miles west of Atlanta. The mule train is headed for Washington, D.C., where several thousand persons have set up "Resurrection City" to demonstrate for jobs and income.

jakSt JrJ Mi4 I IT rL4 2hf C3w J4v "Sergeant Musgrave's Dance," a notable antiwar play by the contemporary British playwright John Arden, opened Friday night at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater. Staff writer Mike Steele appraises the production today on By DICK CUNNINGHAM Minneapolii Tribune Staff Writer Demonstrators a peared in downtown Minneapolis for the second day Friday demanding that Mayor Arthur Naftalin suspend two policemen who handcuffed a 54-year-old Negro woman after a traffic accident. Pickets appeared outside City Hall at noon and again at 4:30 p.m. They asked the suspension of Patrolmen Donald L. Hop-son and Wesley W.

Weir pending an investigation of their arrest last Saturday of Mrs. Lavinia Howell, 2502 Farwell PI. Mrs. Howell, who speaks slowly and walks with a cane because of a medical condition, was taken to headquarters in handcuffs on suspicion of drunken driving after an accident at Central Av. and 1st St.

NE. SHE WAS charged driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs even though a breathing test showed she had not been drinking. Some 30 pickets walked through downtown from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. slowing, but not seriously tying up yesterday's rush-hour traffic. Earlier Naftalin told the demonstrators he could not suspend the policemen for two reasons.

First, they had not vio- Page flits 1 i if ii vmtmmmx nmntmi.K-.nMm ttim.nrmumiiMtitaxrtV'iai MEMBERS OF BLACK PATROL DIRECTED DEMONSTRATORS NEAR CITY HAIL They observed 'walk' sign but tied up traffic at intersection Editorial .......4 Sports 13-16 Women's 6 Theaters 1 8, 1 9 Business 8-1 Comics 34 Television and Radio .11, Tribune News, General Want Ads 372-4242 lated a departmental regulation. "Only the rules of civilfzed conduct," shouted one demonstrator. Second, because Mrs. Howell had made a discrimination complaint to the Civil Rights Department. The decjslon on that com leiepnones circulation 372-4343 Continued on Page Seven.