The Daily Plainsman from Huron, South Dakota • Page 1

THE A I I I A 8 WEATHER MILD low 4G: High 62 The Great Home Newspaper of the Dakota Great Plains VOMJMiD LXXXllI 83rd Year of Service HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57350, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1968 Call 352-6401 STTs'GLE COPY lOc Teachers Escorted Into School By GIL SCOTT Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Five white teachers dismissed by nn experimental local governing board, re-entered a predomi- nantly Negro junior high school in Brooklyn today, backed by a- heavy police detail which had barricaded an entire block. about 50 teachers who had shown up at the school Tuesday walked out, complaining of the police presence. Schools Supt. Bernard E. Don- ovan, with the support of Mayor John V.

Lindsay, had asked po- lice to escort the teachers past demonstrators. Police showed up at the school before the dem- onstrators, arriving in the pre- dawn hours. There were no clashes reported. Among those outside the Brooklyn school today were Mark Rudd, head of the Stu- dents for a Democratic Society at Columbia University, which spearheaded the recent Colum- bia student and civil rights figure James H. Mere- dith.

Tuesday morning about 200 policemen stood by but made no move to open the way past the protesters for the five teachers to go into J.H.S. 271. About 110 other teachers stayed out to show support, for tlieir col- leagues. Only about 300 to 400 of the 2,000 enrolled pupils were re- ported inside J.H.S. 271 which is part of an eight-school experi- mental unit set up by the Board of Education to lest community control, of neighborhood schools.

The unit's governing board "dismissed" 13 teachers and administrators from six of the schools last Thursday to precipi- tate tlie crisis. The 19 were charged with attempted "sabo- tage" of the experiment. Lindsay, declaring his support for the ousted teachers, said: "The community group iu Brownsville has taken an action that is beyond the law. I will, of course, support the Board of Education and the superiutend- of schools if they ask for po- lice assistance." Rhody McCoy, a Negro- who heads the local governing board of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville School Demonstration District, declared: "The community is resolved that it will control its schools. Nothing else matters at this point." The district is one of three set up by the Board of Education and financed by the Ford Foun- dation.

Its eight schools have a combined enrollment of 9,000 pupils, mostly Negroes. The ma- jority of their 500 teachers are white. In firing the 19 educators--in- cluding one Negro--the local board did not make public any specific charges or file formal complaints in accordance with the standard procedure in the school system. The dispute is tlie latest clash in a continuing battle over de- centralization of the l.l-million- pupil public school system--the largest in the nation. If the city breaks up its school system into about 15 autono- mous or semiautonomous dis tricts it would qualify for an added $100 million in state school aid.

The Board of Education op- poses rapid decentralization while Lindsay is attempting to get the state legislature to pass a strong decentralization meas- ure. Inside Today Ahhy 25 Amusements 20 Classified Ads 26-27 Comics 25 Edilorials 15 Crossword 25 Hospitals 6 Markets 24 Sports -12-13 TV Log 25 Weather 6 Women's News lfi-20 THE FLAMING GHEAT SEAL of the Free University of West Berlin is shown on the steps of the administration building where it was dumped after being set afire by a group of students. The seal bore the motto: "Truth-Juslice-Liberty" and had a black Berlin bear at its center. (AP Wirepholo) 800 Acres Of Forest Destroyed CUSTEK (API Eight hun- dred acres in the Black Hills National Forest were blackened approximately 15 miles south- west of here Tuesday night in (he area's first major forest fire of the year. Discovered at 5 p.m.

Tuesday in Pleasant Valley, the fire burn- ed out of control all night but reported contained at 6 a.m. Wednesday by Forest Service of- ficials who expected to have it under control by mid-morning. Both it and another fire brought under control seven miles to the cast late Tuesday, were evidently started along roads and were strongly sus- pected of being deliberately set, according to Clarence Reed, Forest Service information of- ficer. There were, he said, Ihrec slop- overs from fire lines during the night but these were controlled. Hanoi Insists U.S.

Artillery Attacks Cease By JOHN M. HIGHTOWEIl Al Special Correspondent PARIS (AP)--North Vietnam demanded in the Paris talks to- day that tlie United Scales and its allies halt all attacks across the demilitarized zone into North Vietnamese territory and withdraw completely from the area. Ambassador Xuan Thuy in a long statement directed at U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harri- man specifically demanded that the United States stop all firing of artillery across tlie zone.

North Vietnamese spokesmen said Thuy linked the demand Turns Campaign Guns Toward Humphrey Kennedy Wins Big In Nebraska By WALTER R. MEARS Associated Press Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy marched to victory in Nebraska's Demo- cratic presidential primary and turned his campaign guns today toward Vice President Hubert H.

Humphrey--with a sugges- tion that battered rival Sen. Eu- gene J. McCarthy.join him. The New York senator mar- shaled 51 per cent of the for a majority over McCarthy, President Johnson and write-ins for Humphrey. McCarthy, with 31 per cent of the ballots, absorbed his second defeat by Kennedy in a week, but the Minnesota senator said he would campaign through the primaries ahead, and was not interested in an alliance with Kennedy.

Republican Richard M. Nixon rolled to 70 per cent of the vote, and said that was a victory of greater magnitude than he had anticipated. He said it proved Nebraska was Nixon country. But California, Gov. Ronald Eeagan who pdlled a surprising 22 per cent, sai dhe was grati- fied and would not refuse the GOP nomination if it were of- fered.

But Hcagan once again that he is not going to become a and will not camp- paign for tlie nomination. "I could not now foresee myself so- liciting the job," he said. "It's a job that seeks the man." Sixteen Republican nominat- ing votes were at stake in sep- arate balloting, and who favor Nixon won all of them. The Democratic delegate pic- lure was more clouded, with candidates listed as uncommit- ted--or pledged to Johnson- crowding the lengthy ballot. Twenty-eight nominating votes were at stake--two more go automatically to the national committee members--who favor Humphrey.

But in the delegate contest, as well as the presidential prefer- ence poll. Kennedy led the way. Candidates who have ex- pressed a preference for him led for 17 delegate spots. Mc- Carthy-pledged candidates led for two. Nine uncommitted delegates who have expressed no preference filled out the list of leaders for Democratic dele- gation posts.

With 1,994 of the 2,133 pre- cincts counted, this was the vote in tlie Democratic popularity poll, which is not binding on delegates: Kennedy 77,505 or 51 per cent; McCarthy 46,593 or 31 per cent: Humphrey write-ins 12,792 or 8 per cent; Johnson 8,480 or 6 per cent. Johnson's rejection of candi- dacy came too late for his name to be taken off the ballot. In the Republican count, with 1,851 precincts counted, this was the situation: Nixon 114,834 or 70 per cent; See KENNEDY, Page Five Hubert Surges Into Lead Past Kennedy, McCarthy By GEORGE GALLUP President Hubert Humphrey has surged into the lead over Sens. Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy as the choice of the nation's rank-and-file Demo- cratic voters for the 1968 presi- dential nomination. Humphrey wins 40 per cent of the vote in the latest three- way showdown test to 31 per cent for Kennedy and 19 per cent for McCarthy.

Humphrey's gains from the earlier survey have come at the expense of both rivals equal- ly. The earlier tesl showed Hum- phrey wilh 31 per cenl of Ihe vote of Democrats, to 35 per Harrold Worker Hurt As Gravel Dumped On Him Flainsinan CSD News Service BLUNT Gordon Keller, 38, of Harrold, is listed in satis- factory condition today at St. Mary's Hospital, Pierre, after a load of gravel was dumped on him at the gravel pit 3 miles east of here Tuesday. Keller, an employe of the Hughes County Highway De- partment, was operating a front-end loader, pushing gra- vel onto the trap of a conveyer when the accident occurred. Witnesses said as Keller was attempting to remove a rock which became lodged in the conveyor, the gravel caved in on top of him.

He was buried 2 feet above his head, but workers quickly freed him and George Kimbe'r- ley, of Blunt, applied mouth-to- nioulh resuscitation. The in- jured man was then taken to the Pierre hospital for treat- ment. cent for Kennedy and 23 per cent for McCarthy. It should be noted that the latest survey was completed just prior to Kennedy's victory in the Indiana primary election. Vice President Humphrey was not entered in that primary race.

The folowing question a asked in both the latest survey (interviewing between May 4 and 8) and in the early April measurement: "Suppose the choice for presi- dent in the Democratic conven- tion harrows down to Sen. Rob- ert Kennedy, Sen. Eugene Mc- Carthy, and Vice President Hu- bert Humphrey. Which one would you prefer to have the Democratic convention select?" The latest choices of Demo- crats nationwide, showing the changes since April, follow: NOMINATION CHOICES DEMOCRATS Point Latest April Change Humphrey 40 Kennedy 31 McCarthy 19 Undecided 10 -4 --1 Among the nation's Indepen- dent voters, McCarthy exhibits considerable strength. The Min- nesota senator is preferred for the Democratic nomination by nine points over Humphrey, his nearest rival, and by 13 points over Kennedy in this three-way test.

Humphrey has registered gains among this group of voters since the early April survey while his two rivals have shown slight declines. The results by Independents follow, showing the changes since the April survey: Point Latest April Change Of Of McCarthy 36 39 --3 See Page Five Man, Shot 5 Times In Head, Delays Seeking Medical Aid For 15 Hours SAN FRANCISCO A A doctor says a 57-year-old Alaskan public health official was shot five limes in the head but delayed seeking med- ical aid 15 hours because he thought he had only been roughed up by two assailants. "Any one of those bullets could have killed i It's a most amazing thins," said an attending physician Tuesday night about Dr. a i liams' encounter in Hie rough Tenderloin district. The physician, who asked not to be identified, said Wi liams had i bullets in his head one of in (lie brain hut considered his condition serious, not critical.

Police and the doctor pieced together this chain of events. Williams, director of labora- tory services lor Ihe Alaska Department of Health and Welfare, went lo see a movie Sunday night and decided to walk back to his hotel. lie a knocked to the ground, but couldn't remem- ber what followed. Later he managed to hail a cab to take him back to his hotel. Williams thought he had been beaten up and shrugged ol( Ihe hotel manager's sug- gestion he set a checkup.

Hut he agreed at mid-afternoon to see the doctor. Not until X-rays had been taken did the doctor discover his patient had been shot. One bullet had lodged in the right lobe of the brain, others at the base of the skull, jawbone hinge and hard palate. A fifth, which the doctor expressed most concern about expressed most concern abovit, entered beneath (he left eye and lodged in Williams' neck between the jugular vein and carotid artery. Williams, who could give no explanation for the vicious- ness of the atlack, was taken to St.

Mary's Hospital where surgeons were deciding the course of treatment (o be fol- lowed. State HHH Unit Headed By Osborn Robert Ei-' Osborn has been named state chSirman of a Citi- zens for Humphrey Committee in South Dakota. Osborn, a Huron businessman, said the organization includes groups in Chamberlain, Brook- ings, Mitchell, Rapid City, Red- field, Watertown, Sioux Falls, Clark and Pierre. Osborn said tlie committee will support the slate of dele- gates pledged to President Lyn- don Johnson in the June 4 pri- mary. A recent Associated Press sur- vey of Johnson delegates showed the slate would support Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the national convention in Chi- cago if it can defeat slates for Sen.

Robert Kennedy, and Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D- Minn. "For the first time in its his- tory, South Dakota has the op- portunity to support a native son for the nation's highest of- fice," Osborn said. "Needless to say, our state and nation would benefit greatly if Hubert Humphrey were to become pres- ident. Cooler Weather Moves Into CSD Cooler weather and cloudy skies are expected to move into Central South Dakota Thursday, with a high in the lower 60s following a night- time low in the 40s.

And there is litlle change expected Friday as the cloudy weather spreads over the slate. The outlook for the weekend shows near normal temperatures with little pre- cipitation expected in the cen- tral area of the stale. The precipitation probability for Huron Thursday is posted at 10 per cent, wilh winds out of Ihe northwest at 10 to 20 m.p.h. There was .01 of an inch of rain in Huron Wednesday morning when the tempera- ture dropped to 48. The high temperature Tuesday was a bright 77.

Pierre reported temperatures of 76 and 47 while Ihe statewide high was 83 at Pickslown and the night- time low was 44 at Sioux Falls. Hail, Heavy Rain Hits N. D. Points By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vagabond thunderstorms slruck at least two spots in North Dakota overnight, and pea-size hail reportedly pelted the Cathay area. A weather bureau cooperative observer at Cavalier, in the state's northeast corner, report- ed a i a totaling 2.117 inches.

Dickinson reported tIR bun- drcdlhs inches of rain and 55 hundrcdUis fell overnight in Devils Lake, HUGH FULLERTON' School Board Post Sought By Fullerton Hugh Fullerton, Huron busi- nessman, today announced 'his candidacy for the Huron Board of Education in the June 18 election. He is the second candidate to file for the post being va- cated by Dr. George Chaffee who is not a candidate for re- election. Filing earlier was James Paterson, Huron College music professor. FULLERTON HAS BEEN in business here for 20 years.

He grew up in Huron, graduated from high school here, attended Huron College and is a graduate of the University of South Da- kota. His interest in education stems from his interest in the community and his pride in tlie school system. He noted there are many problems facing edu- cation today and declared these can be solved by using common sense and mutual understand- ing. Noting the tremendous amount of money spent on edu- cation in Huron, Fullerton said it is the responsibility of board members to see that these funds are spent wisely. Active iu the community, Ful- lerton is a past president of the Huron Chamber of Com- merce and a former state vice president of the South Dakota Jaycees.

He now is a director of the Greater South Dakota Association and serves on the Business Advisory Council of USD's school of business. HE ALSO IS a past trustee of the First Presbyterian Church and is completing his term as a member of the church's ses- sion. Fullerton also is a member of the American Legion, Scr- toma Club and the Elks Lodge. Fullerton and his wife, Shir- ley, who also is a Huron native and graduate of USD, have four sons Bob, a student at Drake University, DCS Moines, Iowa. Kill, who will be a high school senior, Carroll who will he ninth grader and Tom, who wil be a second grader.

Filings for (he election close Monday, Gov. Reagan Won't Refuse Nomination HONOLULU (AP) Califor nia'S Gov. Ronald ified by his showing in the Ne hraska primary, says he wil not refuse tlie Republican presi- dential nomination if it is of- fered to him by the party. "Once the party has made its choice, I don't think anyone would say no to that," the firsl governor told newsmen after hearing he had won 22 per cent of the vote. But Reagan also said "I could never foresee myself so- liciting this job.

I have always job that seeks the other way believed it is the man, not round." Reagan commented on the election after a session of the Western Governors Conference The showing in the primary clearly pleased the governor and his supporters. His backers believe he can capture the party's nomination in the event of deadlock between New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller former Vice President Richard M. Nixon.

Reagan did not campaign in Nebraska. "1 have heard some people say they would be happy if the vote turned out to be 10 per cent," he said. "It is sur- prising to me. am gratified to think that there arc that many people who feel that way. Delegation Discusses Oahe Plans Preparations for the House In- terior and Insular Affairs Com- mittee hearings on the Oahe Ir- rigation Project authorization ivcre discussed by Oahe Con- servancy Subdislricl officials with Congressional and admin- istration officials this week in Washington.

The Oahe delegation of Lloyd A. Miller, Huron, vice chairman, Nelson Hundstad, Bath, secre- tary, and James Lewis, Huron, manager, met with Hep. Wayne Aspinal, committee chairman: Rep. Harold (Biz) Johnson, Irrigation sub- committee chairman; Rep. John Saylor.

ranking minority member; Rep. E. Y. Berry, R- S. commiltce member, and Rep.

Ben Reifel, R-S. to dis- cuss hearing plans. They also conferred with Ken- neth llolum, assistant secretary of interior for power and water Sidney McFarland, House In lerior Committee staff member -and officials -of -the Bureau Reclamation to discuss the May 23 and 24 hearings. Lewis said the committee members pointed out that limited amount of time woult be available for the hearings am suggested that duplication testimony presented at the fielc hearings last fall at Huron anc Redfield be avoided. Because of the possibility that some persons would not be given time to testify, the subdistrict staff is not encouraging a large attend ancc at the Washington hearings, Lewis said.

One day will be de- voted to administration presen- tation of the project and the other day be devoted to presentation of testimony from South Dakotans in support of the project, he added. July Draft Call Is Cut To 15,000 WASHINGTON (AP) The Defense Department today is- sued a draft call for 15,000 army inductees in July, the lowest monthly call since April 1967. It also forecast lower than normal draft calls for 'the July December period. At the same time, the Penta- gon reduced its June draft cal by 9,500 men--from 29,500 to 20,000. vith North Vietnam's insistence Uiat the United States must halt he rest of the bombing of tlie Morth and stop "all other acts of var" before the talks here can on to other issues.

The United States and South Vietnam have forces just below demilitarized zone to coun- North Vietnamese army reg- ulars who allied commanders say infiltrate through tlie DM and around its western end via Laos. Allies have fought heavy bat- tles in such places as Khe Sanh, Con Thien and Dong Ha in the DMZ area. So Jar as is known no allied forces are inside the DMZ, which divides the two Victnams, although some forays have been made to attack ene- my positions there. U.S. planes also have bombed the buffer zone from time to time.

In his opening remarks attfthe'' first full session Monday, Harri- man called for a restoration of the DMZ as a nonmilitary buff- er zone. The two sides met for 3V-i hours today and Harriman de- scribed the discussions as exten- sive and active. He did not elaborate. The negotiators decided not to meet again until Saturday. Harriman spoke first today for an hour and Thuy for an hour and a half, each time in- cluding translations.

Returning to the U.S. Embas- sy Harriman was asked by newsmen whether the United Stales favored a coalition in South Vietnam as one measure to bring about a peaceful settle- ment of tlie war. "We have never been for a co- alition government," lie said, "and we will never be for a coa- lition government." While tlie North Vietnamese briefing was under way on the Left Bank of the Seine, an American report to newsmen by spokesman William Jorden was given at the U.S. Embassy. Harriman, Jorden said, told Thuy that there are "some spe- cific and urgent steps which are vital to peace, and on which it should be possible to agree." Among these steps, Harriman also brought up the issue of the demilitarized zone, a strip of territory about six miles wide, half taken from South and half from North Vietnam.

It is about 40 miles long. "Certainly," Harriman 'Said; "one of th? prime steps toward the strict observance of the mil- itary provisions of the 1954 Ge- neva accords should be to re- store Ihe demilitarized zone in its original and proper status. "The prompt restoration of the demilitarized zone as a buff- er is an essential step." Harriman asked for a prompt answer from Thuy and then See PARIS, Page Five Today's Chuckle Doctors report that cheerful people resist disease better than grumpy people. In other words, "The surly bird catches the germ." TWO FIREMEN PADDLE llirough a resi- rientiid area of Little Hock, searching for persons who may be endangered by rising About 35 families were re- moved from the area after more than live inches of rain poumk'd tin 1 i in a 24- hour period. Water was fmir feet drop in some areas am 1 had readied the porches of some houses.

(AP Wirephoto).