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291 THE MUNCIE "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, MUNCIE. INDIANA, SATURDAY, BANK BOMBING HURTS 22 Rebuilding 26th Street May Cost $335,000 By RICK KERR The mayor said the $69,500 for the city A $335,000 price tag has been placed on would "most likely' come from the Capthe 26th Street widening and rebuilding ital Improvement Fund. That fund is project by a consulting engineering firm. made up of cigarette taxes returned to The state would refund 75 per cent of the the city from the state. Use of the cigamount.

arette tax money requires approval by That figure was i in a letter sent to the City Council. Mayor Paul J. Cooley by Ned Fairman COOLEY explained that use of the two of Butler, Fairman and Seufert of Indian- cents from the gasoline tax requires apapolis. Included in the estimate are costs proval from a state board established to for, paving, curbs and gutters, sidewalks review projects. But he said he expected storm sewer installations.

that 26th Street would qualify. OF THE TOTAL costs, $251,250 would The mayor predicted actual work on be paid from the additional two-cent gaso- the street could begin this summer. Plans line tax funds, Cooley said. The city call for the street to be widened to 30 feet would be responsible for $83,750. But the from Walnut Street to Macedonia Aveengineering firm said $14,250 could be nue with redesigning of the roadway to subtracted.

from the city's 25 per cent for include curb and gutters. The storm sewengineering work already completed by ers will be tied in at Penn and Walnut City Engineer Ward Harlan's office. streets. Jury to Get Starring Role in 'Chicago 7' Riot Trial By F. RICHARD CICCONE CHICAGO (AP) The prosecution concluded its arguments Friday in the trial of seven men charged with conspirto incite rioting at the time of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Judge Julius J. Hoffman said he would charge the jury Saturday morning to begin deliberations for the verdict. FORAN ENDED his hour argument with a summary of the evidence. He thundered quotations from John F. Kennedy and Thomas Jefferson and derided the defendants attempts to associate "HURLEY GOODALL Goodall Seeking Seat on Board C.

Goodall, 1905 Carver Drive, Hurley announced Friday that he will seek electhe Muncie Community School tion to Board in the May 5 election. In making the announcement, he listed proposals he would support as a board Goodall became the fourth candidate announce for the two positions which are for election. Incumbents Jack Peckinup paugh and J. Wesley Wray, as well as former board member, Mrs. Carolyn Kelley had previously announced.

A CITY FIREMAN for the past 12 Goodall is a native of Muncie and years, of Central High School. He is a graduate currently serving as a board member of the Community Services Council. The candidate said he would work: build an atmosphere of cooperaBall State University and the tion between Community Schools so as to take Muncie advantage of the resources and expertise that are available to the taxpayers of the Muncie Community at very little, if any, cost. And which should increase the quality of education available to all our students. reorder and redirect the priorities of the Muncie Community Schools within the limited confines of the situation into which we have boxed ourselves, with what I consider to be unwise decisions of the past.

tap the untapped reservoir of what I believe to be the dedicated creative and innovative educational excellence of (See GOODALL on Page 2) Battle Rages SAIGON (UPI) South Vietnamese and a Communist force of unknown size battled for the second army troops consecutive day Friday in the Mekong Delta southwest of Saigon. spokesmen said at least 58 Communists had been killed in the fighting, 42 of them dying Friday in a clash near Cang Long district, town 38 miles southwest of the Government casualties were described only as light. Fighting began in the area Thursday when the South Vietnamese army unit discovered and attacked small building spokesmen described as a Viet Cong armaments factory. Fighting continued intermittently, and in the battle that broke out Friday in the area government forces summoned aerial and artillery support against an attacking Communist force. Spokesmen said 13 Communists were taken prisoner Friday and 10 Communist barracks and a quantity of ammunition destroyed.

STAR Bank Ruins Inspected by Police Connecticut state police examine wreckage in the other explosions, one at the Union Savings Bank of Danbury, after it was bombed and another at a shopping center and held up. The robbers escaped with an estimated of 23 persons were hurt by $40,000 paving the way to their escape with two Wirephoto) There Is Liberty" -II Cor. 3:17 FEBRUARY 14, 1970 Reassessment Figures in Townships Show Increased Base for Taxation By DICK POWELL Reassessment figures for Delaware County outside Center Township have been completed and await only the completion of Muncie, Center Sanitary District and Center Township valuations before being submitted to the State Board of Tax Commissioners. County Auditor George Nixon, while reviewing the figures Friday, said all reassessment computation should be completed in the latter part of the coming week. HE SAID the percentages of increase varied dramatically from one township to another and that the figures when submitted to the state board, are subject to the board's actions.

It can increase property assessments. Selma's big valuation jump (see chart) was in part due to annexation, which cut into the assessed valuation of Liberty Township. Valuation in Mt. Pleasant School district increased Mt Pleasant Township topped all others inu percentage increases at 20.1 over 1968 figures. THE REASSESSMENT figures will be used to compute the tax rate of each unit, which will be payable in 1970 in two installments, the first one due in May.

Assessed valuation in the final computation used in figuring a tax levy. It is perhaps the most critical factor because if it increases sharply from one year to the next it often will cancel out a large budget increase and allow a government unit to To combat pollution, it is obvious we must develop an auto which will run on sewage. QUICK TAKE PHONE Danbury police station parking lot. A total the three blasts. (AP budget stays the same year to year, but assessed valuations decreases, the tax rate will increase.

VALUATION BY UNITS levy practically the same tax rate as the year before despite the budget increase. Conversely, if a governmental unit's TOWNSHIPS Per Cent Old Total New Total Increase Mt. Pleasant 9,939,295 $11,935,160 20.1 Delaware 3,969,615 4,195,055 5.7 Hamilton 9,607,410 10,732,565 11.7 Union 2,786,525 2,896,925 4.0 Niles 2,545,905 2,612,910 2.7 Monroe 6,081,805 6,466,475 6.1 Liberty 6,898,995 6,956.050 0.8 Perry 3,952,230 4,102,355 4.0 Harrison 4,676,515 5.128.015 9.6 Washington 3,113,085 3,357,000 8.0 Salem 6,120,905 6,891,305 12.4 TOWNS Yorktown 2,942,655 3,327,345 13.1 Albany 2,940,225 3,153,865 7.2 Eaton 1,534,205 1,567,305 2.2 Selma 478,790 898,600 87.7 SANITARY DISTRICT Mt. Pleasant 7,258,030 7,506,960 3.4 SCHOOL DISTRICTS Mt. Pleasant 20,139,980 22,769,465 8.8 Delaware Metropolitan 23,383,885 25,158,625 9.3 Monroe 6,081,805 6,466,475 6.1 Liberty-Perry 11,330,015 11,957,005 5.5 Harrison Washington 8,808,745 9,583,120 9.2 Salem 6,120,905 6,891,305 12.4 282-5921 TEN CENTS Explosions Help Gang Get $40,000 A 00 Hong Kong Flu Is Back in 45 States ATLANTA, Ga.

(AP) The Hong Kong flu is back. National health officials says its occurence has been reported in 45 states, but they predict that it won't be as severe as last winter's epidemic which killed thousands. The National Communicable Disease Center said Friday that widespread outLouisiana, Maine Rhode Island, have been reported, this year in while less serious outbreaks have occurred in 11 other states. ONLY FIVE STATES, Delaware, South Dakota, Arkansas, Wyoming and Nevada Around Red Factory IN HONOLULU Defense Secretary Melvin Laird arrived back in the United States from his Vietnam war zone tour Friday, optimistic about reducing the U.S. combat role but warning of "hard knocks and some disappointments" ahead.

He planned a one-day layover in Honolulu to meet with Adm. John S. McCain commander of U.S. Forces in the Pacific. Laird amplified remarks he made as he left Saigon earlier, saying the Allies in the Vietnam war would meet within the next two months.

He said the nations meet "on a regular yearly and the forthcoming meeting had been "planned for some time." He said the time and place would be announced by the State Department. It will be the first meeting of the Allies- -the United States, South Vietnam, Australia, Thailand, New Zealand and the Philippines- since President Nixon took office. At an airport news conference, Laird DANBURY, Conn. -Two heavily armed robbers, using three time bombs, blasted the Danbury police station, a bank and their getaway car Friday after they stole $40,000 from the bank. Then they escaped down an alley at a shopping center.

Twenty-two persons were injured in the explosions and Mayor Gino J. Arconti, worried about further bombings, declared a state of emergency, Police in Connecticut and New York State and the FBI helped search for the men: Danbury Fairfield County near the Connecticut- New York state line. themselves with the late Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

you imagine Jesus, Saint Matthew, Dr. King or Mahatma Ghandi supporting anybody like these men?" Foran asked the jury. At that point, Tascha Dellinger, daughter of defendant David T. Dellinger, stood in the spectator section shouted, "Yes, I can. I can't listen to any more of these lies." Miss Dellinger and her younger sister, Michelle, 13, were escorted from the courtroom.

A marshal raised his hand as the girl neared and her father leaped up at the defense table and shouted, "Don't hit my daughter." In a well-paced delivery, Foran recited the evidence in the months of testimony and quoted obscenities attributed to the defendants. NEAR THE END of the argument, he quoted Ghandi as saying, "'The future for the truthful, pure and loving." not for these liars and obscene He quoted the late President Kennedy: "No man, no matter how unruly or boisterous, can defy the law." we ever reach the stage where any man by the threats of force or violence can defy the law, then no civilization will be safe," Foran, said. He closed a quote from Jefferson: "Obedience to the law is the major part of patriotism." At the start of his argument, Foran cated, highly educated," evil called the defendants, "highly, sophistiHe told the jury to remember what they have seen and heard at the defense table in the five- months of the trial. "You are not computers as Mr. Kunstler (defense lawyer) said." Foran said.

"You must not sit there and count witnesses. You must not ignore what you see at that defense table and how they (the defendants) look or speak." "OUTBURSTS are not something for you to ignore," he added. The defendants, most of whom have long shaggy hair and dress in corduroy, rawhide, brightly colored shirts and head bands, smiled at the jury during Foran's remarks. Foran spoke at the conclusion of defense lawyer William M. Knustler's final argument which the long-haired New York lawyer concluded: "This is a moment in history where the courtroom becomes the proving ground to see whether men die free or live free It is your responsibility to see that men can still speak boldly and remain the masters of their souls, and are able to live free and die free." Earlier, Kunstler told the jurors that if any one of them believed the seven men innocent, "it is your obligation to stand firm in that belief Foran objected and Judge Hoffman reprimanded Kunstler.

"I will give the jury its instructions," the judge said. Each side was allotted hours for final arguments which began Tuesday. IF CONVICTED, each man faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $20,000. The defendants are Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, 32; Jerry C. Rubin, 31; Thomas F.

Hayden, 30; Rennard C. "Rennie" Davis, 29; David T. Dellinger, 55; Lee Weiner, 32, and John R. Froines, 31. EARLY REPORTS indicated as much as $75,000 was taken in the robbery.

Police said initial reports were that two men drove up to the police station on Main Street and threw an explosive device into the building. The police station was heavily damaged and seven policemen were injured, none critically. Moments later, a second bomb went off at the Union Savings Bank about three blocks from the police station. A LAWYER, Ronald George, said he had seen "two men in their 20's" run up an alley between the Union Savings and City Trust Co. banks.

In the bank, the men, described by witnesses as armed with a machine gun and a sawed-off shotgun, forced employes to lie on the floor and scooped money from the cash drawers. They fled leaving behind a bomb which blew out the front window and injured several persons on the sidewalk outside. The men, one described as longhaired, the other hefty and wearing a mustache, possibly false, were next seen running down an alley to the Danbury Mall, shopping center about four blocks away. The bomb demolished a parked car and damaged two others, and smashed in the front windows of a Grandways Store. TELEPHONE service was disrupted in the Danbury area, apparently by the bomb blasts.

prankster was able to touch off a bomb scare at two parochial grade schools a short time later, however. The were evacuated but no bombs were found. Students were then sent home for the day. Do Something Whenever you see a crime committed or a suspicious act, help your law enforcement team keep our streets safe. One number brings a quick response.

Call Crime Alert 289-1234 have not reported some influenza, the NCDC says. During one six-week period last winter, when Hong Kong flu was at its highest level, 6,805 persons died in the 122 used in compiling the NCDC report. This was about 3,700 more than the number of deaths which had been anticipated for the period. The current variety of flu is the same as last year's which hit this country hard and later showed up in epidemic proportions in Europe. The NCDC says deaths at the present time are higher than normal but the mortality rate won't be anywhere near that of last winter.

"Although respiratory mortality is higher than normal, a leveling off trend was observed this past week," a spokesman said. OF THE THREE states where flu is widespread, Louisiana is causing health officilas some concern because the outbreak there was mild last winter. Little immunization was built up as it was in other states where more serious outbreaks occurred. Cases of Hong Kong flu this year are cecurring mostly in places where there were either mild outbreaks or none at all last year. For this reason, most big cities will escape serious outbreaks since most saw major outbreaks last year, health offic'als said.

Moderate outbreaks have been reported in 11 states: Vermont, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, North Dakota, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. Localized outbreaks have been reported in 24 states: Connecticut, Massachusetts. New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, California and Hawaii. ISOLATED CASES have been reported in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The virus, a strain of Asian flu which swept the nation in 1957, first broke out in Hong Kong in July 1969 and later was confirmed in Singapore and Formosa.

Nixon Announces 20-Nation Tour for Apollo 12 Crewmen briefly reviewed the status of the U.S. Vietnam policy, noting that "in the light of the Vietnamization (of the war), the American troop withdrawal will be a continued one." The secretary planned to leave Honolulu early Sunday, and report to President Nixon on his Vietnam tour on Tuesday. AS LAIRD ENDED his three-day sion and flew back to Washington to report to President Nixon, it was disclosed that President Nguyen Van Thieu had requested "substantially" more U.S. economic aid for South Vietnam. A spokesman for Laird said the Pentagon chief was receptive to Thieu's requests but would make no commitment before consulting with Nixon.

"This trip has convinced me that Vietnaminzation continues to make solid progress," Laird told reporters at a news con(See BATTLE on Page 2) By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) President Nixon announced Friday a 20-nation world tour for the Apollo 12 astronauts, churned out paper work and combed over a final draft of a foreign policy message to Congress. The message will be a "State of the World" equivalent of the annual presidential report to Congress and the people on the "State of the The message goes to Congress Wednesday. IN THE PATTERN of other astronaut teams, the President asked Charles Conrad Jr.

Richard F. Gordon, and Alan L. Bean and their wives to launch a 40 day, four-continent goodwill mission next Monday with a flight from their base at Houston, to Caracas. Venezuela. With other countries likely to be added later, the tour vill take the astronauts in turn to Peru, Chile, Panama, Portugal, Luxembourg.

Denmark, Finland, Ro- mania, Austria, Morocco, Tunisia, Ivory Coast. Tanzania, Malagasy Republic, Ceylon, Burma, Indonesia, the NationalEst China and Japan. In international affairs, Nixon nominated career diplomat Albert. William Sherer Jr. to be ambassador to the Republic of Guinea.

Sherer is 54, has been in the State Department 24: years, and row is Ambassador to Togo. His predecessor in Guinea, Robert Mcilvaine, now is Ambassador to Kenya, WHITE HOUSE Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Nixon didn't know at the time he nominated Federal Judge G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court that the judge had sold a waterfront lot near Tallahassee, in 1966 with a provision it could be occupied only by whites. The Supreme Court held in 1948 that such restrictions were constitutional but their enforcement in state courts would be unconstitutional..