The Ludington Daily News from Ludington, Michigan • Page 1

St. New St. Simon Complex Being Planned Simon Launches Big Campaign For Re-Location A total of $250,000 in campaign pledges was reached Tuesday evening at the first report meeting of campaign workers of St. Simon's Relocation Fund Program. This figure, announced by Jim Fagan and George Glover, campaign co-chairmen for the drive, represents gifts from 414 parishioners.

"We feel certain that this total will continue to grow appreciably as more parishioners participate during the final two weeks of the drive," they said. Rev. Edward S. Orlowski, pastor and honorary chairman of the campaign expressed his gratitude and thanks to the 182 men of the parish participating in this historic parish-wide venture. "This wonderful total vividly shows that the parishioners are accepting the keynote which was established for the drive 'Sacrifice'.

With a like spirit on the part of many who will be visited in the remaining two weeks of the drive, the objectives of the program will be realized," he said. The campaign, directed by J6hn V. McCarthy and Associates, Catholic Financial Consultants of Detroit, will continue through March 12 when a continuation committee will be formed to function throughout the 24 month pledge payment period. Heading the campaign, along with Father Orlowski, the honorary chairman and father Stephen E. Vesbit, campaign moderator, are R.

J. Fagan and George Glover, General Co- Chairmen. Group Leaders include the following: John Fellows, John Findling, Donald Gamelin, Lawrence Horacek, C. Howard Hornung, R. L.

LaBarge, Lavern Larsen, Michael a Michael McDonald, (See ST. SIMON on Page Two) News In Brief SAGINAW (UPI) Robert E. Stockford, 31, who escaped from Southern Michigan Prison in Jackson Feb. 7, was Thursday after police received a tip. Officers said Stockford offered no resistance and was taken to city jail.

He is charged in two armed robbery warrants for crimes he allegedly committed since his escape. They include two dairy stand robberies and a tavern robbery. Cash Stolen From Station About $150 in cash was taken sometime during the night at a breaking and entering at the Downtown Shell Service at the corner of Ludington Avenue and Rowe Street. The breaking and entering was discovered at 7:45 a.m. today when the station was opened.

Entry was made by breaking two small windows on the north side of the building. Ludington police are continuing their investigation. Filing Deadline Is Today 5 p.m. SCOTTVILLE Today at 5 p.m. is the deadline for filing petitions for candidates for the April 1 Scottville city election.

A petition was filed earlier this week for Robert Ferney for the post of First Ward Commissioner. A petition had been filed for Robert O'Hearn for second ward commissioner and to date no petitions have been filed for the post Large. of Commissioner-At- Secret Report Claims 'ress Was Misled On Tonkin Incident Cong WASHINGTON (UPI)-A top secret Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff study concludes that the Johnson administration misled Congress about the 1964. Tonkin Gulf incidents that led to the bombing of North Vietnam, it was learned today. Essential parts of the study, which has been a closely guarded secret up to now, were made public by Sen.

Wayne L. Morse, in a senate speech Thursday. Morse did not identify them as such in his address, but reliable sources said his remarks were taken nearly verbatim from the staff study. The study formed the basis for a searching review by the full committee that has led several members to express doubts that the Aug. 4, 1964, attack on the destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy ever occurred.

Members have also questioned whether the United States might not have provoked the incidents or at least Why Did Romney Quit Campaign? WASHINGTON (UPI)-Why would a man with a chance to be president deny he is interested in the job? Before you ask Nelson Rockefeller that question, take a look at George Romney. The governor of Michigan was the first man into the 1968 presidential race. Wednesday, he became the first man out. Everyone who seeks public office becomes a target for political and editorial criticism. When only one target is in sight, it draws all the fire.

That is what happened to Romney, and his candidacy suffered more damage than it could survive even before former Vice President Richard M. Nixon formally joined the contest. Fatal Episode Romney's publicized statement that he had been "brainwashed" by the administration about Vietnam was, of course, a fatal episode. Democrats and Republican opponents gleefully seized upon the VOTE VOTE Commissioner At Large Mrs. Robert (Jane Pelter) Anderson CAPABLE CONSCIENTIOUS CONSIDERATE CONCERNED With the Affairs of the Comunity Advertisement Paid For by a Friend- remark to question Romney's intelligence and strength of character.

It was not the first time a single phrase devastated a candidate. When a supporter of James G. Elaine said in 1884 that Democrat Grover Cleveland was the candidate of "rum, romanism and rebellion," the roof fell in on the Republican campaign. Ultimate Misfortune Perhaps the ultimate misfortune for was the passing of his remark into the repertory of both professional and amateur comedians. Nothing hurts a public man worse than ridicule, as Barry Goldwater among others can testify.

Romney allowed the initial furor over his remark to rattle him, insisting with some heat that his critics were blowing it up out of all proportion. The point probably was a good one, but Romney did much better with the situation when he began handling it lightly. CLEARANCE SALE ON Snomobiles New and Used Wholesale Prices ABRAHAMSON'S Sportsman Center Ski-Doo and Evinrude Sales and Service overreacted to the whole affair. Conclusions Listed The staff study, which is based on a review of secret documents, including U.S. Navy messages and logs during the period, concludes that: and Turner Joy were not on "routine" patrol as described to Congress in 1964 but were assigned to an electronic spying mission.

They were authorized to stimulate the radar and other electronic systems of Red China and North Vietnam. was attacked by North Vietnam on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1964, but North Vietnam had every reason to believe that the U.S. destroyer was an enemy ship. The North Vietnamese Navy may have thought the Maddox was associated with a South Vietnamese bombardment expedition against two North Vietnamese Islands.

Commander Had Doubts the Aug. 4 incident the United States decided to bomb North Vietnam despite messages from the commander of the Maddox-Turner Joy task force that he had doubts an attack had taken place. The staff study notes that the Maddox's appearance along the North Vietnamese coastline on Aug. 2 was only the third time that a U.S. ship had been spotted in that area since 1962.

The Ludingtonii An Ncivsfwhcr Serving Mason County nnd Surrounding Area. VOLUME NO. 78, NO. 100 LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1968 PRICE IOC IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM Seven Children Perish As Merritt Home Burns MERRITT (UPI)-Seven children died early today in a fire that swept their two-family home near this Missaukee County community northwest of Houghton Lake. The mothers and two other children escaped.

Police said Mrs. Vicki Hall, 34, and Mrs. Dawn Snyder, 34, were sleeping in an upstairs bedroom with Mrs. Hall's infant daughter Patricia, four months, when the fire broke out some- time 2 a.m. The smoke and flames quickly spread through the house, waking the two women, who frantically tried to reach the other children, police said.

Mrs. Hall, with the infant in her arms, grabbed her son, Mike, 2, and ran downstairs through the flames. But Mike broke from her grasp and ran into the kitchen. The fire sealed off the doorway, forcing Mrs. Hall away from the kitchen to a nearby window, which she leaped through.

Mrs. Snyder and her eldest son, Louis, 13, escaped through upstairs windows. But killed in the fire were Danny, Susan and Rex Snyder, aged 5 to 7, and three of Mrs. Hall's children, Debra, 6, Tammy, 4, and Mike. Mrs.

Hall and the infant were admitted to a Cadillac hospital for treatment of burns. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known. Mrs. Snyder.and Louis were treated and released. Mrs.

Snyder's husband, Norman, was employed by the Hewitt Moving and Storage Co. of Cadillac and was driving a furniture van to Ohio when the tragedy occurred. Mrs. Hall was separated from her husband, police said. The cause of the fire was not immediately determined.

5 Red Ships Destroyed By Naval Forces SAIGON (UPI) U.S. forces destroyed five Communist supply ships and captured a sixth today in what military officials called the "most important" naval battle of the Vietnam war. U.S. Navy and Coast Guard patrols caught three 100-foot steel trawlers carrying munitions trying to break through the allied blockade on the South Vietnam coast. They sank two of the three gun-runners in predawn battle and drove the third onto the beach where the crew blew the vessel and themselves up to avoid capture.

A fourth big trawler turned tail and fled, not daring to enter South Vietna- tmse territorial waters, spokesmen said. At the same time two 40-foot guerrilla sampans tried slipping into the Cua Viet River just under the North-South Vietnam border. U.S. forces caught them, sinking one and capturing the other. A third sampan gunrunner got caught by a U.S.

Army 25th Infantry Division ambush patrol on a waterway only two miles north of Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport and warbase. The ambush patrol blew the arms-laden vessel apart. A U.S. military spokesman cited the water action and said, "The most important naval battle of the Vietnam War was fought and won in the early hours shortly after midnight this morning." Never had the Communists tried such a large blockade run. U.S.

intelligence sources said the vessels made their fatal runs in an attempt to rearm Communist forces heavily depleted of weapons during the past month's urban warfare. Reveal Plans To Kill Mayor Daley, Officials CHICAGO (UPI)-A policeman who admitted heading the Ku Klux Klan in Illinois was accused Thursday of planning to assassinate Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley by firing a bazooka rocket through a window of the mayor's home. James Tobin, a fellow policeman, told of Donald Heath's plans to execute Daley, Deputy Police Supt. James M.

Rochford and a former Chicago police captain, James Holzman, now director of public safety of Portland, Ore. The execution plans, according to Tobin, were dropped so that the presidential aspirations of Alabama Governor George Wallace would not be torpedoed. Tobin testified before a police board hearing considering whether to fire Heath because of his KKK activities: The board is to announce its decision April 5. Heath was suspended from the force along with two other accused Klansmen when their affiliations with the white supremacist organization became known in December. Three other alleged police- Klansmen resigned.

Heath, a veteran of seven years with the Chicago police force, dismissed the testimony as "childish dreams dreamed up by Tobin," whom he called "a liar, a child, a dreamer." Tobin infiltrated the Klan by posing as a sympathizer. Tobin said Heath recruited him and that he took the KKK oath Sept. 24 with the knowledge of his supervisors. Tobin and Heath were patrolmen in the predominantly Negro Fillmore police district. Snow flurries and colder temperatures are expected tonight and Saturday, with lows between 16 and 25.

Snow chance 40 per cent. Five-day forecast: Saturday through Wednesday temperatures are expected to average near the normal high of 31-36 and normal low of 10-20. A little colder Saturday, warmer again Sunday then colder again about Tuesday. Johnson Gets Challenge From Riot Committee WASHINGTON (UPI)-President Johnson has been challenged by his top-level antiriot commission to return to Congress and ask for laws and more money to save America from "large scale and continuing" race warfare in the streets of its cities. Since the hot July when Newark and Detroit erupted at a cost of 69 week such as no nation should live through," Johnson called much has been done to prevent it from happening again, the President was told.

"Little basic change in the conditions underlying the outbreak of disorder has taken place," the commission said Thursday night in a summary of its 250,000 word report, the result of a seven- month, $1 million study of the cause of the 164 racial outbursts in American communities dur ing the spring and summer of 1967. The commission asked for "national action compassionate, massive and sustained." It asked for a guaranteed income as high as the $3,335 poverty level for a family of four; the creation of 2 million jobs in the next 24 months and 6 million housing units in the next five years; federal disaster aid to cities hit by riots similar to that offered places hurt by floods or hurricanes; and year-round federal schooling programs for slum children. The commission did not say what this would cost. Teacher Strikes Idle Thousands By United Press International suburb of Wellston. In Oklaho Teacher strikes kept thou-! ma City, the Oklahoma Educa- sands of students out of school tion Association Thursday called again today in Florida, Pennsyl- for a one-way statewide "professional holiday" by its 27,000 teachers next Wednesday to try to convince the legislature to push through a school bill and tax package.

The San Francisco teachers' strike was the first for that city of 750,000. A spokesman for school Supt. Robert E. Jenkins promised classes would go with the help of substitute teachers. vania, Missouri and California.

In San Francisco, the latest target of strikes for more money and educational improvements, 1,500 teachers ignored personal pleas of Mayor Joseph Alioto and stayed away from classes. In Florida, school books gathered more dust as the statewide strike of 22,000 teachers entered its 10th day. A possibility that classes would reopen in the Sunshine state looked bleak after one of the state's biggest school boards rejected a compromise settlement. Gov. Claude Kirk, who has tried but failed to get Florida teachers back to their desks, said he planned to allow a special $254 million educational spending a program teachers claim is insufficient- DETROIT (UPI) The elite become law March 7 without, mate of negotiations appeared his signature.

co today as Detroit's news- One strike, however, wasjpaper blackout crept into its ended Thursday in Albu-j 107th day. querque, N.M., where 2.500 of Members of the American the city's 2,900 teachers walked Newspaper Guild at the Detroit out for more pay, lighter class Free Press called a news con- loads and improved facilities. 1 ference for this afternoon to After Gov David Cargo agreed outline how negotiations stood. to appoint a nine-man panel to I Th latest offer from the Free find more revenue for the state Press was "a kind of an m- education program, regular said a spokesman for the Paper Strike Now In 107th Day; Hope Dim -t l. classes resumed for the unlo on of 14 uruons out of students who had enjoyed week of winter vacation.

Strikes continued today in Pittsburgh and in the St. Louis at the newspaper He said the paper had offered a wage boost of $27 over "what consider 39 months. The Says Public School System Threatened By Tarochiaid' LANSING state subsidies to parents of nonpublic school children "would be the beginning of the end for public education," the Michigan Association of School Boards said Thursday. Dr. Julius Barbour, executive director of the MASB, said at a news conference that the association's 21-member board opposes the diversion, directly or indirectly, of public money into nonpublic schools.

The MASB statement was the strongest yet issued by public school officials against the proposals to grant $21 million to parochial and private school parents. Barbour said the MASB anticipates the possibility that parochial school parents might respond by opposing millage elections for public schools. "This is a calculated risk one has to take," he said. The Michigan Association of School Administrators called a news conference for 11:30 a.m. today to announce its objections to "Parochiaid." "We object to tiie efforts being made to circumvent the law of the land by giving money to the parents of private school pupils," the MASB said in a statement read by Barbour.

"Can anyone deny that this would be a diversion, in the fact of surety that each recipient would be obliged to turn the over to a private school in one form or another," it said. The MASB, which represents 98 per cent of all public school boards, affirmed its belief in the "melting pot" concept of public education and in the doctrine of separation of church and state. Public aid to nonpublic schools would threaten these concepts, he said. "We argue this would be the beginning of the end for public education," Barbour said. This would happen, Barbour said, because public aid would provide the impetus to any dissident or group of dissidents who want to start a private school to do so.

is perfectly possible to set up schools under these acts dedicated to seregation as to political beliefs," the MASB statement said. we latest offer to the Teamsters was he said. The Teamsters Union struck the Detroit News Nov. 16. The Free Press stopped the presses the next day because of a publishers agreement.

The Teamsters have since accepted a contract offer from the Free Press, while rejecting an identical proposal from the News. Free Press bargainers have 13 unions yet to bargain with, including the Detroit Pressmen's Union Local 13 which threatens to strike both papers next week. Negotiators at the News have 13 unions to talk to. The newspaper guild is not represented at the News. The city's newspaper blackout is now just 27 days short of the 134-day blackout in 1964, longest in the city's history.

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