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The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 1

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The Post-Crescenti
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Appleton, Wisconsin
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TM Post Cres cent VOL. XCI, No. 68 40 Pages APPLETON-NEENAH-MENASHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1972 ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE Price 15 Cents Air CoB id 3 Air Killed jC A North-Central Airlines and his estimated time of. Curtis Wanner, Chicago. 15 minutes of radio silence, at Reports from the scene said The two passengers on the approximately 10:55 a.m.

I that the two planes were down an Air Wisconsin plane collided arrival as 10:44 a.m. Wilburne over Lake winneoago late ne does not know if the North-Central flight were identi- An eyewitness to the exDlo- in the lake behind the city's morning anu crasnt'u imo inejiiigia wds contact wun tne nea as Mrs. i. w. Meele andjsinn, Frank Bemke, route 2, lake off Neenah.

According to Oshkosh tower. her daughter Barbara, 12, both, Hilbert. said he was in his car! swimming pool. They were estimated to be about three miles an official at the Outagamie, Air Wisconsin released a ten-f Skaneatles, N. Y.

stopped at a stop sign at the offshore. Wreckage was scat- County Airport, a total tative passenger list for Flight North Central pilot was identi- intersection of U.S. 10 and State tered over a half-mile area. passengers and crew were on 671 that included the following: fied as Capt. James T.

CuzortJlH at Waverly when he looked the two planes. One body had David Jacobs, 1814 Amelia jAppleton, the pilot. Arlington Heights, 111., and the! up in the sky and saw what stewardess was Miss Frances! appeared to be fireworks in the M. Rabb, Flint, Name of I sky over Lake Winnebago just been recovered by 11:30 a.m. There were no survivors.

Mike damn, Appleton, the co- According to the airport pilot. tne co-pnot was not released east ot Waverly Beach. Plane Falling spokesman, North-Central flight Charles Peebles, 214 K. Harris! pending notification of next of 2H0, due trom Green Bay Appleton. an emolove of kin.

A police boat from the City of Neenah was in the lake searching for casualties and survivors, Larry Brouchoud, a roofing contractor working across the street from the Neenah Pool, said he heard "a couple of explosions one big one followed by at least two other ones." He said, "It shook the roof a little bit." Mrs. Nathan Bonnin, Neenah, Bemke, who said he is an ex Oshkosh, contained a crew of Appleton Wire Works im Drum, vice president of, flyer, said he thought the plane was at ah altitude of about 1,000 feet when he saw the explosion. He said it looked like an aerial torpedo in a nighttime fire- tore ana wo cnge s. ine, Kennoth Kocnj Falrvlew' North-Central Airlines in charge Sheboygan-to-Appleton Air Wis-Drjve Neenah eeneral salps consin flight 671 carried eight' n'r for theox ali? parsons, six passengers and two; Division( Koehring Co. He H'sht 290 was over two crewmen.

n(re last week from lale leaving Green Bay usimusu i ti land, Ore. after it was delayed in the works. After the explosion he was sitting at poolside and saw pieces of the plane fall into witnessed the crash. She said, the lake. I "One part was all in flames Joseph Cutler, Fremont, i Upper Michigan Peninsula be- uuane ivioore saia ne iws cant-n in a special Federal Bureau of irrOC nhflMiln (a A nnlnl Qllca nf uronllini Un nnJ Bemke, who was'alone in hisja one th? ffi Identification team to identify! ircw" took off I meeting at Koehrine.

He was i from Austin Straubel bodies 31'Pa caloc manaanr tnr llm firm 1 KiplH at Kl'IO a anu one pari weni 10 ine ngni. Another woman said it ap car, couldn't give an estimate An iVa i -7J rvf tYxa nl'inn ninnn Vtr JS'eenah Police Boat Skipper Sgt. Duane 'Buzz" Nelson, left, take debris aboard the Menasha duck as the two de-apartments prepare to scavenge Lake Winnebago's bottom and surface to find traces of the two aircraft which crashed about 3 miles east of Neenah at 11 a.m. today. (Post-Crescent Photo) IS flUe -J' inumivi IU1 Lilt- Illlll, iu.xii The three-man team into Neenah today from Wash-j Miss Linda Alles, Weston, peared to be "a big flash of Srt.u mc iiigm was iniddn't spp htart Thi nlanp contact with the FAA tower at, he said, appeared to continue onifire She said- "II was a scary inaton accompanied by Ed Foley assistant director of the; Floyd Oehler, Mulberry Oshkosh, and that the toward Neenah.

He ran toi s'ght- She was sitting the reported the plane missing aftera phone to call authorities. Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 Lane, Omro. i Wisconsin area for the FBI. Moore said the team was the only disaster identification unit of its type in the country.

"1 called them in with the coopera New Commander Named in Vietnam Neenah Sherwood SAIGON (AP) The new.Nixnn gave him a big push -9 1 S'ocb'e commander of U.S. forces in ward tne Army pinnacle when; the White House announced Vietnam, Gen. Frederick C. that the 55-year-old native ofish Weyand, was pegged as a ris -Ktid-" -4 5 poto ---frM I ill -jf I I tr-rSc 1 1 ing star in the Army long be-jArbuckle, would succeed fore he was first sent to Viet-Gci1- Creighton D. Abrams in nam six years ago.

the top American military post He proved his battle Sa'g-as a battalion commander in; Earlier Path the Korean war. And he demon- If be follows the trail blazed strated a talent for diplomacy by Abrams and his predeees-from 1982 to 1964 in one of the sor, Gen. William C. West-most delicate Pentagon assign- moreland, the next steD for We- tion of Peppier (Winnebago County Sheriff), they have the only federal disaster identification team available," said Moore. Moore said bodies and recovered items will be held at Neenah's Roosevelt School until identification and disposition can he made.

The Neenah Police Department, which had a rescue boat at the scene, said that wreckage from both North-Central and Air Wisconsin planes was in the water. The collision apparently occurred at 10:45 a.m. The North-Central plane was a turboprop jet Convair. The Air Wisconsin plane was a de Haviland Otter, also a turboprop jet. Preston Wilbu'-ne, general manager of Air Wisconsin, said that Flight 671 from Chicago to Appleton called in on the com- ments representing the Armylyand will be Chief of Staff.

Weyand has fought the Viet namese Communists on the bat on Capitol Hill as chief of legislative liason. Even then Weyand's col- tlefield and sparred with them The Solid Line represents the approximate route of the North Central plane from Green Bay to Oshkosh while the dotted line follows the Air Wisconsin route from Sheboygan to Appleton. leagues were picking him as a across the Paris conference! future chief of staff, a fine per- table. He recently told friends; formance for an ROTC gradu- that the Viet Cong "are asj ate who never went to West tough in suits and ties as they I Point. On Wednesday President are in black pajamas." Danv radio at 10:25 a.m.

and; The Blanket Covered Body of a victim of the mid- Winnebago is brought to shore at Neenah in the rear air passenger plane crash late this morning over Lake of a Neenah Police patrol boat. (Post-Crescent Photo); Unemployed Michigan Man Airlines Hijack Ransom Suspect Held i DETROIT (AP) A 28-year-1 shortly after it left St. central Indiana. An officials said he demanded and old unemployed man was ar-j Friday night en route to after a car raced onto the run-j was given instruction on how to rested at his home and charged Okla. with 94 persons on American Airlines bag contain-! operate the parachutes, as the airliner hijacker who got I He forced a landing at St.

ling $500,000 was found in a The FBI said extensive inves-j $502,500 ransom and parachuted Louis where airline officials farmer's field Monday and a ligation bv agents in Current Method of Using Death Penalty Invalidated over Indiana last weekend, the said the man armed with a sub-submachine gun was found Indiana, Illinois and Michigan developed information that led FBI announced today. I machine gun was given $502,500 about five miles away. Martin McNallv 28 of sub- and two parachutes. He re- FBI agents and Indiana state to McNally. WASHINGTON (AP) The tection' of the laws.

That he is invalid mnsllv because it is court has overstepped." nrhan WvanHnfto una rhapooH'leased most of the plane pas- police combed the area near, This was thp inth hiiackinc uith vinlatinn of thp fpdpral air sensers and changed planes Peru, for five days. since last Thankscivins Five in Supreme Court held 5 to 4 to- found to be 'implicit." in the used infrequently and did not! Powell said none of the five day that the death penalty, as! Eighth Amendment. jmeet "any existing general opinions by the justices in the i t. i i i i1 piracy statute, said Neil J.j way and smashed into the first I Law enforcement of ficers which an airline hijacker de-Welsh, special agent in charge airliner. (speculated the hijacker was in- rnanded ransom and para-of the Michigan FBI.

McNally! The hijacker forced the planeliured in the iumP since airline; chutes. Now arrests have been is now usca in me unuea, nrennan nasea nis juugmsm neea lor reiriouuon. majority provides a con- States, violates the Constitution primarily on the theory that the) Burger, in dissent, said the stitutionally adequate founda- maHo in all nwpnl fh firt in. land cannot be imposed. death penalty "does not com-nrisinn lavp! Ipfrislatnros frpp tion for the court's decision." was arrested snortiy oeiore wjth six hostages to fly toward: midnight Wednesday and was Toronto and he bailed out overl held by the FBI in Detroit Chance of Rain Very Slight ivolving a man identified as' While the decision leaves the Pr w.llh "to carve out limited ex-! For the present, he.

said, the d. B. Cooper who bailed out be- door open for legislatures to re- also Cltcd tne hKhth Amend- a general abolition ruling "removes the death sen-' ween Seattle and Reno, Nev. linstate capital punishment in of the penalty." He said thetenccs previously imposed on i It also was the 10th time in1" circumstances, one of the jshMma.r"ha Z'lrMv uS!" tourt Ronc "bPyond the Te pun" the past 18 hijackings that the "ine opinions issued by the IWe" and pmeT'" but throu8hnut the coun-nlanp waq takpn nvpr on FriHav court said the immediate result added "while fortunately leav-itry." pending arraignment today. A spokesman said an FBI complaint would be filed today at St.

Louis. A hijacker took over the American Airlines Boeing 727 wiit'ii en flurtiiini wr i. 1 Psychologists have spec- "1 remove Ihe fleain sen- V. 11 enn I I Kighlh Amendment's Fox Cities Mostly fair tonight, partly clouc'y with slight chance of showers in late afternoon Friday. Low tonight in the low 51s, hi jh Dllll-J juHmeHi luuay 31 1 intra uiiwh a i 1 i luiaten mat loneliness ot tne ap- tion on cruel and unusua broaching weekend is a factor inmates aero! the land.

'khmmis riinc'Kmun, saving nc yiciaa cniiy iimi imh nnium a icgis- i Friday in the low 80s. Wind in the timing. All nine justices filed stale- Stewart concluded that the "to no one in the depth of myjlators have thought necessary I An FBI spokesman said men of their views. In the death penalty is now applied in distaste, antipathy, and indeed, since our country was found-; McNally was divorced and mainriiv were Justices William a "wanton" and "freakish" abhorrence for the death penal-; ed." He said the ruling had unemployed. A neighbor in O.

Douglas, William J. Brennan manner. ty." nevertheless dissented be-completely disregarded "judi- northwest at 8-16 m.p.h. io-night and southeast at 8-12 m.p.h. Friday.

Precipitation nrnhahilitu 5 npr ppnt Inninht Wvandolte said McNallv stuck Thurcnod Marshall, and White said the death nenaltvcau.se. he wrote. "I fear the cial self-restraint. and 20 per cent Friday. pretty much to himself and had with some reservations, Potter TODAY'S INDEX Comics C10 Editorials A 4 Obituaries 3 Sports 1 TV Log Theaters B.8 Vital Statistics 4 Weaffier Map 4 Women's News CI Fox Cities 1 Appleton Observations at: ii'-ue no wun neignnors.

Mcvran ana tsyron k. wnue. 9:30 a.m. for the preceding 24 The FBI said McNallv was Dissenting were the four Nixon hours: high 75, low 59. Barome-! arrested by FBI agents.

Wyan-1 administration appointees, ter 29,94 and rising. Wind north dotte police and officers of the Chief Justice Warren K. Burnt 8 m.p.h. Humidity 77 per Detroit Police Department with ger, and Justices Harry A. if Fresh Foods Put Under Price Controls at Middle Level cent.

Dew point 63. Skies partly assistance f-om the Wayne Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell i Martin J. McNally cloudy. Precipitation .04 inch.

County Sheriff's office. and William II. Rehnquist Immediate Reversal Reversed immediately by the decision were two death sen WASHINGTON (AP) Prcs-to Price Commission rules. President has been reluctant to tences lor non-lalal rapes in limit tiohlnn thp rnnlrnl nrnprsm to Miami Beach Council Request for 'Poor People's City' Shelved I niLiii iiiAiui iMiniii inii i mra iiiim uihiiiuihcii vegetables and profit margins and require; make it apply to the farm for murder in confrf)s for (f) j(s(ify prjce in.el In other actions todav. theW fir5 time today, but only a through increased Some of the products that MIAMI BEACH.

Fla. (AP) right to challenge th Demo-i Abernathy said SCLC's mis-or or city manager would call court: me nas wpn vms- aJ The Miami Beach City Council crats to be the party of the sion was not to protest but "to the council into session to de- -Ruled that forme- by the farmcr' numsfeM, director of the sneii, ail iresn i vege- has shelved a request by the people." lobby for the things black termine if his action was justi-! land Sen. Daniel Brewster can Nixon signed an executive or- the Cost of Living Council told, 1P' a'' iresn or naturauy Southern Christian Leadership In a statement prepared for people need." fied. If not, they could terml-'be prosecuted on charges that dcr removing the current ex-newsmen that Nixon's action dried foods; and ail raw sea- Conference to build a "poor releasa today in Washington an! "We feel the poor people nate it. he accepted a bribe to influencc emption on raw agricultural "cannot drive fond products, including tnose people's city" in time for the spokesman quoted ought to be here because Amer-j The council adopted one other, his position on postal legisla- products from price controls down only increased supply or n.ve shelIM ocr a i National Con-jAbernathy as saying, "I still ica ought not to exclude them ordinance, permitting the for-tion.

after the first sale meaning reduced demand could do that scaled, skinned, iced, evisce- vention jhave laith in the City Council from the system," he said. of police lines during' -Held that the First Amend- that it will apply primarily at rated or decapitated. The Rev. Ralph David and officials of Miami Beach! Abernathy received a stand-iriots or unlawful does not preclude the at-the wholesale and retail level, But he said the decision Is de-' The White House said the ac-Abernathy, head of the SCLCjthat they will work whole-jing ovation from i many of the and rejected eight other pro-jtorney general from barring; The action will have virtually slsned to'put discipline on will affect about $12 biiyon appeared before the council heartedly to grant poor peoples250 people attending the meet- posed statutes. foreign citizens who are Invited no jmpact on the selling cost of markups and margins at food transactions, or mien nc wuu, uu, iuK me uiicn iciiiptsuiuus iu it' ciure in mis country.

mpat tn tpn nf Ihe fonrt nrnrpss ncr "uul 11 lwu Wednesday to ask for a place to camp in the city." iite at Flamingo for about' Mayor Chuck Hall said the After sneiving tne ciaj re-j meeting a number of citizens: -Ruled that a federal grand mcal sutn as DPCf and Pnrk chain. at Fiaminnn Park for about' Mayor Qiuck Hall said tl component me iruiiaunier price Index. The over-all figure component of tne consumer price inaex. ine over-n ngure 300 poor people during the July councfl cn was namsirung oy us quest, cny councnmen voieq lo picaaHu lor more power anq jury may qucs ion a Ocs 01 Sen. uaUa i.nn last week to deny camp-'give Police Chief Rocky Pome-guns for police against an an-iMike Gravel, D-Alaska.

about I 1 Rfeld is 2 5 Por cpnt of the en-to all protesters within the ranee power to declare states ticipated invasion by thousands' arrangements for publication of "nJu X.i probably will not be greeted tire lnflcx brought under con-nl Beach citv limit. of emergency and curfews dur-'of protesters. Pentagon Papers. controls last novemDcr. much enthusiasm at the trols for the first time.

-1 was hamstrung by its tJoarh limilw nf PmprDfnf'V And CUrfeWS dlir. nf nrtllrstrrs I ho Pantaann Pnnnra vnj 10-14 nominating convention, voie mme todav with a man-sites i U.nfU., Miami nai0 frnm rnp imiiii iuki iiiiiit ifiiomi told the council "We eel that Lobby Mission ing the political Mayor Hall warned that It' Here Is how the court major- for tne urst time, nowever, wholesale anci retail level. The Price Commission rec- we must make a witness at the Citv Manager Clifford council, however, retained was "bad for people to was formed in the death products such as fresh vrge-j Nixon announced last week ommended last week that Nix-Democratic Convention. We was instructed to find out if the right to veto his actions, constantly about riots told, blood penalty case: ilables, fresh fish that has un- lie i lifting meat, Import quotas on remove the current ex-have chosen to-bund Ifesurrec- there was ome way thu council The ordinance provided that and fire, Douglas concluded capital dergone some processing, and for the remainder of the on raw agricultural tion City II and through a non-could accommodate the. civil if Pomerance should proclaim "These people coming hers punishment Is incompatible other raw products at whole-'In an effort to slow the rise byproducts.

But its recommenda-vlolent process to exercise our rights group. a state of emergency, the may- arcn't murderers," Hall said, with the concept of "equal pro- sale and retail will be subject beef and pork prices. But the tion extended to the farm level..

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