Manitowoc Herald-Times from Manitowoc, Wisconsin • 1

D-TIME Vol.70-No. 165 Officials Hope Negotiations Second Class pottage paid at Manitowoc; Wis. MANITOWOC, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1968 PvbUsM AHy txcep SvMayt and HolKUyl at HI Franklia MMjiowec Wis. S422t Price Ten Cents MANTK)OC HER AL Strokes Can Resume i b'Jr Peed Telephone Strike Enters 3rd Day Service 'Normal WASHINGTON (AP) Tele Twister Alert phone company and union offi cials have expressed hope they can get wage negotiations going Out for Parts again as a nationwide strike of ipwia 1 Storm Swoops Eli on Arkansas; I'nlfw 270 Injured I'- A T-fTiJ, nearly 200,000 AFL-CIO Communications Workers enters its of Wisconsin third day. "We are ready to meet with Rain made up the weather picture over most of Wisconsin Saturday and Sunday and it's expected to be partly cloudy to fair with little change in existing temperatures the remainder of the weekend.

tnem," Ben S. Gilmer, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph said Friday. "We are hopeful the parties can get back together," said a spokesman for union President Joseph A. Beirne. Most telephone service was little affected by the first nationwide strike in 21 years.

Good-Natured Picketing in about 40 states Winds off Lake Michigan were combined with the partially foggy weather after cessation of the nearly 12-hour rainfall. Estimated precipitation a Manitowoc and Two Rivers was was reported generally good-na-tured and peaceful, but the com 44 of an inch. towoc. "Once Upon A Time" was the theme of the 1968 prom attended by more than 500 students. Additional pictures and story on Page 3-M.

(Photo by staff photographer.) JUNIOR PROM Prom King Dick Teteak, and his queen, Pat Jirikowic, were formally introduced and crowned during intermission ceremonies Friday evening at the annual Junior Prom fit Lincoln High School, Mani Saturday morning the weather bureau issued a tornado watch for extreme northern Illinois. Business District Hit First; Square Is 'Half Leveled' GREENWOOD, Ark. (AP) -A tornado that devastated this western Arkansas town Friday killed at least 13 persons, police said today, as the search for additional victims resumed. More than 270 persons were treated for injuries, either at hospitals in nearby Fort Smith or in an emergency medical center established in the library state police said. The tornado swooped out of a spring thunderstorm at 3:23 p.m.

Friday and slammed into the business district, leveling about half of the buildings on the town square and heavily damaging most of the others. Search Resumes A search of the rubble resumed at dawn and workers pany reported scattered cable-cutting incidents in Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey and Florida. "Vandalism of telephone plant (equipment) has not been wide part of extreme northeastern fcwa, parts of southern Wiscon i if" y- lis I IfIIM HWlLs, fa sin and extreme southeastern spread and where it has oc Minnesota. The threat was to curred, repairs have been made promptly," Gilmer said in a continue most of Saturday statement in New York. Ml Plmes Snipes0 Shyer Wast Wanted' list Hail Forecast Scattered severe thun "We know our people are not doing this," Beirne said of the reported sabotage, and added in derstorms with large hail and damaging winds were forecast a message to his union before clearing.

The forecast for seventh year of a 20-year sen WASHINGTON (AP) Escaped convict James Earl Ray, Sunday was a promise of fair to partly cloudy conditions and tence for a 1959 market holduD union warns that it is not only wrong but that no such act ever shortened a strike sought as the sniper slayer of and auto theft in St. Louis on mild. lis An 1 feared that more dead and in Dr. Martin Luther Kwg was by one minute." April 23, 1967. Bread Truck Manitowoc and Two Rivers continued to hang on to the 40-30 placed on the FBI's "most The company said direct-dial maximum and minimum wanted list today.

The FBI said Friday a sys man said the principal reason for listing fugitives was to "attract publicity for a guy you're looking for and in this case there's been plenty of publicity." The FBI said today Ray "has been the subject of a massive and intensive search" since the slaying of King 16 days ago in Memphis, Tenn. There was no indication the rnson oniciais, wno said a 1966 escape try by Ray was thwarted when he was discov tematic search of its vast fin Rain was reported in much, of gerprint files identified the 40- ered in a ventilator shaft, indi the state and vicinity Friday, with the heaviest amount, 2.28 TORNADO HITS Willard Stafford, left, and Orville Sign-thaler move debris from the sidewalk in tornado-stricken Greenwood, shortly after a killer tornado struck the town of 2,000 Saturday, leveling most of the business buildings on the city square. (AP Wirephoto) jured would be found. The area was guarded through the night by about 30 Marine reservists from Texar-kana, shifted from weekend training at nearby Ft. Chaffee, and some Air Force reservists.

Every building in the main building area, which is built on a square, was damaged. Ambulances from several cit cated he succeeded the next inches, reported in the Dubuque, year by hiding in a truck car year-old Ray as phantom fugitive Eric Starvo Gait, charged in Tennessee with murdering King April 4. rying bread from the peniten Iowa, area. Other rainfall amounts were Beloit 1.19, Eau Claire .98, Pewaukee .95, Lone tiary bakery to its honor farms FBI was any closer to catching Ray than it was Wednesday Peace Talk Sites The FBI action today added phone calls, both local and long distance, were unaffected by the strike and that services requiring an operator were slowed only, in a few areas. Getting Better "Telephone service remains normal in most of the country and is getting better where it has I been affected," Gilmer The company reported full service on overseas calls was being maintained from New York facilities with supervisors filling in for strikers.

Management personnel also manned The earlier escape attempt Rock .88, Madison .70, Burling formality to what wag already landed Kay in a Fulton, Mo ies in the area converged on ton .65, Racine .63, La Crosse tact the escapee from the Mis prison nospicai taciuty lor a Greenwood to carry the iniured when it put the name Gait on a fugitive warrant charging him "and an individual whom he alleged to be his brother" with .56, Milwaukee .38, Duluth. souri state penitentiary is the Minn. .27, Wausau .21 and Green to hospitals in Fort Smith, 18 miles north. nation's most intensely hunted mental checkup. "We gave him our Grade Class I workup," recalled Dr.

man in years. conspiring to deprive King of Bay .02. Eau Claire Has 66 Bill Kennedy, a Fort Smith his civil right to travel from 1 Intensely Hunted Mmwi Suggestions to be (Considered The highest temperature Times Record newsman, who flew over Greenwood two hours Ray was described as an avid Donald B. Peterson, hospital superintendent. "We found no mental disease or defect within state to state.

In addition a warrant charging Gait with first degree mur atter thef storm struck, said th dancer, a high school dropout, Army reject, a man who likes to reported in Wisconsin and, vicinity was 66 at Eau Claire. Low temperatures during the drink beer and vodka, and who path of destruction was about 200 feet wide and half a mile long. der has been issued by state authorities in Memphis. the law." Prison and police records showed Ray was born in Alton, 111., son of a laborer of the same night ranged from 36 at Duluth, to 50 at La Crosse and Dubuque. WASHINGTON (AP) John not through newspaper head-i switchboards and other jobs in other states.

Gilmer said subsidiary Bell Telephone System companies were ready to discuss the unions' proposal to junk the current 18-month contract and write a new three-year Ray fled the Missouri Peniten lines. Across the nation, tem Residential Area The storm brushed throueh a tiarywhere he was serving the However, in an official Nhan son administration policymakers say the United1 States which already has proposed 15 peratures ranged from 92 at name. tugs his ear when he's nervous. "Ray should be considered armed and extremely dangerous," the FBI said. The suspect is actually the 11th man placed on the tradi Daytona Beach and Jackson residential area in southwest Greenwood before it slammprf Dan newspaper editorial today North Vietnam renewed insist Parents Dead Records at the Fulton facility sites for initial contacts with ville, Fla.

to 15 at Butte and Sparta Serviceman into the business district anrf North Vietnam will consider ence that the United States ac Dillon, early today. Killed in Battle then moved on to the northeast. tional list of "10 most wanted fugitives," but the search for Ray obviously overshadows all indicated both parents were dead, but the penitentiary records listed his mother as Mrs. Lucille Ryan of St. Louis.

any new sites Hanoi suggests. The statement by U.S. authorities, who declined to be identi Most of the dead were found in the first area hit. The dispute is over, a wage reopener provision covering Bell System companies in 16 states and the District of Colum Deny Differences on Site Selection others. cept Warsaw, "so that preliminary contacts between the two sides may start soon." The editorial which brushed aside the 10 additional American-proposed alternatives Communications were fied, came after the United SPARTA (AP) The parents of a rural Sparta serviceman were informed Friday of their son's death in Vietnam.

The Defense Department said FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the 40-year-old white man bia, and the nationwide 23,000 States announced it has notified knocked out and traffic jams developed on highways leading out The FBI said Eric Starvo Gait was one of a string of aliases favored by Ray in frequent brush man telephone installers unit employed by the Bell subsidi North Vietnam that Warsaw is not acceptable for initial talks WASHINGTON (AP) The of Greenwood, hamnerinff rps. as unsuitaoie" toiiowed a Army Pfc. Jerry Heuer died State Department formally de es with the law beginning when he was 21 several years after statement by a North Vietnam ary." western uiecinc o. An because Poland has given military assistance to Hanoi.

April 15 of wounds. He was the nied today any differences foreign ministry spokesman he dropDed out of high school in son of Mr. ana Mrs. ueorge between Secretary of State other 16 state Bell contracts ex pire In the next few weeks. Rejected Offers which said the sites proposed by Secretary of State Dean Heuer.

Dean Rusk and the White House The U.S. position was outlined in response to a statement by was added to the list specially "to insure the widest possible dissemination of Ray's photograph and description to help effect his earliest possible location." Attract Publicity When Gait was left off the list at the time a 10th man was added Thursday, an FBI spokes Pfc. Heuer, 21, served in Ger over selection of possible sites Rusk did not even meet U.S. cue efforts. The rampaging twister was spawned by a squall line that dumped rain on eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas late Friday.

Others Reported The U.S. Weather Bureau said tornadoes also struck near many before being sent to Viet the North Vietnam foreign min conditions. lor preliminary negotiations the 10th grade. In addition to the aliases John Willard and Harvey Lowmyer listed on the FBI fugitive warrant, the bureau said Ray has also called himself James Mc- nam in March following a leave with orth Vietnam. istry, broadcast by Hanoi radio, that accused the United' States Installers now 'average $3.27 per hour and other workers The company said the union had rejected, offers of a 7.5 per cent wage increase and is U.S.

Embassies It said that there were only at bis home. He was the oldest The department statement re in a family of 10 children. of delaying talks between the U.S. embassies in the additional sulted from a news story appearing in the New York Times two sides and asked for formal Bride, James Walton, W. C.

Waveland, Booneville, Darda- demanding 10.5 per cent oyer 18 capitals and that many of them failed to fit Rusk's specification Herron and James O'connor. answer to Hanoi choice of saying new divisions have months. i. John wuard was the name cnac tney De neutral. nelle and Clarksville, all towns north and east of Greenwood, but the only deaths and iniuries emerged withm the Johnson administration as the result of ma "Bell 5 Telephone companies are interested in exploring a Warsaw.

Stiff Rejoinder The Hanoi statement drew a It said that in three weeks the used by the man who checked Economy Drive Hits Big Defense Budget neuvering over the selection of United States' had gone from new three-year agreement. This reported were at Greenwood. into a shoddy Memphis rooming house overlooking the Lorraine stif rejoinder from Washington posing no conditions to piling up No estimate of the Dronertv that communications between "extremely absurd and insolent" would get away, from the 'wages only' position involved in the existing contracts which have 18 a site. The official statement obviously reflecting Rusk's opinion' denied any foundation for Motel, where King was fatally shot as he stood on a balcony ones. damage was available but the Weather Bureau said the twister was the most destructive Arkan the two countries should be through private and official communication channels and and talked with friends.

Some American authorities months to Gilmer said. WASHINGTON (AP) The home," Mansfield added. the story. (Continued on Page 2-M, Col. 5) Sen.

Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa Senate, which voted earlier this offered the amendment to elimi year to trim federal spending by $6 billion, has extended its econ nate the four ships, but it was Youngsters Found Slain omy drive to the administra defeated 31 to 28. Terrific Losses sas has seen since 1952 when a March storm leveled Judsonia in central Arkansas, killing 111. Police Benefit From New Law AUSTIN. Tex.

(AP) Presi- tion's massive defense budget Clark also tried to slash the But the $660 million reduction Warplanes Fly 160 Missions to Blast Cong Supply Targets bill by $2.3 billion, a little more voted Friday by a heavy 45 to 13 BALTIMORE (AP) The West Allis Woman Dies Automobile Rams Concrete Pillar By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wisconsin's 1968 highway fa than 10 per cent. That lost 44 to bodies of four youngsters were majority still left the military procurement authorization at a 12 after Sen. John C. Stenms, found Friday afternoon In total of $21.3 billion, some $1.2 clump of woods in a Baltimore warned that even more money would be needed for procurement later in the year. billion more than Congress ap SAIGON (AP) U.S.

war- had been lost in combat as of park, murdered and mutilated dent Johnson announced today he has signed into law legislation extending special benefits to state and local police killed set last Aug. 19 before the monsoon season began. propriated last year. Tuesday 823 over North Viet Police have arrested an 18- 'We have had terrific losses The U.S. Command said the planes set a 1968 record for the second straight day Friday as they flew 160 missions to blast supply targets in North Viet nam and 247 in the South.

Another 1,002 planes have been an year-old janitor who led them to the bodies. No charges have or injured while enforcing feder After adopting the 3 per cent cut offered by Sen. John J. Williams, which did not deepest penetration Friday was in Vietnam," he said, without specifying those losses. Clark had contended, "We have got to al law.

about 168 miles above the demil been placed as yet. Johnson also disclosed that tality toll climbed to 286 today with the death of an elderly woman in a Milwaukee County specify where the reductions itarized zone against a railroad nounced lost In accidents not involving direct enemy action. The command also announced The neighborhood in the area nam's southern panhandle. American fliers had set start cutting back this gargan would be, the Senate passed the spur near Vinh. This was below of Gwynns Falls Park, where luan military-industrial com accident.

The toll on this date record for the year Thursday in record ,1967 reached 221. bill 54 to 3 and sent it on to the House. Voting against it were three Democrats: Ernest plex that has this nation by its throat." that 643 helicopters have been shot down, all but nine in South Vietnam, and another 920 chop the bodies were found, has been plagued with reports of missing children and molesting in recent the 19th Parallel, a boundary U.S. planes have been observing even though Johnson's public statements gave the northern when tney flew 145 missions, the largest number in nearly four Only 7 Democrats and 6 Re 850,000 retired federal workers will get a $6.4 million cost-of-living pension increase effective May 1. Retirement benefits will be boosted 3.9 per cent, or an average of $9 per month for each retiree under an automatic program tied to the consumer price index.

months. weeks. Gruening of Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and Majori pers nave been lost to nonhostile causes. Mil. publicans opposed Williams' 3 per cent cut, while 30 Demo The Air Force, Navy and Ma ine lecn-aeea susoect was limit as the 20th Parallel.

None Shot Down Mrs. Marie Marschner, about 70, of West Allis, was dead on arrival at a hospital after a car driven by her husband, Robert, 77, rammed a concrete p'llar of a railroad overpass in West Allis this morning. Marschner ty Leader Mike Mansfield of In ground fighting, some of rine pilots on Friday's raids spotted by suspicious area resi Montana. crats and 15 Republicans supported it. No American planes were re the 100,000 troops in Oper dents late Friday morning.

Denounces Bill ported shot down, but in a week fonce said the suspect was With many of the 100 senators ation Complete Victory the biggest allied campaign of the said they encountered light ground fire and evaded several antiaircraft missiles fired at them in the coastal area be The legislation the President Mansfield, who took little cart carrying a lunch box in which still on Easter vacation, attend- ly report the U.S. Command said 1,070 American warplanes signed provides that if a local was critically injured. in the three-day debate which there were parts of human bod ance never got as high as 60. Duane Niesen, Route 2, Dane, war reported three clashes Friday near Saigon. They said 58 Viet Cong were killed while policeman is killed or injured enforcing a federal statute, he ies.

saw most efforts to cut the bill tween Vinh and Dong Hoi. Three of the victims were tail, (then took the floor to de was killed when his car was in volved In a collision with a do Bridges, Roads The Weather U.S. losses were five killed and identified as Mack Jefferson. 5. They hit bridges, roads.

nounce the bill-especially the Red China Aiding Militant Negroes 28 wounded. or his family will receive benefits at least equal to those provided by the federal government for its own officers. his brother, Larry, 9 and their Clearing and Cooler most of trucks and supply points in the area left open to them under cousin, Lester Watson, 91KJ.0 muuon for fast deployment logistic ships which had been held in the measure earlier Northern Frontier Along the northern frontier. state Saturday night. Sunday lice squad car at an intersection on Madison's East Side.

The patrolman driving the other vehicle; James L. Hudson, 24, was taken to a hospital with chest The identity of the fourth bov. HONG KONG (AP) The Hong Kong Star said today Red The chief executive also has President Johnson's bombing curtailment designed to North Vietnamese troops struck by three votes. siened a bill authorizing anoro- who was decapitated, is still tentative. China' has set up a pipeline at tne newiy reopened overland draw Hanoi into peace talks.

"If we build these shins." he priations of $2.6 billion for the mir 10 paray ciouay and mild. Lows Saturday night 30s in the north and west, lower 40s southeast. Highs Sunday mostly 50s north and mostly 60s south. supply road to Khe Sanh Fri through Latin America to smug The northeast monsoon over injuries. Robert Puivermacker, 17.

Cross Plains who was rid told a nearly deserted Senate, "we will be regarded more than day, ambushing a U.S. Marine New UW Counselor Atomic Energy Commission on the fiscal year that begins July 1. gle ammunition and money to militant Negro groups in the! ing With Niesen, was treated for WHITEWATER (AP)- P. A. United States.

truck convoy while pinning down Leathernecks on a road clearing operation nearby. Manitowoc Temperatures 4 p.m. Fridav 46: fl in- lacerations. Marlene Binning, 21, Madison North Vietnam is almost over and with the rapidly improving weather, the number of American air strikes is expected to increase unless the President orders further curtailment. ARCHBISHOP DEAD The paper, crediting the re ever as the world's policeman.

We are not the world's policeman. We do not have the resources or authority to tell anyone in the world what they shall do or not do. port to sources inside China, midnight 40; 4 a.m. Saturday 38; 8 a.m. 38; noon 40.

An estimated 135 enemy diet! Friday night in a Madison hospital of injuries suffered two Piddington, 57, who resigned Friday after 12 years as superintendent of Whitewater Schools, will become academic student counselor at Whitewater State said Mao Tse-tung had waited troops, hiding arong Highway 9 MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Archbishop Enrique Perez Serantes, 84, Roman Catholic prelate of Santiago, Cuba, 1 died there Thursday night, exile sources in Although Friday's. 160 mis about eight miles northeast of until the pipeline was in work Two Rivers Temperatures 4 p.m. Fridav 45: 8 m. 49- ago today in a one-car accident, on Madison's South the Khe Sanh combat base, ine order before calling this "We are not even able to take midnight 44; 4 a.m.

Saturday 43: i Slde.v -r University, it was announced sions set a record for 1968, the number is well below the all-time Vietnam war record of 209 opened fire simultaneously on week for a Negro revolution to care of the problems we have at 8 a.m. 43; noon 43. Miami reported. today. overthrow the U.S.

government. (Turn to Page 2-M, Col. 3) ii,.