Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 1

109th Year, No. 157 Ukiah, Mendocino County, Monday, December 1, 19.69 8 Pages, 10 Cents SANTA'S IIELPER-Charlie Galyean of the city engineering department is shown Christmas lights on one of the trees along Seminary Avenue, Ukiah's "Christmas Tree Lane," with the aid of the extension boom on a city truck. City crews installed other colorful Christmas trimmings throughout the business of Ukiah late last photo by Williams. lands fou iv i pokey Four adults are" free on bail and a 16- year-old girl is being held in Juvenile hall following a donnybrook early Saturday morning in a house six miles south of Ukiah off Highway 101. Booked at county jail were Jesse Vanderpool, 29, owner of the his wife, Bonita, -34; Bobby Helen Powell, 47 and Raymond Graziano, 25.

Mrs. Vanderpool's daughter, Jackie Womack, 16, was taken to Juvenile hall where she is being held. to the sheriff's office, a telephone call was received at 2:37 a.m. from a woman attending the party at the Vanderpool home. The woman, later identified as Penny Dupont of Willits, told the dispatcher that the occupants of the house were "preparing to have a pot party." Deputy -Sheriffs Harold Crice and William Doidge were dispatched to the scene, arriving just behind another whose occupant, according to the deputies, ran 1 to the house crying out what they believed to be a "warning to the occupants.

The the door where they were met pool who asked them what Wanted. Crice pushed against the door and when it opened, Vanderpool struck him in. the mouth. The deputies retired briefly to reassemble their forces at which time they were joined by Ralph Fimbres and Jerry Gilbert of the California Highway Patrol, followed by Officer Dick Boyman of the Ukiah police. The officers broke in the door and burst into the living room where they were confronted by the hostile occupants.

As Crice attempted to take Vanderpool Northwestern California: Fair through Tuesday except patches of morning fog in valleys; little temperature change: high today and low tonight 'Ukiah 67-30. Temperatures 1969 1968 Jtye Hi l.o 1 Date Hi l.o 67 28 30 49 32 Xooh i' ow Today 66 1 29 Rainfall 4 23 Last Year 6.98 Your Carrier Draft lottery First 'Vietnam roulette' tonight in Washington By SAM FOGG WASHINGTON 8 p.m. EST tonight, a young man will-step up to a glass jar at' Selective Service headquarters, stick his hand down among 366 plastic capsules and draw one out to begin the nation's first draft lottery since the dark days of War II. It will be a picture from the history the one showing War Secretary Henry L. Stimson pulling a green capsule from a "fishbowl" in or the one depicting a blindfolded War Secretary Newton D.

Baker reaching into the same fishbowl in 1917. But there will be an important difference. Tonight's scene, in more or less the same form, will be repeated every -year from now on, unless the law is changed or PresidentJNixon- fulfills iiis announced desire for an all-volunteer army. And the concept of tonight's drawing is unlike all the previous in an attempt to come up with as fair a lottery as has been devised. There will be 56 youth representatives at the drawing.

They will draw, and continue drawing, until all 366 capsules have been opened. Each capsule contains a date of the year, including Feb. 29 even if there is no Feb. 29 in the year's calendar. The dates are placed on a list in the order drawn, and men will be called for induction in the order that the date of their birth falls on that list.

Feb. 8 is the first date drawn, all men whose birthdates are Feb. 8 will be at the top of the heap for callup during 1970. Those whose birthdates fall in the middle of the list, will face uncertainty as to whether they will be called, and those at the bottom will be almost assured they will not be called up. Those affected by tonight's drawing are counts 696 dead on nation's highways By United Press International The 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday period ended with 696 persons dead in traffic below the record toll of last year.

The final United Press International tabulation showed the count trailing well behind the 764 total of. last year and the estimate of the National Safety Council that up to 800 persons might die. during this year's holiday. The breakdown of accidental deaths during the period from 6 p.m. Wednesday Sunday: Trjific 696 Planes 16 Fires 65 Miscellaneous 79 Total 856.

California counted the most traffic fatalities, 78. There were 39 in Texas, 38 in into custody, the deputy claims that the young girl, Jackie, jumped on his back crying "don't hurt myjdaddy." picked up a .22 caliber revolver from a table and threatened Crice who by this time had freed himself of the girl who was screaming and striking at him. Crice said that Doidge took the gun from Mrs. Vanderpool. Graziano said it was he and not the deputy who disarmed the furious woman.

A subsequent check revealed that the gun was not loaded. The four adults and the girl were taken into custody preparatory to taking them to Ukiah. Penny Dupont, at this stage took a small amount of marijuana from the pocket of her coat and handed it to the deputies "as a sample of what was going on." Vanderpool was booked for felony assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and two misdemeanor counts involving marijuana, including furnishing the drug to a minor! Mrs. Vanderpool was charged With resisting arrest, furnishing drugs to a minor, and brandishing a weapon in a rude and angry manner. Graziano was charged with visiting a was being used" resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.

Mrs! Powell was charged simply with visiting a house where marijuana was being used. Graziano posted bail immediately and was released. Vanderpool was released later that day on his own recognizance and his wife and Mrs. Powell', a former county juil matron posted bail. Both the mother and daughter were treated later that morning for emotional upset.

The daughter also had a slightly swollen lip. Fire Calls call to Hcsscllihe residence. -158 electrical wiring to house: p.m.—Fire; call to E.H. Vanos residence. N.

State Street, control burn, 12 p.m.—Auto fire at 1187 S. Dora in vehicle owned by James Porter, Lucerne; 3:0,2 p.m>-Auto fire in vehicle owned by Jerry Milling, at Yokayo Shopping Center. Georgia, 36 in New York and 30 in Four persons, including a family of three, were killed in a two-car crash Sunday near Corpus Christi, Tex. Two of the dead were infants. In one of several massive car pileups during the holiday, more than 50 cars were involved in a gigantic accident five miles south of Seattle, Sunday.

The pileup came in thick fog on icy roads. Near Havre De Grace, during the holiday, six persons were killed when a tank truck shot across the concrete divider on the Susequehaniwh on the JbhirPT Kennedy slammed into two automobiles. Near Woodbury, N.J., Saturday, six persons were killed and 19 others injured when two trucks coolided in fog on the New Jersey Turnpike and 16 cars piled into the burning wreckage. Drugs-Awareness and Action tonight and Action, a nine session lecture-discussion series, will open tonight at the Ukiah high school cafeteria at 7:30. The program is sponsored by Ukiah Adult School, but is open to parents, and interested adults.

In an area of confusion and controversy the speakers will separate fact from fiction. The program will present information and opinion of student, parent, doctor, lawyer, probation department, and Judge A. B. Broaddus. Speakers will be grouped to make the public aware of the use of drugs locally and statewide, drug effects, the law and drugs, recognition of the use of drugs, and prevention or treatment procedures available.

Once awareness has been next sessions will be led by informed youth and-adulls to stimulate discussion of the handling of potential family or community problems. The final session will disCuss action a community could or should take in an active drug prevention program. "Defining the Problem" is an obvious point of origin for the series. The problem will be viewed from the eyes of a student, a parent, and a school counselor. Don Dittus, Ukiah junior high, is program moderator for the series.

He indicated that drug abuse is a hidden problem in this community, but parents should have all the information they can get as an aid to potential future personal action. Marge Boynton will speak on the recognition of a did it come from and is if here to stay. She will look at the California scene and will tell us how we in Ukiah became part of a statistic. "From the view of a teenager we will hear a brief local history of the hidden development of local drug abuse and will get an indication of the puropse of drugs in a teenage society," Mrs. Boynton said.

Youth found gravely ill from effects of drug use Ukiah carrier Is 1 Sunday coldest morning ol fall Mpsj latcrsleeping '1 vimt have realized but Synday.wuH tKp coldest morning thin aulu.n»n WHh the mprtury dipping' fcTfiy oavment 11 wws enough today, tow. as SNmlo rolled out suck to chilly' In advance It equalling Ukiah Kirt A 17-year-old Ukiah boy is in condition at Mendocino State Hospital and a sergeant in the sheriff's department is surveying a battered jeep as the result of a bizarre happening early Friday afternoon." Billy Van Cleave. 19. and Russell Claar, 27. were walking up a little-used trail at 12:30 p.m.

which extends from Standley Street up the steep hillside into. Fish Hatchery Canyon. Van Cleave and Claar observed a young man running toward 4hqm who shouted that "someone further MP the canyon Was having a fit." The young man kept running and Van Cieuve and Claar continued up the canyoh where.they found Roger Johnson, if. of I'kiuh. lying in the ditch flanking the trail, obviouslv having great trouble with his breathing'.

Van Cleave walked back to the neurest phone and notified the sheriffs office. Deputy Jerry Pasco, when he arrived was forced to leave his car and walk three miles to reach' the victim. Noting Ihelfoy's condition) Pasco went jMMflt ikiwn trail and radioed the sheriff's nffivo. Sgt. Clajre Grothcr used his four-whcul drive pickup got Imck up the trail, give emergency aid from an overdose of a Ixirbilurato type drug, was treated at County Hospital and later transferred to Mendocino State Hospital.

Iwy, iiml drjvo him to CouMy Hospital The voting infttj IttfJvVVfW tflfjfc IT WAH I.OVK-at first sight when this bear spotted the 'coonskin hat worn by llonu Ohlow. The animal clung to the hut and refused to move, llonu was among 40 air hostesses in Austrullu fpr'lhe Eighth lnternAIUHtal Air lliirtcNptT' all nondeferred men who will have turned 19 by the end of 1969. up to and including all who will still be aged 25 when the year ends. Those who turn 19 or lose deferment by. for example, graduating from college, at any time during 1970, will have to wait for the lottery at the end of that year to enter the pool.

From 1971 onward, the lottery pool will include only those who turned 19 the year before, or those whose deferments have beeyi removed. Although the change in selection is a new one. the draft is an old practice in the United States. In colonial times villages were authorized to force men of the towns to train for defense against the Indians. And the first federal draft, imposed by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, produced riots among the poor because the rich were allowed to buy their way out.

World War I brought the first national draft system, with each man from the ages of 21 to 30 assigned a draft number. It was from among 10,500 such numbers that the blindfolded Baker pulled the first one, No. 258. That drawing went on for another 16 hours and 46 minutes, and was followed by two other drawings before the war was over. A similar assigned number system was used when Stimson reached into the jar on Oct.

29, 1940, and pulled out No. 158. That drawing lasted 17 hours and was followed by two others, the last one on March 17, 1942. The old fishbdWl used in the two wartime drawings is encased in a glass cabinet at Selective Service headquarters and will not be used tonight. A new jar, 16 inches wide and two feet high, has been brought in to cradle the fate of thousands of young Americans.

KKY special investigation has been ordered by the Army to determine whether the alleged 1968 massacre American Gls of South Vietnamese civilians was hushed up at the time. Lt. Gen. William Peers, center, has been named to head the probe. The incident came to light through letters written by Ronald Ridenhour.

left, airex- GI who said he learned of the massacre from men who were there. As a result, 1st Lt. William Callcy right, has been charged witb murder and faces court- martial. Photos of massacre shown world-wide By I nitod Press InternJlional Photographs of the alleged Song My massacre are being shown around the world. They arc gruesome.

Reactions varied to the pictures and to eyewitnesses who continued to pour out their stories of alleged atrocities in Vietnam. There was outrage at the alleged slayings of civilians. There was outrage at' newsmen for painting, some said, a bad picture of the'American GI in Vietnam. In Saigon, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen, t'ao Ky publicly disagreed over what actually occurred March 16, 1968 at the village. A prominent lawyer instrumental in the recent Green Beret-double spy case expressed concern Sunday that news reports of the incidents have "gotten out of hand." At the same' time, the Army at Benning.

Ga. announced Sunday it was investigating another murder charge against 1st Lt. William L. Callcy already, charged with slaying M)9 civilians at Song My. The new charge is not related, however, the Army said.

Lite published nine photographs' Sunday, eight of them in color, of the alleged Vietnamese village massacre taken by former Army photographer Ron Haeherle. The most striking photograph shows the Ixxliesol'20 persons, including at least four children and among them infants, sprawled grotesquely in a pile along a dirt Many are covered with blood. No )iis are evident in the picture. HaelK'ile also related an incident in which his putines didn come out. "There was a little bov walking toward us in a Iludbeen shot in the arm and leg.

He wasn crving or making anv noise. The GI hied three shots. Ihe I list knocked him hack. 1 second shot lilted him into the air. Ihe third shot put linn down and the INKIV lluuls came out.

News media ran a picture during the weekend the hicago Sun Times that showed a man. ajlegedlv a Viet Cong Iwing dumped out of a highllving helicopter. Europeans, in particular, expressed outrage at the picture. "But, this is a bunch of you guys are printing." said an unidentified Californian who called UP1. Sen.

George McGovcrn. in 'a television interview (Face the.Nation- CBS said the Vietnam War and the alleged massacre has created in the United States a "collective sense ol national guilt." McGovcrn and other congressmen have called for" an investigation of the incident and the war itsell. Fred Scdahl. a reporter for the Savannah Morning News and a Vietnam veteran, wrote of a Viet Cong in 1966 being pushed out ol a helicopter. Sedahl said he was Hooded with telephone calls.

take a helicopter ride with calle'r said "I know exactly what to do with guys like you. You should he (lie one taken up and dropped out." Another caller said, "Someone should burn your house down, and maybe they just will." In SDigon. a spokesman for President Thieu said. "The case is closed as far as the government is concerned. The incident was an act of war." Vice President Ky, however, said.

"During a light I accept an accident. But alter the light the light is finished you kill them, the innocent no!" He has, called for a new investigation. Attorney F. Lee Bailey, who recently figured in the case Where six Green Berets had murder charges dismissed aganfst them lor the alleged slaving of a double- agent, revealed he has been retained as an allornev lor apt. Finest Medina, commander ol the compunv at Song My.

Contacted in (olumbus. Ohio. Bailey said he has asked President Nixon tor a meeting with-White House stall members' Bailcv said while no charges have been pressed against Medina, the 13-year Army veteran had been Vpamted as some kind of vhutchcr. Bailey said Medina Trecieived i no orders to butcher anyone or i to kill women und htf issued none. New guides for softwoods WASHINGTON tUPli The Commerce Department today announced new for softwood lumber ik'signcd to protect the consumer from loss ol value due to shrinking green wood.

Swivlary Stans said the new regulations (luit made no proviwhm (fop moisture content. 'long debate in the ludnstry. liunisin hulU'aUHl Mh "HIW thirds ill rvdtioy the of the ijU UIHHILIIMV.