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Great Fair and cooler tonight; low 60 to tfj Mostly sunny Friday; high in the 80s Details Page 12A. Ouchl tT-ic'o Cubs try tgain after losing Mi-end raiVht to New York Mets on xoiin? Tom Sea vors one-hit spectacular. Details in Section C. Home Newspaper of the Cahimel Region Hammoiul-East Chicago, Indiana; Calumet Cily-LaiiMiir, Illinois, ThurMlay, July 10, 1969 Vol.LIV,No. 19 3 Sections 38 Pages 10c What Borman Highway! 9 i iPL i mum For years it was called the Tri-State Highway.

Since Gov. Edgar Whitcomb renamed it, not even state highway department officials know what to call the roadway. Last Jan. 15, Whitcomb ordered that the highway stretch in Lake County carry the name ot astronaut Frank Borman. Gary flight commander of the Apollo 8 mission that circled the moon.

But did the governor rename it the Frank Borman Highway or the Frank Borman Expressway? The Times tried to find out. A call was made to the Indiana State Highway Department office in Gary. The secretaries said their records referred to the roadway as either 1-94 or 1-80, seldom as the Borman. A call was made to Leonard Lucas, head engineer of the highway department's LaPorte District. He also cited the 1-94 or 1-80 reference.

Lucas suggested a call to the Highway Department in Indianapolis. the office of Fred L. Ashbaucher, chief highway engineer. After a thorough explanation of here the Borman is located, Ashbauch er replied, "I don't remember hearing a thing about that." Ashbaucher added, "what are you talking about, you can't rename a highway. Who renamed it?" An attempt to get the call transferred back to Thompson resulted in a disconnection and a dial tone ringing in a reporter's car.

William G. Thompson, the director of news and general information office of the highway department, responded that "I've just come back from vacation and am not too sure. I was gone for several months." After a moment, however, here-called that the Tri-State had been named the Borman "about 12 or 14 years ago, wasn't it?" Informed he was mistaken, Thompson passed the long-distance call along to VI 'AV 'j frV-Q'j ij Ill 4 lf- I 't 1 yd' 4 Deaths Dip In War Lull. fell i. 'T3X- .4 Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the man NASA wants to be first to walk on the moon, talks to a geologist during a lunar landing practice session at Cape Kenne- Gelling Ready Leak Threatens Countdown Delay WORKERS END DOOR STRIKE HAMMOND Union members were back at their jobs today at Youngstown Steel Door after an unauthorized strike interrupted contract negotiations.

The members, who walked off the job Tuesday afternoon, voted at a meeting Wednesday to get back to work so officers and a representative from the United Auto Workers can get on with bargaining. The workers were to meet again today for a review of the company's "final proposal" for a contract to replace the one that expired June 30. Gary Blast Data Aired GARY A summary of testimony detailing the June 3 natural gas fires and explosions June 3 in the Glen Park area of Gary, has been released by the National Transportation Safety Board. The report of the board's three-day hearing late last month in Gary said a Northern Indiana Public Service Co. crew member turned a valve without instructions, resulting in an 80-fold increase in gas pressure.

Pilot light and burner flames from many appliances became torches, igniting ceilings, cabinets and other combustibles. "In other buildings, the sudden surge, of gas blew out pilot lights and burners, and filled the homes with gas. This gas exploded violently whenever any one of many possible ignition sources was present in one case the spark of a ringing doorbell." THE REPORT said 19 persons testified and 48' exhibits were provided' concerning the accident in which nine residents and five firemen were injured. Sev-. en homes were destroyed and 45 others damaged.

Property damage was estimated at $350,000. Oscar M. Laurel, safety board member who conducted the hearing, said the board will issue another public report later. That report will include the facts, conditions and' circumstances of the accident, the board's determination of probable cause and its recommendations on measures that would tend to prevent such accidents and promote gas pipeline safety. The board conducted the investigation because of its pipeline safety assignment and because the accident occurred in a natural gas distribution system.

The summary said NIPSCO was converting a group of customers to medium pressure gas (20 pounds per square inch) and had' placed pressure regulators at the homes. An adjacent group continued to be supplied with gas under quarter-pound pressure. A valve was placed in the pipeline between the two areas so that the east area could be supplied at 20 pounds from the east and the west side at a quarter-pound from the west. When the separation valve was opened, it permitted 20-pound gas from (Continued on Back Page This Section) SAIGON (AP) The first contingent of U.S. Marines to be withdrawn from Vietnam flew to Okinawa today as military spokesmen reported the lowest weekly number of American battle deaths in almost six months.

The Marines left with none of the fanfare accorded departing U.S. infantrymen three days ago. An advance party of 120 Leathernecks of the 9th Regiment departed from Quang Tri, a base 20 miles south of the demilitarized zone, in two four-engined transports. They included 60 combat troops of the 1st Battalion and the rest payroll and administrative personnel who will prepare for arrival of the main body of the 8.000-man regiment expected in Okinawa within the next few weeks. The rest of the 1st Battalion will leave in a few days, spoeksmen said.

U.S. HEADQUARTERS said 153 Americans were killed in action last week, the lowest death toll since the week ending Jan. 11 when 151 U.S. personnel were killed. Spokesmen said the relative lull in combat activity accounted for the marked decrease from the preceding week's toll of 241 Americans, and from Atlanta, Chicago balk at 'racist' implication .12 A Robbery victim flags his way to freedom Section It Classified 7-13C Sports 1-5C Comics 14-15C Theater 6C Editorials 10A TV 3B Illinois 2B Voice of People 11A Markets fiB Weather 12A Obituaries 6B Women's 11-16B Phone: 932-3100 7 a.m.

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the weekly average of 243 American dead in the first 26 weeks this year. The 9th Regiment will remain in Okinawa as a ready reserve unit. It was the first American combat unit committed to the Vietnam war. Since its arrival March 8, 1965, American troop strength in Vietnam has risen to 539,500. The 9th is the second American unit to be withdrawn from Vietnam under President Nixon's cutback.

Garv Urban Plan Moves GARY The Redevelopment Commi-sion Wednesday started wheels in motion to renew the 740-acre Small Farms residential area on the west side. The commissioners' approved the urban renewal plan for Small Farms and voted a resolution to get the $8 million project started. Chester Jansen, executive secretary, said the project has the unofficial approval of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD helps finance such projects.

The procedure now is to present the plan to the city for approval by the plan commission and council so that it can be given to HUD for official approval. The area involved is roughly between Clark' Road and Grant Street and from 21st to 25th Avenues. ALSO INCLUDED is a mucky area bounded by Chase and Grant Streets, 25th Avenue and Borman Highway. There are no sewers or water lines in that area south of 25th Avenue, Jensen said. Plans are to remove all homes in the section, cleanse it and possibly develop a park.

U.S. Orders DDT Halt WASHINGTON (AP) The Agriculture Department Wednesday ordered a halt to use of nine persistent pesticides, including DDT and Dieldrin in its pest control programs. The order followed urging by Sen. Gaylord Nelson Wis.) that all use of DDT be banned, and by Rep. Bertram L.

Podell N.Y.( that it not even be produced. Undersecretary of Agriculture J. Phil Campbell said the departmental suspension was ordered pending a review of the pest control programs to be completed in 30 davs. USW Strike May Cripple Steel Output TORONTO (AP) The United Steel-workers of American called a work stoppage today that could dry up Canada's nickel production and cripple the steel industry on three continents. The work stoppage the union refused to call it a strike was called for 8 a.m.

today at the Sudbury and Port Col-borne, plants of International Nickel Co. of Canada Ltd. (Inco). The company produces 40 per cent of the world's nickel used to harden steel. A prolonged strike could cripple the production of everything from silverware to jet engines in the United States, Canada, Japan and Western Europe.

Negotiations between the company and the union were suspended until 11 a.m. today. Both sides said they were far apart and prospects for an early settlement appeared slight. ANTICIPATING a strike, Inco began closing down its operations over the weekend and was reported operating at one-third capacity Wednesday night. Homer Seguin, president of Steel-workers Local 6500 at Sudbury, said the work stoppage was not a strike but a "forced lockout because the company has not moved toward a settlement." The morning shift failed to report for work.

The old contract between Inco and the Steelworkers expired at midnight Wednesday. In bargaining sessions that lasted un- til early today, Inco improved its previous offer of an 87-cent an hour increase over a three-year period but the union was reported holding out for a $1.50 increase. 149' OKs Expansion The District 149 School Board Wednesday night approved a half-million-dollar addition to the Dirksen Junior High building in Calumet City. The 24-room addition will include a band room, a parking lot on the north side of the school and exterior lighting. Total cost of the project is $534,313.

The figure does not include paving and grading of the parking area. The general contractor accepted by the board, G. O. Nelson of Calumet Park, omitted concrete roof supports forv the band room which currently are not available locally. The district's architect, R.

Doss Evans, asked the board to have the firm to include the price of the supports. The plumbing contract was awarded to Esposito Plumbing of Blue Island, and the electric contract to O'Connell Electric Co. of Chicago. Eighteen firms submitted bids for the work. THE BOARD approved raises of (Continued on Back Page This Section) Unsolved ard Lucas, engineer of the LaPorte district; William Dashe, district development engineer Harold Shannon, Gary sub-district superintendent; George Young, engineer of traffic regulation and development from Indianapolis; and W.

H. Behrens, engineer of road design from Indianapolis. DASHE SAID THE delegation was present at the meeting to remind the city "of former agreements" concerning the improvements and parking restriction on Calumet Avenue. He said the state highway department is getting "complaints" from the Bureau of Public Roads in Washington (Continued on Back Page This Section) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported the leak was in the helium gas system used to pressurize fuel tanks in the first stage of the 36-story Saturn 5 rocket. The exact location of the leak was not known and access doors were opened to permit a crew of technicians to enter the tank, which holds 334,000 gallons of liquid oxygen.

"WE DON'T KNOW where the leak is nor how serious it is," a NASA spokesman said. If not found and corrected, the leak possibly could hold up the start of the final countdown, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. tonight, aiming for a liftoff at 8:32 a.m. next Wednesday. As the technicians trouble-shot the problem, the Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil A.

Armstrong Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins climbed into the command ship trainer to practice the engine maneuver that will shcot them out of earth orbit and set them on a quarter-million-mile course to the moon. MOON TO GET 1ST LETTER WASHINGTON (AP) Apollo 11 will carry the first mail, as well as the first man, to the moon. Postmaster General Winton M.

Blount says the spacecraft will carry a special moon letter and an engraved master stamp die. The die will be used to produce a 10-cent airmail stamp commemorating the first moon landing. The letter will be hand canceled by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Its post mark will read "Moon Landing U.S.A., July 20, 1969." Parking changed under the National Highway Safety Board." The traffic authority said the only way to convince the BPR to do away with the parking restriction "is to convince the board that there will be an increase in traffic accidents in the future." STATISTICS compiled by the city's traffic division and presented by Betustak showed that the number of accidents on intersections of Calumet Avenue is rising.

A 25 per cent increase in accidents at 165th Street and Calumet already is predicted by police. About 25 Calumet Avenue residents attended the meeting. The five-member highway department delegation was composed of Leon CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) A leak developed in pressurization system of the Apollo 11 rocket today and a crew rushed in to find it. raising the possibility of a delay in tonight's scheduled start of the final countdown the moon landing mission.

Crash Kills Hub Driver ROSS TWP. A Crown Point man was fatally injured Wednesday evening in a wrong-way headon crash on U.S. .10 between Mississippi and Colorado Streets. Ernest Brown. 58.

of 220 Maple died in Gary Methodist Hospital about four hours after the 6 30 p.m. crash. Two occupants of the second car were injured. Lake County police said the driver, R. A.

Hicks, 25, of 5216 E. 11th Gary, was admitted to Methodist Hospital for treatment of fractured ribs. A passenger, Ronald Dusseau, 25, of 4052 Marshall Gary, was treated at the Gary Clinic for a cut arm and released. Witnesses told police the Brown vehicle was eastbound in the westbound lanes of the divided highway before the crash. One witness said she was forced to swerve out of her lane when Brown's car came straight at her.

The Brown car continued on, she said, and slammed into Hicks' vehicle. Another witness said Brown's car got into the wrong lanes at Broadway, about two miles west of the crash scene. Brown's wife, Emily died two weeks ago of natural causes. Calumet HAMMOND South Calumet Avenue residents and merchants held their face-to-face parking confrontation with officials of the Indiana State Highway Department Wednesday and came away unimpressed. The get-together formed a majority of the agenda for the board of works meeting.

Board chairman, Richard James acted as mediator. After two hours, the meeting adjourned with no definite solution. But Capt. Steve Betustak of the Traffic Bureau may have brought a spark of hope for permitting parking on Calumet South of 165th Street. Betustak, after expressing sympathy with residents "for safety reasons," suggested that "if the Bureau of Public Road's mind will be changed it must be mj, vty w- IVo Solution Faces in the crowd reflect the mood of the.

20 Calumet Avenue merchants and residents who came to seek state permission for parking on the street. Nothing was resolved at the Hammond board of works hearing..