The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 14

BLTTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS MONDAY, OCTOBER 11,1981 Freighter Survivors Safe in Port Eleven Rescued After 2 Days Float; 37 Die NORFOLK, Va. (AP) Eleven seamen, survivors of the capsized freighter Mor- mackite, were safely in port today with harrowing tales of two days floating helplessly in stormy, shark-infested waters. Lost In the disaster were 31 of their shlpmntcs, including the rap- tain, Patrick J. McMahon of Valley Stream, N. Y.

A Coast Gunrd bOnrd of inquiry sets out this morning to find a full explanation for the last Thursday, apparently caused by shifting of the ship's iron ore cur- go. The vessel capfjml so quickly there was no chance If) send a distress message and crewmen were unable to get lifeboats into the water. The ship carried no life rafts. The Mormacfcite sank under the brutal pounding of wind-whipped Atlantic seas 150 miles east-southeast of Cape Henry. The 11 survivors were brought to to Norfolk yesterday by three Navy destroyer escorts.

With them came the bodies of 12 who died. The remaining 25 bodies were not found and presumably went down with the ship or disappeared more ler- rlfylngly among the sharks that survivors reported seeing by the hundreds. Some of the sharks were "12, 14 and 16 feet long." reported Pa- tadio del Valle of New York City. One of three who clung atop a makeshift raft, Del Valle said rescue came just in time to keep hl.s group from taking their own lives. Alter his arrival in port yesterday, he told newsmen: "On the last day we started to think how we could take our lives away the easiest.

When you're drinking salt water and taking It Into your lungs, It is terrible. Yesterday (Saturday) morning the three of us decided to do it. Then we saw a Navy carrier and then there were planes. Another hour and we would have been tlead." Physicians at the U. S.

Public Health Service hospital here snld none of the 11 survivors was In serious condition. The Coast Guard called, off the search for other survivors yesterday. NEW JOB Actor Edward Purdom poses with Rita Stetson who makes her screen debut in Hollywood's new movie, "The Prodigal." A former New Vorlc- and niece of a famous hat company executive, Rita plans to make acting her career. TAG lakes little Robert, robot, for a walk down a New York City street. Tobor (robot spelled backwards) requires a man inside to move him nbout for Aiming the movie, "Tobor the Great." However, Robert walks and by himself with the aid of an internal winding mechanism.

Vietminh Welcomed In Hanoi HANOI Indochina of the Communist-led Victminh 305th niul 35211(1 divisions, loaded down with the booty they won nl Dicn Bicn Phu, paraded through the crowded business section of Hanoi yesterday. Making their first gala appoar- ancc In the city they took over from the French Salurdny night the Communist-nationalist army was given a spirited welcome from the holidaying population. The troops entered into the festive mood. Many of them carried bouquets of flowers, sung strummed on guitars and playet accordions as they made their way clown the Boulevard Francis Gar- nler, in the center of the city. Prominent among the array of materiel they, trundled through the streets were American 105mm cannon, bazookas and light arms captured from the French lust May at Dlen Bleu Phu.

us well us Russian antiaircraft guns, Jeeps, com mand cars and trucks. Among spectators were U. S. Consul Joseph Corcoran, members of the three-nation tnUM-rmltorml armistice commission and a score of foreign newsmen. Foreign correspondents remaining in the city Include the only six nonollicial Americans still here, four Britons, ciKh! Frenchmen and two New Zealanders.

Two women ait inionn them. Twenlv other foreign newsmen fearing IheV would not he able tr Kcl out lalcr, lell Hanoi Saturday hi for Corcoran lolc the Americans remainlni: that Ihc Slate Department had iiistruclnc him not In Hive Ibfin shelter 01 provide them with cmutmmicattoi even as a last resort. By KliNK J. CAI'l-ON TOPEKA, Kan. Iti Stepping oftly but taking long strides, Kanas school oiilclals lire moving rap- dly toward complete integration I white and Negro schools.

The atmosphere has been one of great calm. South has been deeply tirred by the Supreme Court de- ision last May that segregation public schools is unconslltution- il Integration steps In the na- lon's capital, In Jiallimore and Iher communities have produced arent student strikes, ven minor riots. Debate Here in Topeka, a step-by-step ntegration program lias caused carccly a ripple of ess vociferous opposition. Topeka's Board of Education was a defendant in the segregation case before the Supreme Court, but was a less than enthusiastic litigant. In fact, it lumped the gun the Supreme Court ruling last rear and decided to merge the scg- elementary schools in the state capital.

Today Supt. Wendell Godwin reports that 12 elementary schools nive been fully Integrated, two nore partially. That leaves only five school districts for comple- of the program. "I am deeply grateful to the community's sense of forcbarance, tolerance and self-discipline," he a reporter. "Cooperation has icon perfect.

I don't know of a single unpleasant incident." The principal of one large school ulcerated this fall In northeastern Topeka said the system is work- Kilrly Air Kxprrss First expre.s.s shipments were llown 1001) nun, when fre.sl i hi 11 itiiHo.si'il in liny silk bags were iiltiu'hi'd to the Iriis of car rler nnd Inm.sportcd foi coiisulrriible distances. FUtL HOURS OCT. 24 ih WATCH THE PAPERS KansasMovesRapidiyfiutQuietly, Toward Complete Integration Ing "just perfectly." 'The kids took to each other," he related. "The parents cooperated splendidly. As to the teachers one teacher accidentally wasn't assigned any Negro students in her class.

She came to me asking lor a rearrangement. She was afraid people might think her attitude responsible." Few Segregated Segregation has been something of an anomaly In Kansas. Only 10 major cities maintained separate schools under a permissive state law enacted In 1867. and even In those segregation has been generally confined to elementary schools. For many years, white and Negro students have attended high schools and colleges side by side.

Of the nine segregation cities besides Topeka, seven have fully mappled their local integration measures ami are carrying them out without fuss, fanfare or friction. Atchlson, the proslavery center In the days when Free Boilers and Dixie partisans clashed in "bleed- Ing Kansas," set a fast pace with integration of all but one of its divided schools this fall. It took the further step of hiring, for the first time, a Negro teacher to Instruct eventually mixed -classes. Lawrence, also in eastern Kansas, has hired a Negro to teach elementary school physical education. Parsons, in southeastern Kansas near the Oklahoma line, virtually finished Integration this term.

Wichita, the state's largest city, permits elementary school students to attend schools of their O'Dwyer Will Testify Before House Hearing EL CENTBO. Calif. 1 William O'Dwyer, former mayor of New York who served a term as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, has returned to this country to testify before a congressional committee.

O'Dwyer has accepted an invitation to appear In Los Angeles before House subcommittee Investigating Communist Infiltration In Latin America, scheduled to meet Thursday mid Friday. The former New Yorker arrived nt Tijuana, nenr San Diego, by plane from Mexico City yesterday and then cnme by automobile to the rnnch here of his brother, Frank O'Dwyer. At the Tijuana airport, O'Dwyer said he Is practicing luw In Mexico City and plans to live there the rest of his life. He declined comment on political matters, saying: "I've hung up my shoes," indt- choice regardless of race. Two to Walt Kansas City, with the rgc-si school 5,300 or one out of five decreed integration as rapkUy classroom space per- nits.

This was the only city which maintained high schools IK well a.s elementary schools in recent years. Two and Fort Scott, in the southeastern part of the decided to wait until the Supreme Court issues its orders specifically charging the course of desegregation. The high court will hold hearings on the subject in December. The Topeka Board of Education, meanwhile, has informed the Supreme Court thiit no desegregation orders will be needed in its case, since the matter is being taken care of. Our position as a defendant was peculiar," Godwin said.

"The original action was brought in 1948, agsiinst a board which has since gone out of office. The present board has opposed segregation all eating he hvus given up politics. He said he did not know if New York authorities planned to ask him to testify on any matters there. He added: "And I don't know if they asked me If I'd go. It depends on how much time I have." Scientists are developing electronic "eyes" for the blind.

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