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The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 1

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The Journal Timesi
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Racine, Wisconsin
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A THE KACME JOURNAL -TIMES VOL 111, KlO. 180 RACINE, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1967 Dial 634-3322 Associated Prcu 48 PAGES 8 CENTS State Dept. Denies Peace Move in Offing Related Story, Page 9A Between the Lines By Tex Reynolds WASHINGTON (Jl The cr ACT LI LJ LJ I LJ State Department denied' today that the United States was planning some spectacular peace move to end the Vietnam war. In a public on a a vn Columbia Broadcasting System- I 1 Great Day Arrives Burghers Prepared Power of a Film TV news story, the department IWW said the United States continued vv.w LJ a never-ending search for peace in Southeast Asia but needed RACIAL RIOTS, investiga some response from North Veit-nam to peace proposals. tions thereof," the Vietnam War and other important topics will "have.

to talce a temporary back Tornado Kills 2 seaffrfthis column today while make an announcement for which the public has undoubted ly been waiting with bated Long untight Keep uadsmen and Police usy and iures 4 at breath: Racine Motor Inn (nee Hotel Racine), closed for more than two years, was reopened Tuesday! Lake Madison Well, not to the general pub said it would be restored, at 7 The MILWAUKEE (AP) buildings destroyed and MADISON (AP) Two persons were killed and four per tonight. two others damaged. lie exactly. In fact, to only oqe person, which happened, to be me.s And this was in line with a promise made several months Police said one man, question sons injured early today when ed about sniping, was charged terrifying crack of sniper fire erupted in several -locations Tuesday anight, shattering disturbance wracked Milwaukee's prayers of peace through Mrs. Ray Stehr, 54, Westport, was listed in satisfactory condition at: Madison General Hospital.

Mrs. Hazel Skram, 62, was with disorderly conduct. No seri ago by Roland Cook, the mana a predawn tornado knifed through a cluster of cottages on Lake Mendota, narrowly miss ous injuries were reported ger, mat he'd positively have a Police reported nearly 540 ar room for me by Aug. 1. ing a boys' camp.

in satistactory conaiuon at The death-dealing funnel rests since Sunday night, 318 since midnight Monday. Guardsmen and police bat 'This is the one thing that damn curfew can't stop," hissed a grimy National Guardsman, cloud, striking at 3:25 a.m., Methodist Hospital. Ray Worringer, and Kay Stehr, 22, Westport, were treated for minor injuries and released. passed within 200 yards of Camp trying to draw a bead on tled snipers at several loca Indianola where 180 boys were staying. The area was strewn sniper he could not see as he crouched "behind a wall in the predominantly Negro inner core.

tions firing at. will- in an- area within eight blocks of Palmer and Lloyd, where the first con with shattered tree limbs but no Portions of the cottages were hurled into the lake. Pots, pans one in the camp was injured firmed sniping incident was re Sniper fire pinned down police Killed in the storm were Miss tt and splintered sections of build and National Guardsmen in the ings bobbed in the water after ported at about 10:30. p.m. Police Use Shotguns The sound of small arms fire Ann Worririger, 58, Waunakee, and Miss Edna Clough, 54, vicinity of their north side com dawn.

mand post during much of a Albuquerque, N.M. Lake Mendota mingled with the heavy thud of is one of the state's largest I have to level with the public. Room 711 on the top floor was not completely finished or furnished, 1 so technically I. "could claim that my "firm reservation" wasn't very firm. But there was a chair, some carpeting, and an ornamental bar such as will be in all of the' rooms.

There was also a bottle of champagne which we were going to bust over the bedstead, except that there wasn't any bed. So Host Cook merely popped the cork into a radio microphone during an impromptu broadcast also featuring Postmaster Louis De-Mark (a neighbor across the street from the hotel), arid Bill Gumm of Station WRJN. The twister slashed through three hour outburst of gunfire. Curfew Situation Mayor Henry Maierr at a pre bodies of waters. 12-gauge police shotguns.

National squeezed off round afteiL round of The violent wind slashed the area on the north, shore of Lake Mendota about three miles across thewater from the University of Wisconsin. AP Wlrephoio dawn news conference, lifted through the- least populated ammunition with their World War II-vintage M-l rifles. the curfew on travel and business operations at 5:30 a.m., Milwaukee policemen, whose unshaven faces told how long they been on duty, grinned over a "battle" wound a cut finger. 1 a re area, sweeping through a north shore section Mrs. Kenneth Maier, Shots echoed around the po known as Borcher's Beach.

lice emergency command post awakened as the storm swept said, "I never, heard Miss Clouth was a sister of Mrs. Stehr, a widow who oc set up in a department store warehouse. Police doused the such a thing. It sounded like a Last" Federal Troops Leave Detroit cupied one of the destroyed train thing through the house. It cottages.

lasted about five lights, and hit the floor. Exchanges of gunfire alsd broke out a block away on Third The Wornngers also were The storm passed within 200 We entered the edifice for this staying in the Stehr cottage. yards of Camp Indianola as it Street men would be returned to state nights of arson and looting. One paratrooper shot auspicious occasion through Along Third Street, in a busi The bodies of the two women were found pinned beneath the spun through the cottage area No one at the camp was hurt. control.

Staffs to Report hole cut into the -side, on the DETROIT (AP) The last Of the 5,000 federal troops sent to Detroit to quell racial violence were withdrawn today as a and killed a suspected looter presidential envoy declared that law and order had been restored. Cyrus. R. Vance, President roof of the cottage when it was Police reported four persons ness district, police took cover behind a borrowed Brink's Jnc, armored truck and tried to hit alley. We dodged a lot of work who got in the line of fire when 'the departure of the pulled from the lake.

injured in the cottages. Three the soldier was aiming at a man men and moving material -to reach a freight elevator. But on last regular Army units, Gen. snipers wno appeared to De fleeing with a gun. Johnson's personal representative in charge of the military John Throckmorton and to With the withdrawal of the leaping from roof to roof.

Three newsmen caughUn the operation, announced at a news federal troops, responsibility for conference that responsibility vicinity of Lloyd and Palmer all sides there was evidence of progress, and the thoroughly remodeled, rooms are going to be real nice. I could make one complaint about the 7th floor as gether with our staffs, also will leave, Vance said. Lt. Gen. Throckmorton, former commander of the 18th Airborne Corps at Ft.

Bragg, N.C., security rested with about 7,800 Guardsmen and the for maintaining control would tried to get near sniper action be returned to state authorities. Detroit police force, augmented down the street, only to hear the crackle of a .22 caliber With the pullout of the federal it is now. It's still entirely open by state police. troops, Vance said, the 46th Di weapon across the street apparently firing at them. One on one end, and if a fella walked in his sleep, that first step down Eight-Hour Shifts vision of.

the Michigan National has just been named commander of the 3rd Army, with 250,000 military jind. 28,000 civilian personnel in the U.S Southeast. Detroit policemen went back Guard and the last contingent of would be a long one. rolled under an auto and the two others dived onto a porch. to eight-hour shifts Tuesday for the Michigan Air National Guard would be defederalized.

Vance said it was too early the first time since the riot Tear Gas Utilized Police seeking a sniper hurled broke out July 23. Having done considerable needling about the many and long delays in getting the building ready for occupancy, I couldn't resist one more' jab As guardsmen continued their armed patrols, the riot's young' for him to make any recommendations growing out of his Detroit experiences, but added he would report later to the President and his special commission investigating civil teay gas canisters into a home-aniirajn in. Inside they found oniyawoman and a 7-year-old child, coughing and crying. est victim was buried. About 200 As of noon, he said, Guards- iiiiiiiiimiimiiiMiiiiiMiiiiHiMiiiiii Last to the surprise and dismay of most Western observers, Red China exploded an H-bomb.

at Manager Cook, who had mourners attended ceremonies at the United Church of Christ ife'L i recently told me that the open During the sniper fights, offi-(Turn to Page 2A, Col. 4) ing probably would be about (Turn to Page 2A, Col. 1) mid-October. So when, during the radio broadcast, he set the The blast showed that Peking was much more advanced in latest target date as Nov. 1, 1 On East Side Some 4,700 crack regular troops were airlifted into Detroit at the request of Gov.

George Romney and Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh. nuclear technology than had had to ask him how come. And 1eing the kind of fella who's never stuck for an answer, he Racine eg ro Pastors Offer to Help Quiet Race Tension been assumed. How did' they do it? What's the outlook for The federal troops took up the future? AP science writer Alton L.

Blakeslee and special corresDondent William L. positions on the city's East Side, while the West Side was pa community," Rev. Davis said, said it was due to some confusion between the Gregorian and Julian calendars! Anyway, the large construction crew is working seriously, trolled by the federalized Na Racine law enforcement officials and Negro ministers "we feel we, as leaders, are right in the middle of the situation." tional Guardsmen, backed up by tanks and armored personnel Ryan teamed up for an important three-part series exploring all facets of China's nuclear mysteries. The first article appears on Page IB. agreed to work together Tuesday night to help keep Racine carriers.

the end is definitely in sight and AP Wirephoto free from racial incidents. "And because we are leaders Most of the federal troops saw barring unforeseen difficulties, Twelve Negro ministers and little action during the days and A U.S. 9th Infantry Division soldier held his 16 rifle high as he waded a swollen Mekong Delta stream 20 miles southeast of Saigon. in the Negro community," he added, "we feel we can be IIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMII members of both the Racine the should beready in three months. Also, I Jiave an more effective than any other Police and County Sheriffs Departments met at the Gospel historical document to show my grandsons by way of still tdrther group in the city." Universal Church of God in Rev.

Davis said ones 3 More Christ, 820 LaSalle St. proving the greatness of their grandfather a receipt for occu Seek Joint Effort Negro ministers unified last May to work toward solving the problems of minority groups in pancy of Room 711 as the first The" ministers are members of the Racine Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, organized Batte Lost in the community. Racine Police Chief LeRoy Jenkins and Sheriff Joseph Bless-inger Tuesday night lauded the efforts of the alliance and pledg- last May and formerly called the Racine Ministerial Coun guest of a hotel which at times in recent years had been given up for lost. TAVERNS and liquor stores are still closed in Milwaukee, which leads to some comment The Rev. Mack C.

Davis, pas (Turn to Page 4 Col. 3) IGOrT (AP) The U.S. imand today announced the bat In the war to 825. This includes 629 over North Vietnam tor of Second Missionary Baptist Church and co-chairman of the on the lighter side of a seriou: situation by one of the FiendsatUoss-ot-three-more-American alliance, said the organization is comprised of 20 Negro ministers warolanes in combat and a Adjoining Desks: and 198 over the South. One of the losses over the North was an Air Force RF101 reconnaissance Voodoo and the pilot was miss representing 16 churches.

Communist attack on an Amen can ship. Rev. Davis said the alliance ing. The other was a carrier-based Navy A4 Skyhawk; its pilot was rescued. intends to work in cooperation with all other similar organiza The ground war lapsed back into a lull with no further fighting reported in the allied Operation Coronado II in tions in Racine but feels that it "Imagine!" he says, "the suffering of the good burghers without their beer." But when I talk to a friend in Milwaukee he says: "Don't worry about that' Some of us may have run out of bread and milk, but not many got caught without a "good supply of suds in the icebox." is closer to the problems of the Negro in Racine than any other Pilot Killed Communist fire brought down the Mekong delta south of Sal' gon.

body. Two of-the planes were lost an Air Force F100 Supersabre fighter-bomber on a combat Explains Position 2 Vy "Because of tensions in the over North Vietnam and the other in South Vietnam, bringing i support mission over South Vietnam and the pilot was killed. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMI the total number of American Racine Area WEATHER Fair and cool tonight with a low In the mid 50s. Thursday partly cloudy with chance of a few Isolated showers developing by evening. High in the low 80s.

Winds northwesterly 6 to 12 m. p. h. tonight, westerly 10 to 18 Thursday. Precipitation probabilities: 2 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Thursday.

ELSEWHERE IN STATE Partly cloudy north, fair south and cooler tonight wkh a low in the 50s. Thursday partly sunny with a chance of brief showers mainly In the north portion. Highs 77 to 84. Th tun ros 5:0 m. and will set it 1:11 p.m.

Prtclpltatlon In th 24-hour ptrlod ending at a.m. torn .10 Inch. Ttmparaturat en paaa 4A. The U.S. Command also an warplanes reported lost in com County Fair 1 T2 nounced that six Vietnamese civilians were killed and 23 wounded, by U.S.

artillery and' Whafs Where A WOMAN READER who has just seen the "To Be Alive!" film in Johnson's Rondelle Theater, wishes that everyone could see it, particularly in these times of tension. "It has," opens officially Thursday morning at the fairgrounds on air strike mistakes. In a third such incident, a U.S. Army heli copter accidentally fired on troops of the U.S. 1st Infantry Highway 11 at the-west edge of Union Grove.

Today the fairgrounds was a scene of activity as Judging began on more than 8,000 exhibits which will be on display. (Story on AP Wlrephoto she says, "the power to lift you out of yourself, and to show that, in spite of troubles and 6D 6D 5B 8A 4A ID 5D 5D 1C Business News Page Comics -Page County News Editorial Page LocalNews Sports Page Television-Radio Theater Page Women's News Division 22 miles, northeast of Saigon, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding seven. A military spokesman said (Turn to Page 9A, Col. 1) Page frustrations, there are rnany wonderful things to be found In evervdav living that should His tank bogged down in mud, a U.S.

1st Infantry Division soldier waited for help 15 mile northwest of Saigon. The tank was part of a convoy moving close to the edge of the Iron Triangle when it ran off planks set across a field at a former rubber plantation. 1 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIItlllllMIIIIIIIIIIII draw people together.1 r..

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