The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 1

1 Magistrates Meet Tonight tm0 WJ The Montgomery County Quarterly Court will vote on a resolution tonight calling for popular election of school board officials, a resolution concerning a new road from Highway 76 to Dunbar Cave Road and a resoltuion concerning repairs on the Ringgold Road bridge. County Judge William 0. Beach said this morning a resolution would be presented to the court concerning election of school board members and realigning school council appoints four i. According to Beach, a referendum to change the unification act to allow election of school board members may be called if the court and city council both agree to call the referendum, However, if the city council does not go along with this the referendum can be called by petition. A petition to hold the special referendum would be required to have at least ten per of the votera who voted in the last gubernatorial election signing it.

According to the report given to the court by Ray Darnell, chairman of the court's school committee, the board members would be elected by districts and not by county-wide vote. If the court approves the resolution tonight, the referendum will probablyle called in August along with Tennessee primary The state will pay half the cost of construction because the road is considered an interstate connector and will connect U. S. 41-A South with the proposed Interstate 24. The county court authorized a preliminary study of the project last winter.

The project will include a bridge over the Red River. The court is expected to vote on a resolution authorizing the county to enter an agreement with the city and I llinois Central Railroad to repair a bridge on Ringgold Road. The bridge has been called unsafe and the school board last fall stopped school buses from crossing the bridge with students aboard. The one-lane wooden structure crosses the Illinois Central tracks and the city and county have said they feel the railroad should pay half the cost in repairing the bridge. elections.

The court feels the school districts should be realigned becasue they no longer concide with present magisterial districts. The county magisterial districts were reapportioned and changed In 1968. Since this change, school districts overlap civil districtsZ.r.; Since there are 21 magisterial districts and seven school districts, the school district boundaries could be changed to" include three magisterial districts each, Beach said. In other action tonight, the court swill decide whether it wants to go ahead with building a new road for Highway 76 to Dunbar Cave Road. Beach said today the cost of construction for the road will be about $950,000 with the county paying half.

i At the April meeting of the court, the court's school committee recommended electing board of education members by popular vote. The seven-man board is now appointed by the county court and the city council as specified in the 1 964 school unification act. The court appoints three of the members and the city (f it TWENTY SIX PAGES TENNESSEE, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 11.1970 HOME DELIVERED tontiGa lift Joate mmmm i II White House and the Washington a helicopter. Nassau Community College on Long Island. A threatened lawsuit brought a similar reopening at nearby Hofstra University Hempstead.

The National Student Congress, expecting 2,000 delegates from 61 schoolsreonvened Sunday night at San Jose (Calif) State College under the slogan: "On strike "but not shut down. Educational redirection." At the University of Kansas students voted not to suspend school, leaving class attendance a personal option. Others will be allowed to attend topical discussions to finish the academic year. The University of Iowa announced it would remain open through the end of final examinations but. offered three alternatives for students so they could schoQl without penalty.

The alternatives were to take CLARKSVILLE, I PRICE 50 CENTS A WEEK in imm Li W4 nn A dispatch, from Cambodia said four Marine battalions drove about a company of enemy troops from Neak Luong Sunday. They moved on about 2V2 miles and met the Cambo dians at the village of Kompong Phanom. This indicated that the 37 miles between the ferry crossing and the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh was clear of enemy troops. Neak Luong lies on Highway 1, which connects Phnom Penh president since 1946 and was a vice president of the AFL-CIO until he broke his; union away two years ago in the climax to a feud with AFL-CIO President George Meany. WALTER nn i 'A Sffiu i -4VV i MiUOLE Cturict of thundor snowofj (rucnigh most likely In th ftrnoont and evening.

Continues! mild. Low' tonight utway mostly low nd mid 8tu, 10 CENTS SINGLE COPY with Saigon. Reports from Phnom Penh said the South Vietnamese Marines seized both sides of the ferry landing. They arrived with an allied flotilla that moved across the border from South Vietnam Saturday. Other reports from the Neak Luong area said 20 to 30 South Vietnamese boats were maneuvering In the waterway between (Continued on Page 10, Col.

7) eutlheir He then formed the rival Alliance for Labor Action in an amalgamation with the Team-; sters and International Chemical Workers "to organize the (Continued on Page 10, Col. 4) (APWIrephoto) REUTHER The 25 members of thermion's-international executive board wUi choose a new president to serve until the UAWs 1972 convention. Mazey, the seven vice presi dents and 17 regional directors make up the executive board, -which Reuther headed as presi dent The board's next scheduled meeting is June 2. Reuther' appeared to le.set- ting the stage to handplck his (Continued on Page 10, Col. 5) Tf Crash ff By EDWIN WHITE Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP A "South Vietnamese navy flotilla of about 30 boats with a half dozen U.S.

advisers sailed into the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh today after the first allied river assault across the border, South Vietnamese sources said. The flotilla, which left South Vietnam on Saturday, completed a 60-mile drive that helped secur an Important ferry crossing on Highway 1, in Cambodia. South Vietnamese headquarters said more than 200 enemy troops were killed in the naval drive along the Mekong River, The arrival of the flotilla at Phnom Penh was aiinounced by the South Vieaiamese, who made no mention of U.S. advisers being aboard the boats. The presence of advisers was reported later informants who are in a position to know.

A spokesman for the U.S. Command in Saigon said he knew nothing about American naval advisers being aboard. Phnom Penh is well past the 21.7-mlle limit beyond which President Nixon told congres-s tonal leaders last week American forces would not penetrate into Cambodia. Whether this applies to advisers of the South Vietnamese and aircraft supporting them was not clear. But in a communique reporting on the river operation on Sunday, the U.

S. Command said today: S. forces yesterday provided the following support to the Republic of Vietnam 4th Corps operation in the 'Mekong River corridor' aerial re-supply tactical air strikes and advisers. In addition, approximately 30 U.a Navy craft, U.a Navy helicopters and U.S. Navy 0-10 aircraft are participating In this combined U.S.

Riverine force. U.S. casualties associated with this support were four killed." In Washington, an assistant press ascrezary at the White House, Gerald L. Warren, was asked about the reports that a half dozen U.S. advisers accompanied the.

South Vietnamese flotilla into P'inom Penh. Warren replied that thej Is no change In policy as outlined by President Nixon that Ameri can personnel woulds not be 1 VOL. 162 -NO. Ill HOUSE-Antiwar demonstrators By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Administrators and political leaders ordered the reopening today of many campuses that were closed last week, but some students called for continued Candidacy Announced Riley C. Darnell announced his candidacy today for the Montgomery County's post of Direct Representative in the Tennessee Legislature.

Darnell seeks election to the position subject to the August Democratic Primary and the November General Election. The post in currently held by Frank J. Runyon who has not to seek re-election. A Clarksville native, Darnell, 30, is a practicing attorney in Clarksville and a member of the American, Tennessee and Montgomery County Bar Associations. Darnell is a graduate of Clarksville High School and Austin Peay State University, (Continued on Page 10, Col.

3) RILEY DARNELL fi ll IjMkl I4J PI'WH niiwuuimwajilJijBiiJlwi Mm r. (APWIrephoto) Monument today. View is from a grade based on the work com pleted, take a "pass" or "with drawal" from all classes or take a grade of incomplete and finish the work next semester for a letter grade. The university student senate hacTasked President Wlllard L. Boyd to close the school, and a student "strike steering committee" denounced his three-al ternative plan as a strike-break ing technique.

At Massachusetts Institute of Technology the faculty voted Sunday night to keep the campus open but added that stun dents won't be required to attend classes or take exams. Boston College begins a three-day period today of being open for public seminars as an "open university to a divided Princeton University was (Continued on Page 10, Col. 1) gan, In a statement accompanying a Ssnate Judiciary Committee report recommending Black-mun's confirmation, sa'd he strongly endorsed the nomination. The nomination of the 61-yeaf-bld 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge was brought before, the.

Senate today -without any opposition In sight, in contrast to the long, bitter controversies that engulfed Nixon's earlier nominations of two Southern judges, Both Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania told newsmen they knew of no opposition to BJacknum's confirmation for the year-old vacancy on the Supreme Court. At the start of today's session. going beyond 21.7 miles Into Cambodia "and there have been no U.S. personnel beyond that" The navy movement was accompanied by gains of South Vietnamese fighting along the banks of the Muko.ng farther south. South Vietnamese marines seized the key ferry crossing at Neak Luong on the Mekong and then drove on north and linked up today with U.S.-trained -Cambodian strike forces.

By A.F. MAHAN Associated'Press Writer DETROIT (AP Expressions of sympathy continued to pour in from around the world today as members of the United Auto Workers made preparations to bury the man who led them for 24 years. The union proclaimed a week of mourning for Its president, Walter P. Reuther, who was killed with five other persons In a plane crash over the weekend. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

A spokesman for Michigan Gov. William Milliken said he would proclaim "Walter Reuther Day" throughout Michigan on the day of the labor leader's funeral. The proclamation will describe Reuther as a man who was not just concerned about getting better rages and working conditions for his union members "but also for a better contract, with life for all citizens." The proclamation cites Reuther' legacy accomplishments and service. The UAW goes to the bargain-l lng table in mid-July to hammer out new contracts with the automotive giants. Under Reuther, a giant in the American labor movement, the UA.V had grown to 1.6 million the nation's largest Industrial union.

Reuther had been the UAWs of two Southern judges Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. of South Carolina and Gr Harrold Carswell of Florida for the Su preme Court vacancy. The court has been une mem ber short since May of last year when Abe Fortas resigned in the (Continued on Page 10, Col. 6) Come On Inside.

Movies 3 Editorial 4 TV Page 5 Sport 8 4 9 Deaths 10 Dear Abby 13 Comic -Page 14 Farm 7 rrrr.Page 15 Classified 17 Ib I Bi 'ROUND THE WHITE rally in the Ellipse between the protests. Other schools offered compromise plans to keep classes going. Most of the nation's colleges were quiet Sunday as students from some of them returned from the weekend demonstration in Washington where about persons gathered to protest operations by U.S. troops in Cambodia and the deaths of four Kent State University students. At the University of Wisconsin, however, a crowd that grew to 4,000 marched on the administration building, breaking windows and demanding that the school reverse Its rejection of a class moratorium request.

Thunder showers helped National Guardsmen quell the turmoil. In another development, officials of four major universities indicated they favored a proposal, adopted by Princeton last week, to give undergraduates time off this fall to work In political campaigns. Among the campuses scheduled for reopening today were the California State university and college system. But student leaders at the Berkeley campus called for "curtailing normal activities for" the remainder of the war" and opening, the campy tamobilize esour ces and manpower for protests. The University -of -Southern California announced that students won't- penalized ffjhey skip classes "the rest of the semester.

President Norman Topping said the action was taken "to recognize the right of conscience of every member of the student body and faculty." The University of was ordered by a federal judge to reopen today. The order was sought by two law students. In New York, a suit filed by the Young1 Americans-ifor- Freedom forced the reopening of i.it J. I ackmun Issue Jo Obstacles Seen I Leadership Centers On Vice-Presidents1 1 By JOHN CHAD WICK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A leader of the Senate's Democratic liberals said today that In the Svirtwme- Court -nomination of Judge Harry A Black-rmm of" Minnesota," President Nixon "has indeed chosen from aff.ong;tjie..yerjj?sLii.- Sen. Phlllo A.

Hart of Mlchl- Woodchuckh If you let your kids Forget mom's day too Let's face it, old pal; Bad luck follows you. Plil the Senate agreed to vote on confirmation at 2:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Hart, who voted against Nixon's earlier nominations of Judges Clement Haynsworth Jr. of South Carolina and Harrold Car swell of Florida, said Blackmun'8 record "reveals a deep sensitivity tP -those individual rights and freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution." Bfockmun, who lives In Rochester, and has served on the 8th U.S. Court of Appeals since 1959, won a 17-0 vote of approval from the Senate Judiciary" Committee last Tuesday after no one testified against his President Nixon submitted Hackmun's nomination April 15 following the Senate's rejection i XETBOIT-(AP)- Who -will succeed Walter P.

Reuther and spearhead new contractrTar- galnlng between the United Auto Workers and the giants of the auto Industry starting in mid-July? Most guessing In Detroit the union's seven vice presidents. Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer, took over temporarily wi lder the union's constitution fol lowing Reuther' death In a plane crash. And he may put in a claim to keep the mantle. 1.