The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 2

Page 2, Part 1 3 lei SLnztltiZimti The Newsmakers METROPOLITAN Occidental Students Plan Strike 1 1 1,1 1TH! Nevs of WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30. 1969 "Krr-w a THE WORLD U.S. Loses 17 Copters in 7 Days The War in Vietnam The U.S. command said 17 American helicopters have been shot down by Communist fire in the past seven days in one of the worst periods for helicopter losses this year. The rate approached that of the early months of 1968 during heavy fighting when an average of 72 helicopters a month were lost.

Allied troops killed 132 Communist soldiers in fighting along infiltration routes from Cambodia and near the demilitarized zone, military spokesmen said. U.S. and Vietnamese troops also reported capturing 52 tons of ammunition and food in widely separated Communist caches near the northern A Shau Valley and near Hoi An. In the air war, the new U.S. bombing offensive against enemy hideouts near Saigon and Da Nang continued with six overnight raids that dropped an estimated 180 tons of bombs.

Military spokesmen reported no significant shelling attacks against either military bases or towns. It was believed this was the first time no shellings had been reported since the Communists began their offensive Feb. 23. A critic of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war.

Sen. Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio) claimed many of 6,000 American deaths in Vietnam listed by the Pentagon as accidental should have been listed as battle fatalities. He said the practice was a "clumsy effort to deceive the public." Israeli commandos struck into northern Egypt in the Nile region in reprisal for increasing Egyptian cease-fire violations along the Suez Canal. (See Page 1.) The Big Four continued secret meetings on the Middle East crisis at the United Nations, reportedly taking up for the first time the Arab refugee problem.

Sources said representatives of the United States, France, Britain and Russia asked the U.N. Secretariat to prepare factual information on the Palestinian refugees to help with the negotiations. Lin Piao, heir to Chairman Mao Tse-tung, apparently is seeking respite through conciliation for Red China, a nation battered by the Cultural Revolution. (See Page 1.) Many red flags raised in preparation for May Day celebrations in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia are disappearing or being torn down by citizens in advance of the holiday. The red flag is the banner of trade the Day CometW from La Amttt Times, 1ft La AnwMs Timt WatfimftM Past Newt Srvtc ana mtlor vir and suwemtntary nut a9tncies.

unions, of working class solidarity and of the Communist Party. Soviet industrial production is failing to increase at the rate targeted for 1969, figures released in Moscow indicate. Officials had predicted a growth rate of 7.3 for the year but first-quarter figures showed a 6 To rate, compared with the same period last year. The State Department announced it would protest Soviet travel curbs on two American correspondents based in Moscow. A statement said the United States has "long been concerned with the treatment of our correspondents in Russia," and it is "in sharp contrast to the treatment of Soviet newsmen in this country." The National Religious Committee Opposing ABM, a new group formed by an assistant chaplain at Yale University, the Rev.

John Boyles, issued a statement which said arguments of President Nixon and the military in support of the antiballistic missile system "seem designed to exploit the natural fears and confusions of our people." The Roman Catholic bishops of Catalonia called for a better deal for Spanish workers. In a pastoral letter, they said the working class too often is oppressed by "insufficient wages, lack of lodging and poor human relations." Brazil has extended its territorial waters limit from six to 12 nautical miles. President Arthur da Costa Silva stripped 105 Brazilians of political rights in the biggest of five purges since last December. The move brought to 289 the number barred from political activity for opposing the military-backed government. Once persons reach the age of SO, doctors should stop trying to save their lives, a health officer told Britain's Royal Society of Health.

Dr. Kenneth Vickery, 52, said older people were overloading available health services to the detriment of the young. Ten persons have been arrested in connection with a wave of terrorist bombings in Puerto Rico. Police said they included a former representative of the Pro-Independence Movement in Havana, Cuba. West German police arrested Daniel (Danny the Red) Cohn-Bendit, leader of the French student revolt in Paris last year, during a five-hour battle with student demonstrators at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.

SPORTS Jim Brewer snuffed out an attempted San Diego ninth-Inning rally as the Dodgers edged the pesky Padres, 2-1, and remained tied with San Fracisco for the lead in the Western Division of the National League. Sam Jones' 15-foot jump shot with two second left gave the Boston Celtics an 89-88 victory over the Lakers before a record Boston Garden crowd of 15,128 and evened their NBA championship series at two games apiece. Marty Faltin, a former Angel, pitched a two-hitter as the Seattle Pilots blanked the Angels, 1-0, in Seattle. Penny Ann Early, scheduled to make her debut as a race rider at Hollypark, failed to show up at Inglewood track. Penny Ann was scheduled to ride two mounts.

See Sports Section A hanger strike against military recruiting and plans to prevent military recruiters from coming on campus were announced by students at Occidental College. The. students, who said they had active support from at least nine faculty members, said they intend to use their bodies to block the recruiters when they attempt to enter the campus today. They said several students had pledged to remain on a hunger strike, which began Monday, until the administration agrees to ban all recruiters from campus. Barry Goldwater Jr.

won election to Congress from the 27th District by a decisive margin over his Democratic opponent, John Van de Kamp. (See Page 1.) A preliminary county budget of $1,464,803,019 which would boost the property tax rate almost 29 cents was accepted by the Board of Supervisors. (See Page 1.) Nightclub bouncer Orbry Lee Williams, 23, convicted of first-degree murder in a $6 Long Beach robbery, was sentenced to death in the gas chamber by Superior Judge Charles C. Stratton. The victim, Gary Jonasson, 27, a glass worker, was shot to death Aug.

24, 1968, in the parking lot of a Long Beach bar when he disobeyed an order from Williams to lie on the pavement. Four students barred from Manual Arts High School for passing leaflets which urged other students to boycott the school filed a Superior Court suit against the Los Angeles Unified School District and Board of Education seeking a writ of mandate to force their reinstatement. The students, Lawrence Averett, 16; James V. Allen, 17; Patricia Robinson, 17, and James Pilcher, 17, were barred for the rest of the although Miss Robinson, a senior, will be permitted to come back to graduate with her class. They contend there was insufficient cause for the disciplinary action taken against them for circulating the leaflets March 10.

John S. Garrett, 30, brother of football star Mike Garrett, was sentenced by Superior Judge Richard F. C. Hayden to state prison for one to 15 years for violating his probation on burglary and felony joy riding charges. He fled from the Hall of Justice last week, but was arrested a day later.

The escape charge is pending. TV's Mission: Impossible costars Martin Landau and his wife Barbara Bain were named man and woman of the year by the Christmas Seal Assn. during ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton. The couple were given the award for their work as head-s of the 1968 campaign, a spokesman said. The president of Litton Industries said in Washington he saw no conflict between his heading a presidential council on government organization while his company was under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.

Roy L. Ash told newsmen he would have no trouble SOUTHLAND Real Estate Broker Albert R. Albinger, 53-year-old real estate broker, was elected mayor succeeding Ventura's "oldest active mayor in the United States." Charles W. Petit, 87, who did not run for reelection, turned over the office he had held for 16 years. Albinger was new not only to the office of mayor but to the City Council, having been elected for his first term April 15.

The Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego began trial of a vaccine it hopes will stop the spread of meningococcal meningitis, an occasionally fatal brain disease. Since the first of the year, three of the 22 THE STATE Demonstrators Seize A crowd of about 100 Mexican-American and student demonstrators occupied the Watsonville City Hall for an hour after closing time and were then forcibly expelled by police. One demonstrator, identified as Ramon Martinez, 25, was arrested for disturbing the peace. After leaving the City Hall, the crowd surrounded the jail where Martinez was being held, shouting for his release. A squad of 25 Santa Cruz County deputies were called in to aid the 10-man Watsonville police force.

The demonstrators were protesting housing conditions for Mexican-Americans In the Watsonville area. Black Panther Party attorney Charles R. Garry accused San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alloto of deliberately provoking disorders that gripped the Negro Fillmore District Monday night. Garry said the mayor and police hoped to "poison the atmosphere" In connection with the Huey Newton bail hearing In federal court Thursday. Newton, 27, serving two to 15 years on a voluntary manslaughter conviction for killing an Oakland policeman, is demanding bail while his case is on appeal.

He is a Black Panther cofoundcr. i ft GOOD TURN Mrs. Edward Kennedy, wife of the senator, tirns shovel of earth during tree-planting ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts at the capital. (fl Wlrephols "being truly responsive" to the job given him by President Nixon as chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization.

The Beverly Hills-based company is among the largest defense contractors and its recent acquisition of two German firms is under investigation by the FTC. Joan Irvine Smith's plea for invalidation of the James Irvine Foundation's trust instrument was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. The blonde heiress, largest individual stockholder in the Irvine is a granddaughter of James Irvine II, who established the foundation in 1937. She began suit in 1966, seeking to recover more than $60 million in assets for the James Irvine heirs, including 450 shares of company stock which she contended were held illegally by the foundation.

N. Loyall McLaren, foundation president, said the court action will enable the foundation to resume its program of grants to charities. Three members of the Caltech faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, bringing the faculty membership to 35, the highest percentage of any faculty in the United States. The new members are Thomas Lauritz-en, professor of physics; Norman H. Horowitz, professor of biology and head of the bioscience section at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Dean E.

Wooldridge, research associate in engineering. Elected Ventura Mayor cases of the disease discovered on the depot have been fatal. Demolition crews began to tear down the 60-year-old beachfront Del Mar Hotel, once a favorite watering hole for horse-playing Hollywood stars. The 300-room San Diego court hotel had been closed since 1963 because of financial difficulties. It was purchased in 1967 by its present owners, the Baptist Missionary Foundation of America, of Pomona.

The foundation originally had planned to construct a retirement complex on the 11-acre site, but had to discard that idea because of a City Council objection. Watsonville City Hall San Quentin cell blocks got their first general shakedown in two years as officials tried to cool down a flareup of racial tension and stab-blngs. Three Negro convicts were slain and four white convicts wounded In three stabblngs in the prison within the last week. Associate Warden Jim Park said extraordinary security measures such as "gun coverage" at meals and shutdown of prison factories will continue through today. He said the search of cell blocks for weapons was the first general one since January, 1967, when a racial confrontation of prisoners developed from an attempt by some to start a prisoners' general strike.

Assembly Democratic Leader Unruh told a labor conference in Sacramento that Gov. Reagan is running a "government of the elltt, by the elite and for the elite. You have to go pretty far to find anything that isn't white, wealthy and Republican." The Democrat, who may run for governor against Reagan In 1970, made his remarks to th California Labor Federation, WW jC- Walter Brisebois when he Neighbors Think He's Being Railroaded Residents of Windsor, are taking up a special collection to pay legal costs for Walter Brisebois, 34. He is their herobecause he got mad when a train held him up for 18 minutes at a crossing near his home. As soon as the train was gone, Brisebois drove his car onto the tracks, turned off its ignition, and lit a cigaret.

The next train had to wait exactly 18 minutes. That's why Brisebois needs a defense fund. Police arrested him. The charge: intimidating a train. Assemblyman Max Pievsky introduced a bill to allow women to wrestle professionally in Pennsylvania.

"I believe," the Philadelphia Democrat explained, "in equal rights for women!" Somalia is presently suffering the most severe drought in five years, and President All Sher-marke is pretty sure he knows why. It was the recent elections and the people who ran for office. In an address at Mogadishu, Shermarke said the office-seekers relaxed their moral and spiritual principles, falsified their aims, made promises they could not THE NATION Gov. Rhodes Orders Gov. James A.

Rhodes ordered the Ohio Highway Patrol to investigate all matters concerning Thomas Lica-voli, 65, who was sentenced to life for first-degree murder in 1934 for his part in four gangland-style slayings in Toledo. Licavoli is the topic of a current Life magazine story concerning Rhodes and his commutation of Licavoli's conviction to second-degree murder last January. The commutation made Licavoli eligible for parole, but the parold board has continued the case until 1974. Rhodes ordered the investigation "in view of certain allegations that have been made concerning the entire case President Nixon urged colleges and universities to stand up against student violence in his second major speech on the topic. (See Page 1.) Treasury Secretary David M.

Kennedy has sold his controversial holdings in a Chicago bank he once headed. (See Page 1.) Doctored Air Force papers concealed the mounting cost of the C-5A military cargo plane, according to an officer testifying before a House subcommittee. (See Page 1.) The Senate poverty subcommittee approved, on a straight party-line vote, a resolution calling on the Nixon Administration to suspend its plans to close down 59 Job Corps centers. The resolution, proposed by Sen. Alan Cranston would have no binding effect on the Administration.

Striking guards at the Ohio Penitentiary voted to return to their jobs early today after a court order was issued requiring them to end their walkout over a wage dispute. National Guard troops were called to duty at the penitentiary in Columbus when the prison guards struck Tuesday. In a White House meeting with student leaders protesting the war, a high official of the Nixon Administration asked for time and patience concerning Vietnam and made an implied promise to change the situation within a year. The pica and the promise, according to the students, were, delivered by Henry A. Kissinger, presidential assistant for national security affairs.

They quoted him as saying that "If you people come back here next year this time we could not morally give you a plea for patience If the state of the war in 1970 is the same as it Is now." Revering an earlier shut-down order, the Nevada Gaming Commis gets mad, he will not be moved. Wlrephoto keep and took the name of God in vain. "These things," he declared, "are objectionable to God according to the dictates of every positive religion." Friends of Keith and Sharon Busch decided to play a little trick on them while they were being married at the home of Dist. Judge William H. Heuermann in Sioux Falls, S.D.

They set out to decorate the Busches' car with "just married" signs and other, similar mottoes. But after the ceremony, the Busches drove away in another auto. The car that got painted wasn't theirs; it was one of the same make, color and year belonging to Judge Heuermann. And the Heuer-manns have been married for 22 years. Mrs.

Sukhvinder Birdi Chana hailed her Sikh husband, Gurmit, into a London court when he refused to go through the civil ceremony which would make their marriage valid under British law. Gunnit's explanation was simple and direct: one ceremony was plenty. The 25-year-old bridegroom explained that, by Sikh custom, he had not been permitted to see his bride's face before the marriage rites. "And when I saw her," said the solemn Sikh, "I was disappointed very much." Gangster Case Inquiry sion ruled that the $12 million Circus Circus Casino on the Las Vegas Strip could remain open at least until May 31. The casino had been scheduled to close it's gambling at midnight tonight when its license expired.

The commission last week had refused to renew the permit on grounds of undisclosed financial dealings. The night shift at the Ford Motor Co. plant in Mahwah, N.J., where demonstrators have been protesting alleged racism, was shut down for the third night in a row half way through the shift. A plant official said that with about 350 of 1,675 workers absent the shutdown was called to avoid "running the risk of quality problems." A charge of discrimination by some supervisors has been brought by Negro employes. The launch team at Cape Kennedy started a crucial week-long countdown rehearsal for the Apollo 10 moon orbit flight while specialists continued a search for possible damage to the first stage of the Saturn 5 booster rocket that might have been caused by a fuelling mishap.

Serious damage could delay the May IS liftoff. Sen. Philip A. Hart (D-Mich.) announced his subcommittee on energy, natural resources and environment would open hearings May 19 on the effect of pesticides on freshwater fish, especially in the Great Lakes where a shipment of fish was seized as unfit for human consumption because of the high level of DDT they contained. The senator recently urged a total ban on the use of DDT In the United States.

Sen. J. William Fulbright chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana drew large writing and speaking fees last year, reports under a new mandatory disclosure rule showed. Fulbright earned nearly $20,000 and Mansfield $16,000. Well in advance of the May 15 deadline, 14 senators have filed their public reports with the Senate secretary, but none of them revealed anything sensational.

Sen. George S. McGovern accused President Nixon of giving only "the barest nod to the in his new budget. lie told the Senate that the new budget contained "an Increase of $15 million for nutrition aid to teach the poor what to eat but not one additional dollar to help the poor secure the food they need." Jll 7 OFF TO SEE THE QUEEN The new U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, Walter Annenberg, leaves embassy in London on the way to Buckingham Palace to present credentials to Queen Elizabeth II.

WiWirwhott BUSINESS The nation's No. 1 and No. 2 steelmakers, U.S. Steel and Bethlehem, reported lower sales and earnings for the first quarter of 1960. Colorado Interstate Co.

is contem- plating building a $250 million pipeline to bring a new supply of natural gas from Canada to the burgeoning California market, a lawyer for the firm told the U.S. Supreme Court. California moved back into the bond business as it was finally able to sell a $30 million construction Issue at an interest rate below the 5 legal limit. The trading pace hit Its best level alnce early In the year as the stock market advanced over a broad tange. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 9.02 at 934.10.

1 See Financial Section.