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The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 7

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Billings, Montana
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ftp HiUitt03 Gazrttf nTu 1966 3 Ex-Billings Man Cited i For Viet Nam Heroism 1 A former Billings man has won the Army Commendation Medal for heroism during combat in Viet Nam. Pfc. Steve Fehlberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick L.

Fehlberg, now of Midland, accepted the award recently at his post with the First Cavalry Division in South Viet Nam. According to tile Department of the Army, announcement of the award, Fehlberg was on a patrol in South Viet Nam in party to relieve a platoon which had been surrounded during the fighting. "Pfc. Fehlberg's initiative and courageous action are in keeping with the highest tradidions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army," the report said. Fehlberg attended Billings elementary schools while his father was an engineer for an oil company here.

February when his unit was attacked by batallion of Viet Cong. Fehlberg used a mortar against the enemy until he ran out of ammunition. His ammunition gone, he volunteered as a rifleman to defend his unit command post. When rifle ammunition ran low, he left his cover and scavenged ammunition under enemy fire, the report said. Later, the report said, he volunteered to go with a rescue PFC.

STEVE FEHLBERG Victory Means Little to Cicero It starts today! Annual an older woman, frightened and hysterical, was taken from the line. Here is a description of the most violent part of Sunday's march: i v- 00. v' tWWM "FAMOUS FIVE It ended with both marchers and white hecklers locked in a pitched battle at the Chicago-Cicero border. It was the first time civil rights marchers engaged in violence. But these marchers were different.

Many were advocates of black power. Thruout the march they taunted Cicero citizens, even invited them to fight. Unlike Dr. Martin Luther King's silent marchers, these Negroes were openly militant, defiantly vocal. They brought their small children, their women, and their elderly.

At least one Negro woman carried an infant in her arms. At one point in the march, BEAUTIFUL STOCKINGS When the march was to end at the Chicago-Cicero border, Negro marchers (plus 20 or 30 white persons who joined Lucas' trek) teased onlookers with invitations: "Ca'mon over to our side of town!" "Keep walkin' whitey. Follow me to Chicago and I'll take care of you!" At a railroad viaduct that separates city from suburb, enraged Cicero youths were determined to get a last lick. A Editor's Note: "I have spent more time with Martin Luther King this summer than my wife," says Robert Nolte, formerly Billings man who has covered every civil rights march in Chicago this summer for the Chicago Tribune. Nolte is a former Billings Gazette reporter and son of Mr.

and Mrs. Glen Nolte, 1201 Broadway. Here is Nolte's account of the Cicero riots. By Robert Nolte Special for The Gazette Cicero, 111. a so-called bastion of white supremacy had to be conquered.

It symbolized all the civil rights movement was fighting. It was too great a temptation for Robert Lucas, head of Chicago's chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). To him, Cicero was the Selma of the north, a stronghold of closed housing and anti-Negro sentiment. Lucas wanted to dash that image. Although he says the Cicero march was a victory, residents blond white teen-ager with "white power" crayoned on his tee-shirt kicked a pop bottle into the body of marchers.

A maddened Negro boy picked up the bottle and with deadly force slammed it into the crowd. It smashed against a brick wall. Furious, whites picked up stones and heaved them into the group of marchers. Marchers, too, pciked up missiles and hurled them. Police, Guard Move In A phalanx of Chicago police skilled veterans of many racial disorders quelled the melee, using riot sticks on both black and white skulls.

National guardsmen some of whom earlier had slashed 8 Cicero men who refused to obey them cordoned off the area. When it was over, police officials estimated they had spent nearly $100,000 to provide protection for the marchers. The national guard alone cost more than $50,000 to mobilize. The cost of mobilization included overtime pay, ammunition, food, medical supplies, and the cost of putting extra equipment and vehicles into service. It was expensive, but observers agreed the extra police manpower was needed.

This reporter, and the many reporters and photographers who covered Cicero, concurred that Cicero was too much for state, county, and town police to handle. Even with the guard, there were several moments when Cicero teetered on the brink of mob violence. Not Over Yet By Robert Nolte Racial activity in Chicago is not over. Here is a calendar of future demonstrations. Robert Lucas with Cicero under his belt says he will picket in an all-Negro neighborhood.

Dr. Martin Luther King says he will soon begin a drive to get Negroes better jobs. King plans to use a new method the "dress-in" to dramatize the Negro employment plight. A dress-in is when 50 to 100 Negroes try on clothes in department stores to tie up business. Demonstrators leave when management promises jobs, King said.

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(Negroes are not allowed to live in Cicero, but ironically, 15,000 of them work in the suburb's factories and stores five days a week). Began With Showers Lucas' showdown came shortly after 2 o'clock last Sunday afternoon. It began with showers of bricks, bottles, and rocks. and Gage park neighborhoods of Chicago within the next two weeks. Both were scenes of bitter racial violence earlier this summer.

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