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Fitchburg Sentinel from Fitchburg, Massachusetts • Page 4

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FITCHBUF" (MASS.) SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, 5, 1967 National Scene TOUR LANDMARKS KARNACK (AP) Lyndon Johnson took his bride-to-be, Lady Bird, away from this crossroads hamlet 32 years ago ifl an old coupe'. He brought her back Tuesday in jet-powered presidential heli copter. The Johnsons spent about IV. hours touring sentimental land marks in the area of Mrs. John eon'i hometown and visiting with old friends before return ing to their LBJ Ranch near Johnson City.

They may remain there through next weekend. the holiday the First Family witnessed the bap tism of their first grandchild; Patrick Lyadon Nugent. Mrs. Johnson asked the Presl dent to take her back to her home town since they plannec to be in Texarkana, just SO miles to the north, for the funeral of Mrs. Wright Patman, wife of the Texas Democrat who is chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee.

COMPLETES WALK CANTON, Miss. (AP) James H. Meredith characterizes bis march through Mississippi as, "at best, the beginning of the end for fear and injus tice." The last steps of the 165-mile walk brought the 34-year-old civil Tights figure to the courthouse square here on Independence Day. Meredith said the completion of his 11-day march "does not signal a victory 1 It is a greater manifestation of the black world's historical, traditional and more fundamental defeat." He said he had failed in one of his primary purposes because "the fear that permeates the life of- the Negro in the United States has not been eliminated." But he said he exposed that fear. "If Negroes no longer he told about 40 Negroes who gathered as he spoke, "then the whites have only two choices: to kill them or let them be free." released Tuesday a 12-page booklet detailing some income guarantees already given to UAW-represented GM workers.

The action was a public Indication of what GM executives have made plain in private, where, with newsmen, they have scoffed at Reuther's scheme to pay people for not working. J1 "We can't guarantee anybody's Income until somebody can guarantee us a market," one said. "If a guy can draw his pay even if he isn't working, who would work? I wouldn't." ROMNEY IN N. U. MIRROR LAKE, N.H.

(AP) Michigan Gov. George W. Romney has arrived for a four- day visit at the summer estate of a friend, and for political talks with New England Repub- Icans. Romney, who arrived Tuesday night by plane, made plan: for an early morning round ol golf with his host, J. Willard Bariott, a Washington, D.C., restaurant operator.

At a stop in Boston en route, the Michigan governor told newsmen he had not decided whether to enter the New Hampshire primary--the nation's first-but that if he did, te did not want Massachusetts Gov. John A. Volpe as an opponent. Volpe has indicated he may attempt to be a Massachusetts avorite-son candidate at the lepublican National Convention and has said he may seek support from other New England tales. SERVICE AWARDS Ernest J.

Daulton, plant manager at Dixle-Cowdrey Machine Subsidiary of American Can, left, presents service awards to Philip J. Martin and Roland Ge ice, and Howard service to the center, for 15 years serv-: 20years impany. a charge of operating i motor vehicle without a license by Judge Richard Comerford. In other cases: Peter C. Allaire, 18, of 57 Sheridan Fitchburg, was found guilty on a charge of speeding and fined 125 after the court was told it was bis second offense within one year.

David A. McMillan, 23, of 48 Mt. Pleasant Ave. pleaded innocent to a charge of speeding. He was found guilty and $25.

It was his second offense within one year, the court was told. Frederick. W. Levier, 18, of 602 North Main St. was granted a further continuance to Friday no charges' of transporting alcoholic and drunkenness.

Some 10,000 species of butterflies flutter throughout the United States. 90 Citations Given Drivers LEOMINSTER-Use of radar by local and state police netted about 90 drivers for exceeding the speed limits in areas covered by the lnw enforcement agencies over the long holiday weekend. Lt. Francis A. Arel, head of in Townsend.

the Leomiuster 'Police Traffic Bureau, who was in charge of the city ppeartioji, said today radar was setup in various sections of the city and 42 citations were issued. The Leominster State Police Barracks troopers used radar in parts covered by that substation and nearly 50 violation slips were given out. Some of the drivers will be summonsed Into court and the names of others forwarded to Probate Court WORCESTER Two divorce petitions and two teparate support suits were filed by Fitchburg residents in Probate Court at the County Courthouse here Monday. Filing for divorce were: Mrs. Mary Wilder against Sherman Wilder, address unknown.

Parents of four children, they were married Sept. 26,1961, Mrs. Joan Pictala against Richard Pietala, also of Fitchburg. They were married March 19, 1959, in that city, and have three children. Separate support suits were filed by: Mrs.

Pauline T. Pomerleau against Noel Pomerleau, also of Fitchburg. Parents of three children, they were married July 3, 1948, in Ashby. Mrs. Maureen Byron against Richard P.

Byron of Plymouth. The couple was married Feb. the Registry of Motor Vehicles. 16, 1963, In Fitchburg. DANGER LESSENS LAWRENCEBURG, Tenn.

(AP) A danger still exists at the water-damaged Laurel Hill Dam, but officials of the Tennessee Game and Fish Commission say it is less today. Two valves were opened Tuesday, increasing to nearly 130 million gallons a day the water output through a sluice tunnel, and thus reducing water pressure which threatens to break the earthen dam. The 24-inch valves, along with another valve which has been partially open since Friday, will lower the water to. a safe level within two weeks, Les Haun, a commission engineer, predicted. The lake has been closed to all activities.

About' 200 residents of three communities below the dam have been alerted to evacuate in event of a break. The lake held about three billion gallons of water. The freight cars owned by Jnited States railroads could form a train 15,000 miles long. District Court At Leominster LEOMINSTER-Henry Eickhorst, 20, of 5C Grossman Ave. retracted innocent pleas and admitted 'guilt to two motor' vehicle charges in District Court today.

He' was sentenced to the House of Correction for two months, suspended one year, on a charge of usinSf a motor vehicle without authority and fined $25 on COUNTDOWN TO TRAFFIC SAFETY DANGER SPOT NUMBER FACES SURGERY HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) Cancer specialists studied Alabama Gov. Lurleen Wallace's medical records today before starting tests to determine the extent of a recurrent malignancy. The nation's only woman governor, who thought she had won her battle against cancer 181 months ago, brought the files I with her Tuesday when she en- tered a highly regarded tumor I Bl and CuiMng clinic. I Sts.

at Main St. undergo surgery, as she did in Montgomery, In January, 1966. Smiling and in good spirits, the sun-tanned governor stepped off a private plane at the Houston airport shortly after noon Tuesday and rode across town, behind a police escort, to the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital. WAGE FIGHT IP) Five days talks open, General Motors has served notice that it will fight guaranteed annual income, the pet demand of United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther.

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1873-1977