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2--Raleigh Register, Beckley, W. Monday Afternoon, Mar. 31,1969 Funeral McGuar Wickham services Waddell, will be for John 100, of conducted Raleigh County Clerk C. Harold Hanks (standing) accuses county i i of "discriminating" against him in providing salaries for employes when courthouse personnel met with the court Saturday afternoon. Hanks contended daring the donnybrook in the county courtroom his employes are the lowest paid IB any courthouse office, and he added a charge of racial discrimination be- Hassle At County Court Meeting Circuit cause a Negro girl was not with employes given a raise.

Another protest against the salary budget drawn up by the court a registered by County Clerk Fred Stacy (foreground); Stacy objected to a tion of $2,700 in the budget lor his office which the Court explained a transferred to the court's funds because of the resignation- of the court's Hurt. The courtroom was filled of the two offices, sheriff's deputies and members of the Negro community who protested what they discriminatory treatment of the Negro employe in Hanks' office. A Thompson (second' row, wearing glasses) said he would revise his figures before commenting after be listened to statements by Hanks and Stacy and the court. lire's Hometown General's Trust Rubbed Off On Abilene's Heart By H.D. QUIGG ABILENE, Kan.

(DPI)--The World passed by just beyond the north end of town. There, on Interstate Highway 70 the cars and trucks hurry along with an urgent buzz, bound for far places like Denver and Topeka and Kansas City. Here, inside a secure ping of surrounding slopes of brown Kansas earth and new green patches of winter wheat, JBes everybody's hometown. when the man from Abilene, Dwight D. Eisenhower, comes finally home Tuesday night, he will be among friends as though lie never left From the Wagon Wheel Cafe down by the freight You eon be driving of thoso thrilling, amok- Ing new 1969 cars, quick as a wink, when you us for an Auto Loan.

$lOt ijot 14 $41 S4 48.71 ftl.fl 47.fl BECKLEY NATIONAL BANK MO MIYIIII ttltlf where the funeral train reach journey's end, to the cemetery on the hill, where hi father Davis and his mother Id Ike stil are buried, the town roamed as a boy is uniquely his. "They feel close to Ike," one man said of the people here "He was always so proud to be from Abilene. "It's a feeling that he really meant it," said Mayor Delton B. Hadel, "when he used tc come back and say it was gom being home again. That tremen dous trust he had in us and th transmitted itself so tha everybody in town feels lik they've met him informally.

"This rubs off on your heart This trust gets to people-don't care how you cut it. Wha impressed me about the man was that he felt ji freedom here he felt no place else'. I got the shock of my life one morning when he wa President and I was going to work about 8 o'clock and there he was all alone walking down by the corner of Second Street just things." Cedar and looking a Zeke Storer came out from Sunday services at the Firs Presbyterian Church and re membered: "There was a spot inside th old Callahan's confectionery the place is gone now, that uaed to call 'Ike's In his early military days when he would return home, that where he'd sit and visit with Callahan and Paul Royer and his other cronies." You drive into this town 8,000 white between old fashioned frame houses with big Avoid The EASTER RUSH Send Us All Of Your CLEANING and LAUNDRY NOW! Samtone Certified MastcrDry cleaner $tatfen-To-Truck Two-Way Radio Communication To totter Serve Our Customers CHMOM yards. They line the main drag, Buckeye Avenue before it becomes the business section. In front of one of these houses, a woman on her way to church remembered Ike's mother: "When the news first came during the war that he was getting the five-star general rank, my aunt Emma asked Mrs.

Eisenhower what she thought about that. She replied: 'Oh, it's all right--just so long as he's good to the boys." That's how she was." Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Coal City Community Church with the Rev. L. A.

Garten officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Waddell died in a local hospital Sunday at 3:45 a.m. following a six-week illness. Born in Wilkes County, North Carolina oh Dec.

8, 1868 Waddell was the son of the late Troy Mary Brown Waddell. He had been a resident of Wickham for the past 20 years and formerly had lived at Jonben for 25 years. Prior to his retirement, years ago, he operated a store and sawmill at Hiawatha. He was also a member of the Jonben Church of God. Waddell is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Zella Waddell of Beckley; three daughters, Mrs. Lettie Garretson of Ghent, Mrs. Bessie Hatfield of Rotida, N. and Miss Alice Waddell of Wickham; one son, Walker Waddell of 68 grandchildren, 83 a grandchildren, 57 great great grandchildren, and 52 great great great grandchildren. The body is at Melton Mortuary where friends may call after 5 p.m.

today and will be taken to the church one hour prior to services. Funeral services for Thomas Vaughn Hutchison, of Harper Road, will be conducted in the Presbyterian Church Wednesday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Curtis Patterson officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Hutchison died in a local hospital Sunday at 10 a.m. following a short illness. Born at Forrest Hill on April 18, 1903, he was a son of the late Oscar and Emma Allen Hutchison. First coming to Beckley in 1927, he was connected with Dominiclf Font ami Funeral for Dominkfc Fontana, S7, ol Mount Hope will be held it 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Funeral local For furniture retail the past 13 outlets years Acre Tif fey Funeral services for Acie Tilley, 32.

of McGraws will be conducted at. 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Saulsville Baptist Church with the Rev. Ronald Adkins in charge. Burial will be in the Pretty Ridge Cemetery a Saulsville.

Tilley died Saturday in at 4:02 a.m a Morgantown hospital. Death was attributed to cancer. Born Sept. 1, 1936, at New Richmond, he was the son a Manley and Luella Tilley of McGraws. Other survivors include his wife, Alice; three sons, Acie Perry Calvin and Benjamin Franklin, all at home; two daughters, Donna Kay am Alesa Louise, both at home five brothers, Jimmy, David and Donald, all of McGraws Jonathan of Ravencliff ant Isaac of Wilmington, am seven sisters, Mrs.

Sylvia Ruff of Baltimore, Mrs. Anice Anderson of Mrs. AretU Richmond, Mrs. of Sabine, Mrs. of Riverview, Aberdeen, Dixon of Md.

New 30 Hutchison had served as manager of the consumers credit department at the Raleigh County Bank until his retirement in May of 1908. He was associated with the Beckley Rural Development Society, anc a charter member of the Raleigh County Historical Society and the Beckley unit of Wally Byam Caravan Club, an organization of Air-stream owners. Hutchison also a member of the Presbyterian Church ant the men's Bible Class, a past master of the Beckley Masonic Lodge No. 95, AF and AM, and the Beckley Elks Lodge. Survivors include his wife Delma Saunders Hutchison; two daughters, Mrs.

Zina (Betty French, Daniels; and Mrs Orland (Virginia) Mittteburg Minot, N. four brothers Neal. Ronceverte: Robert Athens; Jim, Forrest Hill; and Oscar of Beckley; and seven grandchildren. The body is at Melton Mortuary where friends may cal from 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, and will be taken to the one hour prior to services.

Beckley Masonic Lodge, AF and AM, will conduct Masonic rites. Pallbearers wffl be Charles Galloway, Roy J. Lucas, W. A. TbornhUl HI, W.

David Mufflns James Songer, D. 0. Means, Roy Milliron, and John Donovan. Friend may elect to make gifts to the memorial fund ol the Presbyterian Church. Lula Cannaday Mrs.

Lula Jane Cannaday, 60, of Harvey died Sunday in a Beckley hospital after an extended Illness. She was born in Franklin County, Va. Sept. 5,1889. Mandy Allen Marie Smith Mrs Court Grants Appeal In Suit Against BNC CHARLESTON (UPI) The State Supreme Court today granted an appeal in a libel suit against a Beckley news paper: C.

Harold Hanks, circuit clerk of Raleigh County, tought action in the suit which went to the U. S. Supreme Court a then was referred ac to a lower court. Hanks originally won a $5,000 jury judgment in Wyoming County Circuit Court for an editorial written by Emile Hodel which appeared in The Beckley Post-Herald. Hanks' petition said the case was twice docketed but the court "reversed" itself and granted a motion for summary judgment dismissal after case was returned from the U.

S. Supreme Court. attorney In Newspapers Corporation, said today's ruling meant that attorneys for both parties would now be called on to present oral arguments in support of their positions before the state court and that records of the latest proceedings in the case in the Wyoming County Circuit Court would be reviewed. jPearlina Phelps of Tampa, Fla. and Mrs.

Peggy Adkins of For Mills, S. C. The body Jack A. Mann, the case for will be taken to the home of his parents at 4 p.m. today from the Sam Foglesong, Funeral (RNS) and Neely in Mullens.

(Continued From Page 1) pregnant women. The issue was clouded by a clash between Recorders Court Judge George W. Crockett, a Negro, and Wayne County rosecutor William Cahalan about the handling of the case. Sunday, Crockett freed all but two of those arrested. David Brown 19, Compon, was held on a charge assault to commit murder.

He pleaded innocent to police charges he was firing a pistol rom the church loft. Kirkwood Hall, 24, Linden, N.J., was held on a charge of possession of a gas-ejecting device, a can of chemical Mace. Arraignment was set for Tuesday. A third identified as Alfred Hibbit of Kentucky, was re- eased on $1,000 bond on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder. Patrolman Richard E.

Woro- ec, 28, was in fair condition ut under sedation late Sunday ith three bullet wounds. He was the only person definitely stablished as a witness to the tart of the battle. Four persons nside the church were wounded police gunfire. i Albert Hampton Hare, 59, of Route 9, Beaver, died Sunday in a Bluefield Hospital following a long illness. He was born at Goodwill, the son of the late John and Laura Grim Hare.

He attended the Lutheran Church and was a member of Local 7086 UMWA, employed by the Lillybrook Coal Co. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Clara Underwood Hare; three sons, Jack and Roy of Trevose, and Robert of Concord, N. one daughter, Mrs. Olaf Ellison, also of Concord, N.

one sister, Mrs. Florence Criner of Duhring, and 11 grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Mercer Funeral Home Chapel, Bluefield, with the Rev. Weldon Sheets in charge.

Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery at Shady Spring. The body is at the Mercer Funeral Home in Bluefield where friends may call after 1 p.m. Tuesday. The family may be reached at 424 Union Bluefield. Belle French Funeral incomplete arrangements are for Mrs.

Thersa Belle French, 213 Central Ave. who was dead on arrival at a local hospital today at 9:15 a.m. due to an apparent heart attack. The body is Melton Mortuary pending completion of arrangements. Paris (Continued From Page 1) Ky has been coordinator of Saigon's delegation in Paris.

Diplomatic observers said they saw little prospect for progress in the llth negotiating session Thursday at the Hotel Majestic. They said the absence of Henry Cabot Lodge, chief U.S. negotiator, made it unlike Lodge said Sunday in Washington that "some progress has been made" in the Paris talks in the year since former President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a partial halt in the bombing of North Vietnam. He said a military victory was impossible for either side.

"I believe that some progress has been made in the last 12 months although it is slow," Lodge said. bus one son, William, of Harvey; one Survivors include her band, Posey Cannaday; daughter, Bailey of Mrs. Delia Independence, Mae two brothers, John Boyd oi Baltimore, Md. and Charles Boyd of Bel Air, Md. and 13 grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at a.m. Tuesday at Tyree Funeral Hctr.c Chapel in Oak Hill with the Rev: Ralph Thompson in charge. Burial will be in the Hill Top Cemetery, Oak Hill. Friends may call after 8 p.m. today.

(RNS) Harry N. Funeral services for Harry N. Lovell, 68, of Roanoke, formerly of Sophia and Beckley, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Calfee Chapel with Rev. Edward R.

Hanshaw officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Lovell hospital died in Sunday Roanoke following a long illness. I p.m. Bora in Franklin County, on March 27, 1901, he was a son of the late Payton and Vada Hopkins Lovell.

While in Raleigh County, he was in the lumber and coal business, a Mason, Shriner, and Elk. Lovell had been a resident of Roanoke for the past eight years. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Nona Elva Lovell, Roanoke; five sons, Patrick Beckley; Harry Princeton, James Rocky Mount, Charles Alexandria, and William Woodbridge, two sisters, Mrs. H.

J. (Lottie) Munsey, Ripplemead, and Mrs. Charles (Rachel) Scheei; Jopda, Cascade. brother, J. and Earl, seven CUARUS-UIMRT 253-73H MONDAY NIGHT FAMILY SPECIAL DEEP FRIED FILLET OF FLOUNDER SERVED WITH TARTER SAUCE, SAttD MAC- AKONf AND CHEESE, CCHE SlAW, COtN tftEAD AND SUTTEft DINNER DINNER 79c 2 MNNJKS $1.71 CO.

DOWNTOWN MCKifT grandchildren. Friends may call at the uneral home after 4 p.m. Tuesday. Pallbearers will be Ross Cot tie, Gene Hatcher, John Har vey, James Farmer, Hampton Thomas, Donald Stone, Frank Watkins, and Millard Cameron. Mrs.

M. Whilely Funeral services for Mrs ffargaret Jane Whitely, 83, of Mabscott will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Calfee Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Franklin officiating. Burial will follow in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Whitely died Saturday at 9:55 p.m. in her home following a long illness. A resident of Raleigh County for the 20 years she was a member of the Mabscott Methodist Church. She was born in Carter County, Ky.

April 6, 1885, and was the daughter of the late Mason L. and Ellen Haney Johnson. with the Rev. Ralph Thompson in charge. Burial will be in the Blue Ridge Memorial Gar dens at Prosperity.

Fontana died at his home Saturday after a short illness. He was a retired miner, a member of United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 7006, and was born in Bari, Italy, Nov. 27, 1881. Survivors include his wife, Marie; six sons, Lee and Hiomas, both of Mount Hope, Mike of Newell, Nick of Vancouver, James of Middletown, Phoenix, and A i daughters, Mrs.

(Carolyn) Troitino, Pat of seven a Mrs. Anna Payne, Mrs. Gene (Camilla) Spadaro and Mrs. (Eleanor) Kizer, all of Mount Hope, Mrs. Luke (Mary) Benedetto of New York, Mrs.

Nick (Josephine) Pishner of Fayetteville and Mrs. Ronald (Esther) Lingle of Vancouver, 38 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today. (RNS) Mrs.

G. Lubonia Mrs. Genevieve Lubonia, 114 St. Clair Oak Hill died today in an Oak Hill hospital. The body is at Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. (RNS) John A. Wallace Funeral services for John Arthur (Red) Wallace, 56, of Oak Hill will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Funeral Home Chapel, Oak HiD, with the Rev. Tally Hanna and the Rev.

Randolph Johnson in charge. Burial will be in the Highlawn Memorial Park, Oak Shake Europe, Middle East By United Press International Strong earthquakes shook parts of southern Europe and the Middle East today causing hundreds of residents to flee their homes in panic. A number of structures were Hffl. Wallace died in a Bethesda, Md. nospital Sunday after a long illness.

He was born Oct. -1, 1912 at president of the Burlington. He was Wallace and Wallace Music, in Oak Bill, vice president of the automatic coin car wash; Oak Hill, and director and past president Operators president of of of the i America; past West Virginia Music Operators Association and a Veteran of World II. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Jean Wallace; his mother, Mrs.

Maude Nickelson Wallace of Oak Hill; one son, John A. one daughter, Debra Jean, both at step son, James Jarrett, with the United States Air Force in Germany; one brother, Eugene (Pudgie) Wallace of Oak Hill. Pallbearers Miller, Clay are, a i Garvin, Hobert Booth, Jack Manning, C. E. Duncan, Bill Anderson and Curtis Coleman.

Friends may call after 2 p.m Tuesday. (RNS) Charles Johnson Jr. Funeral services for Charles H. Johnson 18, of Daniels will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Penman Holiness Church with the Rev Roy Shrewsbury officiating Burial will follow in the Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Johnson died Sunday at p.m. in a local hospital. He was paralyzed as a result of landlot football accident Oct 17, 1967. Born at Daniels on June 20, 1950, he was a son of Charles and Nora Shupe Johnson. The youth was hospitalized tor more than four months following the accident and drive was begun by the Shady Spring District Woman's Club to raise funds to assist in payment of medical expenses.

Johnson attended Penman Holiness Church at Beaver. He was born June 21, 1950 at Daniels. In addition to his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Bruce and Eric, both at home; one sister, Diana, at home, anc he paternal grandmother, Mrs. May Johnson of Daniels. The body will be taken to he church at 3 p.m.

Tuesday "rom tlie Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel. Serving AS pallbearers will be 11968 classmates from Shady. ornesf Robertson Funeral services for Earnest Robertson, 47, of Lester will be conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the St. Matthew AME Church in Lester with the Revs.

M. M. Mitchell, Sterling Green, and I. B. Walker officiating.

Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. Robertson in a local hospital Friday following a long illness. The body is at the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor where friends may call after 3 p.m. today, and will be taken to the church one hour prior to services. To Talk Peace With Arabs By United Press International to talk peace with the Arabs and only with the Arabs.

It rejected any outside interference, including big four talks scheduled this week to discuss the Middle East crisis. The Israeli cabinet issued a statement Sunday night saying were no immediate reports of fatalities. The Seismological Institute at Uppsala, Sweden, said a quake occurred off the Arabian coast in the northern part of the Red Sea measuring about 7 on the open-end Richter Scale. "It appears as if the quake occurred at a great depth," a spokesman for the institute said. "Quakes of this magnitude rarely occur in this area." In Catania, Sicily, panic striken residents toward the coast: in a long line of can after a tremor eastern of shook the Mt.

Etna before dawn. It measured five on the MerctUi Scale. Some homes were repotted damaged. Strong earth tremors' also rocked tall buildings in Cairo Police said at least five persons were injured when a house collapsed in the El Ahmar district, one of the city's old quarters. In Washington, the govern ment's Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA reported that a quake meajsur ing 6.5 on the Richter Scale struck about 275 miles south only direct talks between concerned parties would establish true peace in the Middle East.

"Israel is not and will not become the object of power or and will intrapower politics hot accept any recommendation which is in conflict with her vital interests, her rights and her security," the statement said. It added that Israel "opposes any settlement and any procedure which is not agreed upon by the governments concerned." At the United Nations, western diplomatic, sources said Sunday the United, States had drawn up a plan for a Middle East settlement for presentation this, week at. a of the big four--the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France. It would also guarantee freedom of navigation in the Suez Canal for both Israel and the Arab nations and would propose internationally patrolled xones along Israel and Arab borders. In Jerusalem, thousands of pilgrims observed Palm Sunday.

Two traditional processions traced the final triumphal entry of Jesus Christ, winding way through the narrow hilly streets from the Mount of Olives down through the Garden of Gethsemane to the gates of the walled city. today. An ESS A spokesman said the quake occurred in a moderately populated region near Turkey'! southern coast and about 121 miles southwest of the area ravaged Friday by another tremor which killed more than 50 persons. Survivors i one daughter, 4Miss Bertha Whitely of Mabscott; one son, Everette of Mabscott; three sisters, Mrs. William Johnson of Kingsport, Mrs.

Elizabeth J. Jones of Logan, and Mrs. Nettie iPalmer of St. Paul, one Ike brother, John a grandchildren, grandchildren L. Johnson of sevea and nine great- Pallbearers will be Sam Ferris, John Darling.

Joneph E. Ayres. Jim Flint, Bill Ford, and Everette C. Fteshman. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m.

Monday. Friends may call funeral after 4 day. at the (Continued From Page 1) stare straight ahead at the casket. Not since the 1963 funeral of John F. Kennedy had so many world leaders assembled in Washington.

Among them were Gen. Charles de Gaulle, President of France; Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, representing Britain's Queen Elizabeth; Marshal Vasily I. Chiukov of the Soviet Union; King Baudouin of Belgium; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran; Prime Minister John Grev Gorton of President" Ferdinajid" Marcos of the Philippines; Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinfer of West Germany, former Prime Minister Nobosuke Kiahi of Japan, Minister Piem Elliott JTrwfeau of Canada. Mingo Drivers Continue Strike WILLIAMSON (UPI) Mingo County's striking school bus drivers have indicated they will not comply with a county school board ultimatum to "return to work Tuesday or turn in your buses." The drivers, who began their strike last Monday, said will not return to work under terms of the board's present contract offer. Laverne Copley of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union said the drivers "would be in contempt of court to school board property" to turn the buses.

The board obtained an injunction last week to prohibit trespassing by the drivers on a school property and to limit picketing to three men per school building. The board has rejected drivers' request for a $71 a month pay raise. Copley said the board also will not "recognize cooks, custodians and maintenance personnel in the county's school system." Presstime Bulletin -CHARLESTON (UPI) The State Supreme Court today refused to hear a case filed by opponents of the Monroe County School bond levy that was approved earlier this month. The opponents charged that absentee ballots for the election were mailed improperly, and asked the high court to declare those ballots void. The Supremen Court said the prohibition which the opponents sought was "not the proper remedy." accident on U.

S. 21 near Par kersburg. --David fc. Malson, 21, Martinsville, killed Saturday it a one-cur crash on W. Va.

2C near Pine Grove in WeUel County. --Thomas E. Virgin Wet zel County killed in a head OD collision between his sports cai and a tractor-trailer on W. Va 73 late Friday night Lonnie Justice, 45, Paynesville, McDowell County, i Saturday of injuries suffered in an accident last Monday. Titler To Speak At Mingo Rally WILLIAMSON (UPI) The vice president of United Mine of America, George Titler, i speak here Tuesday night in one of several miners rallies in West Virginia and neighboring states.

The pistrict 17 rally here follows the District 29 rally Saturday at Richwood. UMW Safety Director Lewis E. Evans spoke to the more than 2,000 miners at Richmond on the i health and safety legislation now before Congress. The all-day affairs, like others scheduled by the miners, included a band concert and a parade. The big event is Tuesday in Pittsburgh.

The annual A i UMW parade through down- own Pittsburgh commemorates the 71st anniversary of the eight-hour work day in the coal ndustry. W. A. (Tony) Boyle will speak at the big rally in Pittsburgh. le is to discuss mine safety and 'the non-union coal buying pol- cies of our public utilities." Czechs Celebrate Hockey Win Russians Fire SI Off Demonstrati PRAGUE (UPI)-- Soviet occupation troops fired submachine- guns into the air to drive off demonstrators who smashed 160 windows in their barracks in celebration of a Czechoslovak hockey victory over the Soviets, lots To Drive rs In Prague "reactionary elements" to use sports "in the struggle against the socialist order." The Communist party, newspaper Pravda charged Jozef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovak Parliament leader, with taking part Rood Deaths Boosted 39 Past Ws By United Press International Three young men and a young woman died in highway accidents in West Virginia, over me weekend.

Another man died of injuries received in a traffic accident last Monday. The weekend deaths boosted toll in West Virginia to 134. The count compared to 95 at i time last year. Edna Gillispie, 22, Soutnside, Mason County, suffered fatal injuries when she jumped or was thrown out by the force of a truck careening on Little 16- Mile Hill on W. Va.

Secondary 29 Sunday night. State Police said the woman was a passenger in a truck driven by her husband, Carl Gillispie, when the brackes failed and the truck drifted bade down the hill. Other weekend traffic victims included: --Robert Stutler, 27, Parkers- today. newspaper dom) said demonstrations broke out in Mlada Boleslav, 35 miles northeast of Prague, Friday night after the Czechoslovaks had beaten the Soviets for the second time in Stockholm. it said the demonstrators hurled bottles and rocks and the Soviet troops fired submachine- guns into the air at one point and kept the gates to their military compound locked.

It was the night that demonstrators sacked the offices of the Soviet airline AeroOot in a celebration in Prame's Wenceslas Square. Ill Moscow, the Wenccslas Square Friday to celebrate a Czechoslovak ice hockey victory over the Soviets hi Stockholm. The crowd sacked the offices of the Soviet airline Aeroflot. Pravda said the demonstration was anti-Soviet. The Soviet ice hockey team which won the world championship Sunday was defeated twice --last Friday and on March 21-by the Czechoslovak team.

Both games were televised. In thcssssds of homes Sunday night, television sets trent Mack as a band national anthem jit Stockholm In the USSR hockey accused Czeclmlovalt Commr! explanation was given for the nist leaden of permtttiitf'break in tht program..

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