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August 12, 1967 VOL. LXXIV. NO. 277 Youngsters Find "Lots of Ragweed' 4 S. Viet Bases Just Below Neutral WHY DO THE RIOTS START? Ex Kane Man Talks of Negro Rioting, First Hand He used to be "Skip Meracle." And, he lived in a nice house on Greeves Street in Kane.

Now he's the Rev. Quentin R. Meracle, son of Mrs. LaVon Meracle (local Western Auto store operator), pastor of Epworth and St. John's Methodist churches and president of the board of directors of the Northcott Neighborhood doing social work in the "inner core" of MiiwauKee, .1 DIAL 837 6000 or 2.

M1 837 6001 i UP) To a Black Power are ready to fight at home built. the United States. "Black Power I don't know what that is," said James, the tall, soft spoken deputy com mander of the 8th Tactical Figh ter Wing. Technicolor' "But I know what American power is. Our wing isn't a black wing, or a white wing or a green wing it's technicolor.

all American." James tried to strike a nonvi olent blow for Negro rights as a young lieutenant in World War II. He and 100 other Negro offi cers were arrestee wnen tncy tried to visit an all white off! cers club at jonnson ieia after they had been warned to stay away. Three of the demonstrators were court martialed. Two were acquitted and the third was con victed of resisting arrest. In 1048.

President Harry Truman ordered Integration the armed forces "and the mili tary has proven that It will work," James said. PARKED AUTO STRUCK Local police estimated damage at $120 in a two car crack up in the borough about noon yes terday. Police said a car operated by James Dooher, 34 of Kane, pulled over to the right side of the street to avoid an oncoming car and hit the back bumper of car driven by Judith Brlnkley, of Sigel. The Brlnkley auto was parked in front of the Elks Club on Chestnut Street. No injuries were reported.

Seven Arrested In Warren County Burglaries Case warrfn The arrest of seven Dersons four adults and three juveniles had climaxed a series of burglaries, car thefts and malicious mischief in War ren County since June 20. An investigation by Chief Dep uty Sheriff Richard Hegerty and State Police Trooper Harry W. Jabo, continued since July 22. led to the arrests. Hecertv said yesterday that following the arrest in July pi Herbert Lyle Proctor, 21, RU Siitrar Grove, four additional arrests were made.

i He said Proctor, who was AWOL the Marine Corps admitted burglarizing the Bro kenstraw Fish and Game Club on Mead Run Road in Youngs ville between June 18 and 20, hut told Dolice he was alone. The deputy said Proctor's story lacked credibility so the investigation was continued. ADDrehended and charged for the same burglary were Wil liam Porter, 19, Warren; John Perrin, 19, RD 1, Pittsfield and John Harking 19, also of Pitts field. Hegerty said a 17 year old juvenile of Warren was also inv plicated in the Youngsville inci dent. Charges against Stewart, Perrin and Harkins were filed before Peace Justice Fred Berry and the juvenile was referred to probaUon officials.

Viet Shakeup In Pacification Plans sathom fAP) Chief cf State Nguyen Van Thicu an nmmcpd a shakeuo today in South Vietnamese military sup port of the pacification pro gram. Thieu said 4 of the regular army's 10 divisions will be bio ken down into smaller compo nent sand placed in direct sup port of the pacification program under the command of the 44 province chiefs instead of the di vision commanders. In addition, he said, militia men of the Popular Force and Regional Force will be placed more firmly under the control of the regular army for training ndoctrination and education ir their task. The militiamen will remain the main defense against Viet Cong attacks on the pacification teams in the vil lages and hamlets. The changes amount to a ma jor effort to insure the success of the program which U.S.

mill tary advisers have been urging for some time. COLUMBIA, S.C. 1AP) The three year sentence given Army Capt. Howard B. Levy upon his court martial conviction on diso bedience and disloyalty charges has been confirmed by his po3t commander.

Maj. Gen. Gines Perez, com mander at nearby Ft. Jackson issued a brief statement Friday saying of the sentence only that "it is approved." He could have reduced the sentence. Levy, a physician drafted by the Army for two years that ended July 8, was charged with refusing to train Special Forces (Green Beret) medics and with advising soldiers not to serve in Vietnam.

The 30 year old dermatologist opposes the Vietnam conflict He trained medics for a time then declined to do so any long er. NINE DIE IN WRECK CORINTH, Miss. OP) Nine persons, five of them memhers of a family headed for a laks side vacation, died Friday night after a two car, head on collision four miles west of this northeast Mississippi town. Less Ragweed in Borough oi Kane Kane has less ragweed. W'et more Township has a luxur iant crop.

This wan evidenced today as the annual ragweed nulling contest here wan brought to a clone. A trurk load of ragweed picked by Dawn and Arne Johnnon In the area of the, Big Gusty kl hIox, near their home, weighed In at 2,300 pound to win the Wetmore Township award of 15. largest collection In thn bor ough wa by the team of Mar ilyn Kathy Fleger and f'armellna Folina with t9 pounds, taking first borough award of $15 and the team of Hob and Lon Knapp and John Carlson taking a $3 award for 421 poundtt. Other award or more than 100 )KHinri will he announced Monday with photo coverage of the event Zone Inflict Heavy Casualties at One Outpost By GEORGE ESI'ER SAIGON (AP) Viet Cong guerrillas unleashed coordinated attacks against four South Viet nnmeso army compounds in sensitive Quung Tri Province just below the demilitarized zone today. The attackers penetrated the defense line of the compound at Trieu Phong two miles northwest of Quang Tri City and inflicted heavy casualties on the 100 defenders.

Two Australian advisers were wounded. Forty one Viet Cong dead were counted outside two of the attacked posts, South Vietnamese troops fus tained light casualties at the La Vang compound two miles south of Quang Tri City and at the Hai Lang compound five miles southeast of the town. Communist gunners lobbed a number of mortar rounds at the Quang Tri sector compound but scored no damaging hits. U.S. pilots ranged over North Vietnam Friday on 150' strike missions, shaking off several Communist MIG interceptors and a barrage of surface to air missiles.

In the most dramatic raid U.S. Air Force jets scored lour direc hits on the Doum Bridge 1.7 miles from the center of Hanoi, and dropped the center span into the Red River. Th mile long bridge carries all rail traffic out of Hanoi bound Red China. N. Viet Accusation North Vietnam, mean charged that U.S.

planes attacked residential in the heart of Hanoi Friday tnd hit the city's outskirts in a "new and extremely serious escalation" of the Vietnam War. Navy pilots from the carrier Constellation hammered two key Communist bridges in the Phu Ly area, 35 miles soutn of Hanoi. Lt. Cmdr. Bob Kemper.

33. of Shelbyville, an A4 Skyhawk pilot who was flying hii 200th mission over North Vietnam, reported that 750 and 1,000 pound bombs dropped the Phu Ly highway bridge. A6 Intruders and F4 Phan toms attacked the Sung Van railroad and highway bnric 18 miles southeast of the Pin. Ly Pilots said their bombs appeared to be on target but that heavy smoke prevented a damage assessment. Navy A4 Skyhawk pilots reported wrecking the Hal Duong military barracks midway be tween Hanoi and Haiphong and the Phu Ly transformer station 35 miles south of Hanoi.

The 12 long barracks at Hal Duong were engulfed In flam that sent smoke towering 1,000 feet, Navy pilots said. There were no U.S. planes reported lost in any of the strike over the North. The U.S. raids on the Doumer Bridge marked the closest strikes to the center of North Vietnam's capital since a power plant in Hanoi was raked June 10.

'3 Planes Downed' Radio Hanoi, without mentioning the bridge, claimed North Vietnam's armed forces shot down three U.S. planes. U.S. Command in Saigon issued no confirmation. Adm.

U.S. Grant Sharp, American military comman.ler in the Pacific, denounced the suggestion that the attack meant an escalation of the air war. "Escalation is a dirty word," Sharp said In Honolulu, "Hitting more targets in Nortn Vietnam is just a logical progression of the air campaign not a step in escalation." The navigator of a U.S. Air Force F4C Phantom was killed when the craft crashed at Da Nang Air Base on its return from a combat mission. And the; pilot of an A4 Skyhawk died when his plane was shot down as he backed up U.S.

ground forces 350 miles north of Saigon. It was the 199th U.S. plane reported shot down in the South. The Air Force said its fliers damaged 15 pieces of rolling stock 38 miles northwest of Hanoi and touched off seven secondary explosions and 20 fires In a rocket attack south of Hoi in lower North Vietnam. Big B52 bombers rocked suspected troops concentrations nine miles west of Quang Ngnl City and 13 miles west of Phuoo (Continued on page 81 ilTI EVIDENCE IS By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) The Saigon government had clear notice today that Congress is not going to take any hand in policing South Vietnam's September elections.

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, N.Y., joined the Senate Democratic and Republican leaders in quickly rejecting Friday an official invitation to send congressional poll watchers. Thus were dashed the hopes of Nguyen Van Thieu's military government of Quieting criti cisms which Kennedy fuel in the Senate Friday that the present regime Is rigging the election of a president and other officials. Thieu, Saigon chief of state, In the government's presidential candidate on a ticket including Premier Nguyen Cao Ky for vice president.

Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen rejected immediately a proposal forwarded to Secretary of State Dean Rusk by South Vietnamese Ambassador Bui Diem that Congress send a delegation to observe the balloting. Mansfield said the guarantee of fair elections was South Vietnam's business and not that of Congress. Dirksen said if observers were sent, Congress would be open to charges by the election losers that it rigged the balloting. 'Mounting Evidence In a separate interview, Ken nedy said sending observers was no answer "to the mounting evidence that the forthcoming elections in South Vietnam already may have become fraudulent." "The United States already; has in South Vietnam excellent diplomatic and military repre sentatives as well as a large and responsible press corps," he said.

"They can as they have already report on the campaign and election fully and fairly." Official U.S. sources, noting congressional controversy over the Sept. 3 elections, urged with holding of prejudgment on whether the elections will be fair. One top source noted widespread criticism in the past of provincial and village election campaigns in South Vietnam, which he said was followed by general postelection agreement the criticism was unfounded. The same official said in prejudging the elections, Americans were putting themselves in the position of undermining the elected South Vietnamese government even if it is fairly ch sen.

Foreign Aid Cutback? Meanwhile, in a report filed by Mansfield, the Senate For eign Relations Committee said the financial drain of the Vietnam war was too severe to permit continuation of foreign aid on a "business as usual basis." The Senate panel wrote spe cific limits on the number of na tions that may get U.S. aid and cut from $3.3 billion to $2.7 bil lion aid to be authorized in thd current fiscal year. The House Foreign Affairs Committee, however, authorized $3.1 billion in aid this fiscal year ana billion for the year starting July 1, 19G8. The House unit's separate re port, also filed Friday, followed administration proposals. The Senate committee's version is scheduled for floor de bate Monday amid indications it will become as it has in the past the vehicle for extensive discussion of Vietnam policies of ransacked cars solved here Kane Borough Police have solved the "case of the ransacked cars" here.

Six cars owned by employes of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways were damaged and articles from them stolen Thursday afternoon. Friday morning police received a call from the McKean Tube Company reporting three cars owned by their employes had been similarly damaged. The culprits have been caught and local police are pondering what to do with thorn. One is eight the other nine years old. ft House, an organization brutality.

"I wouldn't want you to think that all Milwaukee policemen are like that. But, it does not take many poor ones to set off a riot. We hove a serious problem with police training in this city. The chief of police doesn't believe in training. He wants dumb tough, cops and that's what he's got.

"When this kind of police brutality occurs the people lose respect for the police all po lice. During the rioting last week the snipers, who by the way weren't just Negroes, were not trying to disorganize the police they were trying to kill them." Rev. Meracle said another problem area is the attitude of the Common Council (city coun cil), the mayor and the courts, They are "unwilling to deal with inner core problems." He cited one instance when a Negro was arrested and found guilty on a charge of using pro fanity in a public place. When the judge was asked how he could convict ftim without conclusive evidence he replied, Why else would the officer ar rest him? You know, they all talk that way." Similar incidents have hap nened. Rev.

Meracle says, at Common Council meetings. Anot her problem area is in the schools and the attitude of th city school board. Says Rev. Meracle, "We have de facto seg regation, but the school board refuses to even admit the prob lem or deal with It." Slum Housing An especially touchy condition in the inner city area is housing nnd the slum landlords. "Mil waukee does not have row upon row of tenament slums as many cities do, but still the Negro section Is the oldest section of the city.

And the houses are well over 100 years old." The rent. Rev. Meracle points out, Is extremely high. built for one family now house three, four, or even five families Monthly rents for a four room flat average about $100 heat and utilities not included. "It may cost another $100 dollars a month during the winter to heat the apartment.

Further out in the suburbs a Negro could rent a much nicer apartment with tient included, perhaps even the utili ties, for $120 a month. That is (Continued cn Page 3) National Guards Head for Gap Over 70 enlisted men and of ficers left here for Indiantown Can Military Reservation and two weeks of summer maneuv ers part of which will be riot control tactics in the chilly dawn hours thrs morning. Kane's Co. D. part of the 728 Maintenance Battalion, traveled in a 27 truck convoy that included a jeep, a five ton wrecker, gasoline truck and numerous troop transports.

1st Lt. Donald Nicewonger Is the "CO" of Co. James Anderson is the 1st Sergeant. Don aid Keneske Is the supply sergeant and unit administrator, Robert O. Berlin the Foreman, William Cook the tech supply sergeant and GHlen Mortimer the mess steward.

The local detachment should return home to Kane sometime around noon Aug. 27. FIFTH ARREST IN BURGLARY CASE A 16 year old Clarendon juvenile is the fifth person to be arrested by State Police In connection with the attempted burglary of the Wire Recovery Plant In Liberty Township earlier this week. Four Warren County men were arrested Wednesday night. The Juvenile was arrested by Trooper Carl Mlshler of the Kane sub station last night.

He Is presently confined in the War ren County julL State Police said this morning. Although police expect this to be the final arrest, the investigation Is continuing in the Port Allegany case. Wis. Yesterday he sat comfortably on the front porch of his mother's house "here talking of his work in Milwaukee. A little over a week ago he sat in his house and listened to rifle fire on the streets of the inner city.

"We had no Inkling the thing was coming, he said, "kven the Negro leaders were caught off guard." But a Negro riot is a hard thing to predict. Meracle attrl butes its unpredictability to the fact that they are not organized. He is certain there was no or ganization In Milwaukee and doub's the amount of organization claimed in Detroit and other cities. Meracle says a riot in the Ne gro inner cities is a "mass los ng of temper." "Everybody in the area is frustrated and when they are pushed they become Why do riots start? He says the major underlying problem is poverty. But the initial problem, is compounded by the fact there seems to be no appar ent way to solve the poverty problem.

'That's when people become frustrated. "You have to understand that there is more than one kind of poverty. They are really two. The first is economic poverty, the lack of employment and money Itself. The second is a kind of personal poverty.

These people think they have no control over their destiny. "It is Important to realize that it is not just the Negro who is rioting here and in other cities. AH poor people in the ghetto area are involved." Police Brutality According to Meracle there re several problems that com pound the initial problem of poverty. The first is police brutality. Politically, he says, it is better known as a "poor police com munity relation." He tells of one nstance when a policeman ar rested a Negro boy at a dance.

"The officer threw the boy down the stairs. The boy did not fall because there were 200 teenagers watching and trying to get up the stairs. Then the officer braced himself on the railing and slammed his heel re peatedly in the boy's teeth. And that's not just one Instance, have a file inches thick of sworn affidavits protesting police Okay Strike Votes By Auto Unions DETROIT (AP) The United Auto Workers union disclosed today it has authorized a strike vote among its members em ployed by Chrysler Corp. The union previously author ized strike votes by its members at General Motors Corp.

and Ford Motor Co. plants the week of Aug. 20. Douglas Fraser, UAW Chrys ler director, said Chrysler local union leaders were advised at a meeting In Detroit earlier this week to take strike votes and report the results by Aug. 25.

Negotiations on new labor contracts with the Big Three began July 10. Current three year pacts expire Sept. 6. Thus far both sides of the ne gotiating tables say little has been accomplished. The UAW has accused General Motors of bargaining in bad faith and has asked the National Labor Rela tions Board for a ruling on its claim.

Walter P. Reuther, UAW president, has called the union demands the longest and most ambitious list of goals In the union's history. GOP MEETING STARTS MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich, (if) Leading Republicans gathered at this resort Island today to visit with Michigan Gov. George Romney. New York Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller and Romney flew In Friday night, as did former Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton. Pulling For Kane Some "bad spots" were found around town as youngsters searched out ragweed for the annual pulling contest. The contest in all its varied areas of success, apparently has left some property owners with the mistaken notion that the ragweed is to be left for the kids.

A South Side resident last niKht. upset over a luxuriant growth of ragweed east of South Fraloy Street and near the business section, cut the area and re portecj some of the plants were "two feet high." Youngsters have been active but it takes all around cooperation to get rid of ragweed or to control it. Pictured at top, three little north side girls are pictured as they "operated" along Oak Street left to right: Theresa Milford, 10, Grctchen Bostaph 9, and Cherri Milford, aged 9. It is a first try in the contest for two lads who did not know "what ragweed was" until they learned and started pulling. Terry Ferri, of Dawson Street teamed up with Harold Mader, 7, of Elk Avenue, to start a collection.

These three lads are "veterans" of the 19C6 campaign. They were filling a burlap bag full of the weed along Wetmore Avenue when the roving photo spotted them. Left to right Lon Knapp, 12, John Carlson 11, and Robert Knapp, 10. They were among prize winners last year. Although hundreds of pounds of ragweed were collected and hauled to the borough building this morning the battle against ragweed for this year is far from over.

Counting of the pollen goes on every day until the first of October. And there is danger of racweod nollen taking to the air until the first frost occurs. So even though the official "Ragweed for Harry Day" has come and gone, Kane residents are urged to keep picking the weed. Finish what's been started this year, and get an early start for next year. County Fair in Its Final Day This is it, the final day of the week long McKean County Fair at Smethport.

The big feature todny will be selection of the fair queen, to be chosen from high school queens chosen at the Kane, Bradford Smethport, Port Allegany and Otto Eld red high schools. Blonde Jane Benson is the Kane entry in the queen contest. Selection of the queen Is scheduled early this afternoon. Other events on the final day of the fair include the stage revue, a 2 p.m. invitational horse show, fireworks and a Queens Day Parade wsich Is scheduled to niwve at 1 p.m.

To Fight Firing Of Pa. Teacher DUBOIS, Pa. UF The Pennsylvania Stale Education Association says it will try to reverse the dismissal of a DuBois polit ical science teacher. Ed Morley of the association and the teacher, William Mullen, 26, met with the DuBois school board, but said Friday they weren't satisfied with the reasons given for the firing. The board said Mullen used profanity, was late frequently and didn't give examinations.

Jlullen said he stopped using objectionable words when he was told. He denied the other ac rusations. Mullon had been nominated as president of the DuBois Teach ers' Association wnen ne wa fired. BRADFORD MEETING BRADFORD Schools in the Bradford School District begin classes Sept 5. CALLS 'LAWLESSNESS 'STUPID' Negro Pilot in Viet War Disputes Black Power By ROBERT D.

OHMAN DA NANG, Vietnam leader who says Negroes but not in Vietnam, a Negro colonel replies that thousands of Negroes are fighting here "and 'when we go home we'll have to live down the trouble he and other idiots like him have The majority of American Negroes oppose the extremists of their race, said Col. Daniel James 47, of Pensacola, a pilot with 56 combat missions over North Vietnam. "But we must speak out firmly against them and violence. "Before, when the Negroes were on the receiving end of the mob, many whites were opposed but they didn't raise their voices t0 stop it Now we re doing the isam thine." 'This thing got to me, the lawlessness rioting," James declared In an interview. "Men like Stokely Carmichael acting as if they speak for the Negro people.

They don't, and they've set civil rights back 100 years. 'Stupid "Carmichael says ho will fight with guns. Well, who has the guns? You can't physically outpower the majority and if you could it would be wrong it is just stupid." Carmichael, former head ol the Student Nonviolent Coordi nating Committee, was quoted by a Cuban magazine Wednes day as saying that "if the peo' pie in the United States (hac been armed, they would have taken good care of (President) Johnson. "I like the idea of having the people armed, but this is possi ble only in a free country where total freedom has been at tained," Carmichael said in Ha vana. He is attending a meeting of Latin American revolutionar ies and helped write a resolution calling for unity of Latin Ameri can guerrilla movements with the Black Power campaign In.