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17 DIAL 837 6000 or 8376001 Kane and ML Jewett. Saturday. October 3. 1970 TEN CENTS A COPT Temperatures Overnight low 42 Noon recording 58 THE Youth Group Backs United Fund mm Team IF I iiniiii Lijr i stiff "vj dl Crashes, CCDllDimg 29 ...3. 'If THREE Eleven Aboard One of 2 Planes Carrying Kan.

Squad Survived Crash By CARL R. HILLIARD Associated Press Writer SILVER PLUME, Colo. UP) The cream of the Wichita State University football team, its top athletic officials and some of its most loyal fans were killed Friday when their game bound plane crashed into a mountainside while trying to cross the Continental' Divide. Twenty nine persons, 13 of them players, were killed. Eleven persons including nine players, a copilot and a team trainer survived.

The Colorado State Patrol said there was no chance of oth FS iJ lf I'M Si LI The Kane Area United Fund campaign for 11 agencies today has a morale boost ram the new generation a $100 pledge from the Leaders Club. Wallis Hyde, KAUF fund campaign director, said, "This is gratifying that the young people who benefit most from the United Fund program here show evidence of their interest and support Pictured at the pledge presentation, left to right, Tammy Magnuson, Ann Pearson, Kathy James, Darcy Rolick and Mr. Hyde. Rioting Prisoners At H.Y. Holding 23 as Hostages NEW YORK (AP) Prisoners in city jails held 23 hostages today and inmates took over a third jail to support their demands for speedier trials, a review of and improved conditions.

Helmeted Tactical Patrol Force policemen rushed io the Queens House of Detention branch in Kew Gardens Friday night after 800 inmates refused to be locked in their cells. Smoke bombs were lobbed into corridors separating the cellblocks from the adjacent Criminal Court building early today to deter inmates from breaking through the doors. "Don't use those smoke bomb's any more because you are making us sick," prisoners shouted to the warden, James Harrison. "We won't cause any more trouble if you don't let the pigs tear gas us." There were no reports of hostages being held in the Kew Gardens jail, but inmates had run of the cellblocks. Fires were set and debris hurled from smashed windows.

Earlier Friday, prisoners' at the Manhattan House of Detention, the Tomb's, revolted. They demanded immediate action to rectify overcowded conditions. The Rev. Lawrence Gibney, Catholic chaplain at the Tombs, reported Friday that 18 hostages were being held by more than 200 inmates. The two outbursts Friday apparently were in sympathy with the revolt of 300 prisoners that began Thursday at the Long Island City branch of Queeis jail.

There, five of the seven hostages originally taken were still being held. 'No More Promises' Victor Martinez, a spokesman for the prisoners, "No more promises. We want action. Unless that pig judge appears here, you will never see those pig hostages alive." The reference was to the prisoners' demand that a state Supreme Court judge come to the jail to conduct a review of the bail status of the inmates. Justice Andrew R.

Tyler came to the jail to talk to the prisoners Friday but he said he had no authority to hold a bail hearing. THIEU PREDICTS WAR WILL BE REDUCED 10 MINOR ONE 73 EDITOR'S NOTE: Conrad M. Black, publisher of the Sher brooke, Record, visited Saigon and this week obtained, an interview with President Nguyen Van Thieu. He made the interview available to The Associated Press. FIRES IN CALIFORNIA NOW UNDER CONTROL LOS ANGELES (AP) Helped by scattered showers, fire fighters were in control today of three major brush fires which have scorched more than 240,000 acres and forced thou sapds to flee this week.

A forest fire in northern California, however, still blazed uncontrolled three miles from the world's largest stand of virgin redwoods. The showers from .02 inch to an inch in some areas knocked down flames and raised the humidity. The Meyer Lytle Creek fire 40 miles east of Los Angeles was reported 80 per cent surrounded today after burning 40,000 acres of cabin studded brush and forcing residents in three small communities to evacuate. Firemen said they hoped for full control by Sunday morning. In San Disfto County, 115 miles south, two brush blazes which burned 200,000 acres were reported fully contained.

The fires destroyed 1,200 buildings, including 500 homes. More than 10,000 persons reportedly fled from the blazes. More light rains were predicted but forecasters said temperatures probably would stay in the 90s. i The unchecked fire to the north charred 2,000 acres of second growth redwoods near 10,000 acre Rockefeller Forest and 33,000 acres of Humboldt Redwoods State park. Firemen said a river and highway separate the blaze from the prime forests.

Another northern in the rocky brushland of Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties, was reported almost fully contained. The blaze blackened 44,000, acres and the flames at one1, point were within' a few miles of Hearst Castle, former home of ihe late publisher William Randolph Hearst. my 'I'n 'i as Former Resident of Kane, 57. Succumbs at Bradford A one time Kane resident, Albines McCutcheon, 57, of 18 "Thompson Place, Bradford, succumbed at Bradford Hospital yesterday. Mr.

McCutcheon was born in Kane, the son of Ebert and Hulda Westerberg McCutcheon. He attended Welsh Street School here and played junior baseball before moving to Bradford with his family. He will be remembered by his nickname "Biny." Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Ebert McCutcheon of Bradford; three sisters, Mrs. Dolly Wi.tehen of Bradford, Mrs.

Sarah Brenneman of Buffalo, N.Y. and Mrs. Howard Geckler of Kenmore, N.Y. and several nieces and nephews. Friends may call after 3 p.m.

today at the Koch Chatley Memorial Chapel in Bradford where a funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Burial will be in Willow Dale Cemetery. By CONRAD M. BLACK SAIGON (AP) President Nguyen Van Thieu predicts the war in Vietnam will be reduced to a relatively minor frontier within three years.

i a wide ranging interview, he denounced foreign denied there were any policy differences with the United States, confirmed he opposed the U.S. halt to the bombing of North Vietnam in November 1968 and saw complete failure for the Paris peace talks. Thieu said the war would end by the pacification of the South, the decline of North Vietnam's" war making through manpower losses, morale problems, divided, leadership and the loss of "the United States as the imperialistic bogeyman, through the carrying out of the Nixon dqctrine, which I entirely approve." The president said the great it accomplishments of his ad "CASUALTY" Gen. Creighton W. Abrams (above), chief of U.S.

forces in Vietnam, was hospitalized after a dizzy spell during an Australian military ceremony he was at tending at Vung Tau. Widower Slain in N.Y. Trying to Catch a Rapist NEW YORK UP) Three girls aged 12 and 7 are orphans after their father, a widower, rushed to help a girl being raped and was shot to death by her attacker. "I wish there was something I could do for those kids," the mother of the girl reported in good condition in a hospital said Friday. She expressed "deep gratitude" for the action of Rufus pavid Anderson, a 44 year old interior decorator, of Brooklyn.

Anderson's mother, Ruth Pinckney, 63, flew here from Rochester, N.Y., after the killing Thursday night and said: "I had tears in my eyes when I heard abou it, but since I got here there have been! no more tears he died for a good cause." Anderson had been on his way to his apartment when he heard screams from the roof of his apartment building. He ran to investigate. On the roof, he saw the girl being raped by a man in his mid 30s. When Anderson approached, the man drew a pistol and fired twice, hitting Anderson in the head. STEEL HAULER GROUP Nixon Arrives in London, Hear End Of European Trip By FRANK CORMIER Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) President Nixon, nearing the end of his European trip, arrived in London today 'for a five hour visit including lunch with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Edward Heath.

The two hour conference between Nixon and Heath is expected to cover East West relations, the Middle East and economic problems. Nixon and Heath, whose Conservative party upset Harold Wilson's Labor forces in June, fly by helicopter to Chequers, Heath's official country residence 30 miles northwest of London, for a luncheon with Queen Elizabeth II. Later, the President's party goes to Ireland, where he meets at Limerick Sunday morning with Ambassador David K. E. head of the U.S.

delegation at the Indochina peace talks in Paris, and other key Southeast Asia advisers. Presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said the Limerick talks will produce "no major announcements' but he indicated that Nixon and Bruce could decide on some change in the U.S. bargaining position. The President wants Bruce to "recommend any new vital approaches he thinks might be useful," Zeigler said.

He reiterated the administration's position that Bruce has "a wide de gree of flexibility" in conducting the peace talks. The five hour British visit is the shortest of Nixon's 12,000 mile, five nation European journey. It precedes a five day visit the prime minister plans in Washington' this month. Sources said Nixon and Heath would discuss complications caused in the Middle East by the death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser last Monday and problems concerning the financing of the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization. Sources said they probably also would discuss the Soviet Union's apparently toughening positions in the Middle East, Cuba and Berlin.

'The British Foreign Office disclosed Friday that the Soviets tried last week to close two air corridors into West Berlin, but backed down and allowed Western military aircraft to pass unmolested. Also, the Pentagon says it has evidence that the Russians are constructing1 what appears' to be a submarine base in Cuba, and Sovfiet leaders repeatedly have urged the United States to aban don its policy of supplying arms to Israel. r. Nixon Franco Talks Nixon ended the southern swing of the journey Friday. Hundreds of, thousands of Spaniards some 'estimates were more than aT million welcomed him and Mrs.

Nixon to Madrid, and thousands 'more lined the streets as the presidential party drove to Pardo Palace, where Geri. Francisco Franco was host to a state dinner Friday night. The Spanish visit was mostly but Nixon' and Franco, the chief of state and government, discussed various topics. Among them were implementation of a just negotiated five year agreement for continued U.S. access to air and naval bases in Spain, bilateral trade, and peace prospects in the Middle East Zebjler said the discussion in Franco's ornate office near Madrid was "very, constructive and helpful," a customary diplomatic description for such a meeting.

President and Mrs. Nixon flew to Spain from Yugoslavia; where he invited Marshal Tito, the president, to visit the United States at his convenience. Asked if Franco received a similar invitation, Ziegler said, "He didn't as far as I know." Obviously enjoying the monumental reception by the Spaniards, Nixon entered a crowd of several thousand outside palace after the dinner, shook hands, then stood up through his open topped limousine to render i his campaign style, two arm wave. Nixon's trip began with visits to Italy, Vatican City and the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean.

ET School Bus and Car Collide No injuries were reported and damages to vehicles was listed at $70 in a school bus car mishap on Hemlock' Avenue yesterday afternoon reported by State Police to have been caused by pedestrian traffic crowding the traffic lane near new Kane Area Senior High School. Point of the mishap was in the Wet'more Township part of Hemlock Avenue With State Police having jurisdiction and investigation. Troopers reported a school bus operated by the Rev. Stephen Shuart of Kane and a car operated by Richard Haight, 16, had a minor sideswiping. Investigating officers students walking on the pavement were the cause of the mishap.

Racial Isolation in Schools is Cited WASHINGTON (AP)' Administration civil rights officials have accused some Southern schools of discriminating against minority (groups by misusing pupil ability groupings. J. Stanley Pottinger, director of the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, said Thursday recent government review of 120 Southern school districts desegregated this fall found in "about one some form Of racial isolation." Pottinger said the misuse of the policy of grouping students according to ability appears to be a significant and growing problem in the South and probably in other areas of the country. Ability grouping is the separation of pupils by classrooms on the basis of test teacher evaluations, or other measurements of academic ability and accomplishment. er survivors among the 40 persons listed as passengers and crew on the twin engine Martin 404.

The aircraft, dubbed the "Gold Plane" by the team, was one of two taking the squad, its coaching staff and boosters to Logan, Utah, for a game today with Utah State, where the Shockers hoped to break a three game losing string. The other plane, the "Black Plane," arrived safely with 34 persons, including 23 players and five assistant coaches, aboard. The game was called off and the rest of the 11 game season probably will b'e canceled. Among those presumed dead were the athletic director; A. C.

"Bert" Katzenmeyer; the head football coach, Ben Wilson; Kansas State Rep. Ray Kin? ar.d Wichita Banker John Grooms and their wives. The list also included Marvin Brown, the team's second leading rusher; Gene Robinson, the Shockers' 'top pass receiver; and Ray Coleman of Wichita, membership chairman of the Shocker Club, a booster organization. Tradition decreed that top players traveled with the head coach. Campus in Mourning The crash, a few minutes after a refueling stop In Denver, plunged the campus at the 12, 000 student school into mourning.

The other plane was impounded by the Federal Aviation Administration in Utah and its occupants were to return to Wichita on commercial flights today. Cause of the crash was undetermined. A university information officer, Doug Lewis, said the university leased the plane from Golden Eagle Aviation, which apparently leased the craft from someone else, but he didn't know who. He said Golden Eagle "told us the plane didn't belong to them." Golden Eagle provided the crew. The plane was a short range airliner of a type built in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The plane impounded at Logan is a Martin 202, smaller version of the 404,. One week ago, one of two planes chartered by Wichita State ran off the runway and was damaged. The second charter plane shuttled the team to Canyon, for its game with West Texas State University. University, spokesmen said it was unknown whether the same planes were used for the trips to Texas and Utah. The ill fated plane, with one engine smoking, crashed into the east side of 11,992 foot Love land Pass about 800 feet below the summit, just below timber line.

'Tried Highway Landing' "The plane tried to land in the highway in front of us," said Mrs. Geonge Grunwald of Huntington Beach, who was driving down the mountainside on winding U.S. 6 with her husband. "By the grace of God he zoomed up so he didn't hit us. He took a 45 degree turn and went over a little ledge on the side of the mountain." There was a "bbg ball of fire and immense black smoke" is the plane vanished into the tall spruce trees with a series of loud explosions, she said.

Strewn about the crash area were orange jerseys, gold helmets with a black on the side, shoulder pads and other team equipment. Authorities posted guards around the area to await an investigation by an eight man team from the National Transportation Safety Board. A search for bodies was to re sume today. A few were recovered Friday. The survivors were taken to hospitals in Denver, 55 miles east of the crash scene, in ambulances and an Army helicopter from Ft.

Carson. Two survivtors trainer Tom Reeves, 31, and John Taylor, a member of the team from Sherman, Tex. were listed in criti. (CoutluuGd on page 7) Voting Age Law Upheld in N.Y. WASHINGTON UP) A new law lowering the voting age to 18 has passed its first major le gal test less than three weeks before a key challenge is heard by the Supreme Court.

In a suit brought by five New Yorkers against Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and New York's Board of Elections, a three judge federal court here upheld Friday the constitutionality of the 1970 (Voting Rights Act, including the 18 year old vote provision. The Supreme Court holds a hearing Oct.

19 on a suit brought by nine states attempting to overturn the 18 year old vote statute approved by Congress earlier in. the year. The three judge panel rejected arguments of the New Yorkers against all provisions of the Voting Rights Act, including a nationwide ban on literacy tests, residency requirements for voting in presidential elections, and extending the 1965 Voting Rights Act. PITTSBURGH (AP) The president of a steel haulers association said Friday the new contract with a New Jersey trucking firm is an improvement over Teamsters Union contracts in the past. The contract siigned with Ta jon, of Mercer, N.J., is the first to be signed by the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers independently of the Teamsters.

FASH has been seeking bargaining autonomy from the Teamsters. FASH President William Hill said the pact is an improvement in that all drivers are treated equally regarding seniority. "One of our major problems with the Teamsters contract is unfair seniority riights," Hill said. Hill said other provisions in the agreement provide for extra pay for holidays and deadhead mileage pay for owner operators and percentage drivers. He said these provisions are precedent setting in the trucking industry.

Last spring, FASH staged a lengthy strike punctuated by sporadic violence in western Pennsylvania. The strike was held to dramatize FASH's demands for autonomy from the Teamsters. The request to be recognized as a separate bargaining agent is pending before the National Labor Relations Board. Two car Wreck Near Kane Miss Ruth Peterson, 67, of Kane R.D. 1, suffered a head laceration and bruises yesterday afternoon in an automobile collision on Route 6 at the Coontown Road intersection six miles easf'of Kane.

Kane ambulances were called on report of a two car crash, but Miss Peterson has been taken to the hospital in a car. Harry Foulkrod, of Kane, operator of the other car involved was reported not injured. According to State Police report, damages to vehicles was about $950. mmisirauon naa Deen lo Dring security to more than 95 per cent of the population." He denied that he hold any veto over U.S. policy because of the alliance between his government and that of President Nixon, as some U.S.

critics have charged. He said the two countries, were "making common cause" and that there were no significant policy differences between them concerning war or peace. Thieu described former President Lyndon B. Johnson as "in large measure the savior of the freedom of South Vietnam." Discussing foreign' critics, Thieu emphasized a distinction between those who justly criticize South Vietnam's shortcom ings but recognize progress when it occurs, and those whose condemnations of. his regime "have made no allowance for change." He spoke of some U.S.

senators as in' the latter group. He described them as "not constructive, ignorant, and politically motivated." He said that most of them "never come to and thus were incom ent to judge the progress of developments there. He mentioned no names. He said the Communists had succeeded in exploiting the 19G8 U.S. election campaign despite military catastrophes, and that the bombing halt, called just before the election, was a mistake, although he expressed gratitude and admiration for Johnson.

'Paris Talks Failure' Thieu said the Paris talks would never get anywhere because Hanoi would then have to explain to its people why 600,000 of their countrymen had died in a war against the South that they had not won. Thieu reaffirmed South Vietnam's determination to help Jambodia if it is heavily at (Continued on Page 8) New Look Emerging on Route 321 Entry info Kane AM 11, V.1TV iffll lit; I 'it Sm JSmmM ATS ills1" iK'ifci'iift'''' Iff i 'i. amr. wmm mm ws.i mmmt fas 'is skis 9mmr is i J1: Sky Marshals to Train at Fort Dix WASHINGTON (AP) A force of 800 military guards to serve as sky marshals aboard commercial airliners will begin training next week at Ft. Dix, N.J., the Pentagon announced Friday.

Defense Department spokesman, Jerry W. Friedheim, said the Pentagon and Department of Transportation have completed details on an agreement for the temporary use of military personnel to supplement a civilian guard force. The 800 men are volunteers from all branches of the armed forces and will receive, in addition to their regular military pay, extra flight pay of $55 a month, the Pentagon said. The military guards will serve only until they can be replaced with a permanent force of 2,500 civilian guards, possibly In three months. wvi r'H TRUCK TLCNGEI) OVER COUNTY EMB.YNKMKNT truck operator escaped ious injury early today on Route 44 near Cares when his vebcle went, out ot control on a curve, crashed into a bridge guard tail and finally went over an embankment into Oswayo Creek.

State Police from Kane substation said Douglas 39, of Silver Creek, N.Y., was the operator of the truck. Damage to the vehicle was listed at $1,500. Fill removed is being used to extend and level Glenwood Memorial Park athletic field. It was the state Department of Transportation decision to avoid Glenwood Park that resulted in the relocation now under way. The new construction will result in a imajqr change to the Hacker Kinzua Avenue Sedg wick Street intersection.

John Marasco, of Kane, field office inspector on the 'job, said the contractor worked until shortly after 9 p.m. last night befoi'd rain made continuance of the night work impossible. This was the scene during a respite from rain as the Putman Greene firm threw its heavy guns into day and night action on the" Route 321 project north from Kane. At left is the relocation extending Hacker Street with a gradual right curve to rear of three residences before returning to the existing route. A 65 foot cut will be made with the State Highway Department inspector in charge Fred Bressler stating some stone formation, the same type as in the Kane Stone area across town in West Kane is expected on the basis of core drillings in the deep cut.

TITUSVILLE MAN KILLED TITUSVILLE, Pa. UP) A local businessman, George W. Sterling, 66, was killed Friday night when his car struck a tree in nearby Hightown, state police said..