Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 17

3 Persons Shot; Claim Politicians Prolong Violence Pfffffl rHV 9Mf toward thf nomination, of Richard M. Nixon as a candidate for president at Miami Beach six miles away, Negro gangs overturned automobiles and set them afire, smashed in store windows and began looting and throwing rocks; sometimes at each other. Police tear gassed one. unruly crowd estimated at 400 to 500 when it refused to disperse. County Metro Mayor Chuck Hall bitterly blamed "outsiders" for the disturbance "because the eyes of the na tion are focused on us for the Republican convention." Kirk, accompanied by Abernathy, who succeeded the slain Dr.

Martin Luther' King as of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, spent more than four hours touring the sprawling Liberty City Negro district where the disorders broke out about 4 p.m., Wednesday. The disturbances subsided briefly during the night, then renewed with gang looting of stores and rock throwing at passing automobiles. Police officials said the ouster of white newsmen from a black power rally, called to- protest the "lily-white makeup" of the GOP convention started the first outbreak. Tibilatira Of Nixon's First Ballot Victory ABERNATHY WATCHES The Rev. Ralph Abernathy (second from left in center) and the Rev.

Hosea Williams (center right) observe fourth session proceedings of the publican National Convention from seats in the spectators' section Wednesday night. Shortly after this pic- UFI-Daily NEWS FocJHttilt. ture was made at Miami Beach, Abernathy addressed the people of Miami on television in an effort to quell disturbances that broke out early in the' evening just across the bay in Miami, bringing rock-throwing, looting and burning: to the Navy Won't Revise Order To Firm Under Indictment WASHINGTON (AP) The Navy says it won't revise a con tract with a rocket-launcher supplier, despite the firm's indictment on charges-of defraud- ir.j? the government on earlier contracts. The indictment returned by a federal grand jury Wednesday accused the firm and four individuals of feeding more than $3 million through sham into Swiss bank accounts. The indictment also charged the defendents with receiving over a half million dollars in kickbacks from another firm.

The defendants named in the indictment were Chromcraft Alsco Inc of St. Louis; Andrew L. Stone, Alsco's main and chief executive officer; Francis N. Rosehbaum, director and special counsel; Evelyn R. Price, Stone's executive secretary, and Robert B.

Bregman, president of Bregmah Electronics Inc. of New York City. Chromcraft Corp. merged with Alsco in 1962, Chromcraft and have been the Navy's sole supplier of 2.75-inch rocket launchers. The Navy told the House Appropriations Committee in March that the launchers are patented by Chromcraft and Al- sco.

"The rime which would be required to develop similar Navy-owned item and to get a new manufacturer into production is completely prohibitive," said the Navy. The Associated Press report: ed exclusively that the Justice Department investigation of Al- sco already- was under way when the Navy awarded the contract for $13.9 million July 23. The indictment said Chrom- craft fed' $3,407,284.23 to Swfss bank accounts through Scientific Electronics Ltd. and Bregman Electronics Inc. from 1963 through 1966.

The indictment said the money was supposedly for equipment, but none was ever furnished. The indictment said kidkbacks of $663,481.05 were furnished by Western Molded Fibre Products Inc. of Gardena, which supplied parts to Chromcraft. HHH Gets Telephones Despite Chicago Strike NEW YORK (AP) Repre sentatives of Vice President Hu bert H. Humphrey have had ex- trt telephones installed at his Chicago offices despite a strike by electrical workers against the Illinois Bell Telephone The New York Times said today.

The story from Chicago, where the Democratic National Convention will be held later this month, also said in part: Spokesmen for Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, Humphrey's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, complained that lack of telephones was jeopardizing their operation. But they said they had- not sought and would not seek to circumvent the striking International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in acquiring extra phones. A Humphrey spokesman at first denied that extra telephones had been installed, then said that Illinois Bell manage mint personal hid put six in rffict. No Question About It LEXINGTON, Ky.

(AP) When Albert Rodgers received a abbit as a pet, his father asked he 5-year-old boy what he planned to name it. "Louis," said the youngster. "But how do you know it's a boy?" asked the father. "Well, he's got whiskers, lasn't he," young Rodgers replied. Lebanon Daily KIWI, Lgbtnoa, Thursday, August 8, 1968 OM) Virgin Islands Nixon 2, Rockefeller 1 15, Rockefeller 3, Reagan West Virginia Nixoa 11, Rockefeller 3 30 12 692, N.

Rockefeller 277, Reagan 182, W. Rockefeller 18, -Romney 50, Carlson 20, Fong 14, Stassen 2, Case 22, Rhodes 55 and Lindsay 1. BARGAIN HUNTERS DELIGHT KANSAS CITY (AP) Thousands of bargain hunters ammed streets and sidewalks Wednesday for the Emery, Bird, Thayer Department Store's two-day closing out sale mding a 105-year business in Kansas City. A line of shoppers two blocks long formed an hour before opening, and 33 traffic officers were assigned to intersections surrounding the store. At the end of the roll call the following states changed their votes as follows: Nixon Nixon Nixon Utah-8 Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon New Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon New Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Rhode Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon ArkansastrlS Nixon New Nixon New Nixon Nixon, 1 Rockefeller Nixon Nixon Nixon North Nixon Nixon Nixon.

Puerto Nixon West Nixon, Rockefeller North Nixon Nixon Virgin Nixon Nixon, Reagan 2 Nixon Nixon Over 200 Attend Boy Scout, Cub Meeting At Camp The annual joint meeting of Cub Scout Pack and Boy Scout Troop 83, sponsored by St. ory the Great parish, was neld Wednesday at Camp Bashore with over 200 members of the scouting families attending. Ken Raiger, cubmaster, presented awards to three cubs and the special monthly attendance plaque to Den One. The Boy Scout Court of Honor was high lighted by the presentation of 83 merit badges to the 29 troop members now at camp. Five new tenderfoot scouts were presented troop neckerchiefs by Henry Hartman, Ins i 11 a 1 representative.

Three scouts were advanced to second and four to first class rank. Special recognition was ac corded those scouts who are cur rently working on their advance ment to higher scouting ranks Six have advanced to Star Scout and five have earned the rank of Life Scout. Scoutmasters George Heagy, Peter DiNovo and Edward Ei- ienhauer presented the awards and pins to their troop members. Camp Director Speaks Jack Marcom, Camp Bashore director, spoke to the group and commended them for the excel- eat attendance and adult interest. He cited Troop 83 as a good service troop with a commendable scouting record.

Her. pastor WSt. GreftrylU Great Parish, the grwp tht Kotitiif feat tht adults continue to support the scouting committee. The activities were ended at the camp's last IMS summer campfire. which featured Indian dances by members of the Order of the Arrow.

Of all Western countries, the Italian people are the largest cheese eaters. Americans rank tenth. McCarthy Contesting Pa, Af-Large Delegates PHILADELPHIA (AP)-The chairman of the Pennsylvania Citizens for McCarthy said Wednesday his group is contesting the selection of the state's to the Demo cratic National Convention. Michael Malin said his group, supporters of Sen, Eugene Me Carthy of Minnesota in his bid 'or the presidential nomination, las filed a challenge with the conventions Credentials Com mittee protesting delegates chosen by the Democratic State Committee. Malin said the protest was filed on grounds that the gates do not reflect a fair ratio of support for McCarthy in the state.

Of the 160 delegates with 130 votes, there are 57 at-large del egates who have 42 votes. Malin said only two of the 5' are for McCarthy, while mos of the others support Vice Pres ident Hubert Humphrey. VODKA IS VODKA why pay more tji if) PORT ROYAL VODKA no finer lower PR'OOF MT GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS SO WHITE You'll wonder where the yellow ivent! LONDON DRY 90 PROOF PENNCO DISTILLER? SchHHiritown, Ubinon County, Pi. PENNSYLVANIA'S ONLY INDEPENDENT DISTILLER UPl-Doily NEWS USEFULNESS over now demonstration signs were stacked at the National Republican Convention this morning in Miami Beach. Kids Of Kane Rip Out Ragweed So Others Can Relax KANE, Pa.

(AP)-The kids of Kane are ripping up ragwood like mad this week so everybody else can relax next week. That's'when the big late-summer hay fever season begins. Across the country as many as 20 million Americans will start sneezing, coughing and using up handkerchiefs by the dozen as the microscopic pollen from the pesky plant takes to the ail- on its annual mission of misery. But not in Kane. All of the ragweed will have been ripped from the ground, carted off to the city dump and burned.

They've been doing it for 15 MEN'S OPEN Summer Sandals Cleland talked the city fathers and the Chamber of Commerce into sponsoring the annual ragweed contest for kids. All this week they, will pull it out and take it downtown where it's weighed and loaded on big trucks. On Saturday, the winner is decided and gets a $25 bond. are lots of other prizes for runners-jip," Cleland said. "And everybody gets 50 cents for the trouble." Last year, three ton truckloads of ragweed were burned.

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Smooth or grain uppers. Sizes to Men's 12. TO Grove Motorcyclist Seriously Injured years, and the little town of 5,000 in the Allegheny Mountains has become a haven for people who suffer the most. "If I wouldn't go to Kane," said Edna Wise of Harmony, 200 miles away, "I'd go to the hospital every year." Every Mrs. Wise wisely spends a month in only was motel.

Ragweed-ripping is the pet project of Dr. Charles Cleland, a local doctor who specializes in allergies. "My ideas don't jibe with some of the experts," he said. 'Some of them say the pollen rises but of the Midwest and floats through the air all across the East. But I say everybody grows their own.

"You find the miserable little weed in vacant lots, near factories, beside walks, everywhere in a city," he said. That's why cities have pollen counts in the 60s and 70s, when a count of 10 is enough to put a sufferer in agony, Cleland said. Ragweed pollinates on Aug. 15 usually and lasts until the first frost. It grows in most sections of the United States, and experts estimate that 10 per cent of the population suffers from it.

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The extent of his injuries was not known this morning. Hospital authorities did reveal that a tracheotomy ras performed. According to an attendant at the Red Arrow Service Station in Pine Grove, Bressler pulled into the station about 11:15 p.m. with his passenger, Beverly Schaffer, Pine Grove RD 3. The attendant said that as he pulled out of the station, he apparently failed to put up the 'cycle's kick stand.

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Medium, TO 9th St. Bressler reportedly was thrown under a truck parked at -5 the 'service station. Miss, Schaeffer was thrown to (he side of. the road and suffered only brush burns. Bressler was taken to the hospital in the Grove community ambulance.

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