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Call today, schedule your Want A4 (or ft times, will cost yon hot per day tot 12 words. 12 Pages Mitchell, S.D., Saturday, March 29, 1969 Final Edition Single Copy 10s Number 136 Leaders Tributes Call Ike'a Man of Peace By JIM ADAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Throughout the tribute to Dwight D. Eisenhower that flowed today from national and World leaders ran one refrain that would have pleased the wartime general a a of peace. "As long as men cherish their freedom," said President Nixon. "Dwight Eisenhower will stand with them, as he stood during war and peace: strong, confident and courageous.

"Even in death he has left us a great spirit that will never die." Eisenhower's military and political leadership for a quarter century was marked, Nixon said, by "a moral authority seldom equalled in American life." "I salute him," said the President, "as soldier, statesman and H. Humphrey said Eisen. unified the free world's peacemaker." "America will be a lonely land without him," said former President Lyndon B. Johnson, calling Eisenhower a "crusader for peace." "But America," Johnson said, "will always be a better nation safer, more conscious of its heritage, more certain of its Ike when America once said he was with us needed him." Eisenhower wanted to be remembered for his contributions to world peace not for his command of the al lied armies that liberated Eu rope in World War II. And he was.

"He fought as a general," said Sen. Charles H. Percy, R- 111., "who understood the hopelessness of brought the hope of a lasting peace." Said Sen. Edward M. Kenne dy, "The causes for which he freedom of men and the peaceful alliance of nations are still worthy goals of free people." U.N.

Secretary-General Thant paid this tribute: "He was a. strong and practical sup porter of the United Nations, where he is remembered in pro cially for his initiative ift pro moling international cooperation in the peaceful uses of atomic energy." Former Vice President Hubert I hower efforts to end World War II and recognized early that the Cole War must give way to peaceful coexistence. "Though trained as a war rior," Humphrey said, "he was one of our nation's greatest peacemakers." Sen. J. W.

Fulbright, D-Ark. remembered Eisenhower as the eader who ended the fighting in Korea and warned against a military-industrial complex. "Time has confirmed his judgment in a most dramatic ivay and again we honor Fulbright said. Former President Harry Truman counted among Eisen tower's greatest achievements his role in helping strengthen postwar Europe. "Gen.

Eisenhower and I be came political opponents," Tru man said in a statement, "bu before that we were comrades in arms, and I cannot forget his services to his country and to Western civilization." French President Charles di Gaulle extolled Eisenhower' military leadership while other European heads membered his of state efforts re to st-engtnen postwar ties. "The name of Gen. Eisenhow er remains gloriously tied to victory of 1945, to which he con tributed in a striking De Gaulle said. "For me, I see disappear with much sadness a dear companion in arms and a Lord Mont- Mr. Mitchell 1969 Matthew Smith, center, mer president of Dakota Wesleyan University, was named Mr.

Mitchell for 1969. He said he has been interested In Mitchell since he first came as student. Shown presenting the award was Don Londner, left, chairman of the Mr. Mitchell Steering Commit, tee, and Mayor F. Wayne Unzlcker.

(Republic photo by Roberts) Matthew Smith Named Mr. Mitchell for 1969 Matthew D. Smith, a former president of Dakota Wesleyan University, has been named "Mr. Mitchell" for 1969 by the Mr. Mitchell Steering Commit- friend." Field Marshall gomery, the often-critical Brit ish ground commander under Eisenhower, said, "I am very distressed.

I want to be left alone now." Queen Eliabeft -'II said the (Continued on Page 2) TRIBUTES Aircraft Downed In S. Vietnam By GEORGE MCARTHUR Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) U.S. and government forces fought 10 battles across South Vietnam- one the closest to Saigon since the Viet Cong launched their spring three American aircraft were shot down, military spokesmen said today. The fighting left 251 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese dead at a cost of seven Americans and 10 South Vietnamese killed and 74 Americans and 30 government soldiers wounded. One of the downed aircraft was an Air Force B57 twin-en- gined bomber, hit by ground fire Thursday near the coastal city of Qui Nhon.

The crewmen were rescued uninjured. The plane was the 351st fixed-wing aircraft lost over South Vietnam. Th other two were helicopters, whose loss sparked a hour firefight only six miles northeast of Saigon, the closest fighting to the capital in the five-week-old offensive. Spokesmen said an observation helicopter from the U.S. 1st Infantry Division backed up by a gunship were reconnoitering the outskirts of Saigon Friday when Viet Cong gunners opened up with machine guns.

They downed the observation craft which was later salvaged, anc then hit the gunship as it swooped to help. The gunship was destroyed and a crewman was killed. Infantrymen of the 1st Divi ion, patrolling the same area, sought out the enemy and slashed with about 30 Viet Cong loldiers. They reported killing .0 at a cost of one American wounded. In the central highlands early morning, North Vietnamese troops assaulted a night bivouac of a 4th Infantry Division unit under cover of a 50-round mor- ar barrage.

Headquarters said several North Vietnamese broke an outer perimeter of he camp 245 miles northeast of Saigon, hurling satchel charges at the defenders. At daybreak the attackers were repulsed with the help of helicopter gunships. U.S. casualties were two killed and 25 wounded. Enemy casualties were not known.

Far to the north, three miles below the American demilitarized infantrymen zone, and tanks from the 5th Mechanized Division killed 68 North Vietnamese in more than eight hours of fighting Friday, The U.S. Command said a two-day running battle in the tee. He was the nominee of the Mitchell Branch of the American Association of University Women. Smith was cited for leadership in the United Methodist Church, in the community and at DWU. The nomination called him a "most faithful booster" of Mitchell and Wesleyan.

A 1912 graduate of DWU, Smith first came to Mitchell in 1908 to attend the school. He holds a master's from Columbia University and a doctor's degree in education from the University of Southern California. Wesleyan presented Smith with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree in 1959. He served as dean of the college at DWU from 1936 to 1944; and he returned in 1952 to assume the position of president. During his six years as college president, student enrollment from 241 to 576 and 10 members were added.

In community activities, he tias been especially active in Kiwanis and is a past district governor. He organized Circle on the DWU campus six years ago. He also has served as commissioner on Ree District, Boy Scouts of America; and has worked on YMCA and United Fund drives. A member and supporter of Friends of the Middle Border since its inception, he is a mem her of museum board of directors. A native of Alpena, he has been a life long member of the Methodist Church and has done missionary work in three Latin American countries.

Under Smith's direction, the archives of the S. D. Annua Conference of the church are be tives from Mitchell servic tubs, religious and fraterna rganizations. Each organiza ion has one vote in the choic Mr. Mitchell.

Seventeen or anizations were represente his year. Asks School Bus Alert PIERRE (M State Safet Director Don Rounds has aske motorists to be alert for schoo making irregular stops. He said buses have been stop ting on interstate and some oth main highways to pick chool children because of th difficulty of traveling on i oads. Rounds said it will be neces ary for buses to continue make irregular stops until th now and mud clears and roac permit travel. area around Cam Lo has cost the enemy 188 troops killed.

U.S. losses were reported as 15 men killed and 60 wounded, including one dead and 30 wounded in the latest fighting Friday. In the Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese infantrymen suffered eight killed and 12 wounded in a fierce battle with Viet Cong troops near the provincial capital of Quang Ngai City. They reported 32 enemy soldiers killed. ing collected.

He edited and authored several chapters of the book, "Circuit- Riders of Middle Border." Dr. and Mrs. Smith have two sons, two daughters and severa grandchildren. One son is serv ing in the U. S.

Government Diplomatic Service. Mr. Mitchell is an annual a ward presented to an outstand ing Mitchell resident. Gus Swan son was last year's recipient. The Mr.

Mitchell Steering Commnttee consists of represent- US Mourns Eisenhower Final Tribute Beginning By JAMBS ft. POLK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Milons mourned the passing of )wight D. Eisenhower today at le beginning of a majestic final tribute before a train carries im slowly home to the Kansas lains. Private services for the faml- were planned in a cloistered hapel of the Washington Na- ional Cathedral as a personal to the ceremonial farewell that will last five days. Eisenhower, who led history's mightiest Army to victory in Europe in World War II and his nation through eight years of haky but unbroken peace, died i'riday after an epic 11-month iege of repeated heart attacks.

As tributes to the 78-year-old ormer president poured in from he palaces and parliaments of he world, it was the mayor of Eisenhower's adopted home of Gettysburg, who perhaps said it for all: "Although I was expecting it, still caused great sadness," said William G. Weaver. President Nixon, whom Eisenhower lived to see in the White House, went into the seclusion of his Camp David, retreat after saying, "We have lost a great leader, a great friend and a great man." Nixon will return Sunday when the body is borne by horse-drawn caisson through the streets of Washington to lie in state beneath the dome of the U.S. Capitol. President Charles de Gaulle again in only Republican irt this century to win successive with his warm smile and simple words, brought reassuring confidence to a nation beset with Cold War crises and won as just plain "Ike" a place in the hearts of millions.

Stricken by his first heart attack while still in his first term in 1955, Eisenhower survived that and eventually sit more before congestive heart failure eroded his iron strength and he slid gently into death at 12:25 p.m. Friday. His wife of more than half a century, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, was nearby when death came as were most other mem bers of his family. Nixon, who rushed to Walter Reed Army Hospital after the announcement, proclaimed a national day of mourning Monday and ordered the American flag flown at half-staff around the world for 30 days. After lying in state in the Cathedral for a day, with the public allowed to pay tribute for eight hours, Eisenhower will pass by the White House for probably the last time Sunday.

His body will be carried to a horse-drawn caisson near the Ellipse to begin the solemn anc measured procession up Constitution Avenue to the Capitol The riderless horse with cavalry boots reversed in the stirrups- symbol of fallen military lead ers since the days of Genghis follow the casket. tart through the Rotunda, for heir farewell. Through the light and most of the next day, hey wilt pass in silence past the closed casket. It will be near sunset Monday, after the sad pageantry of the state funeral, when the body is by train out of aging Un on Station near the Capitol to the long much like that Lincoln a century ago. Burial will be in the chapel of lie Eisenhower Center in Abilene, built on what was a cornfield in his childhood, with- sight of the home he knew long ago.

In Abilene today, black crepe hung above the door of the creamery where the future President worked as a boy. Far away in Gettysburg, battlefield for another war, Mayor Weaver tiad the flag in the town square lowered to half-staff. Government will halt Monday to mourn him. Post offices will close. Banks will be shuttered.

The stock exchanges will be silent. In one of the ironies of the age, Eisenhower reached his greatness in a career in two professions he openly war and politics. "This damnable thing ol war," Eisenhower once called it. And, even in the White House, he admitted he didn't like politics or politicians. Eisenhower had served as a career Army officer for more State Highways Generally Good PIERRE tf) Light snow was 'ailing in central and western South Dakota Saturday morning, but highways were generally in good winter driving condition.

The state highway mainten ance division said the snow was falling in the Pierre, Huron and Rapid City areas. The snow was light and was blowing off the highways. In the Brookings and Sioux Falls area light shoulder drifting was reported. Roads in the Aberdeen area were good. of France will head the proces sion of perhaps 100 foreign leaders expected to pay final respect to Eisenhower at a solemn state funeral in the Washington National Cathedral Monday.

"For me, I see disappear with much sadness a dear companion in arms and a friend," said De Gaulle, also 78. "A giant of our age is gone," said Lyndon B. Johnson, now one of two surviving ex-Presidents. The other, Harry S. Truman, now 84 and in frail health, said despite his political feuds with Eisenhower after World War II, "We were comrades in arms and I cannot forget his services to his country and Western civilization." Through all the praise for El- senhower ran the common in war, man of Shortly after dusk, the Ion; line of mourning Americans wil Riderless Horse- than a without quarter of spectacular a century ess when World War II erupted.

ed the troops that chased Germans out of North Africa, hen swept into Italy. By lata 1943, he nad become supreme commander of the allied forces Europe. On an overcast day in June, 1944, his soldiers stormed the shores of France and knifed Normandy in the D-Day nvasion that signaled the end of the war in Europe less than a year later. Eisenhower was there in red schoolhouse at Rheims ot accept Germany's surrender. Truman made him ths Army's chief of staff from 1945 to 1948 when he retired and be- president of Columbia University.

But Truman called him back later as commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In 1952, wresting the Republican nomination from Robert Taft, Eisenhower swept to victory in the presidential election by 6.6 million votes. He won over Stevenson again In 1956 by 9.5 record landslide until Johnson's victory four years ago. Eisenhower's era as president was pocked with crisis, but public never lost its confidence in the grandfatherly golfer'and leader it loved. Eisenhower brought an end to the Korean war, after pledging dramatically in the campaign "I will go to Korea." He saw the nation grow from 48 to 50 states.

The man ha 'Continued on Page 2) EISENHOWEB Will Symbolize Fallen Leader peace. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield compared him to George Washington. And perhaps Eisenhower, with his landslide victories, may well have been the most popular President since the birth of the nation. Public opinion polls still rank him as the most admired American. Unknown to the natwn when World War II began, Eisenhower rose to command the iest armies ever in battle through the invasion of Europe to his personal acceptance of the German surrender.

Elected President in 1952 and News Briefs By G. DAVID WALLACE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) For the fourth time in five years a riderless horse in black trappings, cavalry boots reversed in the stirrups, will tread the streets of the nation's capital. The horse and boots, symbol of fallen military leaders since the time of Genghis Khan, will follow the caisson bearing Dwight D. Eisenhower's body just as it followed the caskets of John Kennedy in 1963, and Herbert Hoover and Douglas MacArthur in 1964. The formal procession so sim ilar to the one that national television burned into the memories of millions of Americans when Kennedy was assassinated, wil come Sunday, the day before the actual funeral at Washing ton National Cathedral.

The clatter of hooves and the mournful roll of drums as Ei senhower's body is borne to the Capitol will give way Monday to the clack of railroad wheels. At dusk that day a train will move out of Union Station bearing his body on a Lincolnesque journey through America's heartland to his boyhood home on the Kansas 1944, the day Eisenhower-led Allied forces invaded Normandy. Three hours after he died, his Dody was taken from Walter Reed Army Hospital to a private funeral home escorted only by two military police car bearing enlisted representatives of the Army, Navy and Air Force. It was taken from the private funeral home today without ceremony to Washington National Cathedral. Eisenhower was a Presbyte rian and although the Cathedral is Episcopal it contains the tomb of another Presbyterian Injunction RALEIGH, N.C.

(AP) Hubert-Hill of New York, labor relations secretary of the NAACP, says his organization will seek an injunction to terminate federal contracts to textile plants and industries failing to comply with antidiscrimination guidelines. Hill made the announcement Arms Control Specialist" Defense Department Created Three Missile-Gap Scares Since 1960 By JOHN BECKLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) An tended to give the sponsoring tee their meeting was a brief congressmen information to en- chance encounter in the San able them to take a more active arms control" specialist says the role in setting military policy. ago, during which he said heijnen say a i The Pentagon also came un-was not necessarily opposed to pefense created, Department encouraged and 'has fos Francisco Airport three weeks Friday night at the convention of the North Carolina Teachers Association, a predominantly Negro group. Representatives GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) an Army Reserve unit based at Great Bend and made up of units from 28 towns in west-central Kansas will represent all the Army's reserves in the Ei senhower cortege at Abilene.

The 95 men in the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade of the 89th Division, will march just ahead of the honor guard, the pall-bearers and the hearse. Explosion Cause LOS ANGELES (AP) Fire der criticism from another an antimissile system men say a spark of static elec a truck may explosions and burnec created, encourageo. ana ius-aer crmtism uum a truck driver and burned tered" three missile-gap scares quarter Friday when Sen W.I thought Safeguard was innn nhairmnn nf tho Knr.i annmarn since 1960 in order to increase Fulbright, chairman of the wrong approach, on dollar oil refinery fire. Stone, in leveling his charges UOT ti its own arsenal. eigo Relations Committee, said Jeremy F.

Stone, a visiting one defense official had raised against the Pentagon, said tne scholar in economics at Stan- "a very serious question of missile-gap scare of 1960, plains. Final resting place for the airsick," he laughed in protest, recalling his lunar flight last Christmas, The exotic hors d'oeuvres were served Friday night prior to the annual dinner of the Ex- Club at the Waldorf As- ioria Hotel. The delicacy was made from marrow of the bones of a prehistoric horse. found frozen in a Calls BALTIMORE, Md, (AP) Baltimore Zoo director Arthur Watson said Friday the switch board has been getting an increasing number of calls lately for such residents as "Mr. Bear," "Mr.

Fox" and "Mr. Lion." Watson said he's not going to take any chances Tuesday- April Fools Day. The zoo's phone lines will be closed down that day. war-time leader and two-term president will be in a small chapel at the Eisenhower Center in point west that any president has yet been buried. The plans for ceremonies in Washington were laid out with military precision by the Army and approved by Eisenhower himself in 1966.

The timetable begins with D- Soviet Office Ransacked VIENNA (AP) Eyewitnesses reported angry Czechoslovaks ransacked the office of the Soviet airline Aeroflot on Wenceslas Square in Prague early this morning chanting "Russians go home." The informants said documents and pieces of furniture were thrown out of the office and burned. Czechoslovak police at first took no action but later demanded that tho demonstrators disperse. There were of any arrests. The eyewitness said the crowd chanted "Ivan go home' and "for August," referring to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslp vakia last August. They saic persons who stormed tha flot office were part of a huge crowd estimated at more than 100,000 that gathered in Prague's main square after the Good Reason Kan (A.P) Aan.

(Ar) day of his death which Czechoslovaks defeated the So- was Friday. The D-Day label, ajviets at the ice hockey world common military symbol, was championships in Stockholm also used to designate June night. and is a capital landmark. The plans called for brief itary and religious ceremonies relatives and friends in tha Cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel where the casket will remain with a military honor guard until Sunday morning. A motorcade will carry Eisenhower's body from the cathedral at 3 p.m.

to a spot about midway between the House and the Washington Monument. After transfer of the flag- draped casket to a horse-drawn caisson, at about 3:30 p.m., tha funeral procession will move up Constitution Avenue to the Capitol. Muffled drums will provide the cadence for companies from each of the armed services, tha military academies, the National Guard, the reserves and for the national commanders of 32 veterans organizations. The caisson and the riderless horse will come in the middle of the somber procession, trailed by the family, President Nixon, foreign heads of state, the vica president, speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, tha President's Cabinet, the dean of the diplomatic corps and state and territorial governors. By the time the mourners reach the base of Capitol Hill a cluster of Air Force planes will shriek across the sky in an aerial salute.

Traditionally, one plane in the otherwsie symmetrical formation is missing. The procession will move to the'East Front of the Capitol, scene of two inauguration ceremonies for Eisenhower. While the Joint Chiefs of Staff lead soldiers carrying the coffin (Continued on Page 2) FUNERAL Vernon Ashley Considered For National Position South Dakota have been far red tape. He has been a crusad- Ashley said a reorganization of By GARY HANSEN Associated Press Writer PIERRE Vernon Ashley, in upgrading the educational the BIA would "take several City) state coordinator of Indian af-jlevel of the Indian and has re-'years to accomplish but fairs is being considered for a cently become active in encour- we've got to start someplace." "substantial position" by the aging industry to provide the In 1966 he recommended to Nixon administration in the field necessary jobs for his people, jthe commissioner of Indian af- of Indian affairs. He expresses the Indian's fairs a reorganization of the Associated practice of quietness and gentle- BIA and its related departments -i consolidation and many social programs.

I ...1 UJ. u. 1 1 i 't r- their old building next door to The full blood Indian has Ashley, 53, is a former tribal I In his recommendations the city hall. In front of the been mentioned previously as a leader, officer with the Bureau ley said the "tribal building are four unmetered possible successor to Robert of Indian Affairs in North Dako- ments need to be bolstered by BAL.m«, nan. Ash i ey told tne Associated practice of quietness and gentle- BIA and its related hall employes here have a new Press ne has Deen interviewed ness and yet has shown deter-1 calling for conso reason for getting to work early, i in Washington, D.

by Secre- mination in bettering his peo- coordination of the Police have moved out ofjtary of Interior Walter Hickel. pie's lot in life. land educational pr ford University, told a confer ence of congressional military critics Friday the department "has become an inventor and a the credibility." During a disarmament subcommittee hearing on the proposed Safeguard antimissile missile defense gap scare started two years ago and the cur- Investigators continued today probing the charred, twisted tanks of the Fletcher Oil Co. in suburban Carson. rent warning that Russia is de- "It looks like war zone, veloping a massive first-strike said one.

capability are part of a pattern Three 1.3 million gallon tanks merchandiser of exaggerated system, he accused the depart- cmQ op nno PfiarP 0 fears It has become an unscru- ment of conducting a superficial of deliberate exaggeration six smaller ones roared into pulous lobbyist for the weapons and seU-serving review of the 1 Pentagon so it can get more nfiar to answer those fears." system designed to disarm crit ics. As a result, he said, Russia has been spurred to a similar weapons buildup and the arms race put on a permanent footing. His charge was part of a barrage of criticism aimed at the Panofsky, a Stanford Pentagon by a group of scnolars cialist, destroy And Fulbright accused Deputy Secretary of Defense David R. Packard of falsely leaving the impression he had consulted fully with Dr. Wolfgang K.

H. capability. weapons "We are in no danger whatsoever of losing our deterrent," Stone said of the latest Penta- fuel fire Thursday. Offer soon have the ability up from a SO.OOO-year-old parking spots the officers bad used. The four employes first on the job get and free all-day parking.

Use Cottage Cheese VENICE, Calif. (AP)-If you, Bennett as United States commissioner of Indian affairs. Ashley declined to elaborate on the position offered, pending notifi- has been in contact with federal officials and said Ashley is a la and was named state coordin- educated leadership so that they ator of Indian affairs on June can cope with the advance- 1, 1965, by Gov. Nils Boe. incuts in business and to utilize encounter an ocelot, Frank Zuf- receiving "prime his neiehbors be'for a federal hlS cheese on hand.

Zuffante reported Friday that his pet ocelot Panche was missing and advised: "She's especially fond of cottage cheese A 1954 graduate of Dakota their resources for the better- cation and screening of other i Wesleyan University in Mitch- jment of their race." candidates. eil, he served in the Army Air He has also caUed for the dc Gov. Frank Farrar said he Force during World War H. velopment of a model form of In an interview Ashley said uibal government on the reser- tbat industry, jobs and educa- vations Tne om is designed tion will be the salvation of the after the tity counc ii. roa nager The gov- reservation.

type of government. 0 Ashley! At times Ashley has been en- reservations would recommendation. of the rilan me reservations wouia a foot, three- Affairs(BIA). He said the BIA inch Indian was born on the should be "reorgamed in a Crow Creek Sioux Reservation would be of bet- dopt this form of government He has the typical ruddy facial jple." and scientists assembled for the! deploy ment of Safeguard. two-day meeting here.

It is iu-1 Panofsky told the subcommit- submarines," he said. each one of our 41 invulnerable) "But I was and cantaloupe. She will make qua ijt the Indian and has He said the administrative jt respect by the procedures required with pre- people he serves. sent lederal programs are too Ashley's ideas for the Sioux' complex and include tog mucn friends'with "anybody for some s'hown one wno got cottage cheese. they federal and" state law they (Continued on Page 2) NEHI.