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Kenosha News from Kenosha, Wisconsin • 1

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i -Jr -J (14 A1- J1 -W -r -A -y i Today's Chuckle Today's Quote All flie strength and force of mas comes from his faith in filings unseen He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak Strong convictions precede great actions --James Freeman Clarke clergyman complaint: meals a daya roof over my head two cars a boat' a power mower and a contended wife why shouldn't I be in 15c A HOME DELIVERED 65c WEEKLY KENOSHA WISCONSIN FRIDAY APRIL 28 1972 NEWS PHONE 657-5121 Reds threatening city 1HE BALANCE Viet in tight defense dang Tri Vietnamese spokesmen In Kellerman reporting from the surrounded city by radiotelephone said the North Vietnamese drive was methodical but that the Communists had not yet attacked the city The South Vietnamese were forced out of Dong Ha on the-south bank of Cua Viet River and the adjacent combat base The troops pulled back five miles toward Quang Tri Thursday killed two Americans wounded three and left two missing Communist guns shot down i US reconnaissance plane over North Vietnam 54 miles north of the DMZ One injured crewman was rescued and the other was missing An F4 Phantom jet collided with a South Vietnamese Air Force plane over Da Nang harbor One US pilot and two Vietnamese airmen were missing while another American vas rescued Another crash in the Mekong Delta killed the South Vietnamese Air Force commander in the Delta Brig Gen Nguyen Hue Anh and his US adviser an unidentified colonel William Rosson US Army commander in the Pacific The subject of their discussions was not reported As they conferred two US Army helicopter units were sent to Quang Tri to search for 25 tanks spotted early today cast of- the city The choppers blew up two tanks with rockets and grenades Antiaircraft fire downed one' of the helicopters killing both American crewmen Lam said at least 13 other tanks were knocked out west' and southwest of Quang Tri but there was no confirmation oft the report Heavy fighting was reported at bases Pedro five miles west of Quang Tri and Nancy eight miles td the south SAIGON North Vietnamese forces'led by tanks and supported by heavy artillery today forced South Vietnamese troops into a tight defensive circle around Quang Tri in South northernmost province The North Vietnamese shot down ah American helicopter outside Quang Tri killing two US crewmen Communist drive just below the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) pushed government troops back five miles from the makeshift northern defense line at the Cua Viet River and threatened to overrun the city of Quang Tri itself UPI Correspondent Stewart Saigon said 317 Communist troops were killed in fighting Thursday in Quang Tri province at a cost of 13 South Vietnamese troops killed and 73 wounded Communist troops south 1 of Quang Tri early today pulled back slightly opening Highway 1 and allowing an estimated 10000 civilians to leave Quang Tri They headed toward Hue the old imperial capital 32 miles to the south Kellerman -said The US command said a US adviser was wounded in the fighting south of Quang Tri Thursday A series of aircraft clashes in North and South Vietnam Is is serious but we can handle said the South Vietnamese commander for the upper five provinces Lt Gen Hoang Xuan Lam think we can hold" Lam conferred at his Da Nang headquarters with Gen raw iwa Hawaii awaits astronauts aihe' Although mild temner Although mild temperatures will continue showers are likely for Kenosha tonight and Saturday which may put a damper on weekend outdoor activities Apollo series and cleared the way for the flight of Apollo 17 on Dec 6 the final expedition of the $255 billion lunar exploration program President Telephones Despite its close brush with failure just before the moon landing and several minor but irritating problems Petrone predicted the mission go down in history as one of greatest moments in ABOARD USS TICONDERO-GA Three Apollo adventurers and a spacecraft jammed with treasures steamed at flank speed toward Hawaii today their lunar mission perhaps signaling the start of a new era of moon science UDay: years SCATTERED SHOWERS an unexpected booty on their three-day exploration of the highlands He said they may have found long-sought pieces of the primitive lunar crust a discovery which might force a revision of lunar history To medical specialists' one of the important preliminary results of the mission was the apparent good health of the three spacemen The Apollo 15 crew encountered heart abnormalities during flight last summer and they were slow to adapt to the rigors of gravity on Earth But the Apollo 16 "crew displayed none 'of these problems Thursday Young four times in space was unusually talkative when he stepped on the deck of this fighting ship Thursday and called the flight mission of They received a telephone call of congratulations from President Nixon in Key Bis-cayne Fla The President promoted Mattingly to commander and Duke to colonel Navy regulations Young from being an admiral for awhile Nixon invited the astronauts to dinner at the White House in mid-June and said he would use the occasion to present some moon rocks to president Luis the environment was not an issue of great concern But a century after it began in Nebraska Arbor Day may be coming into its own Spurred by the increasing interest in ecology private individuals and great companies alike are turning to trees as one answer to the spreading threat of pollution Far from forgotten Arbor Day is observed in a small but significant way every time a slender new sapling is set out Basic Knowledge Observed in every state of the -Union except Alaska Arbor Day is 100 years old this year Despite lengthy tradition it has long seemed America's most forgotten holiday This may have been in par? because it has no fixed date as a national observance but ranges all over the calendar from one part of the country to another And in part it may be that in earlier decadesj preservation and restoration of At noon today temperatures around town (with the sun shining brightly) were 45 at Walter Pollution Control 47 downtown 52 at AMC and 57 at the 60th St Fire Station The humidity was 92 per cent and the wind out of the southeast at five This' low was 36 and yesterdays temperature extremes were 53 and 36 sun will rise at 4:49 am and set at 6:49 pm Apollo 16 astronauts John Young Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke in excellent shape after 11 days in space are due to reach Honolulu Saturday afternoon and fly on Jo the Manned Spacecraft Center in' Houston late that day Their record 245-pound haul of moon- samples and mapping pictures will be divided and flown to Houston on two planes Saturday Impatient scientists at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory expect to open the first rock box Monday in a sterile nitrogen-filled cabinet The astronauts Thursday made one of the smoothest and most accurate landings of the Closest splashdown are 6ecrets in that vehicle right he said referring to the command module which still was bobbing in the Pacific 1519 miles south of Honolulu sonle basic knowledge and understanding ip that vehicle right i At the Manned Spacecraft Center Dr Isador Adler said data from his lunar orbital X-ray sensor agreed with speculation of geologists that Young and Duke may have -collected 16 has written another glorious chapter in Jhe history of exploration of the said Apollo program director Rocco Petrone who watched televised splashdown at the Mission Control Center in Houston i Kleindienst clears committee hurdle SPACE CENTER Houston (UPI) Apollo 16 splashed closer to target than any US manned spacecraft Mission controllers said computer pinpointed the splashdown at only seven-tenths of a mile off target i Hunt skyjacker in Bremerton Kenoshan National Goodwill Worker WASHINGTON (UPI)-Rich- ry The nomination originally ard Kleindienst has finally -was approved Feb 29 after two cleared the hurdle of the Senate days of perfunctory hearings He said if necessary he would vote for a parliamentary device requiring a two-thirds majority to shut off debate and bring an issue to a vote The nomination is not expected to come up for debate before May 15 Judiciary Committee in his attempt to win confirmation as attorney general but a bitter debate on the Senate floor may delay final approval for weeks The Judiciary Committee approved the nomination in an 11-4 vote Thursday designating Kleindienst as the replacement for former Attorney General John Mitchell who resigned to run President jre-j election campaign The committee action lowed one of the longest confirmation hearings in histo- Seeks chess match in Australia BREMERTON Wash (UPI) agents have been showing photographs of a man who may be the disguised skyjacker who extort ed $200000 and bailed out of a Northwest Airlines jet to businessmen in the Bremerton area the Bremerton Sup reported Thursday of those questioned said the picture looked familiar and a wig store owner said a man resembling the photo spent an hour in her shop trying out different wigs before the hijacking last Thanksgiving Eve the newspaper said The Seattle office of Earl Milnes special FBI agent in charge of the region declined to comment on the report The newspaper said several downtown businessmen have been approached by agents asking help in identifying photographs of a man they believe resembles the hijacker but it was reopened after printed allegations that Kleindienst was involved in settlement of an antitrust case against the International Telephone Telegraph Corp There also were charges the settlement was linked to a pledge of financial support i for the Republican National Convention i Kleindienst insisted he was innocent of exerting any undue influence in settling the $1 billion suit But he acknowledged he in a series of meetings that led the antitrust division to phange its mind and settle the case out of court Voting against confirmation in the committee were Sens Edward Kennedy D-Mass John V-Tunney D-Calif Birch Bayh D-Ind and Quentin Burdick D-ND Kennedy and Tunney predicted that when the nomination reaches the Senate floor there will be a long debate a term which often is a euphemism for a filibuster: But Chairman James Eastland D-Miss predicted Kleindienst would be confirmed A NN No hippies in FBI Hoover guarantees SYDNEY James Mason a Melbourne entrepreneur today offered to put up $J122000 to stage the first leg of the world chess championship in Australia between Bobby Fis-chfer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union The offer was cabled to Prof Max Euwe president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Amsterdam If accepted the match would take place in Melbourne a chess official here said today Belgrade organizers backed out of their original agreement to hold the match there when Fischer demanded a larger1 share of the profits from the match It's 'spring forward' time this Sunday WASHINGTON (UPI) -FBI Director Edgar Hoover says there are no hippies in the FBI because he can spot them right away appearance excludes Hoover said permit no hippies in the bureau I can guarantee At one point in his appearance before a House appropriations'- subcommittee Hoover was asked by Rep John Rooney D-NY: allow any gay (homosexual) activists in the WASHINGTON (UPI) time to forward in By MICHELE THOMPSON Kenosha News Staff Writer James Klotz simply accepted the fact that he would ftever play baseball or even walk without crutches again when he was afflicted with pblio at the age of 17 But today at 33 Klotz cannot accept the fact that he has-been named National Goodwill Worker of the Year Klotz 5514 89th St was chosen from among the 75000 Goodwill workers nationwide and worldwide He is and but is pleasantly surprised at being singled out by vote of his peers for the honor llotz received jt call from Robert Watkins executive director of Goodwill Industries of America telling him of the honor while he was at work at the local Goodwill Industries Store The Kenoshan was seated at his desk working on all the paperwork which accompanies the -supervision of a store in the growing Goodwill Industries Corp in the world Spinal bulbar polio was the disease which crippled the yoqng man while he was attending his 17th birthday celebration It paralyzed him completely and ended his hopes of a career playing baseball It laid to waste his 10 years of lessons on the-Jiano Yet Klotz says he felt no despair because of his disability just accepted it as a part of he said In fact I considered myself fortunate because 1955 was a bad year for polio victims Many people died- from the disease Recalls Moment of Triumph Klotz begpn therapy soon after he was taken out of the iron lung at Memorial Hospital He remembers the moment of triumph he felt when after a month he was able to unwrap a stick of gum by himself The process took him 20 minutes Lying for hours in the hubbard tank designed to relax his muscles Klotz sang to pass the time One day Mrs Marjorie Morrow director of the Snap-on Tools Male Chorus overheard him and invited the young man to Join the 32 voice chorus He has remained an integral part of the group traveling along to concerts and programs ever since 1955 Klotz feels that his membership in the chorus has been beneficial for him He enjoys the pleasure the group brings to others too Through therapy Klotz regained the use of his left hand mid arm and partial use of the right He has learned to lock his knees and stand walk on crutches but must use a wheelchair at times Klotz credits his wife Joan as another important factor in his recovery The two weje dating when polio struck and Mrs Klotz although only a high school student at the time stood by him came to see me every day at the he said Then after I got out we continued to date and 'had wonderful times together everything to me" Joan continued to provide moral support while Klotz completed high school and while he attended Kenosha Technical Institute the Wisconsin Collegs of Music 1 Milwaukee and Dominican College They weremarried soon after he began to work for Goodwill Industries in 1960 The have three sons: James 9 Jeffrey 7 and John 2 Became Store Manager Klotz beganNwk with Goodwill as representative in the Kenosha area schilling the truck pick-up routes In 1967 be became store manager of the newly opened Kenosha retail outlet He has continued to supervise the store which moved to new facilities in December 1971 making it the newest and one of the largest outlets the Goodwill Industries Corp of Southeastern Wisconsin Late bulletins FBI do allow any type of activists in the FBI gay or Hoover said time again- Daylight Saving Time arrives with the clock going ahead one hour at 2 am Sunday The-change will remain in effect until the last Sunday in October when time falls back one hour The Commerce Department a few years ago came up with the slogan forward fall as a handy guide for telling which way the hour hand moves under Daylight Time When the change comer Sunday three Arizona Hawaii and and part of Indiana will remain on Standard Time James Klotz National Goodwill Worker of the Year News photo by Norbert Bybee) Fire burns out area near Plover TIE VOTE POSES NEW THREAT TO BRANDT et BONN (UPI) Chancellor Willy Brandt failed to muster a The InSlde Story parliamentary majority en a tost of his budget today renewing the possibility of general parliamentary elections to break Pa the deadlock Amusements Television 31 32 Brandt won a vote of confidence by only two votes Tnursaay Area News 22 23 Today the vote on a second reacting of the budget for the Classified 33 own ofjlce was a tie' 247 to 247 with one absten-' Dear The opposition Social Democrats called for new elections Dr Joyce Brothers 8 the only way to break the tie but Brandt rushed to the Editorials 4 rostrum and said he still hoped to squeak through without Family Page 17 dissolving parliament Financial News 33 BL0CKS IMMEDIATE VOTE ON KLEINDIENST Obituaries WASHINGTON (UPI) A Democratic senator moved today Sporta z5 21 27 Wock gB minediate vote en the nomination of Richard The Lyons Den 35 Kleindienst to be attorney general by requesting a be Tiny News 29 39 placed on it Activities 9 7 Such holds are automatically honored fo at least a week Vmith Par it 12 and sometimes longer Assistant Democratic floor leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia told reporters the hold had been asked by one of the editorial: Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee who voted A break for the aged Thursday against recommending confirmation of Kleindienst "The committee approved the nomination U-4- 1 -1 J' A' He also" credits Goodwill as providing a turning point in his life love my job and the people I work he said was a turning point because they had enough confidence in me to do a job at that time I imagine working anywhere A 39-minute documentary on life will be presented on the Voice of America radio program according to Southeastern Wisconsin Goodwill Industries Corp executive director William Lone Klotz and his wife will travel to Washington DC for National Goodwin Week May 7 through 13 There he will meet with Wisconsin legislators and with President Nixon 1 The presentation of the award wiJI be made at the 1972 Delegate Assembly of GoodwiU Industries of America Inc in Los Angeles Cal later in the year During his year as National Goodwill Worker Klotz will travel round the country talking to groups and meeting with other Goodwill Industries workers For Klotz who feels he has been all in life the good fortune is continuing PLOVER Wis (UPI) Fire apparently started from sparks from a train burned out' 35 acres containing about 35000 15-20 foot pine trees Units from Plover Nekoosa Whiting and Portage County fought the blaze which was brought under control in about two hours The" fire threatened some homes briefly and occupants were evacuated but they were able to return when the threat ended IT I J- a' A-1 Mfcl.

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