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FIRST PAPER Throughout The "GOLDEN SILT ARIA" Of Wtst Cinl Kamttt COOLER SATURDAY 93RD YEAR, NO. 11 GREAT BEND, KANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1968 -THIS ISSUE 10 PAGES SINGLE COPY 10c Great Bend Daily Tribune Czechoslovakia Third Violent Night In Wichita Stages A General Strike 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed throughout Wichita and Sedgwick County. he was taken away by Soviet forces Wednesday.

Other unconfirmed reports said he had been taken to the Soviet Union. Sporadic shooting continued in Prague into the early evening Thursday. No precise count was available, but the death toll from the occupation apparently rose to 26. The occupation forces started their curfew two hours earlier Thursday night, making it from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Communists. Numerous arrests by occupation forces wore reported, with journalists and cultural leaders the chief targets. The clandestine free Radio Prague began broadcasting license numbers and makes of cars being used by agents making the arrests, presumably the pro-Soviet faction of the Czechoslovak police. Young people printed leaflets carrying the license numbers and urging Czechoslovaks to hinder the movement of these cars. One report said one of the cars was destroyed.

No shooting was heard during 'the morning and Prague was generally oalm. Soviet tanks occupied all bridges but automo-! biles were permitted to use at least one. Svobcda's departure was indicated by the lowering of the presidential flag at Hradcany Castle, his official residence. Svobcda and the Czechoslovak Communist party, which had tried to bring sonr; freedom to the nation, both vowed not to recognize any Soviet puppet government rcfiwtc in form ii(h a sovern- nnmniiv vrPro thp rra- son or a bv Soviet Ambas- sador Ivan Cliorvonenko to Svc boda's quarters in Prague Castle The president has declared he would recctmize only the legal government headed by Premier Oldrich Cernik, who is in Soviet! nands. 4 WICHITA, Kan.

(AP) Violence continued sporadically for the third straight night in Wichita's predominately Negro northeast side, but despite the 13 reported shooting incidents and six fire bombings, there were no known injuries. Gov. Robert Docking ordered National Guardsmen to active duty Thursday night to help police, sheriff's officers and highway patool troopers enforce a Czech Ham Radio Operators Say Dubcek Is Dead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Several amateur radio opera tors in Europe and the United States report receiving ham broadcasts from Czechoslovakia saying that Communist party leader Alexander uunce-K dead. There was no immedate off- cial confirmation of the reports received Thursday. The Czecho slovak clandestine radio Prague last said Dubcek was seized Wednesday and taken to an unknown destination.

A State Department source in Washington said U.S. government listening posts had apparently heard the same ham broadcasts the others reported but had no further details cn it. One of the amateurs who re ported the broadcast was Frank Melville, of Elmsford. N.Y., ham operator for more than 40 years. He said he sent a general call trying to make contact with anyone in Europe.

In response he received sever al replies, one of which ended with the words, was killed two hours ago." He said he asked for a repeat and received, "Dubcek was killed two hours ago." Melville said he then asked the sender, who gave his call letters as OKlAY, "Whaf do you want me to do with it?" and the reply was, "Please relay." said the entire exchange was Morse code. Nebraska Nun Drowns In Pond BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) Sister Rosemary Wagner, a man Catholic nun from Easton, drowned Thursday while wadiing in a private lake near Blue Springs. Neb. She was on an outing with a group of nuns and pnestis.

She was a teacher at St. Joseph's grade school in Beatrice. The body was recovered from lo tees of water. He announced that negotiations with Soviet officials in HINES MEMORIAL Memorial services were held at Ellinwood today in recognition of Lt. Leo M.

Hines, the first Ellin woodite who lost his life in World War I. The services were held jointly by the Knights of Columbus after Police Chief Les Loyd had a letter turned over to him inviting Hines to a reunion at Payne Field, where Hines trained. Hines was killed in June, 1918; after his plane fell 1.700 feet. Following a Memorial Mass at St. Joseph's Church, a Color Guard went to the Ellinwood Cemetery where the Hines-Gossman American Legion Post held praveside servipes.

Above the servirps are heinf held as three R-57 hnmhers frnm over in recognition of Hines. Police said 32 arrests nan been reported early today on charges ranging from curfew violation to possession of fire- s. Officers said tmey oe- lieved the curfew was effective. One of the targets of a tire bomb overnight was the office of attorney' Chester Lewis, a civil riehts leader and former president of -the Wichita chapter of the National Association to the Advancement of colored people. Damage to bis office was estimated at $300.

Damage caused by fire bombs ranged from $25 to in excess of Smoeres shot ot firemen they fought a blaze started by one Aire bomb, nut tiney es caped from the area without in jury. me curtew was imposed fol lowing a series of daylight gang robberies of a supermarket, a hardware store and a dairy bar. The youths escaped with around $2,000 cash and an es timated $300 nierenandase. Docking ordered wie National Guard at the request of Wichita Police Chief Eugene Pond, and Kentlh Sanborn, Sedgwick county attorney. A delivery boy was shot in the wrist and another youth struck on the head during one of the robberies.

The disturbances began Tuesday night, flared again early Thursday, and then came the daylight robberies of gangs of youths. "If these things occur in day- ngnt, Fond said, "mere's na telling what could happen during the night." Worker Suffers Electric Shock A rural Great Bend man was admitted to the Central Kansas Medical Cen'er foday after receiving a severe electrical shock while at work. Rondy Dale Snerwood, 57, Rt. 2, was working on top of a mobile home at Marlette Coach Co. when injured around 10:40 a.m.

Sherwood, officers said, reportedly was working with a combination air electric screwdriver installing metal screws, apparently attempted to repair the unit and received the shock. Reportedly knocked down, Sherwood landed on his back and the electrical screwdriver landed oh top of Mm and continued to shock him until a fellow employee unplugged the cord. Sherwood, reported in good condition, was admitted for treatment and observation. said in past statements generally constitutes the immediate critical period following a myocardial infarction? If so, how much longer?" "Cannot as yet be determined," was the doctors' answer. "Is it likely or possible that he wiU be removed from the critical list anytime soon?" The answer was "No." Acidizing Well Great Bend, Ellinwood Men Accident Victims on arrival at St.

Anthony's PRAGUE (AP) Defiant i Czechoslovaks staged hour general strike today to protest the Soviet-led invasion intended to crush their nation's liberalization, and President Ludvik Svoboda went to Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders. streets were deserted as sirens and bells at noon signaled the start of the strike, called by liberal Czechoslovak Fulbright Says Soviets Made Grave Mistake SUMNER, (AP) The Soviet Union, by invading Czechoslovakia, has made "just as grave a mistake as when we intervened in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam," Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark, said Thursday. Fulbright, chairman of the benate Foreign Relations Com- mmec, neipea aeuicaie a mus eum in his honor in Sumner, a town of 250 population, where he was born April 9, 1905.

'This will weaken the renu- tation and prestige of the Soviot Union, just as our intervention in Vietnam has weakened our reputatiou and prestige, Fulbright. The senator told about 200 at the ceremony that cts to be invorvel in persons he expects many more controversies over foreign policy before much improvement is made. "There are honest differences of opinion now," he said, "but they will be worked out. The more they are worked out in public, the more rapidly we'll come to satisfactory agreements. The senator was four years old when his family moved to Arkansas, and he recalled their stories of moving "to get out of the mud." His father, the late Jav Ful- ongui, owuea a uau sunnier and was one ot tue largest landowners in the area before tie soia out.

Relatives still living in Sumner area include an uncle, Charles Waugh, 76, and his family. James Waugh, 26, grandson of Charles, is scheduled to report soon for duty in Vietnam as an Army officer. retai-y of state. Rick Harman won the Repub lican nomination for governor by margin of 4,819 votes over Lt. Gov.

John Crutcher. The official total gave Harman 133,454 votes to 128,635 for Crutcher. The figures confirmed the result an nounced by The Associated Press following the Aug. 6 elec tion. William I.

Robinscn won Dem ocratic nomination for the U.S. Senate by 5,553 votes over his nearest opponent, James K. Lo gan, University of Kansas professor. Rep. Bob Dole tuok the Re publican nomination for the Senate by 102,981 votes over former Gov.

William H. Avery. Kent Frizzell had a margin of more than 10,000 votes for the Republican nomination as attor ney general. Partial results certified by state convassing board: U.S. Senator: Republican William H.

Av ery Bob Dole 190.782. Democratic Irene Corn 474; James K. Logan George A. Lopez William 1. Robinson K.

L. (Ken) Smith 13,698. Congress 1st District: Republican W. H. (Bill) Crotiner Keith Sebel-ius Gerald Shadwick 304.

Democrat George W. Meek- er 21,203. Governor: Republican John Crutcher Rick Harman Raymond J. Van Skiver 10,879. Democratic Robert Docking 134,722.

Lieutenant Governor: Republican Charles Arthur Johif. J. Conatd said I i i Hembree is the owner of the Hembree Tank Service, Leiker is an employe. Hazlip is production superintendent for the Beardmore Drilling Company, Gray is an Acid Engineers employ and Rosier works for the Pratt Well Service. Acid Engineers was acidizing the well for Beardmore Drilling on the Baldrey lease about three miles south of Hanston.

Some Improvement In Ike's Condition Seen Official Kansas Primary Vote Count Is Released Jimmie Downing JUCO UlTeCtOr I JT 000(10001 Education Named Appointment of the Director of Vocational and Technical Education at Barton Cmntfv Community Junior College has Deen announced by college president, Dr. C. 0. Robinson. Accenting the oosiition effec tive September 1, 1968 is Jimmie Downing, 35, of Plains.

Downing holds a Master's Degree in educational administration from Wichita State University and a Bachelors' Dearee from Friends University, Wich ita, and lias done advanced graduate work at the University of Wyoming. He has been in education for over ten years and has taught maiiuemiaiti'cs and industrial arts in junior high and senior high schools and has coached1 in jun ior mgn and senior hieli schools. He has also had experience as an industrial engineer with Cess na Aircraft. Wichita, and i-draftsman for Boeing Aircraft, wicmta. He Has served as prin cipal of Unified School District No.

483, Plains from, May 1967, to August, 1968. Downing is a veteran of the U.S. Army, is married and has two children, ages 9 and 11. He is a member of Kansas Teach cation Association, Kansas As sociation of Secondary School Principals and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Ellinwood Man Accidentally Shoots Himself ELLINWOOD James Beeson, 37, of 405 Clifton at 4:25 p.m., thought he heard someone in the kitchen of his home whore he lives with his mother Viola.

Not finding anything he propped his twelve gauage shotgun against the kitchen cabinet and it fell over striking his left foot. The shotgun went off and destroyed the foot. The doctors will have to amputate. Fourteen years ago Mr. Bee-son was in an auto accident and lost his eyesight and was burned badly.

Weather GOLDEN BELT WEATHER Clear to partly cloudy and continued warm windy today. Southerly winds 15 to 25 miles per hour. Partly cloudy and turning cooler tonight with winds changing to northwesterly at 15 miles per hour. Some chance of showers tonight and early Saturday. Fair and cooler on Saturday with northerly winds 15 to 20 miles per hour.

Higtis today near 100, lows tonight in the upper 60's, highs tomorrow in the mid 80's. Chance of rain is less than 5 per cent today, 35 per cent tonight and 15 per cent Saturday. Local Weather Data Yesterday's High 98, Low 75. High A Year Ago Today 90, Low 64. There was no precipitation in the last 24 hours.

Total for the month is .23. Total for the year IS 15.84. Barometer at 11 a.m. today was 29.72 and steady. Humidity at 11 am.

was 49 per cent. Prague had been fruitless and to Moscow, 'pve trust me. i eXpect to Meeting secretly to avoid So-iel controls, the Communist party called on Czechoslovaks to walk, off the lob at noon toaay unless the occupation troops pull out and release Czechoslo vak liberal leaders. A proliberal radio, operating from a hidden location, said 1,219 of the 1,540 party congress delegates attended the meeting but most Slovak delegates were detained on tneir way to one congress. The delegates re-elected Alex- Dubcek tfte man who fa Czechoslovakia last Jan.

uary as their leader. They named Venek Silhan, an economist, to head the party while Dubcek and other top leaders are Soviet captives. Broadcasts heard abroad apparently from amateur operators within Czechoslovakia re ported Dubcek was dead. There was no confirmation. The last report on the liberal leader said John O.

Stewart 37,764. Democratic J. Donald Coffin 25,106: James H. (Jim) De- Coursey Jr. George Hart Roland Preboth 9,241.

Attorney General: Republican Marion W. Chip-man Kent Frizzell 063; Robert D. Hecht Charles D. McAtee Richard H. Seaton 64,601.

Democrat Jerry Muth 961; Richard J. Rome 61,413. Secretary of State: Republican Elwill M. Shanahan 216,165. Kenneth 0.

Si 104,453. Auditor: Republican Clay E. Hedrick 205,693. Democrat Jack A. Myers 106,347.

Treasurer: Republican Walter H. Peery 206,380. Marguerite Wischcr 102,223. Commissioner of Insurance: Republican Frank Sullivan 211,1 Democrat A. Clayton Dial 104,106.

Printer: Republican Robert R. (Bob) Sanders 203,252. Democrat James Bayouth 102,315. Board of Education, 5th District: Republican Dr. Claude J.

Bray 3.568; Harold H. Crist William J. Fyler 2,117: Mrs. Charles O. (Marian) Smith Don C.

Smith 6.609. Democrat Charles L. Wilson 10,765. Board of Education, 6th District: Republican Mrs. Clarence W.

Carlson 13, 328; Kenneth C. Hassler Edward L. Mel-cher L. H. Ruppenthal 6,988.

i Forbes Air Base, Topeka fly Rebels Take Second Place At the Drums Across The Border drum and bugle corps competition held at Windsor, Ontario, Thursday night, the Great Bend Argonne Rebels placed second. The winning corps, was the Chicago Royalaires. Finishing beivnd the Rebels were the Madison, Wise, Scouts, Michigan Royal Lancers, the Ridgemen of New York City and the Chessmen of Pennsylvania. The members of the Rebel Corps are sightseeing in Detroit today, including a boat trip on the lake. They will leave for Kansas City late tonight and perform between the halves of the Chiefs' game Saturday night before returning home early Sunday morning.

Annual Church Picnic Scheduled On Sunday Imimanuel Baptist Church will hold its annual church picnic Sunday in the northeast shelter house in Brit Spaugh Park. This will follow the morning worship service which begins at 11 a.m. All church members, and their families and guests are invited to attend. Those present are to bring a basket dinner, cold drinks and service. Coffee will be furnished.

ington, D.C., attorney, are McCarthy supporters. Meanwhile McCarthy forces on the Rules Committee planned a critical reception today for Texas Gov. John Connally, an advocate of retaining the unit rule requiring all of the state's delegates to vote with the majority. Stephen A. Mitchell, McCarthy's convention chief, said he would ask the rules group for permission to offer rebuttal testimony, making clear he considers the fight against the Texas unit rule a key weapon in McCarthy's offensive.

"In Texas," he said, "that's the very base of political power. This is Texas trying to defend the Connally and the Johnson macnine. Currently the favorite son loader of the 104-Texas delegation, Connally is expected to throw his support to Humphrey before the presidntiai nomina tion is decided next week. A Great Bend man and an Ellinwood youth died in an oil field accident Thursday shortly before noon near Hanston. Five her men who were working i salt water disposal, well acidizing project were hospitalized.

The dead were Robert M. An derson, 45, 1430 11th, a sales engineer for Acid Engineers, Great Bend, and Jim Voth, 19, Ellinwood, a truck driver for the firm. Hospitalized at the Jetmore Hospital were Robert Hembree, Ness City, and Eldon Rosier, Sawyer. At the St. Anthony Hospital in Dodge City were Don Leiker, 16, Ness City, D.

W. Hazlip, 47, Pratt and Gary Gray, 23, El Dorado, formerly of Great Bend. All were listed in satisfactory condition. Apparently the men were all working in the well pit, which is about five or six feet deep when the hydrochloric acid which is used in Che acidizing process formed hydrogen sulphide gas. The deadly gas caused the deaths of Anderson and Voth and the others managed to crawl to safety.

Several re'urned into the pit to get the two victims out, but they were pronounced dead In the Platform Committee. outnumbered McCarthy forces fought to win approval of an antiwar plank and were determined to press for a floor fight if unsuccessful. And the subsidiary bearers of the once powerful mantles of the assassinated President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy served blunt notice they too will carry to the floor, if necessary, a fight for the "strongest possible peace plank." Theodore Sorensen, confidante of both of the slain brothers, told reporters Thursday: "The Democratic platform must have a strong peace plank, or regardless of toe nominee, we can forget about the (November) election. "So we will present to the convention, as a majority plank if that can be, or a minority plank, if that must be, the strongest peace plank that we Ican draw." Shadow Of Kennedys Over Convention Democrats Manuever For WASHINGTON (AP) Army doctors reported today some "encouraging" signs in former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's condition, but said it is still critical and the question of whether he will survive will remain unpredictable for some time. The doctors, at Walter Reed Army Hospibal, gave this appraisal in a formal medical bulletin which was later amplified in response to questions submitted by reporters. The formal bulletin said that Eisenhower has shown less evidence of heart irritability irregular and rapid beats-since Thursday night's report and that "while this in itself is encouraging, the general's over-all condition must still be considered critical" and the outlook as to whether or- not he will survive this attack remains "guarded" meaning unpredictable and uncertain.

One of the questions submitted by newsmen was as follows: "Would the 'immediate critical period' for the general's present type of heart attack-ventricular fibrillation normally be expected to last longer tiian the week's period you have Pipeline Runs Are Up WICHITA (AP) Pipeline runs of Kansas crude oil were up 1,657 barrels a day for the week ending Aug. 19 from the previous week, the State Conservation Division estimated Thursday. The runs averaged 250,014 barrels daily. The current allowable is barrels a day. The division said actual runs for July averaged 259,817 barrels daily, up from 257,625 in June.

TOPEKA (AP) The closest race for a major office in the Kansas Primary was Jerry Muth's 553-vote victory over Richard Rome for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, official figures released Thursday indicated. The State Canvassing Board certified the results presented to it by Mrs. Elwill Shanahan, sec- Position Despite his lack of status as a delegate, Sorensen's voice had an authenticity in expressing the most recent Kennedy viewpoint, substantiated earlier by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in a call for an unconditional halt in the bombing of North Vietnam.

Sorensen and most other supporters of Sen. Kennedy have not yet found a home for the presently uncommitted delegates from California, New York, Indiana, Nebraska and olher states where Kennedy had won primaries and picked up convention support before he was assassinated in Los Angeles on Jlulc 4- They have turned thumbs down on Vice President Hubert! Humphrey, by all odds the overwhelming favorite for the presidential nomination scheduled to be awarded next Wednesday night. Sorensen and his hard-shell Kennedv assiatP have r- I (See Democrats, Page S) CHICAGO (AP) Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy's supporters, undecided whether to accept a compromise in the Georgia credentials dispute, renewed their efforts today in two other key committees to loosen Vice President Hubert H.

Humphrey's grip on next week's Democratic National Convention. And as both forces worked feverishly on behalf of their candidates for the party's presidential nomination, the shadow of Kennedys past was etched sharply over this steamy convention city. Neither Julian Bond, leader of the Georgia loyalist group, nor Joseph L. Rauh had decided whether to accept the Credentials Committee compromise awarding the loyalists half of the state's 43 convention votes. The regular party forces led by Gov.

Lester G. Maddox were given the other half. Both Bond, a Negro Georgia legislator, and Rauh, a Wash NewspaperRRCHIVE "JFWSPA pf.rRRCHIVE,.