The Park City Daily News from Bowling Green, Kentucky • 18

-S I A A 'i i 4 I 1 -sr njr wvsr DAILY NEWS BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24 1949 Page 18 Nixon Opposes Cutoff Date Tower Blasted To Give Continued from page 1 Special Forces and it was he who Ordered the arrest of eight of-the Green Berets and military trial for six of them on murder and conspiracy charges Claiming that the case had been tainted by command the motion asked Nixon to dismiss all charges against three of the six officers and the alternative to issue a new series of Defense attorneys ciaim Gen Creighton Abrams the com mander of US forces in Vietnam and other military authorities have denied them access to witnesses and documents and have otherwise hampered their efforts Pro-Vifet Continued from page 1 be was punched repeatedly in the face doing this to yotr for what doing to the Vietnamese one attacker yelled Outside the building other members of the gang pelted windows with rocks and used red paint to stencil slogans on the walls including will The National Liberation Front is the Viet political arm As they left the demonstrators chanted Ho Ho Chi Minh NLF is bound to Witnesses said no Harvard students were recognized among the gang members and police said there was no evidence any were involved oil depletion allowance is in the national interest but I am a political realist my primary concern is to get tax He noted that the House had not followed some of his reform recommendations but said he would sign a reform bill it did not require a' revenue shortfall which is more than I believe the nation could Back on the question of Vietnam Nixon said there has been some progress in ending the war citing the return of troops from Vietnam and the recently announced cuts in draft calls He said infiltration of troops from North Vietnam is down as are casualties Nixon said he found no significant criticism of policy when he made his speech at the United Nations recently He said it is now time for Hanoi to make a move toward ending the war Asked about the reasons behind railure to response to nuclear arms negotiations Nixon replied Secretary of State William Rogers expects an answer soon He said he did not know the reason for the delay in a reply by the Russians Asked about US involvement in Laos Nixon said are no American combat forces in he said the US is concerned about North-Vietnamese forces in Laos Nixon said the US has been providing some logisticaL support and training to combat the North-Vietnamese forces but emphasized that are no 1EU by using a downtown tower used as a microwave relay station The station maintaines offices and studios at 537 10th St in a building recently revamped for television use Investigators indicate they have few clues Evidence gathered at the blast scene will be sent to State Police and FBI labs for testing Police investigators may attempt to link the theft earlier this week of an undetermined amount of dynamite and from- the Kentucky Stone stone quarry north of Franklin with the blast here No injuries were reported in the explosion since the transmitter engineer left the tower site about 12:30 am shortly after signoff The Kentucky Department of Highways is expected to keep watch on the damaged tower due to the threat of it collapsing and falling across the busy federal highway Security Continued from page 1 most controversial reform request Nixon asked an end to the kind of catch-up benefit in crease he proposed for next year propose that the Congress make certain once and for all thar the retired and the dependent never again bear the brunt of he said way to prevent future unfairness is to attach the benefit schedule to the cost of The President wants an automatic escalator provision that increases Social Security benefits by the same percentage the cost-of-living rise over a year The escalator would also boost the maximum wage base every two years proportionate to the increase in average earnings per worker Automatic increases would remove the congressional politicking that surround biannual benefit hikes usually in election years said White House Counselor Arthur Burns (Staff Photo by RD Firkins) early morning dynamite explosion that extensively damaged the WLTV television transmitter tower in the Hadley community DYNAMITE FUSE Sheriff Christy Watts (foreground) and deputy Charles Forshee examine twin 45 to 50-foot long dynamite detonator fuses discovered at the site of an 2 Viet Cong Sapper Bases ft LWAYS F4 ST A L1TY SAVINGS DAY NIGHT SATURDAY 3 WAYS TO SAVE! CHARGE LAYAWAY OR CASH American combat troops Laos" The questioning swung to the government of South Vietnam and Nixon said the Thieu regime is in power there because-of an election Until the people of south Vietnam have -another election that mandate should not be jie said On the domestic side Nixon was asked about the policy of getting more Negroes into trade unions and said it is essential that black "all be treated equal- ly intend to continue to at tempt to- make- progress in this field because in the long run we cannot have construction unions that continue to membership to all he said Nixon was asked about published reports that the administration acted on school desegregation in Mississippi under pressure from Sen John Stennis D-Miss chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee who knows Sen Stennis and who knows me" Nixon said knows that the senator would not threaten to barm an administration bill in retaliation for desegregation actions in his state Asked about the student mor-' atorium and other campus demonstrations against the Vietnam war Nixon said there was little the administration could do about running college campuses Asked about inflation Nixon said the Johnson administration wage-price guidelines just did not work Pink Peacock Continued from page 1 tion about Judge Haynsworth the President said that was aware generally of Judge background" if not of all the specifics And he again said he expects him to be Asked about his school desegregation policies Nixon responded had a lot of criticism from the There are two extreme groups he said believe we need to have a middle course between those two extremes" he said is the -course on which ambarked" do not consider that it is a victory for integration when the federal government cuts off funds for a and denies the school money it needs he said a defeat for he declared and should be used when it is absolutely necessary" The President was asked also about his Social Security plans said Thursday he would like to see a 10 per cent increase in benefits next year and to hae benefit payments adjusted each year to the cost of living Nixon said some believe his Social Security program to be an "automatic escalator as far as Inflation is But he said his own view is different the Congress must always act it tends to react too late or over-react to the situation And I think it will be deflationary rather than inflation ary in the long As far as a reduction in the oil depletion allowance is concerned he said believe the REPEAT OF A SELLOUT SIZES 3-8 Sizes 4-7 9-10 NAVY AND FASHION COLORS BIG FRI Continued from page 1 the twisted base of the tower which plunged about 10 to IS feet into the ground after being blasted off its concrete base said antenna is expected to cost $40000 and damage to transmission lines and microwave equipment is at least another The blast which left the tower leaning in the direction of nearby US 231 ripped the microwave receiver and transmitter dish like antennas from the antenna The huge cable guide wires on the southeast side of the tower remained connected but were sagging and guide wires on another section of the tower were drawn taut by the leaning structure Hodges quoted Mrs James Ferguson who lives only a few hundred yards from the tower site as saying heard an awful explosion about 1:50 am and then there were a lot of roaring sounds" Mrs Brown who also lives near the tower site said she heard the explosion about 2 am The concussion from the blast shattered windows at both of the homes Hodges said The WLTV tower and transmitter is about 1000 yards or less from the transmitter and tower site of WKGB Channel 53 an educational television facility of the Kentucky Television Network ETV station was not damaged Forshee indicated the fuses may have burned between 10 and 20 minutes before the blast occurred The explosion which dislodged equipment attached to a wall inside the building nearest the blast was heard for the Jong distance because the transmitter tower is on top of one of the highest hills in the Watts said The- television station which has been on the air a little more than six years is currently under the control of Brown and Bob Walters and Howard Lester members -of an operations control board Bill Sweatman and Randy Odil long-time employes of the station assumed the role of joint managers about two months ago when station manager Joe Walters an owner became ill There were some indications this 'morning the American Broadcasting Company affiliate may attempt to restore limited serve to the Bowling Green area Zoning Continued from page 1 represent the district in which the landfill is proposed Gaines is an outspoken critic of the Water-Sewer and Sanation plan to utilize the property for a landfill He has suggested a' conflict of interest may exist since the sed site is owned by Gaddie and Durr a northern Kentucky contractor Gaddie is a member of the Water- Sewer and Sanitation Commission In other business the commissioners were told during the caucus that efforts are being made to secure a suite of offices in the Itlilliken building to quarter the planning commission Hamilton said the city has asked the commission to vacate city hall offices by Oct 1 if at all possible Seven of the commissioners contracted prior to the meeting indicated they favored- the proposal to move to the Milliken building Cherches' said the $300 per month rental would include all utilities and six parking spaces He indicated the office may already have been rented Four other- buildings considered according to Cherches The commission declined action on an application from Martin Campbell to rezone one lot at 223 East Main St from B-2 to 1-1 to allow the building to be used as a warehouse Cherches disapproval of the request because improvements to be made in the area should be developed in accordance with the master plan the Major Thoroughfare Plan and the Model City proposal I Pe said the area is an integral pari of the central business district and will be influenced by the eventual construction of the planned Adams and Kentucky Street improvements under the Model City proposal The commission reversed itself from an earlier meeting and approved a request from Willard (Pete) Howell to rezone 135 acres of land at the corner of Cumberland Trace and Cedar Hill Road from agricultural to R-2 to allow construction of a propo: Gaddi duplex Several property owners in the area of the change appeared in -opposition to the request and a group supporting the rezoning request also appeared before the commission The request was rejected at least once before because Howell had asked that only three lots be rezoned The commission disapproved a request from Kirtley to rezone a lot at'759 Old First Street and Leichardt Lane from R-4 to B-4 He wants to locate an outlet store for used furniture at the site Cherches said the site is located within the Model City project area and 'the area has been proposed for residential use the Neighborhood Development Program The proposed zone change conflict with the proposals developed by the Model City Agency "he said Continued from page 1 major units to be withdrawn from Vietnam id the next three months -The US Command belatedly announced today that the second round of US troop withdrawals began five days ago The firstunit to leave the country under President order to withdraw 35000 more troops by Dec 15 was the 238th Combat Support Company an Army Reserve unit from Texas The 90-man company left Sunday but the command did not announce the departure until today because of what it termed slippage in Headquarters said the next unit to leave will be the 172nd Transportation Company a 180 man Army Reserve organiza tion from Nebraska The 172nd commanded by 1st Lt Thomas Military Continued from page 1 ments under military rule Elsewhere in the hemisphere Panama El Salvador Honduras and Nicaragua are under direct or indirect military control The coup took place while Siles Salinas was out of La Paz A communique issued by the commanders of the three armed forces of Bolivia said they took action avoid the danger of anarchy capitulation and They said the country was calm but suspended all activities in the nation and urged people to stay in their homes Siles 54 was elevated to the presidency last April when President Rene Barrientos was killed in a helicopter crash Siles was known as a strict constitutionalist and as vice president headed the convention which wrote cur rent constitution the 16th in the history His father Hernando and half brother Hernan Siles Zua zo both were presidents of Bolivia Hernando died in exile in Peru and Hernan is in exile in Argentina Ovando had been considered chief rival and a frontrunner in the 1970 presidential election There has been speculation since the death of the popular Barrientos- that the armed forces would oust Siles a Barrientos Ovando who helped boost Barrientos to pow er in a 1964 coup had been at the center of political maneuvering in recent months and had the backing of Salvador Vasquez an influential peasant leader in Cochabamba second largest city When Vasquez declared Ovando leader of the peas last May the general pledged to the banner of revolution for the miners the poor the workers the peasants and the immense majority of the Bolivian There was speculation at the time that Ovando was stepping forward early to prevent two or three- other military officers from announcing their own candidacies for the presidency Bruner of Crescent Iowa will fly Saturday to Forbes Army Air Field Kan It will be deactivated at Ft Riley and reconstituted as a reserve unit at its home station in Omaha- The current pullout ordered Sept 16 yvill cut the authorized ceiling of US troops in Vietnam to 484000 The first withdrawal of 25000 men was completed in August A conference to coordinate plans for the current withdrawal opened Thursday at the US Pacific headquarters in Hawaii Adm John McCain Jr Pacific military commander said the pullout will be planned a manner that will ensure meeting the established authorized troop ceiling by Dec Meanwhile the American command said that US Army helicopter gunships for the second time in a week attacked a group of Vietnamese civilians that the helicopter crews mistook for enemy troops and this time 14 civilians were killed and seven civilians and two militiamen were wounded A communique said the attack occurred Tuesday 25 miles west of Tam Ky when the helicopter crews from the Americal Division observed a number of enemy soldiers in black and green Clothing attempting to evade" A spokesman for the US Command said South Vietnamese authorities gave the helicopters clearance to fire into the area He added that the helicopters had not been fired on In a similar incident on Sept 16 American helicopter gun-ships killed seven civilians and wounded 17 in the Mekong Delta In the ground war a South Vietnamese battalion clashed with Viet Cong soldiers Thursday in the Mekong Delta 54 miles southwest of Saigon The government said its infantrymen and supporting artillery bombers and helicopter gun- Jury Continued from page 1 International Yippies David Dellinger 53 New York editor of Liberation mag azine Rennie Davis 29 Chica go an antiwar organizer John Froines 30 Eugene Ore a University of Oregon chemistry professor Thomas Hayden 30 a founder of the Students for a Democratic Society and Lee Weiner 29 of Chicago a Nor thwestern University research assistant in sociology In the selection of jurors defense attorneys exercised 10 of their permissible 17 peremptory challenges US Atty Thomas A Foran and his assistant Richard Schultz challenged only two veniremen William Kunstler of New York one of the defense lawyers argued that one of the women in the venire Judith A Sage daughter of a policeman should be dismissed for cause When US Dist Court Judge Julius J- Hoffman denied the ruling the defense exercised peremptory challenge Police Continued from page 1 Fleming and State Police Direc tor Frederic Davids simply cannot allow the takeover of -The university and other public buildings We cannot and will not" Milliken said City and university authorities were rebuffed in two earlier attempts to serve an injunction ordering the students out About 400 students left the building after the university obtained the injunction but the others stayed put The students were protesting decision by the regents to put the bookstore under the control of the administration The students want control by a student-faculty committee Weather In Other Cities HighLow Pr 63 48 Albany cloudy Albuquerque clear 84 Atlanta clear 80 Bismarck cloudy 71 Boise clear 81 Boston cloudy 66 51 55 41 48 59 49 60 56 45 47 49 48 52 25 65 43 76 47 68 51 59 63 47 53 78 49 44' 67 54 62 54 51 67 Buffalo cloudy Charlotte cloudy Chicago clear Cincinnati clear Cleveland cloudy Denver clear Des Moines cloudy Detroit cloudy 62 Fairbanks clear 52 Fort Worth 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said eight enemy troops were killed" US B52 bombers kept up their heavy raids against suspected North Vietnamese installations along the Cambodian border north of Saigon US headquarters says the strikes are aimed at keeping the North Vietnamese army from massing troops and war materials for a new series of heavy attacks Seven waves of the big bombers unloaded more than 1000 tons of bombs within half a mile of the border The strikes ranged from 65 miles northwest of Saigon to 107 miles northeast of the capital US spokesmen reported enemy rocket and mortar attacks dropped off sharply during the night from a recent average of about 20 to eight They said only one attack caused casualties or damage Today In Washington By- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) California table grape boycott leader Cesar Chavez comes to Washington this weekend seek ing financial and moral backing for his farm workers union movement He will attend a rally at the National Cathedral Sunday night Other speakers include Mrs Ethel Kennedy folk singer Joe Glazer Sen Walter Mondale Minn knd Rep James D-Mich Chavez also is scheduled to appear Monday before Mon Senate migratory labor subcommittee which is exploring the use of pesticides On Tuesday Chavez will go before the House Select Committee on Labor to endorse bill on occupational health and safety standards for farm workers Chavez will talk Tuesday night at the opening of a 21-hour billed as demonstrations at spots not announced in in support of the grape boycott WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon who favors saltwater swimming is reported discussing closing his indoor swimming pool to make more working room for White House reporters Nixon has made almost no use of the White House pool which was used regularly by Presidents Lyndon Johnson John Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt The President recently took some reporters on a tour of the proposed new location -for the press quarters As for the current press room Nixon said his dogs have better quarters WhiteHousePress-Secretary Ronald Ziegler acknowledged Thursday that Nixon was discussing conversion of the indoor pool but no final jdans have been made WASHINGTON (AP) Com merce Department figures indicate there will be a large in crease in the Gross National Product for July August and September The previous increases this year the total oi goods and services have been in the neighborhood Of $16 billion per quar ter Some indications are that the third-quarter figure would be somewhat larger If so this would put the GNP at an annual rate of $933 billion The 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was marked by a sad coincidence 'Both i John da ms and Thomas Jefferson died that day COTTON KNIT SLEEPERS MACHINE WASHABLE SKID RESISTANT PLASTIC SOLES NURSERY PRINT 3 "36 YOU ASK FOR MORE! 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