Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 1

Mfeenfe ninj i The Only Daily Paper Published in Eastern South Carolina DUR 46TH YEAR NO 125 LORENCE MONDAY MORNING MAY 5 1969 DAILY 10c SUNDAY 15c XX XX XX Jl 's XXXX XXX XXX XX XX SS XX'X xx yx ss W'X x' xX sWlxx 'SXWxvXx xxxXx'xx SXXxS x' WX 'Sxxxx'JWsw X'XX sSx Xx xsXx xx Sv xs sx wm xxx xx sxx Israel Suddenly Aflame with Talk of War TEL AVIV Suddenly Israel is aflame with talk of war As the guns of the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors roar over the cease fire lines al most daily as Arab guerrillas slip across the Jordan and Yar muk Rivers in the van of their heralded spring offensive and as the vaunted of the Israeli army reaches deep into Egypt and Jordan a great change has come over the mass of the Israeli public Persons who confidently as serted three weeks ago that im pending war was a figment of Arab imagination conjured to impress the Big our powers as they debate the Mid dle East now speak reluctantly of approaching large scale hos tilities UN Secretary General Thant departing Geneva after a four day stay that included talks with UN Middle East mediator Gunnar Jarring told news men: feel the situation is de teriorating If the permanent members of the Security Coun cil do not agree on substantive issues in about the next two months the situation may go out of Much of change in mood here seems to have grown out of Is retaliatory raid deep into Egypt last week and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nas warning afterwards that next time his forces might coun ter with air raids on Israeli cit ies Reacting to May Day speech the Israeli press emblazoned warnings Sunday of an approaching conflagration It was the first time they had done so since May 1967 in the days foreshadowing the six day war Vanquished then the Arabs have now become serious con tenders for a return bout have reached the point where straight retaliation docs no said one authoritative Israeli source shock anybody and stop any thing 1 believe there will be a major The big question among Israe lis is when Another informant close to high political echelons said Is rael's basic that 1970 will be the crucial remains unchanged will not wage war un til he is convinced he can win After the 1967 war he took over the armed forces and assured his people the correct lessons had been learned If he fails this time he will pay with his head he is not ready to take that chance the source reasoned lie pointed out that in the six day war armor artil lery communications and engi neering forces bore the brunt of casualties and people vital to modern can't be replaced in two years (See ISRAEL Page 2 A) 4 Helicopters Reported Lost Trans Atlantic Travelers in Race Three Die In County New Orleans Tourney Choppers House ire Index 4 3A 511 7B Comics 5A ann IB (API ULLER IRST IN NEW YORK 311 6A County Guardsmen were living with Go to Charleston Long Sought VC Killed in Ambush been TOLD TO CONTINUE WAR Bia ran Colonel Promoted Nixons Lunch 7 Thadcus Ray 2 and Roger The pre march church rally heard a call for Negro unity in behalf of the strikers The Rev Jesse Jackson of Chicago head of the Operation Breadbasket told the gathering: militants and the maids the pimps and the preachers are marching hand in Strange Contest Started WINCHESTER Va President and Mrs dropped in for lunch Ask Andy Classified prevented anyone but Gov McNair giving information on the subject He said however that the guardsmen from the lorence area units would be on duty from five to seven days Oliver said some 800 Na tional Guardsmen are on duty at the port city The lorence and Tim monsville units received a 16 hour program of instruction during last annual two week training in addition to regular training duties The units were among some 6000 South Carolina guardsmen who received the additional riot control training to increase the effectiveness of the units when called to active duty to pro vide military support for civil In Charleston more than 1000 hospital strikers and sympathizers marched Sunday against a pair of public hospitals from which non pro fessional workers walked out almost six weeks ago Sports TV Log Women Staff and AP Reports Some 250 lorence and Tim monsville headquarted Na tional Guard units have called to active duty by Gov Robert McNair to assist guardsmen already stationed at Charleston They are slated to leave their home units Mon day at 8 am Col Oliver said Sun day that the units the 133rd Military Police guard unit headquarted in Timmonsville and the 132rd Military Police unit headquarted in lorence have been called as to replace guard units which have been on active du ty at Charleston Col Oliver director of the military support to civilian authorities section of the South Carolina National Guard said the lorence 'and Tim monsville guard troops will be billeted in the city of Charleston at various guard installations He said state regulations Others in the house were reported by the coroner as the Williams woman Gustine Williams 19 Johnny Williams 17 Brooks Williams 14 Joseph Williams 10 Elijah Williams 11 and Jo Anne Williams The cause of the fire could not be determined Eaddy reported The coroner ruled the deaths ac cidental Eaddy was assisted in the investigation by Deputy Sheriff Jim Huggins The county incident was one of two three death fires in the state over the weekend Three were reported dead of smoke inhalation in their home in Greenville County Victims were Sydney Bruce Jr 42 his wife Betsy Bruce 43 and their four year old son Sydney Bruce III LAGOS Nigeria (AP) Ra dio Biafra announced Sunday that secessionist leader Odu megwu Ojukwu has been pro moted from lieutenant colonel to rank and given a new mandate to continue the war against the federal government of Nigeria The broadcast said elders and consultative assem bly gave Ojukwu this show of support after his May Day speech in the town of Owerri which the rebels recently recap tured from federal forces Ojukwu's speech ranged from belligerent warnings to hints that the secessionists are willing to become more flexible in an effort to get peace talks going with the federal government Ojukwu called for peace talks without preconditions but he added: order to create the right atmosphere for such talks there must be a cease fire or With Byrds In Virginia NEW YORK (AP) A team of 150 bowler hatted Englishmen beat motor racing ace Stirling Moss among early finishers Sunday in a strange race be tween the top of Post Officer Tower and New York's Empire State Building winners be known until next week when the last contestants finish Any kind of aw land or water transport can be used and the 390 contestants can make any number of trips They are competing for about $144000 in prizes in 21 categor ies including four top prizes of $12000 each The' race sponsored by the London Daily Mail commemo rates the 50th anniversary of the first nonstop crossing of "the At laniio by Joha JUeael and Ar thur Whitten Brown Air time is only one factor and the race is intended to point up the difficul ties of getting to and from the airports The contestants included Roy al Air orce pilots women and children blokes in bowler hats are just as keen on picking up some prize money as any of those flying helmet said Len Adams one of the bowler hat team Its time of 7 hours 25 minutes 1403 seconds was nearly six minutes better than Both crossed the Atlan tic in chartered VC lOs The bowler hats chartered buses to get them from the Lon don tower to the airport and from Kennedy Airport here to the Empire State Building So far as is known no one has yet tried to bypass the Empire State elevators to reach the top of the tall est building am feeling quite stimulated now that I am said Moss who covered the 3442 miles in 7 hours 31 minutes 456 seconds using lift motorcycle foot speedboat helicopter and jet Lt Paul Waterhouse piloted a Royal Navy Phantom jet across the Atlantic and claimed a record transatlantic flight of 5 hours 4 minutes clipped 25 minutes from the 1958 record of an American KC135 His total race time was 5 hours 30 min utes 24 seconds first arrival in New York was Royal Air orce light Of ficer William uller whose time was 6 hours 29 minutes (See AIR BASE Page 2 A) Military spokesmen concede American helicopter losses in recent weeks have been among the heaviest of the war but they point to what they term the ormity of the One spokesman said there are more than 3000 US helicopters in Vietnam During an average week he said helicopters fly more than 100000 one flight by one and transport more than 150000 troops and more than 30 million pounds of cargo all it's a pretty good he said SEATTLE (AP) An elderly Bedding Calif widow return ing with a tour group from the I ar 1 ast died aboard a North west Orient Airlines jetliner early Sunday on a flight from lokyo to Seal tie She was identified after the plane landed here from Anchor age Alaska where it was di verted as Mrs Lucy inn Kea gy 79 who had gone on the tour with two other widow friends In Anchorage Dr Paul Clark said Mrs Keagy and 11 others in the 42 mcmber touring party became ill of apparent food poi soning acquired before they boarded the NWA Boeing 707 320C Intercontinental in Tokyo One of the men stricken was kept in an Anchorage hospital for observation His wife re mained there with him Their names were not available immediately more an US third RA OICER WILLIAM Meets with Press Photographers Atop Empire State Building DA NANG Vietnam (AP) A long sought Viet Cong guerril la wanted for the assassination of many government workers has been killed in a US army ambush an American spokes man disclosed Sunday Nguyen Quyet described as most wanted Viet Cong guerrillas in Quant Tri Prov was killed riday by a Range patrol staked out beside a trail in the Ba Long Valley three miles southwest of Quang Tri body was identified by villagers of Nhu Le the guerrilla base of opera tions for the past six years the spokesman said Quyet leader of numerous as sassination missions and sapper squads was known to have per sonally slain a number of gov ernment workers and anti Com Eaddy said the lire hit about 12:30 am Sunday Listed as victims were Minnie Onetha Dixon Williams Jr Williams 7 The children their aunt Missouri Williams in a five room frame home the coroner reported He said there were nine persons in the house They were awakened by smoke and flames in the tin roofed house he said the other six occupants escaped he said Three young children died when fire swept a rural home in the Peniel community six miles 1 west of lorence early Sunday morning Coroner Eaddy said fe Rookie pro golfer Larry Hinson won the $200(10 first prize in the Greater New Orleans Open Golf Tournament Sunday a sudden death playoif Page 1 The kid gloves have come off and the race for the job as Los Angeles mayor has turned into a bitter fight Page 8 SAIGON (AP) our helicopter losses were nounced Sunday by the Command including the air collision in 12 dayssi All eight American crewmen were killed in the collision Sun day between two Army UHL hel icopters 18 miles northcast of Saigon Headquarters said the crash is being investigated Two choppers were shot down Nixon at the home of Virginia Sen and Mrs Harry Byrd Jr Sunday and almost stayed for dinner The Nixons accompanied by Sen Barry Goldwater Ariz and son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs David Eisenhower whirled in by heli copter at 1:30 pm But their departure was de layed about half an hour by aft ernoon thunderstorms and they leave for the return trip to Washington until 4:30 pm failing that a truce for a limited He also suggested the African of finding each side nominating two or three friends to meet un der Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie to find an A Nigerian government spokesman had said he believed that the fall of secessionist headquarters at Umuahia April 22 would prompt a call for talks from the secessionists However in his address Ojukwu insisted that the Nige rians were telling a vious in claiming control of Umuahia He declared: ra far from being destroyed in actual fact is Ojukwu said if the Nigerian enemy rejected appeals for peace talks will fight him with the best I have I will har Passenger Dies Aboard Plane ass him and make his life miserable for as long as there is breath within me To the last man to the last inch I will fight him until he leaves my people The 35 ycar old Oxford gradu ate said: remain prepared to reach an accommodation with Nigeria provided our in ternal and external security are guaratneed along with an inter national presence We cannot ever again entrust our security into the hands of other people and cannot accept a situation where we shall not be able to reach direct to the world for a The Nigerians have insisted that the Biafrans end then secession and return to a united country Ojukwu indicated greater will ingness to negotiate on seces sion The Rev Ralph David Abernathy head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was to have led the police san ctioned demonstration but had not arrived for the 5 pm start The marchers seeking union recognition and higher wages for the workers mostly Negro women had a parade permit They were sandwiched in fore and aft by a heavy police escort led by City Police Chief John Controy 1 White Catholic priests and Negro (Clergymen of other denominations marched at the head of the column munist civilians the spokesman said He added that the ambush team was posted along a ridge overlooking a river when Quyet carrying an American M16 rifle and wearing a US fatigue jack et came down the trail One member of the team said he opened fire when Quyet was about 20 yards away The guerrilla was killed in stantly and as the soldiers were checking the body for papers they noticed the small finger of the right hand was missing This was an identifying feature for Quyet who has been sought for years by government police and allied patrols i The missing finger was brought to the attention of US intelligence officers who had the body identified by Nhu Le vil lagers who had known Quyet Rookie Golfer Wins Eire Downs I wo An Army officer has dropped a system for penalizing mistakes in combat but he still maintains the system is a good one Page 3 A WEATHER Mostly sunny and warm Monday air and cool Mondav nieht Tuesday partly cloudy and warm with ri chance of showers High low 80s Low low 50s Details page by enemy ground fire Saturday 2 A i the command said Two crew men were killed and four were 'woln(pd It liscd t0 2 594 1he number of helicopters lost in the nine of them announced in the past two days Twenty eight soldiers were killed in the other two recent air eight Americans and eight South Vietnamese in two Army UHL choppers that collid ed 12 days ago and 12 US Ma rines in a collision two days ago lietwcen a Marine troop carrier and an Army UHL Since April 1 at least 50 American helicopters have been shot down and another 26 de stroyed in rocket mortar and ground attacks on US bases or in collisions US headquarters said POLICEMAN HIT Madison Wise police officer goes down after being hit by fly ing object Saturday night as hundreds of University of Wisconsin students and officers clashed Barricades were set up when police tried to stop a street dance Story page 2 A (AP) 1 TV I 1 Hr Hf i 4 nr I A i xs I Bi I As I I 1 11 4.