Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • Page 1

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272 SHAMOKIN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. 1967 missions over South Vietnam Friday, striking three times in the A Shau Valley, near the Laotian border 400 miles north of Saigon. The command confirmed that American artillery accidentally shot down an ammunition-carrying C7 Caribou transport Thursday as it approached a Special Forces camp west of Quant Ngai City. The plane'i three crewmen were killed. The eight-engine B52 bombers flew four missions over South Vietnam Friday, strifing three times in the A Shau Valley, near the Laotian border 400 miles north of Saigon.

A Shau, site of a former U.S. Special Force Green Beret outpost, is the first of many enemy concentration points in South Vietnam on the Ho Chi Turn to Page 2 hH 1 I through the 1930s the channel area was improved by the erection of walls and a "floor" with stone brought in from surrounding hillsides. The project was sponsored by the WPA. EARLY SHAMOKIN (NO. M8)-Shamokin Creek channel was not always the walled-in area that it is today.

This photo shows the channel as it appeared many years ago. Midway 2 Cities Hit as Rioting Subsides ly THI ASSOCIATED PRESS Roaming roups of Negroes pelted police with rocks and bottles and set several fires Friday night and early today in Wichi-ta. and Elgin. 111., marring an otherwise peaceful night en the nation's streets. At least 15 persons were injured in the two cities, five of thern policemen.

Milwaukee relaxed its nighttime curfew on drink and travel until midnight Friday, allowing taverns to resume normal business for the first time sine riots hit the city's Inner Core on Sunday. Delaware Gov. Charles L. Terry Jr. declared a state of emergency Wilmington to deal with what he called "rebellion." aides said though the city was currently quiet a "potential" for trouble existed.

In Wichita, the confrontation between police and the Negroes took place after Mayor Clarence Vollmer imposed an emergency curfew in the northeast part of the city. Police had requested the quarantine after bands of youths roamed the streets uncontrolled. A total of 15 to 20 ar rests were reported. Earlier city commissioners agreed to see three representa-tivs of the Negro community next week and hear their greiv-ances. Two police officers were injured by flying debris.

Police said fires were set at two businesses and in a car. but all were qukkly extinguished. At Elgin. 111., authorities clamped a 10 p.m. curfew after a half-dozen fires broke out Friday night.

Officials said five were caused by gasoline bombs. Three Negroes were arrested and charged with arson. The disturbance was the second within a week in Elgin, 30 miles west of Chicago. Terry took his action in Wilmington under broad new powers granted him by the General Assembly. He did not however exercise his new authority to clamp stringent restrictions on the city.

His declaration means that anyone convicted of maliciously destroying property in the city during the emergency will be sentenced to a minimum of three years in jail. Wilmington the scene orYlence last weekend. In Nashville. Fred H. Brooks, the Black Power advocate who claims to be head of a School," said it would continue operating whether or not it gets federal funds.

Police Capt. John A. Sorace told the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington Thursday the school teaches "pure, unadulterated hatred of the white race." The Rev. J. PaschaH Davis, appearing before the committee Friday, denied the Nashville an-tpoverty agency he heads has channeled funds from the Office of Economic Opportunity to the school.

He said that funds have been allocated for the school program, and that a contract has been signed but if it teaches race hatred no money will go to it. Other pilots flew through heavy antiaircraft fire and surface-to-air missiles to hit other military targets and fuel storage areas. The Communist fire brought down a Navy Skyhawk and the pilot was missing. It was the 6o6th announced U.S. warplane loss over the North.

Ground fighting continued in one of its periodic lulls, but South Vietnamese military headquarters said three infantry sweeps in the Viet Cong-infested Mekong delta had accounted for a total of 4t9 enemy dead in nine days. The Viet Cong struck again at two U.S. military installations near Saigon. For the second time in 10 days, the Communists has unleashed a mortar attack on 'he base camp of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade at Lai Khe, 30 miles north of Saigon.

The attack Friday night killed one American and wounded eight. A Communist rocket and mortar barrage on the base camp July 27 killed 11 U.S. soldiers and wounded 43. The U.S. naval base at Nhe Be, eight miles southeast of Saigon, came under Communist re-coilless rifle attack early today for the second time in three days.

The Navy said Communists fired eight or nine rounds of 75mm recoilless rifle rounds into the complex, but that only twx) hit the base. The others landed in the Long Tao river bordering the base, from which Navy patrol boats conduct operations against the Viet Cong in the delta. The Navy said there were no casualties and only light damage to the facilities. In a heavier mortar and recoilless rifle shelling of the base and a nearby petroleum tank farm Thursday, 27 Americans and six Vietnamese were wounded and 1,000 55-gallon drums of fuel went up in flames. A U.S.

Marine security platoon guarding a bridge south of Da Nang came under heavy Communist attack early today. Two Marines were killed and 14 wounded. Striking in darknes. with small arms, automatic weapons, grenades and mortars, the Communists penetrated the Marine perimeter in two places. Two Marine bunkers were destroyed by what were be-lieved to be 40mm rockets.

Communist casualties were not known. Troops of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division reported destroying a Viet Cong grenade factory 24 miles northwest of Saigon. The Americans found a large underground room containing eight 55-gallon drums containing tools, castings, explosives and other grenade parts. U.S.

B52 bombers flew four SAIGON (AP) U.S. war-planes kept up heavy pressure on North Vietnam Friday, flying 145 missions after a record 197 strikes the previous day, and a main target was the Communist guns which were shooting at them. Air Force F105 Thunderchief pilots reported they destroyed at least 17 antiaircraft gun emplacements around the air field and railroad yard at Kep, 38 miles northeast of Hanoi. Chinese Reds End Hong Kong Attack After Conference HONG KONG, (AP) Thirty Communist Chinese crossed the Hong Kong border today, attacked two border guards and a British Gurkha soldier, and seized their weapons, including a machine gun. Later, after a two-hour conference with Hong Kong authorities, they gave back the weapons, shook hands with a British official, and recrossed the border into China.

A Hong Kong government spokesman said other border police and British troops were near at the time of the attack but were ordered by their commanders not to open fire on the attackers in order to avoid a serious incident. Communist Chinese soldiers, in position on the other side of the border, did not intervene, the Hong Kong spokesman said. The leader of the attacking group told police and military commanders they made it because posters which they had put up the day before on the British side had been torn down. Most of the group were described as China residents who freely cross the border to deliver produce to Hong Kong. Hong Kong officials said the group was mollified when told that they could put up posters praising and quoting Communist party Chairman Mao Tse-tung but not inflamatory posters inciting violence against the British in Hong Kong.

After that, the Hong Kong government spokesman said, "The conversation was amicably conducted and at one time tea was brought from the China side and served to all." Scuba Divers Recover Body of Missing Man POTTSVILLE Pa. (AP) Scuba divers on Friday recovered the body of John Dalfanso, 20, from the East Side Reservoir here, police report. Police said Dalfanso. a former lifeguard at the Pottsville city pool, had been reported missing Tuesday night. Boydtown Man Killed In One-Car Accident South of Catawissa C.T.

Police Probe Wounding of Boy In Gun Accident Chief of Police Jesse Weaver. Coal Township, announced today that his department is continuing an investigation into an accidental shooting in which a 15-year-old youth was wounded last evening. Weaver said Coal Township police were notified by Shamokin State General Hospital at 7:10 p. m. Friday that Allen Mroc-kosky, of 1716 Tioga Street, had been admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound of the right upper leg.

Questioned at the hospital by Officers Edwin Griffiths and Terry Faust, the boy said that he and a friend, Don Nahodil. were shooting in the Big Mountain area, with a flower pot as their target, when a bullet ric-cccheted and struck him in the leg. Weaver said young Mrockosky was taken to the hospital by members of his family. He was treated in the dispensary and admitted as a patient for observation and further treatment. The chief declared that Coal Township police have been trying to break up target shooting in the Big Mountain area.

He warned that police will continue to patrol the area and will confiscate any guns found being used there. Milwaukee Night Curfew Restored Following Riot MILWAUKEE. Wis. (AP) The city's nighttime quarantine on travel and drink was restored early today after a Friday night test of the mood of the city's predominantly Negro near North Side. Mayor Henry Maier, having expressed satisfaction over one of his first major meetings with North Side Negroes since riots shook the 5-square-mile Inner Core Sunday, suspended his nightly curfew until midnight Friday, and allowed taverns to resume business.

Four persons were killed in the rioting. Police reported seizing a Ne-gro youth carrying a firebomb, and were busy shortly after midnight checking out sniper reports, which had become common during the week. Patrolmen said the inner Core was normal for a Friday night for the most part. Small bands of policemen, with 2,800 National Guardsmen still on standby duty, kept watch on busy taverns. Maier met privately Friday with about 60 small-business operators from Negro neighborhoods.

His office said the group voted 44-3 in favor of formation of an inter-racial committee, which has been proposed by an association of clergymen to study slum problems. Opponents of War Taunt McNamara ASPEN, Colo. (AP) De-fense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. vacationing in this mountainous ski resort town, was picketed by 50 antiwar demonstrators Friday.

Shortly after the pickets gathered early in the evening in front of the home McNamara is visiting. McNamara's son left the house and said his father might talk to them if they ceased picketing. The group then followed the younger McNamara to the door where they were met by Mrs. McNamara and later the defense secretary. Secretary McNamara told the group's leader he would be glad to discuss the Vietnam conflict at any time he is not on vacation, and would meet with any of them in Washington.

The group then dispersed. Royalty Agreement Reached Scientific Advance Student Mob Sets Fire to Jakarta Embassy Building JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) A mob of 300 Indonesian youths smashed into the Chinese Embassy compound today and set fires. Military officers said the Chinese inside the barricaded embassy opened up with small arms fire, wounding three youths and an Indonesian soldier. Later the Chinese charge d'affaires, shouting and gesturing wildly, denied the Chinese fired at the crowd and asserted that several of his personnel were wounded. In a visit to the foreign minister, he denounced the army for holdins him for 20 minutes when he tried to leave the embassy to lodge his protest.

About 100 Indonesian soldiers arrived after the youths had smashed the embassy's windows and tried to storm it. They restored order but not before they said the Chinese opened fire through the broken and barred windows. After the initial outburst, the Chinese, believed to number about 20, kept their positions inside the building, and an uneasy lull oeme. Two buildings in the compound had been set afire by the student mob, and the remains of one smoked and crackled. Helmeted Indonesian troops took up positions behind trees and trained their automatic rifles on the building.

Tanks lumbered up. The youths, believed to be the same group that attacked the Chinese embassy twice before over the past 16 months, used axes and crowbars to rip down the huge outer gate. Others scaled the 10-foot concrete wall topped with broken glass and barbed wire. The youths, members of a small nationalistic political party, immediately set fire to a small house near the gate, apparently an office. As they got a blaze going at a second building, Indonesian troops began arriving.

The youths, with soldiers milling around them, then surged against the main building, smashing windows and damaging doors. But the Chinese apparently had been expecting such an attack, military officers said, for they had fortified the doors too strongly for the youths to break in. The Indonesian government warned the Chinese it would tear down the embassy walls if they were not lowered from 10 feet to 5 feet. The embassy was stoned in April last year and again this AdHI by youths. The Red Chinese are widely accused of having been involved in the abortive Communist coup attempt of 1965.

The reaction to the coup attempt led to the overthrow of the Communist party and President Sukarno's government, and the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Communists and their sympathizers. Two months ago Indonesia expelled the Chinese charge d'affaires, Yao Teng-shan, and Consul General 'hu Yen. They were accused of subversive ac-tivites. China has issued periodic protests against the anti-Chinese demonstrations, and counter demonstrations have been held in front of the Indonesian Embassy in Peking. Earlier this week hundreds of Indonesian students, armed with rocks, iron rods and paint, attacked Chinese shops and homes in the village of Krawang on Jakarta's outskirts.

They sought vengeance for the killing of an Indonesian servant. Her employer, Tjui San Noei, a Chinese merchant, was arrested, and troops promised the students that the slayer would be punished. Weather Partly cloudy and warm today with chance of scattered evening showers over the mountains. Fair and cooler tonight. Lowest in the upper to mid Ms.

Most, ly sunny end pleasant Sunday, highest in the 80s. Glen Burn Colliery Strike Ends; Men Will Resume Work Monday 11 New Astronauts Appointed by NASA tween rainstorms that struck the area intermittently yesterday afternoon and last night. The roadway was dry at the time of the fatality, according to police. was thrown from the auto and his body was found several yards from the machine. A passing motorist summoned aid and the Catawissa ambulance responded and took Kreisher Bloomsburg Hospital.

A physician at the hospital pronounced him dead on arrival. The fatality was the sixth Columbia County since the first of the year. Kreisher teacher in Milton Area School District, was re- turning from B'oomsburg State College when the accident occurred. He nas taking a summer course at Bloomsburg. Born in Shamokin, March St.

1942. Mr. Kreisher was a son of Harry and Helen Peek Kriesh-er. He was graduated from Coal Township High School in I960 and from Bloomsburg State College in 1964. Mr.

Kreisher was a member cf the Church of the Transfig- Turn to 2 hours and fifteen minutes, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The meeting was scheauled after union-management talks in Shamokia the previous day failed to resolve the differences, specifically a Onion protest that the operators had failed to make rov-alty payments into the health and welfare fund. A joint statement issued at the close of the meeting said that a satisfactory agreement had been reached pertaining to the indebtedness of Glen Burn Colliery. to the Anthracite Health and Welfare Fund. Although no figures were given, it was reported that the company will not only meet its obligation of indebtedness, but will also make current royalty payments hereafter on all anthracite coal produced, on a monthly basic when due, in accordance with provisions of the Anthracite Wage Agreement.

Under terms of the agreement, operators are required to make royalty payments of 70 cents per ton of coal produced for sale and for ue. Payments are due on the fifteenth of each month on production of the preceding month. Edward Helfrick, president of Glen Burn Colliery. and P.cbert Kerris, president of Kerris and Helfrick. represented management in the talks.

Participating UMW officials included two of three trustees of the health and welfare fund, Emmett Thomas, chairman, and Nicholas Hav-dock: the two District 9 officials, Eagan and Board Member Michael Stewart: and, along with Shea, another member of the fund's lea! raff. Attorney Thomas O'Neill. The other trustee of the fund, not in attendance, is John Jillson. president of Anthracite Institute. A union spokesman, commenting after the meeting, indicate that, with settlement of the Glen Bom walkout, the union will continue its militant stand in all cases of royalty payment delinquencies to the health and welfare fund.

James H. Kreisher 25, Hess Street, located in the Boydtown area of Coal Township, was killed last night at 6:45 in a one-car accident on Route 4S7. three miles south of Catawissa. Kreisher. who was traveling toward Elysburg on the Catawissa-Elysburg highway, was pronounced dead on arrival at Bloomsburg Hospital.

Dr. J. R. Brobst. Columbia County coroner, said the Shamokin young man died of a skull fracture and numerous other injuries.

police of the Bloomsburg sub-station, who investigated i.e accident, said Kreisher was traveling south on the highway when he apparently lost control of his a 1965 coupe. The car ran off the right side of the highway, then crossed over to th? left side, strikins a culvert and then careened back to the right side, where it jumped a guard rail and plunged over a 50-foot embankment. The vehicle came to a stop in a garden at the home of Kenne'h Snyder. Catawissa R.D. 3.

Police said the accident happened be employed at Glen Burn Colliery and 45 at the feeder mine operated by the i- Coal Company. The company's working schedule for Monday lists Glen Burn breaker, one shift, and the retail pockets. The Wilkes-Barre meeting, in which settlement was effected, was held in the offices of Attorney Charles Shea, former Luzerne County judge, now serving as chief counsel to the Anthracite Health and Welfare Fund. It was in progress two tising is sent linked the two issues Friday. "It doesn't make sense for Congress to approve a 10 per cent tax increase, when a nice chunk of these taxes goes directly to subsidize junk mailers," Hechler said in a statement.

"Why do we have to raise both first class postal rates and taxes to help pay for junk mail?" he asked. The full Post Office committee was scheduled to start consideration Thursday of the subcommittee bill. But this was de. layed until next week when a Washington Post columnist, Jerry Kluttz. wTote that J.

Don Kerlin. who represents some large third class mailers, emerged from the closed subcommittee session which was considering the rate bilL Terming the allegation false, the committee unanimously approved a resolution that stated, in part, that "neither the legislative consultant in question nor any other person except members and authorized committee staff personnel was in the corn-Turn to Peg 2 The Glen Burn Colliery strike was settled late yesterday afternoon when the operators meeting in Wilkes-Barre United Mine Workers officials, agreed to fulfill obligations to the Anthracite Health and Welfare Fund. With accord having been reached. Jonn J. Eagan, president of District 9.

UMW, announced today that the 30 men who staged a protest walkout Tuesday morning will go back to their jobs Monday at the Shamokin mining operation. Of the total, 35 are Dual Proposal SPACE CENTER, Houston, Tex. (AP) The Space Agency has 11 new scientist-astronauts who may spend days on the moon, weeks in space stations circling Earth or months flying to Mars or other planets. Selected for their scientific rather than piloting background the fledgling spacemen swelled the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's astronaut corps tJ 56. All must learn to fly jets before taking a space trip.

NASA said they came into the program to train to "conduct scientific experiments in manned orbiting satellites and to observe and investigate the lunar surface and circumterres-trial space." Mail Rate, Tax Boost Items Face Trouble 'Stabs in Back' Cited Five Members of YMCA Group Die FREMONT. Calif. (AP) The overturning of a flatbed truck carrying YMCA youngsters on an ouung took the lives of four youngsters and a YMCA summer worker Friday. A California highway patrolman said be saw the track veer onto a raised strip that divides the Nimitz Freeway. The vehicle somersaulted and landed on its side, its 70 passengers on the strip and road.

Some 30 are in hospitals and one is in critical condition. The truck, rented by the Berkeley YMCA for its "Summer Fu3 Club," had taken 62 youngsters and eight staff members Friday morning to Santa Cruz, some 100 miles south of Berkeley. It was returning at 4:30 pm. when it turned over in Fremont, 30 miles south of Berkeley. The Highway Patrol said it could find no mechanical defects in the truck.

One tire was found Cat. but officers could not tell whether it went Cat before or after the accident. City Child Swallows Mixture of Gas, Paint Robby Adams, 13 morxhs old. of 203 South Diamond Street. Shamokin.

is under treatment in Sha-mokin State General Hospital for the effects of having sr allowed a mixture of gasoline and paint at the family residence Upon arrival at the hospital yesterday, the child was treated first in the dispensary, then admitted as a patient Emergency treatment was also administered in the hospital dispensary yesterday to Debra Gon-sar. 3. of 447 Shamokin Street. Trevorton. who was cut by a belt on a sing in the yard of her home She was treated for a laceration of the scalp.

They join five others in the scientist-astronaut category who joined in 1965. The newest additions to the space team included the youngest, 25, and the oldest, 40, ever chosen by NASA, and brought the first two foreign-born astronauts into the program an Australian and a Welshman. A Manned Spacecraft Center official announced the all-civilian group Friday. However earlier in the week it had confirmed that five on the list had been picked. All hold doctor's degrees, either in the sciences or medicine.

They are: Joseph P. Allen, 30, research associate at the University of Turn to Page 2 acknowledged, and cited as one of them a transaction which put the Nashville chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in possession of a new station wagon leased by the local poverty agency. "I'm very concerned that the poverty program go on when it is weU administered, because this can be the solution to the problem of riots," said the Rev. Mr. Davis, a soft-spoken, gray-haired man in Episcopal clerical attire.

Once a Wall Street lawyer, he said he turned to the ministry seven years ago. The clergyman, who heads the Nashville Metropolitan Action Commission, flew to Washington to insist before the Judiciary Committee that his agency has provided no poverty money to a "Liberation School" Turn to Poga 2 Poverty War Falsely Linked to Race Rioting, Senator Claims WASHINGTON (AP) A move to hold down a proposed postal rate hike on so-called "junk mail-' appears in trouble in the wake of President Johnson's call for a 10 per cent income tax surcharge. Also endangering a House subcommittee's bill. which would raise third class mail rates less than the administration has asked, is a controversy over whether a lobbyist for major users of third class mail supposedly participated in closed committee sessions concerning the rate. Both developments, say committee sources, improve chances for eventual adoption of a rate schedule more in line with the Johnson administration proposal to spread rate increases through the different classes.

The President's tax proposal bad been on Capitol Hill a bare 24 hours when Rep. Ken Hech-ler. the most vocal House supporter of increase rates for third class mail-through which so-called "junk mail'' as unsolicited adver WASHINGTON (AP) A Senate champion of the war on poverty says the program is imperiled by "stabs in the back' falsely linking its men and money with racial hatred and Negro rioting. But a Southern senator said such charges against antipover-ty agencies have not been proved false. Sen.

James O. Eastland, said in his view the charges were substantiated by the very witness summoned to deny them. "We serve nobody's interests except the fellow that wants to cause a riot by whacking at the poverty program," said Sen. Philip A. Hart, criticizing the course of a Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry into-Negro rioting.

Eastland heads the commute President Johnson's $2 billion poverty program request already faces trouble in Congress. "This is sure as hell not helping," Hart said in an interview. "It doesn't need this kind of stabs in the back, unverified charges and Another defense of the pover. ty program came Friday from the Rev. J.

Paschall Davis, who denied the Nashville, an-tipoverty agency he heads has funneled funds from the Office of Ecnomic Opportunity to a school accused of teaching Negro children to hate white people. He told the Judiciary Committee that funds have been allocated for that school program, and a contract has been signed but if it teaches race hatred no money will go to it. "We'va made mistakes," he.