The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 2

hff 2 Ttw Knowillt Ntt-Srtinel Monday April 10 1967 Allies Wipe Out Trapped Battalion White for Festival Is Uncertain the steady stream of cars is along driving in dogwoodland That's what thousands of scenery lovers did yesterday along Knoxville's six Dogwood Trails This view showing Keowee Ave looking east toward Cherokee Boulevard Traffic was heavy on all trails throughout the sunny day bombs have been used almost from the start of air operations against North Vietnam The weapons are directed against antiaircraft guns and crews radar installations sur-facc-to-air missile (SAM) sites and other skinned" targets such as barracks truck convoys and light armor The cluster bombs are not designed merely to kill people They also have a shattering effect on equipment for example piercing radar dishes rupturing fuel tanks and puncturing tires The group known as A Quaker Action Group returned to Hong Kong today in the 50-foot ketch Phoenix after delivering $10000 worth of medical supplies to the North Vietnamese in defiance of US State Department regulations Tell of Destruction The six said in a statement that they visited hospitals in Hanoi and Haiphong where they were shown persons the North Vietnamese said were civilian victims of US bombing raids The statement said they also visited a Hanoi suburb and the villages of Hoang Liet Phu Ly and Phu Xa and saw schools Buddhist pagodas and market places destroyed by bombs and evidence of antipersonnel weapons and dike The six said they were told an American bomber was shot down near Haiphong by a surface to air missile (SAM) while they were in the harbor It was Wednesday night March Philip Drath of San Rafael Calif said ing program which gradually is being eliminated would require $70 million -NASA Phals via UPI Telephoto AND THREE ARE DEAD A wrench socket circled was found between two wire bundles during the investigation of the fire in the Apollo I spacecraft which killed three Astronauts Jan 27 Probe Bares Sloppy Work on Apollo Whan You Eat Too Wall Corps and associated work-training program Of this total more than $500 million would be administered by the Labor new Bureau of Work Programs which last fall was given authority over all OEO work-training except for the Job Corps The Job annual budget would be boosted $85 million to $295 million enabling it to handle 45000 youngsters a year The amendments would provide $102 billion for Community Action and related programs such as Head Start Upward Bound legal services and neighborhood health centers Rural and migrant worker programs would get $47 million and be expanded under a new OEO assistant director VISTA and its associated volunteer programs would get $31 million and be expanded to include many more part-time volunteers OEO administration would require $16 million and welfare administration train Antipoverty Bill Aims at Cleanup Starts oh Page One hibit antipoverty workers from partisan political activity or any kind of direct action in violation of the law Provides Penalties The amendments would set up exact procedures and standards for all spending with special emphasis on controls of Community Action Programs Audits evaluations and employment standards would be required For the first time the anti-poverty law would provide criminal penalties to cover embezzlement theft kickbacks and willful of OEO funds Prosecution for these acts is possible now under other laws OEO so far has been hesitant about pushing such prosecutions The bill's only distinctly new program would provide Chi million a year to send thousands of poor children to two-week summer camps on Federal lands The camps would he sponsored by private non-profit organization's State and local governments also could take part OEO would pick up 80 per cent of the camps' costs Boosts Budget The bill would authorize spending $874 million for the neighborhood Youth Corps Job Demand Di-Gal Di-Gel not only neutralizes excess Di-Gel also gives you an extra ingredient that untraps painful gas relieves that oicr-stuffed feeling as no plain antacid can Minty Tablets or Liquid Di-Gel is a product of Plough Inc Denture Invention Starts sa Page One her home yesterday afternoon" Mrs Morrow said While Mrs Stone said the Sequoyah dogwoods are "beginning to go just a little she said azaleas tulips and other flowers are just Mrs Morrow said the leaves are coming out on the Hoiston Hills dogwoods but the blooms may last for another few days may make it to the Festival she said 1272 Cars in Ftn City Mrs John Keny chairman of the Fountain City trail reported yesterday's stream of cars as by far the heaviest traffic ever seen over the Fountain City Trail The Fountain City Trail also ran out of literature yesterday And no wonder For just the four-and-half hour period between 1 and 5:30 pm when Boy Scouts were counting total of 1272 cars rolled through the Fountain City wonderland The boys members of the Panther Patrols of Troop 256 counted cars from 15 other states including Alaska besides Tennessee Take special note of these spots says Mrs Keny: The John Burton home on Tazewell Pike which has azaleas as big as boxwoods plus white and pink dogwoods Herman Fischer home also Tazewell Pike especially big pink dogwoods Jess Schumakcr home Crest-wood Drive beds of azaleas and tulips bursting and Dr Robert Brooks home Mountain-crest Drive highlighted with large dogwoods and azaleas Blooms Holding Well Mrs Carroll McGinnis and Mrs Truett Lindner of the Loudoun Lake Trail said traffic out there was "heavy and all day yesterday blooms were probably at their peak this said Mrs McGinnis Westmoreland Trails chairman Mrs Andrew Johnson said she felt sure this traffic over that trail will beat all previous years been she said "and was particularly heavy yesterday Our blooms are holding pretty well and the azaleas couldn't be Mrs Barry Mitchell of the Chapman Highway Trail said yesterday "was the heaviest Sunday I can ever remember A good guess would be between 1200-1500 cars over our Trail "Our blooms are starting to go but they are still fairly Mrs Mitchell said Hero of Vietnam Killed in Bar SAN ANTONIO Tex April 10 (UPI) Vietnam hero Jose Sanchez 23 who barely escaped death after his return home when a gang of cutthroats stabbed him for 16 cents was killed Sunday night in a barroom shooting A witness said Sanchez and another man went into a restroom and a few minutes later a shot rang out Sanchez was found clutching his chest Sanchez returned from Vietnam a hero He received the Vietnamese Service Cross the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart for his action in a Viet Cong ambush in which he was bayoncltcd in the abdomen On his return home five men attacked him Feb 21 after dc- For pooplt with both "uppers" and "lowers' The neareet thing to having your own teeth is possible by an arti faater without pain You enjoy hard-to-chew foods Starts on Page One Communist force had escaped in one or two man dashes Village Surrounded In the Central Highlands US air and land power closed ring of fire and steel around a heavily fortified village defended by a Communist company A platoon of tanks rumbeld up to aid the army's elite helicopter horsemen of the 1st Air Cavalry Division in looping a noose around the fort Artillery lobbed in big shells US strike planes hurtled bombs rockets and fiery napalm into the trap US spokesmen said latest reports had at least 67 Com munists killed and five suspected guerillas captured Americans suffered 19 men killed and 27 wounded Steel Plant Bombed In the air war all-weather US Navy A6 Intruder jets streaked through heavy clouds and heavy antiaircraft fire and bombed the Thai Nguyen steel plant 35 miles north of Hanoi It was the ninth raid in four weeks on North greatest metals plant Pilots reported the weather so bad they could not assess damage In South Vietnam US Air 5 2 Stratofortrcsses struck in support of the GIs and of the heavy bombers flew on to Thailand to begin operations I Americans Killed They landed at Utapao Air Force Base on the Gulf of Siam the first of 30 to 40 of the formerly Guam-based bombers to make the new $19 million base their home US officials said Utapao will cut the base to target time from six to two hours and enable the big bombers to make as many as three missions a day instead of one The ground action included a sharp barrage of recoilless rifle shells on the US 23th Infantry Division headquarters at Cu Chi about 25 miles northwest of Saigon The predawn shelling which killed three American soldiers and wounded 20 was the second in two days Yesterday the helicopter-borne US 1st Air Cavalry Division headquarters at An Khe was hit CBU Drops in North Admitted SAIGON April 10 UH-A military spokesman today confirmed a report from the six American Quakers who delivered medical supplies to North Vietnam that US planes are dropping antipersonnel fragmentation bombs on North Vietnam The bombs called CBU for cluster bomb units are canisters which contain some 800 small bombs each the size of a fist Compressed air forces them from the canister and their damage capability has been compared with that of 800 hand grenades "Sure we used CBU in North Vietnam" the spokesman said in response to the statement issued by the Quakers in Hong Kong Put Batteries in Villages The spokesman did not comment on the Quaker reports that the bombs had been used against civilians in villages But reliable US sources have said American jets regularly drop antipersonnel bombs on North Vietnamese antiaircraft batteries even when they are in villages The sources said the North Vietnamese moved many of their batteries into villages in hopes of escaping the American bombs A decision was made to hit them despite the toll of civilians the sources said because otherwise far more jets would he shot down Used From Start In Washington a Pentagon spokesman said fragmentation can like steak apples corn-on-the-eoh Fixodext helpa you speak more clearly be more at ease The special pencil-paint diaper er lets you 1 pot fixodknt with no oozing over One application may last 'round-the-clock Even resists hot coffee Dentures that fit are essential to health Sea your dentist regularlyGet FlXODEKT today at all drug counters ficial membrane invented by chemists Thia membrane connects dentures to gums and mouth surfaces juat aa living tissue firmly binds natural teeth Now many ran eat speak and laugh with little worry of denture dropping Fixodknt elastic membrane absorbs the shock of biting and rhewing-protecta gums from bruising You bile eat Cong Terrorize Village Elections SAIGON April 10 (JI Viet Cong terror squads killed one candidate abducted two others mortared a polling place blew up two bridges in attempts to intimidate voters yesterday in the second round of balloting in South village elections But officials reported the voter turnout running higher than in the first round a week ago The voting is for members of village councils 94 Pet Vote Election officials said early returns indicated balloting in the 256 villages where elections were scheduled was slightly ahead of the 80 per cent turnout of last Sunday The 11030 voters who cast ballots in Long An Province south of Saigon were 943 per cent of those eligible The candidate was shot dead in Tap Son village in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Binh The mortar attack was against a polling place in Quang Due Province near the Cambodian border Terrorists Blamed Pham Quang one of 12 village council candidates in Truong Tinh Province on the Central Coast was kidnapped by a uniformed Viet Cong squad and Ho Vang Vi was abducted from the Mekong Delta village of My Lam Officials attributed the blowing up of two bridges on Route 4 in the Mekong Delta 70 miles southwest of Saigon to terrorists interfering with elections in the area The bridges were impassable late Sunday Starts on Pape One to insure the maximum clarification and understanding of the responsibilities of all the organizations involved" the review board report concluded "the objective being a fully co-iordinated and efficient pro- Conditions cited by the board! which contributed to the fire in- The review board emphasized eluded a scaled cabin pres- ji was castigating no one surized with 100 per cent oxy-'n said us report was not a to-pen extensive distribution pjnure of ihr $23 billion combustible materials vulner-1 drive to reach the moon this able wiring carrying spacecraft decade hut was only concerned power and vulnerable plumb- with the flaws uncovered in the ing carrying a combustible and "most complex research and corrosive coolant development program even ur Need Escape Method dertaken" The board also cited inade quate provisions for the crew to escape and inadequate provisions for rescue or medical assistance on the hunch pad Recreating the tragedy the hoard said instruments disclosed a momentary power failure at pm nine seconds before the first cry of and said an electrical arc may have been created at this time shooting sparks into combustible material beneath Grissom's couch In an interpretation of a tape recording of the Astronauts' released for the first time in the the first alert came from Grissom or 'fire!" listeners believed Grissom said Tape Garbled Two seconds later there was an unclear word such ax 'T'vr'' or believed spoken bv Chaffee The remainder of Chaffee's report is clear and reads: a fire in the cockpit" Then came a 68-srcond period of no transmission followed by a 13-second garbled tape interpreted in several ways: "They're fighting a bad fire get out Open up!" "We've got a bad fire Let's get nut We're burning up" "I'm reporting a bad fire I'm getting Seventeen seconds after the initial report communications from Apollo 1 ended The official cause of death was listed as "asphyxia due to inhalation of toxic gases due to fire" specifically carbon monoxide Burns were a "contributory cause" the board's medical panel said Death Occurred Rapidly "It may be concluded that death occurred rapidly and that unconsciousness preceded death by some increment of time" the panel added Grissom was unable to do one of his first duties in such an emergency push a handle to depressurize the cabin the hoard said because flames had engulfed the area of the handle Depressurization takes 20 seconds however and would not have saved the Astronauts even if Grissom had thrown the switch the board said Flames swept swiftly through the cabin licking up nylon netting padding and adhesive fasteners throughout the craft It burned into plumbing carrying highly combustible alcohol in Apollo I's cooling system building up heat so in- James Richard Dykes 39 of 4240 Magnolia Ave Phyllis Bright 5 Rt 1 Cor-rvton Mrs Susan Campbell 93 Rt 1 Duff Robert Ixc Campbell 43 Oliver Springs James Albert Cansler 51 Morristown Mrs Lucy Chcsney 80 Cotton-town formerly of Knoxville Mrs Minnie Dills 68 of 5103 Tcnwood Drive Mrs Gordon Douglas Sr 61 Alcoa Mrs Margaret Griffin 62 Rt 1 Concord Floyd Edwin Haun 77 Topside Rd Mrs Lena Emma Helton 68 Rt 1 Townsend Tip Hill 36 Tazewell Carson Hopkins 66 of 3240 Sutherland Ave Mrs Ethel Evelyn Stegall Hurst Morristown Francis Marion Nichols 51 Rt 1 Walland Mrs Henri Thompson Perry 4627 Martin Mill Pike John Ira Rule 80 Route 5 Sevierville Mrs Inez Sanders 2003 Fremont Place Miss Bessie Sharpe 2008 Highland Ave John Watson 79 Middlcsboro Kv Iee Smith 3509 Selma Ave Mrs Ethel Fairman Carring ton Rd Mrs Sadie Lunsford 56 Rt 1 Del Rio Mrs Annie Jones King 1125 Sevier Ave Thomas 53 of 3837 Maloney Rd 1-40 To Open Gay to Cherry Starts on Page One or the first of July according to the officials Speight To Attend Attending blockade-re moval ceremony will he Stale Highway Commissioner Charles Speight Mayor Leonard Rogers County judge Word Chamber president Earnest Rodgers other city and county officials and Don fucker chairman of the Chamber's highway committee According to Mr Nash the group will remove the barri-tense the spacecraft pressure tildrs mcr BmidvVtl lhcn seal hurst drive to Cherry St to remove New Hatch Designed the barricades there The review board said ron-j Slate Highway Department of-sideraiinn should be given tolfii ials in Nashville said today killer available Ex-Miner 102 Dies PINEVILLE Ky April 10 John Hogue who manding money They left him with another gash in his stomach after taking 16 cents worked in coal mines 59 years died in a Louisville hospital Sunday at the age of 102 He had worked in mines of Bell Harlan and Pike Counties He lived at Pinrville Friends said he had 18 children and 234 grandchildren SWARMING TERMITES? 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Call the "professional The nationwide pest prevention service MNHMHMHMimHMWMtnil CLEARANCE $095 0C- Bruce-Terminix I8QA OWNED warn no 3)(m TERMINIX By RVAAC Hr I 500 Arthur St Phone 524-2503 BARGAINS IN ALL MAKE VACUUM CLEANERS SATISFACTION SUARAUTEED REPAIR SPECIAL S450 recondition any Vacuum Cloonor moko 2001 MOAOWAV SHOTTING Cl NTH Rhyne Vacuum ATTlIANCf CO thone 522-8715 Ptf Free Hum DemwnhwHwi ptut part that if Oman Construction Co of Nashvilln docs any work on ihc project tomorrow morning' the company will have used every day allowed in its coni rai with ihn stale for completion of Ihr project I AuMwiiiS Mm Mm MOO VIC lUCHtA KMOiTON Wl HMH ANO HU All (MAXIS VACUUM ClIANIIS LET FRANKLIN PAY YOUR using an air-like atmosphere during ground tests hut made no recommendation to change present plans to use a pure oxygen atmosphere in space where the fire hazard is much less The space agency already has started building a new type of hatch that can be opened in two seconds The Apollo I crew could not have opened the hatch in less than 80 seconds The panel noted that more effort and work was required on the Apollo I spacecraft at ihc Kennedy Space Center (KSC) than on the first Gemini two man capsule Ii said this inferred the design qualification and fabrication process may not have been completed adequately prior to shipment to Witnesses appearing in the board's investigation mid rj instances of sloppy workmanship and poor management within NASA: North American Aviation Inc prime spacecraft contractor and subcontractors Discrepancies Bared The board's report said established requirements were not followed prior to certain tests noncertified equipment was In stalled in the spacecraft and discrepancies existed between North American and NASA regarding Inclusion and positioning of flammable materials "Every effort must be msde Ropoymsnt mads to us in small instalments each month dtscUL THIS JEWISH CHRISTIAN! 7:30 PM NIGHTLY NOW THRU APRIL 16th EDDIE LIEBERMAN Noted Bible Teacher and Evangelist WILL PREACH CHRIST IN STIRRING SEARCHING SERMONS Each Evening SPIRITED SPIRITUAL SINGING by Congregation and Choir Led by Johnson Music Director FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH Poster Warm-Hearted Church with Christ-Centered Ample Perking 9SOO Fifth Ave Modem Nuriery Irranbiin finance Jlirijt (orp it 4 Convonisnt Locations To Bsttsr Sorvo You.