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THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES VOL. 38, NO. 16 RACINE, WISCONSIN, SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1970 74 6 CENTS -Journal-Times Photo by Charles S. Vallone MISS CARYN CONNOLLY chosen as 1970's Miss Racine Bamboo Army Plant Ripped by Two Blasts Report Small Building Destroyed; No Injuries BARABOO, Wis. (AP) An Army ordnance plant was shaken Saturday night by an explosion.

Authorities said the cause was not immediately Spokesmen for the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, also known as the Badger Ordnance Works, said a small building was destroyed by an explosion and fire, but that no one was injured. Heard 30 Miles Sauk County authorities said the fire was quickly extinguished. The building evidently was unoccupied at the time, they said. Rural residents said a pair of blasts was heard for up to 30 miles. Burt Murphy of Baraboo, who lives about five miles from the plant, said: "There were two blasts.

The whole sky lit up, died down and then lit up again. It lighted up the whole inside of the living room." The fire occurred as police in Madison 30 miles to the southeast were breaking up street demonstrations by Vietnam pro- Miss Connolly Wins Pageant BY LINDA WINKLEMAN Journal-Times Staff Racine said "Hello" to new royalty Saturday Caryn Connolly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Connolly, 4203 Taft Road, Kenosha. The Marquette University sophomore was crowned 1970 Miss Racine at the Jaycee's annual pageant to the tune of "Hello My Baby," the pageant theme, before a capacity crowd at St.

Catherine's High School Auditorium. Wins Runnerup Wearing the crown given up by 1969 Miss Racine, Miss Karen Fitzgerald, the new "fairest lady" will represent Racine at the Miss Wisconsin Pageant June 24-27 in Oshkosh. From there the winner goes to Atlantic City in September. First runnerup was Linda Chambers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Geogre Singleton, 2200 Center while Kathy Petersen, daughter of Mrs. Henry Petersen, 1803 N. Fancher Road, and (Turn to Page 6A, Col. 1) testers. Madison and the ordnance plant were linked earlier this year by a series of fire bomb threats.

In January, the FBI had said it was investigating what may have been an attempt to bomb the ammunition warehouse and plant New Year's Day. Couldn 't Tell Findings Two Badger employes had discovered broken jars that con tained white powder. FBI inves tigator Edward J. Hayes has said he couldn't "reveal what was actually found," but re marked "they may be considered to be devices." A student newspaper in Madison, where several firebombs were set off during the holiday period, said it received anonymous telephone calls from antiwar elements taking credit for the Baraboo incident. The callers, the paper said, related other bomb efforts would be made in the spring.

A number of buildings with military association, including the University of Wisconsin Arm ory and campus ROTC offices, were damaged by firebombs during the holiday period. Photo by Arthur P. Haas Miss Karen Fitzgerald, who a year ago was crowned Miss Racine, was at the microphone at the St. Catherine's High School Auditorium Saturday. The pageant program led to the selection and crowning of.

the new Miss Racine for 1970, Miss Caryn Connolly. WORKERS FIND FOSSILS JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (AP) Bones of several prehistoric animals have been unearthed in Glyrtn County during construction on Interstate 95. Included were remains of a giant and baby sloth, a mammoth sea turtle, an ice age horse and a whale. Fhoto bv Charles S.

Vallone SHIPS ARE RETIRED stood at attention Saturday for the official retirement of three ships at the Kenosha Yacht Club. The three ships, the I JSS Havre, the USS Ely and the USS Portage, have been on Lake Michigan for 17 years. (Story on Page 6A). Nixon Gives Crew Medal of Freedom Asks Soviets Clarify Geneva Idea HONOLULU (AP) The American space pilots who spent four perilous days feeling so far away from earth returned to the arms of their families Saturday and a heroes' welcome from their President. Nixon Beamed Marilyn Lovell met her astronaut-husband on the steps of the plane that brought the three men from Pago Pago and rushed to his arms.

Mary Haise, seven months pregnant embraced her husband too. And bachelor Jack L. Swigert hugged his mother and father. NEW YORK (AP) Secretary of State William P. Rogers announced Saturday that he was asking the Soviet Union to clarify its position on the idea of a new Geneva conference to restore peace to Southeast Asia.

He said he had instructed the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Charles W. Yost, "to seek whatever clarification and explanation the Soviet Union is prepared to offer" of a remark by the Soviet ambassador, to the United Nations, Jacob A. Malik, on the possibility of such a conference. Malik had said that "only a new Geneva conference could bring about a correct solution What's Where Business News Page 2C Classified Ads Page 6C Editorial Page 10A Local News Page 6A Sports Page IB Television-Radio 9B Theater Page 10B Women's News Page ID land a relaxation of tension in 'the Indochina Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Spoke to Alumni Rogers made his announcement in a speech for the Cornell Alumni Association meeting at the New York Hilton Hotel. He said that in the talks with the Soviet Union on strategic arms limitation, which started in Vienna Thursday, "the United States stands ready to negotiate, in the most comprehensive manner, looking toward an agreement on all offensive and defensive weapons" that will be "equitable and verifiable." But he said the United States jwas continuing construction of i its Safeguard antimissile sys- item because "the United States I has no intention of weakening jour relative strategic capabilities while the discussions are taking place, on the assumption that there will be an early success at Vienna." Threatened Building He recalled that, in a speech last Tuesday, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev sad threatened a Soviet arms buildup if necessary to prevent any other country from achieving military superiority. "This statement should remind us," "Rogers said, "that discussion plus serious purpose does not equal agreement and that the Soviet Union does not intend to curb its strategic weapons program on the assumption that there will be early agreement." Rogers said the Nixon administration's policy was still to avoid a wider war in Southeast Asia and lengthier U.S. involvement there despite "the sharply increased fighting in Laos and the possibility of overt warfare in Cambodia." "Can't Be Indifferent" "It is true, of course, that we cannot be indifferent to the military pressures by North Vietnam on the independence and ineutrality of Laos and Cambodia," he The 1954 Geneva conference of the United States and eight jother parties ended fighting in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

The 1962 Geneva conference of the United States and 13 other countries called for the neutrali- Everyone was smiling and the President beamed at the scene. The plane carrying the astronauts, James A. Lovell Fred W. Haise Jr. and Swigert landed only moments after Air Force One bearing the President and their families.

Some 2,500 spectators gathered at sunny Honolulu International Airport to welcome them all. "I hereby declare that this was a successful mission," the President said. "I think I can truthfully say that never before in the history zation of Laos. Worth Your While Perhaps the most deadly and least controllable of all of nature's destructive forces are earthquakes. Story on Page 1-C Kremlin attitudes may hurt Ihe progress of the Arms Limitation Talks in Vienna.

See AP News Aria-lysis on Page 8-C Throwaways vs. Would you be willing to help reduce the mounting solid waste disposal problem by buying beer and soft drinks in returnable bottles or degradable containers only? That question was asked of Journal-Times readers in a questionnaire. A total of 309 responses were received at last counting, with 307 of them answering "yes." Adults aren't the only concerned persons. Nancy Cherkinian, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ardis A. Cherkinian, 1824 Mars headed a committee at Washington Junior High School which gathered 237 more names on a list there. She is a member of the "Committee Against Pollution" in Mrs. Mildred McMillen's seventh graded unified class. The list she gathered included names of teachers and i students who signed a statement saying: "We, the undersigned, wish to be counted as those willing to make any effort necessary toward anti-pollution, including the willingness to buy soft drinks in returnable bottles if this will help the cause." The class letter to the Journal-Times said: "The students teachers who have signed here are expressing their i desire to do anything possible to stop the mounting sales of non-returnable bottles and non-degradable containers which are contributing to the ever increasing problem of waste disposal in our country and community." Some of the comments of the more than 300 others who answered the questionnaire can be found today on Page 11A.

of man have more people watched together, prayed together or rejoiced together," he said. The Individual I In a crowd well laced with children and military the astronauts in their blue; flight suits and caps heard the. President say it was "the individual that counts, that in the cri-j sis the character of a man or! men will make the The three astronauts at attention to his left, the Pres-; ident said, "This safe return a triumph of the human spirit, the special qualities a man can rely rely on all those things that machines cannot do." He turned and hung the nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, around the necks of each of them. Lost His Because of Job Wife Took WASHINGTON (AP) Wil: ham Woestendiek has lost his job as editor of television news program because his wife, Kay, accepted a position as press secretary to Martha Mitchell, the outspoken wife of Atty. Gen.

John N. Mitchell. William J. McCarter, general manager of WETA, a public broadcasting station, said Friday night that Woestendiek was being "relieved of his active duties" as a direct result of his wife's new job. "We have great respect for i Mr.

Woestendiek," McCarter said, "but this station's action was necessary to avoid any possible charge of bias or influence which might affect the program. i Woestendiek said he was told by the station's management to 'tell your wife to quit or High Voltage Lines Snag State Chutist MILWAUKEE (AP) A Milwaukee sky diver, Raymond McHone, 57, became entangled in high voltage power lines near suburban Menomonee Falls Saturday. His auxiliary after the main chute failed to in the lines and left McHone dangling about 100 feet in the air. It took nearly two hours for firemen, deputy sheriffs and electric company crewmen to rescue him. Racine Area WEATHER Occasional showers and thundershowers.

Windy and warmer today. High today in low 50s. Cooler near Lake Michigan. Showers ending tonight with low near 40. Monday partly sunny, little change in temperature.

Southeast winds 15-30 m.p.h. today. Precipitation probabilities: 90 per cent 4oday, 40 per cent tonight. ELSEWHERE IN STATE Cloudy, windy and warmer with occasional showers and thunderstorms likely today. Partly cloudy, chance of some 6howers north portion, turning cooler west portion tonight..