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AL-TIMES ACME JOTOK rTmru TCP mil II I 1 -t U) .111 14 PAGES 10 CENTS Dial 634-3322 VOL115, NO. 121 RACINE, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 22, 1971 Associated Press if UODM Dim tiiaturn. itsum, AP Wlrephotos Son 'Netted' William Brandom, top, Clay' County (Mo.) prosecuting attorney, organized and led a series of drug raids. One of the 50 persons arrested and charged with possession of narcotics turned out to be Brandom's son, William, 18, bottom photo. The raids took place in five Missouri counties.

J5Wr 5 I yr I 'I I i '5 til' i SAIGON (AP) North Vietnamese gunners unleashed new rocket barrages against U.S. bases along the demilitarized zone tonight after three earlier attacks in the northern quarter that killed 30 Americans and wounded another 50. SAIGON (AP) Thirty Americans were killed and 50 were wounded in three shelling attacks in the northern quarter of South Vietnam. Most of the casualties resulted when a 100-pound rocket pierced a heavily fortified bunker crowded with GIs. The rocket, carrying a delayed fuse, ripped through six feet of protective cover into the bunker, which was being used as a club at a base called Charlie 2, four miles south of the demilitarized zone.

A number of men had gathered in the bunker to drink beer and soft drinks, and other soldiers who had been eating at a nearby mess hall jammed in for refuge after the attack began at dusk Friday. Charlie 2 came under mortar attack today but there were no further casualties. "We all raced for the bunker," recalled Pfc. Newton, of Hawesville, who said he was standing in line to eat when the first two rockets came in. Blinding Light "I was standing by the door when the rocket came through the roof of the bunker.

I saw blinding light and heard a ringing sensation," Newton said. The force of the blast tossed him out the door. He was shaken but unhurt. One U.S. officer called the rocket hit a "one in a million shot." The U.S.

death toll Friday DTI j4 Rose Is a Rose Is tending the convention. The floral display required 30 separate arrangements and about 40 hours of work to prepare, according to Lee Bolton, above, of 252 Merlburr Lane. Bolton provided the arrangement of yellow roses for the convention. Journal-Times Photo by Chuck D'Acquisto One thousand roses plus one made up a centerpiece at the convention of the Wisconsin; United Commercial Travelers today at Memorial Hall. One rose the will be given to the incoming grand counselor of the fraternal organization, and the remaining roses will be distributed to the women at was the highest for a single day in nearly, two months and exceeded American battlefield fatalities for all of last week when the U.S.

Command said 24 Americans were killed. North Vietnamese troops have stepped up their rocket attacks against U.S. bases along the DMZ the past three days, but most of them have been small and have wounded only a handful of men. Charlie 2 has been shelled three times, and there have been at least two other rocket attacks since Wednesday. Another Planned Attack? Six hours before the attack on Charlie 2, U.S.

force9 apparently stopped another planned rocket attack on other American positions six miles to the north. They killed seyen enemy and captured two 122mm rocket launchers and 16 shells, but lost two OH58 observation helicopters shot down during the fighting. The only U.S. casualties reported were three wounded crewmen aboard one of the helicopters. Enemy gunners fired 60 rounds of mortar shells into firebase Brick, a base manned by troops of the 101st Airborne Division 17 miles southeast of Hue.

The North Vietnamese also slammed 20 mortars into the night bivouac of the 196th Brigade, 18 miles southwest of Da Nang. These two attacks caused only light casualties. Also in the northern sector, fighting was reported for the third consecutive day on the eastern and northern edges of the A Shau valley. With the help of air and artillery strikes, South Vietnamese forces claimed killing 45 North Vietnamese troops Friday, destroying 50 storage huts and capturing a quantity of munitions. Police Slain in Attack 2 W.Y.

NEW YORK (AP) Two patrolmen were shot from ambush and killed Friday night in the third armed attack on city policemen in three days. Two officers were wounded Wednesday night by automatic gunfire from an erratically driven car, and two others escaped injury Thursday night after being confronted by a man whose .38 caliber weapon misfired. The head of the policemen's union, Edward J. Kiernan, Joint Finance Unit OK's Budget; Less Than Lucey Had Requested Last Major Saw log Drive Ends, and with It a Bit of Americana governrnent will again meet the guns of the oppressed Third World peoples." Policemen's Color One patrolman slain Friday was black, the other white. The two patrolmen wounded Wednesday are white, and the two attacked Thursday are white.

The man charged with attempted murder in the Thursday night attack is black. Murphy noted that policemen are permitted to carry only certain types of firearms and renewed his appeal for tougher gun control legislation. The deaths of Jones, 34, and Piagentini, 28, both five year men on the force, brought to seven the number of policemen killed In the line of duty this year. In all of 1970, seven were killed. Jones had three children and Piagentini two.

A Housing Authority policeman stood in the vicinity of the shooting scene sobbing: "I do'nt know why they did it. They did it for nothing." What Notes Said The notes, dated Wednesday, May 19, read in part: "Enclosed you will find the reason these fascists were gunned down. Just say they have gunned down so many niggers in the furtherance of racist rule. Our people must know why The armed goons of this racist government will again meet the guns of oppressed Third World peoples as long as they occupy our community and murder our and sisters in the name of American law and order said after the Friday attack that officers should buy shotguns, carry them in patrol cars and shoot to kill if the need for arms arose. Killed from Behind Police Commissioner Patrick W.

Murphy said the two slain patrolmen, Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini, were "gunned down from behind" as they left a Harlem apartment building after calling on a sick person. "This was an organized at- Republicans, who had increased sales taxes in 1969, tried unsuccessfully to block the committee's budget outline. It was adopted 9-5 on a partyline vote, and is to be submitted to the Assembly by June 7. The new fiscal bienni-um begins July 1. Tells of Predictions "There were predictions we would have to add $25 million to $40 million" to Lucey's budget plan, Rep.

Dennis Conta, Milwaukee, remarked about the committee's work. Instead, the panel's proposal is somewhat smaller than Lucey's $1,983,000,000 package. It contains $177 million in new tax revenue, including $95 million from personal income with persons in higher income brackets facing the heayiest bites. -Republican Sen. Jack Stein-hilber of Oshkosh complained the Democrats' tax plans Piagentini Jones tempt," Murphy said, "deliberate, unprovoked and maniacal.

No citizen in New York is would "damage industrial growth." Eliminate Jobs The committee voted 9-5 to eliminate 27 public relations jobs from Lucey's recommendations, including 13 from the University of Wisconsin publicity staff and five from Oshkosh State University. The committee also approved $1 million in assistance for low-income housing, which Lucey had recommended a few hours earlier. Rep. Carl Otte, a Sheboygan. Democrat, calculated the committee's spending package is about $595,000 less Lucey's budget.

The Democratic governor's recommendation contains about $42.6 million as a reserve for programs not specified in the budget. Trouble in Senate? Democratic members of the committee predicted the program will get a warm recep LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) A small piece of northwoods Americana has passed Into history with the end of the last major Whitewater sawlog drive In the nation. Sawlogs choked the Lewiston mill ponds of Potlatch Forests, as the final drive ended Friday. From now on ths big "sticks" will be brought In by truck and rail. Every spring since 1929, nimble-footed loggers have guided floating masses of sawlogs down the turbulent Clearwater River and its North Fork in Northern Idaho.

Future Lake But the huge lake which will be formed behind Dworshak Dam, now nearlng comple tion, will close the upper 53 miles of the Clearwater to river drives. The final drive was the culmination of almost nine months of work, starting with the whine of a chain saw. In late April and early May, 51 million board feet of logs were dumped into the Clearwater to start their 90-mile Journey to the mill. With them wen a "rearing" crew, metr trained to keep the logs moving while the river was high; to break up jams. The crew ranged from 30 to 34 men.

The rearing crews' main tool is the peavy, a pike pole used to guide logs through the foaming current of the river and to untangle logs when they jam up. It's dangerous work. Men have died. This year's drive took 21 days. The average is 30 days.

The longest was 80 days In 1950, and the shortest was 5 In 1938, when the Clearwater went into full flood. Through the first 41 miles of tlie drive, home to the rearing crew was a three-sectioned raft called a wanlgan, containing two bunk houses and a cook house. On the lower end of the drive, the men, most of them year-around employes of Pot-latch, spent the night at their homes In the Lewiston area and commuted by car to the "sticks" each day. "The men took to wanting to stay home, rather than at camp," cook Harvey Spears said as the last big drive was completed. "The lumberjack of today is a family man." Latest safe while these madmen are loose." The shootings occurred less than three hours after packets containing license plates with a number linked to the Wednesday shooting were delivered to a Harlem radio station, WLIB, and to The New York Times.

In addition to a license plate, each packet contained a .45 caliber cartridge and a note saying in part: "The armed goons of this racist tion from the Assembly, which their party controls 65-34. Republicans, however, control the Senate, and have been tuning up to challenge some of the Lucey fiscal policies. Some GOP leaders have declared they can propose a budget lacking any tax increases, a campaign offer made by Republican Lt. Gov. Jack Olson last year when he was soundly beaten by Lucey in the gubernatorial election.

It seems likely that conflicting legislative budget plans will wind up eventually In a Senate Assembly conference committee. iiiimiiiiiiiiimiimmiiimiiimiiiii French and British leaders could face some strong opposition to their agreement on entry of Britain into the European Common Marked See Story on Page 2. ilimiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiliilliimiliiiiil Death Isn't. Easy -( i TmmtilsjrsMir. ksmmstiyM fc unit MADISON, Wis.

(AP) The legislature's Joint Finance Committee has produced a proposed state budget for the 1971-73, fiscal biehnium containing even less spending than had emerged from Gov. Patrick J. Lucey's austerity campaign. The influential Democratic-controlled panel concluded its work Friday, having trimmed some of Lucey's programs but virtually preserving his tax recommendations especially the tax-increase emphasis on personal and corporate income rather than on sales taxes. Oil Firm Sues Ann-Margret FORT WORTH, Tex.

(AP) The Shenandoah Oil Corp. has filed suit against actress Ann-Margret, claiming she owes the company $79,434.45. The suit, filed in District Court, asks that the actress be made to sell 7,738 shares of stock in the company in order to satisfy the debt. Shenandoah contends the actress, began acquiring the debt under an agreement whereby she paid part of the expenses of oil and gas drillings in return for interests In the well, if they became producers. MILWAUKEE MAN SLAIN Leonard Douyette, 42, was stabbed to death early today with a butcher knife, authorities said.

An 18-year-old youth was being held In connectm with the incident. What's Where Classified Ads Page 11 Local News Obituaries Page 11 Sports Page I Women's News Pag Features Ann Landers 3 Bridge Page 5 Comics 8 Crossword Page 8 Entertainment Page 9 Horoscope TelevJsion-Radi i i -v 1 Science Can Be a Bridge to Red China, Says Rogers WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State William P. Rogers says science would be a useful bridge of diplomacy between the United States and mainland China. He said at a science awards luncheon Friday the Nixon administration Is prepared to exchange nonsecret scientific and technical information with any nation, "regardless of the state of ourjljplomjt Arabian Monarch to Visit Washington WASHINGTON (AP) The White House says Saudi Arabia's King Feisal has accepted an Invitation from President Nixon to visit Washington next week. The Middle East monarch will be In Washington next Thursday, Friday and Satur- day.

Racine Area WEATHER Cloudy and a little warmer this afternoon and tonight with occasional showers or thund-ershowers tonight and Sunday. Low tonight In the mld-40s, High Sunday In the low 60s. Winds from the east to southeast at 10 to 20 m.p.h. tonight and Sunday. Precipitation probabilities: 60 per cent tonight, 70 per cent Sunday.

ELSEWHERE IN STATE Rogers added he would personally take a hand in process- Ing applications of any Chinese scientists wishing to visit the United "A Useful Step" "The exchange of unclassified, nonsecret scientific and technical Information on the widest possible basis would be a useful step toward the building of more cooperative relationships with mainland China," Rogers said. "If the People's Republic of China, or any other country, is interested in unclassified scientific exchanges, we are prepared to enter into appropriate arrangements with them." Expressing pleasure with China's recent issuance of visas to American newsmen and a few scientists, he said, "We look forward to any opportunity to reciprocate." No Applications Yet Thus far, however, we have not received any applications for visas from citizens of the People's Republic of China," he 1 Some American scientists and scientific organizations have invited Chinese scientists to attend meetings and conferences in the United States, he said. "I can assure you that, in the event these invitations are accepted and visa applications filed, I will take personal and sympathetic interest in the speedy processing of their applications." A bridge doesn't die easily, and the 95-year-old span crossing the Root River between Western Publishing Co. and the I. I.

Case Co. Is proof. It was nearly a year ago that the it is gone, however, removed by torches and cranes and leaving only (he old wood pilings which supported it. The bridge, which for 40-years was able lo swing around lo allow boat passage, developed a bad case of mechanical Cloudy and warmer with showers likely tonight and Sunday. Lows 44 to 52 tonight.

High Sunday mostly In the 60s, rising Into the low 70s In the southwest Thr jun ros. ind will ar pan. i i last train crossed the Milwaukee Road span, but the beam-by-beam dismantling of the arthritis in 1934 and was never opened again. structure is a slow process. More than half of joumi 1 TimM piou by ciiriM s.

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