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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, September 24, 1974
‘Day of mourning’
for Boston protesters
By JAMES R. DORSEY
BOSTON (UPI) - White
parents in the Charlestown and
West Roxbury sections of
Boston plan to send their
children to church instead of
school today in a “day of
mourning” to protest court
ordered school busing for racial
balance.
A school boycott that has
spread to many neighborhoods
entered its ninth day. There
were a few outbursts of
violence Monday.
The Charleston and West
Roxbury neighborhoods have
been virtually unaffected by
U.S. District Court Judge W.
Arthur Garrity’s June 21 order
mandating busing as a remedy
for integrating Boston’s public
school system. But parents
have called for the demonstra
tion as a gesture of sympathy
with resident of other parts of
the city.
Court-ordered desegration
and busing, which began Sept.
Natural gas shortage
possible if winter’s cold
ATLANTA (UPI)—If it’s cold
this winter, some parts of the
nation could be in for some
“verybadexperiences” because
of a shortage of natural gas
much worse than the public has
been prepared for, an oil com
pany official said Monday.
Gulf Oil Corp. President
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valuable release from anger,
aggression and distress, he
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sporadic incidents of school bus
stonings and a boycott by
whites that remains nearly 95
per cent effective in South
Boston.
The boycott of classes by
whites spread to Charlestown
High School Monday, and
disruptions were reported in the
North End on the eighth day of
court-ordered integration.
Two persons were injured
and nine others arrested in the
aftermath of an antibusing
demonstration at the
Charlestown school. Police said
the injured, both Negroes who
were treated and released at
hospitals, were hurt when a
group of whites assaulted them.
Mrs. K. Marie Clarke, an
organizer of the West Roxbury
“day of mourning,” said it was
called “in support of other
parents in every part of the
city who have had their
children reassigned and have
lost their rights.”
Z. D. Bonner issued the warn
ing to Federal Energy Admin
istration officials meeting all
this week at Georgia Tech in
one of a series of public hear
ings on “Project Indepen
dence.”
The project is the govern
ment’s plan to eventually re
duce dependency on foreign en
ergy sources.
Both Bonner and Paul E.
Reichardt, chairman and presi
ent of the Washington Gas Light
Co., blamed federal policies,
especially oil and natural gas
price fixing, for the shortage.
“The situation in natural gas
is much worse than the public
has been led to believe,” Bon
ner said. “If we have a cold
winter, we’re going to have
Attendance at South Boston
High School increased slightly
over last Friday as 40 more
whites went to school Monday.
However, black attendance
dropped by 22 for the day.
A sharper drop was reported
at Hyde Park High School,
closed Friday because of racial
fights and rock throwing
incidents. Hyde Park attend
ance decreased to 877, the
lowest figure since school
opened Sept. 12. Nearly 1,300
students attended school Thurs
day.
At least one rock was thrown
by whites at a bus filled with
blacks preparing to leave Hyde
Park High School, nearly
triggering another racial con
frontation as blacks attempted
to get off the buses and pursue
the whites. Police prevented the
black students from leaving the
buses.
Another bus was stoned as it
left the area.
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Bonner said gas not sold in
interstate commerce and thus
not subject to federal price
guidelines, costs four times as
much as that which moves be
tween states.
Reichardt said the situation is
so bad in the area of Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia and the
District of Columbia which his
company serves that the firm
has been unable to accept new
customers for 2% years.
He said major gas distribu
tion companies in 22 Eastern
states “are experiencing cur
tailment from their pipeline
suppliers because discoveries of
new gas reserves have not kept
pace with the demand for gas.”
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LONG BEACH, —Former President Richard Nixon, accompanied by security personnel
and his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, arrives at Long Beach Memorial Hospital
through the maintenance entrance for treatment for a painful ailment of his left leg. (UPI)
Honduras begging
for flamethrowers
By J. PAUL WYATT
SAN PEDRO SULA, Hon
duras (UPI) — Honduras
begged the United States today
for flamethrowers to cremate
the rotting bodies of Hurricane
Fifi victims and massive aid to
save the lives of hundreds of
thousands of refugees.
Starving dogs tore at the
carcasses of flood victims and
vultures clawed at the carrion
flesh. Gangs of looters and
swarms of snakes preyed on
helpeless survivors.
Rescue workers kept on
recovering bodies buried in
mud and debris five days after
Fifi howled through the 80-mile
long, 45-mile-wide Sula Valley
in northern Honduras.
At hard-hit Choloma, 12 miles
from San Pedro Sula, rescuers
used gas masks to guard
against stench and disease
while digging corpses out of the
mud.
“I’ve received requests from
the government for flame
throwers to cremate the bodies
found out in the open,” U.S.
Ambassador Phillip Sanchez
said.
He said American helicopters
are plucking survivors from
rooftops and taking them to
higher ground. “Now we’re
going to help distribute food
and water, medicine and
clothing,” he said.
The government put the
death toll at between 7,000 and
8,000, but the Honduran ambas
sador in Mexico City said, “Ten
War deserters
plan campaign
TORONTO (UPI) — Ameri
can war exiles say they will
launch a worldwide campaign
this > month to show their
rejection of President Ford’s
conditional amnesty plan and to
press for an unconditional
amnesty.
Spokesmen for the exiles said
Ford’s plan covers only a
minority of exiles and overlooks
hundreds of thousands who are
either living underground or
handicapped by a less-than
honorable discharge.
The exiles, who held an
international conference here
this weekend, were joined
Monday in their call for a
boycott by the New York-based
National Council for Universal
and Unconditional Amnesty.
President Ford’s proposed
plan offers conditional amnesty
in exchange for up to two years
of public service and an oath of
allegiance to the United States.
NCUUA said the plan was “a
series of treacherous traps
which will spring on those who
•give themselves up, even if the
'first few are treated lightly.”
NCUUA and various groups
representing the exiles have
mapped plans for demonstra
tions and speaking tours in the
United States to publicize their
case against Ford’s plan and to
(press for unconditional amnes
ty.
They plan also to arrange
small gatherings, involving
amilies of war resisters, both
GROWING YOUNGER
RICHMOND, Va. (UPI) -
he average population of
irginia is younger than that of
ie nation, with a higher
i oportion between the ages of
1 and 44. The growth resulted
I am a heavy immigration of
jlung people that began in
thousand deaths would be a
conservative estimate.”
Col. Eduardo Andino, deputy
director of the National Emer
gency Committee, said 500,000
persons are believed homeless,
40,000 of them still “without
food or water, isolated by
floodwaters and still awaiting
rescue.”
In the capital of Tegucigalpa,
Deputy Health Minister Rigo
berto Alvarado said the govern
ment has ordered all bodies
burned. Troops were told to
“kill all animals eating flesh,
including domestic animals,
mostly dogs.”
“We are sure we’re going to
have problems with epide
mics,” Alvarado said. “We are
waiting for them.”
Looting was reported in
several communities. San
Pedro Sula Mayor Henry Holst
said, “The soldiers are spread
thin and we are trying to
organize a civilian guard.”
in exile and in the United States.
A “week of concern" will be
held Sept. 29-Oct. 6 with
demonstrations in front of
American consulates in Canada
and in Europe Oct. 5.
There are about 28,000 war
resisters in exile from the
United States, most of them
living in Canada or Sweden.
Talmadge
seeks higher
price supports
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., told
the U.S. Senate Monday gov
ernment support prices must be
raised for wheat, com and cot
ton because of skyrocketing
costs of farm production.
Talmadge, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Agricul
ture and Forestry, said the 1973
farm law provides farmers “on
ly minimum income protection”
and must be reevaluated.
“Our farmers cannot be ask
ed to produce enough to meet
our own needs and to feed
starving millions around the
globe unless they have some
measure of price and income
protection.”
While applauding President
Ford’s promise to the United
Nations that the United States
will increase food production to
assist needy countries, Tal
madge said the country cannot
expect its own farmers to oper
ate at a loss.
He said his committee will
hold hearings on legislation to
raise support prices, provide
cost of production increases and
improve loan programs when it
meets in January.
Talmadge said a review alsc
is needed for milk support pric
es.
People
‘U.S. needs Arabs’
CHICAGO (UPI) — Sen. Charles Percy, R-111., thinks
the United States should tell the Arab oil-producing
nations they need us as much as we need them.
“The U.S. may have much more leverage than we have
elected to use with the most important oil-producing na
tions,” Percy said Monday. “They are profoundly con
cerned about the threat of international communism. <<
They must therefore rely in many ways on the U.S. for an f
enduring sanctuary from the larger forces surrounding
them.”
Percy said the Ford administration “should launch an |
intensive, unrelenting diplomatic effort to concert the
interests of the Western oil-dependent nations.”
Americans nervous
HOUSTON (UPI) — Pollster George Gallup says
Americans may be nervous about the economy, but they
haven’t lost their faith in the American system.
“They are certainly apprehensive about the future —
certainly about the economy,” Gallup said Monday. “But
they have not lost faith with the American system.”
Wants ban lifted
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Jr., I-Va., |
would like to see the United States lift restrictions on trade
with Cuba —but only on two conditions.
If Cuba compensates U.S. citizens for consfiscated
property and allows U.S. reporters free access to the
island, Bryd said Monday, “the lifting of restrictions
against Cuba could well be justified and might prove
beneficial.”
He added that not much could be gained by a continued 1
boycott of Cuba because there is “little likelihood” that a
free Cuba will replace the “firmly entrenched” Castro
government.
Plans Canada visit
OTTAWA (UPI) — Australian Prime Minister Gough
Whitlam will pay an informal visit to Canada October 4
and 5, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced
Monday.
“The visit provides a timely opportunity for the two
commonwealth prime ministers to meet and exchange g
views and ideas on current topics of mutual interest,
continuing the dialogue that has taken place between $
them on other occasions in the past,” the statement said.
Whitlam was in New York last week attending sessions
at the United Nations and he met later with President
Ford.
Woman changes mind
LONDON (UPI) - Strapped
in the seat of a British Airways
jetliner preparing to take off
and carry her family to a new
life in Australia, the gnawing
doubts became too much for
Christine Beale.
“I’ve made up my mind,”
she said. “I definitely don’t
want to go.”
A startled stewardess dashed
forward. The plane was held
up. Passengers gave Mrs.
Beale cold stares. Ground
crewmen were summoned to
retrieve her luggage.
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Mrs. Beale, the four children
and husband Roger, with $2,930
worth of airline tickets in hand,
trooped off the plane.
The Beales, who had sold
their home in Stafford and were
headed for the sunshine of
Brisbane, were somewhere on
the gale-lashed coast of North
Wales Monday night thinking
the whole idea over.
Their travel agent said the
Beales returned the tickets but
asked for another plane reser
vation a week from now.