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JOURNAL HIGHLIGHT Three-Year-Old West Stockholm Boy Dies After Fall. VOL. 26-NO. 3383 Daily Entered As Second Class Matter Post Office Ogdensburg, N.Y. OGDENSBURG, N.Y. FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1971 Republican Established 1830 s Journal Established 1858 SINGLE COPY 15 cents Secret Vietnam Story High Court Ponders Appeals By Both Sides AT ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DINNER - Hockey was the main topic of conversation during the Ogdensburg Rotary Club's In- ternational Ladies Night last night at the Gran-View. Philip Myre, Montreal Canadien goaltender was the guest speaker. Myre was obtained by A.J. Missert, distributor of Molson's Canadian beer and ale. From left to right; Francis Fitzgerald, office manager, A.J. Missert; John Missert, president of A.J. Missert; Warren Rain, Molson's representative of Schenectady; James Crawford, Molson's Export sales manager of Montreal, Que., Philip Myre; Msgr-. Joseph G. Bailey, co-chairman of International Ladies Night; William J. Wood, president of the Rotary Club; Dr. Foster S. Brown, Frank Bateman, John W. Winthrop, members of the Rotary Club. (Staff Photo) Johnson Memoirs Support Many Findings In Secret Papers; Pursued JFK's Viet Policy The Supreme Court considered today appeals by the government and The New York Times that it step into the conflict over a series of articles on the secret Pentagon history of the Vietnam war. Immediately ahead loomed a 6 p.m. deadline. Unless the justices act before then The Washington Post will be able to publish what it wants. But The Times will be free to resume publication in Saturday editions only of material the Justice Department considers safe for public consumption. Unlike The Post, The Times will be barred from using any of the items in the 47-volume war study the Justice Depart- ment feels should be kept secret in the interest of national security. The Times told the court in a petition Thursday that the restraint, imposed by the U.S. Circuit Court in New York City, \imposes an insupportable burden on a free press.\ The Justice Department, meanwhile, labored to ^ block The Post from resuming its series of reports on the study. Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold argued in an application for a stay that publication would damage national security and the conduct of for- eign relations beyond repair. The Post would be free to publish what it wishes by virtue of a ruling by the tf.S. circuit court for the District of Colum- bia. Griswold said The Post should be prevented at least temporarily from using the items listed in a \special ap- pendix\ filed by government attorneys last Monday in the New York court, as well as additional items the Justice De- partment might add today. Until the two newspaper cases reached their chambers, the justices were planning to recess on Monday until October. They were putting the finishing touches on a half-dozen pending decisions and considering scores - of pilectup appeals. Whether these plans will be in- terrupted is uncertain. But since the two circuit courts have reached conflicting conclusions, questions about national security and press freedom have been raised, the high court almost is com- pelled to act. A hearing next Monday or Tuesday is possible. Lawyers for The Times asked for one \at the earliest practical date.\ They said \the case on its face presents urgent issues of over-riding public im- portance which should be promptly decided by this court.\ GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - Lyndon B. Johnson's still unpublished White House memoirs acknowledge that his administration was privately preparing in early. 1964 for large scale American military involvement in Vietnam, long before the depth of the U.S. com- mittment was known to the public, according to a story published today by Newsday, the Long Island newspaper. The memoirs, to be published on November, support many of the findings of the classified Pentagon study of the war's origins which the government has been fighting to keep secret, Newsday said. The former president's book, now largely in galley'lorn,-at the New York publishing firm of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, is entitled, \The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency.\ Newsday said it obtained information about the material from a publishing industry source. It gave this account: Johnson depicts himself in the book as having been hesitant for several months over approving military advisers' recommendations for bombing raids against North Vietnam. But in February of 1965, he writes, he told aides that he was approving the bombing. \'We have kept our gun over the mantle and pur shells in the cupboard for a long time now,' I said. 'And what was the result? They are killing our men while they sleep in the night. I can't ask American soldiers out there to continue to fight with one hand tied behind their backs.'\ In the book, Johnson says that he first Heavy Fighting Rages Around AJbandLonecl Base SAIGON (AP) — Heavy Sghting raged today around abandoned Fire Base Fuller and U.S. B52 bombers struck twice in support of South Viet-, namese infantrymen hunting enemy mortar crews in the hills below the demilitarized zone. A military spokesmen, Lt. Col. Le Trung Hien, reported \large sporadic contacts\ around Fuller but said he had no details. \We have sent reinforcements to the area,\ he said. \The important thing now is to find and destroy the enemy mortar positions around Fuller. Then a decision will be made whether to reoccupy the base.\ Informants in the field reported that the North Vietnamese who overran the base four miles south of the DMZ Wednesday night withdrew from Fuller and took along the American electronic equipment that had been left there. Associated Press correspondent Michael Putzel flew over the hilltop base in a helicopter today and confirmed that it was deserted. The U.S. Command maintained that it did not know how many American ad- visers and electronic technicians had been at Fuller when it was overrun. But field reports indicated about eight Americans managed to escape to a rear headquarters Thursday. The Command reported another B52 strike was flown south of Fire Base Sarge, which is six miles southwest of Fuller. Heavy fighting has also been reported there. Putzel said the South Vietnamese were still holding the base although U.S. Chinook helicopters pulled its artillery pieces out Thursday after Fuller fell, apparently as a precaution. decided to pursue President Kennedy's policy of defending South Vietnam soverignty while flying back to Washington only a few hours after Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. In the highlights of his chapters on Vietnam, portraying more than five years of growing U.S. involvement, Johnson says: On March 17, 1964 he aj>proved a recommendation by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara that U.S. forces should be prepared for a \program of graduated military pressure against the North.\ During the' 1964 presidential cam- paign, Robert F. Kennedy volunteered to go to South Vietnam as the U.S. ambassador. During the same campaign, all that he meant by his often quoted statement that he would not send U.S. troops \to do the fighting that Asian boys should do for themselves\ was that America should not \take charge\ of the war or provoke a conflict with China. \I did not mean that we were not going to do any fighting, for we had already lost many good men in Vietnam.\ In September 1964, Johnson approved a contingency plan for bombing recommended by the military to be implemented if Communist forces made\ a \spectacular\ attack in the South. But he then waited until Feb. 7,1965, to start bombing, twice rejecting military ad- vice from advisers to begin earlier. On Feb. 17, 1965, Johnson met with former President Eisenhower and was urged to mount a \campaign of pressure\ against the North. About three weeks after the first major battle involving American ground troops in a campaign in June 1965, Johnson authorized a 25,000-man troop increase to 75,000. He writes: \I was convinced that our retreat from this challenge would open the path to World War III.\ At the 1967 Glassboro, N.J.., summit conference, Soviet Premier Kosygin told Johnson that if the United States stopped bombing, peace negotiations would start, but no mutually agreeable terms for pursuing that peace feeler could be reached. Johnson prefaces his chronology of the Vietnam decisions by saving: \I have not written these chapters to say 'This is how it was\but to say, 'This is how I saw it from my vantage point.'\ In 1964, while taking the steps that led to an extensive U.S. military effort in Vietnam, Johnson writes: \I had mo- ments of deep discouragement, times when I felt the South Vietnamese were their own worst enemies. The South Vietnamese seemed to have a strong impulse toward political suicide.\ CBS Head Is Chided By House Committee Senate OK's Draft Extension WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has voted to extend the draft two more years, sweeten soldiers' pay $2.7 billion and chart a Indochina withdrawal plan disowned in advance by the White House- But after seven weeks of debate the Senate's 71 to 16 approval Thursday of the draft extension bill may well be too late for Congress to finish final action before the present Selective Service Act expires next Wednesday midnight. Some senators threaten a filibuster if a HouserSenate conference kills or weakeni an end the-war amendment added by Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield. The Mansfield amendment calls for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops over nine months if all U.S. prisoners of war are released. It is likely to receive a cool reception both in conference and on the House floor. House antiwar forcesi never have mustered more than 158 congressmen to vote for any Vietnam. withdrawal amendment. The conference has more than a dozen differences to reconcile between the House and Senate versions of the bill. One of the most important as an amendment by Sen. Gordon Allott, R- Colo., which raised the military pay boost to the same level approved by the House, but spread most of it among lower ranks. Some senators had hoped to kill the draft outright as a means of forcing the military to adopt the all-volunteer ar- med force concept now. The Nixon administration hopes the increased pay can prepare for an all- volunteer force after Jane 30, 1973. It says the draft will be needed until it is proven better pay and conditions really can attract suitable volunteers. The Senate bill does limit the number of men who can be drafted to 130,000 the first year and 140,000 the second. The Defense Department has indicated considerably less than those numbers will be required, unless there is a national emergency. Among other major Senate added provisions: —Cut 100,000 men off the overall 2.5 million force level approved by the House. men who become addicted to drugs while in service. —Exempt from the draft persons in families that have lost a father, son or brother in combat. —Grant new rights to persons ap- pealing their draft status, such as the -Retain the two-year period of right to have an attorney present. alternative civilian service that must be served by conscientious objectors. The House voted for three years service, —Require the military to train experts to treat an increasingly large number of —Ask the President to appoint future members of local draft boards with an eye to the race, color and ethnic and religious characteristics of most of the men they process. Medina Case Will Go To Trial This Summer INDEX Women's Page Sports Classified Editorial Jack Anderson TVKorner Comics Local Graduation Set Area, Local News Page 5 Page 6 Page 8 Page 9 Page 9 Page 7 PagelO-11 Page 12 Page 12 FT. McPHERSON, Ga. (AP) — A military judge refused today to dismiss and assault charges against 'Capt. Er- nest Medina, whose infantry company Staged the My Lai assault in 1968. Col. Kenneth Howard, the military judge, then said the case would go to trial, probably late this summer. The judge set July. 19 as the tentative date for the start of jury selection. \I do not find this case to be pervaded by command influence,\ said the judge as he denied the defense dismissal motions. \I do not find it was the overall policy of the Army to deny the accused a fair SHOT A TORNADO AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Ernest Baker, 79, remembers the day, May 20, 1920, when a tornado hovered over the city and then split in half to damage sur- rounding areas. \I was on the third floor of the then Land Office Bunding\ said Baker. \Since my desk faced the north, I just picked up my camera and took the pic- ture. \I sent the picture to The New York Times' and they published it on their front page.\ WEATHER Showers and thunderstorms likely this evening with some thunderstorms ac- companied by strong gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall. Lows tonight in the 50s. Saturday variable cloudiness and chance of afternoon showers. High in the 80s. consideration of the charges against him,\ ruled Howard. The judge added, \I do not find that he was to be tried regardless of the evidence.\ WASHINGTON (AP) - Edging toward a court test of what a broad- caster can deny Congress, House probers indicate they will press con- tempt charges against an unbending network chief. Climaxing a four-hour confrontation Thursday, Harley O. Staggers, D-W.Va., chairman of the Commerce Committee and its investigating panel, ordered Frank Stanton, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, \to comply with the committee subpoena.\ Repeating what he had said every time he was asked to supply such sub^ poenaed material as film of sound recordings not used in the televised documentary \The Selling of the Pen- tagon,\ Stanton replied: \I respectfully decline.\ \We must have those outtakes,\ Staggers demanded, hammering his desk as he accused CBS of distortion through electronic manipulation and mismatching of questions and answers. The issue is not First Amendment press freedom, he said, it is whether the network tried to practice deception or fraud through its editing. When Staggers asked whether Stanton realized he could be found in contempt, the network executive twice responded, \yes I do.\ Ordered to supply the material, Stanton said, \I respectfully decline.\ •Staggers told him: \In my opinion, you are now in contempt,\ Later, apparently ready to press for a recommendation to the full Commerce Committee, Staggers told reporters the subcommittee's decision may be made next week. If the committee goes along, it would be up to the House whether to send the case to the Justice Department for prosecution. If deceptions are \allowed to happen, the era of Big Brother has arrived,\ Staggers said, when television executives \can control America ... the thoughts of Americans.\ But Stanton said the panel could not constitutionally compel CBS to produce the subpoenaed materials or give oral testimony for such a purpose. \If newsmen are told that their notes, films and tapes will be subject to compulsory process so that the government can determine whether the news has been satisfactorily edited,\ he added, \the scope, nature and vigor of their newsgathering and reporting activities will inevitably be curtailed.\ Staggers said he was making no personal attack on Stanton. \I blame your organization ... Jesus picked 12 disciples and one sold Him for 30 pieces of silver, another deserted Him on the night He was crucified, and another doubted Him when He came back.\ ' - \It is most unfair to refer to our news organization ... as being traitors,\ Stanton said. \I don't say they were traitors, Staggers replied. \I said Jesus had those and He picked what He thought were the 12 most perfect men He could find.\ Tunnel Blast Fatal To 17 LOS ANGELES AP - A state mining official says there could be some con- nection between the devastating Feb. 9 earthquake and a fiery natural methane gas explosion that ripped through an underground tunnel apparently killing 17 workers. Dr. Gordon B. Oakeshott, deputy chief of the California Division of Mines and Geology, said the quake possibly could have disturbed underground formations and caused seepage of the dealy gas that exploded Thursday. Seven bodies have been recovered and rescue teams continued to sear eh for 10 missing workers. City fire rescue crews said dense smoke and debris hampered efforts to find the missing men. Con- ditions inside the tunnel were described as \untenable to support life.\ The tunnel, being excavated as part of a water project, traverses foothills near the quake epicenter outside suburban Sylmar. The area is studded with oil wells. DOME IN PLACE - The 83 - ton golden dome covering Ogdensburg's new field house was raised to its full 70 foot height Thursday evening. Leon Face, superintendant of operations for Wager Construction Company of Watertown, said this morning that the dome, with a span of 236 feet, is the largest of its kind in completion of the field house, but noted that residents of the present United Helpers Home would have to be moved to the new building, located on Riverside Drive and scheduled for completion Sept. 15, before demolition of the structure could be accomplished, to allow for sewer and water lines placement and completion the world. Face would set no date for permanent of landscaping. (Chuck Kelly Photo) Girl Scout Health Clinic Tonight, St. John's, 7 P.M.
