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a has decided to re­ “But,” he added, “this is Watkins made the comments , ’Jacques Passino and filled him
clear capability in merely the opening shot in a after the league, meeting in an­ I in. Ford’s top driver, Lee Roy
rica. Canada has larger effort. The critical re­ Is Convicted nual session, has unanimously, I Yarbrough, was called over. He
capable of carrying view will go on.” resolved to urge the defeat of j I had run more high speed laps at
ipons, in the North “A defense system which for the measure. It has been! (Talladega than any other driver.
ir defense organiza- years has operated without suf­ In Still Case approved in the House and; | When the astronauts symptoms
ficient public and private awaits action in the Senate. were outlined to him, Yar­
to “phase out” the checks has now been exposed to He said passage of the propos­ brough said, “I’ll be damned.
brigade group and the sunlight,” said Republican MEMPHIS (AP) - The re­ That’s exactly what’s been hap-
sion in Germany by Edward Brooke of Massachu­ puted former head of the Ku al could halt municipal and ■ pening. I didn’t know what was
1970, when land-air setts. “A good foundation has Klux Klan in Tennessee was con­ school construction. wrong with me.”
11 be established un- been laid for future inquiry.” victed by a U.S. District Court “It was just a matter of reaf­ Serious Concern
idquarters in south- The Proxmire and Brooke Jury Thursday of possessing firming a position we’ve always
comments came as the huge ap­ property for use in violation of held,” he said. Ford people were now serious­
be at Lahr and Ba- propriations measure finally federal liquor laws. ly concerned. This latest devel­
n, where the air di- passed on an 81-5 vote, climax­ Judge Bailey Brown deferred opment, coupled with drivers’
lrrently based. The ing the most heated debate over passing sentence on Vernon Accident and cars owners’ complaints,
)up is at present defense spending in two dec­ Doyle Ellington, 31, of Browns­ that the track was unsafe,
d near Soest, on the ades. ville. The madimum penalty is brought about the Ford decision
an plain. Although it passed virtually a year in prison, a $5,000 fine, Conlinued From Page One to back up the drivers’ refusal
D-Man Total intact—only $70 million was or both. observation. He was treated to race the next day.
chopped out—it took 39 full days The government had contend­ and released. Grays has been The Ford racing people also
ganized forces will of debate over the two-month ed the property in question driving a school bus for 13 have suggested that Lee Roy
equipment and will period. Pentagon backers had to was a panel truck on which a years, eight with the Madison Yarbrough be checked out by a
bined total strength throw back more than a dozen mobile still was operated in Hay­ County system. specialist for any possible after
00 men. attempts to delay such major wood County. Madison police and state effects. Yarbrough might be
>reme allied com- programs as the Safeguard mis­ Judge Brown dismissed a troopers were delayed in get­ sent to the Houston Space Cen­
•ope has assured me sile defense system, a new nu­ count of possession of distilla­ ter for tests.
rovides a structure clear carrier, mammoth new tion equipment and a mistrial ting to the scene of the ac­ How does the pogo phenome­
allow Canadian battle tanks, squadrons of su­ was declared on a count of mak­ cident because of faulty di­ non relate to racing on the high
ontinue to fulfill in perjet fighters and a new ing mash for distillation after rections given by persons banks of Talledega?
eaningful though re- manned bomber. the jury reported it could not calling in the report of the Explanation Given
’ said Cadieux. The bill that finances all the reach agreement.
sequence of the re- United States’ military hard­ accident. Chrysler engineer Larry
Ellington, Charles Colon Co- The bus accident was the
., three well-known ware for fiscal 1970 now goes to Rathgeb explains:
zart, 45, of Brownsville and first to involve a fatality
egiments will be the House where far easier “It’s really a combination of ,
tn the regular force; going is expected. Gene Herschel Leach, 27, of since 1931, W.E. Popejoy of three factors, not merely the
Stantion originally had been the Madison County Board of
[ian Guards, the The measure, however, must fact that these cars are running
charged with conspiring to avoid Education office said.
n Rifles of Canada again go through the Senate for faster than ever before. These
Internal Revenue liquor taxes.
Slack Watch Royal appropriation of the actual cash Leach and Cozart were acquitted According to investiga­ factors are amplitude, frequen­
jgiment of Canada. and there is a possibility the lib­ tors, the wreck apparently cy and G forces. All must be
?es are in line with eral band that put up the fight of the conspiracy count but El­ left no indication of violations combined under the situation to
lington was convicted.
ister Pierre Elliott this time might try again on of the state’s new school bus produce the pogo effect. The
announcement April some projects. Ellington appealed his convic­ safety law, either by the bumps in the track corner cre­
tion and was granted a new bus equipment or the driver.
la would carry out a Actual amounts authorized ate amplitude, the car spring
id phased reduction” are $19.98 billion over-all for trial. A federal grand jury sub­ But the accident occurred rates, frequency, and the angle
; assigned to NATO, planes, ships, missiles and vehi­ sequently indicted him on the just a few days after the law of the track plus the 195 mph
said the government cles, with $7.1 billion earmarked three new counts. was signed by the governor plus speeds produce the G
reorient its defense for research, development, test and less than 48 hours after forces. The drivers are subject­
ing greater stress on and evaluation. Salmon fry begin their the state received a $200,000 ed to about 2% G’s in the cor­
jrican defense and Pentagon critics were able to migration from spawn i n g grant from the federal gov­ ners at Talledega.”
of Canadian sover- cut out $45.6 million for social grounds to ocean when only ernment for upgrading school And what can be done to solve
science research and $25 million about an inch long. bus safety standards. this strange stress problem?
Said space engineer Bill Wright,
“Well, we could design the car
in such a way as to isolate the
driver from these cyclic vibra­
tions, such as was done in Gem­
but Bombers Roar On ini, but really the problem
should be stopped at the
the Viet Cong at- Spokesmen said a few Ma­ light among regional force 1952 after 45 years in the Army, source.” This was meant to in­
rines were wounded, but none ! troops manning the post. and he and his wife now live in fer that the world’s fastest auto
stnamese troops at- was killed. The 3rd Division is I The U.S. Command an­ Washington, D.C. They have an­ track might have to be rebuilt.
ght bivouac position being withdrawn from Vietnam nounced Col. Dale J. Crittenber­ other son in the Army. A third Must Be Analyzed
1st Air Cavalry Divi­ under President Nixon’s order ger, an Army brigade com­ son was killed at the Remagen
es northwest of Sai- to reduce U.S. troop strength by mander and the son of a noted bridge in World War II. Wright was careful to point
ing eight Americans, 35,000 men before Dec. 15. eWorld War II general, was Col. Crittenberger’s widow out that existing data would
soldiers were driven U.S. infantrymen from the killed in a helicopter collision have to be analyzed, perhaps by
tillery and helicopter 198th Light Infantry Brigade during a battle in the Mekong and their eight children live in a Houston computer. He did feel
leir losses were not sweeping through foothills 55 Delta Wednesday. . McLean, Va. that none of the drivers had suf­
miles south of Da Nang uncov-| Crittenberger, 42, a 1950 grad­ I Crittenberger and 11 other fered serious internal damage,
[quarters reported 31: ered eight Russian-made 122mm uate of West Point, was com­ 'Americans died when two heli­ but simply the problem was
ket and mortar at-| rocket launchers. mander of the 9th Infantry Divi- ■ copters collided in the air 18 there.
light in which eight “This is the largest number of sion’s 3rd Brigade and had been miles southwest of Saigon. As the drivers’ boycott of last
were wounded, these weapons ever found in a scheduled to go home in five There were no survivors. Sunday’s rich race has created
rican Command said single location,” said a commu- .weeks. He was the son of Lt. Among those killed was one of a furor in NASCAR, Ford people
lamese gunners dur- (nique. Gen. Willis D. Crittenberger, Crittenberger’s battalion com­ feel justified in supporting the
it fired 10 rounds of i South Vietnamese headquar­ who commanded the 4th Army manders, Lt. Col. Leo P. Sikor­ drivers’ move.
the headquarters of ters reported 30 mortar and Corps in its drive from Rome up ski, 36, a native of Detroit, Regardless of what comes out
rine Division at Dong rocket rounds were fired into a the Italian peninsula in World Mich. His widow and their three of all this, it appears that auto
s south of the demili- government outpost south of Da War II. children live in Camp Springs, racing has perhaps, accidental­
Nang. Casualties were termed Gen. Crittenberger retired in Md. ly, moved into the space age.