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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, June 25, 1968

More study needed for measure switch

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States faces a measurement gap widening inch by inch, pound by pound, as more world neighbors adopt the metric system. ‘‘Recently, the situation seems to have become critical,” says John F. Kincaid, assistant commerce secretary. Today, the House called up for consideration a bill which would autorize a three-year study to determine whether the United States also should go metric. The Senate passed similar legislation two years ago, but it died in the House. This year the Senate is waiting to see what the House does. Kincaid, who reaffirmed the Commerce Department’s support of the study, told chemistry industry representatives in a recent speech he is disturbed because Great Britain’s shift to the system now means 90 per cent of the world’s population is using it. “This leaves us virtually isolated in our adherence to the inch and the pound,” he said. “It is generally estimated that the shift to the metric system would save 25 per cent of the time now spent on the study of arithmetic,” Kincaid said. He said this might save $705 million a year in education, al costs. “Thoughout the eighth grades of elementary school there is a continuous effort on the part of pupils to learn the number of inches in a foot, feet in a rod, grains in an ounce, fluid ounces in a gallon, quarts in a bushel, square feet in an acre—a total of 53 different denominate units with little or no relationship between the various units,” Kincaid said. “By contrast, there are only three denominate units in the metric system. Similarly, much time is spent on teaching the use of common fractions. By contrast, the study of decimals

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and the metric system is simple, and quickly learned.” But, he said, there would be disadvantages too—trouble, and considerable expense. He said the United States would need to scrap such “software” as contracts and blueprints, textbooks and “hardware” such as dials, scales, and other measuring instruments.

“Since our present investment in machine tools, alone, is in tho order of $30 billion, we need precise answers before action is taken,” Kincaid said. He observed that “28.3495 grams of prevention is worth 0.453592 kilograms of cure, or that a miss is as good as 1.609344 kilometers.”

Move to cut arms race

WASHINGTON (UPI)— Senate opponents of a “thin” antiballistic missile system (ABM) today claimed enough support to defeat the multibillion-dollar program they say would seriously escalate the nuclear arms race. A Republican leader of the bipartisan drive, Sen. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky said that although it would be close, the margin against the $227.3 million initial appropriation for the sentinel ABM could be as many as five votes. The vote was scheduled at 4 p.m., EDT. i Should the appropriation be blocked, it would mark the first time in several years that the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee had been reversed on a major defense program. Committee Divided The committee approved the sentinel money despite a rare breach of opinion among members. Sens. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., a former Air Force secretary; Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, ranking Republican member, and Stephen Young, D-Ohio, vigorously opposed it. Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, DMinn., a Democratic contender for the presidential nomination, also opposes the sentinel funds. In a speech prepared for Senate delivery today, McCarthy said, “Our going forward with the sentinel system could have a profound effect on the Soviet-American arms race.

“The United States ABM decision has to date been couched largely in terms of American security without attention to the fact that it has an immediate impact on other nations, particularly Russia, and thus sets in motion within other countries, such as the Soviet Union, a series of political pressures quickly translated into decisions on miitary budgets and resources allocated.” Administration Backs Measure The Johnson administration last fall dropped its opposition and decided to deploy the twomissile system around the United States as a “thin” defense against any future missile threat by Red China. The cost of initial deployment was put at $5 billion to $7

billion.

Recently, administration officials have been re-emphasizing the system’s value as protection also against a Soviet missile

attack.

Opponents of the sentinel, led by Cooper and Sen. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich., have used

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arguments put forth by former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara in opposing the ABM system. Reiter at ing McNamara’s views. Cooper said: “One of the main points boils down to this: The best defense is a good offense. No matter what Russia builds in the way of an ABM, we will be able to overwhelm it with offensive missiles.” Soccer trampling blamed on punks By WILBUR G. LANDREY BUENOS AIRES (UPI)— Police Monday blamed hooligans tossing burning newspapers for stampeding soccer fans down a stadium exit gangway that led to death or injury for hundreds. The human avalanche trampled to death 70 adults and children in a panic to escape the balls of fire hurled by the youths at the end of Sunday’s scoreless match between Buenos Aires’ arch rivals. River Plate and Boca Juniors. At least 65 persons were seriously injured on the winding, bloodstained staircase., “What happened was that people began pushing and those in front fell. That explains everything,” said River Plate Club President Williams Kent. But some witnesses said that Gate 12, at the bottom of the gangway, was shut. Most of the 100,000 fans in the River Plate Stadium realized the agony under the stands only when they later passed by Gate 12 and saw half-naked survivors, bleeding and moaning, lurching from the gangway. The fans of both teams had broken into each club’s fight son at game’s end. Singing drowned out the screaming below them. In the midst of the song the hooligans—as is the practice in Argentina where soccer is a almost a blood sport so bitter is rivalry— twisted papers into balls, lighted them and dumped them down. They apparently were Boca Junior fanatics, aiming for the River Plate fans seated below. But the burning paper plummeted into the opening of the

gangway.

“I was about 15 steps from the exit,” said law student Omar Palizza, 20. “Behind me people were fighting to get out and they crushed me down. I fainted and when I came to, I was in the hospital.” Felix Porto, 25, had almost reached the gate turnstiles when the crowd hit him. “It threw me up and smashed me against the corner of the gate. I was crushed and I passed out. It’s a miracle I’m still alive.” A railroad spokesman said shortly after the derailment “nobody has any idea” what caused it. A train crewmen said a coupling separated on the second car, triggering the automatic air brakes. Three of the derailed cars tilted at a 45 degree angle. The last car rolled 50 feet from the

tracks.

Store clerk Cesar Romero, 19, saw babies crushed underfoot. “One man fell with a small boy in his arms and rolled over and over. People began to pile up on top of each other.”

Change course in yachts race NEWPORT, R.I. (UPI)Hoping hurricane Brenda will pass them by, the crews of 151 yachts tacked toward Bermuda, 635 miles away, today in the 26th biennial Newport to Bermuda race. The latest weather bureau advisory put Brenda about 275 miles north-northeast of Bermuda, moving east-northeastward at about 20 miles per hour and expected to continue at about the same speed. The race committee decided to start the race Sunday— a day late because of uncertainty about Brenda—after being advised the hurricane should be out of the way by the time the boats cross her path. But the disturbed wind patterns might push the boats along faster some yachtsmen noted, permitting somebody to beat the record of 70 hours, 11 minutes and 40 seconds set by Bolero in 1956. Robber nabbed ST. LOUIS, MO. (UPI)— Patrolman James Lammert noticed the car traveling ahead of his police cruiser Saturday night and pulled it over and arrested the driver. The car was Lammert’s, stolen the night before with $500 worth of clothing and his service revolver— all recovered. ^ # Direct action HASTINGS, Mich. (UPI)— Norm Barry, towing service operator, had not been paid for his services and Barry County supervisors hadn’t provided promised storage areas for the junked cars he had been asked to pick up. So Barry deposited five rusty autos in the county courthouse lot.

Humphrey wins home front

(UPI)—Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey won the family argument from Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy in their own backyard. Minnesota’s Democrat- Far-mer-Labor party, which sent both men to CongreeS.

But Humphrey’s supporters at the two-day state convention this weekend had to fight off a stiff challenge from McCarthy’s backers. Humphrey Saturday night won all 20 at-large delegates to the national convention and held McCarthy to

the delegates he won earlier this year at district conventions. The convention disregarded the McCarthy claim to a proportionate share of the at-large places. At the Democratic National Convention, Humphrey will have SB 1 /^ votes from Minnesota to IS 1 /;) for McCarthy. The Vietnam resolution, which calls for an immediate ceasefire by both sides, was approved on Pressure WAVERLY, Minn. (UPI)Mr. and Mrs. Francis Green of Wafconia, Minn., had a surprise guest at their wedding reception Saturday night, someone they hadn’t invited but were happy to see. It was Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, driving around town.

a 615-455 vote after a Sunday afternoon of heated debate— in the tradition of DFL party conventions. The plank “recognized the significant disagreement within the Democratic party” on Vietnam, and supported the administration decision to curtail bombing in North Vietnam and the start of Paris talks. McCarthy forces fought to retain a recommendation for the South Vietnamese to accept a coalition government, but Humphrey’s backers fought and replaced that with a statement encouraging bi-participation of all parties in the political life of North and South Vietnam” in forming a government. The statement did not specifically mention the National Liberation Front.

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Church charged as gun, dope cache

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senate investigators today summoned a Chicago minister to answer charges by a deposed gang leader that his church was used as an arsenal and dope cache for tough South Side Chicago’s biggest street gang. John Fry, pastor of a South Side Presbyterian church, was subpoenaed by the Senate permanent investigating subcommittee, studying a $927,300 Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) grant to two Chicago gangs—the Blackstone Rangers and the Devil’s Disciples. The program was designed to teach youths occupational skills. It has been charged that the grant was made as a payoff to the gangs to keep the peace on south Chicago streets. Gang Leader Testifies Last Friday, the deposed head of the Rangers, George Rose, 23, made charge after charge against Fry in testimony to the subcommittee. Rose, who according to 20 Injured in train derailment LANCASTER, Pa. (UPI)The last eight cars of the Broadway Limited derailed near here Sunday night as the Penn Central’s New York-to-Chicago train hurdled at 80 miles an hour through southeastern Pennsylvania. Twenty of the 146 passengers aboard the 13-car train were injured as two sleeping cars, two dining cars and four coaches buckled and jumped off the tracks at the edge of the small community of Landisville. None of the cars overturned. Seven of the injured were admitted to hospitals. The others were treated and released. The derailment on the railroad’s main line occurred at a point where the two tracks parallel highway route 230. The wreckage could be seen from the highway and one railroad worker estimated that some 4,000 persons flocked to the scene and hampered rescue operations. The derailment tore up a quarter-mile of track.

subcommittee staff members was under a death sentence from his former gang, said Rev. Fry advised gang members to store molotov cocktails on top of buildings in case of trouble

with police. The minister also let gang members store weapons—including 15 sawed-off carbines and at least 18 hand grenades— in his church, Rose testified.

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