Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1969-04-11
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, '. ," ', \ . \ ~ .' II: ,, ' . , \(,) "ft I " ,Sioux City Holds Harvard Student Its Breath, Waits Ousted from Hal By THE ASSOCtATED PRESS Residents called lhe rapid rise the "worst By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At Oberlin College in Ohio, student! Flood righting reached the "wait and ever." state and city police, some swinging cated 11Ie administration building watch" ' tage in Sioux City Thursday as "The,..'s a lot of sandbagging going on," billy clubs and all disregarding a hail of after an all-night occupation. They the swollen Big Slome River chalJenged reported John Pearson, Marshln County bottles and other objects, threw about been given permission to remain as ~ two dikes skirting the city. Civil Defense director, "but it was sO 200 protesters out of Harvard's University as they were orderly. The hopes of residents were bolstered much mort than we expected that w,'re Hall and arrested them 'Thursday, setting The student. have been protesting Thursday afternoon when the Weather fighting. losing battle. There Is no school off a call for a three-day student strike, presenca of Peaci Corps recruiters • tod.y, and the whole town Is working." Bureau predicted a crest of 12 to 12.5 feet About 30 persOIIs were injured in the dem.nclecl the reinstat .....nt of over flood slage Thursday night and a Dry, cool wealher rolled into the na· bloody melee that rollowed a 17-hour sit Pisker, leader of the Ob ... lIn 505 I, drop of one foot by Saturday. tion 's midsection as rivers and streams in on the Cambridge, Ma ., campus. Pisker was suspended when he refuJtd Forecasters earlier in the day had ran high with rain and melting snow. The More than 1,200 attended a rally which sign a statement .aying he would nol warned that the Big Sioux might rea. h overflows have prompted 1,500 per ons led to an overwhelming vote to strike aft lerf... t with the recruiters. an all-time record crest of 14·14.5 (eet. to leave their homes. er several hours of heated debate. But At Dartmouth, MilliS., 'I'\"" .. ,,,~.,, Sioux City officials were confid,nt that Most of North Sioux City, population 800. there was no way or telling how many of Harvard's 10.000 undergraduates and 5,000 classroom activity ceased at SoUlthe:aste! If th, two leve .. withstood the pressure remained under water. The entire town Massachus«.ts Technological Institute of the swirllng current, the city of 90,000 was evacuated Wednesday . graduate students might join the protest. The sll.ins, ted by Students for • strike over an administration decision would escape mal or flooding . Roads leading inlo Sioux City were open demote or fire six faculty members. Elsewhere on the Big SiOUX, at Akron 10 traffic, with the exception of U.S. 71 Democratic Society, had demanded aboli and Hawarden, the worst appeared to be and Towa 12. Highway 71 was under wa tion of the Reservt Officers Training Corps Punitive action had been rec;~rrunerlOl over, and at Cherokee, on the LitA.le Sioux ter at several ~ints in South Dakota, on ClmpUS, Other demands includad n against the ix professors for lack of River, some residents began returning to and Iowa 12 north of Sioux City was under duction of rents in H.rvard-owntd build propriate restraint in extracurricular homes evacuated last weekend. as much as four feet of water in s ~ts . Ings .nd • revolt against an .".... ed pl.n tivities. " Serious [Jooding continued on the west Although a number of volunteers con to tear down dwellings for medical school Faculty members held discussion fork of the Des Moines River in Minne tinued flood fighting chores in Sioux City txpansion and the building of • John F. several hWl<lred of the school's 2,800 sota and Iowa, but the overilow was Thursday afternoon, most of the heavy Kennedy Memorial Library. dents. No disorders were reported. limited mostly to low·lying farmland in work was completed by morning. Pres. Nathan Pusey , who told the stu dents to leave the h a II or face arrest, In CalHomla, n.. rly 400 St.nford lowa. Statistics told the magnitude of their vtrslly stuMnls conllnued their later commented, "How can one res~nd At Estherville, three more families effort. Some 500 truckloads of sand had Thursday at a campus electronic were removed, bringing to 12 the number been delivered to the Riverside district, to allegations which h a v e no basis in tory to protest classified scienlific of homes Inundated by the overflow Crom enough to fill 100,000 sandbags. Nearly fact?" Hundreds of other students, protesting done for the mllitary. the west fork o( the Des Moines. But the all the sandbags were used to fortify The students moved in Wednesday dikes. against the protesters, galhered outside city's power plant, tucked behind a rein Ihe hall, jeering and carrying such signs there were no disorders, Ca mpus , torced levee, appeared to be safe. The U.S. corps of engineers said water also remained in the building. rushing under the Interstate 29 bridge New Education at Harvard as "SDS does !lot represent Harvard ." A record crest of 14 to 14.5 feet over At M&ssachuset1s Institute of Tech· Students at the Newark, N.J., branch flood stage had been predicted for Sioux reached 55,000 cubic feet per second Wed· llutgers University continued their A Harvard University student triel 10 protect his fa" from. blow by a M.ssachusetts noJogy, meanwhile, hecklers forced Walt City, but the river remained stable at nesday night. That was 500 cubic feet per old class boycott Thursday, despite a stale tr"Cper a5 the youth is hustled out of UniversilY Hall Thursday, after I night of Ro tow, (ormer President Johnson's na- YOUR 11.7 feet over flood stage for two hours second more than the 1962 vetocity that by school officials to end it. washed out 9art of the bridge, but lhe occupation by o~er 100 students. Upwards of 400 police evicted the students from the tional security adviser, to cut short 8 Thursday, prvmpting the optimism of The students demand mo~ slale aid span wasn't believed to be in danger this hall, which they had seited to dr.matiu their prot ..t of ROTC on campul. peech . Rostow, a former MIT professor, local officials. - AP Wirephoto was speaking on Vietnam. their school , which has an ""'''''limp,,, PARE! Tht overflowing Big Sioux River caused time. 3,200. The Rutgers Board of ('.II""""",,. evacuation of an industrial·reside"'ial ---- tumC<l down reallocation of $6.9 art. in Sioux Falls, S.D., Thursday, .. for construction at the Newark floods forced hundreds of others fro m Southern University's New their homes In the Mldwtsl. branch was ordered reopened A dike broke under the pressure of the after a Wednesday uproar beginning swollen river at Sioux Falls, and hopes a flag incident and ending in the arrU of saving it were abandoned. Fifty fam· 27 persons. ilies began moving out, some Oeeing with Disorders at the predominantly only what they could carry in trucks and school began with the protesters oil the American nag and cars. oman Serving the University of Iowa olld the People of Iowa City Farther souJ.h , fumes added to the haz green and red nag of "black m",,,,,HMl ards just below the point where 11Ie Big Among student demands were SiQux surges into the Missouri River. A Established in 1868 10 cents a copy Associated Press Leased Wire and Wirephoto Towa City, Iowa 52240-Friday, April 11, 1969 of Dean Emmett W. Bashful, a natural gas pipeline wh:ch crosres the in tuition fees and an independent Missouri on the U.S. 71 bridge in Sioux parlment of black studies. No serious HICKORV SMOKIO SliCID City ruptured Thursday morning. rllUlllll'Ulll\jln illJllIIl\IIII(~'II:"JllDllI tirb TIlfllllmnntnrr.w:r 1_' juries were reported. Eagle Officials banned smoking in all North Sioux City, S.D., and the riverfront sec Woodwind Group Bacon tion of Sioux City. The odor o[ gas was I NEWS i Regents' Bonding Plan strong over the area. Repairs were begun quickly. Podunk Center Minnesota Gov. Harold LeVander asked To Give Concert 5,0 President NixOll 10 declare a major dis asler area embracing 58 of Minnesota's countie:>. Sud1 action would make them Here Wednesday Going, Going .. eligible for federal flood relief Cunds. The B r.._.. ... ,_ PODUNK CENTER !A'I - The The New York Woodwind Quintet, one 'i counties are in the western halC of the I~_ .!:J ~1~~~~~~~~v~!~;~~~, ~~:~~~~; might read : "Podunk Center. Hub of HOUllY state. ALSO IN THE NEWS LAST NIGHT : bill to give the State Board of Regents no money 10 be appropriated for big cap- of the nation's most solidly established authority to issue bonds to pay for class- ital improvement programs. World. Wilton Sogg, Mayor," Ground The Snake River spilled over ils banks chambet music groups, will (>Cesent a PARI ~ ,~ The Nat~nal Liberation Front I'cQm building,; -lit \,Qe three ~te univer· 4'h~ HOllSe \lad debaloQ thl' measure in- Thot's j·ighl. A lawyer (rom and cJvel'ed most of Warren, a commu· accused' I h e Nixon adminiStration of Beef Inity of 2,000 in norlhwestern MinneSlta. concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Union Slties. termiUenUy for severai day s before Ohio, named Wilton Sogg is ne~(oti,ati(lg spreading rumors ()r private Vietnam Main Lounge. But before passing the measure 77 10 reaching a final vote. buy the hickiest of hick towns.