April 13-20,1975 American Shots Fired
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- .J * - , V - .. ^ - ..■-<* r PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester. Conn.. Fri.. April 11,1OT5 iianrl|p0tf r Suminn Ifralb MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, APRIL 12,1 W 5 - VOL. XCIV, No. 164 Manchester—A City of Village Charm TWENTY.FOUR PAGES ___ P ’ PRICE; FIFTEEN CENTS PRESENTING Americans Leave Cambodia United Pres* International The choppers, guarded by a 346-man The military situation around the war- Phnom Penh said Prime Minister Long Waves of U.S. helicopters airlifted Marine battalion and a squadron of 20 tom Cambodian capital was deteriorating Boret met with his advisrs after the Americans from war-tom Cambodia to an warplanes, also flew out 159 Cambodians, hourly and the fall of Phnom Penh evacuation and decided to form a aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Siam today including Acting President Sau Kham appeared imminent. “revolutionary committee” to rule the before the expected fall of Phnom Penh to Khoy. A UPI Cambodian correspondent, filing country. Communist-1^ insurgents. The dramatic, mid-moming airlift in the from Phnom Penh after the evacuation, There was no immediate indication Three dozen Air Force and Marine midst of rebel shelling climaxed the said rebel gunners hit the landing area exactly what the committee will do or who helicopters flew 269 persons, a third of coliapse of a massive, five-year U.S. ef with rockets during the pullout, killing one will serve on it. them Americans, to Uie carrier Okinawa fort to keep the Khmer Rouge from taking Cambodian civilian and wounding another. The capital was calm as dusk fell, Much International WANT AD Week circling off the Cambodian coast. power in Cambodia. The correspondent reported that Radio of the population was unaware of the American departure. The State Department had vowed to use force if needed “to protect the lives of evacuees,” but the Pentagon said the Variety Spices Chamber’s withdrawal took place without any April 13-20,1975 American shots fired. U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia John 'f-: '0 ^ Gunther Dean arrived today at the U.S. air 74th Annual Dinner Fete base at U Tapao, 100 miles southeast of Bangkok, with a dozen members of the embassy staff. By SOL R. COHEN Probate William FitzGerald, a former a framed photograph of himself at his desk Dean carried the U.S. Embassy and president of the Chamber. He kept things . to Lyons. Cambodian flags as he stepped from a There was something for everyone moving swiftly and smoothly and in Lyons pointed out Mrs. Flocken is the “Jolly Green Giant” helicopter. He was Money saving specials for everyone! Friday night at ’The Colony, Talcottville, first woman to be chief executive officer troduced the Chamber officers and direc greeted by his wife and Air Force Lt. Gen. ' when the Greater Manchester Chamber of tors and the personages in the audience. of the Manchester Chamber and Miss John J. Bumes. Commerce conducted its 74th annual Among the latter were: State Sen. David Thomas is the first woman to deliver the The officials said the rest of the banquet. Barry, State Reps. Francis Mahoney and principle address at a Chamber banquet. evacuees, including 82 Americans and 159 ’There was the “M” award, given to pop Ted Cummings, former State Comptroller Mrs. Flocken called on the Manchester Cambodians, would travel on the carrier ular choice Harold A. ’Turkington; there Nathan Agostinelli, Town Director Matt business community to volunteer time and to the Thai port of Sattahip near U Tapao. was the intimate look at the White House Moriarty Jr., Town Manager Robert effort and to serve on one or another of the They said the ship also carried and the Presidency by Helen ’Thomas, the Weiss, and Lester Boardman, director of Chamber’s task forces. evacuated Frenchmen, ’Thais, Taiwanese, Join in the fun next week m UPI’s chief White House correspondent; administration in Manchester, England. Miss Thomas, commenting on Spaniards, Filipinos and Australians. It there was the moving performance by Boardman visited here in 1973, when he Watergate, said, “It is still in some ways was expected to reach the port on Sunday gifted and hard-working Betty Rhodes, accompanied the Lord Mayor of impossible to put it behind us. One thing morning. nationally known singer and com- Manchester, England during the we do realize is that it diminished us all. It U.S. officials in Thailand said 36 medienne; there was the fine music by the Sesquicentennial Celebration by had a life of its own, the inexorable American helicopters, guarded by WANT ADS TO ALL Ken Morgester Orchestra; there was the Manchester, Conn. momentum of a Greek tragedy — played warplanes and Marines, flew the evacuees delicious meal and there were the brief out before our very eyes. from the U.S. Embassy compound in !' . iV, . , remarks by Chamber officials. Mayor John Thompson brought “But,” she insisted, “out of the ashes Phnom Penh in a hurried operation code- SENIOR CITIZENS i • Miss Thomas, the featured speaker, has greetings from the people of Manchester has come the reaffirmation that no man, named Eagle Pull. Ads must be mailed or brought In to The Herald. No phone calls, please. had the White House “beat” since 1960 and on the occasion of the Chamber’s 74th an not even a President, is above the law. Pentagon officials said that six A maximum of 20 words may be run 6 days, FREE. All ads must be has followed the doings of four presidents nual meeting. And, in the words of Supreme Court American newsmen decided to remain — John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Conceding his isn’t a popular stand and Justice Potter, ‘May this always be a behind. They were not immediately iden placed during International WANT AD Week. Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Her 24- the occasion not the best forum for presen government of wars’.” tified. Among (hose evacuated was Lon Ills minute, 10-page speech covered highlights ting it, he repeated his support for a state She said about former President Non, the brother of Marshal Lon Nol, the of the administrations, their differences income tax and called on the business Richard Nixon, “He believed, and still Cambodian president who flew ito exile 11 and, of particular interest to the women in community to back it also. does along with his family, that the press days ago. Former Mayor Harold A. Turkington Manchester Chamber of Commerce Friday’s audience of about 260, the first “I must share with you my continuing and his political detractors did him in.” President Ford, in a statement issued is greeted by applause and a standing “M” Award. (All Herald photos by ladies in the White House. concern for the high cost of education,” he Pointing out, “Nixon’s antipathy for the after midnight Friday, said he ordered the ovation as he makes his way from his Dunn) Miss Thomas is the first woman said, “and I must call to your attention our press is not unique,” she gave examples of evacuation “with a heavy heart” because WANT ADS TO CHILDREN seat to receive the Greater assigned to the White House by a news- insidious tax system — led by a property other presidents and their “presidential of “the seriously deteriorating military wire service fulltime, the first woman tax form of financing that just doesn’t umbrage” against the press, dating back situaton” in Cambodia. White House bureau chief and the first meet our needs.” to George Washington. T 0 12 YEARS OLD woman officer of the White House He insisted only an overhaul and a She said Franklin Delano Roosevelt Ads must be mailed or brought In to The Herald. No phone calls, please. Coirespondents Association. drastic revision of state and local tax once handed the Nazi iron cross to a A maximum of 20 words may be run 6 days, FREE. All ads must be Chamber ‘M ’ Awarded Miss Rhodes, who plajred the lead in the structures could provide the reporter who provoked him during World placed during International WANT AD Week. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco municipalities with funds needed to give War II, Harry Truman fired off a letter to productions of “Jacques Brel is Alive and adequate services. a music critic who panned his daughter NEWS Harold A. Turkington Well and Living in Paris,” completely William Hale, in-coming chairman of Margaret’s operatic attempts and also captivated her audience in her 45-minute the Chamber’s board of directors, said, called the late Drew Pearson a dirty CAPSULES “I’m most proud to be chosen to serve the name, John Kennedy canceled his sub Former Mayor Harold Atkinson became “My H.A.T. is in the ring,” an show. Chamber in the coming year. I recognize scription to the now defunct New York AND FOR EVERYONE ELSE. Turkington is the 1975 recipient of the advertising play upon the initials of his Best described as tiny, pert and the challenges and I accept them. I’ll do Herald-Tribune, and Lyndon Johnson once Greater Manchester Chamber of name. effervescent, she sang medleys. Imitated took the King of Thailand through the Rains Cause Floods It launched his public service career top women singers, delivered patter and my utmost.” Commerce “M” aw ard.' He praised retiring chairman Burl Lyons press room to show him around and said, ATLANTA (UPI) - Hundreds were The honos recognizes his contributions that he en d ^ officially in 1969. comedy and wound up her performance with a plaintive French tune which won for his hard-working and dedicated ser “King, this is the only place in the world driven from their homes Friday as 17-inch to his'native Manchester where, for more Turkington was chairman of the her the starring role when she auditioned vice the past year and presented him with they try you, convict you and hang you all in rains pounded southern Alabama and than 50 years, he has been involved in the Memorial Field Committee that, in 1946, a plaque, “in recognition of outstanding the same day.” northwest Florida.