May Day Parade Celebrates End of Indo-China Warfare
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MANCHESTER, CONN., THUI^DAY, MAY 1,1975 - VOL. XCIV, No. 180 Manchester—A City of Village Charm twenty-eight pages - two sections price, fifteen cents May Day Parade Celebrates End of Indo-China Warfare ) . By United Press International Saigon radio called on the people to avoid States of the “forcible” evacuation of slave cultural activities of the American Victorious Communist troops and 3,000 such decadent American-like activities as Vietnamese and called it interference in variety are strictly forbidden.” Saigon residents celebrated the end of the brothels, dance halls and opium dens. Vietnam’s internal affairs. It demanded Another said “all public offices, organs, 30-^ear Indochina War with a May Day Hanoi referred to the Pentagon’s an that the U.S. 7th fleet leave Vietnamese barracks, industrial, agricultural and parade through the streets of Saigon nouncement Wednesday that 18,()W fleeing waters. commercial establishments, banks, r todky, Japanese newsmen reported. The South Vietnamese have been picked up by Saigon radio also broadcast a series of transport, cultural, educational and health m Viet Cong announced it had won “total vic a flotilla of U.S. Navy ships from sam military communiques ordering collection establishments, warehouses — together t o r ” in the Mekong Delta, the last pocket pans, rafts and other boats in the past few of all arms and explosives within seven with property of U.S. imperialism and the of ^ u th Vietnamese resistance. days in addition to the 6,000 Vietnamese days under threat of "appropriate Saigon administrations will be confiscated Broadcasts from Hanoi and Saigon took and third nation nationals and 1,000 punishment” and confiscation of banks, and from now on managed by the on an increasingly anti-American tone. Americans evacuated by helicopter from farms and businesses. revolutionary administration.” Hqnoi demanded that the U.S. 7th Fleet Saigon. One communique laid down regulations Japanese news reports said Saigon had for public order, among them that “all ac cppse immediately the rescue of South A statement by the North Vietnamese returned to normal and that there were no tivities of houses of prostitution, dance Vietnamese from the South China Sea and Foreign Ministry accused the United reports of interference with foreigners. halls, smoking deps, and all decadent Peking radio said a seven-point order had been issued to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, including one to protect the lives and property of the people and influx of Vietnamese Refugees foreign residents and “not to lay hands even on a needle or thread.” T he Viet Cong’s Provisional Revolutionary Government, in a policy statement issued Wednesday in Paris, Encountering Mixed Reactions promised that foreigners and their proper ty would be protected and that VietiUm would be willing to receive aid from any ’ By DOUGLAS STANGLIN “Everybody is thinking, ‘Why are they Calif., and Fort Chaffee reach their country provided there were no political coming here’?” said Bob Whitfield, a capacity. United Press International strings attached. The mass influx of Vietnamese refugees lifelong resident of the town of 9,000 per Federal officials at Eglin were getting Some of the aid already was en route. into the United States encountered mixed sons, most of whom depend on the ready to issue Social Security cards to the Two Royal Australian Air Force Hercules emotions today ranging from outright military for their paychecks. exiles immediately after they land, C130 transports with United Nations in Local Lawyers Honor Reardon A Pentagon spokesman in Washington presumably for identification purposes. hostility to deep concern. signia left Penang, Malaysia, today for In Barlow, Ark., near Ft. Chaffee, one of said Wednesday night that Eglin, because “But they wili be able to get a job when Bangkok to start a U.N. food airlift to the three relocation centers being used to of its limited facilities, would only be used they get a Social Security card,” one Retired Manchester Police Chief Alfred (^vello (right) presiding). The Saigon, Da Nan^, Hanoi and Laos. Many house the refugees, one woman promised to house refugees when Camp Pendleton, Social Security official said. James Reardon (center) smiles after occasion is Law p ay USA, celebrated West European nations and Japan also to be out with some of her neighbors ^receiving the Manchester Bar throughout the country today with the promised aid. carrying protest signs when the first con theme, “Justice Through Law.” Washington reports said Congress was Association’s 1975 Liberty Bell Award tingent of refugees arrives Friday or this morning from Atty. Paul Marte Reardon, whose retirement is official Doctors Protest Skyrocketing considering sending millions of dollars in Saturday. relief to war victims in Communist- (left), association president. The today, was cited for an outstanding in Mrs. Johnnie Calhoun said she and some presentation occurred at the opening dividual contribution to the law controlled South Vietnam and Cambodia. friends planned a not-so-friendly welcome Malpractice Insurance Rates The question of military aid died with of the civil session of Court of Com profession. (Herald photo by Pinto) for the newcomers. Los Angeles anesthesiologists planned a Saigon’s surrender. But Pentagon sources “They say its a lot colder here than it is By JOHN LESAR mon Pleas at Manchester, with Judge one-day walkout next Tuesday to protest a said today North Vietnam had become one in Vietnam,” she said. “With a little luck, United Press International possible 100 per cent boost in their of the strongest military powers in maybe they’ll take pneumonia and die.” Northern California doctorsrrebelling malpractice insurance. Southeast Asia with 83 billion to 85 billion Her attitude was deplored by church against increased malpractice insurance ' The California malpractice problem is in captured U.S. tanks, planes and other leaders in Little Rock who issued a state rates, let their insurance lapse today and the latest in a series of crises threatening war material. ment welcoming the refugees to Arkan hospitals put emergency health care plans Ford Pushes Back into effect immediately. to force doctors to leave or limit their The Viet Cong’s liberation radio today sas. practices, boosting hospital rates and put proclaimed “total victory” in South Viet “Many of our ancestors came to this Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, ting some clinics on the brink of closing. nam and said that all military forces and continent also as refugees,” the statement Calif., cancelled the group malpractice coverage of San Francisco area doctors provinces in the Mekong Delta and said. “Others came as slaves and inden Los Angeles County may soon have to northwest of Saigon had surrendered. Energy Deadline tured servants. Yet they found here a effective today and offered, in its place, pay 81.6 million to Lloyds of London for home in which to rebuild their shattered individual coverage at sharply higher malpractice insurance to cbVer doctors rates. working at county hospitals or in other WASHINGTON (UPI) - President domestic oil prices, adding five cents ^ r lives. Hardest hit are anesthesiologists, who county medical programs. Argonaut, Ford has pushed his energy policy gallon to the price of gasoline by mid-19f7, “Our past history along with our Lord’s vow they won’t pay 330 per cent higher which had insured the county for deadline back another month, hoping but places final responsibility for that ac command that we share our blessings with rates for insurance and who, by law, can premiums of ?500,000 a year, has refused Inside Today Congress will act before the time runs out tion on Congress. others causes us to welcome this oppor not practice without insurance. to. renew its policy bwause its losses and thus avoid a shOwdown over unilaterai Ford imposed a $1 per barrel oil import tunity of ministering to this new group of Atoiit 3,500 other doctors faced with tripled during the past year. The com Old Codger ....................................Page 4 tariff Feb. 1. He originally planned the people.” executive action. skyrocketing rates threatened to follow pany’s loss under the policy was estimated Business news.................................Page 5 The President’s_latest strategy calls for tariff to go up to $2 per barrel Mdrch 1 and In Niceyille Fla., near Eglin Air Force suit and many of them quit and went home at more than ?3.6 million. Dear Abby.................................... Page 12 a decision by June 1 ^ 90 days behind his to per barrel April 1, but s ^ u t ’two Base, another haven for the refugees following surgery Wednesday. original schedule — on whether to raise months ago he delayed the seeond and where the first of them also are expected Hospitals in the area restricted surgery Argonaut also has raised insurance Neighbor’s K itchen..................... Page 13 the tariff on imported oil to per barrel. third steps for 60 days to avoid! a show Friday or Saturday, townspeople pondered schedules and warned of possible substan rates for smaller hospitals across the na LL honors Leber ......................... Page 15 The hike would boost gasoline prices about down with Congress. 1 the effect of their arrival might have. tial layoffs of hospital employes. tion by 300 to 1,000 per cent. The rate for Thoughts ApLENty..................... Page 15 one cent per gallon. , Under the original delay. Ford » t today The California legislature is debating Northwestern Hospitals in Minneapolis, Sullivan HR sparks MHS............Page 15 Ford’s new strategy also sets the stage as the deadline for Congress to ( ^ e up new legislation that would ease the Minn., has been upped from 855,000 to Little Miss Softball..................... Page 17 for a gradual lifting of controls on with an acceptable energy consiryation malpractice problem by requiring arbitra .8550,000 by Argonaut.