European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 2 the stars and stripes Friday september 29, 1967 7 killed As plane crashes into Texas school Dallas up an Industrial courier plane carrying military officials and apparently Classi fied documents crashed and exploded against an elementary school building in a Dallas suburb wednesday 20 minutes after students had been Dis missed Early because of teachers meeting. Police said the seven person aboard the plane were killed. The twin engine Aero com Mander owned by Ling Temco Vought Ltd the Dallas based corporate giant grazed a car on the Street Tore through a Chain link Fence smashed into the normally crowded bicycle rack at Bradfield elementary schooling the suburb of Highland Park and exploded against the Side of the building. Ltd said the Pilot an another Man on Board were company employees and the others were military personnel. A baseball Cap carrying Amajor s rank on it was found in the plane. Police roped off the area collected documents the plane was carrying and held them for Ltd officials. At almost the moment the plane hit at 3 30 ., the school s 633 students would ordinarily have been streaming out of the building Many of the crowding around the bicycle the Pilot was identified Savener l. Denman jr., 45, of Greenville. The other Ltd employee on Board was n. E. Chappell 32, of fort Worth. Five air Force men aboard were identified Asma. Jack h. Gulp St., capt. Donald a. Cook capt. Anthony g. Lucey m. Sgt. Kenneth p. Kennedy and . Julius b. Lee All of Dover air Force base Delaware. Ltd officials said the firemen had just flown a c133 from Dover to Greenville and a twas flying them to love Field to catch a commercial fightback. Police said the plane took of from a company Airfield at trunk line Montreal s week Long bus an subway strike has forced the Public to find other Means of getting to work. Perhaps this Hitchhiker s mattress helped him to dream Upa solution to his transportation problem the trunk of a car. Up photo Stab wounds kill 3rd inf div no wife questioned Schweinfurt Ger Many is a 26-year-old 3rd inf div no the father of five children died Here wednesday of Stab wounds. The victim staff sgt. Williej. Leftwich jr., of co a 2nd in 30th inf was pronounce dead on arrival at the 24th med ical dispensary at 6 15 Head been taken there after be ing found lying in front of his quarters in the army housing area Here. Aid investigation a division spokesman said thursday that Leftwich s wife Pauline was being questioned by German police about her Hus band s death. Military police were also aiding in the invest s . Home of record was listed As Worth . 1,000 buddhists March in Saigon Saigon a More than1,000 monks and nuns represent ing the militant minority faction of South Vietnam s buddhists marched through Saigon thurs Day in their biggest anti govern ment display in More than year. The peaceful March wound through crowded Saigon streets and choked traffic As the Mili Tant buddhists headed for inde cardinals Bishops gather Vatican City up cardinals and Bishops from All Over the world Are arriving in rom for the opening Friday of the roman Catholic Church s first Synod of Bishops the Church s most important meeting since the Vatican Council ended two years ago. Pendency Palace. They were carrying a petition for chief of state Nguyen Van Thieu de manding that he rescind the new Buddhist charter recognizes a non militant sect As the official Buddhist Church of South Vietnam. When the marchers reached the Palace area Thieu s chief aide came out of the Palace an accepted a petition protesting the charter. A few minutes later the aide came out of the Palace and told Buddhist leaders that Thieu would receive a delegation from their ranks. Buddhist spokesmen declined saying that Only the entire group would meet with the chief of state. The monks and nuns then Dis Persed. 200,000 left homeless at storm s end Harlingen Tex. Up the Rio Grande s floodwaters crested at flooded Harlingen wednesday and the disaster of Hurricane Beulah rolled towards close with 200,000 persons homeless in Texas and Mexico More than 40 dead and $1 billion in damages to a million people from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. Worst in history South Texas Lay ravaged by the worst flood in its history and threatened with disease hunger and polluted water. Gov. John Connally asked president John son to declare 20 counties a Dis Aster area and Johnson flew to Texas to tour the flooded area. Johnson went to Bergstrom air Force base outside Austin picked up Connally and then flew southward to View the damage. Mexican disaster Mexico was suffering its worst flood of the Century. An Arroyo Colorado diversion Channel flooded when the Rio Grande pushed out a diversion am crested near 45 feet and started falling. One fourth of har Lingen a City of 41,000, was flooded with up to eight feet of water and an estimated 10,000 persons were out of their Homes. Europe Council warns Greece on Freedom Strasbourg France up the Council of Europe Consulta Tive Assembly demanded tues Day that Greece s membership in the 18-nation organization be suspended unless its military re Gime promptly reestablishes political freedoms. An Assembly Resolution with one opposing vote urged the coun cil s committee of ministers to deliver an ultimatum to the greek military Junta to restore parliamentary liberties suspended after their april 21 coup or see it membership suspended. Governor promises Louisiana crime crackdown new Orleans a Mckeithen said wednes Day he planned an immediate crackdown on crime in Louisia from new York after a conference with editors of life Magazine Mckeithen said he was convinced that life had hard evidence of wrongdoing in our state to support the Maga Zine s allegation that organized crime flourishes in state police Are going to take Over the prosecution of gambling and prostitution in this state the governor told news conference. We think we Are going to put some people in the Penitentiary he said. He added he could not divulge the information obtained from life s Edi tors. The governor said the crack Down would Start with his office. He referred to former aide Aubrey Young who life said was in Telephone Contact with new Orleans area rackets figure car los Marcello. Mckeithen said Security offi cers had been assigned to Young who is now in a stat Hospital. He will have the Opportunity to turn state s evidence if he wants to Mckeithen governor also announced that state police Captain Roland Coppola would be suspended immediately on the basis of life allegations that he associated with rackets figures. The Gover nor emphasized that Coppola would be suspended not foray mis doings but for his Asso article in life said a a million offer was made to a ton Houge teamster Union offi Cial Edward Grady Partin an rejected by Partin in efforts to free former National teamster president James Hoffa from prison. The article said youngest up a meeting with Partin a principal government witness against Hoffa and another Man at which the bribe offer was made. Several months later the Magazine said Young told the Story of the meeting to the governor who threatened to fire him. Young resigned and has since denied to life that he go any Money for his efforts or Sacany connection with Marcello named by life As the Cosa Nostra Boss in Louisiana. Greenville 40 Miles Northeast of Dallas made a Stop at the suburban town of Garland an apparently missed a runway trying to land at Dallas s love Field a mile and a half West of the school in the fashionable suburb. The plane smacked int mockingbird Lane a major thoroughfare next to the school to minced through the Fence and against the building and blowup with a Boom heard blocks away hurling a flaming win partway through the window of the school music scattered wreckage debris and bits of flesh and Bone were scattered around a compact area on the Edge of the school playground. Charred and twisted bicycle were strewn Over the area. Ambulance workers walked around the area for hours afterwards picking up pieces of bodies which were carried off in school football team was practising a few Hundred fee away on a Grassy Field. We were standing in the Middle of the playground when we saw the plane said Stewar Campbell coach of the team. It was about 50 feet in the air and pointed nose a custodian saw it coming toward me from the second floor of the building As he was closing windows. Two 11-year old football players saw it hurtle Over the Trees hit the Street and Bounce up into the bicycle fire douse firemen extinguished the flames quickly but the search for pieces of bodies in the mangled Metal mud an aircraft parts went on for said he and a football player ran up to the plane to try to get someone out. But it was burning in such Arage that we could not get close to it he said. We knew there would be no survivors. It was an wounded marines to visit Holland Heerlen the Netherlands up ten . Marines wounded in Vietnam and being nursed in the naval Hospital in Bethesda md., will be flown to Europe saturday. They have been invited by the Limburge oud mariners vereeniging a Union of dutch Exma Rines to spend a vacation in the Netherlands. The dutch marines involve feel close of their younger Amer ican comrades in arms. They Al had their military training at Camp Lejeune . Weather h l 76 54 69 53 64 49 76 63 85 64 64 25 77 55 75 51 70 35 63 48 73 52 71 63 65 41 54 38 63 47 44 30 73 59 64 45 72 89 78 73 60 62 82 74 59 45 94 66 81 67 . Temperatures Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Atlanta Birmingham Bismarck Boston Buffalo camper Chicago Cincinnat Cleveland Denver Dee Molnes Detroit Duluth Elpaso Fairbanks fort Worth Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las vegas los Angeles h u 74 54 Louisville 68 53 Memphis 53 45 Milwaukee 53 36 mils St. Paul 88 66 new Orleans 77 59 new York 61 25 North Platte 64 54 okla. City 96 70 Phoenix 81 57 Pittsburgh 74 52 Portland me. 94 61 Portland Ore. 66 30 rapid City 88 40 Reno 78 50 Richmond 55 49 St. Louis 83 50 Salt Lake City 76 66 san Antonio 73 68 san Diego 60 56 san Francisco 89 52 Seattle 71 60 Shreveport 86 67 tucson81 68 Washington
