Serving Saranac Lake, Lake Placid and Tupper Lake
EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR VOL. LXXXII NO. 85
pil Roundup
International
Americans still in Saigon
There are still Americans in Saigon today.
Many are American correspondents, seeing through to the
end the story of a war that lasted 30 years.
Some, including four United Press International reporters,
had no choice Tuesday on whether to join the evacuation of
Saigon or whether to keep sending out their stories from the
South Vietnamese capital.
Frightened, angry moos kept Saigon bureau chief Alan
Dawson, Asia news editor Leon Daniel, and correspondents
Paul Vogle and Charles Huntley from boarding buses to helicopter staging areas or scaling the walls of the U.S. Embassy.
Guard's seizure investigated
TEL AVIV (UPI) - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin dispatched a top aide to South Africa today to investigate the case
of David Protter, a Jewish guard who took over the Israeli
Embassy in Johannesburg at gunpoint.
Protter's seizure of the embassy Monday set off a gun battle
with police that ended with four persons dead and 32 others
wounded.
Cambodia's regime irks France
Cambodia's Communist regime, scarcely two weeks old, has
irked France by deciding to make foreigners holed up in Phnom
Penh's F r e n c h Embassy leave for Thailand by truck —a
rugged journey of 300 miles.
A French presidential communique Tuesday said the
overland trek "runs counter to international law" and charged
military troops had surrounded the embassy with its 610 foreign
nationals, including six American newsmen.
It also charged the Khmer Rouge had cut radio links with the
embassy, the only source of information in the capital since the
Communists shut down Radio Phnom Penh last week.
Refugees start new lives
The first large group of Vietnamese refugees rescued from*
Saigon has arrived in the United States, and many of the exiles
*set out immediately today to begin their new lives in America.
American military officials at the Pacific refugee camps
scheduled flights that will bring thousands more of the homeless
people to this country by week's end.
Some of the initial opposition some Americans expressed to
the waves of Vietnamese evacuees was moderated Tuesday by
other U.S. citizens who urged the refugees be welcomed.
National
SLA m e m b e r a t t a c k s witness
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) — Russell Little, one of two
reputed Symbionese Liberation Army members on trial for
murder, Tuesday attacked a prosecution witness and former
friend who had turned against the terrorist group.
Little, cross-examining Christopher Thompson, who was
marked for death by the SLA after he testified before a grand
jury, leaped into the witness box swinging his fists and striking
Thompson in the face.
Economic news mixed
Economic news was mixed Tuesday. U.S. Steel Corp. and
Bethlehem Steel Corp. said their first-quarter earnings were
sharply higher, but General Motors Corp. said its earnings in
the first three raontta of the year hit a 29-year low. Despite the
bleak first quarter, GM executives joined officers of the two
steel companies in expressing optimism about an end to the
recession. Dun & Bradstreet also reported business failures last
week were the greatest in more than eight years.
Capital punishment vetoed
BOSTON (UPI) — Less than 30 minutes after it had been
enacted, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis vetoed a new capital punishment law in Massachusetts. A check with Senate sources indicated the veto would be sustained with no votes to spare in the
Senate. Dukakis, explaining his action, said he found it impossible to "reconcile the willful taking of a human life."
State
CSEA finding facts
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - The Civil Service Employees Association, which a month ago was ready to call its members off
their jobs in a contract dispute with the state, today began a
mail campaign asking state worker members to accept a factfinders' recommendation for a 6 per cent pay increase which is
much leaner than the union's original demand.
But, Gov. Hugh L. Carey, who first called for a factfinding
panel to investigate the contract impasse between the state and
the unionrepresenting 147,000 state employes, Tuesday announced he was rejecting the panel's recommendations, thus
pushing responsibility for settlement of the dispute over to the
legislature.
Wednesday, April 30, 1975
Arena contributions
The following have made donations to the
Saranac Lake Skating Arena fund since the list
was last published on April 29.
A donation from a T.V. raffle conducted at the
Saranac Lake Lanes
Mr. and Mrs. William Petty
V
Mr. and Mrs. Winchester MacDowell in
memory of Tim and Jeff Meineker
Florence M. Skeels
Leo Buckley
Mrs. C.T. Finning
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Skeels
Mrs. Sally Wallace
Mr. and Mrs. John Pickreign
James Derby
Total donations received to date are $21,278.
Two Marines last
to die in Vietnam
By United Press International
Charles McMahon Jr., 22,
named "Boy of the Year" in
Woburn, Mass., in 1971, was at
home earlier this month,
relaxing with his friends.
Darwin Judge, 19, of Marshalltown,
Iowa,
was
graduated from high school
last June, joined the Marines,
and was put in an honor
detachment.
TTien they went to Vietnam.
Charles and Edna McMahon
said goodby to their son April
5. They weren't worried —the
war was just about over.
But two Marines walked up
to the McMahon's pink and
white home Tuesday with the
worst possible news. Their son
was dead.
Cpl. McMahon and Lance
Cpl. Judge were the last U.S.
fighting men killed on Vietnam soil.
McMahon, who had been in
Vietnam just two weeks, and
Judge, a one-month veteran of
Saigon, were kilted Monday by
rocket and artillery fire on
Tan Son Nhut airport outside
Saigon —less than 12 hours
before the start of the final
evacution of Americans from
Saigon.
The parents of the dead
Marines went into seclusion.
Hie Me M ah on s shut their
front door, and bolted it. They
wanted to be alone with their
grief.
McMahon came home the
last time to Massachusetts to
attend the annual Boys Club
dinner. He was "Boy of the
Year" in 1971 —the year
before he was graduated from
Woburn High School.
McMahon and Judge were
part of the 120-Marine U.S.
Embassy security detachment assaigned to the defense
attache office at the Saigon
airport. They were the fourth
and fifth men killed in Vietnam since the cease-fire
agreement was signed in
Paris in 1973.
Judge joined the Marines
last June. He arrived in
Saigon March 23. His parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Judge,
said they were told he died at
4:45 a.m. EDT Monday.
The parents went into seclusion, but Judge's brother-inlaw, Greg DeSauliners, said
young Judge wanted to be a
Marine and wanted to serve in
Vietnam.
"This was one of his
choices, 1 DeSauliners said, "i
think there and Austrdtia were
his choices."
Judge was the youngest of
three children. McMahon had
two younger brothers. Judge's
father is a postal employe.
McMahon's father works at a
gelatin company and he and
his wife drive school buses.
Officials said it would be six
to 12 days before the bodies of
the young Marines are
brought home for military
funerals.
PHONE: Saranac Lake 881-2600
TWENTY CENTS
Viet CongJly flag
over Saigon palace
SAIGON (UPI) - A triumphant Communist army riding
tanks, trucks atid captured
American Jeeps took over
Saigon today and raised the
Viet Cong flag over the
presidential palace in what
the Communist world hailed
as a great victory of historic
importance.
The Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese troops — jubilant
over the unconditional surrender that ended 35 years of war
against American, French,
Japanese and South Vietnamese forces—seized Saigon
radio and announced they
were renaming the South
Vietnamese capital "Ho Chi
Minn City."
The occupation of the city
three hours and a half after
the last Americans were flown
out in U.S. Marine helicopters
was mostly peaceful, but there
were some sporadic firefights
in the capital as last ditch
defenders fought suicide
battles.
One by one, the Viet Cong
and North Vietnamese troops
overwhelmed the holdouts and
gained complete control of all
of Saigon. They crashed tanks
through the wall at the
presidential palace and
hoisted a huge Viet Cong
flag—red on the top, blue on
the bottomm with a gold star
in the center. President Duong
Van Minh was reported in
custody.
UPI photographer Hoang
Van Cuong rode one of the
Russiarimade tanks into the
presidential
compound
surrounded by approving,
smiling soldiers who shouted
"Press guys, good." The Viet
Cong made no attempts to
interfere with picture taking
or news coverage.
One noisy fight broke out in
front of the presidential
palace —now the Viet Cong
headquarters—as
UPI
correspondent Alan Dawson
was attempting to make
contact w|th senior Communist officials to discuss
news and photograph operations.
Dawson spent 10 minutes
tucked between two Viet Cong
behind a tree. The Communists put out a tremendous
volume of tank, machine gun
and rifle fire and Dawson was
able to pull out after about 10
minutes.
Other fighting was reported
underway with holdout paratroopers near the Saigon Zoo
at the north edge of Saigon and
with Special Forces troops at
the southwest edge.
The Nor in Vietnamese
News Agency, in a Hanoi
Radio broadcast monitored in
Tokyo,
reported
fierce
fighting in Saigon despite the
surrender but said South
Vietnamese officers, soldiers,
policemen and administrative
personnel
were
"disintegrating" in the wake of a
general attack. It said people
in the Saigon area were rising
up to join the liberation forces.
When a boatload of persons
tried to set off down the Saigon
River to the South China Sea,
a Viet Cong officer ordered a
tank to fire a round across the
ship's bow. The boat turned
around and returned to the
Saigon dock.
There was no comment in
Washington from President
Ford other than the statement
that the American evacuation
"closes a chapter in, the
American
experience."
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger admitted that the 14
years of American involvement in Vietnam "did
not achieve the objectives of
those who started the original
involvement."
The Communist victory
dealt a stunning setback to the
United States, which spent
$150 billion and lost more than
50,000 lives in a futile effort to
save the South Vietnamese
government.
Former President Nguyen
Van Hiieu, in exile on Taipei,
maintained silece.
Soviet Tass commentator
Sergei Bulantsev said that
after more than 30 years of
fighting "at last, conditions
were created that peace
should reign in the longsuffering land of South
Vietnam, and a most
dangerous seat of international tensions and
military conflict have been
liquidated."
The Viet Cong's Provincial
Revolutionary
Government
delegation in Paris hailed the
capture of Saigon as an
historic victory over the
Americans
and
hinted
privately that the wardivided
country may soon be reunited.
It was divided into North and
South Vietnam after Ho Chi
Minh's victory over the
French at Dien Bien Phu.
In Hanoi, jubilant North
Vietnamese went into the
streets and held the noisiest
and most joyous celebration of
the long, drawn-out war, the
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug
reported. Hundreds of thouA CORRECTION
SARANAC LAKE - The
total 1975-76 budget for the
Village of Saranac Lake is
$1,337,558. In an article in
Tuesday's Daily Enterprise it
Was given aSH,l»;250. Ttils
figure
omitted
$209,308
estimated revenues in the
general fund.
TONIGHT
TUPPER LAKE The
Tupper Lake School District
annual public informational
meeting will be at 7:30 this
evening in the school. Copies
of the proposed budget will be
available and questions will be
answered. The vote on the
budget will be on May 6.
sands of people dad in their
best clothes attended a victory
rally marked by the soivd of
loudspeakers,
firecrackers
and rockets.
In Peking, the embassies of
North Vietnamese and the
Provisional Revolutionary
Government (Viet Cong) were
decorated with flags and
banners and hundreds of
firecrackers celebrated the
Communist victory, Tanjug
reported.
In Saigon, crowds greeted a
victory parade through downtown Tu Do street apprehensively. Many persons waved
at the Communist troops, and
some of the soldiers waved
back.
The
Communists
laughed and cheered and
shouted "hello, comrade" to
bystanders
from
tanks
bearing the red, yellow and
blue Viet Cong flags.
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WEATHER
(Observations from Bob
Kampf's official weather
station Ray Brook at 7
a.m., with data for last 24
hours.)
Barometer—30.28
and
rising
Temperature—High 59, low
27
Precipitation—None
Wind-Calm
Bewpotet-n^egrees
9cy—dear
Visibility—18 miles, haz<
and ground fog
Forecast: Gear to partly
cloudy tonight, with lows in
the middle to upper 30s.
Considerable
sunshine
Thursday, with highs in the
60s. Winds variable 5 to 12
miles per hour tonight. The
precipitation probability is
10 per cent tonight and 20
per cent Thursday.
N.L. officials want Doyle remembered
By BILL MCLAUGHLIN
SARANAC LAKE — The
final resting place of baseball
immortal Larry Doyle, in St.
Bernard's
Cemetery
is
awaiting from Barre, Vt. a
special headstone with an
inset bronze plate indicating
his place in the American
Sports scene of the early 1900s.
Larry Doyle, historically,
was probably the most
colorful second baseman in
organized baseball, and that
includes today's rather drab
personalities of the diamond
who rarely say anything
except through their press
agents. . . and for a price!
Larry was a Saranac Lake
winter Carnival King and
enjoyed life in this small
community far removed from
the metropolitan arenas
where he achieved fame and
the adulation of fans from
coast to coast as a Giant on
John McGraw's perennial
National league champions
during the bright, brash years
of the early 1900s.
The Baseball Hall of Fame
has been in contact with
Larry's daughter, Doris
Christopher. Ken Smith, the
director of the Cooperstown
institution who travelled with
Larry as a writer on the New
York Evening Graphic, has a
special regard for Larry's
memory.
Larry was unable to crash
that golden gate in his lifetime in spite of his dramatic
achievements and the gifts he
returned to the game as a
player.... gifts that made him
a national sports figure.
It seemed to his friends here
in Saranac Lake that the Hall
of Fame was filled with guys
named "Joe" and that Larry
was far more deserving of the
honors denied him.
Larry took it much better
than his fans, however, and
when he died in 1973 it was
hoped that he would be enshrined posthumously as an
immortal of that specific era
in history. Larry's teammates
included Jim Thorpe, Christy
Mathewson, and Chief Ben-
der.
Larry somehow continued to
be a legend all his life, and
since he evidenced a strong
wish to be buried here, his
family acquiesced.
The Larry Doyle League is a
living memorial to the man
who today could easily have
become a millionaire through
his talents and athletic gifts.
He wouldn't have enjoyed the
game as much, but the money
might have outweighed that.
It is hoped that the National
League will absorb the cost of
the
monument.
Horace
Stoneham and Jim Farley
have sent inquiries here as to
progress made in marking the
burial place of this uncommon
sports luminary of the 1900's.
A memorial service is
planned at the dedication this
spring, and members of the
Larry Doyle League will
participate along with the
people of Saranac Lake who
found Larry to be much like
themselves in the every day
business of living.
Carey argues over legislature
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) — A cat and mouse game between the
legislature and Gov. Hugh L. Carey over separation of mental
retardation functions from the Mental Hygiene Department
continued today with a powerful Republican senator reacting
cooly to Carey's proposal.
The Republican-controlled Senate and Democrat-controlled
Assembly have already passed a bill which wuld set up a
separate Office of Mental Retardation.
Krupsak refuses salary increase
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - Lt. Gov. Mary Anne Krupsak today
will receive, at her request, nearly $3,800 as part of a salary
increase she repeatedly has said she would not accept, UPI has
learned.
The money is part of a $15,000 salary increase approved by the
state legislature last year. Miss Krupsak has previously said
she would not accept the money, and her aides maintain the
money will be returned to the state eventually.
Consumer protection supported
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) — A state Division of Consumer
Protection would be "a great step forward" or "total overreaction to a limited problem," according to opposing views
now under study by a legislative committee.
The consumer committees of both the Assembly and the
Senate heard the testimony Tuesday during a lengthy hearing
on establishment of a new Division of Consumer Protection.
NEW-YORKrNATIOftA!
REMEMBER HOW GREAT— Larry Doyle and sports line-up which made baseball history at the
Christy M a the w son, both of whom loved Saranac Polo Grounds where the World Champions flag
Lake, are members of this illustrious N.Y. Giants flew with perennial abandon. Larry, who is buried
i
at St. Bernard's Cemetery, will have a special
memorial marking his grave this spring.
(Belvedere Sports Archives Photo)