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HPT 1 TXTMTTirirhTO (I ii li1 Si ill 130TH YEAR NO. 83 FINAL EDITION WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1970 PRICE 10 CENTS Fans Ecstatic Over New Stadium Wax They carried cameras and radios, and a lucky few had sack lunches. The suspension bridge carried a steady stream of pedestrians from Kentucky, but few cars. Many crowded into the Stadium Club, between Third and Fourth Streets on Walnut, for one last drink under a sign that said "Hit This Sign with Home Run and Win 56 Gallons of Whiskey." Inside the stadium there were such historic sitrns as "Hi, Reds" and "Hello. Pe Wee' to mark the occasion.

And there was an official, legitimate, 14-carat pregame ceremony. The Roger Bacon High School Band got it started at 7:38 p. m. by popping out to shallow center and assuming the shape of a crown. Chester Lathrop of the Findlay Market Association presented a nylon American flag to Reds General Manager Bob Howsam.

Actually, the flag was already hanging limply in centerfield. It appeared to be sweating. Howsam simply thanked the association warmly, thus becoming one of the few ceremony stars to stay within his 30-second limit. Great Traffic Jam, but hte congestion on Cincinnati streets failed to materialize. Instead it formed on the sidewalks and restaurants in downtown Cincinnati and lower downtown Covington.

Crowds were standing three-deep at some bars, and restaurants and sandwich shops were turning hungry fans away simply because there was no more room. The crush began about 4:45 and lasted past 7 p. m. "It's really a bad situation with the restaurants," said Jerry Moore, who runs a news stand at Fourth and Vine Streets. "People ask Where's a good place to eat, and even the bad places are filled." THERE WERE NO traffic tieups before the game.

Capt. Ed Diekman of the Traffic Bureau, in charge of the 75 policemen on foot directing traffic and the miscellaneous squad cars and motorcycle officers, attributed the smooth flow to the fans' arriving early and parking downtown instead of at the stadium, where there were hundreds of vacant parking spaces. The only jams were pedestrian, on the ramps leading to the stadium and city sidewalks. Crowds were 40-deep at some intersections. FRANCIS DALE, president of the Reds, asked everybody to sing the Star Spangled Banner enthusiastically when it came up on the program, and to give Pete Rose a big hand when he came to bat in the bottom of the first.

The fans did both. Mayor Eugene P. Ruehlmann called it "one of the most thrilling moments in Cincinnati's history," and John E. Held, president of the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners, invited everybody back this fall for the World Series. "IT IS FITTING that the city that had the first successful professional baseball team would start off baseball's second century with this beautiful new stadium," said National League President Chub Feeney.

Then came the Star Spangled Banner, just like Dale wanted it. And all the civilians marched off the field. Then, with the important matters out of the way, some guys in red and white and some more in gray wandered out and got a game of baseball started. And Cincinnati's glad tidings were over for the evening. Young Thornton said he hoped Pete Rose wouldn't hurt himself sliding.

AND JOHN Fembacher said he wished they had waited until the All-Star game to move in, because it would have been prettier. He ought to know. He's one of the hard hats who helped put in the 51,000 seats. Mrs. George Hollister and Mrs.

Standish Meacham had two of the best seats in the house boxes right behind home plate. "We're thrilled," said Mrs. Hollister. "My impression is one of extreme neatness and great contours." ACROSS THE stadium, a couple of light years away, Mrs. Joseph Piening leaned back in the very last row on the very highest deck in the very deepest of centerfield, and allowed that it did seem at first that you are falling forward, but that eventually you got used to it.

"I would guess this is one of the lousiest seats here," said her husband, "and it's better than a lot of seats in Crosley Field." The fans had their informal say as they began filing into Riverfront more than two hours before the game, many still hungry. It was billed as the Night of the The three seemed to share one thing in common with most of the other people at Riverfront Stadium Tuesday night. They talked about this gigantic new ballfield as if they were on retainers from the Reds public relations department. THEY USED WORDS like "beautiful" and "magnificent" and "great" in talking about a ballpark on an evening when it would have been a lot easier to talk about the weather. It was one of those nights when the fans did more fanning than the people on the field "It looks all right," said Frank Lang, who figures he watched the Reds in their former headquarters for almost 50 years.

"I heard a guy outside say it isn't as nice as Busch Stadium," said Art Brooks, a 40-year fan himself. "Well, hell, they haven't finished it yet. I turned around and told him he was full of bull." "I think it's a great achievement for the City of Cincinnati." said Kevin Church. You wouldn't normally expect to hear something like that coming from a 13-year-old. A few people said it did look a little strange without base paths.

BY TOMMY WEST Enquirer Reporter Daryl Thornton called it one of the finest stadiums ever built. BOWIE KUHN called it one of the great sports monuments of the world. Carl Gilbert called it a much better place to sell beer than Cros-ley Field. It doesn't have base paths or a Mountain Dew sign to aim at in left centerfield. It doesn't have a set of snorting bulls on the scoreboard, and Tuesday night it didn't even have hot dogs.

But it did have 51,000 fans, and they had all come together to see their Cincinnati Reds break in their green-carpeted, multi-decked roundhouse called Riverfront Stadium. Daryl Thornton is the Cincinnati 13-year-old who has discovered the only apparent way to get autographs here. He suggests laying for the ball players In the parking lot before and after the game. Bowie Kuhn is the commissioner of baseball. And Carl Gilbert is one of the 31 bartenders in Riverfront Stadium.

Nixon FfffST STJiYl 1 iiui" i It Can't SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPD President Nixon said Tuesday the U. S. thrusts into Cambodia dealt a severe setback to the Communists and told Hanoi it either could negotiate a just peace now or face years more of conflict. "There is no military solution to this conflict," the President said in an exhaustive 7000 word written report.

MR. NIXON announced U. S. troops were now out of Cambodia and would not be sent back. An administration official said he foresaw no circumstances where American ground forces would return to Cambodia.

The President said the United States will continue bombing raids in Cambodia and that South Vietnamese troops, most of whom will he withdrawn from Cambodia shortly, will he free to go back to knock out attempts to rebuild the sanctuaries. The administration official estimated allied troops destroyed 60Co of Communist supplies during their two month incursion into enemy sanctuaries. AP Wirsphoto bank as police officers, left, keep him covered. At his feet is a sack of money taken from the tellers' cages. This picture was taken by Corbett Fowler of the Leavenworth Times.

Bank Bandit Taken One of three men who held up the First State Bank of Lansing, runs from the tear-gas-filled Bus Fares Up A Nickel Bus lares in Cincinnati are a nickel higher for all riders today. A compromise reached Tuesday between the city and Cincinnati Transit, saved students from paying adult rates until January 1, 1972. The new fares for adults are 40 cents cash and 35 cents for tokens. Students will pay 35 cents cash and 28 cents for tokens. 'Junkie' Coaxed From High Perch Warns Advisers Leave SAIGON The last handful of American advisers and support troops to the South Vietnamese armed forces withdrew Tuesday from Cambodia, 63 days after the start of major allied operations against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sanctuaries there.

United States military spokesmen reported that the Saigon Command headquarters had received a telephone message saying that the advisers, numbering no more than two dozen as of Monday, had been withdrawn. Mr. Nixon said he will not take advantage of U. S. military successes in Cambodia to raise the ante for a negotiated peace in Southeast Asia.

"THE OTHER side cannot impose its will through military means. We have no intention of imposing ours," the President said. "We have not raised the terms for a settle- ambulance which took him to General Hospital. The priest, identified as the Rev. James V.

McCummiskey, and the psychiatrists, T. Reeder and Wallace Combs, talked at various intervals to the apparently despondent youth. Hundreds of persons who had been spectators at the Reds' baseball game at the new Riverfron Stadium gathered as closely as they could to view the suspensful drama. Patrolman Charles Greenert, among those first on the roof, quoted the youth as saying at one point, "Come any closer and I'll take you with me." "I'M A JLNKIE from Lexington I tried to get into Longview (State Hospital)," Patrolman Greenert and Capt. Howard Espelage said the young man ranted as he sat at the roof's edge and on occasion got up and walked around in a small area.

Through a bullhorn, the psychiatrists, a priest from St. Xavier Church and police talked calmly, attempting to get the young man to safety. "Let us help you give us a chance to help you," pleaded one of the psychiatrists. The would-be jumper, according to Patrolman Greenert, had "somewhat" long hair and wore what appeared in the darkness to be a black sweatshirt. A janitor in the building first spotted the youth on the roof about 9 p.

m. and summoned police thinking he was a burglar. Three hours later the desperate young man held his position. Just How Restricting Is Senate War Curb? tianoi ar ment as a result of our recent military successes. "We will not lower our minimum terms in response to enemy pressure.

Our objective remains a negotiated peace with justice for both sides and which gives the people of South Vietnam the opportunity to shape their own future." The President continued that "with major efforts the North Vietnamese can perhaps rebuild" supply lines leading through Cambodia into South Vietnam, "but what end would a new round of conflict serve?" "There is no military solution to this conflict. Sooner or later, peace must come. It can come now, through a negotiated settlement that is fair to both sides and humiliates neither. Or it can come months from now, with both sides having paid the further price of protracted struggle." Administration officials indicated the United States now is considering appointing a new ambassador to the Paris peace talks. Philip C.

Habib has been heading the negotiations with North Vietnam since Henry Cabot Lodge quit in disgust last December. Mr. Nixon will elaborate on his statement tonight during a foreign policy discussion with representatives of the three television networks. Defeated 58-37 WASHINGTON UPD The Senate, ending a historic test of wills over the war-making powers of Congress and the President, voted Tuesday to prohibit President Nixon from sending American troops back into Cambodia without congressional approval. Seven weeks of sometimes bitter debate ended in a 58-37 triumph for supporters of an amendment that would cut off funds for retaining U.S.

forces in Cambodia despite Mr. Nixon's argument that his hands should not be tied in any way in protecting American forces in Vietnam. Nixon Veto Overridden Bv Congress WASHINGTON (UPD With final action by the Senate, Congress overrode a presidential veto Tuesday for the first time in 10 years, passing again a $2.7 billion hospital construction bill over President Nixon's objections. Senators voted 76 to 19 for re-approval of the politically popular measure to join the House, which voted 279 to 08 last Thursday to override Mr. Nixon's veto.

The bill authorizes a three-year extension of the expiring Hill-Burton hospital construction act "which previously had sailed through both chambers by unanimous votes. It called for the largest expenditure in the program's 24-year history. Mr. Nixon objected to the bill because it authorized $350 million more than he had requested. But more importantly, it would require that he spend not only all the funds to be appropriated under the bill as specified but also whatever else Congress might decide later to authorize for other health-related programs, including the vast research of the National Institutes of health.

Congress had not overriden a veto since July 1, 1960, when it passed a government pay raise over President Dwight D. Eisenhower's objections. Wallace M. Power, director of public utilities, said the agreement to postpone the equalization of adult and student fares will give the city and school board officials a chance to get state aid for urban public school students. The compromise was agreed to by Power and Benjamin Gettler, attorney for the transit company.

Power and the Inter-Governmental Affairs Committee had rejected the Analysis is a strong statement by the majority of the Senate that it did not favor the invasion of Cambodia and does not want a repetition. The impact of the amendment may never be tested. The House might not accept it; the President could veto it; and best, in the minds of all, the United States may never have to return to Cambodia. In its original form, the Cooper-Church amendment would have cut off funds for retaining U.S. forces in Cambodia after July 1.

It also would prohibit funds for mercenaries, U.S. advisers; and air power in direct support of the Cambodian government. As the jockeying continued, the Senate accepted additional language which said "nothing in this section shall be deemed to impugn the con original transit proposal because it would have given the company a return of more than 6rr, a maximum set by the franchise. Councilman Tom Luken, Democrat, a member of the committee, said he opposes the compromise because the net return would be about $100,000 for a six-month period, well above 6, which figures out about $22,000. stitutional power of the President as commander in chief To this, Sen.

Robert G. Byrd W. proposed, and the Senate, somewhat unsure of what it was doing, added "including the exercise of that constitutional power which may be necessary to protect the lives of United States armed forces wherever they are deployed" More than anything else, the Byrd verbiage created the puzzle-how much of a curb was the Senate attempting to inflict on the chief executive? Summing up the conflict, Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D said "one-half of the Senate is interpreting it one way and the other half the other way.

"THERE COULD be bitter acrimony at a later date when half of the Senate feels the law is being upheld and the other half feeling the law was violated." Youth Inhales An unidentified youth about 20 years old, proclaiming himself to be a "junkie," stationed himself on the roof of the 13-story Gwynne Building at Sixth and Main Sts. for three hours Tuesday night before being talked out of a threatened jump. The young man, breathing deeply and perspiring heavily, finally succumbed to the coaxing of two General Hospital psychiatrists and a St. Xavier Church priest. He was accompanied by them to a waiting BULLETINS Electric power shortages and failures were reported in many individual homes and scattered neighborhoods in the Greater Cincinnati area Tuesday night, a spokesman for Cincinnati Gas and Electric said.

The spokesman blamed the power failures on overloaded circuits at house and line power boxes due to a heavy use of air conditioners and fans. "It's just a hot day, we've swamped the electric system," another official said. WASHINGTON t.T) The Senate passed a combination postal reform and postal pay raise bill early Wednesday a rejecting a so-called i t-to-w amendment. The far-reaching measure, designed to put the postal service on a more business-like basis, is similar to legislation passed about two weeks ago by the House depite some key WASHINGTON (UPD After seven weeks of agonizing, the Senate has voted curbs on President Nixon's power to mount another military offensive into Cambodia. Or has it? The answer seems to depend on who answers.

The Cooper-Church amendment can be looked at in many ways and from many directions. Equally erudite and articulate senators, with equal force, claim that the amendment is an effective ban on a reinvasion of Cambodia; that it is meaningless; or that it is an open-ended invitation to the President to do what he wants without consulting Congress. WHATEVER ITS legal consequences, however, the amendment Too Far Too Fast "This is carrying 'togetherness' too far," Criminal Court Judge Paul E. Gilday commented Tuesday in convicting a husband and wife speeding while driving separate automobiles on their way to a chili parlor. The culprits in what Judge Gilday called "his and her violations" were William Weim er, 31, 1220 Hawkins and his wife, Elma, 44, both arrested at 2:45 a.

June 14, at 3600 Spring Grove Ave. Mrs. Weimer. was fined $20 and costs; Weimer was fined $20 and costs and had his driving license suspended for 14 days. The husband had a previous conviction.

NAACP Drive Set The Weather Gasoline, Dies Sunny, hot and humid today with a chance of widely scattered An East End youth died Tuesday thundershowers; high of 94. while working at Lunken Airport. Details Man on Paire i Police rePorted that Graham Kevin. Details, Map on Page 1, 34? Tusculum Ave was sipnon. ing gasoline from a large can when 1 dV' he got some gas in his moutri and began to vomit.

Page Page FELLOW EMPLOYEES at the Action Line .12 Deaths 30 Tony Maier Aviation Service tried Amuse 27-29 Editorials 4 t0 administer artificial respiration SraTdata 16F Graham StPP By, the Astramata HQrse genge 5 time pollce and tne Life squad ax-Bridge jumDie ''5 rived, the youth had been uncon- Brumfield 5 People 3 scious for more than 15 minutes. Business 18-22 Society 15 Further attempts at closed chest Classified 30-43 Sports rnassage and artificial respiration Columnists 5 TV-Radio 21 were unsuccessful, Life Squadsman Comics 17 Weikel 11 Ken Durban said. Crossword Women's Kevin, who was employed tern-Dear Abby 13 Word Game 16 porarily by the aviation service as a line boy and refueler, was dead Food Pages 1-24F on arrival at Jewish Hospital, Pa-Local and Area News, Pages 11, 12 trolman William Dority said. A national campaign of mass demonstrations to close down public building construction sites in an effort to force integration of unions and bring enforcement of Federal hiring guidelines was announced here Tuesday by civil rights leader Herbert Hill. Hill, labor director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told 3000 delegates at the group's 61st annual convention that picketing had begun Monday at 10 sites in Columbus, Ohio.

He said that picketing is planned in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston "and many other places in 25 states where public officials have failed to enforce federally-ordered manning tables. "They are the lawbreakers. They are as guilty of breaking the law as those who throw firebombs during urban disorders." Hill accused the Nixon administration of destroying the Philadelphia plan for curbing job discrimination as "a payoff to the building trades unions for their support of the war in Indochina.".