The Iron Mountain News FIFTY-SIXTH
YEAR,
NO.
72
IRON
MOUNTAIN-KINGSFORD,
MICHIGAN,
TUESDAY,
JULY
24 PAGES
4, 1976
PRICE 2 CENTS
Americans celebrate in grand fashion By The Associated Press
‘Oh, what a weekend it was.
‘The fuse was long, tec long everyone
said, but when the grand Bicentennial
skyrocket went off it lifted America’s
spirit and uncovered its pride and, at least
for
the
moment,
crowned
America's good with brotherhood from. sea to shining sea. It was as if the entire nation put aside
its cares and sorrows and thought at
last of its own best dreams. "After (wo centuries there is still something wonderful about being an American,” President Ford said, standin, as. Jefferson's front lawn at Monticello, and the nation answered, Amen
“If said, what And
we cannot quite express it," be “we know whal it is. You know it is or you would not be here.” where were you?
Americans have a way of re membering where they were at the Preclse momentof « national trauma Dec. 7, 1911; But in his lietme vil Thomas Gates, the American envoy in Peking, ever forget that on the Fourth of July in the
hoop spinning, bike racing and watermelon cating The same easy. happy spirit
majestic square-riggers and the glory of 10,000 sails along the flank of the first capital of the Republic?
prevailed at other tational shrines.
Across the land, it was a Super Bow!
of superlatives
the
biggest,
the
At
loudest, the best and the brightest, a
blur of extravaganzas
months
spontaneously
burst
into
“God
“They gave a war
Bless
Will any of the five miljion — five million! — who lined New York harbor and the Hudson River ever forget those
a
booming
. .at
here and thousands
of Amerieans came," 30,000 with picnic lunches...in Washington, the city everybody seemed to run against this year, where storytellers and puppets
In Boston, they would remember bursting into “Happy Birthday” after listening to the Declaration of Independence read fram the balcony where it was first read in that city in 1776. In Lexington and Concord, where the fight for liberty began. they would remember # special cheeriness at the traditional children's games of hula
Will any of the million surrounding the Washington Monument, ohing and abing at the grandest fireworks display in history, forget that when it was aver that huge crowd, that happy throng,
ot
The AP reported about a re-enactment
where the crowds assembled.
country”
McHenry,
Gettysburg, where Willlam Williams of
centennial was the spontaneous warmth and gaiety and, yes; patrtotinm:
Tomb in the world’s largest Communist
Fort
rocket display at dawn's early light
in
preparation. But the surprise of the Bi-
entertained
Laughing
kids
at
West
Potomac Park in Philadelphia, where the President joined thousands for formal ceremonies at Independence
Hall, and broke into Republic,” riders, in
also where a subway rider ‘The Battle Hymn of the and immediately the other al the cars, joined in
Israeli commando receives hero’s funeral
Rescue operation cele TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel gives a hero's funeral today to American-born Lt, Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, the only Israeli commando
killed in the rescue of more
than
100
hostages held by Palestinian terrorists at Uganda's Entebbe Airport
Two of the three Israeli civilians killed in the gun battle Saturday night were buried Monday with military honors.Speaking at one of the funerals, Israel's chief military chaplain, Brig Mordechai Piron, said the 2,400-mile, three-plane commando raid “was a magnificent,
courageous operation, but
itis the fate of this nation that every joy and delight
be mixed
mourning.”” Threats
of
with pain
retaliation
Palestinians in Lebanon ‘8 President Idi
nothing
to diminish
and
from
and from Amin
the
pride
and
rejoicing of the Israelis in their armed
forces’ most notable exploit since the a of the Arabs in the 1967 Six-Day
e Seler patrols were being especially vigilant, and Palestinian reprisal at tacks on. Isra business
countries
seemed
likely.
Hut
with
rated the
Palestinians in Lebanon fighting for existence in a civil war with Christian Lebanese and Syrian forces, no large-scale raids across the border were expected Amin’s threats aroused concern only because one of the Israeli passengers on the hijacked Air France airliner, 7% year-old Dora Bloch, was ina Kampala hospital when the commandos landed, and they could not bring her back. The Israeli government appealed ta the International Red Cross and an unidentified third country to secure her their
Democratic governors adopt statement endorsing Carter HERSEY, Pa. (AP) ~ Jiseay Gather won the near unanimous endorsement of Democratic governors today for is campeign
Georgia,”
for the White
House.
about 30 governors
declared
in a statement adopted without dissent at the National
Governors
Conference:
Gov.
und
Jr,
of
California, still. a rival candidate for presidential nomination despite Carter's command-of majority delegate support, did not attend the conference. Gov. Edwin Edwards of Louisiana, who # still supporting Brown, did not attend the endorsement caucus. ‘There are 36 Democratic
governors.
State aeronautics
panel to meet here The Michigan Aeronautics Cammission will hold its July meeting at 8 a.m. Wednesday in Iron Mountain James D. Ramsey, director of the commission, said the session will be held at the Dickinson Inn The agenda includes @ report on an
aircraft pool study and a. report on
airline airport security, The latter was compiled by Col George Halverson, director of the Michigan State Police and a member of the commission: rts also will be given on @
navigational aid program and a schedule of aeronautics fees and fuel taxes The commission is seheduled to act
on ratification of funding allocations ta state airports, which were recommended at an executive committee meeting June 15. The senior member of the Michigan
Acronauties Commission
is Mario
Fontana
A
of Iron’ Mountain.
17-year
veteran of the commission, Fontana has served as chairman of the group three times. He was first appointed to the com: mission in “1947 and served until 1951
Fontana was named to the commission
again in tinvously One of aviation, years.
1963 and has served con since that time the pioneers in Michigan Fontana’s career spans over
19 Republicans and 1 Independent.
‘
release The Ugandan resident, who reported that the Israeli commandos killed 20 of his troops and wounded sent protests against the attack to the United Nations, the Organization of Af rican Unity, the Arab League and other Third
World
The 48-nation OAU
Gov.
Reubiti Askew of Florida, chairman of the 36 Democratic gavernors were ut the breakfast but he did net have an
exact. number
He
also
unanimously
condemned the raid and said it would
ask the U.N. Security Council to take up the matter. Amin accused the government of neighboring Kenya of giving major aid to the Israeli attack. The Kenyans denied the charge and said all they did was to provide medical treatment for Israelis wounded in the operation eraident Ford and many other stern leaders congratulated the ieee li government on the commando raid, and rs in a number of
countrtes
the Democratic caucus, said about 30 of
countries,
declared today and Wednesday days of
mourning for the dead Ugandans.
published
pressing approvalor
editorials
ex
of
the t response to the hijacking. Israel's traditional foes, the Arabs and the Soviets, issued the expected de-
hunciations.
U.N. Seeretary-General Waldheim denied an Egyptian
Kurt report
that he had accused the Israelis of ‘flagrant aggression.” A statement
Meanwhile, Carter told a news conference here that he will interview a second possible running mate — Sen Walter Mondale, D-Minn. — on Thurs day. He met with Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine on Monday Over breaktust-Carter-promised the kavernors that as president he would be mindful of his own statehouse ex perience in Georgia. Carter said he will work closel he governors in shaping budgets and legislation if he wins the White House
that {t ‘was indeed a violation of the sovereignty of a U.N. member state.”
Gov. Marvin Mandel of Maryland, long a eritic of Carter, sponsored the endorsement resolution and said the
rae cloudy tonight with a 55. Partly cloudy low
time for Democratic in-fighting is past.
“Primaries are the opportunity for
all of ws to have our own opinions,
when we get to the general election we
are
united
Mandel said
behind
from a spokesman said the secretary-
general was questioned during a visit to Cairo about “legal and juridical aspeets of the Israeli raid” and replied But
later
Monday
Frankfurt
Waldheim ‘‘expressed satisfaction that it proved possible to save human lives, the spokesman said
The weather
yesterday.
87
minimum last night, 51 | noon today
our candidate,”
CELEBRATION
—
The iatescoal | Fourth of July fireworks display
brightened the skies over [ron Mountain Sunday
by Dick Ferris)
PALMA
DE
(AP) —
MAJORCA,
A Libyan
Balearic
airliner
hijacked on a flight within Libya today
landed here with 66 persons aboard and the See surrendered, airport sources sai
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ‘Queen Elizabeth I~ was awaited — tr
Philadelphia today to begin-a-six-day Bicentenniat visit to the United States with dedication of a spectal bell 200 years after the Liberty Hell rang out a message of freedom from England The queen and her husband, Prince
Phillip. were scheduled to disembark rom the royal yacht Britannia at Penn's Landing on the Delaware River, where Pennsylvania's founder, Willian Penn, came ashore in 1681 The 10-(on Bicentennial bell, cast at the
Whitechapel
London
where
made in |
Bell
Foundry
in
the Liberty Bell was
angs in a 130-foot-high
brick bell tower at the new Visitors” Center The new bell is inseribed: “Let Freedom Rin As the queen prepared to dedicate the new bell withher only formal speech of day.
preacher-demonstrator
Carl
MeIftire planned a demonstration to protest the gift bell’s lack of a biblieal inseription. The Rev. Mr. MeIntire says the new bell is a “counterfeit and a phony’ and he wants the queen to take it hack The Liberty Bell is inscribed “Proclaim liberty throughout all the
He retired from Fontana Aviation, Inc., in 1964; but is still active in Mying and other weronautical activities. He
was the founder and first president of Fontana has logged over 11,000 hours
of flight time as a pilot
be htieckor: videntified only as aman
on
to
Palma
events unlawful,
say officials WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have decided that public schools may no longer sponsor father son or mother-daughter events because they violate new rules against sex discrimination.
de
Majorca. There was no information on whether it refueled in Algeria
That's the word quietly school administrators in Ariz., last week, more than alter the officials asked if ities were still lawful under approved by President summer
plane was hijacked on an early
opposed to the Libyan regime of Col. Mommar Khadafy, gave up to airport police and turned_over twa toy pistols.
and two knives to the chief of the airport, the sources said
‘They said nobody was injured and the
passengers were being looked after by
The pilot tried first to land at Tunis cree but Tunisian officials refused
previously
at
miles south of
Boufarik
a
basé,
~~
passed to Scottsdale, five months such activ regulations Ford last
In @ letter cleared through Washington channels, John E Palomina of the San Francisce regional Office for Civil Rights wrote to the officials telling them that “functions
airport authorities. jon and barricaded the runOfficials in Algiers said the hijacked —jetliner—had—landed. ~—fanistarrofficiais said i man aboard — 20
after” being
refused permission to land at the Tunis: and Algiers airports, The base is the beadquarters of the Algerian air force.
displayed
Discrimination
Algerian authorities said the plane stayed at Boufarik only about 10 flew
er, the queen was scheduled to meet first with Mayor Frank Rizzo, then go to Independence Hall where Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Henjamin Franklin and other patriots plotted revolution sgainst her ancestor, King George II She and Phillip will walk through the compact historic area, visiting Car penter's Hall where the First Con but cracked, Liberty Bell \s
He took his first Mying lessons here in 1929 and purchased his first airplane in 192. “Aviation is the backbone of our nation," Fontana said in an interview Inst year.
then
Queen Elizabeth 1 Jand unto all the inhabitants thereof,”’ a
tinental Congress met in 1774 to denounce British colonial policies. and the Liberty Bell pavillion wh the famed,
Fontana Aviation.
minutes,
photo
begins six-day visit
Hijacker surrenders Islands
ning. (Iron Mountain News
Queen Elizabeth IT
the
Wednesday High near 8) Maximum
but
in
HOLIDAY
such as father-son or mother-daughter
movement called Vigilant Youth that is opposed to Khadafy's regime.
otc FELCH Jed the North Dickinson
in time to the music, Bicentennial Paradé route in Felch Sunday. (Iron Mountain School Band along the = News photo by Dick Ferris)
teamed
County
breakfasts would be subjecting students 10 separate treatment and would not be permitted."
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