University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 3, 1970
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Governor's Wife Blasts Statement About Women at Conference
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.
(UPI)—Women and booze at the recent National Governors' Conference has caused a name-throwing bout between Missouri's first lady and a magistrate judge.
The controversy started recently when Hugh P. William, son of Fulton, former assistant attorney general and now magistrate judge of Callaway County, complained bitterly of the situation at the National Governors' Conference at the Lake of the Ozarks Aug. 9-12
"Nearly naked young women strolled about to excite the failing sexual powers of the governors," Williamson complained in a letter to the Fulton Sun-Gazette. "It is reported to me on excellent authority by employees of Tantar-A (the headquarters hotel), highway patrolmen and members of the news media, that other young women arrived after dark and left discreetly; also that night long gambling sessions were general."
Mrs. Warren E. Hearnes was livid after photocopies of the letter were distributed throughout the Capitol complex, it was reported. She quickly fired off a reply to the newspaper, noting that she was instrumental in planning the conference and was sure nothing of the sort happened.
"As a member of the First Baptist Church of Jefferson City and as the daughter of a Baptist minister, I am outraged that Judge Williamson could even suggest that such immoral conduct as he alleges would have been allowed to occur," Mrs. Hearnes wrote. "I am amazed that a judge would deal so loosely with the truth."
She also dismissed as untrue Williamson's allegations that the Lee C. Fine Airport at the lake was built simply to serve the conference and that highway patrolmen were pulled off the roads to act as chauffeurs to the detriment of the traveling public.
Mrs. Hearnes said all but three of the governors were
accompanied by their wives and children, and two of those are unmarried.
"Other persons permitted inside the resort during the conference were members of the press, security officers and the working staff of the resort, the host state and the National Governors' Conference," she added.
"Since the working staff had virtually no time to enjoy the swimming pools and the lake, for the most part those who were able to don bathing suits were the first ladies of the various states and their daughters.
“Are these the ladies about whom Judge Williamson makes his snide and malicious comments?” she asked.
"While his letter was riddled with inaccuracies and complete untruths, my greatest regret is that Judge Williamson would lower himself as a member of the judiciary by indulging in such vile, gutter-level commentary." Mrs. Hearnes concluded.
Caspian Sea Believed Dying
LONDON (UPI) — Pollution could make the Caspian Sea, the world's largest lake and a prime source of Russian caviar, a dead sea in the 21st century.
A top Soviet ecologist, Prof. A. G. Kasymov of the Azerbayan Academy of Sciences, warned in a recent issue of Britain's monthly marine pollution bulletin:
"If pollution of the western
part of the middle and southern Caspian Sea continues as it is now, the sea can be expected to be transformed into a dead sea—not only unsuitable for habitation by fish and other food animals but also for the needs of technology."
The 170,000 square mile Caspian Sea is surrounded by the Soviet Union and Iran. The world's
second largest lake, America's Lake Superior, has an area of 31,820 square miles.
Kasymov, who is attached to the academy's Institute of Zoology, said the Caspian Sea is annually being polluted by about one million tons of petroleum and petroleum products—100,000 tons each of asphalt and sulphuric acid and 10,000 tons of other substances.
S. Vietnamese Get U.S. Helicopters
SAIGON (UPI) — The United States Wednesday turned over control of a complete U.S. Army helicopter company to South Vietnam's air force and transferred responsibility for coastal patrols to the South Vietnamese navy in major new steps toward Vietnamization of the war.
The moves followed an announcement that nearly 2,000 men from two U.S. infantry units stationed around Saigon were being withdrawn soon and reports that the remaining 10,000 men in the outfits would be redeployed to the United States by mid-October.
Officials said the transfer of the 10 UH1 "Huey" aircraft and other equipment of the Army's 190th Assault Helicopter Company was the first complete changeover of such a company in the Vietnam War.
Officials said 21 other Huey copters would be turned over to South Vietnam and the Vietnamese pilots would assume the role of helicopter support formerly provided by American flyers in the provinces around Saigon.
The U.S. unit providing the helicopters will be redeployed as part of President Nixon's Phase IV withdrawal program, military officials said.
In another move, the South Vietnamese navy took over the "inner surface barrier" coastal patrols in the culmination of an accelerated turnover program of U.S. patrol boats and Coast Guard cutters started last year.
A South Vietnamese navy captain assumed command of patrol activities along 1,200 miles of coastline running from the Demilitarized Zone in the north all the way around to the Cambodian border.
The coastal operation involves patrolling and the daily inspection of as many as 50,000 small craft to prevent their use by the Communists.
Military spokesmen reported only "light and scattered" ground action throughout Vietnam Wednesday. But they said the Communists had downed a Marine Skyhawk fighter plane near combat base O'Reilly, 390 miles northeast of Saigon, and that a U.S. Army Huey helicopter had been shot down by ground fire and destroyed 180 miles northeast of Saigon.
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