Longview Daily News from Longview, Washington • 55

210th Issue, 49th Year 12 Sections. U0 Pages Mr 10c per copy 4mag(r irr Hostages held in New Jersey prison clash Thursday. November 25. 1971 MM 1 ML nWA" nmunimnxmiiyjnnnt iL Ore off with the hijacker, who apparently the craft on a flight to Reno, with Wirephoto) A hijacked Northwest Airlines 727 jetliner sits on a runway for refueling at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday night. The hijacker, who claimed he had a bomb, allowed the passengers to deplane.

The plane Jobless rate drop is seen The job situation improved a fifth of a percentage point in Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties for the week ending Nov. 13, according to the State Employment Security Department. The Longview office was rated as 5.2 per cent of the insured work force receiving regular entitlement unemployment compensation compared with 5.4 per cent the previous week. It was the second lowest in the state, Walla Walla reporting 5.0 per cent. The state average was 7.8 per cent, no change from the pre-1 vious week, on regular entitlement, 9.6 per cent when extended benefits are included.

The state distributed benefits totaling $4,197,792 during the week. NeWS and Views By J. M. McClelland Jr. Preserving nature OVER THE RIVER and through the woods to grandmother's house on Thanksgiving was a common enough trip in the days of Currier and Ives.

Now the route is more likely down the freeway and up the elevator in most parts of the country. A new and alarmed public awareness of creeping encroachments on the outdoors as nature made it is leading government to step in and acquire for preservation purposes large hunks of what is still unspoiled before progress creeps up on it. The latest example of that is right at our backdoor the usually damp islands and shore lands of the Columbia River estuary, as far up as the western tip of Puget Island. This is a marvelously unspoiled area, known only to boaters, duck hunters, fishermen, tug boat men and pilots. It is an area where progress actually has receded.

The salmon seining grounds are gone, and so are the canneries at Altoona and Pillar Rock. Skamokawa is but a shadow of its former self as are the mill towns on the Oregon side. Brookfield is gone altogether. Tennasillahe Island, the biggest west of Puget Island, was diked in 1908, and once was the site of a great dairy. A few beef cattle are raised there now.

Wednesday the U.S. Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife said it has purchased or has under option about one-third of all the land, in what will become the Lower Columbia River Wildlife Refuge. On the same day a task force appointed by Gov. Evans to study the Nisqually River reported in. It recommends that the Nisqually flats, adjacent to the Puget Sound where the river flows in just south of Fort Lewis, and the shores of the river all the way back to its source on Mt.

Rainier, be acquired by the public for permanent preservation in its present natural state. Both Olympia and Tacoma have cast covetous eyes on Nisqually flats for potential industrial development. Both these projects deserve public support. Some future generation may place different values on them, but the same reasoning that led previous generations to establish the national and state parks, the national and state forests, and the wildlife preserves should now be applied by our generation to the such unspoiled places as these where two rivers, one huge and one small, send water back to the sea. $200,000 ransom obtained in N.W.

plane hijacking Longview. Washington. It was not known how many of the 1,142 inmates at the maximum security institution were involved in the riot or how much of the prison they controlled. Officials also said they did not know whether any of the prisoners were armed. Eleven guards were reported injured, three with stab wounds, in the rioting, which began about 10 p.m.

Wednesday during a movie in the auditorium. Tom Durand, public information officer for the State Department of Institutions and Agencies, said the trouble started when a prisoner jumped onto the stage and began a speech on "the injustice of American society." There were about 600 inmates in the auditorium at the time and some 150 refused to leave. Warden Hugh S. Vuk-cevich and several guards went to the auditorium, where he and six of the guards were seized by the insurrectionists. Later, a prisoner who said his name was "Ali Ra Hassan" shouted to newsmen from a window: "We asked the superintendent to send for a doctor for the warden and they wouldn't." He was asked if the warden was injured but his reply was inaudible.

Prison officials had no comment. One prisoner dropped a note from a window to Associated Press newsman James Gerstenzang but police confiscated it. A small fire was seen burning inside one of the four wings of the X-shaped prison. Officials shut off all water in the institution. The sixth guard taken hostage, Eddie Mullins, 39, was released as a go-between.

He said, "Don't let it be another Attica," adding that the prisoners wanted a meeting with Gov. William T. Cahill. There was no immediate comment from Cahill. "They don't want to be Mullins said.

He urged officials not to storm the prison and warned, "The inmates feel it is going to be another Attica." Mullins was referring to the Sept. 10 riot at Attica State Prison in upstate New York in which 43 persons were killed. The inmates scribbled a list of demands, including one for better food, and gave it to Mullins before releasing him. "They wanted me to get out and speak to the administration and try and get them not to storm in there," Mullins said, adding the prisoners wanted to "sit down and talk." The inmates also asked that Williams Kunstler, the activist attorney, come to the prison. Several other names were scribbled on the list but could not be deciphered.

Four dead in Astoria air crash ASTORIA, Ore. (AP)--A light plane with four persons aboard crashed and burned this morning on railroad tracks in east Astoria near the bank of the Columbia River. All four persons aboard the plane perished. The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was owned by Cal Sloan of Seattle. He was believed aboard the plane with his wife and two children, the FAA said.

The flight originated in Seattle. Residents of the area where the plane crashed said it circled several times then went into a steep nose dive and crashed on the tracks By CHRIS CONNELL Associated Press Writer RAHWAY, N.J. (AP) -Rioting prisoners held the warden and five guards at Rahway State Prison as hostages today after seizing control of portions of the gigantic institution. State troopers and corrections officers were massed outside the prison and a ranking New Jersey State Police officer said they planned to storm the prison in an effort to free the hostages. He did not say when such an assault might take place or whether any negotiations with the prisoners were taking place.

A newsman asked state police Lt. Gordon Hector, principal spokesman for Col. David B. Kelly, state police superintendent, "Are you going to storm the prison?" "Yes, we are," Hector replied. The possibility of an assault was not confirmed by any other state official but about 50 helmeted troopers, all armed with shotguns, began massing at the entrance to a tunnel-like corridor that leads through the outer wall of the prison into the yard.

Newsmen had been kept in a room off the corridor but were evacuated shortly before the troopers arrived. India opens new front in border war NEW DELHI (AP) Pakistan charged today that Indian forces, supported by tanks and were continuing their attacks in five border areas of East Pakistan. A dispatch from Dacca said officials there reported that the Indians had opened a new front Wednesday with air support in the north Bengal area and gained some ground. But Radio Pakistan said Pakistani troops beat back two attacks, killing 480 Indian soldiers and damaging two tanks. The broadcast said seven Pakistanis were killed and 11 wounded in the fresh fighting near the Hilli and Dinajpur district of north Bengal.

The area is more than 150 miles north of the Jes-sore district where Pakistan claimed on Monday that Indian troops had launched an "all out attack." An Indian spokesman said the attacks in East Pakistan were made by the Mukti Bahini independence fighters, trying to wrest control of the province from the military government headed by President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan. WEATHER Travelers warnings in the Cascades. Small craft warnings on the coast. Showers and clearing periods tonight. Rain spreading inland Friday.

Patchy night and morning fog. Highs 45-55. Lows 32-42. Extended forecast: Saturday through Monday Showers Saturday. Decreasing chance of showers Sunday and Monday.

Highs in the upper 40s and 50s. Lows in 30s to lower 40s. Additional weather data on page J-l. LOCAL TEMPERATURES (24-hour period ending 7 a m. Maximum 54 Minimum 41 Rainfall 11 of an inch RIVER READINGS Cowlitz 7 3 Columbia 5 0 0 100 pSjjt WASH.

Portland --L Jt ORE. CALF. I NEVADA Front, vco i By MIKE BERNETTI and PAUL LLOYD Associated Press Writers RENO, Nev. (AP) A hijacker apparently parachuted to freedom from a commandeered passenger jet after extorting $200,000 from Northwest Airlines with a bomb threat, authorities say. Two of four parachutes obtained by the middle-aged hijacker from airline officials in Seattle were missing when the plane landed here with four crewmen aboard, the FBI reported today.

"There's no way he could have gotten off in Reno," said Harold E. Campbell special agent in charge of FBI operations in Nevada. "We had the airport covered." Officials at McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma refused to say whether the pilots of three planes that trailed the hijacked Boeing 727 airliner saw any parachutes during the flight. Authorities said the hijacker probably parachuted from the plane sometime after it left Seattle Wednesday night, but apparently there were no witnesses to his escape. Thirty-six passengers and two stewardesses had been let off the plane in Seattle.

But airline officials said the hijacker locked the remaining four crew members in the cockpit after the plane took off again. "He's in the back of the airplane and everyone else is in front," Federal Aviation Administration supervisor Art Wibom said during the Seattle-to-Reno flight. The plane made the run at 10,000 feet with its rear stairwell open so the hijacker could bail out if he chose. At that altitude no oxygen was required. "It would be a very safe drop," said John Wheeler, a Boeing Co.

spokes Hijacked airliner man. "He'd be away from flaps and other engines and go straight down." The FBI's Campbell said to his knowledge no hijacker had ever escaped by parachuting fom a plane. Law enforcement officers with dogs combed Reno International Airport and the surrounding area after the plane landed. There was no sign of the hijacker, the money or any bomb. A stewardess said the hijacker had cylinders which looked like dynamite and wires led to a briefcase he carried.

The hijacker, who officials say probably boarded the plane in Portland; took over the jetliner shortly before it was to land in Seattle on a flight from Washington, D.C. A stewardess said he handed her a note, which said he was hijacking the aircraft, and ordered her to relay instructions to officials on the ground that he wanted $200,000 and four para; chutes delivered to him when the plane landed. He displayed the briefcase and cylinders to the stewardess, officials said. The passengers apparently were unaware a hijacking was under way. "The crew just said something might be wrong with the plane," Pat Minsch of Anchorage, Alaska, said in Seattle.

The FBI described the hijacker as Caucasian, with dark hair and medium complexion and wearing a business suit. Campbell issued a statement this morning saying: "We're conducting an active investigation today to apprehend the hijacker. It's a widespread search. We're searching for him along the entire route. There is no indication he is in Nevada or the Reno area.

The landing was all covered very thoroughly. We know he didn't get off that plane. I was there myself." Headlights on automobiles were hastily painted blue. Newspapers said plans were announced for extensive blood banks and Interior Minister Namduh Salem watched fire and rescue drills in Cairo. Special instructions were given in the handling of napalm.

The semi-official Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram accused Israel of a "wicked and deceptive" campaign to win sympathy and fresh weapons from Washington. are now all normal and he is in no pain at all." the doctor said shortly after noon. Fuchs said, however, that because Meany has been "under considerable stress." he ordered that the veteran labor leader be kept in the hospital for several days. Meany revurned Wednesday by train after presiding over the biennial convention in Miami Beach. Fla President Nixcn addressed the delegates last Friday.

A ir1t nMHi ri riwr crew then took parachuted from $200,000 cash. (AP Cairo dims lights, prepares for war Plane route Map locates route from Seattle to Reno of hijacked passenger jet plane. Authorities said today hijacker probably parachuted from plane to freedom sometime after it left Seattle. AP Wirephoto Holiday death toll climbing By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic accidents around the nation claimed 50 lives during the early hours of the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Snow and rain slowed highway travel in much of the East and in the Pacific Northwest.

Heavy-snow warnings were out over an area from Virginia to New England. The count of traffic deaths began at 6 p.m. local time Wednesday and will end at midnight local time Sunday. Page Index SECTION A Christmas shopping guide SECTION Christmas shopping guide SECTION Christmas shopping guide SECTION Christmas shopping guide SECTION Christmas shopping guide SECTION Christmas shopping guide SECTION Editorial G-4 SECTION II This day H-l-2 SECTION I Sports H-2 Comics 1-6 Television 1-7 SECTION Classified 2 J4-S-6-7 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cairo is dimming its lights, expanding civil defense forces and carrying out war emergency drills as its leaders speak of fighting with Israel as the only remaining solution in the Middle East. The Egyptian capital began dimouts Wednesday night.

The five tiers of spotlights on the 500-foot Cairo Tower were doused as were the neon signs along fashionable Kasr el Nil. a main shopping street. Who is responsible? WHO IS ultimately responsible for dealing with children who are defiant, unrulv or even delinquent under the law? the Seattle School Board has decided to say that the schools are not. It has adopted a policy saying that the schools will cease disruptive students and will start expelling them. Then who will deal with them? It will have to be law enforcement, the courts, with their juvenile programs, and any volunteer agencies that may be in a position to help.

How about parents? The assumption seems to be that parents of problem children probably don't have the know-how to deal with them or they wouldn't be problems. Detroit city government, just as fed up with young troublemakers as is the Seattle school board, is not willing to absolve parents of responsibility. It is adopting an ordinance making parents responsible for criminal acts committed by their children. Such an ordinance seems unconstitutional on the face of it. No one can be punished for the crimes of another, even those of his offspring.

But Detroit is apparently a little desperate. It is willing to give parents a jolt with this ordinance even if it has to be of short duration. It is easy enough to say that parents ought to be responsible for the conduct of their children. But that is saying that all parents ought themselves to be responsible people, and they aren't Who then is ultimately responsible? All that the Seattle school board and the Detroit citv council are saving is "not us." George Meany taken to hospital coronary unit Christmas parade is scheduled on Friday Snoopy, Santa Claus and the Keystone Cops will be featured when the annual Christmas parade opens the holiday season in Longview Friday morning. Sponsored by the Longview Jaycees and Longview Retail Merchants Association, the parade will go down Commerce Avenue about 10 a.m.

after forming a half hour earlier at the north end of the Triangle Shopping Center. Wonderland' is the theme and there will be prizes in such categories as marching units, costumed individuals, floats, bands. The parade will turn on Hemlock Street and proceed down 14th Avenue to the Super Valu parking lot. Dennis Webster and Dennis Kendall are co-chairmen and inquiries concerning entries should be directed to Loren Athev at 425-21S7. WASHINGTON AP George Meany.

77-year-old president of the AFL-CIO. was admitted to a hospital early Thursday suffering from what his doctor said was "severe chest pains." Dr. Marvin Fuchs, said that by the time Meany was taken to the emergency coronary unit of the George Washington University Hospital the pains had disappeared. Fuchs said a cardiogram showed Meany's condition is now normal "His pulse, heartbeat and blood pressure.