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76th Year No. 222 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, June 6, 1984 Sections 46 Pages 25 Cents B
Mondale wins in 2 states, battles for California 1
The Associated Press
Walter F Mandate swept to resounding
victones Tuesday in New Jersey and West
Virginia and pronounced himself the winner
of his grueling Democratic presidential mar-athon
with Gary Hart Hart led in California,
claimed victory there, and said he was in the
i race " to San Francisco "
I Hart won in South Dakota and New Mexico
in the five- stat- e primary finale
The last and biggest prize, California, was
close in early returns Despite Hart's predic-tion
of victory in the state, Mondale led, for
more than enough delegates to validate his
claim of a nominating majority
Hart said " of course" he would maintain
his candidacy, but the small state triumphs
were little consolation for the twin victones
he hoped for in New Jersey and California to
give momentum and credibility to his cause
Mondale expected to breeze to the nomi-nation
in the pre- pnma- ry handicapping
said he thought the race was finally over, the
persistent Hart finally vanquished.
" Well this is it and here I am," Mondale
told cheering supporters in St Paul, Mum.
" We have earned New Jersey and West Vir-ginia
overwhelmingly "
He sad he would have an important an-- f
nouncement to make at 11 59 ajn today
" about who won" the nomination He had
predicted that at the time he would achieve a
majority of the delegates needed for nomi-nation
Hart has said he would stay in the race to
the convention
But Mondale's New Jersey win dashed
Hart's hopes for twin victones there and in
California the showing some aides said
was needed to maintain his longshot chance
at the nomination
The television networks, reporting based
on polling place interviews with voters, said
California would be close The Rev Jesse
Jackson was expected to trail far behind in
all the elections H
NBC said Mondale would add West Virgin Sm
la to his New Jerse victory pulling more mm
than half the vote for the first time this ear jjSJI
In all, 486 convention delegates were at JS
stake on the final dav of a long pnman sea & M
son that began in a New Hampshire snows Era
torm Ev en before the polls closed, Mondale jBgl
picked up a dozen additional delegates from t
among previously uncommitted in other Hh
states lllj
That put him about 220 short of the 1,967 MB
delegates lie needs to claim a majontv for ffl
nomination and meant he needed to win 45 SS
percent of Tuesday ' s total to reach his goal B3
As the polls closed the Associated Press Ms
survey of delegates showed Mondale with 1 - gffi
748, Hart with 983 and Jackson with 335 gf With 44 percent of the precincts counted in WBk
New Jersey, Mondale had 49 percent of the Bra
vote, to 33 percent for Hart and 17 percent gw
for Jackson Lvndon LaRouche had 1 per- - HS
cent gga
In West Virginia with 3 percent of the pre- - H9
cmcts counted Mondale had 54 percent of nK
the vote to 38 percent for Hart and 6 percent fflk
for Jackson LaRouche had 2 percent agS
In South Dakota 32 percent of the pre- - 88
cmcts gave Hart 47 percent of the vote to 43 hE
percent for Mondale and 5 percent for Jack- - Sjjf
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Memories linger,
stories unfold,
as veterans recall
By Linda Holsten
Missourian stall writer
" A day has never gone by that I haven't
thought of it," says former Mizzou football
star Houston Beatty. As a first lieutenant in
the U S 4th Infantry, Beatty was among the
first troops to land on Utah beach 40 years
ago today
Beatty and Columbians Robert Benson and
George Parker were part of a day in history
that has been called the greatest invasion
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force ever mounted. The allied invasion of
Normandy in northern France was the begin-ning
of the end of World War H.
For those who were not involved m the in-vasion,
it is hard to imagine what it was like
For the men who were there, however, the
memory remains
The night before D- Da- y, Beatty recalls be-ing
served a steak dinner with the first salad
he'd eaten in sue months. There was straw-berry
ice cream for dessert
For Beatty, training for the invasion had
begun in Florida more than a year before D- D- ay
itself
A 69- year-- old retired coach who now lives
in Sturgeon, Beatty says for practice they
made landings on the Florida beaches nearly
every day After six months, " we were ex-perts,"
he says. " There was no way we could
fail"
In January 1944, Beatty and his unit set sail
for England in a 35- sh- ip convoy. It took them
14 days to reach Devonshire in southern En-gland.
Through all the training, Beatty and his
unit were never certain of what their mission
was or where they would be sent " We didnt
actually know where we were actually gang
until 48 hours before we landed," Beatty I says.
The troops were gathered for a briefing one
8 week before the D- D- ay tending They were
1 shown a picture of a seawall and from that
I picture, the entire invasion maneuvers were
I mapped out and explained. They were never
I told where the seawall was until they
I bearded the ships and were ready to sail for
1 France. They were headed for the beach
1 code- name- d Utah near the Conteann Penin-sula
of France.
? 1 Beatty compares his excitement ca D- D- ay J to what fas felt while playing and coscMag
" 3 football hsra at ths University. " It was may--
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George Parker, far left, and crew pose near the B- 2- 6 bomber he named and flew in 1944 and 1945.
says. " Or more like playing Oklahoma and
Nebraska both on one day "
At 3 o'clock on the morning of June 6, 1344,
after spending two days aboard a ship, the
men were abruptly awakened by voices
" Come on you guys, let's go," they hollered.
Beatty said he and his comrades went with-out
question or hesitation They'd practiced
this a thousand times before
It took from 3 a m to 6.45 a m. for all the
troops to be loaded onto the landing craft
During that tune, the loaded boats circled the
ship to geteveryone m line
By 6: 45, nearly everyone was seasick. Even
the Navy personnel.
They were four miles from the beach but
everyone was straining to see what they were
heading into. " Can you see anything'"
" What's gong on'" Those were the questions
being asked mat gray morning
Beatty thinks it was best that he didnt
know what was waiting " If I knew what we
were really getting into, I might not have
been so eager to go," he says.
Beatty was in the first wave of troops to
land on the beach, going in about 7: 30 aan.
His most vivid memory is when his boat was
hit bymortar fire before reaching the beach.
A voong soMfer was hit and Beatty earned
him flic remaining 30 feet to shore. By the turn Beatty was able to get back to the
wcuadai sas& isr, the boy was dead.
Jfbz group Beatty served with was in chirp of correctiag any mistakes and coo
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dinatuig any troop movements from the
the 4th Infantry landed, they missed
the targeted beach by half a mile D- D- ay and
his party had to tell every man coming to
that spot how to get back on target
On the beach, Beatty says they faced
mostly mortar fire and 88mm artillery guns.
The allies finally gained a foothold in
France and Beatty was among the troops
that left the beach the next day to push on to
Cherbourg It took them 21 days to reach
Cherbourg and secure the peninsula
Another mid- Missoun- an, Robert Benson of
1706 Green Meadows Road also landed on
Utah beach in the Normandy invasion.
Benson is now president of Benson Lum-ber,
710 Business Loop 70 W He inherited the
business from his father S years ago
On the morning of D- D- ay he was a 19- year-- old
private with the Army's 1st Special Bri-gade,
Seaborne Engineers His group was at-tached
to the 4th Infantry for the invasion.
Crossing the Atlantic m February 1944,
Benson was stationed in southern England
near Devonshire The first thing he noticed
when he arrived in England, he says, was
that all the glass had been blown out of the
windows from the bombings. A strange sight
to remember, he admits, but one that has left
a lasting impression.
Among the several practice maneuver in
the months that followed, Benson remembers
one that was more tragic than routine.
On April 23, Benson says his group set out
from shore on a practice run If everything
had gone according to plan, the boats would
have gone about half- wa- y across the English
Channel, turned around and landed in south- e- m
England near Slapton Sands
Everything didn't go according to plan,
however German E boats ( the equivalent of
American PT boats) slipped between the
American and British boats and the shore
The Germans gunned down troops with ma-chine
guns and sank several landing crafts
One company, C Company, was completely
wiped out Benson says the company was
mostly made up of boys from Missouri
A friend form Benson's hometown was
killed on that maneuver The two had joined
the Army at the same tune and had been
through training together.
" It was worse man Utah as far as casual-ties,"
Benson says. " Our officers were out-standing
Something just slipped up "
The tragedy of Slapton Sands is only now
being revesled.
Benson says the troops boarded the ships
ready to leave for France on June 4 They
started to leave the harbor once but bad
weather forced them to turn around. D- D- ay
had to be postponed one more day
The ships left the harbor again at 9 pjn on
June 5. Benson remembers seeing " the sky
thick with planes and a tremendous amount
of boats behind us," ha says His first sight of
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Rockefeller, Bradley win primaries
Associated Press
Former Gov William Winter of Mississip-pi
captured the Democratic nomination
Tuesday to challenge Republican Sen Thad
Cochran, in one of several races which the
Democrats hope will give them back control
of the Senate And a legislator whose grand-father
was a slave won a chance to become
Mississippi's first black congressman since
Reconstruction
West Virginia Gov Jay Rockefeller, who
spent $ 4 million on his campaign, defeated
three rivals to win the Democratic nomi-nation
for the Senate seat held by Democrat
Jennings Randolph, who is retiring With 17
percent of the vote in, Rockefeller had 33,535
votes or 65 percent
The Republican leader was millionaire
businessman John Raese, who said he was
the only candidate with enough money to
challenge Rockefeller.
In a seven- ma- n race for West Virginia's
Democratic nomination for governor, House
Speaker Clyde See held a lead over Senate
President Warren McGraw The Republican
nominee is former Gov Arch Moore, a long-time
Rockefeller foe who said he avoided
confronting him this year because he was
bred of running against " Fort Knox "
Sea Bill Bradley of New Jersey won the
Democratic nomination for a second term,
racking up 94 percent of the vote to crush his
lone primary opponent, Elliot Greenspan, a
supporter of presidential candidate Lyndon
LaRouche.
In a black- maont- y district m New Jersey,
Rep Peter J Rodino, chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, racked up 77 percent
of the vote to turn back a Democratic prima-ry
challenge from a black minister
In Mississippi's black- majont- y 2nd Dis-tinct,
state Rep Robert Clark, who was the
first black elected to the Legislature since
Reconstruction, defeated two other blacks
and a white segregationist for the Democrat-ic
nomination for Congress
In North Carolina, state Attorney General
Rufus Edmisten narrowly won a Democratic
runoff for the nomination for governor
Voters in South Dakota's Fall River Coun-ty
decided whether they favored having a
low- lev- el nuclear waste dump built near the
town of Edgmont, and the California ballot
included one proposition that would bar bars
from political office
Columbia I
voters pass I
school tax 1
ByVickiMcCash l
and Andrew Fields e
Missourian staff wnier IjaS
Columbia and Hallsville school H
districts passed tax levies Tuesday Hsfl
that will raise teachers' salaries In Em
Sturgeon, voters defeated a 95- ce- nt g
increase m its tax levy gH
In Centralis, voters agreed to a jjgj
one- yea- r, 35- ce- nt levy for road main OH
tenance and repair Voters have SB
passed this tax every year for 40 Qg
years The vote was 116 to 42 EB
Under Proposition C, school dis-- jagB
tnets must roll back property taxes gSgjj
each ear by half the amount they kh receive from a special sales tax ear-- hBb
marked for education Regardless of EK
the amount of tax levied, school dis-- Eg
tncts must roll back property taxes BSH
by the appropriate amount, depend- - HH
ing on district sales tax receipts rag
In Columbia, voters decided 3 596 ggl
to 1,298 to keep their property taxes Kg
at the current level This year's Bg
Proposition C rollback will be 65 gg
cents, 16 cents more than last year n
Columbia voters agreed to a tax levy &
equal to this year's additional roll- - Sl
back Columbia property owners will g
pay S4 14 per SJO0 of assessed valua- - jS
tion, the same rate tKv paid in 1983 JMB
The tax levy, however, was defeat- - Jwfil
ed 121 to 91 in Sturgeon Without the Sgfij
new tax levy, Sturgeon property Hg
owners will pay S3 77 per $ 100 of as-- lg& BB
sessed valuation Last year property ISfSl
owners paid $ 4 17 per $ 100 assessed $&&&
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Deans request 11
enhancements
of $ 8.5 million 1
8y Faith Lyman IsS
Missourian staff writer gfi$ j
The program evaluations are in jj
and if the deans prevail, it will cost w
the University $ 8.5 million in pro- - as gram enhancements kS&
By Tuesday, the administrators of HJaj
12 schools and colleges had sub-- g
nutted their reports for review by g
the advisory committee Missing '
were reports from the College of
Arts and Sciences, the College of
Home Economics and the School of r
Medicine I
The Board of Curators mandated i
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