WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1979
Last marine who helped raise flag
for America at Iwo Jima dies
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Rene
Gagnon, the last surviving Marine
who helped raise the American flag
on Iwo Jima in World War II, was
buried Monday with full military
honors.
“He was proud to be a Marine.
He was proud to be a part of the flag
raising,” his son, Rene Gagnon Jr.,
said fighting back tears at interment
ceremonies.
Gagnon, 53, was one of six sol
diers who planted the Stars and
Stripes atop the rocky summit of
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Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi on Feb.
23, 1945, after four days of bloody
fighting that eventually claimed the
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lives of 6,895 U.S. fighting men.
The historic picture of Gagnon
and his colleagues became a symbol
of American determination and
bravery.
Although offered a movie contract
when he returned from the war,
Gagnon lived out his life in relative
anonymity, working at various
blue-collar jobs, the last as an
apartment complex maintenance
man. He was found dead at work
last Friday.
At funeral services at the Holy
Rosary Church, just across the Mer
rimack River from his home, the
Rev. Aime Boisselle said a part of
Gagnon “will always be with us.”
“He will leave with us something
we need very much — his courage.
About 150 people received com
munion at the foot of Gagnon’s
flag-drapped coffin inside te simple
white clapboard church as the or
ganist played the Battle Hymn of
the Republic.
Outside the Roman Catholic
Mausoleum where he was buried, a
Marine honor guard fired three
rounds into the cold gray skies and a
lone bugler played taps.
Carter sees fighU^
in upcoming raw c
United Press International H jjni
CHICAGO — President Carter sounded like a man scrapping fori 1 quNNI
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But Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne warned against a battle, sa y> n gllit that
Democrats could not afford “a national intra-party bloodbath at tliis f ] ec j j
crucial time.” Bd the w
Carter, after speaking Monday night at a $1 million, 11,000-person |?| ^ 3
Democratic Party fund-raiser, wound up a two-day foray into Ike f , 1ssume
Midwest today with a town hall meeting in suburban Dolton. f ^
“As a Democrat and as president. I’m not afraid,’’ Carter said. “Id
fact, I look forward to tough political fights and, with your help, w,
will not lose those fights ahead.” Leniote v i
The president said he would meet head-on anyone who tried to < c n
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deny him his party s renomination. - Bults and
The fund-raiser was the first for the maverick mayor, whoisintle f i
first year of a four-year term.
Carter’s remarks followed a curiously worded, quasi-endorsement I . ou ^
by Byrne, who called Carter the "greatest president to the nationi p” |
big cities." Mr .
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“I would vote in our party caucus without hesistancy to renominate Bid that v
the present leader for another four years’ if the national convention jviolation
was held now, she said.
Byrne issued an obvious criticism of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
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D-Mass., who is flirting with a bid for the 1980 Democratic nomim [that the pn
tion. While not mentioning the Massachusetts senator by name, ike Bo differ
told 11,000 party supporters: (was carry
T cannot pass up the opportunity to admonish those who would P°" nui11 ^
divide the Democratic Party in the national elections that they man L, ^‘ Ie P^ (
reap the wild political wind.
“I do not think we can afford a national intra-party bloodbath at ikis
crucial time,” she said. “The times call for unity and discipline.”
Possibility of disaster alleged
Problems close reactors
United Press International
Nuclear reactors were silent
Tuesday in Colorado and Ohio, and
Virginia’s largest electric utility is
considering conversion of two un
finished nuclear plants to coal be
cause of “growing uncertainty” over
nuclear power.
In Surry, Va., a jury was con
vened Tuesday to consider the case
of two young men charged with
sabotaging the Surry nuclear power
plant to draw attention to alleged
hazards they feared could cause a
disaster.
The Fort St. Vrain nuclear
generating station, Colorado’s only
nuclear plant, 40 miles northeast of
Denver, was shut down early Sun
day after the release of what officials
called a minute amount of radioac
tivity' into its reactor building.
No employees were -exposed to
radioactivity and no contamination
escaped into the atmosphere, said
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Gary Reeves, spokesman forlHBut in <
Colorado Pubhc Service Co., wkinumber <
owns and operates the plant. FAA disc
Reeves said whether the pin ally was r<
would be reopened Tuesday with a pi
pended on results of an insptt&iBiapolis.
and equipment analysis. M : We kt
The incident was the thirdinlnlby the p
than two years at the plant. AlMpilot migl
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and all involved “minute” amoircertain o!
of radioactivity, Reeves said, pilot. Hi
In Oak Harbor, Ohio, ikjwould bt
Davis-Besse nuclear power staid,County ci
was shut down Monday for Ton Sc
fourth time in a month. The skjboard w;
down was caused by a malfuncli(i| a l )0u t the
in the turbine control system,siit^ e b° ar d
representatives for Toledo Edim |
"No radioactive gases of any (
escaped ami nothing has happen# ,1(1'l
to endanger the public, saidcoKo
pany spokesmen. They didkB
know when Ohio s only se.vii
plant, near Lake Erie, wouldrfi-
open.
Davis- Besse’s reactor was builtf'l lUC
the Babcock & Wilcox Co., anilJI
similar to the Babcock & Wile Uni ,
reactor that failed at the Three Mi saljsb
Island plant in Pennsylvania. lre j nV est
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said Monday it is studying con't j ers haj s
sion to two unfinished nucle« a ]j s |j U j
power plants to coal because ofL er a p ei
“growing uncertainty over micflW] 0 j] e g e
power. ” nd said h
Company President Stanlqhe accoui
Ragone said the study involves liLvolving
North Anna Units 3 and 4, dent but i
under construction in Lo«%use the
County. He said the companyt-want him
not made a final determinationlif|TJnder 1
cause “coal has problems oBjto have s
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Ragone said the conversion slawentally i
expected to take six months If'BPolice :
year, is being made because ofrfvestigatir
certainty over the governmekjsaid it wa
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changing regulations and rising wsexual act
struction costs. R-Crawfo
William Kuykendall and Ja® 8 thesituati
Merrill, former control roU reported
operator trainees at the Surry®'him.
clear power plant, were accusedM He sai
pouring caustic soda on stored® 1 treated al
rods at the Virginia Electric and later
Power Co. plant. admitted
The two testified they danra?
the fuel rods April 27 to try I
prompt the company into correct
plant problems. Vepco has deni
any serious safety and securitypr®’
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