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New Dog Operations Being Prepared Here

The city of Victoria should be back in the dog business by the first of April, according to reports Wednesday on the progress being made in turning the dog warden and pound operation over to the City-County Health Department. Henderson P Kemp, chief snitarian, said that the old city dog pound is getting a com plete overhaul and the health unit should be ready to assume full responsibility ‘around the first.”’ City Council had authorized City Manager John Lee Monday to proceed with plans to turn the dutires over to the health department after it was decided that a _ contract satisfactory to both the city and the Six Flags Humane Society could not be negotiated. In January, the counci| passed an ordinance turning the duties over to the humane society, but the city and humane society were unable to come to terms on a contract. The city dog warden, in the meantime, was assigend to the society, and Lee said Wednesday that the society will be reimbursed by the city on a pro rata basis for the period of time involved The city has $20,000 budgeted for the dog warden and pound operation, which was to have gone to the society under the original plan. less the salary of the city-paid dog warden Mrs Dee Edwards of the humane society said she had mixed emotions about council's action on Monday “Naturally, the operation of the City Pound functions is a headache, but I felt that our difficulties could be settled with some discussions and reasoning and a little ume” Mrs. Edwards said she is concerned about the humane society's situation in regard to “the money spent and obligations ‘in- debtedness) incurred in enlarging and im- proving its facilities in order to properly take care of the City Pound animals — facilities which will not be needed or used.” Mrs. Edwards said Wednesday that she did not have figures prepared on how much was spent, but that “it was quite a bit.” She said the society would continue to operate its shelter as it had in the past. with people either bringing in animals or paying a small pickup fee to have them brought to the shelter Mrs. Edwards said she also hopes that “every member of the council will take a good hard look at the amount allocated in the budget | city) for food’ for animals kept at the City Pound ‘Any'dog owner who cares for his animal ‘see DOGS, Page l2A) Peli ¢ SO eM Se Te PRE VOR aaa Cy” PERS | SSSA

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Mini- Views | ly ROY McQUEEN-~—

Jayton says, “If God had want- on fo streak, he would have d him that way 7" ad . + &@ @ «2% ee pos fin of the following is unknown, ijwas brought to us by Sandra I. primary school kindergar- acher, who says the article d ‘‘Render Unto Caesar” is | of a morning in the life of a garten or first grade teacher: en the morning was come, the f drew her children about her ‘h them for the hour was late ere was much to be learned. 1 she said unto them, ‘Lo, we must study our reading ur spelling and our number or the Christmas vacation is ind you will forget much on ourney forth.’ t ere the learning process it andatory that lunch money be ed and counted; that hot and inches (both with and without be counted; and all absentees ed to the proper authorities. en did one child speak saying ier, my mother had no bread e sandwiches so I must needs ou a quarter for a hot lunch and I want two cents which have paid for milk to be given cash instead of being carried yecause my mother gave me cents for a candy bar.’ en did another child speak saying ‘Why didn’t thou call ‘name for lunch money when pay you for all week on ay”’ The teacher believed him cause she had his brother last who did likewise make false ss about money, but the or, being weak, did pay for his | because he was thin of face. d a decree went out from the pal’s office that in as much as the last of the month and the lance report must be sent in by acher, and further, since the fintendent needed the report by lock, it must needs be in by 10 k. d the teacher sent forth the its to their seats and gave busy work to do and she began rk on the report. d one student held up his hand uid ‘Teacher, I have brought 25 for Christmas seals.’ en did the teacher lay aside tendance report and say, ‘Will ho brought seal money come -?” And behold, all the children forward and began to lay y on her desk. She turned to nd said, ‘Did’st thou bring tmas seal money?’ And the nt shook his head. And the er cried in a loud voice, ‘Why thou come forward?’ And the answered in a small voice. use Billy did.’ Then said the er, ‘If thou hast no seal money, See VIEWS Page 2

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Clark makes statement as mayor candidate

Bob Clark, candidate for mayor of Seminole on the April 6 city ballot, has authorized the Seminole Sentinel to issue his official statement to the voters: During my tenure on the Seminole city council, I have gained tremendous insight into the respon- sibilities and duties of the elected officials of our city. Because I appreciate and have concern for the future of this community, I have offered my services as a city alderman and now as mayor, subject to the April 6 municipal election. In recent weeks, many statements have been attributed to me concerning various issues involving the operations of our city. So that there be no mistake about where I stand, I have purchased this space in the Sentinel to speak for myself. In order to clear the record, Bob Clark has no intention of making any personnel changes if he is elected. In the first place, the mayor of the city of Seminole does not have the authority to act alone on personnel matters. Any action, personnel or otherwise, must be a _ collective action of the city council and it is my desire that any action taken during the time that I should serve as mayor be made only after careful and thoughtful consideration by the See CLARK Page 2

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Priscilla Barron is spelling bee champ

Miss Priscilla Barron, 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burl Rarron of Seminole, won first place in the Gaines County Spelling Bee Leias Tuc@flay morning ig Duff- Wharton Auditorium of Seminole. Miss Barron, seventh grader in Seminole junior high school, spelled correctly the word pessimist after it was mis-spelled by first runnerup Carey McConal. She was judged winner of the contest by correctly spelling “polyglot.” McConal, an eighth grader at Seagraves junior high school, was co-champion of the 1973 Gaines / County Spelling Bee. He is 14 years old and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob MecConal of Seagraves. Miss Barron will represent Gaines County at the Regional Spelling Bee in Lubbock. She was defeated in the Gaines County contest last year by co-champions Twila Braun and McConal. She was winner of the county-wide bee in 1972. Other entrants in this year’s county contest were Joe Stewart of Seminole junior high, Karla Ander- son and Anita Herman of Seminole elementary and Mary Rosales and Carol Price of F. J. Young elementary school and Danny Conejo of Seagraves junior high school. Mrs. Alpha Simmons, Seminole High School English teacher, was pronouncer, Judges were Ila Bee Mitchell, Ruth Bevers and Ruth Johnson.

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Candidates in draw for ballot position

Democratic candidates drew for places on the May 4 primary ballot in a special party meeting held Tuesday night in the courthouse. In the county judges race, challenger Donald C. Jackson drew the first spot on the ballot and incumbent Marcus Crow is second. For county clerk, Mrs. Joyce Vuicich took the first spot on the ballot with Genevieve Hays second and incumbent Iva Dumas third. In precinct two, incumbent commissioner Robert Matthews is first followed by Weldon Smith and FE. L. Robinson. In precinct four, commissioner candidates in the order they will appear on the ballot are W.A. (Bill) Heath, Delbert Shipp, N. L. Mullins, W. J. Burk, Gail Barnett, Eldon Whitaker, C. B. Estep and Jimmie Hart. In justice of the peace, precinct two, Fred Connally will be listed first and Jerry Osborne next.

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Indoor meet today Seminole to host two net tourneys

seminole will become the tennis capital of West Texas this weekend as the city will host two separate tournaments. Action begins Thursday at 8 a.m. in the first annual indoor invitational tennis tournament. All action in the one-dey touyrey. will beplayed in the high school gym. On Friday, netters from through- out West Texas will be here for the annual Seminole Invitational tour- nament. The twe-division tourna- ment will conclude Saturday. Coach Jerry Franklin invited all local sports fans to the matches-- especially the indoor tournament which is more conducive to spectators. “‘The game is much faster on the indoor court and is a better spectator sport because of the aggressiveness of play.” Seminole’s double team of Margie Cortez and Janice Hill are favorites in the indoor tournament, and Seminole’s Nerissa Riley is expect. ed to find tough competition from Odessa’s Susie Smith, Class AAAA defending state champion, in the girls singles bracket. John Clements of Monterey is favored in the boys singles bracket, but Seminole’s Allan Holliday is expected to meet Clements in the finals. Lindy Woods and David Webb will represent Seminole in the boys doubles bracket. The indoor tournament consists of only four entries per bracket. Finals in boys doubles will be played at 5:30 p.m., girls singles at 6:30 p.m.. girls doubles at 7:30 p.m. and boys singles at 8:30 p.m. In tournament play Friday and Saturday, entries are still coming in and Seminole is a favorite in its own tournament. Netters are expected from Lamesa, Morton, El Paso Bowie, El Paso High, Lubbock High, Monterey and Coronado.

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Tickets on sale for local pageant

Tickets to the Miss Gaines County Pageant and Tanya Tucker show will be sold by advance sales only. according to Dave Wood, chamber director in charge of the project. Tickets to the April 25 pageant and musical show are on sale by members of the junior classes of both Seminole and Seagraves high schools. Tickets are $5 each, A total of 25 Gaines County beauties have entered the contest, with the winner and first two runnersup being awarded college scholarships. Competition will be in swimsuit, formal and talent. Tanya Tucker, 15-year-old county and western singer, will headline the show. She became famous at age 13 when she recorded the nationwide hit, “Delta Dawn.”’ Tanya was born Oct. 10, 1958 in Seminole, and she now lives in Henderson, Nevada near Las Vegas. In addition to a singing career, Tanya is a track star at Henderson Junior High where she competes in the 100 and 50 yard dashes. She runs the 50-yard dash in 6.7 seconds. Wood stressed that tickets be purchased early in order to insure a seat for the pageant and perform- ance by Miss Tucker. “We expect that this top-name performer will draw from a large area.”’

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Community action swells for end to ASC probe

Individual and collective efforts to bring the ASC investigation in Gaines County to a swift conclusion were underway in Seminole this week. Collective action included plans to form an association of farm related individuals to promote and support p the agriculture industry in Gaines * County. Also, the board of directors of the Seminole Area Chamber of Com- merce went on record Tuesday morning by adopting a resolution asking for congressional assistance in bringing a speedy end to the ASC investigation in the county. In addition, petitions asking for prompt action by the government were being prepared for circulation in Gaines County. On an individual basis, telephone calls and letters were being directed to Rep. George Mahon of Lubbock and Texas Senators John Tower and Lloyd Bentsen. The community-wide effort to “clear the air’ is the result of a lingering investigation into” the administration of the farm program in Gaines County. Beginning on Nov. 29, the government suspended the ASC executive director and the ASC elected committee for “impeding the effectiveness of the farm ograms.”’ On Dec. 6, letters were ailed to 160 producers @« anding | repayment of $6 million in cotton payments. The ASC added 35 names to the demand list last month-- bringing the total sought from Gaines County producers to $7.5 million. Investigators from the ASC and from the Offiee of the Inspector General have remained in Gaines County to collect data for the government. Many farmers have complained that the delay by the government has resulted in loss of normal financing and has made 1974 farming operations uncertain. The chamber board ‘action Tuesday morning was based on community-wide concern that con- tinued delay in a disposition of the have an adverse affect to the economic well-being of the county. Gaines County commissioners court will consider a_ similar resolution when it convenes in regular session Monday morning. Purpose of the resolutions are to direct congressional attention to the need to bring the ASC investigations to a swift conclusion. First meeting to form the association of farmers was _ held Monday night, and the group sent a representative to Austin Tuesday to seek a state charter. First priority for the organization, the spokesman said, is to encourage a speedy conclusion to the government's action, and to contin. ue support and promotion of other phases of county agriculture. In related action Tuesday and Wednesday, elected ASC communi- ty committeemen met in the county ASC office to discuss yields for the 34,000 acres of county to be returned by the government. The ASC announced last Friday that the cotton allotments originally cancelled when the demand letters were sent, have been returned, and that community committeemen will be active in setting yields. Tolbert Jaynes, acting executive director, said committeemen did not finish the task Tuesday and he would not predict when the yield question would be decided, There was still no indication from the ASC as to why the government changed its mind and returned the cotton allotments.

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Nixon Revokes Aa Look at Tax

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon today revoked permission for the Agriculture Department to inspect income tax returns of farmers as part of its statistics-gathering oper- ations. Nixon had granted such au- thority, a subject of con- troversy in the farm belt, in January 1973.

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Mrs. Winona Roundtree NM Handicapped Woman Named

A physically handicapped Farmington teacher, who vol- unteers her time and talents in an academic program for handicapped children, has been selected as New Mexico's Handicapped Person of the Year. She is Mrs. Winona Round- tree, director of the San Juan Prep School for the Handi- capped. Mrs. Roundtree, who was nominated for the award by the San Juan County Commit- tee on Employment for the Handicapped, will be honored at the spring meeting of the Governor's Committee on Em- ployment for the Handicapped in Albuquerque April 18 The noon luncheon meeting will be held at the Downtowner. Her name also has been submitted to the President's Committee as a nominee for the nation's Handicapped Per- son of the Year Award to be announced in December. Mrs. Roundtree, who is con- fined to crutches or a wheel- chair due to a progressive bone deterioration disease. a form of arthritis, taught elementary school here 10 years before her illness forced her to resign. She also taught a year at the School for the Deaf in Santa Fe afler earning a master's degree in special education at Eastern New Mexico University. In addition to her work al the prep school for the past two years. Mrs. Roundtree is very active in other communi- ty affairs, including serving al both the state and local levels of the Churches of the Nazarene in New Mexico. She also serves as second vice chairman of the board of directors of the San Juan County Economic Opportunity Council. “Mar aniy concecsion ty her handicap 1s her wheelchair. She gives of her talents and training to the community whether there is remuneration or not,’ commented John Christensen, executive secre- tary of the county committee. He also lauded Mrs. Round- tree's work with the handi- capped, ‘especially her im- provision in the art of com- municating with the handi- capped via rhythm and mu- ew"

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ARC Awards Niaht Slated

Thirty-one plaques and certificates will be presented to persons and groups aiding retarded persons in San Juan County at the eighth annual Awards Night program of the San Juan County Association for Retarded Citizens tonight. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Chef Bernie's Restau- rant. The public ts invited to attend. The Rev. Neil Pointer, as- sociation president, will make the presentations. Among those who will receive awards ace St. John's Episcopal Church, Knights of Columbus, Farmington Civitan Club, Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 4, Farmington Jun- tor Woman's Club, State Rep. Jerry Sandel and Mrs. Anna Cockhn. A social hour will conclude the program.

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Subpoena Asks Nixon's Papers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The special Watergate prosecutor's office has subpoenaed addi- tional documents from the White House, it was disclosed today. A spokesman for special prosecutor Leon Jaworski said the subpoena directed to Presi- dent Nixon was served on the White House last Friday. Deadline for compliance is Monday. The spokesman declined to Say what the subpoena de- manded. Earlier, James D. St. Clair, President Nixon's chief Water. gate lawyer, acknowledged in a television interview that a subpoena had been received frdém the special prosecutor. Jaworski disclosed on Feb. 14 in a letter to Sen. James 0. Eastland, D-Miss., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee, that Nixon had refused to give him material he con- = sidered vital to his investiza- tion, Jaworski told Eastland that the material Nixon had refused to supply included 27 tapes sought for the investigation of the Watergate cover-up as well as evidence relating to in- vestigations of contributions from the dairy industry and the activities of the so-called White House plumbers unit. The President has contended in several recent public ap- pearances that he has given Jaworski all the material he needs to complete his in- vestigation. Nixon has said he has given the special prosecutor 19 tapes and some 700 documents. The subpoena issued Friday was the first one directed at the President by the special prosecutor's office since last July when former special pros- ecutor Archibald Cox sub- poenaed tapes of nine presi- dential conversations.

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Sweet 16s Pass Hawaii Trip Goal

Farmington High School's Sweet Sixteens. after a year- long campaign for funds to finance a trip to the presti- gious Hawaiian Music Festi- val, announced today that they have passed their yoal of $8.000. The teenage singers will leave Farmington April 9 for Honolulu where the invita- tional festival will be con- ducted April 1016. They will spend the night of April 9 al Disneyland. Accompanying the 16 girls will be Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Turano. He is choral director at FHS. A spokesman said the choral group, which turned down a bid to participate in the festi- val last year when sufficient funds could not be raised, has raised $8,321 so far. Members and their parents have partict- pated in several fund-raising projects. In addition donations have been made by citizens and civic organizations

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Fresno Low On NIIP Bid Offer

WM. Lyles Co., of Fresno, Calif. was the apparent low bidder with an offer of $2,512,562.80 on installation of laterals and collector drains for Block 1 of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project Bids were opened this morn- ing at the Westerner Motel. Four other firms made offers on the contract. They were AMT Construc- tors, Chandler. Ariz, $2,702,778.19: Glen W. Shook Co., Redding, Calif, $2,847,348, Kent Nolan Construction, Albuquerque, $2,908,153.25 and Universal Constructors, Albvu- querque, $3,417,374 Engineer's estimate was $2,590,333. The low bid its subject lo review by the Bu- reau of Reclamation with award lo be made within days

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Civitans Skip Bond Backina

The Farmington Breakfast Civitan Club this morning voted to take no stand on the proposed $1,780,000 general ob- ligation bond election next Tuesday whose passage would permit construction of a new county jail and courthouse annex. The meeting was held at the Rimrock. The club’s decision was made after Coun- ty Manager Robert Bacon discussed the proposed im- provements at length. Tuesday. the Civitan Lunch- eon Club voted to endorse the bond issue

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Aztec Chamber Backs Bond Issue

AZTEC — The Aztec Chamber of Commerce, at its regular noon meeting Wednes- day, adopted a resolution sup- porting Tuesday's proposed $1,780,000 San Juan County jail and courthouse annex general obligation bond issue. A telephone committee will be organized to contact local residents seeking their support and a taxi service to the polls will be provided. The action followed a talk by Larry Palmer, San Juan Coun- ty purchasing agent, stresaing the need for the complex. Palmer stated that the laws of the slate of New Mexico establish certain building stan- dards for the detention of prisoners and the San Juan County jail must meet these standards by July 1, 1976, or be closed. Also under state regulations, separate quarters for the de- tention of juveniies are re- quired. The present jail cannot be approved lo house federal prisoners and five different grand juries have been very critical of the jail, Palmer San Juan County also ts faced with the possibility of civil rights actions due to the condition of the jail, Palmer said. Expanding on tus subject, LA. Bob Miller of the San Juan County Sheriff's Office, pointed out that the present jail is less than a block from the Aztec High School which has created problems with school pupils visiting prisoners and with high school girls writing and passing notes lo prisoners. The new jail will be located on 6.5 acres of land south of U.S. Highway 550, just west of Aztec, on which an option has been taken for $1,000. If the bond election is successful, the land will be purchased for $55,000, hopefully with revenue sharing funds. Its location will offer a solution to the schvool- type problems, Miller said. The proposed new 20,000- square-foot complex wall re- place the existing 2yearold jail and district court, Palmer said. District court offices will be renovated and made into two stories providing addi- tional space for county offices. Cust of this project is included in the bund issue. The 3ist Legislature estab hshed a third District Court judge and in order for three judges tu operate in the court, a secund courtroom is needed, Palmer continued. In explaining why a general obligation bond was selected over other methods of financ- ing the complex, Palmer said a bond election would give the county citizens a» chance to become involved and that monws frum a bond obligation will come all at once. “Revenue sharing money ts not available at one ume and I'm not sure revenue sharing would last for the completion of the building,” Palmer said. During a question and an- swer session, Dr. L..B. McCar- ty, relied physician who over a period of years treated prisoners, said it 1s almost impossible to care for pris- oners since they had to be moved frum the jail to the doctur's office which takes them away from security Bob Ramsey asked why the county purchased such a large area uf irrigated land for a jatl-courthouse complex. Palmer answered that the location is on a highway fron- tage, the land was available for a reasonable price, it is next to the county road depart- ment, has adequate parking space, and the counly com- Missioners were louking to the future Sandy Scott, Azlec Cily com- missioner and former mayor, commented, “Louking to the future ts necessary and by moving the jail and district court to that location will probably keep Farmington from taking the courthouse as it has tried to do for years.” This remark was acknow!l- edged with applause by the audience. In other action, Flavio Chavez, newly elected mayor of Aztec, told of the problems facing the city, including elec: trical service, waler storage and sewer Chavez said the city has been informed by the Bureau of Reclamation, which furnishes electricity for the city, Unat Aztec can no longer expect an additional bureau electricity and therefore, must look for an alternate source. Artec also needs additional walter storage and the sewer system is in such a condition that it must be replaced, Chavez said. “Al of this costs money,” Chavez said, “and also will take considerable study.”’ it was announced the Durango, Colo., Chamber of Conuverce ui planning a Four Corners barbecue May 24 al the Ft. Lewis College area. Governors and other dignitaries from the four states will be present The Four Corners Regional commussion will hold a unique meeting the following Satur- day. This meeting will be on the narrow gauge train from Durango lo Silverton, Cole., with lunch at Silverton. The group will be bused back to Durango with a fishing contest scheduled along the way al mountain streams The public from all four states is invited for the barbecue. Serving 13 to start at 6: Np.m.

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News Brief

City fire and police units were on slandby at the Farm- ington Municipal Airport for a short fume about noon today after a private plane, de- scribed as a single engine Fairchild, reported engine trouble. The plane, whose pilot was not identified, landed without incident

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Man Faces Charge In Princess Attack

LONDON (AP) -- Tan Ball, a 26-year-old unemployed Eng- lishman, was brought into court today and charged with attempted murder during an attempt to kidnap Princess Anne from her car in the heart of London Wednesday night Hall, lean-faced and bearded. stood stiffly in. the dock at the Bow Street Magis- trate’s court, handcuffed to two detectives. He spoke only once during his 60-second ap peatance, saying in a London accent: “I want to apply for legal aid." ® The court ordered him held for another hearing on March 28 on the charge of attempting to murder Princess Anne's personal bodyguard. Inspector James Heaton Heaton was one of four persons wounded as the would- be kidnaper fired repeatedly at the reyal limousine The others were Anne's chauffeur and a policeman and a passing jour- fhahst who tried to intervene Reaton and the policeman were reported in serious cond- bion The 23-year-old princess and her husband of five months, Capt Mark Phillips. were not hurt But police experts said the holes left by one of the bullets fired into the cae indicated it passed between them, missing them by inches. A police informant said it was believed 11 shots were fired by the assailant. Experts were studying two revolvers found at the scene. They said five shots had been fired from one and six from the other Authorities said earlier only six shots were fired Police also found in the white Ford that Ball rented for the evening a typewritten ran- som demand addressed to Queen Flizabeth [I], Anne's mother, along with three pairs of handcuffs, a driver's license and envelopes addressed to two companies Officials declined to disclose any further details of the discoveries. Bul the Daily Tel- exraph said the letler asked for a $2.3-milhon ransom, and the Daily Mail said it was full af ravings about alleged in- justices Police said Ball had no fixed address. Following the attack. there was speculation that 1 was the work of Irish ne Gonalists.

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Passport Office Honors Clerk Drott Numbers On Page 10

San Juan District Court Clerk Emma Jean Hottell, has been awarded the U.S Passport Office's Meritorious Award for Outstanding Com- munity Service for her volun- lary participation in the Passport Application Accep- lance Program The presenta. tion was made by Frances ( Knight, director of the Passport Office, a beanch of the Department of State Wrote Miss Knight, “We, at the Passport Office, do ap- preciate greatly the dedication and service your have con- tributed in the performance of your passport work The entire staff of this office joins me in thanking you, your deputies and assistants for the service and couperalion you have giv- en, not only to us, but tu the ciuzens of your comumunity as well, We recognue that your endeavors have been a major factor in making the Passport Office a successful public ser- vice” Miss Knight added that the certificale of award en- compassed services of the past, the present and the future Miss Hottell also was cun- gratulated by Miss ‘Gene Burke, agent-incharge of the California Passport Office. She noted thal passport work is done by clerks for the people of their community through voluntary action. "This vulun- tary service certainly ex- emplifies how local and federal government agencies can effi- ciently and effectively work together for the benefit and convenience of US. Citizens,” Miss Burke wrote the Daily Tunes.

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Increase Second Highest Since '5]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pace of inflation quickened in February with food and fuel prices pushing the cost of living up 13 per cent, the second biggest monthly jump since 1951, the government said today. The Labor Department said last month's rise sent con- sumer prices 10 per cent higher than a year ago and marked the first time since 1948 that the United States experienced double figure in- flation. It was the highest 12-month Increase in the cost of living since consumer prices rose by 10.2 per cent in the 12 months ending January 1948. Nearly half the February Increase was attributed to higher food prices with the price of beef raising 7.5 per cent, the sharpest jump since a 9.6 per cent increase in June 1947. Gasoline and other

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Court Studies Nixon Report

WASHINGTON AP The US Court of Appeals today studied requests that if block transmission of a grand jury report on President Nivon’s alleged role in Watergate to the House Judiciary Commit. ter for its impeachment in- quiry Alorneys for two of the seven defendants in the Watergate cover-up case urged the cuurt to withhok! the report from the House on the grounds it would prevent their chents from re- ceming a fair trial But counsel for the special prosecutor's office told the court during oral argument today the focus of the secret report was President Nixon, nol the seven defendants

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Food, Fuel Prices Lead COL Jump

energy items were responsib] for about a fifth of last month’ Increase in prices The Consumer Price Inde climbed last month to 1415 ¢ its 1987 average, meaning tha it cost’ consumers $141 90 ¢ buy the same amount of reta goods and services that $10 bought in 1987 While consumer prices cor tinued their sharp rise. rea spendable earnings of worker dropped another six-tenths one per centin February ani were down 45 per cent from , year ago This was the larges decline over a vear since th government began keeping that statistic in 1964 The February price repor showed inflation holding a firn grip across the economy Foor prices rose 25 per cent. non food commodities, 1 per cent and services seven-tenths of per cent The Nixen admuinistratior has said it expects inflation te continue its sharp pace throughout the first half of the sear before beginning to ease during the final six months Director John T Dunlop of the Cost of Living Council satd Wednesday that February's surge in food prices would be followed by more moderate increases in March, April and May “Our own estimate is Chat tt will be the last month with a really poor record, Dunlop sant Average prices for sasoline alone increased 99 per cent ‘The avetage price tor regular jumped Wy cent: per alto and for premium o 27 cents pe gallon

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SJ Shopping Center Gets Underway

Ground was broken this week for beginning of con. struction uf the new $15 mul: hon San Juan Plaza Shopping Center al the nurUiwest curner of FB Main and 20th Containing a total of 200,000 square feet and located on a leacre site, the new comples is expected to be curnpleted within about six months, according to a spukesinan for the developer, Petersun Prop erties uf Albuquerque Added to the already pre- vivusly announced tenants and allulinents of the center will be an office complex, which will be available fur prefessional businessmen in the area Local contractors are invited to bid un all sub<cuntract work fur the new center A construc: tion and leasing office has been set up on the prettuses Applications for empluyinent will also be accepted A Peterson Properties spokesman emphasized that the former development firm, FHM-Peterson of Albuquerque, had been dissolved with the present principals in the San Juan Plaza developinent being Jim Petersun and Harold Morfield. Davis & Associates of Santa Fe is general contractor for the project.

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Pilot Hunt Called Off For Night

PARISHVILLE (AP) — A search for the pilot of a downed jet fighter was called off Wednesday evening after nightfall hampered the air res- cue attempt. ‘The search for Air Force Capt. Robert Rumberg, 29, of Rome, was to resume Thursday morning. His F106A delta-wing jet crashed in a heavily wooded section of St. Lawrence County late Tuesday.

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Ist Surplus In Trade

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States took in $1.2 bil- lion more from foreign coun- tries than it paid out in 1973, the first surplus on record in its basic balance of paymients, the government reported Wednes- ‘day. But the surplus may be short- lived, since the government ex- pects the sharply higher cost of foreign oil will plunge the coun- try’s payments position back into a deficit this year.

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Air Pollution

Sulfur dioxide, 0.05 ppm, med. Carbon monoxide, 2.5 ppm, low, Soiling, 0.4 ruds*, med. *Reflectant units of dirt _y . 4g a hd ek ek ee Today’s readings are the combined aver- ages trom two continvovs sir monitors and represent the 24 hour period ending at3 p.m. yesterday. SeSphur Dioxide (in parts per million): LOW, less than .03: MEDICM, G97 te 9 a8, HIGH, greater than .08. Carbos Monoside {in parts per rmtiilion!: LOW, tess than 5; MEDIUM, 5 to 15; HIGH, preater than 15. Soiting (in reflectance units of dirt shade}: LOW, jess than 04; MEDIUM, 0.41007; HIGH, greater than 9 7.

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Mosbacher Resigns Post As State Racing Czar

ALBANY -- Emil (Bus) Mosbacher Jr., the controversial $76,875-a-year chairman of the State Racing and Wagering Board, abruptly an- nounced his exit from his state job Wednesday. Gov. Malcolm Wilson and Mosbacher de- scribed departure as a resignation. Legislators, however, speculated he may have been forced out of the high-paying state job. | _ Mosbacher resigned, effective March 31, as: —Syracuse legislators filed a bill in the Leg- islature to cut Mosbacher’s pay by $32,700 a year, —Legislative leaders told Gov. Wilson they were preparing to reduce Mosbacher’s salary from $76,875 to $54,658 annually — a $22,207 pay cut. —New York City Republican bosses huddled with Gov. Wilson and bitterly complained that Moshbacher had shut them out of $4.5 million worth of patronage jobs at the horse racing tracks over which he has jurisdiction. The six Syracuse area lawmakers — Sens. Tarky Lombardi, Jr. and Martin S. Auer and Assemblymen Leonard F. Bersani. Hyman M. Miller, Thomas J. Murphy and Rocco Pitto — filed a bill m the Legistature to redrce Mosba- cher’s salary from $76,875 to $44,175, the base salary now paid most of the heads of state de- ‘partments and agencies. This would be a $32,700-a-year pay slash. The Syracuse legislators, for three months, protested the big salary paid Mosbacher to no avail until Wednesday. They voted against the deficiency budget recently because it contained an $1,875 a vear pay boost for Mosbacher. Mosbacher was ticketed to get another five -per cent pay hike April 1. - As they introduced the bill to cut the pay for the joh, they noted that the salary naid Mosha- cher was the second highest in the state. Only Gov. Wilson, who gets $85,000 a year, is paid more. When it became known Mosbacher was getting out, the Onondagans said they did not intend to pull back their bill. They want to be sure that the person appointed to replace Mos- bacher does not step into a $76,875-a-vear job either. In a “Dear Malcolm’ letter, Mosbacher. said, “Confirming our conversation of March 19 m your Albany office, I tender herewith mv resignation effective March 31, 1974." In a ‘Dear Bos” replay. Wilson said he ac- cepted the resignation “with great regret.”’

Re IL ITHER EF RIIVEN

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$63 Million Budget Cut Urged

ALBANY — ne Legisla- ture’s fiscal committees Wednesday night tentatively recommended $63.2 million in hard cash cuts in the proposed $9.38 billion state budget Gov. Malcolm Wilson submitted to the lawmakers in late January. Another $5.7 million in fund- ing changes were also recom- mended. which altered the original spending and revenue pattern outlined by Wilson by a total of $68.9 million. Additionally the fiscal com- mittees outlined a $368,854,274 program of appropriation, reappropriation and first in- stance appropriation deletions: which would, in the main, have no direct impact on spending in the new fiscal year which starts April 1, The revised budget is sup- posed to be voted on by the Legislature next Tuesday or Wednesday. However, a sizeable number of legislators in both the Sen- ate and Assembly are up in arms about two things that could either delay a vote or force legislative leaders to ex- cise two items from the budget proper and submit them as separate bills to stand or fall on their own merits. One is a proposal to hike wel- fare payments by $22 million effective July 1, and the other is for the state to subsidize to the tune of $50 million the re- peal of special New York City taxes on cigarettes. Onondaga county legislators were in the forefront of vigor- ous battles in both the Senate and Assembly conferences to either scrap the welfare pay- ment hike, delay the effective date until next Jan. 1, or have the state reimburse local gov- -ernments for the cost. Their reasoning was that local budg- ets are already made up and there is no way to provide the extra money. There was flat opposition to the state proposal to have New York City end its special taxes on cigarettes as a way to re- duce cigarette bootlegging, with the state taxpayers subsi- dizing New York City for the lost income, Lawmakers demanded both items be struck from the main budget and be submitted in separate bills so they can be voted on separately. The proposed budget cuts were submitted secretly at closed Republican conferences of senators and assemblymen Wednesday afternoon. They were supposed to be released to the press immediately but a snag developed. First it was said they would not be released and then finally thay wore ot Tanen he the Ac- sembly, without participation by the Senate. Assembly sources said GOP assemblymen were told in their conference that the ap- propriation for the State Coun- cil on the Arts was redticed $11 million from the figure recom- mended by Wilson but it will still be $4 million higher than the council got this vear. The source also reported that Albert Roberts. secretary of the Assembiv Ways and Means Committee said be- tween 2.500 and 3,000 of the more than 9,000 new jobs sought by Gov. Wilson in the budget have been eliminated. The budget-cutting recom- mendations were complicated hy the fact the Legislature in- creased some items and changed the funding arrange- ments on others. And the Legislature upped (Continied Page 2. Col. 6)

By LUTHER F. BLIVEN

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Jury Convicts Agnew’s Successor

BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — Dale Anderson, the Democrat who succeeded Spiro T. Agnew as Baltimore county executive,,. was convicted by a federal jury Wednesday on 32 counts of in- come tax evasion and extorting kickbacks. The 57-year-old Anderson was convicted of extorting $38,620 in cash kickbacks from architects. and engineers in return for un- bid consulting contracts from. the suburban county. Anderson succeeded Republi- can Agnew as the county’s top executive In 1966. The same corruption probe led to Agnew’s resignation as vice president and his conviction on federal income tax charges to which he pleaded no contest. Anderson also was convicted of evading $59,947 in income taxes from 1969 through 1972, years when the government contended he understated his ‘earnings by $126,977. He faces maximum sentences of 20 years and a $10,000 fine on each of 28 extortion-related counts and five years and a $10,000 fine on each of four tax charges. A jury of six men and six women returned the verdict after slightly more than eight hours of deliberations. They re- ceived the case Tuesday night after 10 weeks of testimony and legal arguments. Anderson, one of Maryland's most powerful local Democrats, stared without expression at the U.S. District Court jury as the foreman, Alvin Wise, re- sponded ‘“‘guilty’’ as a clerk queried the pane! on each count. “I’m not guilty,’ he declared as he stopped at a water cooler on the way out of court. “I’ve. authorized my attorney to take all necessary steps to file for a new trial or an appeal.”’ Judge Joseph H. Young gave the defense 20 days to file mo- tions and released Anderson on ‘his own recognizance. Anderson began his political career in 1948 as a precinct doorbell ringer. Eighteen years later, and after eight years as a county councilman, he was elected head of the government of the burgeoning suburbia. The 10-week trial produced sharply conflicting testimony and went to the jury after de- fense and prosecution lawyers - accused each other of building their cases on perjured testi- mony. Chief defense attorney Nor- man Ramsey also made an is- sue of the fact that a number of the witnesses against Anderson had testified after being grant- ed immunity for their roles in the alleged crimes. William Fornoff, the former top county aide to both Ander- son and Agnew, was granted immunity for his testimony. Several consultants said they had had conversations with the defendant in which the alleged payoffs were referred to ob- liquely as political contributions or obligations, None testified to making payments directly to Anderson. Anderson spent 17 hours on the witness stand, denying ac- cusations by Fornoff, Kline and the consultants. He contended that an upswing in his cash spending after 1968 was made ‘possible by a $20,000 political’ nest egg he had secretly been saving since 1950.

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Farm Family Incomes Near Norm for Nation

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ~— Farm families for the first time in four decades have income at 90 to 100 per cent of what other segments of the economy have demanded and received, the president of the American Farm Bureau said Wednesday. ‘And food prices will have to remain at high- ar Jevels all ta encourage confinned produc- tion,’ William J. Kuhfuss told a news confer- ence. “Americans for too long enjoyed the cheapest food prices in the world in relation to buying power,”” said the president of the organization claiming to represent 2.3 million farm families, He said farmers no longer would subsidize consumers. . Defending Agriculture Secretary Farl Butz as a “keen economist and an articulate spokes- man” for farm interests, Kuhfuss called for congressional legislation against a world grain reserve. He said the purchasing power of “‘oth- ers m the world economy” must be recognized. “To allow anv country to hold a strategic reserve of grain or food would be unwise for agriculture, for the business economy and for the consumer,” he argued. Kuhfuss said critics of the Soviet grain deal are leaning on hindsight. ‘Nobody knew it would be a bad year for production,” he said in defense of Butz’ move to sell 360 million tons of wheat that had been in storage two to three vears. And he said too few pecple understand farmers no longer are being subsidized bv fed- eral price supports. “The support programs are no longer effective since the market prices are well above” parity. Kuhfuss said to the suggestion it may be time to erase that legislation. “Agriculture is in full production, adding some 10 to 12 million tons in additional grains this vear.”” he predicted. ‘‘with more the most corn ever on tecord, more wheat and more soybeans,

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Bullets Miss Royal Couple

ee ~ LONDON (AP) — A gunman pumped six bullets into the car sarrying Princess Anne and her husband Wednesday night, wounding their bodyguard and three other persons but leaving the royal couple unscathed. The British home secretary said it was a kidnap attempt. The House of Commons majority leader said he had seen a kidnap letter which demanded a large ransom for Princess Anne had she been kidnaped. The volley of gunfire was loosed just 150 yards from Buckingham Palace. Authorities said a man was arrested moments after the shooting and that he would be arraigned on Thursday. Witnesses said they saw police overpower # man after the shooting. Police said a white Ford compact sedan forced the royal limousine to the curb on a treelined mall as the 23-year-old daughter of Queen Elizabeth Il and her husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, were returning from a movie at about 8 p.m. Witnesses said a man jumped from the car and pumped six bullets into the black limousine, wounding the bodyguard and chauffeur. A nearby policeman who tried to intervene and a newspaperman in a passing taxi also were hit, officials said. Their wounds were described as serious. The royal couple were whisked into a trailing police car and taken to the palace where a spokesman said they were resting. ‘We are very thankful to be in one piece, but we are deeply disturbed and concerned about those who got injured,’ the princess was quoted as saying. A witness, Sandy Scott, said the white Ford forced her car off the road before halting the limousine. She said she saw Phillips in the back seat with his arms around Anne, while the assailant tried to wrest open the door of the limousine. After the man was arrested, Miss Scott said she leaned into the royal car and asked the princess: ‘‘Are you all right, love?” Anne answered: ‘‘Yes, I’m fine, thank you.”’ Hiome Secretary Roy Jenkins told the House of Commons hours after the shooting that the incident was part of a plan to kidnap Princess Anne, who is fourth in line for the British throne. ‘An attempt was made by an armed man to kidnap Princess Anne ... this evening.” Jenkins said, ‘‘The attempt did not succeed and neither the princess nor Capt. Phillips is hurt." edward Short. majority leader in the Commons, meanwhile, ‘continued Pare 2. Col. 3:

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Food, fuel costs hike orice index

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Higher food and fuel prices pushed the cost of living up 1.3 per cent in February, the second largest monthly boost since 1951, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said today. The BLS said the cost of living had skyrocketed 10 per cent over the last 12 months, the first time it had reached that mark since the 10.2 per cent in the year ending December, 1947. Almost half the February increase was caused by higher food costs, with higher prices for gasoline and energy sources accounting for about one-fifth of the monthly boost. The increase was the highest since last August, when the jump amounted to 1.8 per cent. The highest before that was in January of 1951, when the cost of living also rose 1.8 per cent. The BLS said the percentage increase for fuel and gasoline— 5.5 per cent—was not quite so large as Jamuarys 6 per cent rise. But the boost helped shove the total living costs way up, the bureau said. The BLS said almost half the increase was caused by sky- rocketing food prices, and higher prices for gasoline and other energy sources accounted for about 20 per cent of the increase.

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Conspiracy hint in royal kidnap plot Today’s quote

Tt is characteristic of human nature to hate the man you have wronged. — Tactitus

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‘Vegas cheater was set to talk Mafiainformer, wife murdered

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) — A shotgun blast in a dark hallway Wednesday killed an expert slot machine cheater who was expected to testify against a Mafia clieftain and other gambling figures. His wife died with him. “It was definitely a rubout job” by a professional, hired gunman, a police investigator said. Law enforcement sources said it was common knowledge in the local underworld that there was a gandland ‘‘con- tract’’ out on John Dubeck, 31, manager of the Westward-Ho Casino. Dubcek and his wife, Fran- ces, 27, who worked in the snack bar at the Westward-Ho, were gunned down as they entered a dark hallway return- ing to their apartment after work. Mrs. Dubcek had a permit to carry a pistol, police said, but she left the gun in the apartment when she drove to the Casino to pick up her husband. Dubcek was walking behind his wife when the killer fired from about 15 feet behind them. The blast tore into his upper right back. His wife turned and the gunman shot her in the face. “Those after him were not from Chicago or New York ;they were from the Los Angeles area,’’ a source connected’ to the case said. A police source said Dubcek had a reputation as a skilled slot machine cheater “but he has been pretty straight for the last year.”’ Dubcek was scheduled to testify in Los Angeles next Tuesday in a federal court trial of seven men accused of running a rigged gambling operation that allegedly took in up to $250,000 a month. One of the defendants is Peter John Milano, 47, of Northridge, Calif., whom the FBI identified as a ranking member of the Mafia ‘‘family” headed by Nick Licata. Dubcek reportedly testified to the federal grand jury that subsequently indicted Milano and the others on charges of operating a rigged gambling operation that moved from house to house in the San Fernando Valley area of suburban Los Angeles. The ring allegedly employed prostitutes who were paid to bring their customers to the gambling operations, where thes could be fleeced. Others indicted were Beverly Hills attorney Martin Calaway John Joseph Vaccaro, 33, of Las Vegas, Luigi Gelfuso, 48, operator of a Fresno rubbish collection firm, Harry Colodu- ros, Tony Endreola and Santo Manfre, all of Los Angeles. The indictments followed an intensive investigation by the FBI Los Angeles police and the Justice Department’s Organized Crime Strike force. In 1972, Dubcek was charged with running, in partnership with Vaccaro, a crooked gambling operation in Van Nuys. The charges were later 4 See ae

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Asks return to 65 m.p.h. Lower speed irks CHP’s boss

LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The head of the California Highway Patrol says the 55 mile per hour national speed limit is breeding disrespect for the law because motorists know it is unnecessary and does little good, and so they have no reservations about breaking it. Higher speed limits should be restored as soon as practical as the gasoline shortage eases, Commissioner Walter Pudinski said Wednesday. The lower speed limit is not an important factor in reduced traffic deaths, Pudinski said. Fewer people are hurt or die in auto crashes because there are fewer cars on the road, not because they are moving at slower speeds, he said. ‘I think the limit should go back up to 65 as soon as practical because that’s what we designed our freeways for,” Pudinski told an interviewer. The slow speeds are going to be ‘‘difficult for the public to accept now that the crisis has eased. They're going to violate the law and we're going to have difficulty maintaining tight control’’ and the highway patrol will thus ‘‘lose credibility,’’ he said. ‘We're going to catch the brunt of the criticism’ for enforcing a law many people ao not want, he complained. “We're not arresting people for speeding to enforce trafiic safety, which should be our job,” he said. “We're arresting people as an energy conserva- tion measure, and that shouldn't be a law enforcement issue.” “Lower traffic volumes have made more of a contribution to lower death rates than the speed limit. The limit obviously has been a factor, but if the volume of traffic increases again because everyone has gasoline, the safety picture will change regardless of what the speed limit is, ne sald. As it is, he said, drivers ignore the lower limit “when no patrolman is around,’’ but do not go all the way back to the previous speed. Instead traffic seems to move about 60 m.p.h., which, he said, “‘is pretty good.” ‘As long as the lower limit remains, we will do our best to enforce it so it’s not a farce,” he said. ‘‘It’s not up to me to let up ... that’s a political decision, up to the legislature .. . We're still knocking ‘em over like you can't believe because it’s our job to enforce the law.”

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British police hunting gunman’s accomplices

LONDON (UPI) — The man accused of attempting to kidnap Princess Anne was held without bail today in a brief hearing in which police revealed he had a large sum of money in a bank account and may have had the help of associates. The specific charge against lan Ball, 26, a slender though pe'verfully built six-footer, was the attempted murder of Princess Anne’s bodyguard, Detective Inspector James Beaton, one of four men shot in the bizarre ambush of a royal limousine a few yards from Buckingham Palace Wednesday night. Ball was brought into Bow Street Magistrate’s court under the heaviest security precau- tions there in memory. He was handcuffed to two detectives. Everyone in the courtroom was searched. Out- side the narrow Street was Diue ‘with police lined up on both sides. A busload of police preceded his black maria and another busload followed it. The measures were 380 stringent as to underline the police theory that Ball may not have operated alone. Related stories, photos, Page3 Ball, who spoke in what appeared to be a London accent, was completely com- posed in the dock as Detective Chief superintendent Roy Ran- son asked for him to be held a week without bail on the grounds it was “imperative” police have ready access to him. “It is a matter of state security which I cannot enlarge upon,’ Ranson said. Asked by Magistrate Kenneth Barraclough if he had any objection to being held without bail or to the police examining his bank account Ball said quietly: ‘No, but I'd like to apply for legal aid.’’ He wore a good quality gray chalk stripe suit, a white shirt and a dark tie. He has a neatly trimmed short beard, hardly more than a few weeks’ shaving stubble.

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Gun cache discovered in arrests

Two purported karate experts from Phoenix, Ariz., were arrested in Cucamonga Wednesday morning on suspicion of possessing deadly weapons and possessing deadly weapons with intent to commit an assault. Frederick Joseph Stille, 39, of 1624 E. Campbell St., No. 54, Phoenix and Clynis Clifford McKinney, 27, were taken into custody shortly before 9 a.m. by sheriff's deputies. Stille and McKinney allegedly contacted the owner of Wade Ventures at 8788 Archibald Ave., in Cucamonga and demanded his presence at the plant, said deputies. Relatives immediately contacted deputies who met the men at the company. Hints of threats were reportedly involved in the discussions, added deputies. Deputies then confiscated an AR 15 rifle, a 12-gauge police semi-automatic shotgun, a 41 magnum pistol, a .38 caliber automatic pistol and a pair of nanchukas, a karate fighting tool made from two sticks tied together with a thong. Other items from the men’s Lincoln Continental were also taken in for evidence. Both men later were released on $2,000 bond each. Complete details of the incident in Cucamonga were not available, although it is believed tied to activities in Arizona. Federal authorities are working on the case.

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Winds recede Florida biaze out of contro!

MONROE STATION, Fla. (UPI) — State forestry officials hoped today that winds would stay gentle to help them contain an arson-set fire that already has burned an estimated 32,000 acres of the Big Cypress Swamp. Forestry services do not have enough men or equipment to put out the fire, which is burning through the cypress and pine woods on a 12-mile front. The site is about 50 miles west of Miami on the eastern side of the Big Cypress and between the Tamiami Trail north to Alligator Alley. { ‘Because the wind died down, the fire didn’t do a lot Wednesday and the burning acreage didn't change much,” said Dutch Tieman, forest ser- vice disptacher at Naples. ‘The containment of the fire depends a lot on the wind and the canal system guarding the sawgrass area east of the fire front... “We can’t predict when the fire will reach the canal,” which he said was about 2 ‘2 miles to the east of the blaze. So far the huge fire has not threatened any improved prop- erty except Everglades hunting shacks. Nevertheless, two water wagons were moved to Monroe Station, an Everglades outpost, Wednesday to protect several businesses, mobile homes and Indian villages along the trail highway should the need arise. Forest fires are fickle as a team of newsphotogr: phers and newsmen found out A helicopt- er carrying the newsmen landed alongside the fire front to enable cameramen to get close up shots when the wind shifted in about 15 seconds. _ UPI’s Florida picture mana- ger, Doug Roberts, had to dash to the chopper, which was in immediate danger. His arms were singed. Bill Riggs, pilot and owner of the Miami Helicopter Service, said there was no question that aronists were involved in the huge blaze. He said he was flying back from Fort Myers to Miami Saturday when he spotted two three-wheel motor- bikes cruising in the Big Cypress with the occupants setting fires.

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$570,000 in contributions Hughes’ political dole disclosed

Billionaire Howard Hughes used his Silver Slipper Casino in Las Vegas to funnel $570,000 in contributions to Nevada and national politicians during an 18month period, depositions read Wednesday to a federal court jury revealed. The cash disbursements by the casino included $100,000 destined for President Nixon and some $200,000 that was doled out to Nevada politicians just weeks before the the 1970 general elections, the state- ments said. Listings of the disbursements during the last half of 1969 and all of 1970, compiled from forms used in the Silver Slipper’s operation, showed that former Hughes aide Robert A. Maheu had signed authorizations for $430,000 of the cash. “T may have, but I don't recall the details,’ Maheu said more than 90 times in a deposition taken about 29 separate withdrawals from the Silver Slipper. The forms with Maheu's signatures were devised by Hughes’ management and _ in- dependent accountants to keep track of money withdrawn for use as political contribuions. Maheu’s answers were read into the record at his $17.5 million libel suit against Hughes for publicly accusing Maheéu of stealing his money. Many of the contributions described went in cash to local politicians through Hughes’ attorney Thomas Bell and Hughes executive Jack Hooper. However, Maheu’s son, Peter, said in a deposition that he held for several weeks $50,000 in cash destined for Nixon. He said the money was in $100 bills bound in packets of $5,00,. Peter Maheu, who is now a Tucson, Ariz., police officer, said he took the money at his father’s instru@tions to Richard Danner, managing director of the Frontier Hotel, who was to pass it on to C.G. “Bebe Rebozo, Nixon's close friend. “Mr. Rebozo was going to give the money to Mr. Nixon,”’ the younger Maheu said in his deposition. That and another $50,000 supposedly drawn from a personal Hughes account, were delivered to Rebozo in Los Angeles. Rebozo has said he kept the entire $100,000 in a safe for three years then returned it, and that Nixon never knew about it. Bell said Hooper invited various Nevada political candi- dates to his office, engaged them briefly in small talk and would than ‘reach into his drawer and take out some $100 Bell also said in his deposi- tion that he made $385,200 in cash contributions himself. He said he destroyed his records when Maheu told him “the quickest way to get fired is to maintain a record of the political contributions of How- ard Hughes.”

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“AROUT TOWN

i" ‘Mar. 3, at the ‘Girl Seoul ise, tnbm 10 an. 02m. rokistratidn fee 38 7 al:ble year. Boys cegistering-for the first ume.tn.the. ‘Winslow Litlle League should bring bieth cectificases,.. All hoja arerlo bring $1.20 afd a parent, “Tho frst Tuesday'tn April sill he tie changing ot the guard, hen Windlow's naw mayor Jim Curtis and eily comnelimen Mg, Hetty Burt and Buddy Pave, will be swortt into office... ‘The Wilsloiy Chamber of Commerce says. that 198 donérs farfned out Mar. 19 forthe blood eampalgn; .. Sume people ‘waited fora long Lime to give blood; according ly Mrs, Veria Welsch, Cliataber sesrelary manager: . The siaft of Winslow Meinorial Hospital; tbe Chainlier and Blood Services were all pleased with the.lusioul, she aid. : ‘Work was halted teniporazily-at bie city potice and burt: facility in Winslow. this wesk’as materials nich hava teen ordered falled-to 1be6t,dellvery.sehedules. . . The Uwaler- type seals for the court rooin-evimeil-chatnbers have nat been delivered: -Eleotricah locks on equipment, are yet to be installed, . “But there's not « great: deal left to finish,” ‘flicks report. Roy Alkios, Windloy’s outstandtig baskethail: player, was, nardedl lp the AA ATLState secoid (ean: . Earlier Roy: wae voled lo the AA All-Conference team, Winslow Fivé Ghtef Poul Tstseealls op: lod aitizens. to obeerve general preeautinis againsi-flre, and palate out tht there ate laws against-open-bursing, bonfires. and, outdoor rubbish fires,..”. A perinit is required, he says, fo kindle-or tiiaintaia any bonfire oF rubbish tire on any private land. . In adiitigg, he said, itis legal to kindle or viaintam-any boafive "ur rabbis fire unless the location is not less {hai 80 fe8t froin any. stiuctite, oF unlése fhe fire is'contalned in an approved: ‘aste hurner lonsced.aafely not tess than 15 fect from any siieture. If permit.is obtained, Lutes sald, bonfires. ane: rubbish ‘fires, shall be’ constantly attended. by’ a cofypetent Dereon unl the fie is extingnshod,« -Mursing off ye feat legal, Lutes says ah ears

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In This Corner...

‘History repeats. itself?’ Perhaps. County Supervisor Roy, Palmer reeaited the. cainpiign to tereate Navaja County when he spoke before the Navaje.Cotty Historiedl Soctoty last Sakura. evening. Originally Navajo. County. wes,a part of Apache County: Apache County'had been ertated in 1878, ap Siowllake was established 85-the- county Seat by the Lesibbale, <"Hloirever, Clifton «then a partof afiache County) jd wilh ‘St:Jehns and bad the county Seat reoved over t0 St: Joh. ‘Will C Batties, then a' member sf the legltatare, went to worl te aU: Navajo: County ereated Originally. Coloradn hunt: wus broposed as'the same, Palener said, but this was _changed to Navajo so Ihe slale's counties sold all BE naihed for: indtan tribes (The silling; hoveever, as chetiged from the Spanish spelling, “Navajo"s'we tse today) « "t enay for" Rarnes'to gel Une measure through the legislature, Palmer 6a. Thoke were a couple of menibers ot the House wh didh't want the néw county ereuted; 0 they 1 “pusteted, And they would have wan, but tiey got i lie ovec ‘eonfideat: Afew mises helore iiigntof the last ay of the Jeglslative session, they qit talking. Bards oudékly rounded Upshis supporters; and Callod for. Vols, ‘he meature as enbrovedsby’ a lerge'mnargi. The sew ouinky sas created. “The fet yoesng ofthe éouiis board of augers Was le Abe 1: Bo oer wl be elbratng 8H birthday this time next year. “Taylor noted that now theteare efforts and “apathe County. again Tadoed, ee pil (o'spltt the. comity a ‘areal pasted House of Retnyseas ives and py bet tie Slate Senda. ize this week's heading in the Secale oni vat the request of Why Navajo: Aribe, ‘Wil’ Ape’) be auotise “importar “Sottkeasted Artioun? TE Sould be-depending san sat the ‘Senate committee-dces on,that date ifs year:

By-Peul Borger

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‘The: bourd. .of ditectars* at Nathiand, Pioneet College ‘il riéet at 38, pan" today (Thingsday)n th office of Fa Sorenaén, president, “In-"Hol- ‘break: Anion the tiem cn the ‘agenda aré: Firing, of: stat “huerabiers ftinge:bevielit tr employees; budgeting, ind ‘proposals Fegarding: facilities

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Licenses: Now Due For. 6,000: Dogs

‘The “Witsiow Humane. So- eiety animal shelter has news fot the, wriers f- the cst ‘mated 6.006 dogs i town: Dog iigenaes A shu ATE due Ape 1s there 8 a % ine to (allure to have ‘yo ‘dog’ Tlcetised, witbib the city Hist of Warsow (City Ord ‘ame 210) ‘to date, pias eotlely “On Apia - tice; Sel sonduetn “ oe seryed ot anya owner feta Jas Sled ra license Bib. 068, ‘Sey (eso te toes. ining loss have ivesktheit rabies fuecina: ears sald 6 art oft

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UTU Locals Will Conduc Winslow : Letter: Cami

‘United. Transportation -Un- joa Loci 130,128,778 and the B nf:LE have,scheduled: a letter, writing ‘workshop. sup- yivtirig Hoase Bill 2004, all day Sdineday” and “Sunday. af- ternoons, March, 3°24 FEB, 2034 provides: (oi the installation of: Department of Publi Safety. ambulance heli eoplersin: Seligman.’ S| Seligman does nol, :at: this tine, aye 6 ductor, -aurse, ambulance. of. un emergency roum of any description, says Glavonee.' Haber. Winslow THI pfflatal soho is epordina- ting'tie'letier: weting eamp- ln. for: Winilow.. Pérsins heeding emergency treatment In Seligetan are as'fér- away froin: 4. hospital emetgency room: ag three bolle, he said, ‘A recent example. was a Gervica man who was injured ‘atall at’ SeGeman.:" Roberts’ said. “'The wait tor @ wheeled -sinbulance, Was, over ive honk 25+ ‘Volunicer typists ake de: sperately needed to help sith Hie ele welling: Bonet ‘He oied thst, the “redien Winslow’ railroad, men.are oticermed with. Seligman Situation” is Gat -gver 250 [Winslow families! have some viertbet “of. theis. familly Séllgmoti on aasignfiedt oF on pa haan

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‘The Winslow. Folice Depart: ‘“rbepyered “a ‘stolen lai posession money. and jewelry “amounting to: $4800 which" had) apparently been taken from the ¥ Accord '6 po ay Gavel; (rom Santo Dom iyo, NIM ae teveling route to oihpanians; and picked ip thlker They stopped aa Whnelew Wsiautane Dolce sects Felated:": “Phi ke, e Pall -Kehatel,’ of Ba NY ie theo ae tke Dreteit of gop tothe reat to eee ices sa ene re

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th, Ure. Mar. tv Esape of The Winslow: Mail, it. fetes ‘ted theta eld ncurzed “Mai. 9, fivolying Ben Joe-and oi. ce port stated that; TE was, Tor talure to vied after Cabal Wer tea the aa

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Local: Man Indicted For Cattle Rustling

Navajo County Sheriff Mar. ‘iy GMlespie givés eredit.to one of bis deputies assigned! to the ‘Winslaw-area‘for dotiig‘a good: "job that resulted in Die calving of another béet- slaughter casey peevaient, around: Atl zona’ during the past Year. On Mar..48; Bill Whbanic, ie. Hf -dioraugh vestigation, “oF clals ent, id with (hea {ance of the Winslaws Palle Department, evidence ‘a8 ‘btained aul presented to the Navajo County “Grand Jay. ‘The evidence resulted ir-en indiétiment "Mary 16," against Peace Contiae eo ee ‘ehatige of grand ett, ‘Sheri Gillespie sid hat he ‘could not miake any stator as to'the facts. of tan 2a, tn eémpiine wilh new oil fale preg to news Dub Welly. ‘tinsis Polite Departiical ‘ffiials slated that they coop” erate aaa sedan aiinig thes se, fn shied than the Win: "sow.-City “Diaits Found anata thie shed, The iat ‘had not gerta plaiis, eee burnedsand the ‘toil yes destroyed, pole oft

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wee at in On “Aprsg; ia zhe board peerage a idiein caiman i

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Protests Flood Assessor’s Office

RS ti eet art ‘Ab edtimated, 500 ov nor ‘pipteals of the. property as: SSeEMeUS Have bow “ited ‘ii. Counly “Assessor Coc -Tegeives, in au effi to try 10 Tind out ‘whut He going oa. wilh {he:as+ -geeaments "it Northare Al zone, State Representative Toh Wettaw met with, Tuley last Friday. tiorning: This. rg :gorter sac in on the discussion. ‘Tt’ fast -doesh’t . » male Sense? Tuldy said of jhe Mies " Appralial Program, which is ‘being operated by. the state: FHir:oaja that’ no ‘dnt the yate-wa$ right in efforts totry “bo .equalize apsessments al ‘over the state, bat That the ‘iiforination gotning Irém. the ainpulers in Phyenix” just side's wud. up ‘He pointed cut oné example “iy Winslow where an 1100 $9. FL Rouse was-assesved- m1ure ‘thana: lee 9g. ft, houae.-CBoth ‘houses ure ‘approximately: the shiie age and in the sime ngntortoed? fe neted another: éxaraplé, “this one- 10 Show Law, Last year the Stite Boata” of Ape eal set the Fair market vale ‘athe property al $49,00 aiter a wb of Resa on the ‘natter. "This yeat mhe" canipter ee 2a ea ‘alte of more than twice lat “year’s hgure,’“We. know the Value of property se aoing Wp, Yput not that. much," Miley “said, Tn Molbiogk a ose that ‘thas appraised as having a fal Yimarket value’ of $18,000 last “year now is ajpéaised af hav. ‘hg’ market ‘value-of ovei sisjon. “And: So It “est al: ovor ‘STuley’ Mekad “through the sompuice reports. to shot ‘fetta. exaroples. throughout ‘Navajo County. ‘the problemd “weren't Vimited, to "ust -one ‘area, bat seenied “to” exist eT ea aes Paka ge

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1G Spelling Bee Wl be tlds: ‘Saturday, Mar 23; a¢ the: Pitt: ‘an Cafelaia in Holbrook a asin Ti ret by ft sail BIL ewan. af, Winslow, ‘Dan imond ard Mavies Hunt ‘af Holbrook actiud. 8s jndaes: ‘Gintestacts ~ ares"Luanae ‘obéh aiid Poli, Hatett fromm “yaseph lly; Tere sks Mable Dav Dates Non Aine: Higginsosto ‘Witislow;, en eal ‘Rhonda bu Barbas Hee nme Crate ‘Kelley “And

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Gas Price Expected To Curb Purehases

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed. eral energy chief William FE. Si- mon says further gasoline price increases may help discourage purchases enough to reduce gasoline shortages across the nation to as little as 1.5 per cent. Lifting of the Arab oil embar- go will leave the United States with estimated gasoline short- ages of 5 to & per cent during the rest of this year, President Nixon said at a news confer- ence Tuesday. Nixon ended the voluntary ban on Sunday gasoline sales but said the energy squeeze would still have to be offset by conservation measures such as earpools and lowered o— limits. Simon told a House Appro- priations subcommiites Wednesday that drawing down on gasoline inventories could reduce the shortages to about 4 to 7 per cent. He added that gasoline prices possibly rising as high as 70 cents a gallon could help dis- courage consumption and thus shrink the shortages to the range of 1.5 to 3 per cent. Last week the average price for regular gasoline was about 53 cents a gallon, up from an average of 39 cents in 1973. Gasoline shortages in Febru ary and March have been fig ured at about 17 per cent — re. ‘sulting in long lines at service \stations in many areas and emergency allocations late last /month by the Federal Energy Office. The FEO on Wednesday re- vised its March allocations, giv- ing nine states additional gaso- jline supplies. All other state al- locations remained unchanged. The increases, totaling some 12 million barrels, are to be drawn from oil company in- ventories of more than 200 mil- lion barrels. Pereentage increases for the nine states are: Alabama, 1 per cent; Arizona, 144 per cent; California, 1.2 per cent; Idaho, 0.5 per cent: Kentucky, 2.6 per cent; Nebraska, 2.7 per cent: Pennsylvania, 3.3 per cent; South Carolina, 5.9 per cent; Vermont, 16.8 per cent. Meanwhile, the American Petroleum Institute reported that gasoline output by refi- neries last week decreased by about 1 per cent while prodse- tion of already-plentiful dis. tillate fuel oil increased. sceaneeatata atin tacaiataiieteetnebhad tae nme eenenne tei uem accident entails

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Princess Anne Safe Royal Kidnap Fails

LONDON (UPI) — The man accused of attempting to kidnap Princess Anne was held without bail today in a brief hearing in which police revealed he had a large sum of money in a bank account and may have had the help of associates. The specifie charge against Ian Ball, 26, a slender though nowerfully built six-footer, was the attempted murder of Princess Anne's bodyguard, Detective Inspector James Bea- ton, one of four men shot in the bizarre ambush of a royal limousine a few yards from Buckingham Palace Wednesday night. Ball was brought into Bow Street Magistrate's court under, the heaviest security precau tions there in memory. He was handcuffed to twe detectives. Everyone in the courtroom was searched, Out side the narrow street was blue with police lined up on_ bot! sides. A busload of police preceded his black maria anc another busload followed it. The measures were sf stringent as to underline the police theory that Ball may no’ have operated alone. Ball, who spoke in what appeared to be a _ Londor accent, was completely com posed in the dock as Detective Chief Superintendent Roy Ran. son asked for him to be held a week without bail on the ground it was “imperative” police -lhave ready access to him. “It is a matter of state , security which I cannot enlarge » upon,”’ Ranson said, Asked by Magistrate Kenneth Barraclough if he had any iiobjection to being held without ‘bail or to the police examining ihis bank account Ball said quietly: » “No, but I'd like to apply for » legal aid.” | He wore a good quality gray ‘chalk stripe suit, a white shirt and a dark tie... i He has a neatly trimmed short beard, hardly more than 1a few weeks’ shaving stubble. | In addition to the uniformed police some 15 _ plainclothes ‘detectives were among the 40 ‘or so newsmen and public in the courtroom. Until that moment it had ‘been assumed that the attempt- ed kidnaping of the daughter of Queen Elizabeh was the work of a lone operator. But Ranson said: “We are endeavoring to id his associates.” | Ball was listed as “unem- ployed and of no _ fixed address.” | Princess Anne and her ‘husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, ‘went about their usual chores today at Sandhurst Military Academy, where he is an instructor. But police and armed soldiers patrolled near their house and guard dogs were in evidence. All but one of the gates into) the academy grounds were capeneeneemsteneepenentiimennamairnercamamemigrn

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Impeachment Law Vague

SPY PORTER VE. INCRE EP (/ i974 New York Times News Service) WASHINGTON ~ What is an Mm veachable offense? Has President Nixon, for all the dif. ficulties spawned by Watergate, committed any? What does the Constitution mean in_ setting “high crimes and _ misde- meanors'’ as standard of of misconduet for which a Presi- dent should be removed from office? The questions are not easy ones, yet they lie at the root of the impeachment inquiry being conducted by the House Judiciary Committee. | impeachments have been @parse in American history—only 12 before the cur rent exercise and only one of those involving a President and the committee must try to resolve issues of constitutional. law that have gone wihout clear definition for 187 years The following questions and answers explore these issues and their importance in deter mining the outcome of the im peachment inquiry that is crawling inexorably toward a conclusion, Q. what basically is at issue? A. Before the Judiciary Com- mittee can judge Nixon's con duct in office its members must, in effect, judge the meaning of the Constitution, The framers of that document defined im peachment as a method of removing Government officers who had committed ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Nobody has difficulty un- derstanding what treason and bribery are. But debate has rag- ed throughout American history, and particularly amid each of a dozen prior impeachment pro ceedings, over the meaning of! “high erimes and misde meanors.”’ A study issued last month by the committee's lawyers con cluded that a President could be impeached for acts “under mining the integrity of office, disregard of constitutional duties and oath of office, arrogation of power, abuse of the Governmental process’ even if such acts are not direct viola tions of criminal law But a legal analysis released this month by the President's Watergate lawyers contended the Constitution not only re- quired evidence of ‘a criminal offense, but one of a very serious nature committed in one’s Governmental capacity” as ground for impeachment. Q. What different does i make? | ' A.A great deal. Using the committee staff's standard, Nix on micht be subject to impeach- ment for such matters as failing io consult Congress before authorizing the secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969 or allegedly taking unjustified exemptions on his Federal income tax returns Under the postion taken by the White House lawyers, the bombing of Cambodia would be a violation of criminal law and ihe questionable income tax deductions would not relate to the President's “Governmental capacity,” so neither would be proper grounds for impeach. ment, 4). Congress is ultimately going to decide what is im. peachable, Why doesn't it just go ahead and do it? A. It isn't that simple. The Judiciary Committee members | (Continued On Page 2 Col. 3) |

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Homes Hit By Attacks In Belfast

BELFAST (UPI) — Neve long absent, violence returnec to Northern Ireland late Wednesday night when attack ers staged shooting and gaso line bomb = assaults against three homes in Belfast's Rath coole area, police said today. One woman was - slightly burned and treated for shock after three shots were fired and ‘a gasoline bomb was thrown at the home of a Roman Catholic family, police said. Two shots were fired at the home of another Catholic family, injur. ing no one. Then a gasoline bomb smashed the living room window of a Protestant home nearby. The gasoline bomb bounced hack into the garden hefore exploding in flames, police said. No one was hurt Early today a homb biast wrecked a garage at Rosstre- vor in County Down but caused no injuries. British authorities moved today to tighten controls on troops in plainclothes in North. ern Ireland following the “mistake” killings Wednesday of two plainclothes soldiers in clashes with police. “A top level review of the movement of troops in plain- clothes is under way,” a British army spokesman said. ‘The regulations will be tightened as ‘necessary.”” The deaths Wednesday raised the toll to 980 persons killed in 4-2 years of violence among Northern Ireland’s majority Protestants, minority Roman Catholics and security forces. “It was a tragic accident,” a police spokesman said of the two shootouts in rural County Armagh close to the Irish Republic border. The first gunfight broke out between a group of soldiers standing beside a broken down truck and a _ passing police patrol. The second was between a Land Rover patrol sent to tow in the truck and a police car sent to assist the first police patrol. Army officers blamed the shootings on the heightened tension caused by a stepup in violence in the previous five days. Three soldiers, two policemen and four civilians, including two IRA men, died in the period.

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GCM Cancels Lavoff

General Motors Corp., the hard hit giant of the U.S. Auto Industry, canceled plans Wednesday to tem- porarily lay off 27,000 workers and to shut down seven plants for a week.

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On Page Two... ‘Draft Lottery Held

The Selective Service conducted its sixth draft lottery Wednesday, but with volunteers filling out military quotas, the results held little cause for con- cern by American youth.

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Minimum Wage Hike Seen

The nation’s workers may see the minimum wage go up to $2 an hour by May, but a congressional opponent charges the action could backfire on them bv boosting unemplovment.

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Stocks Boosted

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market swung upward to day, boosted by a couple of in dications that the economy ap parently is resisting any serious slump.

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Monthly Bills Jump High Electricity Rates Battled

: ee ee ee Ee Some Americans are paying up to 50 per cent more pe month for electricity this year than they did last, an Associ ated Press survey shows. Consumers are beginning te organize to fight the rate hikes. A spot check of monthly elec. tric bills this vear and last showed that most increases have been about $1 or $2, gen erally about 10 per cent, with the highest reported boost com ing in Jacksonville Fla., wher the average tab went fron $17.99 last year to $27.70 thi: year, Utility companies say the in ‘creases are due primarily t the rising cost of fuel. The noted that imported crude oi has jumped fourfold since Jan 1, 1973. Most of these increase: are passed on to the consume automatically, with no reviev by state or local authorities. Areas like the Northeas' which depend heavily on im ported oil have been the hard. est hit. In the Northwest, where water is a major source of elec. tricity, the price hike has been jless severe, Other operating costs like labor also are gener- ally higher in the East and tra. ditionally have made electric bills more costly. The AP check showed that the price of a kilowatt hour of electricity ranges from just over a penny in Nevada and Oregon to seven cents in New York City, | Albelectric homeowners have been especially hard hit. Such a homeowner in New York's Or- ange County, for example, has seen his monthly bill jump from $101.67 in March 1973 to $205.60 this vear for 5,000 kilo- watt hours of electricity, In some cases, electric bills are flopping mortgage payments. | Most of the consumer outery has come in the form of pro- tests at public hearings, A Pub. lie Service Commission hearing in New York Citv was dis rupted by customers com | plaining about Consolidated Edison Co.'s request for a per manent rate hike of almost 23° per cent,

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Missile Frigate, Tanker Collide

HAMPTON, Va‘(UPI) — A guided missile frigate and an Italian tanker collided early today near the Hampton Bridge tunnel in a heavy fog, No injuries were reported, The frigate USS Dahlgren apparently hit the tanker Egirra, which was anchored, about 7:30 a.m. near the Norfolk Naval Base. Early reports from the Coast Guard and Navy indicated = only superficial damage to the vessels, | The Coast Guard said it sent two boats to the scene to check for possible pollution from oil spilling from one of the ships. The Coast Guard and the Navy gave no explanation for the collision, but a Coast Guard spokesman said he was sure the heavy morning fog was a factor.

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Prosecutor Seeking Additional Documents

WASHINGTON (AP) — The special Watergate prosecutor's office has subpoenaed addition- al documents from the White House, it was disclosed today. A spokesman for special prosecutor Leon Jaworski said the subpoena directed to Presi- dent Nixon was served on the White House last Friday. Dead- line for compliance is Monday. The spokesman deciined to say what the subpoena de- manded, Earlier, James D. St. Clair, President Nixon's chief Water- gate lawyer, acknowledged in a television interview that a sub- poena had been received from the special prosecutor. St. Clair appeared on the NBC “Today's show. Jaworski disclosed on Feb. 14 in a letter to Sen. James 0.

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Colleagues Honor Late Chet Huntley

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Vice President Gerald R. Ford says the world will miss the “unique abilities’ of former television news anchorman Chet Huntley. Huntley, 62, died at his home Wednesday after a long bout with lung cancer, Family spokesmen said a me- morial service would be con- ducted for Huntley Sunday at the Big Sky of Montana resort and recreation area south of Bozeman. Huntley was chair- man of the Big Sky board of directors, Another memorial service is scheduled Tuesday in the New York studios of the National Broadcasting Co. | A spokesman said Huntley would be buried in his native Montana in private services at a date yet to be set. He is sur vived by his widow, Tipton; two daughters; his mother, Blanche Huntley of Bozeman; and three sisters. It was at NBC that Huntley teamed with David Brinkley on an evening news show they shared for 14 vears, until 1970 when Huntley left to take over the $20 million Big Sky develop- ment, _ One of his successors at NBG, John Chancellor, said Huntley's appeal to the viewing publie ‘was based to a great extent ‘on the fact that television dis- plays character.” ' Chancellor said Huntley was perceived by the public ag “honest, hardworking, honor. able, courageous, warm, patri- otic and decent.” Ford said, “Our world, se much in need of able commu. nicators, will miss his unique abilities which did so much te bring broadcasting and journal. ism to its present position of in- fluence.” Brinkley told a nationwide audience on NBC Wednesday that Hunttey always told the truth as he knew it and left the American people with “some. thing useful, honest and of per- manent value.” In a flashback to the way he and Huntley customarily ended their news program, Brinkley said, “And for myself, 1 guess I can say for one more time, egad night (heat ”

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Food, Fuel Prices Up In flation Quickens

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pace of inflation quickened in February with food and fuel prices pushing the cost of living up 1.3 per cent, the second big. gest monthly jump since 1951, the government said today. | The Labor Department said ‘last month's rise sent consumer prices 10 per cent higher than a ‘vear ago and marked the first time since 1948 that the United States experienced double fig- ure inflation. | It was the highest 12-month jincrease in the cost of living ‘since consumer prices rose by (10.2 per cent in the 12 months ending January 1948. Nearly half the February in- (crease was attributed to higher food prices with the price of ‘beef raising 7.5 per cent, the sharpest jump since a 96 per cent increase in June 1947, Gasoline and other energy ‘items were responsible for ‘about a fifth of last month’s in- crease in prices. The Consumer Price Index climbed last month to 141.5 of jts 1967 average, meaning that it cost consumers $141.50 to buy the same amount of retail goods and services that $100 bought in 1967, While consumer prices con- tinued their sharp rise, real spendable earnings of workers dropped another six-tenths of one per cent in February and were down 4.5 per cent from a year ago. This was the largest decline over a year since the government began keeping that statistic in 1964. The February price report showed inflation holding a firm grip across the economy. Food prices rose 2.5 per cent; non- food commodities, 1 per cent, and services seven-tenths of 1 per cent. The Nixon administration has said it expects inflation to con- tinue its sharp pace throughout the first half of the year before beginning to ease during the fi- nal six months. Director John ‘T. Dunlop of the Cost of Living Council said Wednesday that ‘February's surge in food prices would be followed by more moderate increases in March, ‘April and May. | “Our own estimate is that it will be the last month with a really poor record,” Dunlop said. The outlook for the second half of the year is clouded by a great deal of uncertainty but the predictions range from a slight increase to a substantial decline, he said. Dunlop said consumers are helping to restrain beef prices by refusing to buy at higher prices. He said this has put a cost squeeze on cattle produc- ers. ai

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Impeachment Inquiry Gets Report On Nixon

| WASHINGION (AP) — Tne grand jury report on President ‘Nixon's role in Watergate goes ito the House impeachment in “quiry today unless the US. ‘Court of Appeals intervenes. _ The appeals court agreed to hear arguments today from Wetergate defense lawyers who hope to reverse U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica’s order sending the report to the ‘House. | In scheduling arguments for today, the appeals court said ‘it will consider requests for an additional delay in transmitting the report and also hear argu- ‘ments on the legal issues. | John J, Wilson and Frank Strickler, attorneys for former presidential aide H. R. Halde- ‘man, and John Bray, counsel for Gordon Strachan, another former White House aide, ‘asked the appeals court to or- ‘der Sirica not to send the grand jury report to the House Judiciary Committee. Special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski opposed the re- quest. | Sirica refused Wednesday to delay sending the report to the House until the appeals court had ruled. He did postpone ac- tion until 4 p.m. today to give ‘the defendants a chance to ap- peal. | The grand jury gave the sealed report and a_ satchel filled with evidence to Sirica March 1, the same day it in- dicted Hatdeman, Strachan, and five other former adminis- tration or campaign officials in ‘the Watergate cover-up. On Monday, Sirica ordered ithe report sent to the House. in his petition to the appeals court, Strachan said that if the report is sent to the House Judiciary Committee and made public, intentionally or inad- vertently, he “‘runs the distinct risk of being put on trial by the legislative branch of our gov- ernment and of being pre- judged by the general public.” Haldeman used a nearly identi- ‘cal argument saying that if the report is leaked “‘the defend. ants will stand convicted before their stories are told.” | Meanwhile, a study delivered on Wednesday to the Senate ee Watergate committee called on Congress to make it clear to }the public that any president can be impeached ‘without first being beheaded, jailed, fined, indicted or even in ) dictable.”’ | The 169-page study prepared iby the National Academy of Public Administration, also rec- ommended that the attorney “general be barred from giving presidents political or personal advice, Sen. James L. Buckley, Con. 'R-N. Y., who has called on Nix- on to resign, said he thought support for the President. ‘among conservatives is thinner ‘than many suppose. Buckley ‘said he believes conservatives have been reluctant to make their doubts known hecause ‘they are unwilling to seem to align themselves with political ‘and philosophical foes of the ‘President. | | Eastland, D-Miss., chairman of ‘the Senate Judiciary Com- ‘mittee, that Nixon had refused to give him material he consid. ered vital to his investigation. Jaworski told Eastland that the material Nixon had refused to supply included 27 tapes sought for the investigation of the Watergate cover-up as well as evidence relating to investi- gations of contributions from the dairy industry and the ae- tivities of the so-called White House plumbers unit, . The President has contended in several recent public appear. ances that he has given Ja- worski all the material he needs to complete his investiga- tion. Nixon has said he has given the special prosecutor 19 tapes and some 700 documents. The subpoena issued Friday was the first one directed at (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4)

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Tonight's | The Night

MOUNT BLANCHARD—The day has finally come. : Throughout the week Riverdale _fans have been painting everything in sight, wearing ‘Ga: To State” buttons, buying every blue derby for miles around and putting the area “around Mount Blahchard, Forest : and Wharton into a general uproar. Now the Falcons will be put to the test by a school that has compiled a 46-7 record the past two years led by two-time All-Ohioan Mike Cross. Rivérdale (21-3) meets, Pitsburgh Franklin Monroe (243) at. 7:30 p.m. today in St. John Arena in Columbus. See related story en B-1.""

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$750,000. Sur-Sav Files Suit Over Odor Problem

The foul. odor which forced a two- month closure of Sur-Sav Supermarket, 2721 N: Main St., has resulted in a $750,000 lawsuit filed Wednesday in Hancock County Court of Common Pleas. Attorney Roy L. Benson, representing Sur-Sav Foods, Inc., named Ashland Oil & Refining Co., William H. Decker & Sons, Inc., and Fout Bros, Inc., as co- defendants in the suit. Sur-Sav Supermarket, which opened Nov, 1, 1973, was voluntarily closed Dec. ,15 because the odor, which originated in the land under the building, was per- meating certain food items in the store. The suit claims that the odor was caused by petroleum products buried in the land, debris from the Ashland Oil & Refining Co. fire in Findlay in 1969 which was used to fill part of the land. The odor problem was cured by ex- cavation of the debris, and the store reopened Feb. 12. According to the complaint, © Sur-Sav Foods, Inc., has lost $300,000 in business iricome to date, and will lose business income in the future; lost $40,000 worth of food inventory affected by the odor and removed from the store, and will lose food inventory in the future; and spent $2,500 ‘‘in efforts to subdue the stench.” The complaint states that Ashland Oil’ & Refining Co. dumped the petroleum and refined products enclosed in metal. containers sometime in 1970, and in doing so caused “a nuisance per se...by in- tentionally depositing petroleum, crude oil, refined oil or a compound thereof into a river, ditch, drain, or watercourse, or into a place from which it may run or wash therein,” a violation of the Ohi Revised Code. The complaint also states that the owners of Sur-Sav Foods, Inc., were unaware of the petroleum when they leased the building, and that the oil company ‘‘has failed to take any positive action to abate’ the odor problem. - Further, the complaint says the oil company ‘covered said containers with earth without exercising due care in either informing the property owners or those who may forseeably acquire rights to said property.”’ The land-owner and lessor of the property, Fout Bros, Inc., of ‘Findlay, was also named in the suit for breaching an expressedewarranty in the lease stating that ‘the property was fit for the purpose of maintaining and operating a grocery store or supermarket business." Fout Bros., Inc., knew that petroleum products were buried in the land, the complaint claims. William H? Decker & Son, Inc., ‘of Lima, which was paid by the oil company. to fill the land, was named a co-defendent in the suit.

By DAVE DUDLEY Ctaff Writor

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Piggyback Tax Public Hearing Dates Set For Hancock County

Hancock County Commissioners Wednesday started the ball rolling on the imposition of a '2 per cent piggyback ‘sales and use tax to finance the con- struction and operation of the proposed city-county law enforcement center. Public hearing dates on the proposed center and the means of funding it have been set for 1:30 p.m. April 17 and 22 in the County Engineer's Assembly Room, 1900 Lima Ave. The commissioners said they plan on April 24 to decide on whether to impose the tax, and the public will have 60 days thereafter to call for a referendum to place the tax issue on the ballot. Based on the commissioners’ time schedule, the earliest the tax could,go into effect would be July 1, generating an estimated $500,000 per year in additional revenue to the county. Although two years ago Findlay and Hancock County voters turned down a similar tax to finance the then proposed $4.3 million government. center, the commissioners feel county residents will react much more favorably to the streamlined $2.5 million center, which would include the sheriff's and police departments, adult jail, juvenile detention facilities and administrative offices. Guing on the assumption that county residents see the need for new jail facilities but did not support the county government center plans, which would have included various government of- fices, the commissioners asked Prindle, Patrick and Partners Architects of Columbus to redesign the center to in- clude only the law enforcement agencies. In February they asked John W, McGinnis, consultant for the firm, to further shrink the center to save money, yet without inhibiting the building’s future usefulness. The preliminary plans now call for a 51,000 square-foot center, ta eost $2,542,320. Should the permissive sales and use tax be imposed, the commissioners would not predict how.ong that tax would run, “There’s no use in misleading the public by saying that in some time in the future it would be cut off,’’ Commissioner Howard Yawberg, chairman of the commissioners’ law enforcement center committee, said. “This board cannot obligate future boards of county com- missioners,” The county has the authority to issue up to $2.7 million worth of bonds to pay for the facility, but the commissioners said they don’t favor paying off the bonds quickly because of rising costs and possible future expansion within the center. The additional income generated by the tax would also be available for county ‘general fund purposes.

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impeachment Probers Critical — Of Hedging By Nixon Counsels

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Judiciary Committee lawyers said Wednesday their request for White House _evidence is specific, related to Watergate and fully understood by President Nixon’s counsel. The lawyers, representing both the Democratic and Republican members in the ee impeachment inquiry, sald repeated charge by the White that the committee wants to “back & truck up to the White House” and cart away its files are unfounded. The remarks of John Doar, chief counsel, and Albert Jenner, chief minority counsel, at a committee. briefing prompted Rep. Jerome R. Waldie, D-Calif., to accuse the White House of trying to stall the investigation. “T have a feeling — not corroborated by anything, just a feeling — that if the evidence we’re seeking were not in- criminating it would be the President who would back a truck up to the White House and deliver it to us,’ Waldie said. The White House attacks on the committee also led to sharp criticism by Rep. Walter Flowers, D-Ala., who as one af the three enuthern Demorraic on the committee is regarded as a potential swing vote in any impeachment balloting. ‘On the one hand we hear on television about full cooperation and the desire for an expeditious inquiry, but we see developing the intricate maneuvers of a strategy to limit this committee and confuse the issue,’’ said Flowers, The committee seeks tapes of 42 conversations between Nixon and his chief aides a year ago when the Watergate coverup was being uncovered. The committee asked for them Feb. 25, but there has been no response although Doar and Jenner have met twice with James St. Clair, Nixon’s chief im- peachment lawyer, since the letter was sent. . Doar said they represent about 10- hours of conversations, not the “thousands of hours’ White House spokesmen have referred to. And Jenner said ‘‘they are relevant to the Watergate coverup.” In his recent television appearances, Nixon repeated the statement that while he would coop with the committee, he would ‘not anything that might diminish the Presidency. Doar said he has not heard from St. Clair since Monday, but the White House lawyer has been meeting on Capitol Hill with key Republicans, including the House GOP Leader, John J. Rhodes, Rhodes said at a news conference Wednesday he has met twice with St. Clair and about three times with the Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican, Edward Hutchinson of Michigan, but he denied he was serving as a conduit between the White House and the committee Republicans. St. Clair also has raised a new issue with the committee that could crack the bipartisan approach that now seems to mark the investigation. He has requested permission to sit in on all committee proceedings, including the taking of depositions, and to be given the right of cross-examination and the opportunity to present evidence. :- The Democrats on the committee appeared united in opposition to the request, but Republicans generally showed sympathy with it. Rodino scheduled another session of the com- mittee Thursday to discuss the issue.

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Some Refuse To Pay _. Electric Rates Bring Protests

Soaring electric rates have prompted "consumer. complaints in several areas of the country, and spme people are refusing to pay all or part of their pills. the increases have hit every area of the country. The utilities say most of the ralg hikes are due to rising fuel costs, both f coal and imported crude oil. Imported crude alone his jumped fourfold in the past year. ‘ . In Jacksonville, Fla., for exaniple, the basic rates. charged by the city-owned utility have stayed the same for 30 years. But fuel adjustment charges have risen astronomically. In February 1973; residential customers paid two-tenths of a cent per. kilowatt, hour in adjustment charges designed to reflect the price the utility pays for fuel. By January 1974, the fuel adjustment charge had risen to 2 cents per kilowatt hour. That’s a 900 per cent increase.. The utility said the average homeowner's monthly bill this year is -$27.70,-compared to $17.90 last-year, ari” increase of more than 50 per cent. ‘A spokesman said the increase would have ‘been higher, but customers reduced electricity usage because of the energy shortage. ,, Louis Winnard, manager director of ’ the utility, said theincrease is due solely to the rising coat of imported fuel. ‘There is définitely a tremendous consumer reaction,” hegsaid. “We get a lot of petitions opposed to. high eléctric bills with 4,000 to 5,000 signatures. We've sent them to _ Wash ioe fe pea wee ned 8 domestic fuel allocation.’ ‘Some customers are taking stronger - action. ''The increase in delinquent accounts is not astronomoical, but it is up to about 5 per cent of our customers, " Winnard said. Other boosts -in electric rates are ~vaused by increases in operating. costs and deelining usage. The power ¢om- panies say they need higher. rates to inake up for lower revenues caused by energy conservation programs. Consumer protests range from speeches at public hearings on proposed rate increases to refusal to pay bills. The strongest public outcry has come in the Northeast which is more dependent than other afeas on imported crude oil and has been hardest. hit. by. the rising. price of Arab exports.: The. Connecticut Public Utilities Commission ordered power companies eb w et. ‘. Plense tern te Page AS

By LOUISE COOK Accaclatead Prace Writer

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Bulldozers Battle Blaze Sweeping 30,000 Acres

NAPLES, Fla. 1 AP) — Forest rangers riding bulldozers battled a 30,000-acre fire Wednesday that consumed stands of cypress and pine trees and threatened wildlife in Florida’s Big Cypress Swamp. “H’s the largest concentrated blaze we've had in the Big Cypress Swamp,” one Torestry official said. The-550,000-acre swamp lies mostly in Collier County in southwest Florida and serves aS g@ watershed for Everglades National Park. It is also the home of a number of rare and endangered species, _including the -alligator, Southern bald. eagle and Everglades kite. “All we can do is pray for rain,” said Jane Behr of the National Audubon Society, adding’ that March was the nesting season for the kite, eagle and other birds. Forestry officials said the fire first broke out about 55 miles west of Miami on March 8 due to extremely dry con-. ditions. The blaze was quickly controlled but was rekindled by arsonists Saturday, he said. Scorching a path through cypress, pine and~epen prairie, the blate . headed toward the Florida Everglades Sawgrass _ Swamp between this Gulf-Coast city and Smoke from the fire covered the east coast from Fort Lauderdale to Miami. before being blown away by afternoon winds. Southeast, winds also aided fire, fighters, who fought the blaze along a 12- mile line northof United States Highway 41 east of here. Fire fighters hoped the wind would turn the blaze back onto itself and point it toward an L-shaped canal. . Ceza Wass de Czege, southwest district forester, said a fire-line would be burned westward from the canal and rangers: would try to keep the blaze from jumping the canal into the sawgrass area. _ “Once it gets in the sawgrass, {t would he difficult if not impossible to contain,” Wass de Czege said. ‘We can’t get any - machinery into that swampy land without sinking into the muck?’ “We're hoping the winds | from. the south and southeast continue: This will push the fire into itself,” the forester. said. . Wass de Czege said it was impossible to, estimate the number of trees lost. He said the fire caused no other damage or any nal injury a. Ge : y ted aren. 8

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Northwest _ Chance of Snow Highs low 30s - Lows low 20s Details A7 Senrise: 7:37 6.m.; sunset: 7:46 p.m. Kidnaper's Aim Misses Royal Pair

LONDON (AP) — A gunman pumped six bullets into the car carrying Princess Anne and her husband Wednesday night, wounding their bodyguard and three other persons but leaving the royal couple unscathed. The British home secretary said it was a kidnap attempt. The House of Commons majority leader said he had seen a kidnap letter which demanded a large ransom for Princess Anne had she been kidnaped. The volley of gunfire was loosed just 150 yards from Buckingham Palace. Authorities said a man was arrested moments after the shooting and that he would be arraigned on Thursday. Witnesses said they saw police over- power a man after the shooting. Police said a white Ford compact sedan forced the royal limousine to the curb on a tree-lined mall as the 23-year- » old daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, were returning from a movie at about 8 p.m. Witnesses said a man jumped from the car and pumped six bullets into the black limousine, wounding the bodyguard and chauffeur, A nearby policeman who tried to intervene and a newspaperman in a passing taxi also were hit, officials said. Their wounds were described as serious. The royal couple was whisked into a trailing police car and taken to the palace where a Spokesman nal they were reeting “We are very thankful to be in one piece, but we are deeply disturbed and concerned about those who got injured,” the princess was quoted as saying. A witness, Sandy Scott, said the white Ford forced her car off the road before halting the limousine. She said she saw Phillips in the back seat with his arms around Anne, while the assailant tried to wrest open the door of the limousine. After the man was arrested, Miss Scott said she leaned into the royal car and asked the princess: “‘Are you all right, love?” Anne answered: “Yes, I’m fine, thank you.”’ Home Secretary Roy Jenkins told the House of Commons hours after the shooting that the incident was part of a plan to kidnap Princess Anne, who is fourth in line for the British throne. “An attempt was made by an armed man to kidnap Princess Anne ... this evening,’’ Jenkins said. ‘‘The attempt did not succeed and neither the princess nor Capt. Phillips is hurt.” Edward Short, majority leader in the Commons, meanwhile, told a reporter: “There was a kidnap letter which I have seen. It was a very long letter demanding _a ransom.” There were conflicting reports from witnesses about a second man involved in the shooting, but authorities said they were holding only one man, an Englishman. There was an earlier report that a man with an Irish accent telephoned a newspaper in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and claimed the ‘Catholic Defense Association’’ was responsible for the shooting. Police said the group is not generally known in Northern Ireland, and there was no immediate way to determine the truth of the claim. Please turn to Page AS

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Defendants Appeal. Sirica Ruling

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for two of the Watergate cover-up defen- dants asked the U.S. Court of Appeals Wednesday: to prevent federal Judge John J. Sirica from sending the Watergate grand jury’s Nixon report to the House impeachment committee. — The appeals court scheduled a hearing for 10:30 a.m. Thursday on whether to grant a delay in the delivery of the materials or stopping the transmittal altogether. If the requested stay is not granted, the material must be delivered to the House Judiciary Committee by 4 p.m. Thurs- leetens’” dilias The petitions were filed by lawyers for H. R. Haldeman and Gordon Strachan, Haldeman’s lawyers, John J. Wilson and Frank H. Strickler, asked Sirica to suspend his order “that delivery to the committee is eminently proper, and indeed, obligatory.” The judge &efused but granted a 24-hour delay to Thursday TOON. . Meanwhile, there were these ‘other Watergate developments: . —A study done for the Senate Watergate committee reeemmended that Congress bar the atforney general from advising the President on the President’s legal problems. The report was by the National Academy of .Public Administration. —Alty. Gen. William B. Saxbe said at a news conference he has no objection to Justice Department lawyers volun- teering for President Nixon’s Watergate ~defense team and then returning later to the department. —C.G. ‘‘Bebe”’ Rebozo, Nixon's friend, testified behind closed doors before the Senate Watergate committee. —House Judiciary Committee lawyers, defending their atternpts to get White House documents, said their requests.are specific, related to Watergate and fully understood by Nixon’s attorneys. The day's developments in court began with Wilson petitioning the Appeals Court to prohibit Sirica from transmitting the Nixon report, or for an order to bottle it Please turn to Page A§

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Let’s Hope They Don’t Blow It o Have Idea for Car Power

Springdale. Ark. (AP) — Rex Curtis of Springdale and four Oklahoma men have developed a car they say could help solve the fuel shortage. Their slogan 1s. “We go when the winds blow.” The electnic car, which the men said will be ready for trial runs im about 45 days. will use a windmill to charge batteries They have these details When the driver parks for any length of time while the wind is blowing. he will pull a lever anda windmill will pop up on top of the car. It will operate a generator to charge the batteries. A small electric motor will retract the windmill when it is net in use. A small, lightweight gasoline engine will charge batteries while the car is being driven or when the wind is not blowing. The car should be able to go about 50 miles without a recharge at speeds of 30 to 50 m.p.h., Curtis and his codesigners said.

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$227 Million Boys Town Worth Is - Growing

BUYS TOWN. Neb. (AP) — The 1$73 financial report from Father Flanagan’s Boys Home shows the institution's current net worth is $226,662,709.77. Archbishop Daniel E. Shee han. president of the board of directors, said that “with Boys Town on the threshold of the most momentous expansion in its 57-year history, it is reas- suring to note that our endow- ment is growing to help us meet the great costs we will be en- countering.” The unaudited report from the board shows a gain in the Home's net worth of $8- 987,749.29. The projects referred to by Archbishop Sheehan are the Bors Town Institute and the Boys Town Center for the Study of Youth Development. Ground will be broken for the Boys Town Institute early this summer, the report said. The facility will include a clinical, diagnostic and rehabilitation center. a preschool language and learning center and resi- dence units for patients. It will be built in conjunction with, and adjacent to, Creighton Uni- versity’s Criss Institute for Health in Omaha, a few miles from the Boys Town campus. The center for study of youth development will be a research ompiet headquartered at Boys ‘own It will include a research com- plex at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and another at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Fine Free Holiday ‘At your Public Library, Thurs. Fri, Sat., Sun. Adv.

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White House Compliance Deadline Monday Jaworski Asks More Documents

Washington (AP) — The special Watergate prosecutor's office has subpoenaded ad- ditional documents from the White House, it was disclosed Thursday. A spokesman for special prosecutor Leon Jaworski said the subpoena directed to Presi- dent Nixon was served on the White House last Friday. Deadline for compliance is Mon- day. The spokesman declined to say what the subpoena demanded. Earlier, James St. Clair, Presi- dent Nixon’s chief Watergate lawyer, acknowledged in a television interview a subpoena had been received from the special prosecutor. St. Clair appeared on the NBC “Today” show. Jaworski disclosed on Feb. 14 in a letter to Sen James Eastland, D-Miss . chairman of the Sanate Indiciary Committoa Nixon had refused to give him material he considered vital to his investigation Jaworski told Eastland the material Nixon had refused to supply included 27 tapes sought for the imvestigation of the Watergate cover-up as well as evidence relating to in- vestigations of contributions from the dairy industry and the activities of the so-called White House plumbers unit. The President bas contended in several recent public appearances that he has given Jaworski all the material he needs to complete his investiga- tion. Nixon has said he has given the special prosecutor 19 tapes and some 700 documents. The subpoena issued on Friday was the first directed at the President by the special prosecutor's office since last July when former special prosecutor Archibald Cox sub- poenaed tapes of nine presiden- tial conversations. Nixon refused to comply with the Cox subpoena and the prosecutor initiated a court bat- tle which ended only after Cox was fired under President Nixon’s order. Nixon sub- sequently voluntarily turned over the tapes to the court. Meanwhile the sealed grand jury report on Nixon's role in Watergate goes to the House im- peachment inquiry Thursday un- less the U.S. Court of Appeals in- tervenes. The appeals court agreed to hear arguments Thursday from Watergate defense lawyers who hope to reverse U.S. District Judge John Sirica’s order sen- ding the report to the House. In scheduling arguments for 10.30 am EDT. the appeals court said it will consider requests for an additional delay m transmitting the report and also hear arguments on the legal issues. John Wilson and Frank Strickler, attorneys for former presidential aide H. R. Haldeman, and Jobn Bray, counsel for Gordon Strachan, another former White House aide, asked the appeals court to order Sirica not to send the grand jury report to the House Judiciary Committee. Jaworski opposed the request. Sirica refused Wetinesday to delay sending the report to the House until the appeals court had ruled. He did postpone ac- tion until 4 p.m. Thursday to give the defendants a chance to appeal.

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Pressure On?

Washington (AP) — France may be starting to put indirect pressure on European allies of the United States to buy French jets instead of U.S.-made warplanes. U.S. intelligence sources say

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Carpenter Amendment $20 Million Reduction In Road Funds Proposed

Scottsbluff Sen. Terry Carpenter has offered an amend- ment to the appropriations bill that would reduce State Roads Dept. funds $20 million next year and ban construction of state highways without federal matching money. Carpenter’s ariendment to LB1053 would reduce the Roads Dept.’s 1974-75 funding from $112.9 million to $92.9 million. That $20 million in highway user taxes taken away from road building could be used at a rate of $8 million to finance State Patrol operations for the year, be said, with the remaining $12 million spent as the Legislature sees fit. In 1973. Carpenter said. the Roads Dept. spent about $2] million to build highways financed 100% with state money, since 50% federal matching funds were unavailable. “T don’t think this state can af- ford to build roads completely with our own money,” he said. The fact $21 million was available last year. and an es- timated $20 million will be available this year, indicates to him there is no need to increase highway user taxes or sell highway bonds to obtain ad- ditional federal funds to build needed roads. Carpenter said.

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U. S. Levy in Lancaster County Payments Might Top $168 Million

Special to the Journal New York — Taxes are again im the spotlight in Lancaster County, what with the day of eke. April 15, just around the bend The big question among local Tesidents is how mach of a bite Uncle Sam will be taking this time. The Administration an- ticipates that its receipts from individual income and employ- ment taxes will be $24.8 billion a than they were last TS yap submitted to Congress in January, counts on $202 dilbon from this source, 2s against last year's total of $177.2 bilkon Taxpayers in the local area will be bearing their propor- Gonate share of the increase. Their payments next month will be close to $168,000, it is es- timated. The President's budget for the ext fiscal year, projecting in- come and expense figures through June 30, 1975, calls for individual taxes of $220 billion. which is $18 billion more than this year. Total personal income in Lan- caster County will have to be about 9% greater in 1974 than it was in 1973 for local residents to meet their share of this inctease ‘Most families find themselves in a bind because their bigger in- comes result in larger taxes, leaving them less able to cope with rising inflation. Last April Uacle Sam collected approximately $147.- 456,000 in personal income and employment taxes in the area, based upon the previous year’s earnings. That is the estimate of what was turned in locally, as deter- mined by a breakdown of the overall tax receipts throughout the State of Nebraska The statewide total was ap proximatelh, $1.152 million, ac- cording to figures released by the Treasury Dept. It as estimated. as a result. that Lancaster County residents con- tnbuted 12 87 of the federal in- come taxes collected in the state Because employment was at a hugh level in most parts of the country in the past year, despite telative weakness in the ecopormy in the last quarter, total earnings were greater than m 1972. The tax yreld, therefore. is expected to be greater, since bigget earnings mean bigger taxes

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Campaign, Probate Reform Measures Sent to Governor

WNedrasxa legislators made Thursday one of the climactic days of the 1974 session. They passed into law a Massive revision of the state’s 107-year-old rules governing the disposition of property in estates or owned by dependents, put a new statutery framework around landlord-tenant relations, finally inserted criminal penalty teeth into the State’s consumer protection code, reshaped and toughened Nebraska’s obscenity act and said it will henceforth be a felony crime for anyone to give More than $50 in cash to a political candidate or for a can- didate to take the untraceable currency. Because the restricted cash bill. Sen. Terry Carpenter's LB614, carries the emergency clause, it will be effective im- mediately with Gov. J. J. Exon’s signature. And that means it will have full application for financing connected with Nebraska’s May 14 primary election. Also carrying the emergency caluse was Sen. Gienn Goodrich’s LB8i5, the obscenity measure. Beside being designed to build a bigger shield between minors and visual material deemed pornographic, the new law allows use of community Standards by judges and juries to determine obscenity questions. The morning's big question mark was whether the 234-page uniform probate code, fiercely resisted by Beatrice Sen. Fred Carstens and a minority segment of the Nebraska State Bar Assn., would get the necessary 25 votes for passage. It did, although Carstens sub- sequently charged there have been crucial lobbying for the measure. LB354, during the 40- minute period clerks read the document. Carstens earlier failed in an ef- fort to prevent the reading. He charged the new code could adversely affect ownership of billions of dollars of property. very family in Nebraska and wipe out all Supreme Court lecisions on the broad subject. LBI64 charters informal (non- adicial) probate for smaller es- ales, increases a surviving pouse’s guaranteed portion of m estate and sets down new ocedures for guardianships md eoncertatirhinc Later in the morning, senators passed Carstens’ LB755, an in- terim probate reform package The vote was 47-0. Disposition of bills on final reading consumed the Legislature's entire morning. And still ahead, in the after- noon, were final judgments on bills mandating a hunter safety program for juveniles, authorizing payroll deductions for divorced parents behind in court-ordered child payments and 1974-75 appropriations for 57 of the state’s “smaller’’ agen- cies. Lincoln Sen. Harold Simpson, pleased with passage of the landlord-tenant bill, LB293, said neither good landlords nor good tenants have a thing te worry about. But irresponsible parties do, he said. Simpson’s advice was that in- dividuals owning or renting Property get acquainted with the new law and seriously consider having written leases in the fature. Many practices now es- tablished by case law governing tenants and landlords are incor- porated into the bill. Sen. James Waldron of North Platte made a fourth and final Stab at trying to prevent final reading of LB327, the so-called consumer protection bill. He didn’t succeed. The Legislature Thursday passed into law, subject only to possible gubernatorial vetoes, some of the more far-reaching bills of the year. They included: © LB293, writing a landlord-tenant code contaming specific requirements and stating specific responsibilities for both parties, 38-5. © LB327, adding pyramid sales schemes as part of outlawed trade practices in Nebraska and generally Strengthening the deceptive practices act, 34-8. ® LB3s4, completely rewriting Nebraska’s laws governing probate and management of property interests for dependents, with effective date being Jan. 1, 1977, 29- ib. ® LB614, prohibiting any cash contribution in excess of $50 fo a candidate seeking political office, 34-12 *® LB865, making hunter safety training mandatory for all under age of 16, 37-3. ® LB660, allowing local governments to finance special transportation projects for the elderly, 44-0. ® {.B815, revamping entirely Nebraska's laws gover- ning the definition and prohibition of materials con- sidered sexually obscene for minors and adults, 40-2. Waldron objected to removal, by Sen. John Murphy of South Sioux City, of about a dozen specifie definitions of what would constitute an un- conscionable sales practice. Originally Waldron’s bill, LB327 became Murphy’s proper- ty in the parliamentary in- fighting weeks ago. Murphy Thursday pointed to provisions in the bill granting both subpoena and injunctive Power to the attorney general, authorities he hasn’t had before in trying te enforce the state's deceptive trade practices act. Continued: Page 7, Col. 7

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Alaska-Canadian Pipeline Needs 2 Countries’ OK

Washington (UPI) — The U.S. and Canadian governments were asked Thursday to approve con- struction of a $5.7 billion Pipeline to carry natural gas from the north slope of Alaska and the Mackenzie River delta of northern Canada into major energy consuming areas of the two countries. The application was filed by the Alaskan Arctic Gas Pipeline Co. and Canadian Arctic Gas Pipeline LTD.. who termed the proposed 2.600-mile pipeline “the largest construction project in the history of private enter- prise.” They said it could be in partial operation by 1978 if given prompt approval. Robert G. Ward, president of Alaskan Arctic Gas, said when full capacity is reached the pipeline will deliver “well over” four billion cubic feet of gas a day, or an amount equal to about 6% of North America’s current demand for 25 trillion cubic feet a year. When other firms are brought inte the project. he said, the total investment may reach as much as $8 billion with a resulting “dramatic impact” on U.S. employment, energy supplies and the economy generally. The ine would stretch from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay to distribution points along the U.S.Canadian border. Noting the sensitivity of en- vironmentabsts, who fought un- successfully to block the Alaskan oil pipeline. Wood said more than $50 million was spent on Planning which will result in “measures that will enhance the environment or mitigate adverse environmental effects of con- struction and other operations. “These intensive and expen- sive efforts have produced infor- mation that places us in a preeminent position to link the enormous gas reserves in the far north to U.S. markets where the weed for this clean fuel is so tremendous,” he added. Wood said U.S. consumers in the Midwest, East Coast, West and Far West would receive all the Alaskan gas and any excess from the Canadian fields after Canada’s needs are met He said an estimated 122 millon con- sumers live in the aregs that would receive Alaskan gas “This project will ailow the United States to use the huge gas Teserves of northern Alaska. Wood said. “‘At the same time. 1 will result in closer tes between the United States and Canada “ Wood noted that President Nixon iz bis recent energy message to Congress ordered prompt recommendations for Ways of tramsporting Alaskan natural gas to its £8 sister states. He szid Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trodeau also bas stated he sees ao objection to seach 9 pipeline Alaskan Arcte Gas would own and operate the 200 miles of the pipeline im Alaska while Canadien Arctie Gas would oan and operate the 2.409 miles across northern and western Canada. The firms are a consor- tum of 27 Canadian and US pipeline and gas producing com- panes

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1.3% Hike in February Pushes Prices Up 10% Over Year Ago

Washington (AP) — The pace of inflation quickened in February with food and fuel Prices pushing cost of living up 1.3%, the second biggest monthly jump since 1961, the government said Thursday. The Labor Dept. said last month’s rise sent consumer prices 10% higher than a year ago and marked the first time since 1948 the U.S. experienced double figure inflation. It was the highest 12-month increase in the cost of living since consumer prices rose by 10.2% in the 12 months ending January 1948. Nearly half the February in- crease was attributed to higher food prices with the price of beef raising 7.5%, the sharpest jump since a 9.5% increase in June 1947. Gasoline and other energy items were responsible for about a fifth of last month’s increase in prices. The Consumer Price Index climbed last month to 141.5 of its 1967 average, meaning that it cost consumers $141.50 to buy the same amount of retail goods and services that $100 brought in 1967. While consumer prices con- tinued their sharp rise, real spendable earnings of workers dropped another .6% in February and were down 4.5% from a year ago. This was the largest decline over a year since the government began keeping that statistic in 1964. Average weekly earnings of a married worker with three dependents was $147.10 in Februuary, compared with $139.10 a year earlier. But because of the effects of infla- tion and a decrease in average weekly hours, real average weekly earnings over the year were down 3.9%, the report said. The February price report showed inflation holding a firm gtip across the economy. Food prices rose 2.5%; nonfood com- modities. 1%. and services 7%. The Nixon administration has said it expects inflation to con- tinue its sharp pace throughout the first half of the year before beginning to ease during the final six months. Director John Dunlop of the Cost of Living Council said Wednesday February's surge in food prices would be followed by more moderate increases in March, April and May. “Our own estimate is that it will be the last month with a teally poor record,” Dunlop said. Soaring gasoline and motor oil prices played a large part in the overall increase in consumer prices last month, rising 5.3% to a level 30.9% above last February. Fuel oil and coal jumped 3.8%, the smailest in- crease in five months to a level 58.8% higher than a year ago. Average prices for gasoline alone increased 5.5%. Prices of regular gasoline have now risen 22% and premium gasoline 19.8% since the Labor Dept. began publishing average prices four months ago after the start of the Arab oil embargo. Grocery prices — the major portion of the food index — jumped 3% in February, sub- stantially more than usual for the month. The price of restaurant meals and snacks — food away from home — was up 1%. The big increase in beef prices followed a smaller increase in January and declines in the last three months of 1973. Fresh vegetable prices also were up last month instead of declining as they usually do. About the only decline in food prices was that for poultry

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: This Friday,: “March 22nd," at. 8:00" pm. ir the M-U-: ‘gymnasium there will bé.-an:6pen’ commun- ity meeting . dealiag ‘with Iowa 2000", This is’ the program plan- nod by Gov. Ray’s committee to allow Jowans.to havé an ace ‘réle in planning. what future course’ they. desire’ for their local community ‘attd. state. The basic Boals of the program are three- fold: 1) To. crdale awareness of the factors and. trends — affecting the fiutture; 2)°.To identify the major problems ‘that Iowans will face in the future; 3) To suiggest goals for Towa and sirategias for achieving these goals. Everyone is. not only welcome but urged to atlend if they have any interest in the type of envir- onment they or . their children will face in the year 2000. The petite. will: be’ headed by’ Mrs. Elvin Jay,..a member. of the county nimittee, ami. will. in- short film, . ‘a report of of ‘activities, “and sirap's questicnnaiyes ‘so. individua.s will be: able’ to share his ideas azd thonghts. * is . very important that” thesé ..Jocal meetings are well” -ablended because it is the ideas that are raised on the lo- eal level that -will later be de- ve'oped on the county, are2 and state levels, -

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To Represent _ School At State

Wade ‘Burgher, a Moulton. Udell sophomore, placed second in. the AMVETS-Dodge driving contest held Sunday in Center- ville. He will join first place win- ner Steve Moriarity' and Jeff Mc- Danel, who placed third, in re- presenting their schools at the state cones later this month. The AMVETS-Dodge coniest has become an annual event in which Moulton-Udell students have consistently ranked in top spots.

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Church Named Beneficiary

The Moulton United Methodist “Church has been named as a beneficiary in the estate of Sigel | Mikels. A will filed in the dis- trict court this past week has brought to light the deep feeling boh Mr. and Mrs. Mikels had for the chur'ch. ‘ “Tt ds -uniderstood ‘that “ideatical _wills had been made by Mr. and Mrs. Mikels, leaving a portioa of their estate to the church af- ter they both: died. Paragraph 3 of Mr. Mikel3 will says, in part: “Upon the death of my wife, it is my will and I devise ell of said real estate to the Methodist Church of Moulton, Towa, provided, however, that none of said real estate shall be sold or encumbered for a period of 20 years following my death.” The local church now stands to inherit a farm of approximately 200 acres. It appears that Mr. Mikels personal property, includ. ing monies and securities, is not included: under the stipulations of the will. tt is also understood that the Centerville National Bank has been named as administrator of the estate. The Milani law firm has been- named as attorney.

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City Council In ~ - Special Session

‘The Moulton City Council held a special meeting Monday even- ing. at which time water meters came under discussion: ; The Council -varified the rules set up in 1967. by again passing a motion that anyone with a me- ter, that is covered or not read- able during working hours, is to replace the metex with an out- side reader, They also instructed city main- tenance man Fred Horn, to sea! all meters and renor, to the City Hall the first time a seal is bro- ken.

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Society To Meet Friday

The Moulton Historica! Socie- ty will meet Friday evening. March 22, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Wright at 7:30 p.m. There will be a _ business meeting that will be in charge of the new president, Mrs. Ruth Stevenson. The film, “The Last Pony Mine in Towa” an Iowa Develop. ment production that was taken west of Cenerville, will be shown All members and hose _inter- ested are - urged to attend this ; meeting. aa NUTICE. “the: -Moulton-Udell PTO will hold a regular meeting this Mon- day evening, March 25, at the Moulton school. The time will be 2:20-p.m, oo,

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~ The Garrett Library will have a workday this ‘Friday, March 22, starting at 10:00 a.m. Typists and typewriters are in urgent demand. Please come if you can and help out your local library.

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Father-Son Roundup. ~ Is:-Mar: 30

The Father: and Son: ‘Rousd Up an annual eventt,:.williibe held Saturday evening, Marehiiad at 6:30 p.m. in the United. -Metho- dist Church corral,: An old time. westernitheme is being carried out in. the menu, the dining room and the prog- ram. The . chuck-wagon...menu will consist of sourdough bread, butter, ham rolls, skillet pota- toes, creamed corn, -apple sauce salad, plain cake with lemon sauce, jelly and cofiee. Tickets are $2.00 earch and rhe sale is in charge of Mrs. La- verne Howard.. Tickets :may be obtained from Mrs. Howard, E. Wood Co. Store, Harrington- wWouon Insurance, ‘Ross Fox, Mrs. Don Davis, Mrs, .iHermas Swarts, Mrs. Ormond Stevenson Mrs. Florence Kirby and Mrs | Arthur Jay. An interesting progcam is be- ‘ing planned by the committee Sheriff Montelle Morrow will , be present and speak to the Dad: and Lads. It’s time to be get ting your tickets Dad!

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Crosslines Senior Citizen Dinner Will Be Tuesday

The Crosslines organivaticn ig planning a Senior Citizens .din- ner for next Tuesday, Mav. 26th at. the Community Center in .Moulton, The time will be 12 ‘noon. Anyone in need of a ride is asked to contact Garnet Rep- logle. ’ Following the meal, 2 program will be’ held at the Garreti. Li- brary.

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Clinic Will Be Held Monday

The regular monthly immuni- zation clinic will be held Mon- day, March 25, 1974 from 10:30 to 4:30 at the Courthouse in Cen- terville. It will be. held in the 3rd floor nurses office. Please call 856-6308 if you need addit- ional information.. Mr and Mrs Hugh Wood, Mr and Mrs W. L. Duley and Mr and Mrs Orris Harriagio: spent Wednesday and Thursday of last week in Des Moines and attend- ed the Girls State Basketball Tournament on Thursday. » Chapter F, P.E.0., .met with Mrs. Fern Wright Tuesday ev- ening with Maryetta Fry as co hostess. Mrs. Clifford Singley ‘gave an interesting program or her recent trip to the Virgin Is: lands that was enjoyed by al.

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One Resignation | OnM.-U Staff

A third teacher’s resignation was received by the M-U Board of Education at their regular meeting Monday evening, when Myrtle Gravitt, Udeil grade tea- cher, indicated she would not re- turn next school year. Mrs. Gra- vit has been with the M-U school system since it was reorganized in 1959, Previous to that she caught the Capital rural school. It is understood she is retiring from the teaching profession. Other teachers ‘vay wilh not be returning include Driver’s. Ed, instructor Roy Walker, and Voc. ‘Ag. instructor Larry Stutler. An applicant was interviewed for the Vocational Agriculture position, but decails have yet to be finalized. The board also spent quite some time consi¢er- ing different types of bleachers for the new gymnasium. Allowing of bills occupied the remainder of the meeting.

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Charges Filed On Tax Counts

Charges of state income tax evasion have been filed against former Appanoose County Attor- ney Marvin Colton of Centerville. Acting County Att’y Tom An- ders filed information on four separate charges of failure to file. state income tax returns for the years 1968, 1969, 197§ and Wl ak a _ Colton entered a plea of not fuilty on all the charges, declar- ing the charges as specifieci were false, libelous and defamatory, He requested the trial in the matter be conducted during a regular trial session. of the court.

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Empire Conf. B.B. Tourney’s ' At Moultor

Supt. Neil V. Mauusfiled an- nounced this week that the an- nual Empire Conference basket- ball Tournament for next year will be held in the Moulton-Udell gym. : a As: far’ as “could be determined by past records, the Jast high school tournament held here, was held about 20 years ago. FOR SALE : Shoats and bred gilts. See El- mer Lee Cox. Pnone 642-3641. itpd.

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In Gas Shortage Increased Price To Ease Crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed- eral energy chief William E. Si- mon says further gasoline price increases may help discourage purchases enough to reduce gasoline shortages across the nation to as little as 1.5 per cent. Lifting of the Arab oil embar- go will leave the United States with estimated gasoline short- ages of 5 to 8 per cent during the rest of this year, President Nixon said at a news confer- ence Tuesday. Nixon ended the voluntary ban on Sunday gasoline sales but said the energy squeeze would still have to be offset by conservation measures such as carpools and lowered speed limits. Simon told a House Appro- priations subcommitee Wednes- day that drawing down on gas- oline inventories could reduce the shortages to about 4 to 7 per cent. He added that gasoline prices possibly rising as high as 70 cents a gallon could help dis- courage consumption and thus shrink the shortages to the range of 1.5 to 3 per cent. Last week the average price for regular gasoline was about 53 cents a gallon. Gasoline shortages in Febru- ary and March have been fig- ured at about 17 per cent — re- sulting in long lines at service stations in many areas and emergency allocations late last month by the Federal Energy Office. The FEO on Wednesday re- vised its March allocations, giv- ing nine states additional gaso- line supplies. All other state al- locations remained unchanged. The increases, totaling some 1.2 million barrels, are to be drawn from oil company in- ventories of more than 200 mil- lion barrels. Percentage increases for the nine states are: Alabama, 1 per cent; Arizona, 14.4 per cent; California, 1.2 per cent; Idaho, 0.5 per cent; Kentucky, 2.6 per cent; Nebraska, 2.7 per cent; Pennsylvania, 3.3 per cent; South Carolina, 5.9 per cent; Vermont, 16.8 per cent. Meanwhile, the American Petroleum Institute reported that gasoline output by refi- neries last week decreased by about 1 per cent,

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Of Kroger’s Lease Of East State Street Land Supreme Court Likely To Get Case

WPS FEE SROOER ASST EES VV REELS Whether or not the state can legally lease 28.6 acres of former Ohio University Airport land to the Kroger Co. is a question that will apparently be taken to the Ohio Supreme Court. Attorneys for Kroger said Wednesday that the company is hoping for a quick decision. Just how much Kroger is hoping for a speedy response is something that has not been publicly known. A combination of legal footwork and business shuffling has caught the company between a rock and a hard place that is going to cost someone a considerable chunk of money. Kroger’s been trying to lease the East State Street land — directly across from the Athens Plaza Shopping Center — for almost four years. After taking Ohio University to court to prevent the institution from agreeing to lease the acreage to Big Bear Stores (thus eliminating that direct business competition threat). Kroger is now wishing OU godspeed in its legal battle to lease the same land to Kroger. Kroger wants the land in order to open a whole new business ballgame in Athens. Its Plaza Center food store and the two associated enterprises, a Top Value Stamps redemption center and a Super-X drug store, would vacate their current buildings and relocate in the new shopping complex across the street. Those expanded businesses would be joined by a Rink’s Bargain City discount depart- ment store and several smaller ‘“‘convenience’’ shops. Closer to the city’s recreation center, Kroger would also sublet 12 acres of that land to Skilken Properties of Columbus for con- struction of a Holiday Inn and parking area for transient travel trailers. Lease of the land was approved by Ohio University’s Board of Trustees in December 1972, with subsequent concurrence of the Ohio Department of Public Works, under a previously un- tested authority granted by state statute. Under that new state law, the Public Works Department is given the power to decide whether or not any leasing of public land for private develop- ment is ‘‘in the best interests’ of the state entity involved, in this case Ohio University. Until now, no state land had been leased under that statute, so the contingent right of the state to lease the land had not been certain. Kroger’s proposal to lease the airport land brought that ques- tion to the Franklin County Com- mon Pleas Court last year, with a resulting decision in favor of the state. Originally, suit had been filed against OU and the Public Works Department by Jerry Eichenberger, an Ohio State University law student, as a test of the new law. Eichenberger was represented in the suit by one of his teachers, Ronald Solove, and by Clyde H. Collins, both of whom were (Collins has now departed) associates of the Columbus law firm Schottenstein, Geral, Swedlow and Zox. While Eichenberger is still listed as plaintiff in the suit, and has never been formally dis- missed, the court action is now being carried by Stephen P. Butt and William Roth, two real es- tate associates in Chillicothe and Columbus. Now representing Butt and Roth are Jules Garel, described as having ‘‘a beneficial interest”’ in the outcome of the litigation, and Douglass Schrim, his junior assocaite, who had worked with Collins on the case in the Colum- bus courtroom. Butt is president of a Chillicothe real estate firm that (Continued On Page 3)

By FRED WHISSEL

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Nixon Expected To Sign Measure House Passes Minimum Wage Bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed legislation raising the minimum wage from $1.60 an hour to §$2 this year for most workers covered and to $2.30 for all by 1978. The bill, approved Wednes- day 375 to 37, also would in- crease by 7 million to 56.5 mil- lion the number of workers cov- ered by minimum wage laws. The bill is a modified version of one President Nixon vetoed last year. However, he is ex- pected to sign this one if it is finally approved after adjust- ment with a similar Senate- passed measure, although it does not meet all of his earlier objections. For most workers covered by the minimum wage, the min- imum would increase to $2 this year and then in two steps to $2.30 in 1976. Other nonagricultural work- ers brought under coverage in recent years would have a $1.90 minimum this year, reaching $2.30 in 1977, while covered ag- ricultural workers would have a $1.60 minimum in 1974 and reach $2.30 in 1978. Coverage would be extended to some 5 million federal, state and local government employ- es; to domestic service employ- es and some categories of em- ployes of chain stores. Overtime provisions would be extended to 9.5 million persons, including government employes other than police and firemen. The bill does not contain an across-the-board lower min- imum wage for young persons, one of the provisions sought by the administration. However, it does permit full-time students to be employed part-time — not more than 20 hours a week — at $1.60 an hour subject to regulations intended to assure that they do not displace adult workers.

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Snow tires sold 2nd day

“Everything we've put in, we ve sold.”’ That's the kind of action Allan Williams, Nelson- ville, gets when he advertises in the Messenger. Recently, he sold two snow tires the second day, after four calls. His experience can be yours when you use

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Judiciary Committee Gets Grand Jury Report

WASHINGTON (AP) — The grand jury report on President Nixon’s role in Watergate goes to the House impeachment in- quiry today unless the US. Court of Appeals intervenes. The appeals court agreed to hear arguments today from Watergate defense lawyers who hope to reverse U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica’s order sending the report to the House. In scheduling arguments for 10:30 a.m. EDT, the appea!s court said it will consider re- quests for an additional delay in transmitting the report and also hear arguments on the le- gal issues. John J. Wilson and Frank Strickler, attorneys for former presidential aide H. R. Halde- man, and John Bray, counsel for Gordon Strachan, another former White House aide, asked the appeals court to or- der Sirica not to send the grand jury report to the House Judiciary Committee. Special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski opposed the re- quest. Sirica refused Wednesday to delay sending the report to the House until the appeals court had ruled. He did postpone ac- tion until 4 p.m. today to give the defendants a chance to ap- peal. The grand jury gave the sealed report and a_ satchel filled with evidence to Sirica March 1, the same day it in- dicted Haldeman, Strachan, and five other former adminis- tration or campaign officials in the Watergate cover-up. On Monday, Sirica ordered the report sent to the House. In his petition to the appeals court, Strachan said that if the report is sent to the House Judiciary Committee and made public, intentionally or inad- vertently, he ‘‘runs the distinct risk of being put on trial by the legislative branch of our gov- ernment and of being prej- udged by the general public.”’ Haldeman used a nearly identi- cal argument saying that if the report is leaked ‘‘the defend- ants will stand convicted before their stories are told.”’ Meanwhile, a study delivered on Wednesday to the Senate Watergate committee called on Congress to make it clear to the public that any president can be impeached ‘‘without first being beheaded, jailed, fined, indicted or even in- dictable.”’ The 169-page study prepared by the National Academy of Public Administration, also rec- ommended that the attorney general be barred from giving presidents political or personal advice. Sen. James L. Buckley, Con.- R-N. Y., who has called on Nix- on to resign, said he thought support for the President among conservatives is thinner than many suppose. Buckley said he believes conservatives have been reluctant to make their doubts known because they are unwilling to seem to align themselves with political and philosophical foes of the President.

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