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Inflation Holding On

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 continue its sharp pace throughout the first half of the year before beginning to ease during the final 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 in- creases in March, April and May “Our own estimate is that it will be the last month with a really poor record,’ Dunlop said. Soaring gasoline and motor oul prices played a large part in the over-all increase in con- sumer prices last month, ris- ing 5.3 per cent to a level 30.9 per cent above last February.

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Hike Second Highest Sinc February Cost Of Living Figures Take Big Jump Rise In Price Of Food, Fuel Cited As Cause

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pace of inflation quickened in February with food and fuel prices pushing the cost of liv- ing up 1.3 per cent, the second biggest monthly jump since 1951, the government said toxday The Labor Department said last month's rise sent con- sumer prices 10 per cent high- er than a vear ago and marked the first time since 1948 that the United States ex- perrenced double figure in- flation. Highest Since ‘48 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 in- crease was attributed to high- v’ food prices with the price f beef raising 7.5 per cent, the sharpest jump since a 9.6 per cent 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 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.

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‘Operation Cattail’ Grows And Grows

HAT started out as a presumably simple councilman’s request to thin cattails from a local neighborhood lake could develop into a time-consuming and costly public works project. Cattails, a tali marsh plant with long, flat needlelike leaves and long, brown fuzzy spikes, have all but taken over Liberty Lake. That’s in Councilman Roy B. Hooper Jr.'s ward. He said the cattail problem was first brought to his attention eight months ago by some residents. He asked that it be taken care of. “All I wanted was for the cattails to be scooped out,” he said. But that was before it became clear no project was too simple for city hall. City Manager Larry Fountaine feels that “‘to do it right’’ will require a project one-third to one-half the size of the School House Slough project. That dredging project cost about $27,000. Further, Fountaine feels it will require a crane and drag line. A used one was recently acquired at a minimal cost. But Fountaine said it would take $5,000 to $6,000 for repairs in or- der for it to be used at Liberty Lake and other local projects. Lastly, it has been suggested the cattail problem be rele- gated to a list of priorities similar to local road priorities. The road priority list is two and one-half years old and construction has yet to spart. There is no word if federal matching funds will be sought. Hooper is shaking his head and saying he doesn’t want big project, “just the cattails’’. And he'd probably settle for just part of them. The lake is situated in a small neighborhood park south of Cache Road between Pershing Drive and Victory Boulevard. It’s a favorite recreation area for nearby residents. The lake has been stocked with fish. Last Tuesday Hooper again raised the cattail issue. Foun- See OPERATION, Page 4

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More Watergate Documents Subpoenaed

SHINGTON (AP) — The special Watergate prose- cutor’s office has subpoenaed additional documents from the White House, it was disclosed today. A spokesman for special prosecutor Leon Jaworski said the subpoena directed to Pres- ident Nixon was served on the White House last Friday. Deadline for compliance is Monday. The spokesman declined to say what the subpoena de- Tesidciit .NiAul © Clic! Waite gate lawyer, acknowledged in a television interview that a subpoena 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 O. Eastland, D-Miss., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee, that President Nixon had refused to give him mate- rial he considered vital to his investigation Jaworski told Eastland that he material Nisar had re ; eine?) oe vestigation of the Watergate cover-up as well as evidence relating to investigations of contributions from the dairy industry and the activities of the so-called White House plumbers unit. The President has con- tended in several recent pub- lic appearances that he has given Jaworski ali the materi- al he needs to complete his in- vestigation. Nixon has said he has given the special prosecutor 19 tapes ind some 700 documents The subpeena ‘issued on See DOCUMENTS, Page 4

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Coulter Named Creston Post.

Robert J, (Bob) Coulter,. who hes been the postmaster at Corning, was sworn in asthe new of the Creston poet office at a ceremony ih Creston Friday afternoon. .. - Frat L.” Keefe, assiotant - William! C/: Lawson, district employe’: and -laber _ relations representative of the Des Moine: district -of the U. S. Posta' ‘Service, administered the oath to Coulter before ‘an. audience of staff. members, posal employe: ard Coulter's family. A postal careerist with over 2 years service, Coulter has beer in charge of the Corning pos office since Feb, 29, 1970. He entered tho postal servie as a substitute clerk i in October 1953, and became 2 regular cler] in November, 1954. He wa “promoted to. assistant post Vaster at Corning in January °1965:.- He .- became. afficer in-charge of the post office ther oa Feb. 29, 1870,. and. wa appointed postmaster in soe StL me en me A te | a

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Mar 2>—Land use meeting, Southwestern: Community Col Creston. \ Blar. 26—Pollution and Contro! meeting, extension office, after neon and evening. , Mar, 28—Extension counel Theeting, extension office, #:X pam; pasture seeding meeting ‘extension of fee: 4:30 v.ro.

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Receive Okay Water Study

The Adams Rural Water Association No, 1 received approval to make the feasibility Study for a rural water system, Seesrding to Paul Flowers, chairman of the steering committee. © “"& county map and a Met “of 555 names of water Survey signers were sukecitied _ . ta Farmera Home Adminis- tratien ia Des Moines Wed- ‘sesday by Flowers, Cilferd Brown, ivan Heaton and Jim ‘Kearns. _ The Water Steering Com- fittee met Thursday morning at the Extension Office and.made Plana for incorporating... “Paul Flowers was elected Chairman of the. Steering Committee; Clifford Brown, Vice-Chairman; Jim Kearns, Secretary; and Ivan Heaton, Tressurer. In addition. to the ‘fiers. the other board mém- are: Don Curry, Paul fala Andy Mosby, Paul N. _ Winkler, Corning; Delmar Haley, Nodaway: Jim -Hewitt, Lenox ‘Roy. Foster and. Vern Maeder, ee and Harold | Young, 2 na Movie. waa select- od. as legal. comsel fer

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Report:Lists Assets:of Adams Community

{Ed. Note This Is the fourth in & series of articles prepared by. efficiats of the Adams Community Industrial Development Corporation, explaining the {ndustrial Racket ectivitien ‘and eutlonk fer the comsmunity.] a Sr oe - 7 -& 1978 Yows Employment Security Labor Survey reported that “menrand women-and-students arc-interested- ior aro-avallable employment — people friendly, hardworking and- dependable. There is a need for 403 new jobs in the community over the ne five yeara to retain job opportunities at home for our youth. ~~ Walters Creek dam will provide for a 10,000 population. The. extension of the water and gas lines to-and-on the industrial site‘is+ estimated at $305,000. The Federal Government will pay 8 per cent. of this amount. The Corning Municipal Utilities have agreed: ts. finariee the balance of $61,000. . Tx eddition te a water supply, Wakers Crock witl provide exceiient recreational facilities. A 1,200-eere park will surround the :. "take, Approximately 80,000 visitations are aspected annually te. . this facility. , Between 100 and 200 additional students can be. handled in the: present Corning school system. The 1973-74 enrollment is 983;: present facilities could handle. between 1,050 and 1,500 students: A- ‘new Voc Ag complex is under construction: The building will make it possible to expand services in three areas — Voc Ag, Industrial Arts and Art. It is planned to construct a new football field and track;: purchase different facilities for houslng buses and aecure better, more: modern facilities for band and vocal music. Rosary Hospital in Corning is fully accredited and could serve _ neatly twice the population as.at the present time. It is a Satellite of Autonomus Creighton University and St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Omaha, There are 35 beds and eight bassinettes, The hospital is - ‘serviced by five general practicioners, one surgeon and a rad{ologiat. * ‘There are seven churches of various denominations in Corning, Six have recently constructed new churches or educational facilities. The s oe are outstanding, and can accommodate several hundred new people. 3 >, se Corning Municipal Utilities have firm “ail requirementa” - eomtracts through 1979 and are participating the sponsorship. of ningstonth thermal plant to go on the system grid. This plant will: ~ previde power through 1984. Ths Utilities will supply any amouit. 5 of sopaediy and anersy fe ony pelat within the corporate Limits é where needs can be demonstrated. “ “The Adams County Cooperative Electric Go: is served ona nieteror! _ssoctoe sf ivestan was in accerdaace with the merit regiogal management election board aud was appointed by Postmester Gereral E. T. Kilsssen. In his new position at Creston postmaster Coulter will also be responsible. for the Creston nal ter “with its- 32 offices. Coulter is a veteran who served in the U. S. Air Force in World War II and received an honorable discharge. "A native of Iowa, Coulter is married to the former Mary Ann »Sherlin and they have four children. Coulter succeeds M. E. Anderson as Creston post master; Anderson was promoted t@ postmaster at Waterloo or Oct. 27, 1973. Since then E Richard Outhouse, who wa: superintendent of mails in the Creston office, has been serving as officer-in-charge of the offic: pending the appointment of-th: a aang EAE EE, eH of transmission lines. The transmission system is looped and provides “approximately 100 per cent service. The nuclear generating plant at :Cedar Raplds will have a total of 550 megawatts und is expected to “start generating electricity about April.1, 1974. In addition to the “generating ‘plant the coop co-owns, the transmission lines are “connected to a grid of 131,000 KV Unes of the U, S. Bureau of Reclamation Tawa Pawar. and Tlehs Usnd- Sot dministration. The cooperative is located In an area where there is lenly of power available at t all times, at t competitive costs. The Adams County: Boar of Superviiora: are going to participate in * the construction of the acceas road for the Industrial Park. The Right “of Way will be dedicated to the County, and the road will become part “of the Secondary Road System. - | - The total cost of construction will be $192, 680 for the grading, “drainage, and surfscing. The paunigis aharé of this cost will be a toasiately $26, 00, . a * * * _: There is a 10,000 pete capacity fram. Corning's new water " treatment system. Load capacity is oné-half million gallons per day. Only two other plants in Iowa have the capability as to number of treatment processes . provided. The plant has a high treatment capability and processes its disposal test 98 per.cent pure. Extension ofthe sewer line to and on the development site will cost an estimated $185,000. The Federal Government, will pay'80 per cent of the cost -and the City of Corning will finances the balance of $87,000. - ‘Transportation~Main line of Burlington Northern. Railrsad passes through the comminnity; five truck limes serve the cexnty; 55 miles ta Interstate 35 via U. 5. Highway $4; 33 miles te. . Interstate 80, via State Highway 148. The preseat Corning sirpert hes a 2,7004oot asphalt ronway. I also has a lew frequency, rox « directional redio beacon. A master plan study, for a new alrport » and alrport authority Is being formed. Plans for this airport would ;. accommodate light executive ‘fets. Market accessibility—80 miles to Omaha; 100 miles to Des Moines; ‘150 miles to Kansas City. Capacity of banks—Community banks have the ability to finances industrial growth. They have the capacity to make loans for up to 5 new hames as they are needed; and are in a strong position ta dinenc : industry. = _ Ue Be Coniinwed Next Week]

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Select Marvin Steffen Chairman of towa 2868

Marvin Steffen has. . been appointed to head up the Iowa 2000 Committee in Corning and Adams County. Towa 2000 is Governor Ray's -program to look at the future needs of Iowa residents for the year 2000. State and. county “committees are seiting’- up meetings -for “all people. to express their concerns. and suggestions for developing prc- grams to work with our. Natural Development, and Life Enhance

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Loan Details Told By FHA

Farmers in Adams county, who sustained production- or physical losses ss a result of the storms and flooding which struck during the poriod of March 13 through’ May-8, 1973 may be eligible to receive an emergency tosn from.the Farmers Home ” tiem office at COE Tth Strest, Corning, bow:, before the cleee,.ef businzas en Ape 2, 1974, ‘These loan applications will bk taken under the term of a nev law (P.L. 98-287) enacter Janusry 2, 1974. Individva examination will be made of eact application to determine date o the disaster: occurrence and typ

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Applications for. Magistrate

Applications. for appointment as part-time judicial magistrate in Adams county are now: being accepted by Albert Crow, clerk of court ‘at the court house ‘in Corning. . The judicial magistiate-ap- peinting commission will 4 _ uaneting ta. semetden the suplt..- eatlens and to appoint “the” Magistrate: fer .a. two-year | term. beginning Jey 1,. 1974. Sudieiat magistrates Te appointed in’ 1973 and: began functionitig. when “the -state’s judicial reform law. became effective on July 1, 1973. — The initial appointments were, for one year:‘Howover, appoint: ents. made. this year and in future years will be for two-year terms. s Judge- Gibson Holliday, chief Indge of the Sth judicial Gistrict, hes named district judges to serve on the jndicial magistrate appeinting cotm- Talzsions. In this area; Judge James Hughes of Lenox has been named for Adams, Taylor and Ringgold counties; Judge A. V. Hess oi - Chariton for * Union . county; Judge Robert OQ. Frederick for -Adair and Madison counties. Joe Jones of Corning is the judicial magistrste for Adams county under the jnitial, appoint ment. . Apolleante for the pasition must be under 72 years. of age and must be an eligible voter in the county In which they seck appointment. Appll- cations ravat be in writing, stating qualifications. Compensation of -part-tim: judicial magistrates is fixed bi state law at $4,800 per year.

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Project Council Stages Hesting: Fleets Ries BELIE sis eget.

".The Project Council, a new: name for the task force which has. been in.charge of the Friendship: ‘Meals, met at the Court House on Friday, March 15th, for their. regular ‘monthly meeting. John A. Riegel was clected as chairmsn, until an election could, be held later on. Reports were mzde on the meals served, and it was found that 188 meals were served on the three days last week. This is. an increase over the previous: week. , - The Friencship Meals are served at the Coffee Shoppe, to anyone 60 years of age or over, and a donation of 76 is requested for them. This is a Nutrition’ Prograia, sad .not~s poverty Drogears as’ some believe. There has been various types ot entertainment after each mee for whieh we extend our thank’ - to thove who have shared vith

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Don Muhm Speaker at Watershed Meet

bill. oo, Enough survey forma have been completed for the FHA approval. Anyone not included in this list can still he “included before ihe fai list fs concluded by the engineering firm. Survey forms and information can be obtained fiom the board mem bers; Extension, SCS, or FHA offices in Corning. = aay ee eae els a joint annual meeting of four watersheds In the area Tues, Mar, 28, at the K-8 school in Corning, beginning with a dinner. at 7 p.m. The groupe inelude | ‘the Adams county portion. of “the 102 River and Platte River watershods; Show Cevek watershed; and Walters ' The meeting will ba preceded by an election of 1974 directors for the watersheds. i a eto so : —~.. Main... speaker will .be. Don ‘Muhm, farm editor of The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Ia. He -atteaded. fowa State . University where he majored - in agrieattural journalism and Following two years. in vs Army Intelligence, he started hit newapaper career. He has worked for four newspapers anc since 1960-has been farm editor for the Des Moines Register anc Tribune. - . He has’ received severn national awards ior his: farn news writing and twice has bee named U.§. Farm. Editor’of th Year ‘by ihe Newspaper Farn * Editors of America. * 8 ’ Tickets - may: be purchase -. from the watershed director - the -district commissioners ¢ from the soil conservatio district office in Corning. ” Platte River—Weyne Wileo president; Ed Ramsey, - vie - president; Dave Tripp, se retary-treasurer, 102 River—Paul Wynn, pre: dent; Drexel Lundquist, vie president; Tom Lynam, . se retary-t treasurer, , Walters Creek—Paul Flower president: . Eugene’ Chappe vice- president; Wayne Cri aecretary-treasurer. ° see. During the meeting, the nan | | and winner will be announced the Name The Lake Contest f ¥ the Walters Creek proje YY Winner will be presented a $ in Savings Bond.

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‘Good night, Chet’

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 memorial service would be conducted for Huntley Sunday at the Big Sky of Montana’ resort and recreation area south of Bozeman. Huntley was chairman of the Big Sky board of directors. Another memorial service is scheduled Tuesday in the New York studios of the National Broadcasting Co. It was at NBC that Huntley teamed _ with David Brinkley on an evening news show they shared for 14 years, until 1970 when Huntley left to take over the $20 million Big Sky development. Brinkley told a nationwide audience on NBC Wednesday that Huntley always told the truth as he knew it and left the American people with ‘something useful, honest and of permanent value.” In a flashback to the way he and Huntley customarily ended their news program, Brinkley said, ‘And for myself, I guess I can say for one more time, good night, Chet.”’

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24-hour sales on Turnpike

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP)— Oil companies operating service stations on the Ohio Turnpike were ordered by the turnpike commission Wednesday to sell gasoline and other petroleum products at the stations 24 hours daily, effective Saturday.

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PRINCESS ANNE Man charged in kidnap attempt

LONDON (AP) — Ian Ball, a 26-year-old unemployed Englishman, was brought into court today and charged with at- tempted murder during an attempt to kidnap Princess Anne from her car in the heart of London Wednesday night. Ball, lean-faced and bearded, stood stiffly in the dock at the Bow Street Magistrate’s court, handcuffed to two detectives. He spoke only once during his 60-second appearance, 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 Beaton. Beaton was one of four persons wounded as the would-be kidnaper fired repeatedly at the royal limousine. The others were Anne’s chauffeur and a policeman and a passing journalist who tried to intervene. Beaton and the policeman were reported in serious condition. 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 bul- lets fired into the car indicated it passed between them, missing them by inches. Police from Buckingham Palace, 150 yards away, overpowered the gunman, and police sources said they found a long ransom letter nearby addressed tc Anne’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The Daily Telegraph said the letter asked for a ransom of a million pounds ($2.3 million). The Daily Mail said it was full of wild ravings about alleged injustices. The attack was the first against any member of the British royal family since 1936 when a man threw a loaded revolver in front ot King Edward VIII. The royal family occasionally has received death threats but is not normally sur. rounded by heavy security arrangements. Police gave this account of the attack on the princess: The queen’s _ only daughter and the army officer she married last November were returning from a showing of ¢ documentary film about § p.m. when a white Ford forced the limousine to 2 stop on the Mall, the ceremonial avenue leading to the palace. A man got out of the Ford and began shooting hitting Alex Callender, the royal chauffeur, anc Inspector Beaton anc shattering the front anc rear windows of the limousine. Beaton tried tc fire back, but his gur jammed. The man also. shot Constable Michael Hills, on foot patrol nearby, and journalist Brian McConnell when they tried to- -intervene. Hills managed to get off a warning on his_ walkie- talkie before he collapsed.

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rHIRD SON HAS CANCER Surgeons removing Stephen’s left leg

CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) — A team of four physicians began surgery at Children’s Hospital this morning to amputate the left leg of Stephen Southerland, 13. The Miami, Fla., youth, learned Wednesday that a tumor above the knee was cancerous. The _ hospital said the leg would be removed to the top of the thigh. The operation was scheduled to last roughly four hours. Stephen is the third son See oy, FR: Ley eu" eee in his family to have a rare form of cancer. A surgeon who successfully operated twice on the boy’s 9-year- old brother Michael said Stephen had a rare bone cancer, osteogenic sarcoma, midway between the knee and hip. The operation would probably eliminate all the cancer, but he would not say what Stephen’S chances. of survival were. Stephen will remain in the hospital for chemotherapy treatment if the operation is successful. Leukemia took the life of a brother, Jeffrey, in 1969. The day before Jeffrey died, doctors diagnosed a rare malignancy in the lining of Michael’s spinal nerve. He was treated at Children’s Hospital and has remained cancer-free for two years.

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Chief of ‘Get Smart’ Edward Platt dies

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Actor Edward Platt, the long-suffering chief of bumbling CONTROL agent Don Adams on _ television’s ‘*‘Get Smart,”’ is dead of an apparent heart attack. Platt, 58, had been a familiar face in forgettable character roles in movies until he won the chief's role in the comedy spy spoof hit of the late ‘60s. After he became known as Don Adams’ boss, he once recalled, even his children treated him differently because he became known to everyone in the neigh- borhood. Platt, whose body was found in his apartment Tuesday, had played in radio roles years ago, and was known to another au- dience for a_ sharply different character — the white-haired father with a prominent role on daytime television’s long-running soap opera, ‘“‘General Hos- pital.”’ He once recalled that his career also included a real bomb — one of the shortest .and most unpopular runs of the Japanese-themed operetta, ‘‘The Mikado,”’ It opened Dec. 8, 1941, one day after Pearl Harbor. His films included “Nlegal”’ with Edward G. Robinson; ‘Rebel Without a Cause’’ with James Dean; and ‘“‘Storm Center”’ with Bette Davis.

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70 CENTS A GALLON LIKELY Higher prices, end of shortage

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal energy chief William E. Simon 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. Simon told a House Appropriations subcommittee 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 discourage 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 February and March have been figured at about 17 per cent — resulting in long lines at service Stations in many areas and emergency allocations late last month by the Federal Energy Office. The FEO on Wednesday revised its March allocations, giving nine states additional gasoline supplies. All other state al- locations remained unchanged. The increases, totaling some 1.2 million barrels, are to be drawn from oil company inventories of more than 200 million 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 while production of already- plentiful distillate fuel oil increased. The API, an oil industry trade group, also said domestic crude _ oil production decreased again last week but crude oil imports rose, as did the input of crude oil to refineries. For the week ended March 15, — gasoline production averaged 5,911,000 barrels a day, down 0.8 per cent from the previous week and 3.9 per cent lower than one year ago, according to the API. Gasoline stocks totaled 221,-782,000 barrels, down 1 per cent from the previous week but still about 3 per cent higher than a year ago, when _ inventories were abnormally low.

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| FOOD AND FUEL Cost of living jumping again

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 biggest 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 year ago and marked the first time since 1948 that the United States experienced double figure inflation. 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 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 its 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 continued 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; nonfood commodities, 1 per cent, and services seven-tenths of 1 per cent. The nis eon 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 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.

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3 MONTHS AFTER DEATH Mother’s body left in chair

CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) — A middle-aged son and daughter were being held in a_ state mental hospital today after authorities discovered they had left the body of their aged mother sitting in a rocking chair three months after she died. The Hamilton County Coroner’s office, meanwhile, was trying to determine the cause of death of Mrs. Frannie Sway, 86, in her Bond Hill section apartment. Police said they believe she died of natural causes. The body was discovered by a nephew Tuesday night. He called police. Mrs. Sway’s son, Meyer, 54, and daughter, Rose 51, who lived’ in_ the apartment, were admitted to Longview State Hospital Wednesday. Both have had previous mental treatment, police said. The nephew told police his aunt told him her mother had a relapse in December and was sstill sick. A landlord had telephoned the nephew complaining that Mrs. Sway had not paid her rent for several months.

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WATERGATE Documents subpoenaed

WASHINGTON (AP) — The special Watergate prosecutor’s office has subpoenaed additional documents from the White House, it was disclosed 7 aw A spokesman for special prosecutor Leon Jaworski said the subpoena directed to President Nixon was served on the White House last Friday. Deadline for compliance is Monday. The spokesman declined to say what the subpoena demanded. Earlier, James D. St. Clair, President Nixon’s chief Watergate lawyer, acknowledged in a television interview that a subpoena’ 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 QO. Eastland, D- Miss., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee, that Nixon had refused to give him material he considered vital to his investigation. The President has contended in several recent public appearances that he has given Jaworski all the material he needs to complete his investigation.

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Eagles Host Game Today

Canton Eagles baseball team will host Sulphur Springs team this afternoon (Thursday) at the CYRA Park. The B team will play from 2 p. m. until 3:30, then the varsity will take the field. The Eagles ‘traveled to Sulphur Springs Tuesday afternoon, and lost 6-0. Coach LeRoy Wheelington stated that Jay Stepp turned in a good job of pitching, allowing only five hits. Trey Scroggins is also being viewed as pitcher. Stepp got the only hit for the Eagles witha single. Boys participating this year are Stanley Wills, 2b; Steve Eiland, cf; Kerry Starns, 3b; Dale Clements, if; Mark McWilliams, c and p; Jerry (Continued on Page 3A)

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Myrtle School Election Set

The Myrtie Springs Common School Board Election will be: held Saturday, April 6, from 8&8 a. m. to 7 p. m. at the school. Absentee voting may be made between the hours of 8 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. weekdays at the school through April 2. Three positions are to be filled. Those filing for these positions are Herman H. (Continued on Page 8A)

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GRAND SALINE STORE iS BURGLARIZED

Burglary was_ reported occurring Sunday morning, March 17, at the United Dollar Store in Grand Saline, according to Sheriff B. W. Ward. Several items and some money from the cash register were missing, but no amount has been determined as yet. Entrance was gained through the rear door. Those investigating the incident were Deputy Sheriffs Coy Stone, Carrol Carpenter, and Pete Wright, and Grand Saline Policemen Pat Heddin and Richard Koonce.

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Chapel Of Praise Tentatively Sets April For Completion Date

The completion date of the Chapel of Praise, a Full Gospel Church, is tentatively set for April, with formal dedication services to be held in June. The location is on a three acre site just off Old Kaufman Road at the end of Dodson Street, All building material for the modern 4,600 square foot church and parsonage, except the concrete and plumbing, were provided or arranged for by Trinity Valley Building Center in Dallas, including the financing of such materials, Miss Thelma Hostetter, minister of the Chapel of Praise, stated that the first vear of a degree in theology can be earned in their four vear Bible College. Night course Classes will begin this fall. Sne also stated that an outreach minister will conduct jail services in. the Van Zandt County jail each Tuesday morning from 10 a. m. until ll a.m. The echurch will otfer prayers and women's Bible study oan. Wednesday mornings from 10 4. m. until 12 noon,

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Two File For Martins Mill School Board

ive Martins Milt Independent School Board Election has been set for Saturday, April 6, at the school. The polls will be open from 7a.m.to7 p.m. Two three-year terms are to be filled. Those with expiring terms and who have filed for re-election are Jack Mewbourn and Kelly Smith. Members holding unexpired terms are Allen Sides, Joe Williams, Delmar Lawrence, Dr. Charles Ogilvie, and Jack Daniels.

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Absentee Voting Begins On March 18

Absentee voting has begun in Canton for the city council and school board trustee elections. Voting in the city election began Mondav, March 18. The City Hall office will be open from 8 a. mm. until 3 p. im. through April 2 for absentee voting. The superintendent’s office in the Canton High School will be open from 8 a. m. unti 4 p. Mm. tnpougn Apri 2. tor absentee voting in the school board trustee election. Absentee voting for this election also began Monday, March 18.

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F. E. Reeves Withdraws From Race

F. E. (Buddy) Reeves has withdrawn as a-— candidate from the City Council race. Mr. Reeves withdrew his name as a candidate on Tuesday afternoon after accepting the position as Chamber of Commerce manager. He stated, ‘Since this job became available, I feel I can be of more value in this capacity. I have a lot of experience in public relations work through the radio media and all phases: therefore, | feel l could serve better in this capacity rather than in a councilman’s position. Since | will be devoting most of my time to this new job, | feel it my duty to withdraw from the race. now. Mr, Heeves further commented, ‘We have a number of qualified Nien running [or ene councilman’s post, and | feel ine people Will Have fo problem in choosing new COUNnCIIMION. from nis selection.”

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Canton Golf Team Places In Tourney

The Canton Golf. team placed fourth in’ the Wills Point) Tournament Monday, March 18, at the Van Zandt Country Club. Canton had a team score of 342 points while Kaufman won the tourney with 336 points. Brian Boroughs Was_ top scorer with 81 points, Others On tne teim are Paul Hutcherson with &3- points, David Wright’ with 83, and Jeff Hillard with 95, The team has a match with Mineola today, Thursday, at the Van Zandt Country Club, and a match with Overton on Wednesday, March 27, here. They will also participate in the District Meet on Monday, April 1, also held at the Country Club.

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Lions Club Donates $588 To Mental Health And Retardation

The Lions: Club met Wednesday, March 13, at Ward's Restaurant at noon. The minutes were read and approved. Leroy Wright was made an official member of the Lions Club and received a lion pen. President Chili Campbell presented a check for $558 to Terry Carter, chairman of the Advisory Board for the Mental Health, Mental Retardation School in Van Zandt County. This money was collected from the benefit basketball tournament that was held March 8 and 9. Rev. Donald Box, program chairman, presented a silent film entitled ‘‘The Tramp’’ starring Charlie Chaplin, for the entertainment part of the meeting.

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Canton Track Eaglettes Place First In Elkhart

The Canton Track EFaglettes captured the championship trophy with 156 points in the Elkhart relays on Saturday, March 16. Seventeen schools participated in the meet. In the 440 relay, Canton’s girls team, mace up of Susie Taylor, Becky Badgett, Laurie Weaver, and Sandy Self, raced to first’ place in De. The mile relay team, made up of Lisa Newby, Badgett, self, and L. Weaver, also won first place. Canton's 880 relay team, Taylor, Susie Stringer, Candice Galloway, and Paula Bailey, took second place. Others winning in various events were Newby, first, and Badgett, third, 440 yvard-dash: ». Stringer, third, 220 yard dash; Taylor, second, 60 yard dash; Self, first, 100 yard ~

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Chamber Hires Reeves As Part-Time Manager

Chamber of Commerce hired a part-time manager and elected officers and directors in their Tuesday meeting. In their noon meeting, F. E. (Buddy) Reeves was hired as part-time manager. Mr. Reeves, in accepting the position, said he would devote much of his time to his new job. He explained he has a number of ideas to strengthen the chamber and better the community. Todd Berry was elected as president of the chamber to serve 1974-75. William F. Hilliard was re-elected as vice-president, and Mrs. Anita Wilson as_ secretary- treasurer. New directors elected are Lonnie Browning, Mrs. Ethel Hill, E. @. Peel, Horace Etheridge and Arnett Robinson. They will serve three-year terms. Final plans on the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet were discussed. The banquet will be held March 29 at the Van Zandt Country Club. Bill Bass will be the master of ceremonies for the event, and Rev. E. C. McKenzie will be the speaker. Directors present at the meeting were Harvey Fincher, president, Weldon Starnes, Hardy Ward, Mr. Reeves, Bill G. Faglie, Jr., Pete Hendrix, Mr. Berry, Mrs. Eunice Travis, Miss Lucille Watson, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Dedo Cox, office secretary.

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Musical Will Feature The Past 74 Years

The newly organized Junior Historian Club of Canton High School is planning a show March 27 and March 28 to raise funds for a field trip to Jefferson in April. Highlights of the show will be the performances of the Apache Belles and the 20 piece dance band from Tyler Jr. College. David Wren will sing “It’s Today,’’ a number from the musical ‘‘Mame,”’ with the Apache’ band accompanying. Also performing will be Bob Bledsoe,, Mrs. Kenneth Yancey, Kim Harrell, Catherine and Martha Jane Lewis, Gwyn and Lyn Lee, Ann Riley, Dee Blakely, and Becky Slaughter. The theme of this program will be the fashions and dances through the past 74 years from 1900 to 1974, Billy Ballard and O'Neal Weaver are the sponsors, and the fund raising committee and directors of the show are David Wren, Suzanne Martin, Ann Bilev; Viexy Cos, Barbara Starnes, Dee Blakely, Sue Chamtbless, Becky Slaughter and Donna Stringer. The show will be given at these three times: 8:45 a. m. on Wednesday, March 27; 8:45 a.m. on Thursday, March 28 and at 7:30 Thursday evening, Admission prices are 25 cents for elementary ffanrtintian an Caan OA \

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Sea-Land postpones rate hike

Sea-Land has postponed for 30 days the Fairbanks freight rate increase thal was lo be effective March 25, Word on the stay was received Wednesday by freight traffic consultant Fred ‘Tolan, and confinned this morning by the Fairbanks Sca-Land office. Tolan, retained by the Fairbanks industrial Development Corporation to help solve Interior Alaska transportation problems, broke the news to Fairbanksans earlier this month that Sea-Land wauld be raising the minimal differential between Anchorage and Fairbanks rates to 98 cents. This inerease would raise the shipping rates for some ilems as much as 50 cents per hundred pounds, Last week, Tolan wrote to the Sea-Land pricing officer in Seattle, protesling the increase on behalf of FIDO. He advised Sea- Land thal a petition would he filed with the Interstate Commerce Commissian when the new tariff was published. According to Martin Nusbaum, Sea-Land’s Fairbanks sales representative, the postponement of rate increases is due Lo a delay in receiving copies of the new rates. “We haven’t received the new rate pages, so we haven’t been able to advise our customers of the new schedule,” Nusbaum said. “We felt it is in the hest interest of our customers and Sea-Land to wait until everyone receives copies of the new rates and has sufficient notice before the rates became effective,”

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Connecting gas line asked

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Pacific Gas Transmission Co. icday said it has filed with the Federal Power Commission a plan ‘to con- struct a 618-mile, $400 million natural gas pipeline from the Canadian border through Idaho, Washington and Gregon to California. A spokesman said the 42- inch pipeline would parallel an existing 36-inch line and would be fed by Alaskan North Slope and Canadian Mackenzie Delta natural gus as part of the trans-Canada pipeline system proposed by the Arctic Gas consortium of 27 firms. ane oaveratl project, however, probably will not be immediately pushed to completion unless Arclie Gag can oblain rights to Alaskan natural gas. That energy source also is being sought by El Paso Natural Gas Co., which wants to build a Pipeline paralleling the Lrans- Alaska hot oj] pipeline. The competing plans must be sorted out by the FPC and the National Energy Board of Canada, Alaska so far has thrown its support behind the El Pase plan, and PGT spokesman Robert W. Brooks said ap- proval of the All-American pipeline would, make the Canadian line and ils Nor- ihwest leg economically unfeasible, “The overall system needs the supply from both Alaskan and the Mackenzie Delia to make it economical, but Lhat might not be the case forever,” said Brooks, a PGT vice president and assistant to corporate lead Charles Pennypacker Smith, “This is a partial filing fer the FPC, which will have to consider both plans. This ives everyone time to consider bath projects."' The Northwest spur of the Arctie Gas Pipeline, PGT said, would permit im- portation of 1.2 billion eubic feet daily of natural gas by 1982, Pacific Gas and Eleniric Co., PGT said, plans tu ex- tend the Californian segment of the Hne south from San Francisco. About 25 per cent of the Canadian line's capacity would be fed to the Northwest Lhrough Northwest Pipeline Ca,, the region's only whalesale supplies Another 25 per cent, Brooks said, would go further south. The remainder, under the Arctic Gas consortium plan, wauld be sent east

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Arctic Gas files application to build trans-Canada line

WASHINGTON (API — A Sroup of 27 U.S, and Canadian companies filed applications today for permission 10 build a $5.7 billion, 2,600-mile Pipeline to carry nutural gas from Arctic Alaska and Canada to the smaller U.S. states, Alaskan Arctic Gas Pipeline Co., representing the consortium in lhe United States, filed applications with the Iederal Power Com- mission here. Additional applicalions were lo be filed with the In- terior Department later in the day. and a related organization called Canadian Arctic Gas Pipeline Limited was to file applications with Canada's National knergy Board and other Canadian authurities. The giant pipeline praject, ifapproved, would become an essential compunion to the Planned trans-Alaska oil pipeline which was granted federa] permits last Jan, 23, after almost four years of environmental controversy. The natural gas pipeline proposal could also stir some environmental vupposition. especially since the proposal calls far its cunstruetion across part of the 1.8. Arctiv National Wildlife Range. But the Arctic Gas Pipeline Co. would rather swilch than ‘fight. The company said in its application that it would reroute the pipeline to avoid the wildlife refuge, adding 15 miles at an estimated $525 million additional cast to the project, if ils preferred route is rejected. When completed, the ap- plication said. the Dipeline—four feet in diameter—cauld transport up to 2.25-billion cubic feet of natural gas daily. The capacity could be increased to 4.b-billion cubie feet daily by chilling and compressing He €as, (he lirms sald. The projeel calls for collecting nahiral gas from fields both at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope and at the Mackenzie River Delta in northern Canada, The gas would then be transported lo southern Alberta where continent- spanning branch lines would distribute it ta the U.S. West Coast and to the Midwestern and Eastern United States and Canada, The pipeline aperation could begin as early as 1979 if construction permits are ranted soon, the firms said

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Arctic enters gas line challenge

ANCHORAGE (AP) — The applications filed today for a proposed $6.7 billion natural gas pipeline from the Alaska North Slope signal the official start of a major conflict between two major energy organizations. The Arctic Gas Pipeline Co. proposal, filed today, is for a proposed $5.7 billion Pipeline to transport natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska and the Mackenzie River Delta area of northern Canada to the largest energy markets of the two countries. The major conflicting proposal Js one by El Paso Natural Gas Co,, whieh proposed a 42-inch gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay across Alaska to a port in the south central region of the state. The gas would be liquefied to become liquefied natural gas for shipping to West Coas! markets [In a fleet of refrigerated tankers. The Ei Paso proposal is estimated to cost $3 billion. Under the ki Paso proposal, only Alaskan gas would be involved. The Arctic Gas proposal proposed to pipe natural gas from fields, bath in Alaska and Canada. Arctic Gas officials say all Alaskan gas would be delivered to U.S. markets, along with exeess Canadian natural gas. El Paso ts expected to file an objection te the Arctic Gas proposal, and fts own ap- plication for the pipeline to run through Alasks.

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Miller may try Senate

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Anchorage radio station KFQD says it has learned that Senate President Yerry Miller of Fairbanks will announce his candidacy for the U.S, Senate lo oppose Democrat Mike Gravel. Station KHAR today said Miller reportedly has been buying radio television time throughout the state for tomorrow morning at 8. Miller wifl make his announcement at that time from Fairbanks. The youthful Fairbanks Republican state senator has been witholding his decision to run for a higher office pending a decision by former Gov. Walter Hickel on his choice for office, Hicket Wednesday announeed he would run for the goverdar’s office.

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Cost of living climbs to near record level

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The pace of inflation quickened in February with food and fuel prices pushing the cost of living up 12 per cent, the second big- gest monthly jump since 1951, the government said today. The Labor Department said last rnonth’s rise sent consumer prices 10 per cent higher than a year ago and marked the first time since 1348 thal the United States experienced double fig- ure inflation, it was the highest i2-month increase in the cost of living since cansutmer prices rose by 10.2 per cent in the 12 months ending January 1548. Nearly half the February in- crease was attributed to higher food priecs with the price of beef raising 7.5 per cent, the sharpest jump since a 9.6 per cent increase in dune 1947, Gasoline and other energy items were responsible far about a fifth of last month’s in- crease in prices, The Consumer Price Index climbed last month to 1415 of ils 1967 average, meaning that. it cost consumers $141.50 fo buy the same amyunt 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 af ohe per cent in February and were down 4.5 per cent from a year age. This was the largest decline over a year since the government began keoping that statistic in 1964, The February price report. showed inflation holding a firm grip across the eevnomy. Food prices rose 25 per cent; non- food commodities, 1 per cent, and services seven-tenths of 1 per vent. The Nixon administratian has said it expects inflation te con- tinue its sharp pace throughout lhe first half of the year hefore beginning lo ease during lhe 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 hy mure 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. Soaring gasoline and motor oil prices played a large part in the over-all increase in con- fSee PRICES, page 2)

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Panel subpoenas more materials

WASIHNGTON (AP) — The special Watergate prasecutar’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 compijaner is Monday. The spokesman declined to say whal the subppenu de- manded. At the White House, Depuly Tress Secretary Gerald I, Warren said the subpoena as ullfler consideration and as for the likely response declared, “T don’t have any guidance to give youon that.” Asked what items were sought by Jaworski, Warren said, “I do not have any specifics on the subpoena.” Responding to another question. Warren said ne consideration was being given to firing Jaworski because of his move tu sub- poena White House materials. Told that Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler had flally denied Wednesday [hat any subpoena had been received, Warren said he could nat explain that and feil any attempt to cdo so in Aiegler's absence would be unfair, Ziegler was at his White House desk but did not eon- duct the day's news briefing. Warren also was questioned about repeated statements by Nixon, the most recent in a broadcast question-and- answer session Tuesday night in Houston, that Jaworski had all the materials he required,

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Princess Anne safe after kidnap attempt

LONDON (AP) — lan Ball, a year-old unemployed Eng- lishman, was brought into court. teday and charged with at- tempted murder during an at- tempt to kidnap Princess Anne from her car in the heart of London Wednesday night. Ball, lean-faced and bearded, slood stiffly in the dock at the Bow Street Magislrate’s court, handcuffed to two detectives, He spoke only onee during his @-second appearance, saying in a London accent: “{ want to apply for legal aid.” The court ordered him held for another hearing on March % on the charge of attempting to murder Princess Anne’s per- sonal hadyguard, Inspector Janes Beaton, Beaton was one of four per- sans wounded as the would-be Kidnuper fired repcatedly at the royal limousine. The others were Anne's chauffeur and a policeman and a passing jour- nalist who (ried to intervene, Beaton and the policeman were reported in serious condilion. The year-old princess and her husband of five months, Capt. Mark Phillips, were not hurt. But police experts said the holes left hy one of the bul- lets fired into the car indicated it passed between them, miss- ing them by inches. A police informant said it Was belleved 1! shots were fired by the assailant, Experts were studying two revolvers found al the scene, They said five shots had been Cired from one and six fron the other. Au- Ihorities said earlier only six shots were fired, Police also found in the white Ford that Ball rented fur the evening a typewritten ransom demand addressed to Queen Elizabeth II, Anne’s mother, along with thyee pairs of hand- cuffs, a driver’s license and en- velapes addressed to two cam- panies. Officials declined te disclose any further details of the dis. eoveries, But the Daily ‘Tele- gtaph said the letter asked for a %2.2-million ransom, and the Mail said it was full of about alleged —in- justices. Police said Ball had na fixed address. Following the attack, there was speculation that it was the work of Irish nation- alists, but the police said they believed Lhe motive was not po- litical. The gunman was aver- powered by police from Buck- ingham Palace, 150 yards away (See PRINCESS, poge 3)

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Kissinger doesn’t see Arabs reimposing ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeretary of State Henry A. Kissinger today said he does nat expect the Arabs ta reimpose their oi] embarge against the United States and that he does not huld the Soviet Union responsible for the outbreaks of fighting hetween Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights. Al a news conference in advance of a trip to Moscow, Kissinger said. “Both of us have an obligation to can- tribule to peace and both of us are exchanging ideas on this Subject." Most of the Arab oil counlries announced last Monday in Vienna that they would lift the embargo against shipments that they had imposed during the Middle East War hecause of U.S. support for Israel. Kissinger said it was his understanding that the em- barge could be reimposed only by unanimous vote and that he did nat consider such a reversal likely. Arab oil ministers are scheduled to meet in Cairo on June 1 to review the situation, Kissinger ealled the clashes between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights an inevitable result of friction in the region.

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Rinas Announces For Second Term

State Representative Joe Rinas of Mar- ion announced his bid for a second term in the lowa House of Representatives March 18, Rinas, whose 29th district seat encom- pases the city of Marion, the Slst, 32nd, and 33rd precincts in Northeast Cedar Rapids and Squaw Creek Township, in- cluded in his priorities for the 66th General Assembly the upgrading of Iowa's transportation systems with spe- cial emphasis on rail services, im~- provement of health care delivery to Iowa's elderly, and reform of Iowa's persqnal and corporate income tax structures to more adequately reflect the taxpayer's ability to pay. Rinas, a lifelong resident of Marion, pledged to concentraté his campaign - on individual contact with citizens and citizen groups in his district, thus enabling adequate representation of their specific needs, Rinas and his wife Jennifer, who re~ side at 1309 9th St,, also announced the expected birth of their first child in early October.

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Norkers, Welcomes Subscriber:

just having completed the "greatest Trade Expansion campaign in The Sentinel's his- tory,” Editor-Publisher Bob Lana welcomes all new readers, along with the old ones, to The Sentinel"Family", “We couldn't have been happier with the results of our expansion campaign," Lana said about the fifth such drive since 1968, “We have more new subscribers and more renewals than in any other previous caim- Paign. "This certainly makes us, at The Sen- tinel, feel great! We know we have a job to do being the official newspaper of the City of Marion and Linn County, and we are most thankful for the response we received from both old and new readers. Welcome aboard! " After final figures were compiled by Elie Paulson, campaign manager for Marion Circulation Co,, and judges Irwin Renfer of Irwin's Clothing and Fred “Bud" Weber of Weber's Paint & Wallpaper, Mrs. Jack (Juanita) Hotchkiss was declared first-place winner in the Expansion campaign, Mrs, Hotchkiss, also a worker on a pre- vious campaign, runner-up in 1972, ear- ned the $600 first-place prize from Lana, while Jeff Oleson of Springville was run- _ner-up, earning $330, 60 (second place money and corumissions), followed by Mrs, Sharon Alderson, Marion, who re- ceived $269,40, Murs. Jack (Pat) O'Toole, $228.40, and Mrs, Rover Pitzen, $133- .80, Other hard workers were Mrs, Wil- mer Stephan, Miss Debi Byme, Mrs, Jeri Leuenberger and Mrs, Donna Gourley, A BIG congratulations also go out to Mrs, O'Toole, who received a $25 bonus for having signed-up the most new sub- scribers. She signed-up 163 new ones! Final figures in the Expansion campaign showed a grand total of 565 NEW Sentinel readers and 472 renewals. Again, The Sentinel would like to say a hearty "Thanks" to all the workers, and “Welcome aboard” all new and old rea- ders! Votes earned by the candidates were as follows: Mrs, Jack Hotchkiss --61, 765, 000 Jeff Oleson -- 55,175, 000 Mrs, Sharon Alderson -- 44, 650, 060 Mys, Jack O'Toole -- 41,655, 000 Mrs, Roger Pitzen -+ 25, 195, 000 Mrs, Wilmer Stephan -~ 10,710, 000 Miss Debi Byrne -- 10,580, 000 Mrs, Jeri Leuenberger -- 5, 470, 000 Mrs, Donna Gourley -- 3,940, 000

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Marion Firemen Investigate Million-Dollar Loss fire Rips Throvah City Furniture

ABOVE: Marion Fire Chief Jim Reynolds called it a “tin shed building"+-just wooden poles between metal--the kind of building that burns the fastest. The fire was out of control when firemen arrived on the scene in Marion Town= ship at 4 p.in, Monday. BELOW: Though 20 firemen fought the blaze, their efforts were futile.Chief Reynolds said there was no way to save the building.

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Supreme Court Upholds Ruling

AUSTIN (AP), — Twenty elvilian Nelicoptes repairmen who got mad and wanted te go home were entitled to alr fare but not to wages Cor a full year, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, The ruling upkeid a décision of the Fart Worth Court of Civil Appeils that reduced a district court judgment from $142,824 to ‘35,767,

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Good Morning! In Today’s Express. Today’s Chuckle

Nothing i harder far a new driver to park than both ends of a car.

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A couple charged with ihe slaying of a - Mexican businessman here last week are to be returned to San Antonio from ‘Franklin, La., Thoiyvyedav . .

A couple charged with the slaying of a - Mexican businessman here last week are to be returned to San Antonio from ‘Franklin, La., Thursday. ‘ The couple wis arrested ing a Franklin bar ina pickup carly Wednesday morn- dug, St. Mary's Parish Sherif! Chester Baudoin sald, The arrest camie Jess Uian 18 hours afler the Secret Witness Committee offered a-$2,500 reward for information lead- ing to the arrest of sugpecis in the slaylng. John Bradley Jr.; 20, aud Cheryl Ann George, 19, are charged with Whe slaying of Raverlo Tomas Ibinarriaga- Olvera. The vigtim was the 36-ycar- old son-in-law of the immediate past goveruvr of the slate of Morelos. He was here on a business trip. |“ tinarriaga’s body was found along Lower Seguin Road south of Randolph APB on March He ile har been shot in the head, arm and chest with a .25 caliber pistal, investigators satd. His auto was discovered later along U.S. % East, some seven miles from where the body was discovered. In the car afficers found a bloady seat and two.35 caliber shell casings. Acting on infarmation gained after the Sccret Witness reward had’ heen announced, T; Force officers recovered a caliber’semiautomatic pislol from under a house on Acker: mar Road. “Tha Tig wae ena civ

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No Extra Gas, No SundaySales

A few nore San ‘Antonio ser- vice stations will be openSun- day but most will remain clased because of a gas shor- tage, disiributors said Wed- nesday; The reaction comes in the wake of President Nixon's an- Fhouncement Tuesday night the federal government is ending fis voluntary ban on Sunday gas sales. * One distributor said stations cannol open Sunday if they continue to have only a five-day supply of gas to sell. “HE he'd see we get 100. per cent of our allocatlon then sve'd open," a spokesman for Rain Oil Co. said. The firm dis- tribules American products chore, Ile noted the firm has’ two truck stops opan on Sunday. A spokesman for Allanite Richfield Co., distributor af Arco gas, said “probably four” statlons will be open Sunday.

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Couple Charged in Slaying

miles From where (he bady was diseovered. . The Weapon was wrapped in a plastic bag. It was underga- ing testing Wednesday. Events leading to the filjug of charges against the couple began unfolding ahoul § pn. Tuesday, some five hours after Abe $2,500, reward was es- tablished. Cily officers reeeived phone calls frum lwo persons within minutes of each other. The callers were then Laken to San Antonio Police headquarters. Police Insp. Jack Hulton suid the information from the tivo persons Ted to (he rceavery af a spistal and to the fili of charges with Acting Night | Magistrate Michae! O'Quinn. . Bexar Counly Chiel- Demuty Sheriff Rudy Garza said a telegraphic warrant for the

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Seeret Witness Tip Leads to Arrests

Couple's arrest was sent to Louisiana. . Officials there said the pair was arrested about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday as the two were leaving an al-night tavern and no resistance was encountered. i Extradition Louisiana officials also said (he twa have waived extradi- lion, making ‘it possthie for their immediate return, Local officers suid they learned thal the Cuernavaca man frequented several Norlh -Side lounges the night he was slain and that he was accom. panied by a man and a woman. Officers also said Jhinarriaga is reported to have had some $1,000 in cash ond several checks with him that night. Hullon said one informant said the slaying came after Thinarriaga was robbed, The couple, bolh from San Antonio according to Louisiana officers, were still in jail Wed- nesday night in lieu of $100,000 bands set ai the recommenda. lion of O' Quinn.

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Millionaire — Awaits Word

| ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — |The 19-year-ald son of a inil- lionaire businessman was kid- naped Tuesday by six uniden- | tified armed men who snatched him off the street-and hauled jhim: away in a car, the boy's grandfather said. Authorities confirmed the kidnapIng of the youth; Rogetio Camacho Zavala, son of Rafael Camacho Salgado. | The father owns fleets of taxis, trucks aud buses In this resort 240 miles south of Mexi- ca City. “The youth's grandfather, Teadola Camacho, said Rogelio | was kidnaped late Tuesday as “he left a school In Acapulco,

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owe are Very Thank ui ta be it ane piece, dut we are deeply disturbed and concerned about (hose wha got injured," the princess was quoted as saying. ‘A witness, Sandy Scott, sald the white Ford forced her car off the road before halting the Hmonsi 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 teaned into the royal car dnd asked the princess: “Are you all yight, leave?" Anne answered: “Yes, T'm fine, think you."* - Fhe bodyguard, Inspector James Beaton, who way ape pointed to guard the couple the day they were marricd, was hit three Himes. The chauffeur, Alex Callender, one of the queen's drivers, was wounded in the chest.

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Princess Anne Escapes — Kidnap Tr v—4 Wounded

LONDON (AP) — Ptincess Anne and her husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, escaped unhurt Wednesday night after a gunman fired six shots into their royal car. Four gersons were seriously injured in what the police called a Kidiaping attempt. ‘The gunman opencd fire after ambushing the ear an the Mall near Buckingham Palace. The wounded-were the prin- cess’s badyguard, lier chaul- fcur, a uniformed police officer and a passerby in a taxicab, ‘The House of Commons ma- jority leader said he had seen a kidnap letter which demandeda large ransom for Princess Anne had she been kidnaped. The volley of gunfire was loosed. just 450. yards from Buckingham Palace. Authar- ities ‘satd a mon-was arrested Moments after the shooting and that he would be arraigned of Thursday, Witnesses said they saw po- lice overpower a man alter the shooting, Police said a white Fard compact sedan forced the raya) limousine to the curd on a tree- lined mall as the 2+year-old daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband were return: ing from a movie at about § ‘Witesies said a man jumper from the car and pumped Sik bullets inta the black limtousihe wouuding the bodyguard ane chaulfeur. A nearby poticertay: who tried to intervene and a newspaperman ina passing tax also were hit, officials suid. Their wounds were described us serious, ‘The reyal couple was whisked into a tratling pollce car and taken to the place where a spokesman said they were res- ting. . os aa A police officer who heard the shats and -ran over to investigate, wus also shot Another bullet hit a pussenger * & passing taxicab. He was brian McConnell, a freclance reporter. According ta potiec, Beaton fired shots at the gunman even though wounded. He acted “particularly bravely and, allhough already shot, he con- linued to pratect us,’? said Princess Au All.members of the Royal Family have police bodyguards who are expert marksmen and carry automatic weapons. Policenjen normally are nat armed in Britain: The. question raised in Partiament was how the gun- mas knew in advance af the conple’s:plans for the evening. Engagetnents of the Royal Family are often announced in advanee, and printed in the “Court Circular” iv lhe press. Theye were five persons i the ear. In additjon to thet bodygoard and driver, Prin eess Anne and Phillips were accompanied hy Nowena Bras sey, (he princess’s lady i |] waititig. Sie was notinfured.” Report. Home Secretary ftoy Jenkin told the House of Common hours after the shooting hat thu incident was part of a plan t kidnap Princess Aime, who i: fourdh in line for the Britis throne. “An attempt was made by az armed manta kidnap 2

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DUMP RULES RELAXED

Commercial vehicles will be allowed to deposit un- chipped brush and branches at the Darien Dump. during the period from Saturday, March 23 through Saturday, April 6. Weekday hours will be the usual 7 a.m. to 2:50 p.m., but Saturday hours will be extended from 7 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. After April 6, all brush and branches brought in by commercial vehicles must be chipped, but the extended Saturday hours will remain in force through May 25. Private disposal of brush and branches by residents at the dump will continue as usual.

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Public ‘Eyeballs’ Town Budget idget Drews Little Comment Ry EDITH K PIERPONT

idget Drews Little Comment By EDITH K. PIERPONT ‘Some want the budget raised, some want it the same, some want it lowered,’’ J. Arthur Olson Jr., chairman of the Board of Finance, summarized when the last com- ment on the education budget had been heard Monday night. Funds required for Darien’s six elementary schools, two junior highs and the high school as presented in the Board of Education budget were quickly read off to the audience at the required hearing in the high school auditorium. Light Questioning Other categories in the budget were lightly questioned but the grand total of $9,361,850 and the inflation factor drew differences of opinion. The total education figure in- cludes $628,018 provision for salary increases for all personnel which is subject to change pending the outcome of negotiations and legal interpretations of the teacher’s contract. Last year’s education appropriation was $8,757,620. In answer to an opinion voiced by Horace A. Nichol that $124,618 a

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Zoners Grant Permit For Work on Sewers

The Sewer Authority’s request for a waiver eliminating the need for the town to file environmental impact statements for sewer line in wetlands was granted, with con- ditions, by the Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday night. An additional public hearing on the application will be held April 2. John D. Hertz, Darien town counsel, requested the special permit be granted to the town to construct sanitary sewers in the area of Stony Brook Rd. and Middlesex Rd. Contract Conflict Under ‘questioning from the Darien News, Mr. Hertz said that while the Sewer Authority had consented to bring the matter before the zoning commission, had the permit be denied, the town would have had to make a deter- mination as to whether the P & Z had jurisdiction. He said that contracts for the construction of the disputed section of the sewers have already been signed. He said that the town was making the application not because it is necessary, but because the town would like to benefit from the advice of all its commissions. The controversial areas are in the vicinity of the Goodwives River, Middlesex Rd. and Stony Brook Rd. and are part of sewer contract 29. Christine H. Lindstrom, a member of the Conservation Commission, told the com- missioners that her group recommended that the town be required to file an environmental impact statement. She said that the town has the same obligations as do individuals applying for wetlands permits. David Sinclair, of the Five Mile River Commission, wanted to know why no impact statement had been prepared at the beginning. Planning and Zoning Com- mission Chairman Gillet Lefferts replied that the purpose of the informal hearing was, in part, to determine if such a statement need be filed. He added that other sewers have been run under streams in the town without hearings in cases where the pipe was only a perpendicular crossing. The question with this application js that the sewers will be in the wetlands areas in large sections, he said. Mr. Hertz contended that the sewer plans were completed before July 15, 1973, and therefore the ~ town did not have to apply for the

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‘Here to Listen,’ Fiscal Chairman Says By JAN HARDMAN

Items clicked by one-two-three at the public hearing on Darien’s 1974-75 budget Tuesday night. Pauses occurred only briefly when advocates took the microphone to plead for special items or question a few proposed expenditures. We’re here to listen,’ said Finance Board Chairman J. Ar- thur Olson Jr., who went on to explain that statute requires a public hearing on the combined selectmen and education budgets before the Board of Finance makes adjustments. _ The two budgets that were under public scrutiny by a sparse audience of about 80 — many of those being town officials and members of town boards — totaled $14,410,144. “This is ten per cent over the 1973-74 budget, or up four to five mills,’’ Mr. Olson said. Read Out The proposed _ selectmen’s budget totals $5,048,294, ‘“‘an ef- fective increase’’ of 15.5 per cent. The proposed Board of Education budget is $9,361,850, an increase over last year of 6.9 per cent. The first real break in Mr. (Continued on page 22)

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School Program Makes Progress, RTM Hears

“It is probable that we will have a substantial part of first priority construction complete by fall, 1976; and the balance by fall, 1977,’’ Ronald Erickson, chairman of the School Building Committee told the Representative Town Meeting Monday night. But he also warned: “This assumes no delays in_ the program,’ adding that the ‘76-77 time table was too far in the future for the committee’s liking. Mr. Erickson’s report was the only item of business on the RTM’s agenda, although a brief report by First Selectman William H. Patrick followed Mr. Erickson’s presentation. “‘Overdue’”’ But despite the thoroughness of the building committee chairman’s report, he indicated that there is only one goal facing the com- mittee: to “get some type of a balanced program going. It is long overdue, and we urgently need to bring our school system up to standards,’ Mr. Erickson said early in his report. Primary in its achievement of this goal is the investigation of the town’s schools and ‘‘accumulating an inventory of the current plant deficiencies and becoming familiar with the problems.” The committee is currently attempting to determine the extent of new construction necessary to meet requirements of the educational specifications passed by the Board of Education last month, Mr. Erickson said. Mr. Erickson also reviewed the RTM resolution which charged the building committee to study space needs and requirements, and develop a program for con- struction, modernization and renovation of the school plant; to select an architect, and to develop a building program to agree with the educational specifications prepared by the Board of Education. He also outlined the backgrounds of dll 17 members on the School Building Committee, noting that the membership is made up into three separate subcommittees: high school, junior high school and elementary schools. Both the full committee and the sub committees have toured the schools to get an understanding how the facilities in each school are used, Mr. Erickson continued. Walking tours of each school with the corresponding principal, discussions with school Plant Manager Fred Poccia and repeat visits by the proper sub committee have contributed to the group’s knowledge of the system. Most of the meetings have been on Saturdays and during the evening, Mr. Erickson said. He had special praise for Mr. Poccia, who has - F Fee: Sewer eR Ses PS

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‘Mike Triggs, 20, second candidate for lowa House post

Mike Triggs, 20-year old Drake University student, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for state representa- tive from the sixth district. The announcement insures sixth district voters of a contest in the Republican primary, as Triggs joins Arnold Wenell, a Laurens area farmer who announced his candidacy for the same post last week, in the political ring. Both are seeking the seat now held by Dennis L. Freeman, Storm Lake, who has decided not to seek reelection when his term expires. Triggs, a 19872 graduate of Laurens Community School, is a junior at the Des Moines school : majoring in political science. He is the son: of Mr. and Mrs. . Vv. OL 'Triggs... co The: ‘student, who lives at home when Not ‘attending school, has been active: in. politics, ' serving. in 191 ‘the: Pocahontas ‘County » back page; please)

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County welfare group backs plan fo half unnecessary reoraanization

The Pocahontas County Depart- ment of.Social Services, in an effort to divert a statewide reorganiza- tion attempt in the welfare set-up, is endorsing an alternate plan to the state group. Alan Grooters, acting director of the Pocahontas County social service office, said the plan, which was developed in Clay County and ‘has received-the-support of:-both the Pocahontas County Board of Sup- ervisors and the Board of Social Welfare, calls for county boards, in coordination with regional offices, to decide what kind of set-up a county social services office should operate under. The proposal by the state depart- ment would disband all 99 county offices and combine them into multi-county and multi-phase sys- tems under a regional head. “Under the plan we are back- ing,’’ Grooters explained, ‘‘if two counties wish to. merge they can. But if they can provide good services without merging, then this option is open also. “In other words,’’ the acting director went on, ‘there is more flexibility under this plan. Admini- stration can be left.on the local level, county boards can continue to have input into the organization- al set-up in the local office, and those counties that do. wish. to change -their: organizational -struc- ture may do so without affecting those who do not wish to change.” Grooters pointed out that be- cause different counties have dif- ferent needs and different feelings about the organizational set-up of the county welfare office, it is important to build in flexibility so the most appropriate planning can be done. : “If a worker in one county specialized in adoption and another county did not have an adoption agent, this worker could cover a two-county area. However,” he noted, ‘‘this would not mean a reorganizing of the entire county department as the state office plan suggests.” The Clay County proposal also allows for direct line. administra- _ tion from the county office to.the central office via the area adminis- trator to the deputy commissioner. Under this plan, lines of admini- Strative responsibility. and ac- countability are clear and_ well defined, which is necessary for a ‘system to run smoothly, Grooters pointed out. ; This is in direct opposition to the state proposal, which would place supervision of the county office ina regional office, such as Fort Dodge in this area. Another advantage of the plan county officials have endorsed is that it more clearly indicates that services now provided by the county departments of social ser- vices will continue to be provided at the local level. ‘‘Although it is feasible for certain specialized services such as adoption to cover a larger area, as many services as possible should be left at the local or community level to insure both availability and accessibility to the clients being served.” ‘ Possibly the greatest advantage of the proposal, according to Grooters, is that it does allow for the continuation of local adminis- tration: “The board feels that it is very important that one person is responsible and accountable for coordinating the activities of the local office,’’ Grooters said. ‘‘Un- der the present set-up it is very apparent who is responsible for doing this at the local level.”’ Grooters and Charles Kramer, chairman of the county board of social services and a member of the board of supervisors, recently attended a meeting where this proposal was presented to the state commissioner, who agreed to study ‘it further. Grooters still believes the pre- sent county set-up provides the best possible services. ‘‘Almost 100 per cent,of the services provided to public assistance people are pro- vided at the local level,’’ he noted. “As yet, no one has explained to me whatis wrong with this set-up.’’ os

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Laurens Methodist Church to build $22,000 addition

~’ Members of the congregation of the Laurens Methodist Church decided Sunday to build an addition ' to the front of the church building, at an estimated cost of $22,000. — They approved plans which’ had been proposed by the trustees of the church, which will completely change the front entrance. The work will be done by C..I. Hersom Construction Co., and is expected’ to start soon. The .new structure, of brick construction, will replace the steep front steps in front of the building. It will provide two entrances at sidewalk level, with two sets of steps inside leading up to the entrance lobby. There will also be steps leading into the church basement, thus providing a front entrance to the dining room. Two cloak rooms will be available, one on each: side of the addition. Some repair work on the existing structure will be. included in the project.

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Council names pool manager, fells plan fo remove iunked cars

_Doug Schuler, coach and physi- Cal education instructor at the ‘ Laurens: school, will’ manage’ the local swimming pool for another season. . Arnie Hersom, city councilman in charge of the Earl Mackie Memorial Pool, made the dis- closure at the regular council session here Monday. Schuler, who is qualified to teach persons to become certified life- guards, managed the’ pool last year. Members of his staff return- ing for the 1974 season include Dave Solem, who will be the assistant manager, and Dawn Schmidt, Doreen White and Mari- lyn Wright. Membership rate for the entire family is $25, single adult member- ship will be $10, students in grades 7-12 are charged $8 and children through the sixth grade can swim all season for $6. In the only other action at the Monday evening session, the coun- cil noted that the junked auto- mobiles at. the city dump will be removed sometime in the next week. Councilman Julius Halder said persons wishing to transport aban- doned vehicles to the dump site should do so before the junked cars are crushed and hauled away.

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Proposed addition

Architect’s drawing, with a view from the north, of , the proposed new addition to the Laurens Methodist Church which''was approved by the congregation Sunday. It will: provide two entrances at sidewalk

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Hearings delayed by return of evidence: ruling expected soon

Preliminary hearings for: four Laurens men held in connection with a drug bust were being ‘continued this week. Pocahontas County. Magistrate H. Dale Huffman, in whose court the four men appeared Friday, reserved rulings in the case pending the return of evidence from the laboratories of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Des Moines. (The BCI’s report arrived here Monday and Huffman was expected yesterday (Wednesday) to bind the men over to district court.) 7 . . Three of the men, Bruce Allen Christensen, 19, David Scott Olson, 22, and Lyle Emmet Christensen, 24, face charges of possession of a _(Turn to back page, please)

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‘Survey; crop study show area farmers: facing critical shortages of fertilizer

Laurens area farmers are facing an extremely tight fertilizer situa- tion, according to Ken Sindergard, manager of Farmers Coopérative Elevator Co. of Laurens. Sindergard said this week that if promised. and confirmed: ship- ments do not arrive in time for the 1974 crop season there will be shortages to contend with. © “Our allocation calls for 40 per cent less anhydrous ammonia than we received last year and this is going to hurt,” Sindergard related. “From what I’ve heard, every- body’s in pretty much the same boat.” The elevator manager also noted that the problem is nearly as bad with other chemicals. ‘‘We used up a great deal of our 0-46-0 allocation for plow down in the fall,” he explained, ‘“‘and now we’re going to have to get by using something else. But we will get by.”’ Total fertilizer needs for the State, based on a planting survey conducted by the Crop and Live- stock Reporting Service, showed planting intentions of 13.1 million acres of corn and 7.6 million acres of soybeans. Included in ‘this information are past fertilization trends and usage figures, and the ‘results of a statewide fertilizer dealer survey completed Feb. 28, 1974. Figures ‘ Information from the 1,087 retail! dealers surveyed showed that approximately 241,000 tons of N, 214,000 tons of P205:and 231,000 tons of K20 have been applied in Iowa during the past fall and winter. Tons in dealer storage are approxi-. mately 106,000, 79,000 and 82,000 for N, P205 and K20, respectively. _ Confirmed shipments to dealers (though not yet received) add an additional 160,000 tons N, 59,271 tons P205 and 54,293 tons K20. Promised to dealers but not confirmed for shipment are 261,567 tons’ N products, 83,183 tons _P205 and 85,306 tons K20. These promised but not confirm- ed shipments indicate that the severity. of the fertilizer shortage. depends upon the manufacturers ability to produce and deliver the goods to dealers this spring—in the face of transport and energy shortages and without any major production plant breakdowns, the report said. Critical shipments “The great ‘if’ in the fertilizer supply picture,”’ the report went on, “lies in the ‘promised but not confirmed’ shipments. These in- volve 33 per cent of the total nitrogen needs, 20 per cent of the P205 and 11 per cent of K20 needs if we ‘are to fertilize the intended plantings of corn and beans in Iowa.’ Even the slightest breakdown in the manufacturing and distribution systems could create critical short- ages in any locality, the survey predicted. Sindergard advised area farm- ers to. make efficient use of fertilizers by applying them only as needed. ‘‘We’ll get by,’’ he re- peated, “but it’s going to. be- awfully tight.” For most efficient use of nitrogen fertilizers, farmers are being urged to follow a method outlined in a new Iowa State University publication, ‘‘Getting the Most Out of N for Corn.”

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Panel Okay: Bill Against Hitchhiking

TALLAHASSEE (UPI)— The House Criminal Justice Com- mittee narrowly passed a state anti-hitchhiking bill Wednesday in spite of claims that the measure will be difficult to enforce. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Van Poole, R-Ft. Lauderdale, said the proposal will help deter murder, rape and robbery. He said assaults against hit- chhikers have increased in Florida. Maj. Roger Collar of the State Highway Patrol told the committee that policemen might not enforce an anti- hitchhiking law. “They will use it as a means to investigate other crimes,” said Collar. “Most law en- forcement agencies are too busy with other matters to check hitchhikers. They also might think it will be hard to get a conviction in court.” If enacted, hitchhikers could be fined $500 and sentenced to 60 days in jail. Motorists giving rides to hitchhikers would be subject to the same penalties. The bill passed by a 10 to 8 vote. Rep. Jane Robinson, R- Cocoa, said she regularly picks up hitchhikers and called the proposal ‘‘a bad bill.’’ “The lack of public tran- sportation in my _ county (Brevard) makes hitchhiking necessary,’’ she said. ‘‘The bill would wipe out a method for children to get to school. Poole, who said most lae enforcement officials support the bill, said students should form car pools instead of hit- chhiking. Poole said the state should post “no hitchhiking ” signs if the bill becomes law. Twenty-eight states have laws against hitch-hiking, he

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Trucking Industry, Unions Face Suits

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Justice Department Wednesday filed its first civil rights suit against an entire industry, accusing the nation’s trucking firms and two major unions of hiring discrimination against blacks and persons with Span- ish surnames. A consent decree was filed moments later in U.S. district court in which the seven major defendants, without admitting discrimination, agreed to sub- stantially increase hiring of minorities. Attorney General William B. Saxbe also named 342 other freight carriers as ‘‘members of the defendant class,’’ and a department spokesman said he expected the consent decree with the major firms to set a pattern. Assistant Attorney General J. Stanley Pottinger said he expects a similar consent decree to be worked out shortly with the Teamsters Union and other unions named as defend- ants with regard to transfer and seniority practices. Pottinger said this was the first such suit challenging employ- ment practices of an entire industry, but indicated it would not be the last. He said his department was now in negotia- tions with the steel industry in a case to follow the same pattern. The principal defendants in the suit were: Arkansas-Best Freight System Inc., Fort Smith, Ark.; Branch Motor Express Co., New York City; Consolidated Freightways Inc., Menlo Park, Calif.; I.M.L. Freight Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah; The Mason and Dixon Lines Inc., Kingsport, Tenn. ; Pacific Intermountain Express Co., Oakland, Calif.; and Smith's Transfer Corp., Staun- ton, Va. Other unions named in addition to the Teamsters were Trucking Employers Inc., the Teamsters’ National Over-the- Road and City Cartage Policy and Negotiating Committee. Pottinger said the 342 truck- ing companies involved in the suit employ more than 225,000 workers, including more than 50,000 over-the-road drivers. He said the firms employed well over 90 per cent of the nation’s total truckers. The only firms not named, he said, were firms employing fewer than 100 persons and firms which had convinced the Justice Department they had not practiced discrimination. Pottinger said the hiring goal was one third minorities in areas where the minority working age population was less than 25 per cent.

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Eglin Sergeant Saves Girl From Drowning

A two-year-old Fort Walton Beach girl was revived by an Eglin Sergeant Wednesday who gave the toddler mouth to mouth resuscitation after she accidentally fell into a motel swimming pool. Catherine Crosswait, daughter of Sgt. and Mrs.Steven V. Crosswait, was pulled from the water by her mother Teresita. According to those at the scene of the incident, the child had no pulse whatsoever and showed no signs of life. Sgt. John E. Joyner, a resident of the motel, applied mouth to mouth resuscitation for severa! minutes before the child was revived. She was immediately transferred to Eglin Air Force Base Hospital where officials said that without the efforts of Sgt. Joyner the child would have died. Sgt. Joyner is attached at an engineering squadron at Eglin.

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Swedish-US Relations May Be Thawing

STOCKHOLM (UPI ) — A Swedish television news pro- gram said Wednesday Sweden and the United States have decided to bury the hatchet and bring diplomatic relations back to normal shortly. The Swedish Broadcasting Corporation (SR) news pro- gram ‘Rapport’ said without revealing sources that Presi- dent Nixon had decided to send a new ambassador to Stockholm where the job as chief of mission has been filled by the embassy’s number three man since 1972. ‘Names of the new ambassa- dors in Stockholm and Washing- ton have been exchanged. Only formalities remain,” Rapport eaid

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Numbers Drawn For Order of Draft

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The government held its sixth annual draft lottery Wednesday with Selective Service officials describing prospects for a 1974- 75 call-up as almost nonexis- tent. Should the draft be rein- stated, men born on Feb. 28, 1955, would be the first to be called. Those born Jan. 5 would be second on the priority list, followed in order by those born Feb. 16 and Sept. 24, to round out the first four places. John D. Dewhurst, opening the capsule-drawing ceremony, said there was ‘‘no intention on the part of the President or on the leaders of Congress ... to seek the restoration of induction authority.” Presidential authority to issue draft calls expired July 1, 1973. It has not been extended or reauthorized by Congress. With this in mind, and tne nation not engaged in armed conflict, Dewhurst said chances of resumed inductions were practically nonexistent. In contrast to the first lottery in 1969 when hundreds of young men roared with delight or dispair when their birthdates and priority numbers were drawn, Wednesday’s ceremony drew fewer than two dozen spectators, all well over draft age. Under the lottery procedure, pairs of numbers are drawn one at a time from two plastic cylinders.

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Shalimar Zoning Plans Delayed by Consultant

Shalimar’s proposed zoning plans were submitted to town council Wednesday, but approval was delayed following objections from a town planning consultant Tom Ulbrict, a planner employed by town planning consultants Milo Smith and Associates disagreed with several of the classification proposed by the board. Milo Smith and Associates, of Tampa, was retained by Shalimar last fall. Ulbricht, told the councilmen, “I highly recommend that you change the spot zoning that has been proposed. Instead of zoning these areas C-2, they should be classified as Planned Development Property, (PDP).” Ulbricht, who saw the plans for the first time Wednesday, felt that peculiar shape of the areas in question might cause ‘‘undue hardship’ for the developers if classified C-2. Maintained that a PDP classification will be better for the town and the developers. Councilman Lloyd Bennett told others on the council, “Unless I see these proposed changes in black and white, I'm not going to vote to approve it. It might not be intentional, but one wrong slip of the pen and we might adopt something that we don’t really want.” The council, in agreement with Bennett, decided to postpone adoption of the zoning with the new catagories until Milo Smith and Associates draws up a map denoting all property lines and zoning classifications. Ulbricht promised the map by early next week. After reviewing the map, the council will convene again to adopt final plans. Mayor Tom Mauldin regretted the delay and blamed it on a lack of communication between the council and the Tampa planners. “T really hate that this delay has come up but it couldn't be helped. I guess that we should have mailed the planners a copy of our plans several weeks ago.’’ Mauldin said.

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Identification Of Eglin Body Not Completed

Pathological tests are still being conducted to determine the positive identity of a badly- decomposed body, investigators reported Wednesday. The body was found a week ago in the area of Poquito Bayou on Eglin property. A youth discovered the body as he was riding over a trail through the area, officials said. - It was determined that the remains were those of a white male, but as yet investigators have not been able to determine the age, or cause of death. Dr. Edmund _ Kielman, regional medical examiner, is conducting the pathological tests in the case, investigators esia

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Chelco Forbidden to Pick up Gulf Power Customers

Choctawnatcnee Luecuric UO op Inc. (Chelco) can enter areas which now are served by Gulf Power, but not pick up Gulf Power customers, according to Prentice Pruitt, a member of the legal department in the Public Service Comission(PSC). Members of the county commission are expected to decide Thursday on whether they will grant local approval to Guif Power to cross Rocky Bayou with a service line or not. The request first was approved by the board time to study the matter following a protest by Chelco. Pruitt said the Tampa Electric case referred to by both Gulf Power and Chelco representatives last Tuesday while meeting with the county commission did not deal with the intrusion of an unregulated utility into a regulated utility's territory. Chelco representative James Hagen said Wednesday his firm had based statements concerning the ‘‘one-sided’’ situation on the case of Tampa Electric Company VS. Withlacoochee Co-op Inc. Pruitt said, ‘Actually what the case deals with is injuctions against the co-op serving Tampa's customers.” He added the co-op in the case used preferential rates to get customers from the regulated Tampa company and had also violated a Florida statute. “We have no jurisdiction to order cities or co-ops to serve or not,’’ said Pruitt. He also said co-ops often enter areas where regulated firms are located. The Public Service Commission, according to Pruitt, can approve agreements made between a regulated and an unregulated utility to establish territories for each. Sie altad Ginws aan Shanes aes + case in which a co-op and a private utility firm first reached an agreement and then the agreement was broken. Courts upheld the agreement as approved by the PSC at the state and federals levels. Paula Hawkins’ administrative assistant, Ken Mingledorff, Wednesday said that Gulf Power has submitted two increase requests with one to bring the company’s profits back up to a level which would produce the “allowable rate of return” the company can make under present laws. A decision by the PSC on that increase is scheduled to be made on Monday, but consideration of a second requested increase which was term a ‘general rate increase’ by Mingledorff will probably take about a month, he said. Pruitt said his own opinion is a decision as to which power company serves an area should be made by the local officials and not by a developer because the officials will be around long after the property has been developed and new projects begun. Chelco im the past has lost at least one court case which involved a dispute with Gulf Power. Service to Baker school was denied Cheleo under a Florida statute — which, according to Hagen, prohibits a co-op from serving anyone already adequately served by a regulated utility. Thursday's meeting will be held in the Ocean City County Annex Building and will also include a discussion on the possibility of setting up subdivision ‘‘classes’’ within the county. This would allow the lot sizes of subdivisions to be lowered in certain areas.

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Witness Heard Pistol Go Off INDEX

LONDON (UPI) — “I sudden- ly heard what I thought were toy pistol shots. And then a chap in front of my car in a taxi had got out and he was just in front of me. And he got shot.” Thus began Wednesday's dramatic attempt to kidnap Princess Anne, witnessed in its entirety by Sammy Scott, 25, a pretty young London woman. The man Miss Scott saw shot was presumably London news- paper reporter Brian McCon- nell, one of four persons wounded in the assault. After the man fell, Miss Scott said, she saw the royal limousine, forced to the curb by the gunman’s car minutes earlier. The door opened, she said, and ‘I saw a woman getting out in a pink dress and I suppose she was Princess Anne's lady in waiting. “She got out and she was crouching down on all fours and trying to come out and I went up to her and I said: ‘What's happening?’ And she said, ‘Get down. There’s a maniac loose, somebody is shooting.” Then she saw the royal couple crouched in the limousine, Miss Scott said. They were “completely on their own,”’ she said. ‘‘There was nobody else in the car at all and they were sort of huddled over to the other side. Miss Scott said she saw a gun lying on the pavement and “I went to pick it up and I said why isn’t anybody picking it up and I went to pick it up and somebody said, ‘Don’t touch it. There might be fingerprints on it.’ So I left it there. “Then a man fell down in front of me. He was shot in the stomach, I think. I bent down and put my hankie there to try and stop the blood, you know. It was all sort of coming out. “And then another man came along and | looked up and said, ‘This man has been shot. Can you get ambulance?’ And he opened his jacket and said, ‘Yes, I have, too.’ And there was blood all over him.”’ Then, she said, she saw the gunman—a man ‘“‘very tall and he seemed to be quite thin’— behind the limousine. “Princess Anne and Mark tried to get out of the car on the pavement (sidewalk) side. The gunman was on the other side of the car...shaking the door madly and firing. “And he saw that they were trying to get out of the other side.”’

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Good Morning! Today is Thursday, March 21, 1974 Gunman Ambushes Royal Car In Kidnap Try at Princess

LONDON (UPI) — A gunman with a kidnap note to Queen Elizabeth in his pocket am- bushed a royal limousine in which Princess Anne and her husband Capt. Mark Phillips were riding to Buckingham Palace Wednesday and fired six shots through its windows with an automatic pistol. The royal couple escaped injury. But four persons, including the chauffeur, Anne's personal bodyguard, a police- man and a newsman were wounded before a policeman brought down the gunman, described as a tall, thin Englishman, with a flying tackle. “It was an attempt to kidnap the princess,’ British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins told Parliament. “The attempt did not succeed and neither the princess or Capt. Phillips were OUP. It was the first assault on a member of the British royal family in 35 years. The ambush occurred on the broad Mall about 200 yards from Buckingham Palace at 8 p.m. (3 p.m. edt) as Anne and Mark were driving back to the palace after a private showing of a film about equestrian training —their favorite sport. Police said a white Ford forced the princess’ Rolls Royce limousine to the curb and the gunman jumped out and began firing. The wounded men were the chauffeur, identified only as Mr. Callender; Anne's body- guard, Inspector James Bea- ton; policeman Michael Hills; and Brian McConnell, a report- er for the Sun newspaper. Beaton, Callender and Hills were all hospitalized in serious condition. Sammy Scott, 25, a young London woman, was driving behind the royal limousine when the gunman’s car forced it to the curb.

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Security Net Tighter About Prince Charles

SPOR AFERAIY, VEIN. SUP i) Security was tightened Wednes- day around Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, following the attempted kidnaping of Princess Anne, authorities announced. The Prince, reported to be “shocked” at the attack on his sister in London, remained aboard the Royal Navy guided trigate HMS Jupiter, which is scheduled to sail Thursday from this Southern California port. A spokesman for the US. Navy said that so far as he knew there were no plans for Charles to leave the Jupiter, where he serves as communications officer, to return to London. The spokesman declined to comment on any security arrangement for Charles except to say “what we have is adequate.’’ Members of the public were being permitted to go aboard the frigate on courtesy visits during the day. A statement from the British consulate in San Diego was issued through the U.S. Navy.

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Wage Bill Approved By House

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Wednesday passed legis- lation to raise the nation’s minimum wage by stages to $2.30 an hour. The Senate has approved a similar bill. The administration favors a hike in the minimum hourly wage and enactment into law by May 1 is likely. The House voted 375 to 37 to approve the bill raising the minimum wage for most workers to $2 right away and raising it to $2.10 in 1975 and $2.30 in 1976. Rep. Albert H. Quie, R-Minn., said afterward, ‘We could have this bill on the President's desk so he could sign it by the end of March, and a new minimum wage could go into effect on May Ist.” The House-passed bill, which differs slightly from the Senate version, was sent to conference where the differences will be worked out. The major differ- ence is that the Senate bill raises the wage to $2.20 in 1975 instead of $2.10. The White House, which vetoed similar legislation last year and was upheld by the House, supported the bill, but asked the House to consider a youth differential so that teen- agers could work for less. Both the Senate and House rejected that. The bill's major provisions cover nonagricultural workers. Farm workers will receive hourly pay boosts to $1.60 immediately with .20-cent in- creases annually the next three years and a final minimum wage of $2.30 in 1978. There are overtime exemp- tions affecting workers in seasonal jobs, the hotel, motel and restaurant businesses and certain other occupations. In all, some 49 million workers in the United States are covered by minimum wage provisions.

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Sirica Asked to Withhold Tapes

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Lawyers representing President Nixon's two former closest aides petitioned the U.S. Appeals Court Wednesday to rule that the House Judiciary Committee cannot have a secret grand jury report on Nixon's handling of the Watergate scandal. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica had ruled Monday that it was “incredible’’ to argue that the secret report should ‘‘be unavailable to the House of Representatives in a proceeding of so great import as an impeachment investigation.” John J. Wilson, lawyer for H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, argued in his court briefs that giving the committee the report would lead to news leaks that would ‘‘trigger publicity which in turn will deprive them of a fair trial.”’ Haldeman, Nixon’s former chief of staff; Ehrlichman, former chief domestic affairs adviser; and five other close associates or campaign aides of the President were indicted March 1 for conspiracy in the Watergate cover-up. They all pleaded innocent. At the time of the indict- ments, the grand jury asked Sirica to turn over its secret report on Nixon to. the committee's impeachment investigation. Wilson said he filed for Haldeman alone because he believed that the grand jury report and its accompanying ‘bulging briefcase’ of material contained the tape or transcrip- tion of a crucial meeting Nixon held March 21, 1973 with former White House counsel John W. Dean III. It was at that meeting, Dean has testified under oath, that Nixon said it would be “no trouble’ to raise $1 million to buy the silence of the original Watergate defendants. Nixon has said he did say that—but that he added it would be “wrong”’ to do so. Haldeman has sworn that Nixon added the “‘wrong,”’ but the grand jury believed Dean, and indicted Haldeman for perjury. Wilson asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse Sirica’s decision; and the U.S. District Court to stay execution of the order giving the report to Judiciary until the appeals court rules. James D. St. Clair, Nixon’s chief Watergate lawyer, has told Sirica, ‘‘Whatever you decide to do with it is quite Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, seeking to block Wilson's appeal, filed a_ re- sponse in district court which said it was important ‘‘that the President—the focus of the grand jury's report and recom- mendation—has not opposed delivery and favors the earliest possible resolution of the impeachment inquiry.”’ Wilson savs the report is ‘wholly illegal and improper,’’ and predicted if it reaches Capitol Hill, reporters would immediately tap leaks to learn its contents. The Judiciary Committee has pledged to keep the report from news media. Ih his decision Monday, Sirica brushed off contentions the report would prevent fair trials for the Watergate defendants. “Their standing is dubious at best, given the already stated facts that (1), their mention in the report is incidental; (2), their trials will provide ample opportunity for response to such references, none of which go beyond allegations of the indictment, and (3), considera- tions of possible adverse publicity are both premature and speculative.”’

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The Storm Lake Area Christian Women’s Club will hold their first Men’s Night at the Albert City gym on Sat. March 30th at 7:00 p.m. This special night out for couples will include in its program music by the New Life Singers, a special feature, and a challenge by Paul Krause of the Minnesota Vikings. This smorgasbord svonrr necessitates tickets to be purchased in advance by March 23rd. For tickets in your area contact 272-4473 or 843-2269.

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Lowell Fales Receives Merit Award Member of YMCA gym team

Saturday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Hogrefe, Mr. and Mrs. Cart Erickson, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Duane Madson, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Garton and Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Fales attended the first annual District Recognition Banquet ‘for scout leaders held at Cobblestone Inn, Storm Lake. Lowell Fales received a Merit Award from the Council for his work in scouting.

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ON DEANS LIST

MLS SPAHR ARTS . Suzanne Loving, junior student at North Park College, Chicago, majoring in art is on the Deans List for the winter quarter receiving a grade point of 3.67.

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Prenatal Class

Plans and preparations are being made for prenatal classes for expectant parents. These will be held weekly beginning Tuesday, March 26 in the Pocahontas hospital classroom. Any interested expectant parents are welcome, and encouraged to attend. This course will be conducted by Etta Mae Peterson, Director of Nursing at the Pocahontas Community Hospital.

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With The Boys

SIVA SUR I Paul Henningson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Henningson is home on furlough before leaving for sea duty, having recently completed a special! course at Great Lakes Navy Training Center, in Engineman’s A School. He leaves the 24th from Des Moines for Italy where he is assigned to U.S. Howard Gilmore, a sub tender, off the Island Sardinia. He plans to be gone for one year. Mrs. Dick Aronson .is substitute teaching in the Pocahéntas public schools this week.

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Janet Erlandson will be honored at a community bridal shower at Fellowship Hall, Our Savior's Lutheran Church Saturday evening, March 28rd at 7:30. Friends and relatives are cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tylski, Danny and Barbara, Mrs. Hattie Biittner, Pocahontas were Friday evening guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bittner. Saturday evening guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Deacon and Kathy and Mrs. Gertrude Cratty of Laurens.

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Mayor Swenson Cuts Ribbon At Safe Well Open House Friday

Safe Well Manufacturing com- pany’s open house started off with a bang last Friday morning when the Albert City businessmen held a ribbon cutting ceremony at 9:15. Following the ceremony, the busi- nessmen toured the plant, and enjoyed coffee and doughnuts. More pictures will be found on the back page of the second section. The photographer had to shoot directly into the sun, so the above picture is nov all it should be. The identification was extremely diffi- cult, and where there is a blank we just couldn't figure it out. From left to right: George Yabsley, Donavon Harald, Oscar Clausen, Leone Buse, Lorna Fiors- berg, Terry Buse, Virgil Andersson, Keith Moe, Maynard Johns:on, Darlene Johnson, Steve Lofqiaist, Mavis Foster, Milton Soderquist, John Lange, Bob Russell, B.ruce

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FAC Fund Holds Annual Meeting March Il

The annual meeting of the FAC Fund Board was held Monday, March 11 at 8:00 p.m. at the Community Center. Five board members were present: Mrs. Ron Tirevold, Mrs. Merle Hogrefe, Mrs. Roger Olson, Mrs. Bruce Nehring, Mrs. John Hopkins. The president called the meeting to order. The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting. Election of officers was held with the following elected for 1974: President - Mrs. Roger Olson; Vice-president - Mrs. John Hopkins; secretary - Mrs. Lloyd Danielson. Mrs. Clyde Moore has accepted the position as FAC Fund Board Treasurer. In addition to the officers above, the following board members will serve for the coming year: Mrs. Jerome Kindwall, Mrs. Andy Anders, Mrs. Bruce Nehring. After refreshments, the meeting was adjourned. As a community, we wish to thank the retiring members of the Board, President Mrs. Ron Tirevold, and particularly Mrs. Merle Hogrefe, who has served as treasurer for the past five years.

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Install New Pastor At Evangelical Free Church

Sunday morning, Rev. Dale Anderson was installed as pastor of the Evangelical Free Church. Chairman Everett Nordine led the service and gave a welcome from the church to Rev. and Mrs. Anderson and daughter, Jorunn. The choir and Albert Nordine had special music for the service. Deacon Virgil Anderson read scripture and led in prayer. The message of the morning was brought by District Superintendent Ray Johnson from Des Moines. He also had charge of the installation of Rev. Anderson. The deacons, Karl Sundblad, Clarence Bloom, Albert Nordine, Virgil Anderson, and Chairman Everett Nordine were called upon for the Prayer of Installation. Rev. Anderson then gave a response to the installation and closed the service with prayer. A Fellowship dinner was enjoyed in the church basement following the morning service. The members and triends of the Evangelical Free Church are very happy to welcome Rev. and Mrs. Anderson and his family to Albert City and hope they will have a long and fruitful ministry here in Albert City

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Drawing is $275 tonight $10 Prize Went Out Last Thurs.

Morris Carlson was present last Thursday evening to win $10.00 at the weekly drawing sponsored by the Commercial Club. Duane Miller's name was drawn for $250.00, but was not present. Tonight the sums will be $10.00 and $275.00. Be in a participating store, by 8 o'clock. It could be you!

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Granberry Sees School Problems

EEE EEE Jim Granberry, former mayor of Lubbock and an orthodontist, admits that his campaign for the Republican nomination in the Texas governor's race hasn't done a whole lot for his dentistry business in Lubbock. “But I have an associate coming in about the first of June,” he said, ‘‘and this ought to help a lot.’’ And he couldn't keep from noting, to make certain everybody got the point, that this was a date well after the Republican primary and he expects to be busy by then campaigning in the general election. Granberry flew into Victoria Wednesday for a meeting with the Republican Women’s Club, a luncheon and an interview before heading back to Austin Granberry said, he’s not buying aay story that says that a Republican cannot be elected governor of Texas His only primary opponent is Odell McBrayer of Fort Worth. Henry Grover, the 1972 GOP gubernatorial candidate, bowed out of the race. Granberry says he was ‘‘surprised and disappointed” when Grover pulled out, having already figured he could beat him He figures that Grover’s dominance of the 1972 race was misleading. “Grover polled about 37 per cent of the 114,000 Republican votes cast,” he said, ‘‘with the remainder being split between five candidates. In the general election, he received the same 37,000 he got in the Republican primary, with Fay coming in second with 20,000. And that was all. The other 57,000 stayed home.” Granberrs agrees with Mrs Frances (Sissy) Farenthold of Houston, who again is a candidate for the Democratic governor's nomination, that public school financing is the No. 1 problem facing Texas today “About 30 per cent of the school districts in the state today simply don't have the money to meet today’s standards, and many ‘See GRANBERRY, Page i2A)

By BRUCE PATTON Advocate Staff Writer

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Trustees To Receive Insurance Proposal

Trustees of the Victoria Independent School District wil! hold their monthly board meeting at 1:15 p.m. Thursday in the VISD administration building, 1611 E. North. Among the new items on the agenda is a request of an oil lease on district's 10-acre lot near Callis Road. The board will also consider bids for band instruments, receive a proposal on Work- man’s Compensation Insurance, hear recommendations of local textbook committee and consider the purchase of a lot for the building trades program. The board is expected to make a decision on which radio stations will broadcast the high school football games next season Requests have been made by three local stations. Teachers and administrators for the 1974-75 school year will officially be elected by the board at this meeting.

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Cooperation Cited COG Gains Stressed

Advocate Staff Writer Representatives of various state and federal agencies in Victoria Wednesday for the annual ‘‘Pre-Application Conference” of the Golden Crescent Council of Govern- ments appeared to be well pleased with the ac- complishments of the regional planning agency And, representatives of the council board present indicated to the state and federal agency representatives that they are equally pleased with results attained by the council of governments since its inception in 1968. DeWitt County Judge George Trowell, former president of the regional planning agency, said he knows of no other council of governments where there is a greater feeling of cooperation among neigh- boring cities and counties to work on mutual problems and programs of benefit Victoria Mayor C. C. Carsner Jr, who presently heads the organization, said the council has been able to accomplish “what people a few years ago would have said was im- possible’ in regional planning and cooperation Yoakum Mayor H. 0. Gibson, also a former COG president, said that if the organization had accomplished nothing else, the spirit of cooperation that has resulted is ‘‘well worth the time and effort.” He said the organization has been most successful in eliminating distrust between neighboring (See GAINS. Page 124)

By HENRY WOLFF JR.

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Economy Outlook Optimism Voiced

Dr. Philip E. Coldwell, a Federal Reserve Bank officer more intimately conversant with the world monetary system than most persons are with their checking accounts, painted a re.atively optimistic economic prospectus for the United States here Wednesday evening in an address preceding a meeting of the Houston Branch federal reserve board here on Thursday. Dr. Coldwell, in a news conference following the dinner, said he sees no prospect of an economic collapse which would cause massive unemployment, and that the national financial system is much better equipped now — by ex- perience and regulatory tools — to deal with prospects of a major depression than it was in the Twenties and Thirties. He said he believes ‘‘we have seen the peak” of inflation, caused by ‘‘economic interruptions” in food and oil supplies which forced prices to un- natural levels, and ‘I expect to see the rate of inflation drop this year.” He said prospects for this are particularly good now that the oil embargo has been lifted by Arab oil producing nations. But both to his dinner audience and later in the news conference he defined the world economic Situation as highly unstable and dangerous. partly because of the absence of a formal world monetary system at present and partly because of increasing oil costs from foreign suppliers Dr. Coldwell said that the United States is in better position than most nations with regard to oil supply, because ‘we are capable of producing a high percentage of our own needs,”’ and added that the Arab states ‘‘actually may have done us a favor’’ in creating the current fuel shortage ‘It is hoped they have alerted us to the problem (of energy supply) before we were too greatly dependent’ on outside supplies, he said On a long range basis, however, he said it is still urgent for the nation to develop alternative energy supplies. “We should be utilizing our petroleum for its component parts, rather than burning it up,’ he said, adding that he believes the nation is fully capable of this “if we just put our money to ‘ Asked, “Will we?” Dr. Coldwell replied: ‘Well, we had the Manhattan (atomic bomb) (See BANKING, Page l2A)

By TOM E. FITE heconriatea k ditar

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Ch uckle

If people dressed the way their cars are designed, it would not be unusual to see the typical driver wearing three tie clasps, plaid shoes. two neckties and a winged helmt

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President Decorates Spacemen

OF PA Evie. Phase (AP) — President Nixon deco- rated America's record setting Skylab 3 crew Wednesday. in spected preparations for a joint United States Soviet space mis sion and said “a great people must always explore the un known After volunteering in jest for a 1980 space flight, Nixon told a crowd of about 5.000 on the lawn outside the Space Center “Always look to the unknown Go there, take any risk. make any sacrifice and doen't be dis couraged because sometimes you may fail ” Nixon then headed back to Washington, clearly bouyed by his two-day Texas trip The vis it to the Space Center and a na tionally televised question-and answer session with broad casters Tuesday night were part of his campaign to rebuild confidence in his Watergate shaken administration “It always gives you a lift to come to Texas.” Nixon told newsmen after his Space Cen ter speech. “There's a lot of drive, a lot of spirit. a can-do attitude and that’s what the country needs’ Nixon presented the National Aeronautics and Space Admin istration’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal, to Lt. Col. Gerald Carr. Col. Wil liam Pogue and Dr Edward Gibson. The astronauts com pleted a marathon #4-day Sky lab mission on Feb. 8. He also examined displays depicting work on the Apollo Soyuz project intended to put American and Russian men in space together in July 1975 Nixon later told the crowd of Space Center employes the joint venture is a key element in the search for “peace and prosperity in the world.” The two superpowers will continue to have ideological dif- ferences but “we can do so much together,” he said. Looking to the future for the whittled-down US. space pro gram, Nixon said “a great people must always explore the unknown” because “once a great people gives up, bugs out, drops out .. that people ceases to be great.” “There are other worlds out there — far out .. we must go because .. failure to try to find what is there means we've lost something in the spirit of a great nation,” Nixon said. He pledged continued cooper. ation with all nations in other forms of scientific research He singled out the search for ways to combat cancer, telling of a Jan. 12 telephone call to an 8-yearold Florida youth, Jim. my Sievert, who died of leu- kemia Feb. 3. Joint research could find a cure for cancer and save thou- sands upon thousands of lives, Nixon said. The President made no direct reference to the Watergate (See NIXON, Page i2A)

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Town Talk

L. ©. Campbell and R. D Leonard seeing each other for the first time in 53 years, and recalling their days as boyhood chums in Sharp, Tex Dr Jack Kahn hospitalized in Room 620 at Citizens Memoria! Hospital Martha Mitchell finding that her name gets a lot of attention around City Hall Ike Gerdes issuing reminders to all TPA members of the barbecue Sunday, with the mea! to be served at 12:30 p.m Robert Burr now being able to say he has left an imprint on something Judge Joe Bumgardner expressing his opinions on bureaucrats Danny Mayo getting his evening exercise on a two- wheeler A.W. Obsta and A. P. Garret killing a mighty rattlesnake out in the Wood Hi neighborhood

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Three Persons Injured In Attack on Princess

LONDON (AP) — A gunman pumped six bullets inte 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 kid 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 4 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 Il and her husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, were returning from a movie at about & pm Witnesses said a man jumped from the car and pumped six bullets into the black limousine wounding the bedyguard and chauffeur A nearby policeman who tried to intervene and a newspaperinian in 4 passing taxi alse were hit, officials said Their wounds were described as serious The roval couple was 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 whe got injured.” the princess was quoted as Saving 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 te wrest open the door of the Timousine After the man was arrested, Miss Scot! said she leaned inte the royal car and asked the (See KIDNPA, Page tia)

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Former Commissioner Pat Moore, 53, Dies

Howard A (Pat) Moore, former Victoria County commissioner and owner of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Store since 1969, died in a local doctor's office about 10 a.m Wednesday after becoming ill suddenly at his home He was 53 years of age Funeral services will be held at4pm. Thursday and County Judge Joseph B Bumgardner said the courthouse will be closed from 3 until 5 p.m Services will be held from Colonial Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Dr John Donaho, pastor of First United Methodist Church officiating Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery with Burrell Jones, Oneal Murray. Chick Vess, former County Judge Wayne Hartman, George Pickering Jr and C. F Thompson as pallbearers Honorary pallbearers will be Bill MeMahon. Garland Rather, Jack Sharp, Bill Thames, District Judge Frank H. Crain, KR. J. Greeson, M. § ‘Bully’ Greeson, Don Breech, Charies Tucker, District Clerk Alton Spoerl, Zac Lentz and Victoria Advocate Publisher Morris Roberts A native of Victoria. Moore had been in business in the county most of his life except for the 12 years he served as commissioner of Precinct 1. He was appointed to that post by then County Judge Frank H Crain in March, 1956, shortly after the death of his father, T A. Moore Sr. who had held the post for a decade Moore won a full term the following summer and con tinued to serve until 1968 when he lost a runoff election to the late Commissioner Joe Stubbs of Placedo A year later, in the fall of 198, he and his wife opened the Baskin Kobbins store which they continued to operate at the time of his unexpected death For 10 years prior te his appointment as commissioner Moore and his brother, T A Moore Jr. operated Krueger s Restaurant at 407 FE Kio Grande Bivd. Prior to that he had been employed by Southern Pacific Railway and the US Corps of Engineers Moore served three years in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War I He was born in Victoria Sept 19, 1920. and attended city schools. Moore was a member of First United Methodist Church and a past president of Victoria Park Improvement Association Survivors include his wife Mrs. Martha Karcher Moore. his mother, Mrs. Mary Ethel Morgan Moore of Victoria. a daughter, Janis Ann Moore of Victoria, a son, Patrick Michael Moore of San Antonio, a brother, T. A Moore Jr of Victoria. and five sisters, Mrs B. L. Crockett, Mra. J E Bryant, Mrs. Jesse Sitterle and Mrs W M Brewer of Victoria and Mrs M. T. Lasserre of Houston