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Oailn 83rd Year No. 300 Phone 793-3221 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15,1972 $2.10 Per Month 14 Pages 10 Cents Legislators Military gets 6.69 pet. boost shop for TEARS OF WAR Standing in the wreckage of her home, a little girl weeps today after Communist gunners fired 16 huge Soviet-made rockets into the airbase at Bien Hoa, Vietnam. Most of the 100-pound missiles hit civilian residential areas surrounding the base, 14 miles northeast of Saigon. At least six South Vietnamese were killed.

(UPI Telephoto.) Meets with top officials Kissinger to make public statement on negotiations WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon met for two hours today with Henry A. Kissinger, his chief Vietnam negotiator, to discuss outlook for a Vietnam cease-fire. It was the fourth meeting between Nixon and Kissinger since Kissinger's return Wednesday night from Paris. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler refused to discuss the status of the negotiations in any way, but said he expected Kissinger to provide soon publicly the broad outlines of efforts to reach an agreement.

Asked whether Nixon would send an envoy to Saigon for talks with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, Ziegler said he had no information to provide on such a mission. Thieu has issued strong objections to some aspects of the proposed plan. In addition to his meetings with the President, Kissinger met with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Adm. Thomas Moorer, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Melvin R.

Laird. Ziegler said Kissinger also would meet with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and CIA director Richard Helms. Ziegler said the meetings were related to the Paris negotiations but declined to say whether this indicated that President Nixon had made any decision regarding the negotiations. On Thursday, the White House publicly rejected Thieu's formula for a Christmas ceasefire and said the administration was associated only with the agreement Kissinger is attempting to negotiate.

PARIS (UPI) Vietnam's chief peace negotiator left Paris for home today expressing optimism about a settlement ending the Vietnam war. As he left Orly airport, Le Due Tho told newsmen in reply to a question on how he felt Wine, beer commercials next SACRAMENTO (UPI) Ronald Reagan has warned California businessmen to be on guard against a group "starting the drumrolls" to ban wine commercials on television. In a speech Thursday to the Sacramento Rotary Club, Reagan criticized the ban of TV cigarette advertising nearly two years ago by the federal government. The governor said there is a "need now for businessmen to start fighting back" against the government, and used the cigarette advertising ban as an example. "No one offered any protest," he said.

"The business people didn't rise up. Not even the business itself. "If they can do this to one, which product is next?" Reagan asked, adding: "The funny thing, there's a group of people in America right today who have decided what the next product will be. And it happens to be one of California's great exports. They are starting the drumrolls of the propaganda to have this, too, banned from advertising on television." Reagan didnot identify the product in his speech, but later told newsmen it was wine.

He said he based his comments on "informal conversations he had" at the National Association of Manufacturers last week in New York. The governor said he was told that a group was planning to "make advertising of wine and beer the next about prospects for peace: "I am always optimistic." Other Communist delegates played down Tho's expression of optimism, indicating it was not directed toward peace prospects. Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet Cong foreign minister, said: "I questioned Mr. Tho on the sense of his declaration. He is optimistic about the future of the country and the result of our battle." Hanoi delegation spokesman Nguyen Thanh Le said Tho's optimism was not a reflection on the result of the latest round of private peace talks with U.S.

officials. "This term applies to the struggle of the Vietnamese people against American aggression for independence and freedom of Vietnam," Le said. 'The Vietnamese people always display revolutionary optimism." Well informed diplomatic sources said Tran Kim Phuong, the South Vietnamese ambassador to Washington who has been in Paris closely following the secret talks, flew to Saigon Thursday night to report to his government. Phuong is a member of the top- level Saigon peace delegation, which has been kept informed of progress at the talks but has not participated in them. Tho said he would report to the Hanoi government on his 10 days of talks with chief U.S.

negotiator Henry A. Kissinger, who returned to Washington earlier. "During my stay in Hanoi," Tho said, "I will maintain contact with Mr. Kissinger. "Mr.

Kissinger and I have agreed to make no comment on the private talks and I therefore have nothing to add to this statement." When asked if he would definitely return to Paris, Tho only smiled. Behind him, he left "technical" aides to confer sometime later today with 8American counterparts left behind by Kissinger when he flew back to Washington. Truman spends restless night KANSAS CITY, Mo, (UPI) Former President Harry Truman, suffering a weakened heart, congested right lung and blocked kidneys, spent a restless night. Doctors said today they were more concerned with his kidney ailment than his heart. "Kidney output continues to decrease in spite of medication," Research Hospital spokesman John Dreves said at a morning briefing.

"He slept only in short intervals," Dreves said. "Dr. Wallace Graham continues to describe the former president as Very serious'." The 88-year-old Truman's condition deteriorated to "very serious" Thursday. new cars SACRAMENTO (UPI) State legislators have a special item on their Christmas shopping lists new car for themselves. The lawmakers, who get new state-leased cars every two years, are in the process of choosing their 1973 sedans.

Their selections two years ago showed they favor Cadillacs and Lincoln Continentals. The Assembly Rules Committee made shopping somewhat easier for assemblymen by recently increasing from $200 to $225 per month for lower house members the amount the state furnishes for the cost of leasing. Under a contract the committee quietly signed Oct. 31 with the Hertz Corp. of New York City, an air conditioned Cadillac coupe DeVille, for instance, would cost $234 a month to lease in 1973-74.

The arrangement provides that an assemblyman pay 10 per cent the lease cost, or everything over $225, whichever is greater. For the coupe DeVille, the sedan would cost the lawmaker $23.40 a month. The arrangement varies slightly in the Senate where members get $220 per month toward the lease cost and pay out of their pockets anything over that amount for the car they choose. In both houses, gasoline and oil are paid for the lawmaker through credit card billing. Maintenance and repairs, lubrication, antifreeze and towing are paid by Hertz.

Research by the student group Project Loophole last year found a dozen 1971 Continentals and Cadillacs leased to senators and 16 more driven by assemblymen. Buicks and Chryslers were among the next popular choices. A Rules Committee source reported that Assemblyman Frank Lanterman, R-La Canada, appears to be the only legislator who turns down the leased car benefit, preferring only a General Services Department motor pool car when he needs it in his district. Jewish couple separates JERUSALEM (UPI) -The marriage of the Cincinnati Jewish girl who won a long battle earlier this year for her husband's release from the Soviet Union is apparently is on the rocks, Jewish agency officials said today. Weather Temperatures today to 1 p.m.

Redlands: High 63, low 27 Yucaipa: High 62, low 32 Redlands Humidity: 32 pet. Yearago today Redlands: High 55, low 30 Yucaipa: High 48, low 28 Thursday Redlands: High 62, low 27 Yucaipa: High 58, low 28 Smog: None Saturday, Sunday or Monday. Thursday Ox CO N02 Redlands .02 20 .04 Over .10, 0 Peak 3 p.m. San Bernardino .02 10 .10 Riverside .02 7 .05 Sun: Rises 6:48, sets 4:41. Frost: Lowest tonight 28.

San Bernardino Valley: Variable high clouds through Saturday. Slightly warmer days. Southern California: Variable high.clouds through Saturday with mostly sunny and slightly warmer days. NATIONAL WEATH ER Temperatures and precipitation for the 24 hour period ending at 4 a.m. High Low Pep Atlanta 61 SO 2.49 Bismarck 18 -5 Chicago 30 28 .02 Cincinnati 31 30 .01 Dallas 39 32 .24 Denver 36 -1 Des Moines 11 0 Fairbanks 02 -30 .01 Helena 26 -8 Honolulu 78 67 Kansas City 24 12 Las Vegas 45 25 Los Angeles 66 44 Milwaukee 20 10 Minneapolis 7 -3 New York 46 35 Oklahoma City 29 22 .04 Omaha 19 -3 Sacramento 29 29 St.

Louis 27 24 .01 Salt Lake City 16 -15 San Francisco 41 36 Seattle 39 29 Thermal 64 24 Washington 44 39 Nixon orders pay hike for gov't, workers WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon today ordered a 5.14 per cent pay increase for 1,316,000 civilian government workers and a 6.69 per cent salary boost for all 2.4 million members of the armed services! The increases will become effective the first pay period after Jan. 1, the White House said. The civilian pay raise had been postponed from last October as an anti-inflation move. The military increase is new. The across-the-board increases were ordered by Nixon on the basis of recommendations by Budget Director Caspar Weinberger and the chairman of the Civil Service Commission to promote compa- Record haul of rocks rability with private industry salary rates.

The President at the same time turned down a recommendation of an additional pay increase of 0.36 per cent to make up for the three-month delay in pay adjustments, holding that this "would be neither fair nor justifiable." He said that such an increase would result in paying federal employes higher salaries than the comparable workers in private enterprise are receiving. The increases are across the board and amounted to a cost of living hike. In a message to Congress, Nixon said that "the American system of career civil service is based on the principle of rewarding merit." He added, "I am pledged to continue striving to make it an even more effective, responsive part of our government. One way of achieving this is to maintain a salary scale for civil servants that is just and comparable to that received by equivalent individuals in the private sector." On Monday, Nixon's chief economic spokesman, George P. Shultz, announced a freeze during the 1973 calendar year on salaries of "executive level" federal employes, including members of Congress and the judiciary.

But Shultz made it clear at that time that the delayed federal pay hike for the lower categories would go forward. Apollo team prepares for trip home SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) last Apollo astronauts gave the moon a parting blow in the name of science today, then settled down for what may be man's final two days in lunar orbit this century. After Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt rejoined Ronald E.

Evans in the Apollo 17 command ship America with a prize haul of lunar samples, they cut loose the spacecraft Challenger and sent it crashing into the moon. The silver and black lunar module, the last ship built to land men on another planet, hit within 10 miles of the Taurus- Littrow valley where Cernan and Schmitt lived for 75 hours. But a television camera they left behind failed to spot the impact. "It seems like an unfitting finish to a super bird," said Cernan. The astronauts will remain in-orbit around the moon until 6:33 p.m.

EST Saturday when they fire the main engine aboard America to break the grasp of lunar gravity and cruise back to Earth. The extra orbital time will give America's cameras and other sensors time to add to the scientific bonanza produced by Apollo 17. Evans will take the spotlight Sunday afternoon when he walks in space 200,000 miles from Earth. He will retrieve film cassettes from two telescopic mapping cameras and a radar subsurface sounding instrument aboard America. Apollo 17 is scheduled to splash down in the South Pacific Tuesday to formally end The astronauts are scheduled to transmit television from the command module Saturday from 3:46 to 4:18 p.m., PST.

The telecast starts 15 minutes after the spacecraft has left lunar orbit to begin the return to earth. Views of the receding Moon are planned. the $25 billion project that landed 12 Americans on the moon. The United States has no plans to return. The lunar module crash, equal to the explosion of 200 pounds of TNT, sent.

vibrations ringing like a bell through the thick lunar crust. By studying the seismic waves that were recorded by four small seismometers left behind by Cernan and Schmitt, scientists will be able to learn more about the moon's insides. "Fantastic," said Dr. David Strangway, chief geophysicist at the Manned Spacecraft Center, as instruments recorded the vibrations as a series of "It's four more data points to add to the big picture of the moon's interior." Cernan and Schmitt also left eight explosive charges behind during their excursions across the lunar valley. Three mines are scheduled to explode tonight to create more artificial moonquakes for scientists.

The television camera that looked in vain for Challenger's crash will be trained on the charges tonight. Although the camera didn't show the crash, Evans, looking down from orbit, said he sighted a small bright spot on top of a mountain overlooking the valley and he said he didn't remember seeing it before. More study was planned to see if he spotted the crater gouged out by the collision. Cernan and Schmitt rocketed away from their dusty base on the moon at 5:55 p.m. Thursday and flew with clocklike precision to a rendezvous and linkup with Evans aboard America two hours later.

The two surface explorers transferred their dust-covered load of 249.3 pounds of moon rock and soil, plus 2,120 frames of moon pictures, to America before Challenger was jettisoned. Their treasure was 41 pounds heavier than the record set by Apollo 16 and will give scientists a total of 832 pounds of the moon to study. The sample transfer operation was dirty and the astronauts used a vacuum cleaner in an effort to clean up the worst of the coal-black moon dust. Scientists the samples stored in every nook and cranny of America contain the oldest and youngest rocks seen on the moon. And the prize of the store is orange soil apparently representing rust-stained minerals from the rim of an extinct volcano.

If the theories are correct, the Apollo 17 samples should help scientists write the opening and closing chapters to the complicated story of lunar evolution. B52s drop $14-million worth 1400 tons of bombs SAIGON (UPI) A record number of B52 bombers hit targets in North Vietnam and jet fighter-bombers flew their heaviest raids in more than a month in South Vietnam, military spokesmen said today. About 50 B52s flying in waves of an average three planes each dumped more than 1,400 tons of bombs on lower North Vietnam in the 24 hours ending at noon today, military sources said. The 16 raids against the North by the big jets were the most ever recorded in the Indochina war. The U.S.

command ordered the heavy one-day fighter- bomber strikes in South Vietnam apparently because it was apprehensive of a North Vietnamese and Viet Cong military threat.The 324 strikes here were the highest since the 352 reported on Nov. 9, spokesmen said. Spokesmen listed the B52 targets as "enenfy supply caches" but other sources said the raids just above the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Vietnams were aimed at Communist troops and war materiel on the move toward South In the Saigon area, Communist shelling and terror attacks were on the increase. To help counter the threat, spokesmen said today, the U.S. Navy has moved the aircraft carrier Ranger from its normal station near the DMZ and ordered it 300 miles south off the coast east of the capital.

'WHAT I REALLY Trench Connection' heroin stolen from N.Y. police NEW YORK (UPI) -The heroin seized in the famous "French Connection" case 10 years million worth of been stolen from the New York City police headquarters. Admitting he doesn't know when, where or exactly how it happened, Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy said Thursday he is determined to find out who took the 57 pounds of heroin. "Everybody involved in this case, whether still in the police department or out of the department or persons who were never in the police department" will be questioned, he said. Among them will be former detective Eddie Egan, now retired from the department and working in California as a movie consultant, Murphy said.

Robin Moore wrote the best- selling novel "The French Connection" based on Egan's work in the case. In the movie version, actor Gene Hackman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Egan as the tough- talking cop "Popeye Doyle" and the movie won the Oscar as the best picture of the year. Egan himself played a minor role in the movie. He retired earlier this year amid charges he disregarded standard police procedures and failed to turn in some of the evidence- including gathered in drug cases. No allegation has ever been made, however, that Egan engaged in any illegal narcotics dealings, and Egan has said he was simply avoiding red tape which reduced his effectiveness as a policeman.

The stolen heroin was part of a 73-pound shipment seized in a police raid Feb. 25,1962. It was smuggled into the United States from France packed in secret panels of an automobile. It was half of all the heroin confiscated by the department in 1962 and had been held in a vault in the property clerk's office at police headquarters. The theft was discovered during an audit last Murphy said the theft occurred sometime before 1970 when a property clerk gave the heroin to someone claiming to be a detective.

The man said he was picking it up for the district attorney's office in connection with a prosecution. Part of the heroin later was replaced with a white powder. The signature of the man turned out to be ficticious, and the badge number he gave has never been issued to "any member in the Murphy said. The seized heroin was never burned, as is the usual procedure, because some of the cases resulting from the seizure were still open, he said. During the last 10 years, the heroin had been moved from one office to another, including a Senate hearing in Washington, nine times.

"The lack of evidence could be a factor in further could hurt," Murphy said. Three cases stemming from the seizure still are open. Joan Baez in Laos VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI) Folk singer Joan Baez arrived in Laos en route to Hanoi today and said she hopes to get a chance to sing for American prisoners of war in the North Vietnamese capital. Miss Baez, with guitar in hand, was accompanied by three other antiwar activists including Columbia University law professor Telford Taylor, a U.S. prosecutor at the Nuernberg war crimes trials after World War II.

The group is carrying 500 letters from relatives and loved ones to U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam and plans to bring mail from the POWs back when the four return next week. Miss Baez spoke only briefly with newsmen when she arrived at Vientiane's Wattay airport. PI AM rs Highest, lowest states Naples, 89; Milford, Utah, -22. HE'D LIKE FUN TO 60 HOME FOR BuT HOW CAN toll 60 HOME FOR CHRISTMAS UHEN40UR HOME HAS BEEN REPLACEP A SIX-STORf PARKIN6 6AKA6E?.