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WKATHKK TOIUY Tartly Cloudv, Warmer nm Indian apo High, 40; Low, 211 Yesterday wgn, 3Q; Low, 21 "Where the tftirit of the Lord in, then- in Llhvrty" Cor. VOL. G8, NO. 293 A THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1971 10c MOTOR DEUVIMO 70c ft WK. Nixon Expected At '500, Circle Track Star il.S May Elaborate plans are under way Tor the appearance of President Richard M.

Nixon at this year's 500-Mile Race, including the pos irTT, 1 1 I 4 Peterson said he knew nothing of the President's expected visit, but admitted: "We're taking most of our orders about the parade from the mayor's office because of the NATO delegates being here." Peterson expressed hope the President would bring his bubble-top limousine to Indianapolis. "If he does, we'll let him lead the show," Peterson said. IT HAS BEEN suggested to Speedway officials that the traditional start of the race be altered. Speedway president Anton (Tony) Hulman would intone, "Gentleman, the President of the United States," at which time, President Nixon would proclaim the traditional, "Gentlemen, Start Your Engines." With the anticipated presidential visit, Festival officals are hopeful of securing New York Governor Nelson the President desires not only to attend the race, but will want a tour of the track prior to the spectacle. United States Service agents, who already have been here to inspect facilities at the track, are expected to return soon to formulate a detailed plan for providing security.

Informed sources say Hulman's fifth-floor observation lounge in the track control tower will be installed with bullet-proof glass to afford the President a secure and choice spot to witness the classic. DUE TO THE NATO conference, it is expected that there will be less emphasis on television and movie celebrities and that prestigious officials from around the world will be featured in the parade and also on the pre-race tour of the track. The Speedway badge this year is due to be the NATO emblem. sibility that he will tour the track before the race in his bubble-top lim-o 1 it was learned r-day. Detailed arrangements for President's May 28 address before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Conference on Urban President Nixon Affairs and elaborate security measures for his presence at that night's "500-Feslival Parade and at the May 29 race are being formulated.

"500" FESTIVAL president Clyde L. 5. H6 Scrubs Nixon Terms Defeat Monaco First Family A 'Severe Blow' To Workers And Industry Washington (UPI) The Senate ordered an end to Federal financing of America's supersonic transport plane (SST), by a 51-46 vote yesterday. President Nixon denounced the move, and government experts said the project appeared doomed. L-J- I 14' 1 fc-.

A i -f USED HERE AGAIN Indianapolis Visit Feb. 5, 1970 Peterson said he knew nothing of the plan. SPEEDWAY officials coul'd not be reached for comment, but it was learned ote 3 SST Styles A model of one of the two United States prototypes of the supersonic transport plane under construction by the Boeing Company is shown at top. Long before Congress turned down the SST with the Senate vote yesterday, two model SSTs were in the midst of test flights, the French-British Concorde (center picture) and the Russian TU-144 (bottom). (UPI Tele-photo) Inside The Slar News Summary On Page 2 Amusements 26 Billy Graham 10 Bridge 28 Comics 50 Crossword 28 Editorials 36 Financial 62-65 Food 46 Sports 52-57 TV-Radio Pages 19, 30, 31 Uncle Ray 40 Weather 25 Women 12-15 Star Telephone Numbers Main Office 633-1240 Circulation 633-9211 Want Ads 633-1212 Scores After 4:30 p.m.

633-1200 The Star's Zip Code 46206 Star Stale Itcport Page 10, 23 27 Hf'i Jf" e.Sjjrwam VlJEWMi3 Mr ft jmtm yixmt" Jia 2 'J' 4, I'! R'r i i NIXON RACE VANTAGE POINT Hulman Lounge Is Second From Top nn 'Ghost' Purge Vow Made By Whitcomb Governor Edgar D. Whitcomb yesterday vowed his administration will purge the Bureau of Motor Vehicles of all non-working "ghost" employes. In an interview, Whitcomb said "We're going to clean this thing up and we're not going to tolerate the kind of thing that has been disclosed this past week." WHITCOMB WAS referring to reports in The Indianapolis Star naming six "ghost" employes in the bureau, as well as to statements -by State Police Superintendent Robert K. Konkle that his agency is investigating 14 additional suspected "ghosts." Whitcomb last Friday announced he had fired five bureau "ghosts" and had ordered state police to investigate the bureau. The State Board of Accounts should be finished with its audit of the bureau's special sales division "in a week to 10 days," the Governor said.

THE SPECIAL SALES audit has been underway for several weeks, Whitcomb said. (The special sales division, in the State Office Building, issues driver's licenses, handles title transactions and sells special license plates for amateur radio operators, antique cars and the like.) After the accounts board completes Turn to Page 18, Column 3 Todmfti Prayer Help me, God, not lo put off task or delay a decision until tomorrow that I should do or make today. May I live this day in such a way that if Your call for me should sound, at morning, noontime, or evening, it may find me readv. Amen. The Weather Joe Crow Says.

Now that this is the first part of Spring, when can we expect the first Spring (lav? Indiana Increasing cloudiness and a little warmer today. Snow likely tonight north and ram mixed with snow central. Windy and warmer tomorrow with rain likely. Lows tomorrow 26 30 north and low 30s south. Highs tomor.

row low 40s north and lower 50s south. Indianapolis Increasing cloudiness and a little warmer today. likely tonight and warmer. Rain likely tomorrow, windy and warmer. Low tomorrow low 30s.

High tomorrow 49. D1HT DUST COUNT 62 micrograms of dust per cubic meter of Ir. BUBBLE-TOP CAR MAY BE Picture Taken At President's Last A. Rockefeller, California Governor Ronald Reagan and Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes as tri-marshals for the parade, it was learned.

LanskyHit By Federal Indictment Miami (AP) Meyer Lansky, reputed financial wizard of the underworld, was indicted yesterday by a Federal grand jury on a charge of contempt for refusing to testify about the operations of a Las Vegas casino. Bond on the one-count indictment, which was announced at Washington by Attorney General John Mitchell, was set at $200,000, the Justice Department said. LANSKY WAS indicted after he failed to appear at Miami Beach March 10-11 in answer to a subpena that re quired him to testify about alleged profit-skimming in gambling receipts at the Flamingo Hotel at Las Vegas. Lansky and his wife have been living in the Dan Hotel at Tel Aviv, Israel, since last summer. The Justice Department said Lansky "had been identified in the grand jury investigation as a participant in a scheme to conceal and distribute untaxed casino income from the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, from 1960 to 1967." DOUGALD McMillan, a Justice Department investigator at Miami, said Lansky had turned down a $974 round-trip coach air fare from Israel to Miami to testify before the grand jury.

"The American Embassy in Israel served the subpena March 4," said McMillan, chief of the Miami Strike Force, a Justice Department arm which investigates organized crime. "On March 9, his attorney appeared in court Turn to Page 9, Column 2 Leaving Keys In Car Could Mean Big Fine STAR STATE REPORT Evansville, Ind. An Evansville man whose car has been stolen was arrested for leaving the ignition open. Evansville police said they arrested Jerry Wilbert Fink, 23, on a charge of violating a 1939 state law which makes it illegal to leave keys in the ignition or the ignition open in unattended cars. The car was stolen on Monday and recovered late Tuesday.

Fink, who is to appear in city court next week, could be fined as much as $500. day of April to the last Sunday of October. Stale legislatures may exempt their states, but they must decree slow time for the whole stale not just part. THIS MEANS that every summer six Indiana counties in the central time zone are out of phase with Chicago, while six others are out of harmony wilh neighboring Kentucky and Illinois. Representative Ray J.

Madden (D-Ind.) told a little story to illustrate the anomaly. It was about a man who inquired when a bus would be leaving one Indiana town for another just 3U miles away. "At 8:45," said the ticket seller. "When's it get there?" "Eight o'clock," was the answer. "Want a ticket?" "No, I just want to hang around and watch II take off." HARTKE HAD a story to tell, him After 15 years of marriage and three children, Princess Grace of Monaco, now 41, still retains her noted beauty.

She's shown in a 1971 photo with other members of the ruling family of the small GOP Senators Gamble All On 'Super-Tax' principality. In left photo are Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. In" right photo are their children: Princess Caroline (seated), 14, Prince Albert, 12, and Princess Stephanie, 6. (UPI Telephotos) fails he believes no new taxes will pass and the Governor will have to live within present revenues. Comments by Gutman and Minority Leader David Rogers (D-Bloomington) indicated the local option income (payroll) tax on individuals contained in the "super-tax" bill may become a crucial sticking point.

ROGERS SAID Democrats show no support for the local option feature, while Gutman stated that local option Turn to Page 18, Column 1 To Senator Henry M. Jackson's (D-Wash.) cry that "the know-nothings are taking over," the Senate upheld the House decision last week to deny the $134 million Mr. Nixon had requested to keep the controversial SST development program alive for the last three months of the current fiscal year, ending June 30. The one-two punch delivered by Congress in the last week thus means that after spending $364 million toward construction and test flights of two SST prototypes, the government will run out of money for the plane next Tuesday. TWO HOURS AFTER the tense Senate roll call vote, the President issued a brief statement saying the project cancellation "represents a severe blow not only to the tens of thousands of workers affected and to their families, but also to the United States' continued leadership position in the aerospace-industry." Both Jackson and Senator Warren G.

Magnuson, Democrats from Washington State where the Boeing Company is building the SST prototypes, were grim and silent when Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew read the results of the showdown vote before a hushed, crowded chamber. THE DEFEAT of the program was a stunning rebuff for industry, the powerful AFL-CIO and for President Nixon personally. All had lobbied intensively in behalf of the craft as a boon to the sluggish economy and a means of preserving American predominance in world-wide commercial aviation. While Mr.

Nixon called the vote "a setback" in general terms, other government experts were plainly pessimistic. "Unless a workable alternative financing plan is presented and I have heard of none at this time we appear to have no alternative but to disband the team of experts which have been carrying on the program and shut down Turn to Page 9. Column I wasn't as concerned about Indiana's wacky time problem as he was about the sunrise in his own state. He said that Daylight Savings Time in April, May, September and October made little kids go to school and come home again in the dark. Furthermore, he said, in June and September they had to go to bed in daylight and tbeir grades suffered from too much outdoor activity.

Senator Cook exhibited a master's thesis written by a coed at the University of Utah showing that mothers in Salt Lake City are all against Daylight Savings Time. It lets the kids stay up too long and get in more fights than otherwise, he said. J. Thomas Tidd, acting general counsel of the Department of Transportation, said Utah was ail in one time zone and could legislate itself out of Turn to Pago 18, Column i IIOOSIKKS COMPLAIN TO SENATE C.WOX 12 Counties Want To Shoot Cuckoo In Clock By PAUL M. DOHERTY Republican leaders in the Indiana Senate will put all their chips on the "super-tax" bill with a second reading effort today, and will need Democratic votes to pass it, they confirmed yesterday.

Informed sources reported 18 votes from among the 29 GOP members are likely to be the most obtained. Votes of eight Democrats would be needed to pass the plan if the figure is correct. The General Assembly reconvenes this morning after a five-day recess. Shortly after President Pro Tempore Phillip E. Gutman (R-Fort Wayne) announced the action plan agreed to in caucus, two Democratic senators went into his office with Gutman and other GOP majority leaders.

THE SUBJECT was taxes, Senator Robert E. Mahowald (D-South Bend) confirmed. With him was Senator James M. I'laskett (D-New Washington), who is a senior member of the Finance Committee. The meeting lasted less than an hour.

Plaskett said afterward he told the GOP leaders there are no Democratic voles on the big tax bill as it now stands. Asked whether Republicans would provide enough votes wilh Democrats to knock out the local option payroll tax, Plaskett said the GOP leaders do not know how many votes they have except that they have IB for the bill as it stands. Gutman staled that if "super-tax" TODAY'S CIIICKLK Some doctors believe In shock treat-ments-thry're mailed out the first of every month. self. He recalled when he was mayor of Evansville in 195ti, he Solomon-like decided to settle the argument over fast and slow time by having a referendum.

"The vote was very close," he said, "and we abided by the results and went on Daylight Savings Time. But that made everybody mad who voted the other way, and to tell the truth we didn't make anybody happy." Senator Mark Hatfield til Ore.) said he was also a little bit shy about time bills. "I promised myself 1 would never get involved again in another time issue," he said. "In Oregon we went one slop further and had local option. Every town was on a different kind of time, and the confusion was incredible.

And, of course, since I was the governor, everybody blamed me." SENATOR MARLOW COOK tRKy.) Ry CEN COLE The Star's Washington Bureau Washington A Senate commerce subcommittee had time on its hands yesterday with a parade of Indiana witnesses complaining the clocks in 12 Hoosier counties would be cuckoo all summer. Senator Vance Hartke (D-Ind.) presided over the hearing on bills to allow Indiana to have 80 counties on Eastern Standard Time and the other 12 on Central Daylight Savings Time every summer. The legislature has already prepared the way if Congress acts In time. Indiana, peculiarly, is the only state facing a chaos of clocks although 12 states are split by time zones. Hartke noted at the opening that tho uniform lime law puts the whole nation on '-'advanced time" from the last Sun.