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SUPPORT YOUR UNITED FUND wlm OMmal 186th Year, No. 58 Saturday Evening, Oct. 10, 1970 16 Pages 15 Cents WEATHER Clear today, poitibl ihoweri Sunday. Med' erate temperature both day. (Further informa tion on back page.) jr'PneM, fan QUESTION: We are so concerned with pollution these days both air and water.

I was wondering where I could find out about washing machine detergents and the phosphate content in each one. Some of the chain stores have a listing posted abovetheTletergents, but you buy 'from department stores; like Sears? ANSWER: Earth Recovery Action, an anti pollution group in the Poughkeepsie area, has a list of phosphate ingredients in detergents, including that packaged by Sears which, by the way, has no phosphate content at all. The list may be obtained by calling Mrs. Harriet James, program chairman at ERA, at 635 3968. Soviets Deny Manning Missiles; U.S.

Charges Buildup In Mideast QUESTION: Will the dock at the end of Main Street in Poughkeepsie ever be rebuilt so that the Day Liner and other cruise ships can dock for tours? ANSWER: It hardly seems likely. The Day Line discontinued stops at Poughkeepsie in 1963 after it was determined by the company that cost of repairs to the dock would be prohibitive. The property has since been acquired by the city as part of Riverfront Park. News In Brief By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Soviet Union has dismissed as "sheer fabrication" a U.S. charge that it is helping build and man missile sites on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal cease fire zone.

The rebuttal Friday came a few hours after U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers made the accusation in Washington and charged with using "strident" cold war rhetoric. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said the "so called violations blamed on the Soviet Union such as the appearance of ground to air missile sites manned by Soviet personnel in the Suez Canal area are a sheer fabrication." It said there is an "anti Soviet campaign of slander in the American press," instigated by Washington, "which says that the Soviet Union has allegedly icommitmentsU involved in the cease fire in the Suez Canal area." "There are not any grounds for accusing the Soviet Union of violating the terms of agreement," Tass said, "because, as it is known, the Soviet Union took no part' in drafting any cease fire terms and is not a party to any such agreements." The United States initiated the Mideast peace' plan that produced a 90 day cease fire beginning Aug. 7 between Israel, Jordan and Egypt. Indirect peace talks at the United Nations collapsed Sept.

6 when Israel jvalked out on grounds of an Egyptian missile "Rogers, backing up an Israeli assertion earlier in the day, told a news conference that America has conclusive evidence of Egyptian violations in the canal truce zone. convinced beyond a doubt," he added, "that Soviet personnel are there to assist in the construction and manning of those antiaircraft missile sites." Both Rogers and an Israeli spokesman in Tel Aviv were responding to Moscow's statement Thursday that no Soviet personnel were involved, that Israel was making constant flights over EgypfTandlhat the United States was involved in a "slander campaign" against Russia, while aiding Israel militarily. Rogers said the United States would present "evidence" of its charges to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko when the two meet at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York next week. In Cairo, the semi official Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram said today that Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad would call for sanctions against Israel at the General Assembly meeting on groundsof Israel's refusal to nmplemenrlhe u.N.

security Council resolution of November 1967. The resolution called for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 Arab acknowledgement of Israeli sovereignty and a just solution for Palestinian refugees. Fiji Becomes Independent SUVA, Fiji (AP) The sun set on300 islands of the British Empire today as Prince Charles handed over the documents of independence to the new British Commonwealth nation of Fiji, Forty thousands i i a cheered after the island nation's new flag was raised in Suva's Center Park. Soldiers in bright red tunics, white sulus Jijian skirts and sandals paraded for the Prince of Wales. Prime Minister Ratu Sir Ka misese Maria dropped to his Knees and clapped three times as he greeted Charles the traditional greeting of the former Crown Colony.

He repeated the ritual after Prince Charles pre sehted the documents. Mara, speaking in Fijian, praised Britain role in provid ing independence for the South Pacific islands after 96 years of colonial rule. A sea of waving handkerchiefs endorsed the speech. Cambodians Battle Reds PHNOM PENH, Cambodia my now is able to cut off the (AP) Cambodian and Communist forces battled for 514 hours today in the Taing Kauk area, the military command said, apparently an indication of a major counteroffensive to halt the government's biggest push of the war. The task force leading the government offensive has been stalled at Taing Kauk, 47 miles north of Phnom Penh, for almostalmost a month.

Enemy troops have attacked Tonle Bet and task force from Kompong Cham, the regional headquarters responsible for supporting the offensive. Apparently the attacks north of Phnom Penh are designed to force government commanders to divert some of the troops in the task force away from Taing Kauk, a spokesman said. Although the spokesman had no details of today's fight, he said government losses in the offensive, during which seg Kompong Cham, 30 miles eastlments of the task force have of Taing Kauk, and Kompong been under attack for almost Chhnang, 35 miles west, during two weeks, now stand at about the last two days. A government 1 500 killed. The operation began spoxesman said today me ene sept.

6. Bomb Rocks Courthouse Tate Witness Tells Of Murder LOS ANGELES (AP) Su Mrs. "Castro said she warned san Atkins once admitted sne Miss Atkins not to discuss tne was the killer of actress Sharon killings, but "she said she knew Tate, a former cellmate recalls, how to play crazy and act like a and said "it was quite a Appearing for the prosecution', Virginia Graham Castro said Miss Atkins told of stabbing the lblkini clad actress. Mrs. Castro, 37, a legal clerk then jailed for petty theft, said Miss Atkins, one of four persons on trial for the deaths of Miss Ttate and six others, made the statements when they were in jail together last year.

She said Miss Atkins, 21, told of holding Miss Tate, arms be hind her back, while the preg nant movie star wept and plead ed for her life, saying, "Please, Please, don kill me. I want to have my baby." The witness said Miss Atkins said she told the actress: "Look, bitch, you might as well face itt You're going to die and you can't do anything about it." What were her emotions: "She 'said that she was tired: said Mrs. Castro, "but she felt elated and at peace with her self." Miss Atkins has described the killings to and through an attorney. But she has not admitted killing any of the victims herself. Mrs, Castro said she noticed Miss Atkins In iail because "she was always singing and dancing and had a kind of happiness that seemed unusual." One day, she said, Miss At kins suddenly asked if she" knew who did the Tate murders, then said: "Well you're looking at her." NEW YORK (AP) Minutes after "an anonymous caller warned authorities of a bomb, an explosion rocked a Queens courthouse building early today, causing extensive damage.

A custodian in the building and 17 prisoners and several guards in the adjacent Long Is land City jail escaped injury. So did two policemen who had responded to the warning and were outside trying to get in. The caller told a prison guard at 1:10 a.m.: "This is Weather man calling. There is a bomb planted in the court building that will go off shortly. This is in retaliation for what happened during the week.

Inform Pig Murpny." (Apparently a refer ence to the newly Installed Po lice Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy) Ten minutes later the bomb exploded while two patrolmen, noiuiea Dy tne guard, were standing across the street from the locked door of the building. The bomb destroyed a tele little girl and she said she had an alibi anyway." Miss Atkins is on trial with Charles M. Manson and two other women, charged with mur der conspiracy in five slayings at the Tate house and two more killings the next night. Other witnesses said Miss At kins was a slavish follower of the shaggy haired Manson, 35, chieftan of a hippie type family.

The state says Manson's follow ers killed at his command. Mrs. Castro's account to police of Miss Alkin's story has been credited with cracking the case. Mrs. Castro was convicted of petty theft and sentenced to the California Institution for Women at Corona.

She was paroled ear lier this year. Defense attorneys opposed in troduction of testimony by Mrs. Castro. And moved to stop the testimony or sever the trial of other', defendants from that of Miss Atkins. The judge denied the motions.

Miss Atkins who with the other defendants has been ban ished from court for misbehavingwas led intS court briefly, and Mrs. Castro identified her as the former cellmate. Miss Atkins; standing with one hand on her hip, told Mrs. Castro: "Why don't you take off your wig and show your face?" then, as she passed the witness stand, she adde: "You're noe a very good actress." MX. A.

CTBBBWJElIZAJ P4 Wmm. KZ3iE2T? flVPBHBBHBBBHwlBBBW'Hf 1 jMbbbbbV vE fi Siv iiaRsV JDSBbBbbbbB a jf iV'ii Agtiew Rejects Goodell Debate NEW YORK (AP) Sen. Charles E. Goodell, N.Y., seeking a face to face debate with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, has been rebuffed.

Agnew, on a campaign stop in Tulsa, Okla, said Friday of the challenge! "lm challenged to debates every day, and I guess I'd be debating all the time, if I accepted." Goodell, who has flayed by the vice president as a "radi cal "liberal," a "bad egg" and "the Christine Jorgenscn of the Republican party," expressed disappointment. impression that he prefers his easy rhetoric to a difficult discussion of the central problems facing our nation today," the senator said. A critic of the administra tion's policy on Vietnam, Goodell said he wanted to debate Agnew on the "fundamental na tional isue he has raised. the obligation of all Americans to respect those with whom they disagree." the vice president "insists upon injecting himself" into the New York campaign, Goodell said, "then I ask him to be a "He (Agnew) leaves the 'man about it." Jaycees Press For Vote On $100,000 Fishkill Pool UPI Ttleptwto VIRGINIA GRAHAM, 37, a cellmate to Tate LaBi'anca defendant Susan Atkins, tajks with her attorney, Robert K. Steinberg, before testifying 'in Los Angeles court.

In a copyrighted story by the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the newspaper said that, while Miss Atkins was in a cell with, Miss Graham she told her cellmate of a plot to kill a number of entertainment world figures including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen and Tom Jones. Miss Atkins is on trial along with Charles Manson and two' female defendants. Letterii Says Inquiry Groundrules Will Be Up To To Decide Alderman Pasquale Letterii, Sixth Ward, says he's "bewildered" by Mayor Louie O. Fiore's call for an outside con sultant to make ah inquiry Into phone booth in which it was the operations of the Model placed, shattered a glass dome at the head of a stair well above the booth, blew several heavy wooden doors off their hinges, twisted out of shape a wrought iron 'elevator cage and blew out most windows in the building. Quebec Rebels Set Deadline MONTREAL (AP) Quebec separatists have warned that kidnaped British diplomat James Richard Cross will not be found again unless Canadian authorities end their search for him and free 23 "political prisoners" by 6 p.m.

today. The Quebec Liberation Front said in what it again called its "last communique" Friday that "neither the authorities nor their fascist police will find diplomat J. Cross again, if they do not fulfill our It also warned that "if ever the repressive police forces find us and try to intervene before the releases of British diplomat Cross, rest assured we will defend our lives dearly and that Cross will be liquidated on the spot. And we have enough dynamite in our possession to feel secure." The communique and a note from Cross, the British trade commissioner to Quebec, were received by a Montreal radio statiop. The note was a response; to a request by Quebec Justice Min ister Jerome Choquette, for a handwritten message from Cross to his wife to show that he was aliver It read: "I have heard the message from the Minister of Justice on the radio and hereby repeat' it.

It is now five days since I left and I want you to know, Darling, that I miss you every minute. PAGING THE INSIDE NEWS Comics Page 15 Crossword Puzzle Page 15 Editorials, Columns Page 4 Bridge Page 15 Financial Pages 7 Horoscope Forecast Page 15 Obituaries Page 12 Society Page! 5 Sports Pages 10, 11 Theaters Page 11 Television Page 3 School Page 8 Church News Page 2 City program in Poughkeepsie. He also indicated that mayor may be in violation of the City Charter. Letterii said it will be up the full council, and not the mayor alone, to decide how the inquiry will be conducted. Fiore said on Thursday that he will seek to have a consultant study the program, which has been the subject of criticism from both federal and city the mayor of this city," he said, "I intend to have 'an holiest inquiry and to make sure that everybody is kept honest." Letterii replied today: "At last Monday's Common Council meeting, it was I who introduced the resolution for an Inquiry into reasons why the Model City Agency staff has been unable to satisfactorily expedite the program.

"My, purpose was td haye the! cuuncu invoxe power unuer section 34 of the City Charter, "The report of the mayor in Thursday's newspaper left me bewildered. The mayor was quoted as 'He' proposes to hire an outside consultant and 'he' will not allow the coun cil to interfere. The executive director of the Model Citv Agency was also quoted as call ing tne mayor's proposal 'a sound idea' and suggested that the fee be 5,000. This latest development makes it imperative now for me to point out that '1. The purpose of 'in quiry is to investigate the.

man ner in which the staff of the Model City Agency has dis charged its responsibilities; "2. Since Julio Vivas Is the executive director of the agency and he bears full responsibility for the performance of the staff, he is hardly the person to determine the nature of the inquiry or the amount of the fee to be paid for conducting the inquiry. "3. The mayor has but one vole on the Common Council. "4.

The inquiry was proposed in accordance with the powers granted under the City Charter. The entire council will determine the format of the inquiry at an executive session Monday night. The council alone will de cide what fee or fees will be paid. "5. The mayor has recently been conferring directly, at great length, with Mr.

Vivas. He FISHKILL Rebuffed in a first attempt to put a referen dum for a $100,000 pool at Geering Park before the voters of this town, the Fishkill Area Jaycees presented a second petition to the Town Board 'Friday night. Supervisor W. Muller (R Fishkiil) said the board has turned the petitions over to, Ed ward K. Cunningham attorney to the town, for an answer Monday so that a Tuesday deadline on getting the issue on the Nov.

3 ballot could be met. Whether the issue goes on the Nov. 3 ballot, however, Super visor Muller said, depends on Cunningham's decision. Stephen Harr, chairman of the Pool Site Committee for the Jaycees, said he understands that if the issue fails to be put on the regular election balljt, it still must be presented to before the voters in a special election to be no later than Nov. 18, 1970 (40 days).

"That the Town Board of Fishkill shall issue municipal bonds not to exceed the amount of $100,000, to be paid out over 10 years', designated for the development of public parks, and used for the construction of a public swimming pool in Geer ing Park, Routes 52 and 1 84, Fishkill. "That a pool construction committee consisting of representatives of the Fishkill Town Board, the Fishkill Area Jaycees, the Fishkill Recreation Commission and any other interested recognized community service organization, but limited to no more than members, be set up to oversee the planning and develop a sound plan for self support of the facility." President Norman Kreiser of Town of Fishkill voters hM time before Nov. 18, according. (inn rM. Af.u is required by Section 36 of the City Charter to deal with de partment heads solely through the city manager, except for purpose of inquiry.

"6. The mayor's collaboration with the executive director of the Model City Agency has gone way beyond the purpose of inquiry." Mayor Fiore today that )f Letterii any evidence that I at any time have (See LETTERII, back page) to Town Law. Supervisor Muller said that four of the Fishkill Town Board members met last night at the Town Hall and received the Jaycees petitions which con tained, according to Harr, "about 280" signatures. The first petition, tabled on Oct. 5, contained 269 petitions.

Harr said that the number of signatures obtained represents 5 per cent of the qualified voters of the town, the necessary number. In the Jaycees letter to the Town Board, Harr wrote; "Ac cording to Sec. 81 of the Town Law. you are obligated to place the following referendum issue kill with the opportunity to decide whether or not they want a swimming pool. He told of actions leading toward the vote, which started last February.

He emphasized that if the Oct. 13 deadline is missed and the Issue cannot be put on the Nov. 3 ballot, the town will have to hold a special election be fore Nov. 18. "It would seem," he said that the board should press forward to satisfy the will of the people of Fishkill without burdening them with undue expense." Representing the Jaycees at, the special board meeting were Kreiser, Harr and Otto Haug' land.

Iranians Hijack Jet Then Release It i. Vl ti TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Three Iranians hijacked an Iranian jetliner to Baghdad today and threatened to blow it up unless Iran released 21 political prisoners. Foreign Minister Ardeshir Zhaedi announced the plane later was pleased through negotiations. Baghdad radio said four women and, three children were allowed to disembark but 45 persons had remained on board in the Iraqi capital. Officials in Tehran refused to confirm that the hijackers had demanded the 'release of political prisoners.

Zhaedi said only that the negotiations were parried out with Irani authorities and the plane landed at Abadan in southwest Iran, across the Shaat'al Arab River from' Iraq. In Tehran, Iranian officials said at first that Iraqi security agents had arrested the hijackers and that the plane had left Baghdad for its original destination five hours after it arrived. They acknowledged later, how ever, that the jet remained on the ground in B.aghdad. Radio Baghdad said the armed hijackers identified themselves as Hassan Tahrani, Ali Reza and Mohammed Mah moudi. The broadcast said they set a deadline 24 for release of the persons they called political prisoners.

An official of the Iraqi News Agency, in a telephone interview from Baghdad, said the passengers included Iranians and foreign nationals. He bad no breakdown. "The plane Is still pn the ground," he said. "Reports that it left are not true." He said Iraqi authorities had granted permission for" the plane to leave whenever the Iranian charge affaires and the hijackers agree to terms. Radio Baghdad said the women and children were released after the hijackers negotiated with Iraqi authorities.

It said that more than five hours after the plane landed in the rest of the passengers and the hijackers remained aboard. The plane was commandeered after taking 'off from Mchrabad on a domestic flight The Iraqi News. Agency official said the four women and three children were 'released after more than two hours of negotiations. He said they, were taken to the airport transit lounge. "We are trying to secure the safety of all the passengers," the official said.

"But it is up to the. Iranian government to negotiate terms with the hijackers, who are Iranian nationals. As far as Iraq is concerned, the plane can leave with its passen gers at a'By time." Iraqi authorities took stringent security precautions at the air port as they negotiated with the hijackers "to guarantee the safety of the passengers," the 'radio said. It reported that the 'Iraqi foreign ministry called in Majid Mahran, the Iranian charge d'affairs in Baghdad, and informed him of the. incident.

After further negotiations, the broadcast said, the hijackers allowed the women and children off. This was two hours and 40 minutes after the plane touched down. the radio said negotiations were still continuing to obtain the release of the remaining passengers. An Iranian government spokesman said in Tehran that Iraqi authorities had arrested the hijackers and that the plane, with 41 passengers and eight crew members'aboard, had been released. it Ui.

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