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On Today's Editorial Page So More May Vote: Editorial Only Against People: Editorial 0 FINAL Stock Market Down Closing Prices Pages I6A and I7A VOL. 92 117 lftl I), St. Umis I'ost-DUimli'h TUESDAY, APKIL 28, 1970 44 PACES 10c Horn Drtlvrrj $3.0 a Price ST. 0 POST PMC ails Gibbous Offer Housing Plan For Suburbs End JL JL CJ Ills THE BOMBED INTERIOR of automobile belonging to Scenic Rivers leader Roger Taylor is examined by St. Charles Sheriffs Deputy Richard Henke.

(Post-Dispatch Photo by Louis Phillips) Dynamite Damages Auto Scenic Rivers Leader Of To Freight truck drivers here remained off their jobs today, despite a promise by Teamsters International Vice President Harold J. Gibbons that they would return to work if court actions were dropped. The offer disclosed yesterday, apparently has not been accepted by any truck firms. A spokesman for the Motor Carriers Council, which represents over-the-road truckers said: "The employers see no reason why they should drop their valid claims to try to induce Harold Gibbons andor the officers of Local 600 to do what they have a clear obligation to do anyway, and what they could and should have been doing each of the days since April 1." A multimillion-dollar damage suit has been filed in the United States District Court against Local GOO by 79 trucking firms. In addition, two individual damage suits are pending.

Don Lane, president of Local 600, also is under court order to show cause Friday why he should not be held in contempt for alleged violation of a restraining order against interference with operations of the trucking firms. Termed Fundamental Gibbons said dismissal of the court actions, as in any similar strike situations, was fundamental in contract settlements. The Local Cartage Association of St. Louis does not have litigation on file against the union. But with the over-the-road terminals closed, there" would be little or no work for local drayage and express firms.

Lane was scheduled to give a deposition in his contempt case today. United States District Judge John K. Regan declined this morning to grant a postponement in the taking of the deposition or of Lane's court appearance at 10 a.m. Friday. The 9500 members of Local 600 will have a special membei-ship meeting at 10 a.m.

Sunday at the Municipal Opera in Forest Park. The purpose will be to hear a report on working conditions and maintenance of standards in St. Louis, and an explanation of the contract in its entirety, a Local 600 spokesman said. In a separate labor development, a special meeting of all construction drivers of Teamsters Local 682 has been called for 8 p.m. today to consider contract proposals made by ready-mix concrete and dry materials dealers.

Contractors were hopeful that a favorable vote might set a pattern for settlement of a strike by Hoisting Engineers Local 513 against the Sand and Gravel Producers Association, which has forced the closing of construction jobs because of lack of concrete. Gibbons's Comment In a press conference in his Council Plaza suite late yesterday, Gibbons enlarged upon the situation. He said the Local 600 walkout "would go on until the carriers get some sense." "I could give assurance that the return to work would be 99 per cent effective, if the lawsuits were withdrawn. I'm sure they could be reinstated if the men didn't go back to work," Gibbons said. The litigation threatens the Local union "and the personal possessions of ev- TURN TO PAGE 4, COL.

4 cause of the hostility, particularly in southern Missouri, he said. Last week his group, the Scenic Rivers Affiliation, began ef-. forts to open negotiations with an opposing organization in the dispute. The controversy has brought threats in rural areas to shoot canoeists from ambush. The explosion atou 11:30 p.m.

shattered several windows of the house, where Taylor lives with his wife and their two children. The floor and back seat of Taylor's 1968 Chevrolet were buckled by the blast. St. Charles sheriff's deputies said HAROLD J. GIBBONS, Teamsters International vice president, answering questions at a press conference in his Council Plaza offices yesterday.

At right is Don Line, president of Local 600, whose members have not worked since April I. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Larry Williams) Nixon Urges Separate Bills On Rights, Voting At 18 Dynamite last night damaged the automobile of Roger W. Taylor, leader of a state-wide campaign for zoning restrictions along Missouri's scenic rivers. No one was injured. The car was parked outside his St.

Charles home. Taylor, a social studies teacher in St. Louis County, said today he was not surprised at the outbreak of violence. He told the Post-Dispatch that he and other persons working on an initiative petition drive had received threats for months. Some of the workers have been frightened into resigning from the campaign be U.S.

Role In Opposed By By FRED W. LINDECKE State Political Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, April 28 Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth, a candidate for the Republican nomination to the United States Senate, said today he was opposed to any United States involvement in Cambodia. "My policy is no troops, no advisers, no arms," Danforth said as he filed for the GOP senatorial nomination in the Secretary of State's office. "We shouldn't broaden the war in Southeast Asia, and any commitment by us to Cambodia would only broaden it.

The Cambodians really want personnel. "The current regime in Cambodia is not stable. I don't believe the outcome in Cambodia is part of the interest of the United States. By JAMES DEAKIN A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, A i 1 28 -President i a M. Nixon touched off a new political dispute today by asking the House to separate the 18-year-olds' vote provision from the pending extension of the Voting Rights Act.

House liberals charged that Mr. Nixon's request was a move to kill the bill extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for five more years. Sponsors of the extension bill had counted on the amendment to lower the voting age to 18 to help win that one stick of dynamite ap-p a 1 1 was placed on the pavement under the rear of the car, which was in the carport. Taylor, 28 years old, said he and his wife had returned home in the car about 10 p.m. They had been attending night classes in university courses.

He said the explosion aroused the neighborhood and was heard iy2 miles away. Asked the probable effect of the violence on his group's campaign, he said: "The situation as of now is the same. Our committee decides what direction to go." The group has been circulating petitions to put the scenic rivers measure on the Nov. 3 ballot. The proposal would use zoning to protect the scenic values of the land for 300 feet on either side of various rivers.

Because of the heightened hostility, Taylor said, his group had decided recently that it would be well to sit down and talk with the organized opposition. A telegram proposing such a meeting was sent last week to Ed Green, chairman of the Show-Me Heritage Association. The association represents property owners organized at local levels to oppose the bill. Taylor said he had received a reply that the group would not be willing to meet until the petition drive was stopped. C.

R. Leicvk, cocounsel for the Sho-Me State Heritage Association, which has been opposing the scenic rivers proposal, announced that the group had offered a $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the bombing. He termed the violence reprehensible and said the association was not behind it. At Yale be arrested. They locked arms and shouted in defiance.

Police entered to make the arrests, most on charges of criminal trespass and unlawful From Posl-nupatch Wirf Serviced WASHINGTON, April 28 -The Nixon Administration has indicated that it plans a policy of building public housing projects in the suburbs instead of in the ghettos, according to a top official. Jerris Leonard, assistant attorney general, said that ths Administration would disclose "very significant policy changes" in the next few weeks, aimed at fostering "desegregation of public and federally supported housing." Leonard was asked yesterday by reporters whether the policy changes he was talking about would mean an nd to public housing in all-black areas. "Yes, that is correct," he replied. Designate Project Sites He said there might be legal problems but "I believe the policy should be to put new public housing in the suburbs. There is no reason why the suburbs cannot set aside areas for public and publicly supported housing." Leonard said that past policy sometimes has made the government a partner in perpetuating racial discriminations in some areas of public housing.

Leonard, who heads the Department of Justice's civil rights division, said also that the Nixon Administration had decided against pressing tor a Supreme Court ruli lg on the legality of segregated schools resulting from housing patterns. The reason, Leonard said, is that the Administration has no solutions to offer should the high court strike down unofficial or de facto segregation as unconstitutional Leonard thus made clear what President Richard M. Nixon had implied in his recent statement on school segregation in which he said the Administration would avoid "provoking the courts into extreme decision." Nixon Statement In a policy statement March 24, the President premised to seek to eliminate de jure, or officially sanctioned, raciai segregation. However, he said the Administration could do ing about de facto segregation, or that resulting from residential patterns. The Supreme Court has not TURN TO PAGE 9, LOL.

3 Draft May Fall By 100,000, Laird Asserts WASHINGTON, April 28 (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said today that draft calls this year might be reduced to as few as 150,000 men about 100,000 under original plans because of troop withdrawals from Vietnam. "We will be able to further reduce the draft calls for this calendar year," Laird said in a talk to a group of business, civic and other leaders who have been touring military installations as guests of the Department of Defense. Laird left open the possibility that -the draft total might be as much as 180,000. Draft calls this year through May total 84,500.

This suggests that quotas could decline to an average of about 9000 a month for the last seven months of the year. The draft took nearly 290,000 men last year. Tliumlershowers Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Partly cloudy and warm tonight with a slight chance of thundershowers; the low from 63 to 70; tomorrow a little cooler with a chance of showers; the high tomorrow in the mid to upper 80s. Long-range forecast: Cool and cloudy Thusrday through Saturday wun periods of No 60? showers likely.

POST-DISPATCH WEATHCRBIRD ra t. 0P f)thr Information on Fane 2 A Em Temperatures yXjL 4 a.m. 70 jfyf na'm. 83 3Hf()( 12 noon 85 'JJ 1 p.m. 90 2 p.m.

i 5 nffl. 92 Cambodia Danfbrth "So long as the regimes are independent of Russia and China, there is no threat to the United States. Whatever government develops in Cambodia will be independent. "Experience has shown that the more the United States gets involved with the countries of Southeast Asia, the more it tends to throw them into the arms of the Communists." Accompanied by his wife, Sally, Danforth filed on the last day for filing for the primary Aug. 4.

"I am extremely happy about having done this and very excited about the campaign," Danforth said. He is opposed by three persons for the GOP nomination. If he wins it, his opponent in the general election Nov. 3 probably will be Senator Stuart Symington who is seeking re-election to a fourth term. pers.

Dishes were smashed and food was taken in the cafeteria. With police waiting at the entrance to the building, Dean Douglas N. Maynard warned the demonstrators they would Motel Tower Plan For Pavilion Detailed Fire Damages Library was directed primarily against voting discrimination against Negroes in the South. "Why did he wait so long" to ask for a constitutional amendment, Celler said in talking to reporters. If the voting rights extension bill fails to pass, he said, "the responsibility is on the President." Celler is opposed to lowering the voting age to 18, but he strongly favors a five-year extension on the Voting Rights Act.

He and other House liberals have decided that the best way to get it would be for the House to accept the Senate ver-sion of the voting rights bill, in-, eluding the amendment lowering the voting age to 18. The alternative, they have said, would be a conference to work out differences between the Senate version and a broad voting rights bill passed last year by the House. This would run the risk of a Southern filibuster against the conference report when it reached the Senate. The extension bill has been in the House Rules Committee for six weeks as civil rights forces tried to line up sufficient votes in the House for a simple, yes or no vote on the Senate version, without amendments bn the House floor. Speaker John W.

McCormack, who agrees with the Celler strategy of accepting the Senate version, said yesterday that there were enough votes in the Rules Committee to report the extension bill under a closed rule barring amendments. However, McCormack said that he would have to reassess sentiment in the House itself in the light of the President's letter. I A poll of House Republicans about two weeks ago showed they would oppose a simple yes or no vote on the Senate bill by a margin of about 3 to 2. This would provide enough GOP votes to pass the Senate bill when combined with the votes of Northern Democrats. Mr.

Nixon's letter was viewed on Capitol Hill as an effort to build more Republican opposition to the Senate version and thus defeat the five-year voting rights extension. The President's move appeared likely to deepen the split within the Republican ranks in Congress because Representative William M. McCulloch Ohio, senior Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, supports the Celler strategy. However, Mr. Nixon in effect TURN TO PAGE 8, COL.

1 IS us Index Page Editorials 2C Everyday Magazine 1-8D Financial 14-16A Obituaries 5C Sports 12-14A Want Ads 5-13C approval of the voting rights measure in the House. In a letter yesterday to House leaders, the President said he believed that it would be unconstitutional for Congress to lower the voting age by statute. He asked that the 18-y a -o 1 s' provision be removed from the voting rights extension bill and submitted to the states as a constitutional amendment. Emanuel Celler New York, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, charged that Mr. Nixon's request was "part of the Southern strategy to kill the voting rights bill." The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Slock Market Declines Again NEW YORK, April 28 (AP) plunged The stock market uownwara today alter a attempt failed.

rally The closing Dow Jones industrial average was 724.33, a loss of 10.82 for the day. That was the lawest point for the Dow in more than six years. The decline accelerated in the final hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The market was up 1.52 points at noon, and two hours later had dropped to 728.55. Analysts earlier had (predicted a rally of some sort.

They sad selling had been heavy in recent sessions. However, they attributed the rally's failure to en-entrenched pessimism among investors. was forced to close because it could not pay its bills. The main design problems, Schwarz said, would be to give the tower a good relationship with other buildings in the area and to provide parking space. The tower would be set back from the present outer Pavilion walls, but nearer the Walnut Street side.

It would be pulled back from Market Street so as to maintain the low roof line there. It would have much the same relationship to the base structure as the Equitable Building, now under construction on the east side of The Inn would be nearly in line with the Equitable tower. Parking might be provided in the basement, Schwarz said, but this difficult part of the planning would need more study. A proposal to put a motel tower of about 21 stories on the east end of the Spanish Pavilion was detailed today by Don Brepkenridge. He operates a chain of Ramada Inn motels in Missouri and other states.

A study prepared by the architectural firm of Schwarz and Henmi proposed such a tower to be erected above the Pavilion's open court. The court is near the Broadway-Walnut corner of the long, low building. The 254-foot-high tower, which would be within the 275-foot height limit required within the area of the Gateway Arch, would be about 85 feet square, with 16 rooms or equivalent suite space on each floor. Breckenridge favors the name "Inn of the Spanish Pavilion" for his proposal. The Inn of the Spanish Pavilion would not alter the building's architectural appearance except for the tower area, said architect Arthur Schwarz.

He said that the tower could be built on four columns to be erected in the present open court and would not rest on the Pavilion structure. Schwarz said that the Pavilion's big foyer just inside the main Market Street entrance could be converted to lobby space with few alterations. An additional entrance on the Broadway side probably would be necessary, he said. The most persuasive argument for motel use, he said, is that the Pavilion's other facilities-restaurants, theater, exhibition spaces, meeting rooms and circulation areas are ideally suited to both hotel and public functions. He said that all these facilities could be revived much as they were before the Pavilion From rosr-nixpatrh Wire Services NEW HAVEN, April 28 New Haven firemen were forced to flood the basement of the Yale University Law School Library yesterday to put out a fire.

The fire began in the basement stacks, damaging a number of books. When an automatic dousing system failed, firemen flooded the a harming more books. Officials said the fire was "of suspicious origin" and was under investigation. School officials said $2000 damage was caused. Meanwhile, in New York, uni-formed policemen were stationed in the corridors of Hunter College today as the administration sought to prevent further violence by dissident students.

Police summoned yesterday by school president Jacqueline a Wexler arrested 13 persons, including two faculty members. She said she would press charges against the demonstrators, who were objecting to her suspension of seven students for their part in earlier disturbances. "I've drawn the line," Wexler, former president of Webster College in Louis, had said at a press conference. She said that the seven had been suspended for the rest of the term and that she would no longer tolerate "violence, force and bully tactics." Dissident students then attacked several departmental offices, scattering books and pa BURNED BOOKS LITTERING THE SIDEWALK opposite the Yale University Law School library after a fire "of suspicious nature" yesterday. (AP Wirephoto) i.