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The Weather ALBUQUERQUE: Variable cloudiness. High 76. Lows 45 Valley, 50 International Airport. (Details on C-8.) Good Morning Top Labor Leaders Will Meet Today. We Wonder If Thev Will Get Down to Work.

ALB RNAL 91st Year Volume 370 Number 12 Tuesday Morning, October 12, 1971 32 Pages in Four Sections 4 Price 10c Nixon Seeks Better School Lunch System wJJiOHE OWffEE-H VNDy Opening Skirmish 'Plans Pose Problems For USDA I By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASI IINGTON LP The Nixon administration wants overhaul the nation's $730-million school lunch program which one Agriculture Dept. official says is threatening to become a nationalized meal service for all children, regardless of need. A new plan being drafted in the department is aimed partly at heading off growing demand from state school-lunch lobbies and some members of Congress for full federal financing of the Pn ti rr? I CjkTtnu ws 1 4 program. Existence of the plan, still closely shrouded, was discussed in an interview with Asst. Secretary of Agriculture Richard E.

Lyng, who is in charge of the government's food Newly Elected Commissioners Robert Poole, Nancy Koch and Hay Baca Receive Oath of Office From Municipal Frederick Mowrcr programs. Under pressure from Congress the department announced last week it will reimburse states at i the rate of 45 cents per meal this Including First Woman year for serving free or reduced- Trade Raises cost lunches to an estimated Labor Heads Hold Counsel ommtsstoners Three Take New Office eight million needy children. ON Al'G. 1.1, the department proposed a 33-cent rate for feeding poor children compared with an average of 42 cents last year and a 46-cent level later specified in a Senate resolution. The most disputed provision of the new rules is the decision to Slight Hope For POWs Ceremonies in On Phase 2 contribute to programs in a city my cigar" after hearing SAIGON The release of a WASHINGTON W) De which is growing rapidly." Saavedra then said, "I think saaveara nattering remarks.

Prior to the ceremony, spite a Republican senator's North Vietnamese war prisoner Monday raised cautious hope for the freeing of more U.S. reimburse states only for free lunches served to children whose families are within federal poverty guidelies. peacemaking move, the na we would be remiss if we did not iiarnhart gave the new com tion top labor leaders held their counsel Monday on the prisoners by the enemy. mission a brief review of areas of accomplishment and areas of say a few words at the expiration of your Barnhart 's) term The U.S. Embassy said a and Mr.

Payne's." eve of a meeting that could make or break President government which are in need of continued special attention. By MIKE PADGET The city's three new commissioners including the first woman ever to hold the office were sworn in Monday night amidst emotional speeches and praise for both the new commissioners and the two men who stepped down after four years of service. The ceremonial affair was presided over by Municipal Judge Frederick Mowrer and witnessed by a full house of citizens who came to see newly- North Vietnamese lieutenant was freed in Cambodia as a Nixon's post-frozen eco HE SAID Payne's presence on the commission helped balance the city's governing body. "reciprocal gesture" for the nomic program. HE URGED the commission to give continuing support to the area of law enforcement.

Barnhart also told the com Credentials Leader Fight Symbolizes Split in Democrats By PAUL R. WIECK Of Uie Journal's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The opening skirmish in what promises to be a long and, possibly, savage battle for control of the Democratic Party in 1972 is now under way. This first encounter will be climaxed early Wednesday afternoon with selection of a chairman of the party's credentials committee. The candidates are Sen. Harold E.

Hughes, D-Iowa, the major figure behind procedural reform in the Democratic Party; and Mrs. Patricia Harris, a Washington attorney who emerged last week as a candidate of a clique around national chairman Larry O'Brien. THE OUTCOME may determine whether the party's left wing will feel it has the proper grounds for a fourth party bolt after the presidential nominee is named in Miami Beach next July. If Hughes is the gatekeeper, it will be difficult for the party's left to bolt barring the, to them, catastrophic i.e., the selection of a nominee who adheres to cold war doctrines to the exclusion of all moderating forces. If one of their own is not in charge, the party's left wing will enter the convention ill at ease, to say the least.

To many, Hughes looks like a perfect choice. He has the confidence of his party's left wing, particularly on the vital question of procedural reforms, but has connections within the party's structure that go deep into moderate and even in the conservative wings. HE'S POPULAR among his senate colleagues. During the months he was putting together an organization for a presidential bid, he drew substantial support from every wing in the party and every section, particularly in the South and Midwest. Some days ago, he decided to make a bid for temporary chairmanship of the credentials committee when the national committee meets here Wednesday to select the temporary chairmen of all standing committees.

He went to work vigorously, calling members of the committee, fellow lawmakers, governors and personal friends for support. The response was good and covered a wide spectrum, from the handful of liberal left members committed to the candidacy of Sen. George McGovern to men like ex-governor Ed Breathitt, of Kentucky, and Governor Warren Hearns, of Missouri. However, chairman O'Brien became alarmed. BY LATE last week, he had huddled with a few associates and produced a candidate to oppose Sen.

Hughes. At first, O'Brien's choice looked like a master stroke. Mrs. Harris is not only an attorney and a woman but she is a black woman. Who at this juncture in the history of the Democratic Party, would oppose a black woman for such an important post? The first to come forth as a clear and vocal opponent was one of the black women on the national committee Rep.

Shirley Chisholm, who has agreed to nominate Hughes. She is backed by several prominent black men on the committee Aaron Henry, of Mississippi, the Rev. Channing Philips of the District of Columbia and State Senator Coleman Young of Mississippi. Mrs. Harris, despite being a black woman, has liabilities.

FIRST OF ALL, she knows nothing about the complexities of party reform by her own admission. Late last week, she was described as "boning up on it" over the weekend, a move which did not impress the host of reform devotees who spent the last three years sorting through the technicalities of the problem. Secondly, she is a member of the law firm of Max Campbelman, the buddy of former vice president Hubert Humphrey, giving her candidacy the aura of an O'Brien-Humphrey bid to maintain a tight control over the party. This put other presidential contenders, including Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie, D-Maine in a box. HUGHES, IN CONTRAST, was the strongest single force on the McGovern commission which drew up a-new set of guide lines on the delegate selection process. A couple of times when cautious members of the commission wanted to close the doors to the press and public, Hughes threatened to walk out. As a result of his work on the commission, he won the support of key members and staff for his presidential bid. However, Mrs.

Harris has an extra source of support. The "old guard" element of organized labor, never too happy with the idea of reforming the delegate selection process since many of its key leaders were appointed to the numerous at large spots on larger delegations under the old rules, moved quickly to her support. LEADING THE labor fight against Hughes is Al Barkan, the political action director of the AFL-CIO. return on Friday of an American Army sergeant. The Executive Council of the "Commissioner Payne always discharged his duties with integrity, with honesty and with The U.S.

statement said the release of the lieutenant was mission "You'll do well to keep 13-million-member AFL-CIO and the heads of the two largest in-dependent unions, the Teamsters and the United Auto A child from a family of four with an income of $3940 a year or less is eligible, while one from a family with larger earnings will be eut off. Until now, states were allowed to set their own income eligibility. APPROXIMATELY 8 per cent of the 7.3 million getting reduced-price lunches last year some 584,000 children were from families above the poverty line. Costs of serving school lunches vary widely, but average between 53 and 63 cents per serving. sincerity," Saavedra said.

"We people informed of everything that goes on at City Hall elected Ray Baca, Robert Poole Workers, will meet today to and Nancy Koch take their oaths You'll find that the people of didn't always agree with Dr Continued on A-2 decide whether to participate in Albuquerque are most willing to made "in response to indications that the enemy would welcome such a release at a given time and place." THE STATEMENT gave no clue as to these "indications" of office. Mowrer, also reelected in last Tuesday's elec the Phase 2 economic plan. tion, will not be sworn in until A spokesman for the AFL-CIO his present term expires next said there had been no efforts by April. administration officials to contact federation President George Meany to patch up a dispute Panama Pledges Fight For Canal Zone Control and turned aside all questionsj related to the unusual prisoner: exchange, marking the first time since 1969 an American! captive was set free. Embassy spokesmen went to over now tne post-treeze pro gram will operate.

AT THE WHITE. House. spokesmen said Nixon worked in lengths to discourage further his office at the nearby Ex discussion bv newsmen on ecutive Office Building, but grounds it could jeopardize ef HARRY KINNEY also was officially approved by the commission to serve, as chairman and Baca received similar approval as vice chairman. The ceremony almost was interrupted when Raymond Gar-vey, who gathered 424 votes in his unsuccessful bid for the commission, asked to speak just as Mowrer was preparing to swear Mrs. Koch into office.

However, outgoing City Commission Chairman Charles Barnhart requested that Garvey wait to speak until after the forts to obtain the release of refused to say on what. The President scheduled a Cabinet meeting for this afternoon. All lunches, including those served the needy, get a federal contribution of five cents phis seven or eight cents in the form of donated commodities. In addition, the government pays 40 cents a serving to help feed the poor children, making a total including commodities of 52 or 53 cents a lunch. LYNG SAYS the rule excluding children from the higher-income poverty families would not prevent states and school districts for providing free lunches on their own.

The idea of providing free lunches to all children regardless of family income is Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N. additional Americans. The Embassy statement said: "We have no assurance whatsoever at present that this reciprocal gesture will lead to the release of additional American prisoners. That, however, is the coal toward which we are Continued on A-2 ceremony.

Garvey reluctantly Journal Index complied, but did not re-appear at the front of the room alter tne PANAMA Gen. Omar Torrijos declared at a rally celebrating his third year as Panama's strongman Monday that Panamanians will die if necessary to gain sovereignty over the United States-controlled Panama Canal Zone. "If we have to die, we will die," the 43-year-old Torrijos told almost 200,000 of his countrymen overflowing a downtown plaza bordering the controversial zone, which he called "a colonial enclave." "We want a free country, he declared, to roaring applause. PANAMA and the United States arc currently holding secret talks in Washington on Panama's request to renegotiate the 1903 treaty which gave the U.S. control "in perpetuity" of the Canal Zone.

The Panamanian position is that the Torrijos government has no quarrel with continued U.S. operation of the canal. But Panama wants control of the 500-square-mile Canal Zone. "We receive $1.9 million every year from the United States for the 500 square miles when the Empire State Building brings in $13 million a year in rentals," said Torrijos. "This Continued on A-7 ceremony concluded.

working." STATE DEPT. officials in Washington said the North Vietnamese lieutenant carried a BOTH BARNHART and Com missioner Word Payne, whose term also expired, were highly message with him expressing: warming up rapidly as an issue the hope for further releases. jm Congress. Sen. Hubert H.

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The reciprocal release of the Lab Vacations Delay DWI Cases North Vietnamese lieutenant querque capable of testing breath sample The State Board of Corrections will meet here Wednesday morning as an aftermath of last week's rioting at the state penitentiary. Board Chairman Maurice said the meeting will be apparently was carried out in accordance with instructions given by the other side. The release of the North Viet and they re assigned to cover the whole state," he said. "We've got one-third the state's population and two-thirds the state's drunk driving arrests. We alone could use the two technicians on a full-time basis." A person arrested for DWI is given the namese was arranged in Saigon at State Dept.

initiative following Sexton's release, reliable sources said. The South Vietnamese were "informed but not involved" in the mechanics of the release although they supplied the held at the Girls Welfare Home on Edith NE at 10 a.m. I Sanchez said that inmates in-! volved in the trouble have been interviewed and that "whatever grievances that have been brought to the attention of prison officials" will be disposed 1 TT 1L.1 il contract with the city is Beighley Clinical and Pathological Laboratory. Municipal Judge Harry D. Robins, last week, complained of a possible backlog in Municipal Court because of the increasing DWI arrests in Albuquerque.

"We expect a good 1400 cases this year in this court alone." Robins said the new presumptive alcohol level under the implied consent law using the breath sample test is resulting in more DWI arrests, as a result of concentrated efforts to halt the drunk driver. "BUT WE'VE only got two technicians at the State Health Laboratory in Albu By ART BOUFFARD Lack of laboratory technicians to testify is forcing Municipal Court to reschedule nearly 40 drunk driver trials scheduled this month. Ronald L. Porter, court supervisor, said "a number" of DWI cases set for Monday had to be rescheduled when it was discovered that the three technicians hired to make blood analysis to determine alcoholic content are on vacation. "The darn part about it, is that they are on vacation the entire month," he said.

"So we're rescheduling the cases as we come to them." PORTER SAID the laboratory under option of taking the blood test. In either case, a breath sample is usually taken. Robins said several cases are rescheduled because the two "breath" technicians have had to appear to testify in other areas of the state. MAGISTRATE JUDGES last week said Continued on A-7 prisoner. A Foreign Ministry source said it was made through "an agreement between the two governments," U.S.

and South I Vietnamese. of by the Doara. tie saia inai me members will also consider any law violations that are reported and consider what disposition to make of them. Since Barkan's operation in the AFL-CIO provides Democratic candidates with substantial share of their money Continued on A-5.