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Weather ALBUQUERQUE: Cloudy and continued cool today. Occasional snow Thursday. High today near 48. Lows tonight 25 Valley and Sunport. (Details on A-2.) All Good Morning After The Christmas Season There Probably Will Be Quite A Few Of Us Who Could Use A Deficiency Appropriation.

NAL 90th Year Volume 366 Number 77 Wednesday Morning, December 16, 1970 72 Pages in Eight Sections Price 10c Carrie Tingley Christmas Party Douglas ombin Tommy, Becky, Jim, buster Bid Resumption TFh mm ma Others A wait HolidavReded Compiled From Journal Wires argaming WASHINGTON A special House subcommittee Tuesday rejected demands I-- for impeachment proceed ings against Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, but its 924-page report only Paris Talk Good Faith fueled the controversy over 50 ift the 2-year-old court liberal. If I 7 The report by a five-man judiciary subcommittee said an eight-month investigation turned Key: Laird up no evidence that Douglas misused his office, advocated WASHINGTON (UPI) Defense Secretary Melvin Pw. Laird Tuesday hinted for the first time that the United States might resume bomb ing of North Vietnam if Hanoi does not beein bar gaining in good faith at the revolution, associated with underworld characters or committed other breaches of the law or judicial ethics cited by his critics. Conservative foes of Douglas predictably denounced the report, and a liberal Democrat who initiated the impeachment charges against Douglas last April unexpectedly said he was dissatisfied, too.

Rep. Andrew Jacobs joined conservatives in complaining that the subcommittee did not hold hearings to fans peace talks. I I 1 i At the same time. he i I reiterated that the United States would stick to its announced plans to cut American forces in South Vietnam to 284.000 bv next May 1. By GRACE M.

PRATHER The Journal Staff TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES Tommy has never heard of Santa Claus and doesn't quite know what to think of the Christmas tree at the Carrie Tingley Hospital here. And Tommy also doesn't know that Christmas Day is the time to open presents. TOMMY'S ONLY 4-months-old and will be spending his first Christmas at the hospital away from his mother and father. The child, born with clubbed feet, has casts on his legs above the knees to correct the defect. "We have to have the casts changed two or three times a week to make sure the bones are pushed back exactly where they should be." said nurse Mrs.

Mary Kirkland. "I know it hurts him when the doctors have to move the bones like that, but he's such a good baby and hardly ever cries. "He likes to be propped up on the pillows in his crib every afternoon after his nap so he can watch the children come back from school." Mrs. Kirkland carried him for over an hour as we toured the hospital. Like any baby, he was perfectly content until she put him down.

"I have looked everywhere to find a mobile for him one of those bouncy things that hang over cribs but I haven't found one anywhere. We don't usually have any patients who are so young." VHS. KIRKLAND said that since the defect is being corrected so early in life, Tommy will probably be able to walk normally for the rest of his life. Tommy and each of the other patients at the hospital would be most grateful recipients of even one small Christmas gift from generous New Mexicans. He may not know of the generosity of state citizens who help bring him Christmas Answering Questions at a news J.

2 1 I conference, Laird pulled from take testimony under oath and his notebook an excerpt from a io auow cross-examination of witnesses. He said he would ixTS news briefing given at the Pentagon Oct. 31, 1968, the day the total halt to the bomhine of continue to demand such hear ings. North Vietnam was announced. THE OFFICIAL who eavp the JACOBS INDICATED when he introduced the impeachment briefing could be identified un- resolution that he wanted to keep Douelas' critics from aer me ground rules only as "defense officials." but Laird launching an inquiry outside the made it clear the briefer was his judiciary committee ana turning it into a circus.

II predecessor as defense secretary, Clark M. Clifford. Laird pointed to his feet and said, "these are the same Defense Dept. officials that are standing I think an investigation V. h- 'V.

WWWW9LI oi mis nature, to oe full and responsible, requires the taking of testimony under oath." right here now." Jacobs said. House Renublican leader Then he read Clifford's answer to the question, "under what conditions would bombing be resumed over North Viet Gerald R. Ford, who raised most of the charges, denounced me report as a partisan whitewash bv the Democratic majority of the judiciary sub committee and said its contents nam? The answer was: "If the good faith that the President is now attaching to their efforts to get substantive talks started disen-tegrates or disappears, and if it is ascertained that they are not proceeding in good faith in their negotiations and that efforts are in cry for more searching quiry." He and other Douglas critics have promised to renew the being made to violate the good faith understanding, bv move campaign for removal of the 72 year-old justice in the new Con gress that convenes in January. GRIEVANCE SESSION: City officials again met with representatives of minority groups for a face-to-face confrontation on several issues Tuesday. City Commission Vice Chairman Harry Kinney, right in above photo, suggested regular meetings with the groups while Fred Ward, left above, a spokesman for the NAACP, agreed.

Acting Police Chief John Duffy, left, listened to complaints of police harassment and said he would be willing to forego issuance of vagrancy citations should the commission agree to a temporary suspension of the ordinance. (Journal Photos by Barry Aguilar) ments of one kind or another, Continued on A-5 Four-Month-Olil Carrie Tingley Patient Will Spend First Christmas at Hospital The report, whose conclusions i i Continued on A-7 were announced in general terms Dec. 3, was signed by the tnree Democratic members of the five man subcommittee Downtown HSS Director Cites Need Of Additional $2.3 Million Rep. William M. McCulloch, R-Ohio, abstained and Rep.

Edward Hutchinson, filed a dissent accusing the subcommittee of "passing judgment before all the evidence is in." BUT REP. EMANUEL Celler, the judiciary committee chairman who headed the inquiry, said "all fair-minded people" should agree with the report's conclusions, which were Mall Plan Meet Today By WAYNE S. SCOTT Of the Journal's Santa Fe Bureau SANTA FE The Dept City commissioners and members of the Citv Plannim? of Health and Social Services Commission will be asked tn based on examination of more needs a "deficiency' ap- take formal action on the pro propriation of $2.3 million from than oOO.OOO documents. "The facts are clear," he said. "Based on this mountain of evidence, no one on the subcommittee would assert that dependent children.

He said 38 cents of the average amount now paid per person is strictly state money, with no federal matching funds. Any increase in the size of average grants in these cases would be entirely state money, he said. The appropriation needed for 1971-72, Jasper said, need not be as large as he first thought. The "case load" of welfare recipients is not increasing as much as had been predicted, he said, and his requested general fund appropriation probably can be cut by about $1.2 million. Board members also heard Fernando de Baca, outgoing motor vehicle commissioner say that the Dept.

of Motor Vehicles now owes about $160,000 and will need a deficiency appropriation of $240,000 to see it through the end of the fiscal year. JASPER PRESENTED no revised budget request, however, officially leaving Continued on A-7 posed Dow ntown Plan at a joint meeting at 9:30 a.m. today at City Hall. Also on the agenda ill he a set of parking regulations being there IS a basis for imnearh me next legislature to get it through the 1970-71 fiscal year, John Jasper, outgoing director, told the Legislative Finance Committee Tuesday. He also told the committee tlie state is now in an "overmatched" position in welfare payments to families with Hill MWliaMiMMaMiJUglj'j Kinney Leaves Room as Minorities ment.

Should we strain to Thoto on A-5 dredge all of the seven seas?" Most of the report deals with the Parvin Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1960 to Promote democratic Lash Officials on Several Issues principles in underdeveloped suggested as a possible answer to the parking shortage in the downtown area. The Downtown Plan, a project of several months of planning and discussions, includes a design for a dramatic change to the downtown shoDDins area bv Southern Union Appeals to Court away L-uunuies. Douglas served as foundation president from 1960 to 1969. Ford accused Douelas nf Commission walked from the room. more members, representing three Negro groups and three Spanish-American groups.

giving legal advice to the foundation in violation of law and of The meeting, which tinned for more than hours, was attended bv By MIKE PADGET City officials received a verbal lashing on several issues Tuesday from representatives of Albuquerque's minority groups at a meeting which ended after the vice chairman of the City Iclosing West Central A be- City Manager Richard associatina with known nam. Utility Argues for Hike more Wilson said he still intTvH tn Ihveen First and Sixth Sts and than 100 representatives of the biers and underworld characters through foundation activities. continue to work imDlempnt iegro and Spanish-American a The committee reDort savs an communities, who hurled continuous barrage firm for an increase in rates. of examination of material sub questions and a lone list nf Ho mitted by Douelas "inriieafpH The commission, after lengthy hearing, adopted formula for determinging Journal Index a a a installing a landscaped shopping mall area. However, the plan, which encompasses the area of Broadway, Coal, Lomas and Eighth Sts.

also designates several land use patterns, such as a location for the new central branch library, civic center, both surface and undereround oarkin that activities described by Rep. mands at the City Commission member and other officials in city government. ford in nis ADTll IS sneech uuiuy rate base and held particularly tnose activ pk that is related to the Dominican Southern Union already earning more than a fair After the crowd broke city officials still were certain if members of Republic, involved reoresen- up, un- the return on the established rate tatives from the Central In and suggested locations of telligence Agency." From the Journal's Santa Fe Bureau SANTA FE Attorneys for Southern Union Gas Co. argued in district court here Tuesday their firm should have been granted an increase in gas rates by the state Public Service Commission. District Judge Samuel Z.

Montoya, before whom the case was argued, gave the parties 30 days in which to submit their requested findings of fact and conclusions of law. The judge will make his decision sometime after he has received these. various types of buildings. The set of Drouosed nai-Wintt THE REPORT, larded with several proposals as soon as possible. Among the items which will be considered by the commission at a later date is making a possible change in the city's vagrancy ordinance.

Kinney said the commission would act "on or before" the third commission meeting in January to change the ordinance. The Tuesday meeting was marred by several disruptions, including a strong cry of protest from several members of the crowd when a plain-clothes police officer walked through the midst of the crowd with the butt of his pistol protruding from beneath his suit coat. KINNEY LATER walked Continued nn A-fi fair. The method used was the prime factor which caused the firm's determined rate base to be so low the commission held it was not entitled to a rate increase. William Federici and Seth Montgomery, Santa Fe attorneys, and a Southern Union lawyer from Houston presented the utility's arguments before the court.

J. Houstoun M. Clinch of Chicago represented the Public Service Commission in upholding its method of determination of rate base. Arnold Fieldman, attorney for the Atomic Energy Commission, presented arguments for the U.S. government, which also is opposing the rate increase.

letters and other documents regulations, included in a recent study by Wilbur Smith and from Douglas' files, concluded that Douglas never practiced Action Line D-l Around New Mexico Arts E-7 Bridge G-7 Classified G-l-G-fi Comics G-7 Crossword Puzzle G-7 Daily Record G-8 DearAbby B-l Editorials A-j Financial F-7-F-8 Movies F-6 Obituaries G-8 People's Column A-5 Stars Say G-7 Sports F-l F-5 Today's Calendar A-13 TV Log a-13 Woman's World B-l-B-2 Associates of San Francisco. law for the foundation. Victor L. groups at the meeting would be willing to meet again. Harry Kinney, commission vice chairman, earlier had suggested the commission continue to meet with representatives of minority groups on a regular basis.

HOWEVER, many persons in the room said they wanted the city to act immediately on their demands which ranged case. The utility appealed the decision to the district court here. The formula set up for determining the rate base was attacked by Southern Union attorneys in their arguments Tuesday. In particular, they argued the "ratio method" the commission used to find depreciation on "reproduction cost new" of the firm's physical properties was not Mmdlin, a Los Angeles attorney. signed a sworn affidavit contained in the report stating that establish the number of off-street parking spaces which would be required for all new businesses or additions to business constructed in the city.

The number of snaocs rn. ne was tne attorney for the foundation and that Douelas The Public Service Com- did not practice law. or eive mission several months ago of- irom tiring certain police legal advice, in connection with quired would be determined by denied the application of the city the toundation. ncers to expandng the Housing Board to include me type ot Duucting use involved ith each business. six.