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"America's Farthest North Daily Newspaper" Vol. LXX 15c Per Copy FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10,1972 14 Pages No. 268 CUStt Thieu says withdraw enemy for cease-fire CHECKING OUT DAMAGE--A federal building guard views the damage to the Bureau of Indian Affairs building Thursday in Washington, D.C. A group of militant Indians left the building Wednesday nightafter holding it as their fortress for a week. (APwirephoto) Indian siege cost reported at $1.98 million in damages WASHINGTON (AP) The seizure and occupation by protesting Indians of the Bureau of Indian affairs building will cost the government $1.98 million to repair the damage, the Interior Department estimated today.

Meanwhile, officials said an a recommending against prosecution of the Indians does not grant amnesty for damage and theft while the building was occupied. The department said the repair costs includes $250,000 for damage to the BIA building structure, $280,000 to furniture and office machinery, J750.000 for art and artifacts and $700,000 to restore 7,000 cubic feet of destroyed or stolen records. A department spokesman said the Indians stale or damaged some 600 or 700 paintings valued at about $1,000 each and artifacts valued at about $150,000. The Indian paintings and art objects were "mostly stolen," he said. In addition to the losses due to theft and damage, the occupation cost the government about $297,000 in wages paid to BIA employees who were prevented from coming to work.

Meantime the oldest organization of Indians called for a wholesale re-evaluation of the bureau saying that while it condemns the destruction and some of the techniques em- fc iJ1 j' CLOUDY Mostly cloudy with brief snow flurries today becoming partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. High today near 20. Low tonight 6 to 10 and high Saturday in mid teens. Probability of snow in measurable amounts 40 per cent tod ay and 10 per cent tonight and Saturday. Outlook for Sunday partly cloudy and a little cooler.

High Thursday 16.0vernightlow 16. Temperature at noon 18. High this date 48 in 1948. Low -24 in 1955. Sunrise Saturday 8:12.

Sunset at 2:58 for a total of 6 hours 46 minutes of daylight, a loss of six. ployed by Indian militants it supports many of the issues the caravan sought to dramatize. Charles E. Trimble, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, said the administration is secretly trying to coerce tribal chairmen to come down hard against the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan. Trimble called upon the National Tribal Chairmen's Association to join with his organization to survey the impact and assess the damages of the upheaval at the BIA and to constructively plan for the future of Indian country.

The last of the Indians, who were protesting government treatment of their people, left the building Wednesday night shortly after the deadline set down by a federal-court order. A Justice Department spokesman said Thursday no decision has been made concerning prosecution of the protesting Indians. But Interior Department officials and tribal Indian leaders asked that offenders be prosecuted. About a dozen members of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association met with White House advisers and then called for prosecution of Indians who occupied the building. Two ballots hold decision Anyone who thinks his one vote won't matter should take a look at the North Pole mayor's race.

i the of Tuesday's election results, it was found that incumbent Mayor Jack Wright had 50 votes and challenger Con Miller had 49. The problem is that there are two question ballots which remain sealed. Since the election, it has been determined those ballots are indeed legal. They will be opened at the Monday meeting of the North Pole City Council when council members canvass and certify the results of the election. SAIGON (AP) President Nguyen Van Thieu told an envoy from President Nixon today that all North Vietnamese troops must be withdrawn from South Vietnam before an agreement to end the war can be finalized, a newspaper controlled by the president's office reported.

Thieu conferred for nearly two hours with Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr. shortly after he arrived in Saigon to urge Thieu to go along with the cease-fire agreement Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger worked out with the North Vietnamese in Paris.

Haig is Kissinger's chief assistant. The newspaper Tin Song, which is financed by Thieu's Stocks top LOGO on Nixoji vote NEW YORK (AP) The Dow Jones industrial average, Wall Street's most closely watched indicator, burst over the barrier in mid-day trading today as prices rose in reaction to President Nixon's re-election victory and hopes for peace in Vietnam. The Dow average of 30 industrial stocks has never closed above the magic 1,000 mark, although it passed it four times in intraday trading on Feb. 9, 1966. The Dow hit 1,000.15 at 12:30 p.m.

EST and a few minutes later rose to an all-time in- traday high of 1,001.43, up 13.17 points for the day. Its previous a i i a a high was 1,001.11 on Feb. 9,1966. Stock prices had risen sharply Wednesday morning following the presidential election, but had fallen as a wave of investors cashed in their gains. Prices began to rise again Thursday afternoon, and continued rising rapidly this morning'.

Advances outnumbered declines almost 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange. Some 11.73 million shares had already changed hands by noon in heavy trading. Young presses for Eg an to call legislative session ANCHORAGE (AP)-State Sen. Don Young has urged Gov. William A.

Egan to call a special session of the legislature to "expedite the legal procedures necessary to fill the vacancy in our only seat in Congress." a Republican, was defeated by incumbent Democratic Rep. Nick i in Tuesday's general election. Begich has been missing since Oct. 16. Young said he sent the telegram to Egan because "We need a man in Congress." He said Egan as the state's chief executive has the power to call the session and to begin the legal procedures needed to hold a special election.

Under Alaska law, the governor must call a special election within 60 to 90 days after a vacancy is declared. That vacancy can be declared by a judge after the person has been missing for 40 days, a period in whicn the private secretary, quoted a high-level source as saying that Thieu in his meeting with Haig insisted on the total withdrawal of all North Vietnamese troops from the South. Thieu reportedly said he would not accept any private agreements or tacit understandings on a pullout. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy said he could neither confirm nor deny reports that Haig carried a personal letter from Nixon to Thien urging the South Vietnamese president to accept the cease-fire plan as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military command accelerated its planning for a complete American withdrawal from Vietnam in the event of a cease-fire. Informants said American troop strength in Vietnam would drop below the 27,000 ceiling ordered by Nixon by Dec. 1 and indicated there might be further withdrawals of U.S. troops even if a cease- fire agreement is not signed by next month.

Current U.S. military strength in Vietnam is about 32,000, Constellation-protest sailors 9 trial ordered SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) Sailors who complained of racial discrimination aboard the aircraft carrier Constellation were split up among three shore bases today and were ordered to trial individually for being absent from the carrier without permission. About 130 men, raising clenched fists, refused an order by the carrier's commanding officer, Capt. J.W.

Ward, to re- FAIRBANKS Plans to expand a state park on the a River north of Fairbanks were discussed here Thursday. Page 3. ALASKA The A a a Command is checking into charges by Sen. William Proxmire that military personnel are being used to run a posh club at Elmendorf, AFB. Page 2.

THE NATION Navy Secretary John O.Warner has ordered the Navy and Marines a i a opportunity orders. Page 7. THEWORLD American warplanes flew more a 700 air strikes over IndochinaThursday.Page7. turn to the ship Thursday. Eight hours later, the transfers and notices of possible disciplinary action were announced.

A one-officer court procedure, known in Navy lingo as a Captain's Mast or Article 15, was arranged throughout today. Similar to the justice of the peace hearing in civilian life, it usually levies fines, rank reductions or short confinement. It is the lowest disciplinary procedure. "The men felt they would be hurt if they went back," said Seaman Howard Smith, spokesman for the group. "There's a lot of hostility on the ship." Few of the sailors have been willing to talk to newsmen or to give their names, and none was available for comment after the transfer.

But a spokesman for the Black Servicemen's Caucus, a group supporting the dissident sailors, said he had talked to many of them afterward and they were dissatisfied. "The reaction of the men is that the Navy has done what it traditionally does, employ a tactic in order to gel the heat off," said Sidney Glass. "No a a issues were solved." He said he expected the men to obey the orders. The all but 10 of them black, were put ashore last Saturday when the Constellation returned to port midway through training maneuvers off the California coast. Spokesmen said their complaints centered on discrimination in jobs and discipline.

The Navy said Ward asked the men to go ashore so their grievances could be discussed in a calmer atmosphere. The ship returned here again Tuesday and the captain met with the men, then ordered them to board the carrier again Thursday morning, promising that their grievances would be dealt with. Informants also confirmed that the United States is sending additional minesweeping forces to join five minesweepers already in the Western Pacific. They would remove American mines from North Vietnamese harbors once a cease-fire agreement is signed. Coinciding with Haig's second visit in six weeks, Thieu's government began a new propaganda campaign in support of Thieu's demands for withdrawal of North Vietnamese forces from South Vietnam, application of the proposed cease- fire to Cambodia and Laos and guarantees that there would be a i i government.

Thieu's closest adviser, Hoang Due Nha, Senate President Nguyen Van Huyen and other top officials have been giving a number of Western newsmen "background" interviews in the last few days. Nguyen Ngoc Ky, second vice chairman of the Senate and a legislator who generally reflects the government line, said he believed a cease-fire "will come soon." but emphasized that "some unfavorable factors" remain. missing man's family may call for sucha presumptivedeath hearing. Young had campaigned in the waning days of the election for his election on the basis that Alaska needs a man in Congress right now. He had said that if elected, and Begich turned up alive and well, he would resign, setting the stage for a special election.

Begich received more than 55 per cent of the total vote, with Young getting just under 46 per cent. i a a in a i have said that committee assignments would be held open for whoever represents Alaska in the event Begich is not found and a special election must be called. Young has said, however, that Alaska must have a man there when the session begins-, in January. Troopers, News-Miner set winter driving clinic The first of a series of winter driving clinics will be conducted Nov. 21 at Alaskaland auditorium.

The clinic, sponsored jointly by the Alaska State Troopers and the Daily News-Miner, will begin at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. A series of color movies providing safe driving tips and showing winter driving methods will be presented, as well as an outline of how to drive Alaska's roads during the severe winter months. A question and answer session will follow. i i a a Fairbanksans are newcomers to the northland--some persons now living here may never have driven on icy and snowpacked roads--the News-Miner and the troopers are combining efforts to stage a winter driving clinic, thought to be the first such ever held here for the public.

A trooper spokesman said that as the roads gather ice and snow, the number of auto accidents greatly increases. And, as breakup comes in the spring and temperatures edge upward toward the melting mark, the roadways again become slippery. Nixon re-election result of fear of change: Gravel BOUQUET FOR SENATOR--Geraldine Sageagak, a kindergarten student at Denali School, went to the airport Tuesday morning with her mother Cora and little brother and helped welcome Sen. and Mrs. Ted Stevens to Fairbanks.

Geraldine gave Stevens a bouquet of fur flowers. Her mother Cora is from Kotzebue and is a student at the University of Alaska. Geraldine's father Morgan Sageagak is a native of Barrow. (1'hoto by Mike Dallon) A A (AP)-Sen. Mike Gravel says the re-election of President Nixon might well have been brought about by an A i a public fearful of necessary fundamental changes in society.

Gravel, speaking at Anchorage Community College, said there was a dialogue attempted in the presidential campaign to try to talk in terms of some vital change. The Alaska Democrat said the election probably was a "rejection of that flow of dialogue: of that desire for change." The change has been so rapid Christmas mail record expected WASHINGTON' (AP) The U.S. Postal Service has projected a holiday volume of nine billion pieces of mail this Christmas season. The service made the prediction Thursday while issuing its annual plea to send Christmas mail early. It said surface parcels within the United States should be mailed by Dec.

10 and surface greeting cards by Dec. 15. that "it assaults our morality, or belief in religion, our values in our work ethics and in our economy," Gravel said. "Then along comes a guy i for president who says we have got to have more change. I think consciously or subconsciously the American people just cringed from it, just didn't want to face up to the said.

"I'm gonna be one of them first customers for that drivin' school. I wanna gel them troopers to show me how to crash with more style.".