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Mm PARTLY CLOUDY Partly cloudy Sunday with highs 35 to 43. Saturday's Pollution Index 3 Avenge Airtjmn Index 4 or I Complete Weather on Page 22 Sf ction 2 TV WEEK And World's Best MICS FINAL THE OLDEST DAILY NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES FOUNDED 177 EDITION SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1971 1971 by Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. Vol. 284 No. 10 FIVE CENTS i ii i ii ii ii ii ii ii ii sgTION I GOVERNOR'S FUTURE? Rate Boost PM to Withdraw Sought by Bitter andDisillusioned, What's Ahead for Ray? Combat 20,000 Troops From Metnam by May 1 Brigade Due llr 1 fit BY WILLIAM ECENBARGER Inquirer Harrhburg Bureau HARRISBURG.

Raymond Philip Shafer, whose stormy tenure as governor of Pennsylvania ends at noon on Jan. 19, plans to retirn to private law practice after 12 years in state government. Sources close to the governor say Shafer is weighing several "attractive" offers from law firms, but he probably won't make a choice until after a period of "rest and relaxation." The governor's cabinet and top echelon staff members have provided him and his wife with a goiig-away presenta vacation in the Virgin Islands. Shafer, 53, his rented a home in the Harrisburg suburb of Camp Hill presumably until his 16-year-old daughter. Jane, finishes her senior year at Northern Lebanon High School next June.

Ray Shafer leaves the governorship much the way he came to it inscrutable and. immovable. Then? is not a politician around who will say for certain that he knows what Ray Shafor is really like. He leaves embittered with the legislature and the press, press. In a farewell address to the General Assembly last week, he called the legis ators "buck-passers" for delaying the day of reckoning on new state taxes.

No legislator came forth to deny the accusation. His relations w.th the Harrisburg press corps were frosty from the outset but they approached open warfare in the final months'cf his administration. A top side said recently that there were few gubernatorial news conferences in the last year because Shafer could no longer "grit his teeth for 30 minutes." Shafer believes that one reason his fiscal program failed to win widespread public support was that the newspapers and broadcast media did not convey to Pennsylvanians the impor- tax uuauiUM.iuUuwu ii mmiwi km ffT iJinfiijlKriiii hhimmm um "Hi fj? if "fa 1 GOV. RAYMOND SHAFER This state Gas Works Increase in Spring Would Be First In Last 21 Years The Philadelphia Gas Works announced Saturday it would seek an across -the-board rate increase by early spring but declined to specify how much more it is asking consumers to pay. If the rate hike is approved by the Philadelphia Gas Com-misison, it would be the first increase for the city-owned utility in 21 years.

Edward F. Hubbard, vice president and general manager, said Philadelphia gas rates are the lowest on the Eastern Seaboard. "I feel confident that even after the increase, they will remain the lowest," he said. 2-MONTH PROBE Rate engineers have been compiling data for the past two months and will make recommendations based on their research, Hubbard said. Hubbard said the average custoratr now pays about $170 a year to use gas for cooking, hot water and heat.

PGW serves about 550,000 area customers, including 26,000 commercial and 3000 industrial users. The need for the rate increase was attributed to rising costs in labor and materials. The utility reportedly owes the state more than $300,000 in taxes under the recently enacted public utility property tax. The utility was also handed a $4-million rent increase by the city in the 1968-69 fiscal period that boosted PGW's rent to $15.5 mtlHon. Another financial blow came when many industries failed to convert to gas, which is cleaner than oil or coal, during the current pollution drive.1 The first hint of a rate increase came in July when it was announced that about $10 million had been out of the utility's operating budget for fiscal 1969 to meet capital expenditures.

OKd BORROWING In November, the voters authorized the city to borrow up to $40 million to finance projects for PGW. Utility officials said $12 of the $40 million would be used to replace the money taken out of the fiscal 1970 operating budget to meet capital expenditures and the remaining $28 million would be used to build a liquified natural gas plant in Port Richmond. Andrew Farnese, chairman of the commission, denied that the gas works is in any serious financial trouble. Hubbard said he was confident in the financial future of PGW after the rate increase is passed and when the benefits of the liquified natural gas plant are derived. mm It UStiK VWv i.Mmi -i Porker Protest Goes to Washington Nixon Expected to 6 Social Security Demonstrator traditions upheld by Dixie hogs Protesting Pigs (and Farmers) Are Coming to Market Here tance or gravity of the problem.

Ray Shafer leaves office as unquestionably the most liberal Republican governor in Pennsylvania history and more liberal than most Democratic predecessors. During his four years as governor, state spending rose by almost SI billion. And, of course, there was a corollary increase in taxes. containing a 5 percent increase. The Senate voted a 10 percent boost.

These bills were never compromised. Mr. Nixon joined Congressional leaders in asserting that any increase enacted this year must be retroactive to Jan. 1, but he has not said how high he wants benefits raised. Administration sources said, however, that he probably will recommend a 6 percent increase.

According to administration calculations, that would be enough to offset the rise in living costs that has occurred since the last increase a year ago. Tentative figures indicate the cost of living is 5.5 percent higher than last January. The new Congress convenes Jan. 21 and Mr. Nixon plans to lay down the broad outlines To Be Left in Saigon Area SAIGON.

(AP). The United States will withdraw 20,000 combat troops from the Saigon region during the next four months and deactivate a major tactical headquarters in a speed-up of American disengagement from South Vietnam, it was learned Saturday. The U. S. 2d Field Force, a tactical headquarters 12 miles northeast of Saigon controlling all U.

S. Thai, Australian and New Zealand combat units in the 3d Military Region, will be reorganized to function strictly in an advisory role. The 3d Military Region includes Saigon and 11 surrounding provinces. It covers an area of 10,000 square miles. TO LEAVE BRIGADE The withdrawal of the troops from the Saigon region will end the American combat role in the 3d Military Region.

Only one brigade of American troops about 5000 men will remain in the region by May, and their role will be one of providing security for U. S. installations. The units being withdrawn from the 3d Region are the equivalent of more than a combat division, lfhey include two of the three brigades of the U. S.

1st Air Cavalry Division, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, and the 2d Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division. Two other brigades of the 25th Division and its headquarters were redeployed to Hawaii last year. WILL LEAVE COPTERS The only U. S. combat unit remaining in the region after May will be the one brigade of the 1st Air Cavalry Division.

Many of the 400 assault and other helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division will be turned over to the South Vietnamese, who are hard-pressed for combat helicopters. The withdrawal of at least a brigade of the 1st Air Cavalry Division had been reported earlier this week by a reliable source. A significant factor in the decision, sources claimed, was that senior U. S. officials believe the major American incursion into Cambodia last May and June was so successful that it virtually eliminated the need of U.

S. combat forces in the 3d Military region. HEADED DRIVE It was the 2d Field Force, commanded by Lt. Gen. Michael S.

Davison, that directed the major part of the American drive into Cambodia. The drive forced three North Vietnamese divisions to withdraw deeper into Cambodia and at the same time allowed the South Vietnamese to build permanent bases in Cambodia to block enemy infiltration into South Vietnam. Thus, South Vietnamese militiamen have made rapid progress in pacifying the 11 provinces surrounding Saigon, the sources said. llttqillrcr Section 7 Pases 4 Editorials Eduea.tionYoung World Entertainment Calendar Financial News Garden News Rubye Graham Horoscope Ann Landers Obituaries Dr. Norman Vincent Peale Radio Highlights Ruth Seltzer School News Senior Forum Social Security and Medicare Questions Stamps and Coins Dr.

Thosteson Young and Healthy 7 7 5 4 2 24-30 6,7 4 1,12 5 10 4 11 2 22 2 19 5 9 4 1 7 7 2 11 2 17 7,8 2 17 2 20 By JOE SHARKEY Of The Inquirer Staff A truck convoy carrying hundreds of squealing hogs is expected to rumble into Philadelphia early today to culminate a Southern farmers' protest against the low price they get for pork. The demonstrators have been wending their way north since Friday in a 70-truck caravan that stretch three miles long. More than 140 hog raisers from Virginia and the Caro-linas had joined the 260-mile caravan from Raleigh, N. when it pulled into a truck park north of Richmond, Friday night. The farmers plan to end their trip in Philadelphia, where they hope to sell the hogs for at least double the 15 cents per pound they are paid in the South, Leaders of the demonstration, which is supported by the National Farmers Organization (NFO), said, they would spend the night in Edgewood, then drive into Philadelphia Sunday to sell the hogs.

On Saturday the trucks with their cargo of protesting pigs drove into Washington and past the U. S. Capitol, the Supreme Court Building and down Pennsylvania ave. to the White House. But, only police, reporters and a handful of tourists were on hand for their squeal- Special to The Inquirer And Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON.

President Nixon is expected to ask the new Congress for swift enactment of a retroactive 6 percent increase in cash benefits for the 26 million persons on Social Security rolls. The lawmakers probably will vote a somewhat larger increase than that The last Congress adjourned Jan. 2 without completing action on different bills passed by the House and Senate to raise benefits, effective Jan. I. The administration had indorsed a House-passed bill Moon Stones Are Earth-Like MOSCOW (UPI).

Russia's Lunokhod mooncar dug up samples of aluminum, iron, talcium and other earth-like substances during its mobile probing of the lunar surface, Soviet scientists saii Saturday. A report carried by the newspaper Izvestia said the roving studies of the vehicle showed that "the soil in the area under investigation resembles the basic rocks of the earth and is close basalts." The eight-wheelt vehicle, remote controlled from earth and equipped with radio, television and soil testing equipment, has started its third "lunar day" on studies on the moon's surface. sharp expansion of government's profile cost him dearly in his own Republican Party, which still contains strong elements of the old conservatism. And the opposition Democrats were his natural enemies in this partisan political state even though he pushed for things Continued on Page 12, Col. 1 Request Increase of his 1971 legislative program in his State of the Union address the next night.

The President's program will include higher Social Security benefits, the administration's controversial welfare reform plan which was blocked in the Senate last year, an enlarged version of the administration's revenue-sharing plan on which the last Congress would not even hold hearings and a long-range health program which the administration has not yet hammered into final shape. Mr. Nixon will renew his proposal that widows' benefits be liberalized and that Congress attach an escalator clause to the Social Security system so benefits are automatically adjusted to reflect living cost increases. his position in the blue book with little interest. "I don't really feel my inclusion is something that warrants a great deal of attention," Johns said.

"It's nothing of great interest to us." LONG-TIME MEMBER His wife hails from the family of a well recognized sculptor Edward Fenno Hoffman 3d, who said his family has been listed in the Social Register as long as he can remember. Members of the Social Reg-, ister are chosen by a committee of blue-bloods in each metropolitan city. The names of the committee are never announced. Candidates must be recommended by letters from persons already lodged in the register, but when a person listed in the book is married, the spouse is listed automatically for the 'first year after marriage. OFTEN SCRATCHED After the first listing, the register committee decides whether to list the spouse in the following years.

It is not uncommon for a person who marries someone in the register to be listed in the first Continued on Page 6, Col. 4 AP Wirephoto ing, aromatic arrival. "We really didn't expect to meet anybody from the White House," said Carlton Hyman, of Tarboro, N. C. member of the NFO.

"None of these people will talk to you." In late afternoon, the old farm trucks rattled out of the Capital into Maryland. Their route into Philadelphia would take them up Interstate 95, past Chester and along Rt. 291 past the airport. "We are trying to wake people up to the fact that the little farmer is being driven out of existence," said V. S.

"Sonny" Covil of Burgaw, N. C. Linwood Edge, a Whiteville, N. C. farmer whose truck leads the caravan, said 30 cents per pound was the "very minimum level" needed for hog raisers just to break even.

"On our return, if prices don't advance to a minimum level then I have an idea we will do something like they did in Georgia," Edge said, referring to a protest three years ago in which farmers more than 14,000 hogs rather than sell them at low market prices. In Today's News Sports For and About Women Entertainment Today's World Classified 1 3 4 5 7 6 Comic Section TV Week Food Section Education Guide Today Magazine with features, fashions, puzzles Departments and Features Black Poet Unimpressed by Social Role riii By ALAN L. PHILLIPS Of The Inquirer Staff The first black person to be listed in the Philadelphia Social Register is more interested in his poetry and music and his wife's painting than he is in knowing he is listed in high society. Meredith Shannon Johns 26, who married the former Susan Rush Hoffman, 23, of Wayne, last June accepts 1 uifi 1 1 HI 1 TBii i 1 1 wilfwiiv It ft in iihi it ii i rimr iVii.ti rjin'n if, T1 A 1 it1' i i mi inn i ii fff My dad died when I was a baby and my mom did a great job raising eight children all by herself. Her 65th birthday is this month and I'd like to make it really special.

Any ideas? P. Oaklyn, N. J. Give her night she'll never forget. Mom will be decked out in flowers a gift from the Fleur Shoppe, Oaklyn, N.

J. when she makes grand entrance into Palumbo's Cafe-Itestaurant, Philadelphia. Owner Frank Palumbo's hosting special birthday party for her Jan. 23. Dinner and birthday cake are on the house.

Along with your entire family, here'll be a surprise guest at, the table mom's favorite singer, Tony Martin. He'll sing mom's favorite tune Your Old Wedding Rteg Was NeV and present your mother with a bottle of champagn and birthday kiss. Full Action Line Column Page 3 Section Pages Art News 7 8 Betty Beale 4 14 Book News 7 6 Bridge. 5 10 Career Opportunities 2 28-29 Columnists 7 2, 5 Death Notices 2 2" Shirley Eder 5 2 Inquirer photo by JOSEPH COLEMAN First Negro to Make Philadelphia Social Register Meredith S. Johns Jr.

and his wife, the former Susan Hoffman.