The Daily Telegram from Eau Claire, Wisconsin • Page 1

DAILY TELEGRAM VeUXJOV No. 23 16 Pages United Prtsi EAU dUlftE, WISCONSIN, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 28, 1969 Associated Press 2 Sections Tan Ciiffc Looby Seated by Assembly; Dispute Ends MADISON (UP!) The Assembly today unanimously ac eepted the seating of Assembly man Joseph Looby, Eau Claire. Committee Upheld The action accepted a report of the Assembly elections mittee that Looby be recognized as the Assemblyman from Eau Claire County's 1st District. Looby defeated former Assemblyman Wilmer Waters, E- Eau Claire, Nov.

5, by a single vote. Waters appealed the decision to the election to the Assembly, but the elections committee rejected the appeal. Before losing his bid in legislature, Waters had failed to overturn the decision in a recount and a court test. Some of the Assembly's 52- Republican members refused to support seating of Waters in Looby's place, resulting in the decision to drop the appeal. I British Labor Party Wants Pension Hike LONDON (UPI) Britain's Labor party government today unveiled plans for the most drastic reform of the cradle-to- grave welfare state in 20 years.

They called for ultimate doubling of social security retirement pensions and elimination of the specter of poverty in old age. The government's proposals were made public in an official white paper presented to parliament. The proposals were made public only 11 days after another major piece of planned social legislation. This called for a new labor relations code for Britain, giving the government power to curb strikes, enforce secret strike ballots and order 28'day 'cooling off" periods before walkouts likely to Predicts Bod News Carley Sees Huge State Tax Increase STEVENS POINT (AP) -disastrous deficit in the next David cratic Carley, former Demo- biennium, approaching $380 mil- national committeeman, lion," Carley said. says Wisconsin taxpayers should "His idea, however, to align brace for a $380 million deficit revenue with expenditures in in the 1969-71 biennium as well the interim period and for the as for a $25.9 million deficit next two years will be to founder the current biennial crease the sales tax and the budget.

Carley, in a prepared speech for a Democratic meeting Monday night, predicted Republican Gov. Warren P. Knowles will break the news when he delivers his budget message to the legislature Thursday. Knowles had announced Jan. 3 the state budget may be $25.9 million in the red by June 30.

The governor has ordered his agencies to reduce spending, and is expected to suggest tax increases he appears before the legislators. "He will also tell the legislature that we face an even more Pueblo's Wants CORONADO, Calif. (UPI)Pueblo skipper Lloyd M. Bucher has two main to clear his name and again command a U.S. Navy vessel.

whole range of excise taxes, all with a heavy impact on those least able to pay," Carley said. The governor's announcement of a deficit, after campaigning successfully for re-election last year on a 1967-69 budget that had no tax increase, will be the key to the Democrats' campaign two years from now, Carley said. "The substance and design" of the 1970 campaign will virtually be set Thursday by Knowles 1 budget message, said Carley, an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1966. Skipper lew Ship One of those superiors, Rear Adm. Frank L.

Johnson, testi- led in closed session before the five-admiral board on Monday. Johnson will begin public ftfhor The 41-year-old commander of the intelligence vessel feels there is no need for Congress to look into the capture of the Pueblo by North Korea one year ago damage the nation's economy. Most political observers interpreted the two blueprints as strong appeals to Britain's voters. They were expected to form major planks in the Labor party's platform in parliamentary general elections now generally predicted for October, 1970. The white paper conceded the present state retirement pens i ns program is "clearly inadequate." Under it a retired male worker at 65 or woman at 60 gets $10.80 weekly pension.

A married couple gets $16.80 weekly. In its place the government proposed a new program under which both pensions and the weekly social security contributions made to obtain them would be a fixed proportion of a worker's earnings. The program would take 20 years to reach full effect. By then, the white paper estimated, most retired Britons would get about double what they get now. A worker making the national average wage of $52.80 would get a pension of $20.44.

Pakistan Troops Sent into Third Riot Area KARACHI, PAkistan (AP) Pakistan's army, already on patrol in Lahore and parts of Karachi, was ordered into the northwest city of Peshawar today to put down more antigovernment rioting. Buoher says he is getting a fair hearing at a Navy court of inquiry. He thinks the public has "over-reacted" to his narrative of capture and torture and particularly to the "routine" Navy warning he is suspected of violating Navy regulations for relinquishing his snip without a fight. The civilian attorney for Bucher, Harvey, made those points Monday at a news conference. Not Scapegoat Harvey said Bucher was distressed at the impression he is being, made a scapegoat for higher-ups.

Saigon Says Crack Enemy Force Mauled SAIGON (AP) South namese headquarters said today a crack battalion of government rangers backed by U.S. planes and artillery killed 920 North Vietnamese to a bloody battle Saturday and Sunday 18 miles from the Laotian border. A spokesman said the U.S. bombers and artillery accounted for 200 of the enemy dead. He said 51 rangers were wounded in'the engagement 25 miles northwest of Pleiku City, in the central highlands.

U.S. officers said the Communist command has pulled thousands of troops into border areas, apparently waiting to see what happens at the Paris peace talks. B52s Hit Area The ranger battalion was reported still sweeping the area today and U.S. B52 bombers unleashed 500 tons of bombs Mon? day night and today on enemy troop concentrations. The South Vietnamese reported another battle four miles from the Cambodian border and 54 miles northwest of Saigon early today in which about 400 North Vietnamese troops assaulted the night bivouac positions of a- government paratrooper battalion.

By dawn the enemy had been beaten back after a U.S. flare- ship illuminated their positions for a hail of fire from U.S. heli- Coal Miners Escape Fire in Pennsylvania officers involved in the operational response to the Pueblo's radio messages for assistance will be called at the same time. Today's session was closed. Harvey said Bucher agreed with Adm.

Thomas Moorer, chief of naval operations, the Navy was simply seeking the facts. The Navy has said the court may last another four weeks. Harvey said Bucher hopes court will end as soon as there has been a full opportunity for testimony "because he'd like to get on job with the Navy. He's" anxious to get this show on the road." He said Bucher wants the entire story on the record "to clear any slur that might have existed on his name and to get the facts before the, nation." copter gunships. said 23 enemy A spokesman bodies were found.

Two South Vietnamese were killed and several wounded. A U.S. spokesman said American gunships, bombers and artillery killed another 24 North Vietnamese soldiers and smashed four heavy machine gun positions along the Cambodian border 63 miles northwest of Saigon. Mwiday. JEWS ON MARCH than 1,000 Italian Jews marched through the streets of Rome to the Iraqi embassy this morning, Israel Fears More Executions in Iraq protesting Iraq's execution of alleged spies (AP Radiophoto) Action in DMZ Far to the north, North Vietnamese troops just inside the zone shelled the first, time, hi month Monday more night, Hanoi Preparing Path for Retreat PARIS (AP) U.S.

and South Vietnamese officials anticipate three developments from North Vietnam and the Viet Cong in connection with the Paris peace talks. If they are right, then the Americans and their South' Vietnamese allies can expect some difficult moments on the battlefield and at the conference table. But they believe North Vietnam may also be preparing a diplomatic retreat. The U.S. and South Vietnamese sources give this assessment of the intentions of the North Vietnamese and the Na tional Liberation Front.

1. Hanoi and the Viet Cong will try to inflict some form of military embarrassment on the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in Vietnam while the negotiations continue in Paris. 2. Hanoi and the Liberation I Front will use the Paris talks as a forum to enhance the NLF's status and its claim to be the legitimate power in South Vietnam.

3. Meanwhile, North Vietnam may begin preparing its own people for an agreement which falls short of the victory promised for so long by the Communist leaders. South Vietnamese officials put more emphasis on this than the Americans do. Weather WISCONSIN Mostly cloudy and colder tonight and Wednesday. Chance of snow west half and freezing rain east tonight.

Light snow likely most sections Wednesday. MINNESOTA -Variable cloudiness and much colder tonight and Wednesday. Chance of light snow south half Wednesday. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Israel told U.N. Secretary- General Thant Monday another group of Jews is threatened with execution in Iraq.

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Joel Barromi, conveyed the information, and Thant said he would look into the report immediately. After the Iraqi government announced that nine Iraqi Jews and five other Iraqis were hanged Monday for spying for Israel, Iracii Information Minis American Jewish leaders also condemned Iraq's action. Secre- Nixon Backs Solons Huge Pay Increase Rescue Crew Guides Dozen Around Blaze MOUNT MORRIS, Pa. (UPI) miners were rescued after being trapped more than six hours by fire deep inside a soft coal mine on the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. Rescue teams led 11 of men to safety from an area where they had barricaded themselves 3,000 feet from the bottom of the 430-feet-deep Mount Morris portal of the Christopher Coal Humphrey No.

7 mine. The 12th man was carried out by stretcher and taken in an ambulance to a hospital. Rescuers said he did not appear to be injured seriously. The trapped men were among a force of more than 100 miners working the overnight shift when the fire broke out shortly after 6 a.m. EST.

The other miners raced through underground tunnels to safety on the West Virginia side soon as an alarm was sounded. P. WASHINGTON said the mass public Nixon today added his were "repugnant to the con- endorsement to an impending 41 science of the world" and cent pay raise for matter of deep concern" to the congressmen. With time running U.S. government.

But Rogers i out opponents all but gave up noted that because the United i lrvln to block the hlke States has no diplomatic repre-i Nixon, who himself got a sentative in Baghdad, he could per cent pay boost as'Congress' not comment "on the facts sur-'first significant action, supports Fire Still Burning The fire still burned in the mine after tiie trapped men were rescued. Company fire crews and firemen from nearby communities fought the flames with water and then with foam. Millard Brock, 38, of Morgantown, W. section boss of 100 the trapped men, said the men Marines than but a a U.S. Command Czech 'Old Guard' Intends to Shove Aside Reformers spokesman called the attack "trivial." The spokesman said seven Leathernecks were wounded by 25 mortar shells before Marine artillery silenced the North Vietnamese guns six tenths of a mile inside the southern edge of the buffer zone.

The United States believed it had tacit agreement from the North Vietnamese to keep out of the DMZ in return for the Nov. 1 bombing halt, and also proposed guarantees of the buffer zone at the peace talks in Paris Saturday. But so far Hanoi has shown no sign of cooperating although all military activity reported in the zone has been on a minor scale. A spokesman said U.S. artillery fired on a group of North Vietnamese troops moving in the DMZ earlier Monday after they were spotted by an observation plane.

An air observer reported nine were killed. President Nixed Deal, Clark Says WASHINGTON (UPI)-The dispute between President Nixon and former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark brewed today over whether Nixon went back on his word by withdrawing former President Johnson's judicial nominations. At his news conference Monday, Nixon said he "did not have any understanding with the President (Johnson) directly." Nixon said no one had any discretion "to agree to a deal" that he would approve the nominations.

that 65 other persons would brought to trial soon on charges of spying for Israel and plotting against the Iraqi government. Barromi in his warning to Thant possibly was referring to members of this group. Spying Denied Israel denied that those executed Monday were spying for her and said their only crime was being Jewish. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban in a statement to Thant said the Baghdad government "has per- PRAGUE (AP) Leaders of Communist faction beat the woods for domestic allies today jn the showdown struggle shaping up with the liberal leaders still in control of the ruling Communist party. Sources in me liberal camp said the conservatives, assured of the support of the estimated 100,000 Soviet occupation troops, are sounding out the Czechoslovak army and the workers' militia to find out where they stand.

The liberals have the solid backing of the trade unions, the cultural organizations and the students. Although the sources said the conservative feelers have drawn no definite reaction yet, the liberals were said to be far from optimistic about the outcome of the power struggle. A speech by conservative Deputy Premier Luhomir Strou- gal, made public Monday night, called on the militiamen to help the Communist party "overcome hesitations, disorientation and disintegration tendencies." The party's policy-making Presidium met until Monday night to "assess the general political situation." It issued a communique warning that "new provocations" were expected. Prague remained tense as new reports came in of attempted self-immolations in the wake of student Jan Palach's suicide by fire. Another Youth Burned The latest was a 17-year-old boy in Cheb, close to the West second-degree burns Sunday he- fore rescuers put out the Ore.

It was not known whether his motive was political. There were more confrontations between youths and police on St. Prague Wenceslas Monday, Square scene rounding the trials." U'n c- increase, key Former Ambassador and we re told. Court Justice Arthur U. appeared the did not panic and (immediately employed routine survival mea- preme ter Abdullah El Samarrai.told aJQoldberg, the president of con resslonal salar news conference in Jewish Committee, from $30,000 to $42,500 i i 4 i i i rt i petrated an act of barbarity which exceeds even what the world has come to expect from a country in which violence and murder, have become almost commonplace." Thant expressed fear that the executions would upset U.N.

efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East. The Iraqi delegation to the United Nations at once complained that Thant was mixing in something that was "entirely an internal affair of Iraq." The U.S. Shocked U.S. government and Today's Index Editorials 4A Women's 6A Obituaries 7A Sports 1-2-3B Palach's suicide. The police iriefly withdrew their guard at the statue of Czechoslovakia's saint where since Sunday they had prevented youths from placing flowers and candles in tnemory of Palach.

But the police returned in force to disperse new crowds that came to place candles at the spot where Palach burned himself to protest the loss of freedoms under the Soviet occupation. Ota Sik, the architect of Czechoslovakia's preinvasion economic reform plans, returned to Basel, Switzerland, Monday night and announced he German border. He suffered had his government's approval Dirksen Soys Surtax Has to Be Extended WASHINGTON (AP) Senator Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, the Senate Republican leader, said today that the Nixon administration now is convinced the 10 per cent income tax surcharge must be continued until June 30,1970. It is needed, he said, to finance federal activities to help damp down inflation.

to stay there two or three years. Sik, one of the chief targets of Soviet criticism before the invasion, was out of the country when the Soviet troops marched in. He took refuge in Switzerland and returned last week for the first time. Comics 4B Classified 5-6-7B sures, first finding a safe area wi fresh air and building a $12,5001 barricade. boost-! "it wa not bad down there," a y.

ear Brock said. "We got a little 0 effect shortly but nobody panicked." and urged the United States and without either House or Senate The Humphrey mine is located 20 miles northeast of the Mannington No. 9 mine, Mannington, W. where 78 House Rules i 11 were trapped under- expressed "shock and outrage" i would go into and urged the United States and without either the United Nations to "join with haying voted on it. us in condemning what has occurred." Colmcr Seeks Vote Pair Hijacks Miami-Bound Plane to Cuba MIAMI men, one brandishing a .38 revolver and the other armed with a bomb, hijacked a National Airlines jet over the Florida Everglades today and forced the pilot to fly to Cuba.

It was the second act of aerial piracy on National in five days. A Key West to New York flight was commandeered and taken to Havana Friday by a knife- wielding man who said he was a his new chairman of the Civil U.S. Navy deserter. Service commission. Hampton' a.m.

EST, the pilot of also said the. commission fully I ground by explosion and fire last Nov. 20 and given up for dead. The Mannington mine was sealed and remains closed. (Chairman William M.

Colmer, who considers both the increase and its semiautomatic imposition improper, promised a last-minute attempt to force a' House test. Under a 1967 law passed by; Congress the increases recom-j mended by the former Pres-s ident in his final budget' message will take effect matically unless vetoed by House or Senate no later than Feb. 13. For practical purposes, that! WASHINGTON means any veto action must be de 7 £7 told Nixon Wants More Money to Fight Crime before Feb. 7, when the House and congressional Presi- Republican leaders today he Nixon's favorable recommendation was conveyed to Congress by Robert E.

Hampton, I money combat crime, with emphasis on speedier court trials and unclogging of crowd- with NAL flight 64, bound from New Orleans to Miami with 25 passengers and seven crewmen aboard, radioed the Miami control tower, "Please be advised we are going to Havana." The plane was southeast supports" the increases believes the wise will be ed courtroom calendars. After Nixon conferred ie GOP chiefs for more hours, the party's Senate Deader, Everett M. Dirksen of II" linois, said a supplemental ap- efforts to recruit UIP taWt it riatlon to cover anticnme needs Others set for fat pay boosts of I in the salary package include Tampa when the two men I Cabinet members, from $35,000, forced themselves into the cock- to federal district SM.OOO to Su- pit. The plane hijacked today associate justices of the started its trip from Los An-j proms Court, from $39,500 to geles and stopped at Houston en and the chief justice, route to New Orleans. from $40,000 to $62,500.

activities between now and June would be submitted by the "shortly." More Help Needed Dirksen said that in order to crime to heel" there will have to be more judges and a Some Tar Out' Remedies for Air Piracy Suggested NATO Sets Up Plan for Combining Fleets BRUSSELS (AP) Nations in the North Atlantic Treaty organization have agreed to set up a series of plans to bring together a combined fleet of as many as 50 ships in case of a crisis in the Atlantic, diplomats said today. WASHINGTON (AP) The American citizen, aroused by the increasing number of airline hijackings, has come up with several serious, some frivolous and most pretty unusual. Instant Bailout One of tiie strangest suggestions called for installing a trapdoor in the cockpit. Once a would-be hijacker entered, the pilot could open the trap and send the hapless air plummeting to his death. Some other ideas: for the problem flood the Federal Aviation Administration, which says it is in danger of being swamped by the mail.

Suggestions from aerospace engineers, scientists and others are sent to the FAA's engineering division for careful analysis. Manufacturers of devices that guards, jail inmates and larger Justice Department staff. U.S. attorneys are so over(worked, he reported, that people their offices can devote an of only 45 minutes to preparation of a case for presentation in court. Dirksen also complained that rycu've got criminals running around on bail" awaiting trial for as long as three years "and in the interim they may commit rela- two, three or four more tives of prisoners, often suggest-'crimes." ing metal-detection devices such I Most of today's schedule was as prisons The trouble to meetings with Capi- the FAA responds, that there's tol Hill leaders, ranging from a no way so far to tell a pistol sunup breakfast with Republi- from a cigarette lighter or belt cans, to lunch at the House with buckle.

Nor would metal I members of both parties and an detectors afternoon session at tiie White might control the problem are i give a warning of a plastic ex-i House with congressional Demo- invited in to give demonstra- 1 plosive or a bottle of nitroglyc- crats. tions, and their products receive'erin, the FAA points out. close study. Offer Free Rides Praise from Dems Nixon's maiden news confer- pirate! "Mayors, bank Another popular solution is for lence as President Monday drew civic club members, the U.S. to provide free trans- 'high praise from Senate Majori- whole classrooms of students jportation for anyone who wants'ty Leader Mike Mansfield and Build a double-door in," says Al Butler, assis- to go to Cuba, where most hi-'Senate Democratic Whip Ed- entrance, trap the hijacker be- tant chief of the air carrier re- jacked planes are taken.

tween them and fill the space with gas. Or shoot would-be hijackers with a tranquilizer gun search branch of the FAA'si And then there's the ultimate'setts. ward M. Kennedy of Massachu- Flight Standards Service. solution: "Have the Cuban na- "He did very well," said the way TV thugs are'knowledge every one.

Some we "We read them all, and ac- tional anthem played over the nedy handled. jean answer only with a card. Day after day, proposed cures, Letters stream in from prison public address system of the' That was the general impres- airliner just before takeoff. Ar- sion, too, of the more than 450 rest anyone who stands up." (newsmen who attended..