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ENQUIRER AND Weather Cloudy, Colder Today Little Warmer Tomorrow Serving South Central Michigan BATTLE CREEK WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1968 PHONE WO 4-7161 18 PAGES 10 CENTS Sports Pistons Win Big Page B-l EWS ks to arts oin LINE JfflrZT Hove question problem, ois Opinion? Try it on Action Ling. Call between 4 and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, or writ anytime. Johnson Hails End Of Saigon Boycott the serious conferences will not get going until late in December. Thieu declared that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese "have to abandon their aggression and peace will be restored." He warned Hanoi, "You cannot win in South Vietnam.

The South Vietnamese people can't let you take over." The president complained that since the Nov. 1 halt in bombing of North Vietnam by the United States "there have been more violations by shcll-ings in towns and the killing of innocent children and women." Turn to Page 2 SAIGON (AP) President Nguyen Van Thieu said today a South Vietnamese delegation will go to the Paris talks within the next 10 days but he cautioned his nation not to expect peace to come soon. The enemy will fight while he talks, Thieu declared. He said he will announce the makeup of the delegation in the next few days. Thieu said that Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky will go to Paris as over-all coordinator of the Saigon delegation, although he will not actually sit in on the negotiating "as an independent party on the same footing" as the United States, North Vietnam and the South Vietnamese.

Spokesman Duong Dinh Thao rejected the U.S.-South Vietnamese statement that Washington and Saigon regarded the Paris talks as a two-sided meeting in which the NLF would be part of the North Vietnamese team. The NLF claims it is the true represnetative of the people of South Vietnam. Although Thieu said the talks would get under way "in the next few clays" U.S. officials in Washington expect Thieu said that Ky "is the man I rely on to lead the delegation to Paris, but he is not the chief of the delegation. His role will be to coordinate and advise the delegation itself." Thieu, appearing on television and nationwide radio 13 hours after his government announced it had lifted its boycott of the Paris talks, declared: "Talks with the Communists do not mean peace, will be restored soon.

They will fight while they are talking and talk while they are fighting." He said that a "one-man, "aggression" ends "depends on Hanoi and their tool" an obvious reference to the rebel National Liberation Front, political arm of the Viet Cong. In Paris, a National Liberation Front spokesman said the NFL would insist on going into the four-way talks It is beginning to snow and the Irving Park lagoon water is getting cold, and still the poor ducks are swimming around. What will become of these ducks now that winter is setting in? A. Battle Creek. It's too late now for you even to bid farewell to the Irving Park ducks.

By the time you read this they will have been taken to a Battle Creek area farm where they'll spend the winter in comfort and growing fatter pending their return to the lagoon next spring. County Prods Candidates For Returns on Spending I am a Federal Center employe and I feel that there is a definite need for a crossing sign on Washington Avenue. I was standing beside a lady, one night, who almost got hit and then I read in the paper where a pedestrian had been struck. I fear for the safety of all the Center employes and feel we badly need a crossing sign, painted crosswalks or light. Sharon Fitzgerald, Battle Creek.

The City of Battle Creek and Federal Center officials shared your concern over the safety of the Center's employes. They conducted many conferences in order to create a system of physical crosswalk identifications that would protect pedestrians without prohibitively inhibiting the flow of vehicular traffic. Richard M. Jones, the Center's Public Affairs officer, writes, with the concurrence of City Manager James Willis, that consensus has been achieved. Large pedestrian crosswalk signs have been erected and the crosswalk on Washington Street has been painted.

In addition, the electronic signal on Champion Street, that possibly lulled people into false security, is scheduled to be replaced today with a new flashing sign, crosswalk signs and a painted crosswalk. Officials point out that the best safety device is self-discipline and that physical signs will only alert motorists. The ultimate prevention of accidents is a human Notices were mailed today to 19 Calhoun County candidates in the Nov. 5 election including County Clerk Marcus J. Gray, who had failed to report their campaign spending as required by law, telling them that they must file in 10 days or face prosecution.

Failure to file within the 10 days after receiving the notice is a felony punishable by a maximum of two years in prison andor a $1,000 fine. Nobody has ever been prosecuted for such failure in this county, so far as officials here could recall. Expense reports have now been received from two of the 21 candidates who had failed to meet the 5 p.m. Monday deadline for filing at the county clerk's office. Ernest R.

Moore, successful Republican candidate for 3rd District supervisor, listed total expenses and receipts of $423.80. Harold Pederson, Democratic loser for 7th District supervisor, reported disbursements of $335.95 and receipts of $391.15. Reports of no expenses or receipts were received today I recently purchased a used 1968 automobile from a local dealer. The used car salesman told me the car was covered under a 5-ycar 50,000 mile warranty. He failed to tell me that it would cost me $25 to transfer the warranty from the orignial owner.

Used car buyers, ask questions! A.A.N., Battle Creek. The agency manager said that if the salesman did not tell you about the cost at the time he told you about the warranty, he should have. At the same time, the agency was not setting an arbitrary price. The manufacturer has established the $25 price. For a lesser amount, you could have had what remained of the original warranty.

This you should have been told, too. WRITE P.O. BOX 550 BATTLE CREEK 49016 Prayer good gifts, help us to know many of us receive so much Amen. TODAY three storm sewer proposals. Vietnam.

A-7. tables petition for zoning Adult Book Store Back in Business from Richard Fox, Republican candidate for Bedford Tow ship trustee; Robert Burlingamc, Democratic candidate for Marshall Township trustee, and Christine Miller, Republican candidate for Clarendon Township treasurer. Mrs. Diane Burrows, deputy county clerk and elections clerk, said that the 5 p.m. deadline for filing had been set by County Clerk Marcus J.

Gray as provided by law. Under state law, candidates must file "full, true and detailed" accounts of campaign spending and income within 20 days after an election. It is up to the county clerk's discretion to set the time of day for the deadline, Mrs. Burrows said, add Gray set p.m., the normal office-closing hour, of the 20th day, which was Monday. An official in the state elections bureau in Lansing told the Enquirer and News today that Mrs.

Burrows was correct the deadline is the time of the 20th day set by the county clerk, and the deadline applies to receipt of the expense account in the county clerk's office. Moore, whose report was received this morning in the county clerk's office, said he says- there have been sufficient warrants issued to get the matter before the courts. And we have to be guided by the prosecutor." City Attorney R. W. Har-bert Jr.

said the book store operation is under study and that he will have a recommendation for city commissioners by next Tuesday night when they are to meet in regular session. There was no answer when the Enquirer and News telephoned the book store this forenoon. Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP) Living costs jumped six-tenths of one per cent in October for the biggest monthly rise in eight years, the government said today. Clothing and transportation costs were up nine-tenths of one per cent each, food and housing up four-tenths each and medical care rose seven-tenths, said the Bureau of Labor Slatis-tics. Asst.

Commissioner Chase of the bureau said the over-all rise in living costs in 1968 "could very well be around 4.5 per cent for the year," highest since the 5.9 per cent rise in 1951 before Korean War price-wage controls were imposed. The Enquirer and News carried an article concerning the December 1 deadline for registration, through the Internal Revenue Service, of unconventional weapons and "DE-WATS" deactivated war trophies. When I returned home from service in 1946 I brought along a German Lugcr and a Walther .32 pistol as souvenirs and stored them in the basement where they have been ever since. I would imagine there are many World War II veterans in this position and am curious if I would get into trouble for not having registered them years ago or whether they even have to be registered under the new law. A Vet, Marshall.

Your pistols do not come under the "DEW AT" provision even though they are war trophies and may or may not be deactivated, according to a spokesman for the Treasury Department. (DEW ATS include hand grenades, bazookas, ma-chineguns, etc.) However, your weapons should be registered with the Marshall Police Department where registration forms can be secured. There will be no penalty for your not having registered them earlier and there is no charge. Her 'Asthma' Was Removed DENVER, Colo. Janet Young, 16, Boise, Idaho, treated for five years for what was thought to be asthma, was released Tuesday night from Denver's National Jewish Hospital where doctors removed from her windpipe the plastic flower that had been causing the coughing and wheezing since she accidentally swallowed it.

Vial she is holding contains the troublesome lily of the valley. Flower at right was parting gift from other patients. "They told me, Til bet you can't swallow this she said, laughing. (AP Wirephoto) It's Bi-Weekly Pay For City Employes onc-vote system" cannot apply to active NLF members in a future political settlement. Thieu said South Vietnam, however, will show to its allies and the enemy "that we have plenty of good will," offering votes for the Cong when the peace comes.

He asserted that whether Youth, 25, Held In Kidnaping Girl College Student Victim A 25-ycar-old Kalamazoo man was to appear in Municipal Court this afternoon in connection with the alleged kidnaping Tuesday night of a Kellogg Community College co-ed. He is Danny A. Ranes of 2416 Monterey Drive in Kala- Dorothy King hi mazoo. He is held in the city jail on a kidnaping charge. He is accused of abducting at gunpoint Miss Dorothy E.

King, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. King of 8121 Swift Road in Pennf ield Township. Miss King, a KCC freshman and 1968 graduate of Pcnn-ficld High School, told police she escaped when her abductor stopped the car her own in the KCC service parking lot off Central Street.

Ranes was apprehended by Detective Emerson Blanchard and Patrolman Lee Coltson as he was getting into what is believed to be his own auto. It was parked at the scene of the abduction the parking lot at the rear of Covey's Drug Store, 421 N.E. Capital Ave. Miss King, an employe of the drug store, was leaving work at the time of the incident about 7 p.m., police said. Ranes, apprehended about 8:45 p.m., is the brother of Larry Lee Ranes, 24, who is serving a life sentence in prison for the 1964 hitchhike slaying near Kalamazoo of Plymouth school teacher and youth worker, Gary Smock.

The younger Ranes, then 19, also admitted four other robbery-slayings, including the April 6, 1964 murder of Custer Air Station Airman 3.C. Vernon LaBenne. The 20-year-old serviceman was shot to death with a .22 caliber weapon as he worked in the Mobile Expressway Turn to Page 2 NOTICE Your Enquirer and News will be delivered in the morning on Thanksgiving Day. Early publication will permit our employes to spend the holiday with their families. the announcement is made by the President-elect.

"The governor is very sincere in his statement that he has heard nothing definite from Nixon since the election," said Lockwood. "However, I feel certain tha he will be going to Washington. He will be asked to serve." Lockwood also disclosed that he was offered a sub-cabinet post in the incoming administration but turned it down. "There are many people in Michigan who want to go to Washington but I don't happen to be one of he said. had mailed it at 6 p.m.

Monday, believing that he was meeting the requirements of the elections law. He had been informed, lie said, that the report could be mailed and meet the deadline if postmarked at any time Monday. Mrs. Rhodora Reichert, newly elected clerk of Battle Creek Township, admitted today that she had given that information, in the understanding that this was within the requirements of the law. Successful candidates cannot take office unless they file their expense accounts, since these are required for the necessary certificate of determination.

Thus far, 32 candidates have filed leports that they had no expenses, 35 have filed their expense and receipt records and the 19 are yet to come. When filed, all reports are open to public inspection and are preserved for one year in the office where filed. Expenditures and receipts for the campaign by Ray Purcell for county clerk were equal instead of as reported originally. Both receipts and expenditures totalled $1,185.25. Fire Levels Hotel; Fear For 6 Guests DARLINGTON, S.C.

(AP) A fire destroyed the three-story Park Terrace Hotel on Darlington's Main Street early today and only 15 of the 21 registered guests had been accounted for by mid-morning. The Darlington Police Department said it was possible the six guests still unaccounted for had left the hotel prior to the fire or had escaped. The fire was still burning and firemen said it would be at least late this afternoon or possibly Thursday before the hulk of the building could be searched for bodies. Darlington policeman Bobby James said he was just going on duty about 4:30 a.m. when he heard a woman scream.

He ran toward tha hotel and saw smoke pouring from the roof. Three Darlington policemen ran through the first two floors awakening guests but were unable to reach the third floor because of smoke and flames. The Darlington Fire Department was assisted by firemen and equipment from Florence, Hartsville and Lamar. For a time the fire threatened to spread to a variety store across the street from the hotel, but firemen managed to contain it. Lockwood told newsmen that this position could spell defeat for state aid to parochial schools unless present programs are "drastically cut" to provide funds and he acknowledged this was unlikely.

"It is always extremely difficult to make cuts," lock-wood said. "So the only logical way paromhiaid could develop is through new taxes and I don't know of anyone who wants that." Lockwood said it was possible for Michigan to operate in the black over the next two years by limiting expenditures to anticipated revenue from present tax sources. We, the resident at the end of Oncita Street, would like to know when they are going to fix our street. We understood it was to have been done in October and then, later, we were told it would be November. The City told us it was a privately-owned street.

The people would gladly let the city have our part of the street. Also the street dead-ends and people drive down thinking it is a through street. Oneita Street Neighbors. The city, reports Public Works Director L. E.

Crandall, is still in the process of attempting to acquire title to the street from abutting property owners. Some have indicated their willingness to deed their interest to the city and others have not. As soon as all the properties can be secured, the public works department will proceed with the installation of sanitary sewers and then re-grading and graveling the street; also it is the intention to construct a turn-around to facilitate movement at the north end of what will be a very narrow street. Starting in January, Battle Creek's 462 city employes will start receiving their paychecks one every other week instead of every Friday as they have as far back as any remember. The plan for the 26 paydays per year, unstead of 52, was announced today in a letter from City Manager James G.

Willis to the employees. Representatives of three employee unions have protested the payday change. But the, move will bring an estimated savings of $3,600 a year, said Willis. Checks will be distributed as usual on Friday, Jan. next on Wednesday, 15, and thenceforth on alternate Thursdays beginning with Jan.

30. Willis gave the word on the payday change in a complimentary letter to employees on muncipal progress, combined with a Christmas greeting from the city admin- Capital Adult Book Store is back in business despite two police raids last week and arrests of three men allegedly connected with it. The Calhoun County prosecutor's office said today the three will face preliminary examination at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5 in Battle Creek Municipal Court on charges of possession with intent to offer for sale obscene literature.

They are James A. Lacey of 304 Meachem identified as store manager; Harry V. Mohney of Duran, identified as an employe of the store; and Eugene Robert Straub Jr. of Shelbyville, who, police said, signed the lease to rent the store building at 36 N.E. Capital Ave.

Police seized a large quantity of books, paperbacks, magazines and films in raids on Nov. 18 and Nov. 20. Police Capt. Paul M.

Scho-der had threatened a third raid if the store were to resume operations. Schoder said today the police department has known of the resumed operations for "a day or so" but intends no further action at present. Schoder said: "We've been in touch with the prosecutor's office and he (John M. Jereck, county procscutor) won't issue any arrest warrants or search warrants at this time. He Lockwood said Michigan Republican leaders have compiled a list of more than 100 persons from the state for possible service in the Nixon administration.

He said the names have been turned over to Nixon's patronage officers. In matters of business, the GOP caucus, meeting at the posh Caberfae ski lodge, reelected Lockwood as Senate majority leader; Sen. Robert Vander Laan of Grand Rapids, majority floor leader, and Sen. Thomas F. Schwei-gert of Petoskey, president pro-tempore.

Sen. Milton Zaagman of Grand Rapids, was named to replace Sen. Gilbert Bursley I agree very much with Mrs. P. M.

about the publications being sold on the newsrack at one of our local supermarkets. I talked to the manager or owner about this and was told that he didn't know anything like this was being sold in his store and that he would check it out. I went in the next week and found they were still on display and have been since. I think more parents should check to see what their children are reading while the parents are filling their shopping carts. Mrs.

Battle Creek. istralion. "Progress and change must always be a part of government if it is to grow with good common sense and be efficient," said the letter. "To this end a change in paydays has been studied, discussed and considered. After a great deal of serious thought it has been determined that the city will pay all city employees on a bi-weekly basis.

Willis said the S3.600 economy to be realized in the reduction of number of paydays would be a "paper savings," estimated in a reduction of supervisors' time spent in processing worktime data and distributing checks, in office supplies and clerical work. It will thus free numerous employe hours for other work, said the manager. The decision to go to the ever y-other-Thursday paydays was made over protest petitions to Willis from the International Association of Turn to Page 2 manager, commented at a news conference Tuesday night following a two and e-half hour closed-door meeting with Romney at the GOP Senate caucus. Romney, 61, governor of Michigan since 1963, continued to insist publicly that he has not been offered a cabinet job yet. The governor told reporters he had "no knowledge" about reports he would be Nixon's secretary of commerce, or secretary of housing and urban development.

"That's all I have to say," Romney told newsmen, "That should" be clear enough." But Lockwood said it was only a matter of time before Senators See Nixon Job for Romney Evening God, great Giver of all how to say "Thank You." So that we take it all for granted. INSIDE City Commission vetoes A-3. Charlotte soldier killed in City Planning Commission of Ann Arbor as assistant president pro-tempore. Burs-Icy reportedly is headed for a federal post in the Nixon administration. Other new assignments in-eluded Sen.

N. Lorraine Beebe of Dearborn, assistant majority floor leader, succeeding Sen. Charles O. Collar of Benton Harbor, and Sen. John F.

Toepp of Cadillac, majority whip, replacing Zaagman. The caucus also agreed to accept Romney's recommendation that no new or expanded programs be approved without a corresponding increase in tax funds to pay for them. CADILLAC (UPI) State Senate Republicans are certain Gov. George Romney will soon resign to join the administration of Presidentelect Richard M. Nixon.

"We feel more sure than ever before that he will be offered a meaningful position a cabinet post," declared Sen. Emil Lockwood of St. Louis, the Senate majority leader. "We are setting up our Republican organization in the Senate under the assumption that Lt. Gov.

William Milli-ken will be governor next year," he said. Lockwood, who served as Nixon's Michigan campaign change to allow apartment construction. A-3. Page Page Astro-Guide A-8 Regional News A-7 Comics A-8 Sports B-l, 2 Crossword Puzzle A-8 Stock Markets B-3 Contract Bridge A-8 Television B-8 Death A-7 Weather Map B-3 Editorials A-4 Women's News A-6 i. 4.