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Squad Among 75 Victims HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (UPI) A chartered airliner carrying 75 persons, including the Marshall University football team and coaching staff, crashed and burned in light fog and rain Saturday night near the Tri-State Airport in the Appalachian Mountains. Police, airport and university officials said it appeared Sen. Byrd Might Attempt To Oust Kennedy as Whip By Drew Von Bergen WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen.

Robert C. Byrd, took a backhanded slap at Sen. Edward Kennedy's performance as Senate Democratic Whip Saturday and said he would confer with his colleagues next week to decide to try to unseat Kennedy. Byrd, a conservative and No. 3 in the Senate Democratic leadership, left little doubt in an interview he was displeased with the Massachusetts Senator's handling of the whip's duties, which include managing party activities on the floor and rounding up votes.

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St. 13 Oregon 22 Army 22 Boston College 21 Pittsburgh 6 West Virginia 28 Syracuse 19 Nebraska 51 Kan. State 13 Notre Dame 10 Georgia Tech 7 Georgia31 17 Florida 24 Kentucky 1 3 Arkansas 36 SMU 3 Rice 18 Texas 17 Air Force 31 Stanford 14 Villanova 14 Navy 10 Ohio State 10 Purdue 7 Texas 58 TCU 0 Ole Miss 44 Chattanooga 7 Michigan 55 Iowa 0 OHIO COlUMbMlS lone Croihei jt With football fS Team Aboorri 0 HJ Chorltslon mmmmmmm KENTUCKY W'VA- lolA LCINIA the News of today's news: Digest of Good morning. Here is a summary The lAP Wirephoto) Marshall University quarterback Bob Harris (left) gets off a pass Saturday afternoon as teammate Art Harris provides blocking during game with East Carolina University at Greensville, N.C. A few hours later, a plane carrying the Marshall team crashed in West Virginia, killing all 75 persons aboard, including these two players.

Brown Advises La. Demos Ignore National Guidelines By Vernon A. Guidry Jr. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Louisiana's Democratic National Committeeman J.

Marshall Brown Saturday called on the state party to ignore national guidelines for selection of delegates to the 1972 convention. Brown, however, could not say if such an action would lead to the rejection of the state's delegation to the convention. His comments came before a "I've been doing the work all along," Byrd said. "The only difference is I would have the title." Last week, Kennedy was quoted as saying he would seek re-election to the No. 2 post when the 92nd Congress convenes in January and would welcome a challenge by Byrd.

Kennedy became whip two years ago by unseating Sen. Russell B. Long, by a 31-26 vote of Senate Democrats. Byrd said it was too early to speculate whether he would jump into a head-to-head contest with Kennedy. He said he wouldn't make a final decision "before the end of the session, if then." "I'm not lying awake at night worrying about it," said Byrd.

"If I don't seek the whip position, I would run for reelection to the position (party secretary) I now hold." Taking a Chanca It is doubtful Byrd could retain his present position if he bucked Kennedy and lost. Kennedy likely would field his own candidate for the No. 3 If Bvrd decides to run, the prime issue undoubtedly will be Kennedy's absenteeism from the Senate floor and Byrd's 'constant floor activity attending to the mundane arrangements necessary for legislation to flow. Byrd said he neglected Ms reelection campaign this fall to fulfill his Senate responsibilities. Byrd rolled up a record 78 per cent of the vote over his challenger, the mayor of West Virginia's capital of Charleston, while Kennedy polled 63 per cent against Republican Josiah Spaulding in Massachusetts.

As for Kennedy's performance on the floor, Byrd said, "this would have to be a judgment that each senator would have to reach within himself." "I work very closely with Mr. (Senate Democratic Leader Mike) Byrd said. "We get along very well (Turn to Page A-, Column 4) Trial by Jury Overworked, Says Burger PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -Chief Justice Warren E. Burger suggested curtailment of jury trials in civil cases Saturday as one way to accomplish a sorely needed streamlining of the judiciary. Stressing he was not advocating any specific change but only making suggestions for bar and bench to consider, Burger said all automobile and personal injury cases might be removed from federal to state courts and tried without juries.

"Perhaps the time has come to ask whether automobile personal injury cases have any more place in the federal courts than overtime parking or speeding on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia," he said. He spoke at a testimonial dinner honoring Pennsylvania Chief Justice John C. Bell 78, a harsh critic of some U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Bell led a move in 1966 to have the Conference of State Chief Justices protest the High Court's guidelines for police questioning of suspects.

Among his "few modest examples" of how the judicial system might be modernized, Burger suggested trying complex and lengthy cases with a judge and two lay experts, as is done in England. Lay experts in chemistry, physics or engineering, for example, could assist the judge and hasten a verdict. "The mere fact that the prolonged trials so common in the United States are virtually unknown in England suggests we ought at least to look more closely at their experience," he said. Burger noted that while the Constitution guarantees a jury trial in criminal cases, the Supreme Court recently ruled that although traditional, a jury of 12 members is not constitutionally required. A Southern Airways jetliner carrying the Marshall University (Huntington, W.

Va.) football team home from a game in North Carolina crashed Saturday night while approaching the Huntington airport, killing all 75 persons aboard. South Vietnam's Vict President Ky was flying to New York today to begin a long-delayed tour of the U.S. His itinerary includes a visit to West Point, meeting with former President Johnson in Texas and visits to a number of military bases, Monday's scheduled opening of the trial of Lt. William Calley on murder charges in the alleged My Lai massacre was delayed when lawyers failed to complete selection of a jury at Ft. Benning Saturday.

At the U.N., 12 neutral nations proposed that the General Assembly urge an immediate end to testing and deployment of nuclear weapons. The 12 said the move would help the current U.S.-Soviet arms limitations talks. Estimates of the death tod ranged to 50,000 and above in the wake of a cyclone and tidal wave that struck East Pakistan's eastern coast. there were no survivors. It appeared to be the worst air accident involving a college football team.

Thirty-one persons, including 14 Wichita State University players, were killed last Oct. 2 when their airliner crashed in the Colorado Rockies. In 1960, a plane crash in Toledo, Ohio, killed 22 persons, including 16 members of the California State Polytechnic College team. The Federal Aviation Agency said the plane, a chartered Southern Airways DC9, carried 70 passengers, a crew of four and a baggage handler. The pilot was making an approach to the airport's runway when the crash occurred at about 7:40 p.m., EST, after a 40 minute flight from Kinston, N.C.

The Marshall team played East Carolina College at Greenville, N.C, and lost, 17-14. There was a 300-foot ceiling and visibility was five miles, the FAA said. The plane came down about one and one-half miles from the airport, near where Interstate 64 crosses the Big Sandy River into Kentucky. The Appalachians rise to a height of about 1,000 feet in the area. Eyewitness Account An area resident, Mrs.

Don Bailey, said, "I heard the plane overhead. Then it made a funny sound. I went to the back porch and saw a streak of fire and then an explosion. My house shook. Then it seemed like there was nothing but fire in the sky." Mrs.

Bailey's husband said, "I don't see how anybody could have gotten out of that plane." Steve Stanley, air traffic control specialist at the airport, said he was on the field "taking a breather" at the time of the crash. "I saw a large ball of fire, an explosion, about two miles from Runway 11," Stanley said. Other eyewitnesses reported the plane struck the top of a hill, skidded down into a valley and exploded in fire. State Policeman W. F.

Donohoe, one of nine troopers at the crash scene, said the wreckage still burned two hours after the crash. 'It would be a miracle if anyone survived," Donohoe said. A spokesman for Marshall University, which has a student body of 9,100 and is located in Huntington, said the plane carried 37 football players, members of the coaching staff, (Turn to Page A-6, Column 6) Amendment Upsets City's By Jim Butler (Town Talk Staff Writer) Rejection of the bid to raise permissible interest rates on government agency bond issues is going to cost Alexandria money, one way or the other. The proposal, Constitutional Amendment No. 29, went down to defeat along with the 52 others on the Nov.

3 general election ballot. It would have permitted Alexandria and other governmental bodies in the state to sell bonds at a maximum rate of nine per-. cent rather than the six percent now allowed, a rate for which there is no market. The rejection caused Commissioner of Finance and Utilities Carroll Lanier to begin searching for alternatives to his plan to seek a major addition to the city's power plant. The city council took bids and awarded a contingency contract last December for a new turbine and boiler for the power plant.

The bid price for the turbine alone was $1.9 million. The World Nation State is I Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.) criticized Sen.

Ted Kennedy's performance as Senate Democratic whip and said he is considering an attempt to unseat Kennedy. U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger suggested elimination of jury trials In civil cases as one way of streamlining the nation's court system. A small group of Eastern and Midwest college students met in Chicago to form a nationwide organization aimed at countering dissidents who try to close down campuses. (AP Wirephoto Map) Map locates Kenova, W.

near where a jetliner carrying the Marshall University football team crashed Saturday night. All 75 persons aboard apparently perished. Plane was approaching nearby Huntington, W. home of Marshall, when it crashed. Vietnam's Ky Flying to U.S.

PARIS (UPI)-South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky flies to New York today to begin his long-delayed tour of the United States, a spokesman for the South Vietnamese delegation at the Paris talks announced Saturday. Ky is expected to visit a number of American military bases during a 2Vi tour, the spokesman said. Ky's itinerary In the United States was not complete but it is known that he plans a trip to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A spokesman for the South Vietnamese Embassy in Washington said Ky would go to West Point immediately after arriving from Paris.

The spokesman said Ky would go from West Point to Newport, R.I., and then to Colorado Springs, and Ft. Leavenworth, winding up the tour at the end of the week with stops in either Alabama or Georgia. Diplomatic sources said Ky would also travel to Texas to call on former President Lyndon B. Johnson at his ranch near Austin. Ky underwent pilot training at Maxwell Air Force base near Montgomery, and was expected to pay a visit there.

He is expected to confer in Washington with President Nixon on Nov. 24. 29's Defeat Power Plans Bids were taken at that time to hold the line on the price and to set a production slot for the equipment. If the amendment had passed, Lanier planned to go to the voters with a bond issue proposal to pay for the cost of the installation and related items, a capital improvement project in the neighborhood eventually of $10 million. "The defeat of the amendment will put off any additions to the plant for at least a Lanier said in an interview in his city hall office.

He noted that the price of the turbine has risen 13 percent since bids were taken last year but the city can't take advantage of the price holding it created with the contingency contract. "We can hold the order for another year," Lanier said, "but it will cost us a six percent increase in the price. We would still be seven percent, ahead of (Turn to Page A-6, Column 1) Private Academy Here Purchases 17-Acre Site for New School Plant Soviets Rap USIA Chief MOSCOW (UPI)-The Soviets attacked U.S. Information Agency Director Frank Shakespeare Saturday for allegedly fabricating anti-Soviet propaganda and using his agency to spread it. The attack, in the Communist Party daily Pravda, was unusual for the Soviets.

They do not often single out high U.S. officials for personal criticism, but they appear to dislike Shakespeare more than most officials of the Nixon Administration. He was attacked once before in the Soviet press for his handling of the U.S. Information Agency. The latest criticism said Shakespeare was responsible for accusations against the Arabs in the Middle East and the Soviets in Cuba.

It also said he has urged President Nixon to explore the possibility of cutting off diplomatic relations with the Kremlin. "In September, the USIA made a lot of noise about alleged violations of the ceasefire agreement in the Middle East," Pravda said. "Streams of Anti-Arab and anti-Soviet propaganda were directed by Frank Shakespeare's firm hand. "Next, the USIA invented a new anti-Soviet canard about the alleged Soviet submarine base in Cuba," Pravda continued. "This duck's flying time was not very long and it splashed into a puddle.

It splattered mud on those who originated The reference was to a report the Soviets were building a large atomic submarine base in Cuba. The report was denied in an official statement issued by the Kremlin. subcommittee of the State Democratic Central Committee which must come up with recommendations for state party compliance with the guidelines fashioned by a commission created at the 1968 national convention. "I'm here to urge you to keep the system you have," declared Brown, who exercises influence in delegate selection by the central committee, done largely at the bidding of the governor. The subcommittee, headed by State Dist.

Judge Thomas W. Tanner of Slidell, meets here Dec. 5 to digest the information received Saturday and possibly to shape recommendations. The subcommittee is on record as favoring a good-faith effort to meet the guidelines, but one basic determination pointed up by Brown's remarks was what risk the state would run in not complying. "We will really decide that (the risk potential) on the fifth," said Tanner.

At present, the central committee formally choses delegations to national party conventions. Under the guidelines, a maximum of 10 per cent of the delegation may be chosen by a central committee, with the remainder, if not all, of the delegation selected whether in elections or by convention. To complicate the situation the guidelines call for delegates, and in Louisiana's case, members of the central committee, to be elected in the same calendar year as that in (Turn to Page A-6, Column 1) Life on Mars ing" the construction of cells or organisms for specific purposes. The NASA group was understood to be focusing its attention on relatively nearby Mars whose environment is thought too hostile for known forms of advanced life. Before Mars would be seeded with artificial life, it must first be explored to rule out the possibility that life already exists.

In addition to the kind of cell assembly performed by Danielli, the NASA meeting discussed creation of new life forms by protoplast fusion techniques and echromosome manipulation. The meeting was attended by exobiologists, biophysicists, microbiologists, geochemists and others. The J. Marshall Brown, Louisiana's Democratic national committeeman, called on the state party to ignore national guidelines for selection of delegates to the 1972 convention. W.

W. McDougalt, chief aide to Gov. John McKeithen, said he is investigating charges that state agencies ignored law violations at bars and lounges in Jefferson Parish. 1971. He added that the facility is now being designed by architect Melvin Young.

The spokesman noted that several sites have been considered, and the members of the corporation are delighted to have gotten this one because it will allow plenty of room for construction of facilities for a complete athletic program. Dr. D. H. Texada is president of the corporation and Dr.

Malcolm Denley is vice-president. The academy currently holds classes in the old Kelso school in Pineville. Plan to Plant born biologist who disclosed this week that his Buffalo, N.Y., research groups had constructed living and reproducing amoebae from the parts of different one-celled organisms. If organisms could be tailored for distant planets, all sorts of possibilities would arise. The organisms might be plants capable of producing oxygen by photosynthesis.

Others might provide food or water for a manned exploration base. Possibly organisms could "digest" the rocks of a dead planet like Mars and yield inorganic compounds of use to man. This approach is called "planetary engineering' by space specialists. Other scientists call it "cellular engineer Alexandria Academy Inc. has bought 17 acres of land on Bayou Rapides Road as a site for its new school plant.

The land is about 1.5 miles west of MacArthur Drive across from the Mormon church. It was purchased from Mrs. Catherine Bird Hoover Stone, an heir of the David K. Cooper estate, for cash, with the $38,000 balance to be paid by Nov. 10, 1980.

A member of the corporation said plans call for occupying the new school by September, NASA Eyes MOFFETT NAVAL AIR STA-TION, Calif. (UPI)-The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Saturday that it is considering "planetary engineering" the creation of new life forms to be placed on Mars and other distant planets. Such life forms would transform lifeless and hostile worlds into places useful to man, providing the organisms do not cause more damage than good. NASA's interest was disclosed in a statement that some 20 scientific experts, now gathered to discuss the possibilities at Ames Research Center, would meet with newsmen next week. Among the experts and chairman of the group is Dr.

James F. Danielli, tht British- 1 Inside Today's Town Talk Demo panel recommends limit to I convention floor access Page A-2 I Fourth Calley juror picked; Mitchell I trial to resume Page A-4 1 Cenla high schools asked to join I seminar on Communism Page A-5 1 Syria's new military overlords discuss form of government Page A-6 1 Auto workers start voting on new I contract with GM Page C-l I Kent State president challenges 1 grand jury report Page C-2 1 Britain struggling to save faltering Rolls-Royce Page C-7 I "High GOP official" in Washington may ask Mundt to resign Page D-7 Motorist Killed NearGlenmora A motorist tentatively identified at William E. Johnson, 49, of Lake Charles was killed in a one-car accident on Louisiana Hwq. 113 about three miles west of Glenmora Saturday night. Investigating officers said Johnson's car ran off the road near the Calcasieu River bridge, but they could give no other details.

Johnson's body was taken to Ardoin Funeral Home in.