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3he Partly Cloudy City Edition 102nd Year as a Daily and Sunday Newspaper Established as a Weekly in 1839 Copyright Thi Timei Publuhing Company, Limited 1973 Shreveport, Louisiana, Friday, January 19, 1973 135th Year Vol. 102 No. 53 Telephone 424-0373 Ten Cents U.S., Hanoi Announce Another Meet to Finish Peace Agreement Text By Gaylord Shaw KEY BISCAYNE (AP) The United States and North Vietnam announced Thursday they will resume secret Paris meetings next week "for the purpose of completing the text of an agreement" to end the long and bitter Vietnam war. Inaugural Festivities Under Way WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon returned to the capital Thursday night at the start of a gala weekend marking his second inauguration. Nixon's plane landed at nearby Andrews Air Force Base at 10:17 p.m., after a flight from Key Biscayne, where the President had spent six days.

Nixon missed the first two official functions of the inaugural weekend: a reception honoring Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and another feteing the nation's governors. Mrs. Nixon represented him at the "salutes to the states." Agnew thanked a crowd of thousands for helping him and Nixon win re-election, and told them they will be called on often in the years ahead because "we've got a lot of work left to do." The vice president spoke briefly to about 12,000 people who jammed the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology for a reception in his honor that began three days of inauguration festivities. Agnew said he especially wanted to thank those in the crowd who "worked very hard to give Richard Nixon a chance to complete the work he has begun." And then Agnew drew a rousing cheer from the crowd when he added: "and who have supported me so enthusiastically in my efforts to be of assistance to him." "We've got a lot of work left to do," Agnew concluded.

"And we're going to be calling on you in the years ahead for the same kind of dedication and enthusiasm." The Agnew reception began when 13 Army Trumpeteers sounded the vice presidential theme, "Hail Columbia," as the Agnews arrived. Hundreds of guests who had Arts on his arrival in Washington for a preinaugural Salute to the States affair. (AP Wirephoto) Hands Reach Out to shake hands in greeting with Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace Thursday night at the John F.

Kennedy Center for the Performing VA New Location Revealed For Bossier Racetrack Seven Killed At Home of Muslim Sect The wording of a terse joint announcement by the Florida White House and Hanoi indicated that tentative agreement had been reached on such major points as a cease-fire, the return of prisoners and machinery to reshape Saigon's government. U.S. officials refused to predict when the text would be completed. But they did nothing to ease the impression that only lesser details, such as the makeup of a peacekeeping force, stand in the way of signing a final accord. Emphasizing that he was reading language approved by both the United States and North Vietnam, presidential press secretary Ronald L.

Zie-gler told newsmen: "Dr. Henry Kissinger will resume private meetings with special adviser Le Due Tho and Minister Xuan Thuy on Jan. 23, 1973 for the purpose of completing the text of an agreement." To Complete Agreement The North Vietnamese delegation in Paris said the top negotiators for each side would resume their talks "to complete the agreement on ending the war and re-establishing peace in Vietnam." Hanoi's announcement differed from the U.S. statement in referring to "the agreement" rather than "an agreement." By Hal King The Times Staff Of WASHINGTON (AP) Seven persons, including five children, were killed Thursday in what police described as "definitely an execution" in a fashionable home used as headquarters by a Muslim religious sect. The home was formerly owned by Milwaukee Bucks basketball star Kareem Abdul Jabbar who recently donated it South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu was reported to still have some reservations about the protocols, or technical instruments to implement the peace agreement.

But a statement by his foreign minister, Tran Van Lam, that "peace is near" seemed to indicate the remaining issues could be resolved quickly. Negotiations by lower level experts from both sides on wording of the protocols have continued daily in Paris since Kissinger interrupted his talks with Tho on Saturday to fly here for extensive consultations with Nixon. As these technical talks were under way Thursday in Paris, the semipublic Vietnam peace conference there was indefinitely suspended by agreement of the four delegations. To Return to Saigon White House spokesmen said Haig, who conferred with Thieu for two days, was flying on to Phnom Penh, Vientiane and Bangkok to consult with leaders of Cambodia, Laos and Thailand and would return to Saigon on Saturday. Ziegler would not say when Haig would return to Washington.

Meanwhile, the official Saigon radio said South Vietnam "may be nearing the light at the end of the tunnel." But it said the Viet Cong cannot be accorded equal status with Saigon and Hanoi. From Tokyo, however, came a Kyodo news service dispatch that Chinese Premier Chou Enlai told a member of Japan's parliament, "The United States will recognize the Viet Cong regime The dispatch quoted Chou as telling the Japanese official in a three-hour meeting in Peking that South Vietnam will be ruled by North Vietnam, the Saigon government and the Viet Cong, and that the United States would approve the The new site also abuts the eastern boundary of Ward 2 in Bossier Parish. Ward 2 is the only ward in the parish where alcoholic beverages stronger than beer can be sold legally. John Wolcott, president of Sawyer Downs, has not conceded that the move is forthcoming. However, he has petitioned the Louisiana Racing Commission for a hearing next week for approval to change the track's location.

Albert Stall, chairman of the racing commission, said Wol A 339-acre tract of wooded land, heavy with underbrush and surrounded on three sides by state and federal highways, is the proposed site of the new Sawyer Downs racetrack in Bossier City. The present site on Benton Road near the Bossier Parish courthouse is said to be too inaccessible for traffic. Just outside the Bossier City i limits, the proposed site is south of Hwy. 80, and bordered by stakes marking the proposed 1-220 bypass to the west, incomplete construction of 1-20 the south and Red Chute 1 Bayou on its east side. to the Hanafi Muslim sect of which he is a member.

Police said they are looking for four black men seen running from the back of the house located in an area of expensive (UPI Telephoto) Juan Corona Led to Police Van convicted of murder homes where many of Washing The North Vietnamese have demanded that the United States sign without major revi Jury Finds Corona Guilty sions the agreement drafted in October. been roaming among the displays of historic items began guessing to be received by the vice president and his wife near the museum's elaborate new display of printing presses and Major parts of the October ton wealthiest black families live. The identity of the victims was not immediately known, but police said they ranged in age from infancy to about 30. Earlier reports said three children were found drowned in a bathtub, but police declined to say how any of the victims died. draft were unacceptable to the In Death of 25 Laborers Saigon government, and Zie- machines for the graphic arts.

gler's reference to "an agree ment appeared to indicate a break with the October text cott application is detinitely on the Jan. 26 agenda "and will be acted upon." The property for the new site is owned jointly by J. Pat Beaird, Samuel B. Hicks Emmett R. Hook and Nicholas H.

Wheless all of Shreveport, according to the Bossier Parish tax assessor's rolls. None of the owners would comment publicly on negotiations concerning the tract. One owner, who wished not to be identified, said "nothing is firm yet in the deal." "They're (Sawyer Downs officials) definitely interested and there is a contract to purchase the land)," he said. "But they can get out of it." An option election to permit horse racing in Bossier Parish Scheduled to follow the reception was a 'Salute to the States" the first of a series of shows, concerts and balls both could be expected. By Dong Willis FAIRFIELD, Calif.

(AP) -Juan Corona was found guilty Thursday of murdering 25 farm Two other occupants of the Asked later about the differ ence in language, Ziegler said workers and drifters whose "The intention of both is the to celebrate the 55th inauguration of a' president and to raise money to pay the estimated $4 million cost of this one. hacked bodies were unearthed 4 Teamsters Are Indicted WASHINGTON (AP) Four top officers of a Teamsters' Union local in St. Louis have been accused and arrested on charges of embezzling more than $108,000 in union funds, the Justice Department announced Thursday. A federal grand jury returned a', sealed indictment in U.S. District Court in St.

Louis in which the officials are accused of allegedly paying themselves the union funds in the form of unauthorized salary increases. same. There is no substantive from shallow graves in 1971 difference." Communist officials in Paris the biggest mass murder charge The theme throughout the in the nation history. could not be reached for comment. Comments by President Nix Corona, 38, a Mexican citizen three days of festivities and a worship service Sunday is "Spirit of '76," recalling the who had worked as a farm labor Under California law, life term prisoners are eligible for a parole hearing after seven years.

Dist. Atty. G. Dave Teja told a news conference that if Patton chose to impose 25 consecutive life terms, Corona might not be eligible for parole for up to 175 years. The jury of 10 men and two women had deliberated seven days after the 14-week trial.

The panel announced Tuesday it had reached a deadlock of 11 to 1, but it was not until Thursday that it became known which way the jury was leaning. Jury foreman Ernest Phillips told a reporter the first jury vote was 7 to 5 for acquittal and that it took 15 secret ballots to reach a verdict. Phillips said he chanced his on's spokesman appeared to formative years of the nation rule out a cease-fire until negotiations are compiete. Ear contractor, gripped a courtroom table after Judge Richard E. a 1 1 began the 28-minute process of reading 25 times: was passed oy a slim margin W.

Germany Offers Aid to and looking forward to the celebration of its 200th anniversary in 1976. lier reports from Saigon fore during last year's August pn mary election. cast a unilateral cease-fire by "Guilty of murder of the first the United States and South i mmmmmmmmm mmm Vietnam on Friday, the eve of degree." Corona's mother, Candida, 71, and wife, Gloria, 35, began to Saiff on, Hanoi Nixon's inauguration. stroller Vifrrorfiorl sob quietly as they sat among other stunned relatives, includ BONN. Germany AP No Timetable Set Ziegler said he would not set a timetable or elaborate on the Starting his second term Chan ing four little daughters.

Corona's wife left the court house, both women about 20 years old, were taken to Howard University Medical Center with bullet wounds in the head. One, Bibi Khaalis, was reported in critical condition, and the other, Almina Khaalis, was reported serious but not critical. Family members in North Carolina said Bibi Khaalis is 26 and the daughter of a North Carolina civil rights leader, Dr. lieginaid Hawkins, and that three children who were slain were hers. But police said they could not confirm this.

Police said they are looking for lour black men seen running from the rear of the house about 4:30 p.m. All the victims were black. Police sources said eight young men burst into the house around 4 p.m. during a meeting and "performed the execution." Jabbar, who was in Milwaukee, told a newsman that he "couldn't understand the violence at all I can think of only crazy people, lunatics who would do it." Jabbar never lived in the home which he purchased in 1971 and later donated to the Muslim sect. Metropolitan police Lt.

Joseph O'Brien of the homicide division said five of the dead were children. He said earlier reports of an eighth person killed cellor Willy Brandt offered Hanoi and Saigon reconstruction house in tears accompanying mind several times and the "only thing" that bothered him joint statement, citing an agreement by both sides not to aia inursaay but otherwise took was the lack of an eyewitness. publicly discuss the substance the circumstantial nature of the of the Kissinger negotiations a conciliatory stance on Vietnam and other issues threatening a U.S.-European split. evidence. But in an indication that the Call it beeinner's luck, but two local men are bragging to accord is still tentative now on eartn can someone Brandt rejected political pres Ziegler later said he could not friends and to STROLLER about bagging a deer on their first deer hunt.

Asst. U.S. Attorney PERRY PRINGLE shot a nine-point buck sures by leftists within his brutally murder 25 people, haul them all over the town, bury all Social Democratic nartv that he mose Doaies and nobody see while hunting Hear Ringgold, and CHARLES BOYD, administra publicly condemn U.S. policy in Vietnam. Nevertheless, in his him?" he asked.

tor at Doctors wospiiai, snot a buck (with no horns) an hour inaugural speech to parliament. Woman Dies, 2 Injured in Corey Storm COREY, La. (AP) The Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Department said a tornado destroyed a fairm house Thursday at the Corey community, killing a young woman and seriously injured her baby daughter and mother. Killed was 16-year-old Julia Bass, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John Lee. The two-week-old baby of Mrs. Bass, Emily, was hospitalized in Monroe aJong with Mrs. Bass' 56-year-old mother, Josephine. Authorities said the baby was blown out of the house and landed in a field.

Corey is about 20 miles south of Monroe. Officers said the twister that hit the farm house also knocked down some power lines and knocked the sheriff's radio system off the air for a time. Other damage in the area was reportedly minor. Partly Cloudy Skies Forecast her 10-year-old daughter, Marta, in an ambulance to a hospital. The girl was carried out on a stretcher and defense attorney Diehard E.

Hawk told reporters he thought she was suffering from shock because "she really wanted her dad to be set free." 25 Transients Slain The verdict came in the Yuba City slayings of 25 transient farm workers and drifters whose hacked and stabbed bodies were secretly buried in peach orchards on the banks of the winding Feather River 100 miles northeast of San Francisco in the spring of 1971. Corona, who did not testify in his defense, was led away with his manacled hands gripping a comment "until a final agreement is reached." Kissinger, Nixon's chief foreign affairs adviser and Vietnam negotiator for four years, is expected to leave for Paris on Monday for "the purpose of substantive negotiations," Ziegler said. Later, Ziegler said "President Nixon's objective is to end the fighting and restore the peace in Surprised by Defense Phillips said jurors were "very surprised" when Corona's attorney did not call any wit he implied that some aspects of recent massive antiwar protests in West Germany may have been valid. nesses. "The defense did not Brandt said he could under make the case they expected.

I Col. Weathervane decided to work on his patio this afternoon after reading the National Weather Service forecast for Shreveport and vicinity. don't know if they had any stand Germans' impatience for Vietnam peace, and hinted he may have acted behind the scenes to express Bonn's con and 15 minutes after stepping out of and still within sight of the truck which took him hunting at Possum Kingdom Lake, near Fort Worth, Tex. BOYD chuckles when he recalls that it was another hospital administrator, RICHARD HERRMANN, who has been a deer hunter for nine years, and who has never shot a deer, who took him along on the trip. Confirming his no hit record, HERRMANN added, "And what's more, I have never shot at one!" case," he said.

Vietnam as soon as possible by proved false. He said all of the dead were means of a negotiated settle cern about the war. ment." A it 1 iorecasa IV III) called for clear II to nartly cloudy After the verdicts were read, the judge thanked the panel for "a substantial contribution to the administration of justice" found inside the house. He The Nobel Peace Prize winner His use of the words "end the declined to comment on whether Ithis pa no urged frank talks on U.S. with a lit- ERFCTTDB-' any weapons were found.

fighting" was seen as an indication that Nixon had decid and dismissed it. European differences, to prev cooler tem- VtPVKEt1e O'Brien said the shootings ent political strain from growing ed not to declare a unilateral were discovered about 4:30 p.m. 0--t peratures throuSh today. out of "possible economic book on U.S. citizenship.

His sentence, which could be a maximum life in prison, is to be handed down by presiding Judge Richard E. Patton some time after an appeal hearing, Hawk told reporters that on hearing the verdict, Corona "asked me to do something I could not bring myself to do. He cease-fire until final agreement is reached. South Vietnamese sources had said Tuesday that More STROLLER on Page 17-A when an occupant of the home arrived from a shopping tour. The occupant, whom he did not identify, became suspicious lircicnaiMKijr jeloudy skies with a chance rain and asked me to thank the jury for its attention to the case." 1XIV set for Jan.

29. thundershowers tie strongly reattirmeo support for the U.S. political and military presence in Europe, and for his policy of rooting in the Western alliance his friendly approaches to the Soviet bloc. There were clear signs in his wnen nis knock at the front door received no acknowledgement, O'Brien said. The police lieutenant said the occupant then went to the back of the house and observed four Bossier Mulls $855,000 Windfall Nixon would make such a move to pave the way for a final pact.

On Monday, Nixon halted all U.S. bombing, 1 1 i and mining of South Vietnam. As the joint announcement sent peace hopes soaring even higher, Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr.

hurried through a series of meetings with Southeast Asian leaders at Nixon's behest, ap taxpayer by lowering the tax speech, televised live to the nation, that Brandt sought to reconcile his two roles as black men running through the By Hal King Of The Times Staff millage. Nattin, who said the past five check of $435,000 as received by the city in early December. The second check is for $420,000. And more federal funds are coming, Nattin said. He ex Chancellor of a staunch U.S.

al oacK yara. upon entering the house, O'Brien said, the occupant discovered the bodies. What can be done with more or six years have been good ly and as leader of a Euronean- than That's the problem facing years budgetwise, said the city has realized a small surplus of parently to brief them on details of the tentative accord. minded Socialist party troubled by some aspects of U.S. policy.

plained that the two checks Bossier City officials, who have funds in recent years. already received were for 1972 received a second federal reve Funds coming this year will be delivered at the close of each nue sharing check for 1972. are predicted for tomorrow. Winds over the city today are expected to be light and variable. High temperature for the city is expected to be in the upper 60s today following an early morning in the mid 40s.

The low tonight is expected to be in the low 50s. Temperature extremes in the rity yesterday were 76 and 64. Rainfall measured .05 of an inch. Temperature extremes and precipitation recorded elsewhere in the Ark-La-Tex yesterday included 73 and 56 with .01 of an inch of rain in Alexandria; 73 and 66 with .12 of an inch in Lufkin, and 72 and 53 with .22 of an inch in El Dorado, Ark. Weather map and oher details may be found on Page 4-C.

Inside She QimtB "This is the biggest surplus of unbudgeted funds this city has ever seen," he said. "I would recommend that a committee be VJCNDB? IP BOBBY UUU. Mayor George Nattin is in favor of the city council appoint quarter, which means the first 1973 revenue sharing check will HAS VMS UkfcfHlS Four Sections 58 Pages ing a committee of responsible businessmen to look into the appointed of area citizens to investigate the possible spending alternatives and strongly School's Out For Sliidcnls Public school students in Caddo Parish will get a holiday from school today in observance of the school system's midyear break. Teachers, however! will be on the job. school officials said.

The break is the second of two nonteaching days set aside in the school board 1972-73 school calendar. to question of the best way to China turns ment plan deferred pay-Page 16-A recommend lax reductions." snenn ine iunns in me interest Today's (AutcUlp A certain man reports that his wife does bird imitations she watches him like a hawk. be due sometime in March. "I don't know what will be done ith the money. We'll just have to see what the people want," said Nattin.

In the meantime, revenue sharing funds already collected are i in government certificates and drawing 4 per cent interest. 4-B 2- 3- 8-C 4- 8-C 1-C 7-C 4-C 6-C 3-B 20-C 10-C 5- 12-A 2-A 6- A 7- Amuse Astrology Bridge Classified Comics Deaths Digest Editorials Graham Pentagon paper, red strategy linked page S-A Bossier City residents currently pay 30 mills in taxes each year. This millage could be reduced to 23 mills and possibly Heloise Landers Lowman Markets Outdoor Porter Sports TV-Radio Webber of the city. "As things stand right now, the money hasn't been earmarked for anything," the mayor said. "I think we might be able to help the Bossier City more, according to Nattin.

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