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the 2 p.m. Temperature 46 Garden City Telegram Tomorrow's Forecast Snow Volume 40 GARDEN CITY, KANSAS, 67846, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1968 Copy 10 Pages -No. 39 Hanoi Will Free Some U.S. Pilots Christmas SAIGON (AP) The United States today returned seven vilian seamen to North Vietnam, and Radio Moscow confirmed that Hanoi has nounced it will release some American pilots at Christmas. A U.S.

spokesman said the release of the seven North Viet- namese was arranged in Vientiane, the Laotian capital. He said Hanoi's representatives had given no immediate indication that their government planned to release any of the hundreds of American fliers it has captured. But a spokesman for Moscow Radio confirmed a broadcast by the Soviet radio Saturday which said: "Radio Hanoi stated today Dec. 14 that a group of American pilots who were taken into captivity when their planes were shot down over the territory of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam will be released at Christmas." The Hanoi broadcast had not been heard by monitors in Tokyo, Hong Kong or Saigon. and in the absence of official word from the North Vietnamese it was thought Moscow might have been mistaken.

The report relayed by Moscow gave no indication exactly when or how the fliers would be released. The U.S. Command in Saigon said the release of the North Vietnamese seamen was An "action of good will" which it hoped would "lead to further release of prisoners." The men were released off. shore about 13 miles northeast of Vinh, a coastal city 145 miles north of the demilitarized zone. A spokesman said the U.S.

and North Vietnamese diplomats in Vientiane who negotiated the release "gave assurances that the operation would be safe from military action." But no cease-fire was declared because Tour-to Sun Bowl Canceled One bowl trip, the Orange Bowl journey, will be taken among the three offered this year by the Garden City Telegram and Sunflower Excur. sions. Tour director Mrs. Norman Thompson, who last week that not enough gers had been secured for the Rose Bowl trip, today said the Sun Bowl tour also has been canceled. The Orange Bowl, an 18-day journey leaving here Dec.

26, will be taken. However, there are still some seats ayailable on the rest room equipped, air-conditioned chartered bus. Cost of the tour is $340 per person. This includes all travel and lodging, plus consid. erable sightseeing and reserved seats at the Orange Bowl Classic which this year features the University of Kansas against Penn State.

Reservations can be made at the' Telegram. Flu Incidence Up Here; Hospital Visiting Limited Increased incidence of the Hong Kong Flu here over the weekend today resulted in restricted visiting at St. Catherine Hospital. "We are requesting emerg. ency visiting only as a precautionary measure," Hospital Administrator Dale Gillan said today.

There were a few cases diagnosed here last week, but Clifford Calls for An Early Cease-Fire President Johnson's order halting all aerial, naval and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam on Nov. 1 made that unnecessary, the spokesman explained. Last Oct. 21 the United States and Hanoi declared a 36-hour cease-fire covering 8 288- square-mile area along the coast to return 14 North Vietnamese navy men. At that time the United States said it held no other prisoners of war.

North WASHINGTON (AP) Secre- tary of Defense Clark M. Clifford says the United States should negotiate an early Vietceasefire and troop withdrawals, leaving the political settlement Saigon, Hanoi and the Viet Cong. "I have no idea that we should maintain 540,000 (American) men there fighting," Clifford said Sunday, "while wo wait for Saigon and Hanoi to come to some political settlement." Clifford also said a possible new enemy offensive in South Vietnam would not wreck the Paris peace talks, noting President Johnson had foreseen "hard bargaining and hard fighting ahead." The defense secretary interviewed on the CBS radio-television program "Face the Nation." He suggested the U.S. role at the Paris talks should be limited to military matters and the more time-consuming political settlement should be left to the Vietnamese, including the Viet Cong's Liberation Front. "Now, I say that the political settlement is a matter between Saigon and Hanoi and the NLF," Clifford said.

"Our military problem involves North Vietnam I say the military settlement should come first." The secretary expressed repeated annoyance with the pro- Yule Concert Here This Week The music department of the Garden City High School will present its annual Christmas concert Wednesday at 8 p.m., in Clifford Hope Auditorium. The concert will be called "Christmas, 1968." It will feature the Concert Choir, the Modern Choir and Les Chantees, all directed by Jerry Ford. The orchestra will be lirected by Martha Potts. The public is invited. There will be no admission charge.

The Weather Increasing cloudiness and little warmer tonight, Southeast winds 10 to 15. Lows 25 to 30. Tuesday cloudy with little change in temperatures. Chance for snow ning early Tuesday. Southeast winds becoming northerly dur.

ing the day. Highs in the 40s. Precipitation probabilities 40 per cent Tuesday, Sunriso Sunset 5:21 Max, Min. P'rec. Dodge City 49 21 Emporia 32 14 GARDEN 31 17 Goodland 15 Russell 16 Salina 33 15 Topeka 11 College Christmastide Contributors Telegram Photo "Music 1 for Christmastide" will be presented tomor- are Kathy Witman, row at 8 p.m., in the Student Center on the new and Delilah Shay.

Directing the quartet is Loretta Lang, Rosalyn Waldorf Norman of campus. Garden be Community given by the Junior music department Radke, director of music at the college. The public It will City College and this is invited to the hour-long free concert. quartet will have a hand in the event. From left, Kansas Senator Says at K-State Workshop garden- with the editor Talk about singing sour notes to "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas!" The Wichita Eagle this morning published a story about the slim chances for a white Christmas in this area.

This isn't based on a forecast, but on a probability chart. made. up by. the. Environmental Science Services Administration.

It shows: a dismal 14 per cent chance for snow in the' southwest corner of the state, and only a 29 per cent in the Wichita area. Best chance, naturally, is in the Kansas City, region which stands about a 50-50 chance of giving Santa some snow for his sleigh. Meanwhile, we snow lovers will keep singing on tune, and try to believe today's forecast which calls for some snow in this area tomorrow. 1 In this morning's mail came this message: "Between Christmas and New Year's many of your readers will be OVEReating OVERdrinking indulging in one way or anoth.er. But when the holidays are over, they'll be sick of it all and will want to get back to normal." This was the "come-on" to get us to purchase a 12-part feature on book about good health.

If we purchase the series, we will be OVERbuying A friend this morning returned to work after being in bed a few days with the flu. He claims it was the Hong Kong variety, explaining: "It appears most of us will get it sooner or later, and I decided to do my flu shopping early." He has a point. At least he shouldn't be suffering during the holidays. The fact that the Telegram and KIUL won top honors in the commercial division of the Chamber's Christmas lighting contest came as total surprise here. (See story this page.) We entered out of a sense of civic duty rather than seeking top honors.

Some members of the staff laughed when our decorations went up. Now they're bragging. We are only sorry that more firms didn't enter the contest. Perhaps next year, after seeing what our meager effort did this several more will get in. After several months of blissful silence, an elephant joke teller cropped up the other day.

He asked: "Why did the elephant have a hole in his tusk?" The answer: "His side lost in the toothpaste contest for fewer cavities." Garden Sass Lose an hour in the morning, Gus Garden says, and you'll hunt for it all day. Vietnamese prisoners usually are turned over to South Vietnamese authorities. U.S. Navy spokesmen said the seven men released today were rescued 1967 from "a small boat in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin after an attack by U.S. aircraft on North Vietnamese cargo boats pected of supplying the enemy in the South." North Vietnam has released a few American fliers captured I after being shot down in com- longed dispute at Paris over seating of the four delegations.

He said the squabbling is between Hanoi and Saigon, not involving the United States. "I would like to get going at the Paris conference," he said. "I would like to start getting our troops out of there. I would like to see a ceasefire." There is some indication the enemy may decido this month or next to launch a new "winter offensive" in the South, Clifford said. He said there are indications of an encmy buildup, particular- bat, but not on the scale of U.S.

releases. Vietnam had announced earlier arrangements would be made to forward Christmas packages from the United States to prisoners in the North. Meanwhile in South Vietnam, U.S. B52 bombers kept on pounding infiltration corridors north of Saigon, seeking to blunt the enemy winter offensive which some officials expect. But only light, scattered ground lighting was reported.

ly in the Third Corps area in which Saigon is located. But Clifford said such an offensive would not violate the agreement under which Prest dent Johnson halted bombing of North Vietnam, and noted that both sides have continued ground fighting since Johnson's announcement. He sald the major U.S. concern was infiltration across Demilitarized Zone chat would increase the Jeopardy to U.S. troops, and said Hanoi is not be: lieved to have violated that part of the agreement.

New Jobs Key for Rural De Development nt MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) Sen. James B. Pearson, said today the key to the development of rural areas lies in the creation of new jobs rather than the transfer of jobs. Pearson's comment was in an address prepared for delivery at the Kansas Rural Community Development Workshop at Kansas State University.

Among others scheduled to address the conference today were Jack Lacy, director of the Kansas Department of Economic Development, and Jackson George, director of the Farm Home Administration for Kansas. Pearson said he is hopeful Congress will enact next year his proposal to encourage industries to locate in" rural areas by making available to businessmen a series of tax incentives such as credits on buildings and machinery and accelerated depreciation allowances. The senator said that tax incentives alone are not enough; industrial plant location is influenced by other factors. He said these include' a community's spirit and determination, its economic base and the quantity and quality of such things as housing, medical ser. vice, recreational opportunities, water and sewage systems, electrical power supply, transportation facilities and so forth.

"I think it is quite likely that new and improved federal and state aids and incentives to stimulate the expansion of such things as housing and improvement of health facilities, the expansion of job training, programs and so forth will be adopted in the years ahead," Pearson said. "And beyond those more recent types of programs, we also are going to have to take a fresh new look at our entire transportation policy to assure that our rail, highway and air networks encourage rather than discourage the geographical dispersion of people and industry. Nixon's Election to Be Official Today 1 1 Lighting Winners Are Announced "A great deal can also be done, I think by altering the present patterns by which federal government allocates research and development funds and other monies for military and civilian procurement and the location of government projects of all types." He added that there must be a renewed effort to strengthen and preserve the family farm system of agriculture. In his prepared address, Lacy cited factors that influenced industries in moving to rural communities in Kansas. "Such incentives to industry as more taxes, a more productive labor force, better community cooperation and in general a favorable atmosphere have contribucdted to the flux of industry to small towns," he said.

The head of the State Department of Economic Development said that U.S. Commerce department statistics show that in 1967 nearly one-half of all million-dollar plants completed were located away from large met. opolitan concentrations. Kansas communhave what it takes to attract industry," he said. key to their success is that the townspeople want to fight for their way of life and preserve WASHINGTON (AP) In the only presidential election that officially counts, the Electoral College votes today to make Richard M.

Nixon the nation's 37th president. Although Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey by nearly half a million votes in the November general election, under the Constitution the president isn't officially selected until the members of the Electoral College meet in their respective state capitals and cast their votes. The ballots are then mailed to Washington where Congress will meet in joint session Jan. 6 to count the vote and declare a winner.

the economic vitality of their town." Lacy concluded, "Kansas is becoming industrialized and by 1975 manufacturing will represent the state's major source of production." George outlined the role of the Farm Home Administration in helping rural Kansans improve their farms, their homes and their communities. "During the next 32 years other 100 million Americans will be added to today's population," he said. "How well we plan for our countryside and how successfully we develop town and country economies will determine the value of our resources in the 21st century." Tax Payment Deadline Near Deadline for the first half tax payment is Dec. 20. The full amount will become due if the deadline is missed, Bonnie Zirkel, county treasurer, said today.

The taxes must be paid to be eligible for the purchase or 1969 license Real property taxes must also be paid subject to penalty of ten per cent per year terest, the rate increased sharply over the weekend. The visiting limitation at the hospital is to prevent undue Such action is being taken at hospitals across the county. In Wichita, despite few cases of Hong Kong Flu, hospitals are urging the reduction of visitation. Over the country, several colleges have started Christmas The 538 electors from the 50 states and the District of Columbia are free agents under the Constitution to vote for one they please, but the custom is to follow the lead of the popular vote in their own state. With only a few exceptions this is the case this year.

Dr. Lloyd W. Bailey of Rocky Mount, N.C., said his vote would go to third-party candidate George C. Wallace, rather than for Nixon, who carried the state. Former Michigan Democratic State Chairman Zolton Ferency said he would not cast a vote in his state, which went for Humphrey.

Ferency indicated someone 'd fill his place and cast a vu for the vice president. Results of the Christmas lighting contest in Garden' City were announced today. The L. R. Whatley residence, a quarter of a mile west of Inge and Kansas, was judged tops in the residential division for those with religious themes.

In the non-religious theme, the Lee Tresner residence, 2021 N. 3rd. won first place. In the commercial division, the Telegram-KIUL building was the top winner. Second place went to the J.C.

Penney Co. store, and third to Hoovers Fashions. Second-place" winner in the residential religious theme competition is the Francis Krobe home, 1715 Janice Lane, and third is the Leo Honneman home, 901 Pershing. Second place in nun-religious homes was won by the Glen Woods, 906 E. Edwards.

Tied for third are the James Days, 1703 Parkwood, and Gene tins, 1027 N. 2nd. Other home entries are Mrs. Mary Dimitt, 1016 N. 7th; Dale Warner, 1511 N.

Main; Kenneth Way, 1704 Belmont; Mrs. Daniels, 911 Evans, Rudy Rutherford, upstairs, N. Main (seen from rear of building); Ralph Belknap, 208 S. 11th; Francis Korbe, 1715 Janice Lane; Steven Coulter, 1710 N. Main; James Day, 1703 Parkwood; C.

Regester, 1207 Belmont; Georgia Brown, 709 Jenand Vern Holmes, 2008 N. There were only three com- GET UP OUT OF THERE! YOU'VE GOT JUST 7 SHOPPING DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS. Ta leg ON 0 01040 This last happened in 1824. when the Electoral College could not select a president from among John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay. The House choose Adams although Jackson led in both the popular and electoral vote.

Proposed reforms include a direct national popular election and a plan which would involve splitting each state's electoral vote according to the proportion of votes cast for the presidential candidates. Congress is expected to hold hearings on the various proposals in the session starting in January. mercial entries. The decorations were judged Saturday night by Chamber of Commerce Manager Phil Berkebile, Dodge City, and Mrs. Berkebile; and Chamber Manlager Glenn Gavin, Liberal, and Mrs.

Gavin. The contest was sponsored by the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce. Juco Debaters Finish 6-6 Garden City Community Junlor College's debate teams traveled to Northwestern Okla homa State at Alva, over the weekend. The two teams participating were Sandi Reed and Janie Roberson, with a win-loss of 3-3, and Joe LaFort and Randy Thies, also with 3-3. Twenty-seven colleges participated, with 30 teams in the junior division.

Southern Colorado State was the only undefeated team, J. Edgar to Stay at Post vacations early due to the illness. Flu vaccine is recommended for the elderly and others who are chronic sufferers from heart and lung disease. In Pittsburgh, hospitals report an upsurge in "flu-like" illnesses, but pinpointed only five cases as being of the Hong Kong variety. Hospitals there also have restricted visitling privileges.

In the District of Columbia and 17 states local. laws require the electors to follow the popular will, although in just three -Florida, New. Mexico and Oklahoma-are there penalties for voting independentiy. Assuming Nixon gets all tne electoral votes of the 32 states he won, his total is 302 electoral votes. He needed 270 to win.

Humphrey won 13 states plus the District of Columbia, which totals 191 electoral votes, while Wallace's victory in five states gives him 45. There have been only two recent incidents before this year when electors went their own -in 1948 when a Tennessee WASHINGTON (AP) Presldent-elect Nixon, here to confor with Republican congressional chiefs, announced today that J. Edgar Hoover has agreed to continuo as FBI director and Richard Helms will remain on the job as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Shortly after Nixon's arrival here from New York for a visit of several hours, press spokes. man Ronald Ziegler told newsmen Nixon had talked cretly and face to face with both Hoover and Helms in New York and had asked them to retain their posts.

He said they bad agreed to do so. The two men apparently will stay on their jobs indefinitely. In addition to meeting with GOP congressional leaders, Nixon plans a trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for his third postelection reunion with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower before returning to New York. elector voted for' Dixiecrat candidate.

Strom Thurmond rather than Harry S. Truman, and ISG0 whep an Oklahoman cast his electoral ballot for the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, instead of Nixon. The closeness of the November voting, which threatened to throw the election into the House of Representatives for the first time in 144 years, has set off demands for electoral 1'C- form.

Under the Constitution now. if no candidate gets the required majority in the Electoral College, then the House picks the president on the basis of one vote for each state's delegation. Guard Wanders Away From His Prisoner CUMMINS PRISON FARM, Ark. (AP) Officials at Cummins Prison farm recently de" cided they should send a guard with an inmate who drove one of the prison's milk trucks to nearby town. A short time later, the inmate called the prison and told officials he had been deserted.

The guard wandered off and didn't return..