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VOL 104. NO. 57. WJAl JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTtMUR Indiana state "stand 'amid-wreck- of ail. Allegheny Airlines jet near Articles from" the -plane, including a flight book, llie in fore- Aground.

(APWirephoto) ic eras pot detected on radar Hearnes modifies session ca to avoid constitutiohatitY questions To make sure his $113 million tax bill is constitutional, Gov. Warren E. Hearnes today modified his' special 'legislative proclamation. The governor noted in a message to the House and Senate that a question has been raised if the proclamation is broad enough to include simplification of income tax forms. "In order to avoid controversy as to this point, I am.

hereby bringing to your attention by special message my a i that you consider legislation to modify the entire structure of corporate and individual income tax calculations a reporting methods," Hearnes said in the message. The Governor did not opea Cooperation plea follows disturbance Pleas for cooperation, from both 1 students and the ad- i i a i at Lincoln University were issued today by Police Chief Claude E. Short in the wake of a disturbance Tuesday evening which resulted in the arrest of one student. Joseph Berrymen, 20, whose address was listed as Allen Hall on the Lincoln campus, was arrested and posted $200 bond on i charge of interfering with a police officer in the line of the call enough to permit consideration of other taxing sources such as beer, liquor or sales taxes. Sen.

A. Clifford Jones, R- St. Louis County, Tuesday afternoon offered an opinion that the Governor would have" to amend his special session call to make the proposed $113 million tax bill constitutional. Sen. Earl R.

Blackwell, D- Hillsboro, also asked the Governor to modify his special-session call to permit consideration of revenue producing measures other than corporation' and individual income taxes. Blackwell said he had in mind such things as a tax hike'on beer, wine and liquor, an increase on corporation franchise taxes and imposing a tax on advertising. Final Washington tribute 'Jones, said the Governor's tax bill includes such taxes as partnerships and trusts and goes beyond individual and corporate taxes. ticked off several Missouri" Supreme Court decisions pointing out that the Governor's call in the session is extremely restrictive. Jones suggested the Governor amend his 'call to identify the taxes he wanted to raise by statute chapter number rather than specifying corporation and individual -taxes.

"If- the Governor wants his own bill to be constitutional, he will havt to amend his call. him a favor by pointing this'out now," Jones said. Blackwell offered a resolution in the Senate asking the Gover- nor to modify his call to permit consideration of measures other than the corporation and individual income lax specified in the Governor's official call. A vote on Uie resolution today was not needed because the Governor acted before the Senate convened and BlackwcU did not Blackwell said if Hearnes chose not to modify his call, then only corpOTation and individual income tax measures will be considered. He said since the Governor's call also specified that the legislature could only consider individual and corporation taxes for the purpose of raising more revenue he believes a tax simplification feature of the Gover- nor's bill does not come under the call.

Blackwell serves in the powerful position as Senate parliamentarian. He he would this position to rule the tax simplification feature out of order if it is tested during debate. The issue popped up in a Tuesday morning session when Sen. James A. Noland, R-Osage Beach, offered a bill doubling the tax on beer, wine and liquor.

He said the tax would produce from $12 million to' $15 million each year. Sen. Albert M. Spradling, D- Cape Girardeau, contended thf bill could not be considered be-. cause it is beyond- the scope of the Governor's special session call.

See HEARNES, cwge Rites held for Sen, Dirksen WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. McKinley Dirksen' body was borne from the Capitol today, beginning a final jour. ney to burial on tht Illinois prairie. Military pallbearers carried- the oaken casket, with -its blanket of fern and roses, from Capitol rotunda at noon. Senate colleagues stood at the top of the beneath the portico of the Capitol, as the Rev.

Dr. Edward R. Elson, the Senate chaplain, led the funeral procession. The Dirksen family waited in two black limousines thsj Capitol. plaza.

The casket "was -aud The Dirksen family and a group of friends are to fly with body to Ptoria, 111., day. -The trip, will be Forc'e One, president Nixon's plane. Dirksen, who -died Sunday at 73, will be burked In Fekin, pi. -The formal service in the Senate bade farewell to Dirksen Tuesday, was simple- no funs were find la no drums 'were "Our grtat are mon property of 'country," said President Nixon In bis eulogy to the Republican IUU wit kn4 'il the common property UM JljjtatM. traffic controller said today a small plane that sheared off the tail of an Allegheny Air-, lines DC9 jetliner plunging 83 persons to their deaths, was invisible to the-radar at Weir Cook Municipal Air.

port where the big aircraft was preparing-to land. "The-big plane showed on the screen, but not the small plane," said Jack H. Frets, public affairs officer for the Indianapolis Air Route Control Center. "This is not uncommon when a plane does not have a transponder or beacon, a device which reflects the radar beams," Frets said. "He added, however, that the radar reflectivity of aircraft also is affected by such things as weather, altitude and the attitude of highly streamlined Talks stir speculation planes.

Visibility was about five miles in-party-cloudy skies. Both planes-tumbled to earth after the collision, and the collection of fragments of bodies and debris from a soybean field continued today. Eyewitnesses said-the single- engined Piper Cherokee, piloted by 35-year-old Robert W. Carey of Indianapolis on a solo cross country flight, knifed into a passenger plane's tail section where its two jet engines are located. All 78 passengers and the crew of four on the jetliner, as Fair Jefferson City and Central Missouri--Fair to partly cloudy and slightly warmer tonight and Thursday.

Low tonight 50 to 55. High Thursday near 80. well as Carey, an'Indianapolis plumber and father-of killed. The-jetliner-, which-began'its flight at Boston, had touched down at Baltimore and Cincinnati, and was scheduled to stop at the Indianapolis airport before going on-to St. Louis.

"It was near perfect weather," said John Shaffer, one of a team of 16 investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration. "It's almost inconceivable that the two planes were at the same spot at the same time." The aerial collision occurred near London, a community of 300 about 10 miles southeast of Indianapolis. Most of the wreckage of the DC9 airliner landed in a soy- See PLANE, page 10 The trouble began after local police issued several tickets and ordered some cars towed away from no-parking zones oa Chestnut Street where it passes through the campus. Police-said some, rockes were, thrown at police cars and tow trucks. Berrymen was arrested at that location.

A short while later, between 20 and 25 students converged on the Broadway Shell service station, 300- -McCarty Stl, where' three cars had been towed and began throwing beer cans and' creating a disturbance. The students were quickly dispersed, however, by police. Students returned later in pairs to claim their cars and pay towing charges. Short made it clear that the police intend to enforce the parking restrictions that are posted on both Chestnut and Atchison Streets ins the campus. "That's the only thing we can do." Short said, "unless the ordinance is changed or they close the street." "We intend to enforce ordinances on those streets just like we do anywhere else in town," he said.

"I only hope," the chief added, "that we will have the full cooperation of Lincoln students and of the University administration." procession pulled away. After-funeral services tional Presbyterian Church, Dirksen's body ia to be flown home to Illinois Thursday. The Senate recessed for Dirksen funeral, and moat of iU members- went to the church. i '-lii iB-btisflr- TO melt before him, Dlrkien.lay beneath blanket of rows in rotunda of the Capitol where spent nearly half his 7) Instead of a flag on the coffin, there was the seal of the After being borne at noon today without procession to the National. Presbyterian Church for funeral services, coffin, accompanied by Mrs.

Dirksen and the family, will' go aboard the Presidential jet for the night to Pekln, 111., and burial Thursday. The memorial -service Tuesday lasted only 24 minutes before 900 people who Included the Cabinet, senators past and present, 'most members of House of Representatives and of foreign "He was an outspoken partisan, he was an individualist of tbf fjrst rank," said of me man who had served the party his "state and' his iatloa tincWt- four Presidents. "Everett Dirksen, added grace and eloquence and courtliness to the word Nixon added. "That is how became leader-of the rmtnority." Hie eulogy-over, the President shook.hands with Dirksen and the daughter and her husband, Sen. Howard Baker R-Tenn.

Sea. Baker gave a brief response in which he called Dirksen a realist aa well as an idealist. Dirksen'i heart failed Sunday, five days after he underwent surgery.for.lung cancer. At one end of Dirkatn's coffin was a wreath of red, white and blue flowers placed by the President. On the skies were wreaths the and Senate.

An honor guard, all the military services, stood tvM-hour watch. Through tht ornamental Aoors on the east front ol Capitol casnc last to pay respaetj to man whose words and voice and wispy' hair known to American. They came in a steady Stream for the first half See DIKK8EN, page It Will shift districts, say judges Two members of the County Court said today they weren't too worried over the redistricting suit filed against them Friday in' the Jefferson City federal district court. Fred A. Distler, presiding judge of the court, said all he' knew about the suit was what he had heard from news The court has not been served notice of the suit.

Voicing little concern over the matter, Distler said, "It will all work out." Henry Gretlein, the rural representative on the court, said, "It doesn't bother me." Gretlein said the court was i i to "get things straightened out" before they had heard about the suit. See COURT, Rockers calls Hiesberger charge effort -to impress constituents' A blistering memo directed Monday-at Ed Hackers city director of public works, by Fifth Ward Councilman Tony Hiesberger was answered today by Backers. In addition, five other councilmen who could be contacted lined up four-to-one against Hiesberger's handling-of the situation. Hiesberger accused Backers of giving him the "run around" on supplying information concerning progress with preliminary work for sewer lines on Tanner Bridge Road and Green Meadow Drive. Two of the memo were sent to the News Tribune.

"I have decided against carry- ing on a lengthy dispute through the news media," Backers responded today. "I'm sure citizens of Jefferson City realize that you cannot replace five experienced -key personnel with one inexperienced person and carry on the same workload, although Mr. Hiesberger apparently cannot comprehend this fact "A brief status report of 16 city projects was given to the councilmen on Aug. 13 indicating that; the South Taylor Drive Sewer District had to be realigned in order to obtain easements' and that the Tanner Bridge Road Sewer District had not been started. "Until our staff is replaced, or until the Council authorizes me to hire this work done, status will remain unchanged.

Mr. Hiesberger should be of this, and consequently, hjs charges are nothing more than an attempt to imprtss hU constituents." Backers had reported Sunday, at a meeting of the Committee of the Council, that he was haying considerable difficulty hiring competent people at wage levels that have been set by the Council. The entire five-man survey crew in Backers office quit'dur- ing the summer, some of them citing salary as a major factor. Backers has asked for permission to hire a second survey See HACKERS, pcge II More troop pullouts possible (AP) Meetings today between top-level U.S. and South Vietnamese officials touched off speculation of further American troop withdrawals and an extended scaling down of allied military operations.

There was also speculation that the United States had sounded out North Vietnam about continuing the three-day cease-fire the Viet Cong declared for the funeral of North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh. The cease-fire, which U.S. forces honored, was scheduled to expire at 1 a.m. Thursday, or 1 p.m. EDT today.

Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, met with President Nguyen Van Thieu before flying to Washington for the conference that President Nixon will hold Friday with his top military and diplomatic advisers on Vietnam. Unconfirmed reports said Abrams is prepared to accept withdrawal of 35,000 more troops, which would reduce American troop strength in the country to about 475,000 men.

Acting U.S. Ambassador Samuel D. Berger calso met separately with Thieu. Berger and Abrams presumably were trying to close the widening rift between Washington and Saigon on the cease-fire. The U.S.

Command tacitly accepted the truce and sharply curtailed its offensive copera- tions including bomb raids. But Thieu publicly rejected a cease- fire, and his forces increased their military operations. There was no indication however, that they were hilling any of the enemy. U.S. sources say that if the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese do not step up their present low level of activity after the end of the cease-fire, American forces likely will respond by continuing the curtailment in their offensive operations.

As evidence of the rift between the United States and its Vietnamese ally, field reports said the U.S. Command was refusing to provide helicopters, artillery and bombers to support some of vhe South Vietnamese operations that continued despite the cease-fire. The North Vietnamese contin- ued to talk tough. Le Duan, the North Vietnamese Communist party's first secretary, pledged in a eulogy of Ho that the party would fulfil the president's last fight and defeat the U.S. aggressors, to liberate the South." But again only scattered light action was reported across the country.

The U.S. Command reported half a dozen enemy attacks on U.S. forces from 8 a.m. Tuesday to 8 a.m. Wednesday in which 29 enemy soldiers were killed and another 22 were taken prisoner.

American casualties were two killed and seven wounded, the command said, South Vietnamese headquarters said that during the first 59 hours of the cease-fire, there were a total of 34 attacks em government forces in which 27 government soldiers were killed and 51 others wounded. There was no report on enemy casualties. U.S. headquarters reported that Marine scouts sighted 75 to 100 enemy on the move in the middle of the night 25 miles southwest of Da Nang. Some of the troops were carrying metal objects, possibly rockets.

Artillery went into action, and secondary explosions were reported, but enemy losses were not known. U.S. headquarters also reported that enemy ground fin brought down and badly damaged two American reconnaissance helicopters and destroyed a third during the past 24 hours. Two of the crewmen wtre killed. Services set for Mrs.

Davis ST. JOSEPH; Mo. AP)--Fu- neral'services were announced for Saturday for Mrs. Virginia Motter Davis, 42-year-old wife of True Davis. She died Friday In Africa as a result of sleeping sickness contracted while on a safari In Uganda.

Her husband remains in Switzerland where he was reported much Improved today after treatment for the same disease. Services Saturday will be 3 p.m. in Christ Episcopal Church with burial In Mi. Mora cemetery here. The body was expected to arrive in SU Joseph this Davis, a candidate for tht Democratic nomination for U.S.

Senator last year, became ill and was flown to Geneva before hU wife's death. A Lanct, 16, remained with Mrs. Davis but since has been taken to Switzerland and Davis 1 two other zons. True' III and Bruce, also Jolatd their father Uvtre. 'Glad you.

"Glad you asked that!" So says columnist Hy Gardner in his new column feature, which begins next Wednesday in the Jefferson City News-Tribune publications. The column will appear each Sunday and Wednesday and will answer your questions about your favorite celebrities. A native New Yorker, Gardner is a career newsman and journalist and an alumnus of the Columbia School of Journalism. He has worked for magazine, the New York Herald- Tribune and the World Journal Tribune and has been a reporter and master of ceremonies for radio and television. He is the author of four books has written for such magazines as Look, Reader's Digest and TV.

Guide. The name of the column "Glad You Asked That" i is written by Hy Gardner and it starts Sept. 17 in the Post- Tribune, the Daily Capital and in Sunday's News-Tribune. Former Klan leader held in slaying plot FAYETTE, Miss. (AP) A heavily-armed man Identified as a former Ku Klux Klan official was held in city jail today as police investigated reported assassination plot against this town's first Negro mayor.

Dale Walton, 44, of Tupelo was arrested Tuesday night after Fayette police staked out office of Mayor Charles Evert following a telephone tip. Walton, held without bond oa charges of speeding and carrying concealed weapons, identified by authorities as ft former imperial wizard of UM Knights of the Green Forest, small KKK organiiatiom WaA- qyartered in Tupelo..