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2 Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1969, The Palladium-Item and Telegram, Richmond, Ind. Rep. Steger Urges Major Escalation Of War To Win WASHINGTON (AP) Sam Steger, urged congressional support Wednesday for a sudden, major escalation of the war in Vietnam as a means of ending it. "Half-hearted wars are seldom won," Steiger said in a letter addressed to President Nixon.

I. "Tough enemies are seldom convinced by half-hearted efforts that they need to negofaith." tiate in good Steiger said the letter has been signed by 14 other Republican members of Congress, including National Chairman Rogers C. B. Morton of Maryland. He said he is seeking other signatures on the letter, to be sent to Nixon later in this day of antiwar demonstrations.

"We believe this dirty little war with a third-rate power can and must be brought to an honorable end if the United States is ever again to hold up its head in the family of nations," Steiger wrote. There is an alternative to half-hearted prosecution of the war, it said, "to put it simply, al sudden major escalation of the war with one aim in mind-vic- tory." Supports Bombing The letter urges immediate resumption of the bombing of North Vietnam including, river dikes which protect the North's major rice growing areas. It says, South Vietnam's rangers should be sent into the North to infiltrate and retaliate with the same guerrilla tactics employed against South Vietnam. "'We have watched with growing indignation the efforts of some in and out of Congress to dishonor our nation by effecting a complete surrender to the Communist government of North Vietnam," Steiger wrote. "We as concerned Americans, who represent constituents that are fed up with half-way measures and talk of cowardly retreat, urge you to take drastic steps either to force the North Vietnamese to negotiate in good faith or to bring about American victory.

Signing the letter along with Steiger and Morton were Reps. Samuel L. Devine, Donald E. Lukens and John M. Ashbrook, all of Ohio; Robert Price of Texas, Benjamin B.

Blackburn of Georgia, William L. Dickenson of Alabama, Dan Kuykendall of Tennessee, James B. Utt of California, Larry, Winn of Kanasa, John Happy Camp of Oklahoma, Keith G. Sebelius of Kansas, Albert W. Watson of South Carolina and Carleton J.

King of New York. Red Premier's Note To U.S. Demonstrators Read In House WASHINGTON North nam Premier Pham Van Dong's letter to "Dear American Friends" noted that "a large sector of the U.S. people, encouraged and supported by many peace-and-justice-loving American personages, are launching a powerful offensive throughout the United States to demand that the Nixon administration put an end to the Vietnam aggressive, war and immediately bring all American troops home." Rep. Rogers C.

B. Morton, read the letter to the House, which continued: 4 our struggle eloquently reflects the U.S. people's legitimate and urgent demand," the letter continued, "which is to save U.S. honor and to prevent their sons and brothers from dying uselessly in Vietnam. "The Vietnamese and world people fully approve of and enthusiastically acclaim your just struggle.

"We are firmly confident that, with the solidarity and bravery of the people of our two countries and with the approval and support of peace-loving people in the world, the struggle of the Vietnamese people and U.S. progressive people against U.S. aggression will certainly be crowned with total victory," the letter concluded. "May your fall offensive succeed splendidly." Confidence ce Is Voiced Huge Welfare Reform To Succeed WASHINGTON (AP) forces are confident Congress will travel the President's trailblazing path to massive welfare reform, despite pockets of influential opposition. Some Gls Protest Viet War, Wear Arm Bands On Patrol SAIGON (AP) A few American troops in Vietnam silently protested against the war Wednesday, wearing black arm bands while on combat patrol to show sympathy with the Moratorium Day protest in the United States.

Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, commander of U.S. forces Vietnam, said he did not think the protest in the United States would make any difference on the battlefield in Vietnam. "We've got our job to do here and that's what we're doing," Abrams told newsmen after a delegation from Mississippi presented him a resolution by their legislature supporting American forces in Vietnam.

Protest Probed Associated Press photographer Charles Ryan, on patrol south of Da Nang with a platoon from the U.S. Americal Division, said about half of the 30 troops were wearing black arm bands. "I'm wearing it to show that I sympathize with the antiwar demonstration back home," said the platoon leader, 1st Lt. Jesse Bishop Fulton Sheen Quits His Rochester Diocese Post ROCHESTER, N.Y. (UPD)Bishop Fulton J.

Sheen, one of the best known preachers and evangelists in the Roman Catholic Church, announced Wednesday he has resigned as head of the diocese of Rochester, N.Y. Tiny Fire Bomb Explodes After Macy's Closes NEW YORK. (UPI)-An incendiary device concealed in a cigarette package exploded after business hours in Macy's department store Tuesday evening slightly injuring two detectives called to dismantle it. Police were unable to furnish any information about the tiny fire bomb except to describe it as being almost identical to five others which exploded in the huge 34th Street store Saturday night to Sunday morning. The FBI, called in after the first explosions during the weekend, also declined to comment on the case.

Macy's security police discovered the latest device at about 7:20 p.m., about an hour and 20 minutes after the store closed for the day. The store police carried the bomb, found in the pocket of a woman's coat on a rack on the second floor, to the stairwell of the nearest fire exit. Two bomb squad men were bending over the bomb to defuse it when it went off with a flash of flame and smoke. They were carried out of range while firemen extinguished the small fire. Sheen, bishop of Rochester since 1966, said he had asked to be relieved of his duties because of his age.

He is 74. In Rome, Pope Paul VI named Msgr. Joseph Lloyd Hogan, 53, pastor of St. Margaret Mercy Church in Rochester, to succeed Sheen and transferred the bishop to the honorary post titular archbishop of Newport. Ordained a priest in 1919, Sheen gained his widest fame for his preaching which he began 1930 on "The radio, Catholic Hour." In 1952 he began a 14-year television career that earned him a number of awards, including an Emmy.

Raised Millions Before his appointment as bishop of Rochester October 1966, Sheen was national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Describing himself as a "beggar" for the church, he raised millions of dollars for its worldwide missionary enterprises. A man of ascetic appearance, marked by penetrating blue eyes, Sheen also has brought influential converts into the church, among them Henry Ford II, Clare Booth Luce, the late Heywood Broun and Fritz Kreisler and Louis Budenz, the former Communist. But he liked to boast most about the conversion of his cook. Sheen has long been a staunch and highly vocal opponent of communism.

Born in El Paso, May 8, 1895, he was educated in Peoria, and attended St. Paul Seminary and the University of Louvain in Belgium and Angelicum College in Rome. 40 In British Parliament Urge Nixon Act For Peace LONDON (AP) members of the British Parliament called on President Nixon Wednesday to act for peace in Vietnam as young American demonstrators marched peacefully outside the U.S. Embassy. A letter signed by the 40 lawmakers, all members of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor party, was delivered by six of them to the embassy.

It expressed strong support for the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam and sympathy for war victims. In Paris, the American general-secretary of the World Council of Churches, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, appealed to the north Vietnamese and American delegations at the peace talks for new efforts toward a cease-fire. Commenting on Moratorium Day in the United States, the Russia's Solar Research Grows With 4th Spaceship MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union's biggest week in space got even bigger Tuesday with the opening of a new program of solar research, keyed to an unmanned satellite, while the three manned spaceships sent up earlier continued their troika flight. The Soviets apparently are carrying out two unrelated space operations simultaneously, and one of them -the threeship manned flight-is among the most complicated operation ever undertaken.

Tass, the Soviet news agency, said the group flight of Soyuz 6, Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 "continues successfully" and the seven cosmonauts "feel fine." There was also the usual report of morning exercises, medical checkup and checking of instruments. Day Of Observations The announcement said the day's schedule called 1 for "observations of separate regions of the earth's surface in mountainous areas, to, watch the distribution of cloud and vortex formations over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, to explore the reflecting, factor of tracts of forest desert regions. But once again there was no word on plans to link up and weld together at least two of the spacecraft, the exercise in construction of a space platform that is believed to be the chief purpose of the flight. Tass in another report late Tuesday dubbed the Soyuz crews cos onaut-assemblymen" and stressed the importance of their space welding tasks, which it noted would be extremely difficult because weightlessness in space restricts even the simplest movements. "The assembly of space constructions, their repair and Somali's President Is Slain NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Dr.

Aboirashid Ali Somali Shermarke, president republic was shot dead Wednesday afternoon by a man said to be wearing a police uniform. Radio Mogadishu interrupted its programs to broadcast the news. The Somali Republic is on the eastern horn of Africa, bordered on the landward sides by Ethiopia and Kenya. It became independent in 1960. Shermarke had been president since June 1967.

The 'broadcast announcement said: "Here is a tragic report: It concerns the president of the Somali Republic, Dr. Abdirashid Ali Shermarke. He was shot dead Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Las Anod by a man wearing a police uniform. "The man is now under police custody." Las Anod is in the northern part of the country, not far from the Ethiopian border.

Jury Recesses; Report Kennedy Probe Considered EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) The Dukes County Grand Jury a a en the unusual procedure of recessing until Friday instead of adjourning after completing its regular fall business. Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis declined comment Tuesday in announcing the jury's decision to recess instead of quitting for the year.

The recess came amid published reports that some members of the jury wished the jury to embark on its own investigation of the July 18 accident in which Mary Jo. Kopechne, 28, was killed when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's car went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island and plunged into a salt water pond. Dinis called for a District Court inquest into the death but an appeal by Kennedy 'and others connected with the case has delayed that inquiry.

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other work will necessitate the joining of metals," Tass said. "To fulfill these jobs, the assemblyman must stay outside the ship for long periods of time. Tass said different welding methods will be used, including Official Asks Driver's License Fee Increase INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ald W. Habig, commissioner of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, recommended Tuesday that the fee for a fouryear drivers license be raised from $1.50 to $5. Habig made the recommendation to a legislative study committee.

He suggested a state fee of $4 plus a $1 fee for the license branch. The 1969 legislature replaced the present year licenses with a year license, effective next Jan. 1, but left the $1.50 fee unchanged. Habig estimated the state would lose $750,000 a year if the fee is not increased. "electronic beam or plasma arc," which would give the space welders "the possibility of using a single instrument to both join metals and cut them." No Space Platform Dr.

Konstantin Feoktistov, the scientist-cosmonaut who was on a three-man space flight in 1964, indicated Wednesday that the seven spacemen would not leave an orbiting platform or station in space this time. He told Tass space this time. He told Tass the purpose of the flight "is to accumulate experience that will be very useful in the creation of orbital stations capable of functioning in space for long periods of time." Meanwhile, on Tuesday the Russians sent up a new unmanned satellite, Intercosmos 1, and said it would be used by radio observatories of East European Communist countries for a large-scale probe into the mysteries of the sun. The satellite is named after a new body formed to coordinate space experiments of the Soviet Union and its European partners, the Council for International Cooperation in the Field of Exploring and Studying Outer Space, or Intercosmos. "I'm pretty sure we'll end up with at least some variation of the family assistance plan," Welfare Secretary Robert H.

Finch predicted on the eve of the start of hearings Wednesday by Rep. Wilbur Mills' House Ways and Means Committee. President Nixon wants a precedent-shattering family assistance welfare plan providing $1,600 a year in minimum federal payments to a family of four. Government subsidies would continue on a sliding scale until the family's income reached $3,920 a year. One of Finch's top staffers pointed to a mountain of favorable newspaper editorials and said: "I never thought the welfare reform plan would go over this big." Poll Shows Favor A poll this week provided further indications of the readiness to alter the welfare system.

It showed 47 per cent favoring President Nixon's plan, 17. per cent opposed, and 36 per cent undecided. "Moratorium" Made Famous In Roosevelt Era WASHINGTON (AP) The Latin-derived word "moratorium" hasn't had such public currency since 190830 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a moratorium on debts to save the nation's collapsing economy. Dictionaries define the word variously as "a period of permissive or obligatory delay," or "a suspension of activity." The latter definition is what organizers of Wednesday's Vietnam Moratorium had in mind when they gave the word to their campaign for suspension of business as usual across the land in protest against the Vietnam war.

The word comes from the late Latin "Moratorius," meaning "delaying." The House Committee hearings also involved a look at a companion measure to boost Social Security benefits 10 per cent across the board beginning with checks mailed in April 1970. Committee Chairman Mills, -Ark. has maintained a benevolent neutrality on the welfare reform plan, And he says the social security increases should be least" 10 per cent. President Nixon's proposed welfare program would replace present dependent children's aid, benefit the called working poor for first time, double the present $4.2 million in federal welfare spending, and add about 12.4 million persons to public assistance rolls. The bigger bill and increased number of recipients are merely "start-up costs," the administration argues.

Both would drop as built-in work incentives take hold, officials say. Must Accept Jobs Able-bodied adult beneficiar- ies, except mothers of preschool children, would be required to accept job training and "suitable" employment. The administration says the measure will remove discrepancies in welfare payments between different regions, promote family stability and eliminate welfare inequities for persons in the lowest paying jobs. The main opposition appears to be labor and Democratic liberals. The AFL-CIO, backed by such stalwart liberals as Sen.

Abraham A. Ribicoff, contend the proposed job requirements could be abused in practice and may prove meaningless for want of jobs. Others complain the $1,600 minimum is too low and should be raised to, some say, $3,200. As for the Social Security hike, House leaders of both parties are plumping for a 15 per cent increase effective several months before the President's April 1970 date. Supreme Court Gets Indiana's Plea In Re Redistricting Case WASHINGTON (AP) The state of Indiana appealed to the Supreme Court Tuesday, saying a lower court reapportionment decision, in effect, was sophisticated gerrymandering.

"If the state legislature had Israeli Jets Strike Arab Bases, Suez Rosen of New York City. "It's just my way of silently protesting. Personally, I think the demonstrating should go on until President Nixon gets the idea that every American should be pulled out of here now." Ryan reported that the platoon killed two Viet Cong, including a woman armed with a Chinese rifle, and that four of the Americans were wounded by booby traps. A spokesman for the Americal Division said the protest was being investigated and he didn't know yet whether any disciplinary action would be taken against Rosen. President Nguyen Van Thieu said in a statement that the anti war demonstrations could prolong the war if they encouraged enemy to wait for more concessions.

Some members of the South Vietnamese House of Representatives called for a full-scale legislative debate on the demonstrations. Twenty American civilians working in the country marched to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon with a petition calling for the immediate withdrawal of all American troops. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker met four of the demonstrators inside the embassy while the rest stood outside in a silent "vigil" for those killed in Vietnam.

Social worker Leo Dorsey of Scranton, said Bunker agreed to transmit their one-paragraph petition to President Nixon. TEL AVIV (AP) Israeli jets attacked Egyptian military targets in raids across the southern half of the Suez Canal Wednesday and also struck at Arab guerrilla bases in Jordan, the military command said. Military spokesmen said the raid into Jordan was in retaliation for a rocket attack by guerrillas two days ago against Israel's potash works at Sodom on the Dead Sea. Two civilians were wounded in the guerrilla shelling. On the Egyptian front, Israeli warplanes struck near the central part of the Suez Canal, then hammered the southern sector of the waterway.

It appeared from an Israeli communique that up to 60 miles of the 103-mile canal came under attack. The Egyptian military command, in a communique from Cairo, claimed its antiaircraft guns and fighter planes drove off the Israeli raiders in both raids. It was the first Israeli air raid on Egyptian targets since last Sunday. Until then, the Israelis had been making almost daily strikes along the west bank of the canal and the Egyptian coast of the Gulf of Suez. Court News News City Court Frank Brune, 65, 813 North was sentenced to 60 days at the Indiana State Farm and fined $10 and costs on a charge of public intoxication.

Judge Robert G. Burton heard the following cases in. Richmond Municipal. Court Wednesday morning: David E. West, 19, South Ninth pleaded innocent to charges of malicious trespass and assault and battery.

He was ordered to appear, for trial Friday. Bond was set at $400. West was arrested Tuesday afternoon at his Elvin O. Miller, 34, 1215 North pleaded innocent to assault and battery and was ordered to appear for trial Nov. 12.

Bond was set at $50. He was arrested on a warrant Monday in the 700 block of North St. Circuit Court Household Finance Corp. has filed a complaint on note seeking a judgment of $854 plus costs from James H. Crye and Judy A.

Crye. "A complaint for breach of contract seeking $5,000 filed by Phillips Drugs, against Robert D. Thomas and Jasper C. Newton has been dismissed by failure of the parties to appear for scheduled trial. Superior Court A complaint on promissory note and foreclosure of real estate mortgage suit by West End Building Loan Association against Clyde R.

Cooper and Betty Cooper has been dismissed on the petitioner's motion. Janet Baker's divorce and custody suit against Donald E. Baker has been dismissed by the court on her motion. The divorce suit of Barbara Lee Anderson against Robert James Anderson has been dismissed on her motion. A petition for separation from bed and board filed against Albert Wilkinson by dismissed Lela Wilkinon her motion.

Acie William Shaffer's divorce suit against Beverley J. Shaffer has been dismissed by the court on his motion. Uleane Stinson has filed suit for divorce and custody against Roger G. Stinson. They were married Oct.

22, 1966 and separated Oct. 10, 1969. Carol Sue Harman has filed suit for divorce against Michael Dale Harman and asks her former name of Carol Sue Wickersham be restored. They were married May 14, 1969 and separated Oct. 14, 1969.

A suit for divorce has been filed against Clarence Marvin Correll by Jo Ann Correll. She also asks her former name of Jo Ann Buchanan be restored. The couple was married July 18, 1956 and separated July 30, 1969. Margaret A. Rigsby has filed suit for divorce and custody against James K.

Rigsby. They were married Dec. 24, 1965 and separated Oct. 9, 1969. Roger D.

Clevenger is being sued for divorce by Helen D. Clevenger in a suit which says they were married Oct. 17, 1968 and separated Sept. 30, 1969. A divorce petition against William Colvin filed by Cella Colvin has been dismissed by the court on motion of the petitioner.

On motion of Sam Callahan, the court has dismissed his divorce suit against Joyce Ann Callahan. Roy D. Moffitt's divorce suit against Sharon Rose Moffitt has been dismissed by the court on his motion. Rosalie Roath's motion for dismissal of her divorce suit against Charles S. Roath has been granted by the court.

A complaint for possession of real estate filed by Paul C. Pence and Edna G. Pence against Eugene Senters and Nivra Ann Senters has been dismissed on motion of the petitioners. Ester Mae Stamper has been granted a divorce from Boyd Monroe Stamper on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. The First National Bank of Richmond has been appointed administrator of the estate of Hazel Shaw Danner, who died Oct.

10. Personal property is valued at $15,000. Letters of administration have been issued to Thomas J. Reece in the estate of Dorothy D. Reece, who died Sept.

22. Personal property is valued at $10,000. Roy Byrum has been appointed executor of the estate of William L. Byrum, who died Oct. 5.

Real property is valued at $8,000. considered the factors upon by the district court in enacting an apportionment scheme the scheme would have been soundly condemned as sophisticated said a brief Edgar D. Whitcomb and the attorney general's office. Gerrymandering is the tice of dividing a territorial unit into election districts in an unnatural and unfair way. The brief referred to the decision of the U.S.

District Court at Indianapolis which on July 28 declared the multimember district scheme in Marion County unconstitutional. The three-judge federal panel applied the decision to the entire state and ordered the Indiana House and Senate reapportioned by Oct. 1. Gov. Whitcomb elected to push an appeal to the Supreme Court rather than call a special session of the legislature to reapportion, and the Oct.

1 deadline passed without action by the court or the government. The state brief said the appeal is vital since the state legislature will be reapportioned soon enough on 1970 census figures while the lower court requires reapportionment on 1960 figures which will be obsolete in a few months. Additionally Tuesday, the court received a petition from the lower court winners to dismiss the state appeal. The suit had originally been filed by former Democratic State Sen. Patrick E.

Chavis Indianapolis Negro lawyer, and others. Saigon representative said: "It is we, the people of South Vietnam, who demand peace and who demand that the Communists put an end to the war. One must not overlook the fact that it is on the territory of South Vietnam that the war is being fought. Those who have to endure the sufferings of this war are first and foremost the South Vietnamese." He said that in the peace talks, the South Vietnamese government has taken many initiatives, made many overtures to the Communist side. "Unfortunately, we have met with a total refusal of the part of the Communists to Let those who speak of peace in the United States think not about pushing open the door to peace on the allied side; everyone knows full well that it is already flung wide open." First Frost Visits Area; Thursday Will Be Warmer The first freezing weather of the season came to the Richmond area Wednesday morning when a 32-degree reading was accompanied by autumn's first frost.

Similar readings were recorded at Lafayette, 32; South Bend, 33, and numerous readings in the mid-30s. Columbia City reported an unofficial low of 27. However, it was 50 at noon Wednesday in Richmond and the mercury seemed likely to go several degrees higher in midafternoon. Meanwhile, fair and cool weather is forecast for Wednesday night, with Thursday to be partly cloudy and warmer. Lows Wednesday night will be in the 40s with highs Thursday in the 60s.

Precipitation chances are 10 per cent Wednesday night and 20 per cent Thursday. In its five-day outlook, Thursday through Monday, the Weather Bureau predicted temperatures averaging 9 to 11 degrees below normal. The normal average temperature spread at this season varies from 42 to 63 at South Bend to 45 to 72 at Evansville. This year's first frost came 10 days later than the first frost of 1968. The major crops, corn and soybeans, are too far advanced to be damaged and the tomato harvest is practically complete.

It was much warmer on this date, Oct. 15, one year ago. The high was 81 and the low 55. That 81 last year tied a record for the date. The record low for Oct.

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