The Daily Chronicle from Centralia, Washington • Page 1

Chronicle Washington er.t. Wednesooy. Sept. 8, 1971 22 Poges 80th No. 212 Congress Connally Promotes Tax Plan WASH1XGTON (AP) Secretary of the Treasury John B.

Connally, urging Congress to pass the tax portion of President Nixon's new economic program without change, said today it would "not be a bonanza for business." Connally opened the administration's case before the House Ways and Means Committee on the day Congress reconvened from the vacation that saw Nixon spring his economic surprise. as heavily weighed in fawr of business. They have said they will attempt to expand it to provide more tax relief for individuals. for U.S. importers through a system of subsidiaries for overseas trade.

'The point to emphasize is of the lion tax cut to take effect in January, would mean a tax reduction for individuals. And he contended repeal of the 7 per cent automobile ex- vestment tax credit, stimulating business spending, would more quickly reduce unemploy- VI tcm CAM A I cise tax, which he said would I me whlle helpmg mvestors George P. Shultz, budget and management director, will follow Connally Thursday. Nixon will appear before a joint session of the House and Senate that same day, apparently to attempt a clincher. His speech will be broadcast nationally.

Key members of the Democratic-controlled Congress have criticized Nixon's tax program Land Need Said Urgent An urgent need for land was noted Tuesday evening during a meeting of tbe Southwest Washington Fair Board at the courthouse annex in Cbeha- lis. The meeting was held to hear detailed evaluations on (he recent fair from all department heads and the general consensus indicated urgency in need for additional property. According to Fair Board President Cub Balmellj, tbe additional land is imparative to ensure survival of the fair. He pointed out that over cne- balf of the parking areas used during this year's fair were sot owned by the fair. In addition, Balmelli assessed, it appears that at the fair's present rate of expansion, program features such as auto racing, rodeo and circus shows may have to be discontinued in order that the land DOW used for these purposes may be into additional building: sites to bouse fair exhibits.

In other areas, fair heads noted shortcomings in traffic patterns at the fair, gave superior ratings to 1971 fair exhibits, discussed alternate fair dates and recommended changing the fair manager's title to general manager. Fire Cause Pinpointed SILVER CREEK A short circuit in an electric kitchen range is belie s-ed to be the cause of a fire that claimed two lives here Sunday night This is the preliminary repori of Sherman Frase. a deputy stale fire marshal who investigated the blaze Tuesday. i report was made available to the Lewis County Sheriffs Department. Mary Dean, 80, and Ruben Stoneroad, 3, died in the fire.

Meanwhile, a call has been issued for donations of bedding furniture and household items for the family. Kerns may be taken to North Iron St. Centralia. Additional informa Ikm is available at 736-2051. Anyone knowing of an avail able three-bedroom, unfurnishcc hcme for the family is asked ti telephone the same number.

Late News Bulletins FT. McPHERSON, Gi (API militlry in Errxtt L. Mttfiru'i cocrJ-mjrli'jl i i reqvMit Wedrwidly for LI. William L. Jr.

Io ttttrfy in Medtnt'i Irijl. JUNEAU, Al.lki A All tngirwt of AUska Airlirwt 727 rhtl Cflvhtd into wtsr cf JurXJV, killing 111 perioni Saturday, appeared bt operating al normal power ar impact, a National Transportation Safety Board ipoVu man said SHOWERS Chance of showers tonight. Variable cloudiness Thursday. High in 60s. Low 45-55.

Compfera weattwr on II, mean an average reduction of 5200 in car prices, would be a boon for car buyers rather than producers. Nixon wants repeal of the automobile excise: reinstitution of the investment tax credit by which industry recaptures part of its equipment spending and and consumers. And he said the credit should not, as some in Congress have contended, be made retroactive to a date earlier than Aug. 15, 1971, if this maximum effect in stimulating new investment is to be preserved. Connally said business prof- which the administration has its, measured as a percentage renamed "the job development credit;" a speedup of some income tax relief that was scheduled for 1973, and tax breaks of the Gross Natonal Product, are lower than at any time since 1938.

During the past five years, be said, profits have dropped $9 billion while wages and salaries increased $147 bil-! lion. Facing up to the demand in some congressional quarters i for a postponement of Social Security payroll tax increases scheduled to go into effect in 1972, Connally said the pro-, posed income tax relief speedup would more than offset these, while providing "a powerful stimulus to business activities." And he said it is a mistake in thinking about profit to picture only "the wealthy individual receiving a dividend on his stock." More than 100 million Americans, he said, directly or indirectly are capitalists through their own stock holdings or their interest in pension and insurance funds and similar investments. SILCOTT, Wash. (AP) Jravc robbers seeking salable indiao artifacts and bones haw een desecrating a 19th Century wrial ground above the Snake liver on the Washington-Idaho xwder, anthropologists from both stales say. 'This site was raped by a wWte with no social conscience," said Dr.

Roderick Sprague, University of Idaho an- hropologist working with Wash- ngton State University scholars an attempt to discover something of tbe life, and death, styles of Indians in the 1800s. About 18 graves have been disturbed in what Sprague cal- ed a "blatant example of grave Indian Burial Ground Hit By Grave Robbers robbing." The Indians were believed the graves be part of those who followed Net Perce Indian Chief Joseph in his flight from the U.S. Calvary in the bloody Nez Perce War of 1877. "They don't let our Indians rest in peace whether they are dead or alive," said Nez Perce Tribal Chairman Richard Hatf- mooa. "It makes me mad to just be around place and to see the way thingc are." Halfmoon says he doesn't want to sound bitter, but he does blame the grave robbing on whites.

The problem of grave robbing is not new to the Nez Perce, Halfmoon said. Many graves have been dug up by curio seekers along the Snake and Clearwater Rivers, he said. He called the grave robbers persons with "pretty low minds. I hope they suffer for the rest of their days." Mike Rodefer, a WSU graduate student directing a crew of eight Nez perces that is relocating the graves, said whoever made the excavations was "awfully good." Rodefer said his crew is working to relocate the graves which are possibly endangered by the filn'ng of the reservoir behind Lower Granite Dam after the structure's scheduled 1974 completion. Each of the desecrated graves had been carefully located by pushing a rod into the soil until it touched a coffin, Rodefer said.

After being dug up, be said, most of the hand-made coffins were smashed open and the jewelry and bones were removed. In many cases the skulls also were removed. An ancient skull reportec to bring $25 on an undergrade market in nearby Lewiston, Id aho, and sources say the skulls are shipped to California for resale at higher prices. "The white man looks ai property as a piece of profit and we look at our country a gift from the Great Spirit; said Halfmoon. is our Moth er Earth.

We came from it and we will return to it." PONTIAC BUSES ROLL PAST PICKET LINES clear a pith through pickets Ponliac, Mich. Jchool it protesting while parents picketed nd cbmcnitrirtd boset leave area Tuesday morning le begin Hading onset of a massive federally ordered pupil busing program to pupils Io city's integrated school i. Nine women were arrested schools In Pontiic. AP Wirephotg Plummer Lake Is It Private? Public? Is Ceotralia's Plummer Lake a public or private facility? This was the question explored Tuesday by the Ctnlralia City Commission in its regular weekly session. Although the entire lake lies within the city limits, much of the land privately on its owned.

shores is The State Highways Department owns a strip on the freeway side. However, the State Game Department stocks the waters with trout (paid for by taxpayers) and maintains an access where the public can launch boats to catch those fish. The city heads also pointed out that the City of Centralia owns a 50-foot access on lakeshore land at the end of Tilky Avenue. The catalyst of discussion was a visit to the meeting by Stanley Bolin. Ccntralia.

who pointed out that water skiers on the small lake arc creating a potential safety hazard, and requested city action to such activity. The commissioners plan to Levy Vote Thursday ON'ALASKA Patrons of the Onalaska School District will vote Thursday on a H8.CCO. approximate 3.8-miIl special maintenance and operation levy. According to Superintendent Lee Pangle, voting will be from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.

in the grade school library, with a of 330 voters needed to validste the election and a 60 per cent majority of "yes" votes required for approval. The levy, said Pangle. will pay for general maintenance and operation of district facilities and equipment and will also allow the return of kindergarten classes this autumn. Those desiring rides to the polls, the superintendent noted, should telephone the high school 985-2093. investigate the public-or-private status of Plummer Lake before coming to a decision.

In other business, the commissioners: --Acting on the recommendation of Paul Peyton, City Light superintendent, accepted a (21,839 bid from Westinghouse for three new transformers for the city light facilities. The new gear includes one 2,000 kva transformer at $8,129 and two 1,500 kva transformers for a total of $13,410. --Said it might be necessary to file a lawsuit against Larry J. Petrich, Centralia, to recover $1.027, the cost of replacing a power pole which was broken by Petrich's vehicle in an accident Aug. 26.

The i a resulted in a power outage. -Reported that residents cf Waunch Prairie who complained a abandoned vehicles, rampaging dogs and stray chickens last week have had part of their complaints alleviated. Mayor Don Naismilh said the junk aulos have been removed and. according to a report which reached his ears the chickens have been eaten! The dogs, apparently, are still at large. Ecological Unit Meets InCentralia of the State Scological Commission were involved in a day-long meeting at the Centralia steam-electric plant Wednesday, according to John Biggs, director of the State Department of Ecology.

It was the first Cenlralia meeting of the commission, which is an advisory body to the Department of Ecology. i sessions were devoted to a tour of the steam plant, and an explanation of its operation. A discussion of a proposal for using the minedover area the plant as a gigantic sanitary landfill for Western Washington and Portland was to occupy a major portion of the afternoon discussion. The afternoon session was to follow lunch at the Nor'Wester Restaurant. Commission chairman is Dr Arpad Masley, a Bremerton physician.

Other members are Haroli Heacock, vice chairman, Kennewick; Dr. Gordon Orians Department of Zoology, sity of Washington; Mrs. Ann Widditsch, Seattle, reprsenting the Washington Environmenta Council; Sam Kinzille, Tacom a i State Labo Council; John McGregor, Pasco representing agriculture, an Stewart Sargent, Seattle, dustrial representative. Abduction Investigate: Two young Chehalis men ar home safe after a harrowin experience in Canada over th Labor Day weekend in whjc they were robbed, abducted an had their automobile taken. The FBI is investigating.

John Sylvester, and Robe Eddy, 19, told authorities the met four young men in Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday and, afte Pontiac Busing Violence Mars Protest Caribbean Hurricane Churns Toward Land MIAMI. Fla. AP Hurricane Edith spun Sirough the Caribbean with steadily growing fury today and the National Hurricane Center said she would become a dangerous storm before reaching a landfall. "Edith be a major storm, maybe the storm of the year." said Dr.

Robert H. Simpson, director of the center. ''She has a classical eye and is intensifying. She going to pose a real threat to someone." With Edith. Tropical Storm Fern and a deepening depression all on the hurricane er's maps.

Simpson said the Western Caribbean, the entire Gulf of Mexico, and the Bahamas area of the Atlantic had become "One great big mammoth circulating system." ''It is a very unusual situation." he said. "The i area is one great big cyclonic storm. Centered i at Kingston. Jamaica, Edith was moving west-northwest at about 15 miles an hour. She was expected to slow her forward speed and turn more to northwest in the next 12 to hours.

will grow in size and strength before hitting a coastline. Simpson said. Central America, rather than the U.S. coast appeared to be her eventual target. Fern is centered about 263 miles east of Brownsville.

Tex. A depression in the Atlantic corth of the lower Behamas several hours went with the to Stanley Park at 3 a.m Tuesday. According to Mrs. Sylvester, mother of John, th four took John and Robert money and watches and struc John. Sylvester managed to ge away and hid in the bushes an later reported the incident the Vancouver authorities.

Eddy was forced to get in! the ear and. after leaving tw of the four assailants in Va couver. was forced to dm them over the border. Eddy was let out of the automobile i Seattle. Mrs.

Sylvester said. Sh said that Eddy was told the bad a gun. Robert is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.

T. Eddy of Chehalis By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS School integration-by-busing reduced a violent scuffle in 'ontiac, a white boycott in Boston, and peaceable com- liance in Mobile, today. Nine pupils were injured and ive pickets arrested at Lincoln Tunior High School in Pontiac demonstrations against the Dusing program continued for he second day. At another Pontiac school, two women pickets were ar- esled for trying to halt buses iy leaping onto the hoods. Four nale pickets were arrested at a xis parking lot for trying to top buses from leaving.

Police cleared a path for the buses hrough about 173 demonstra- ors. In Boston, only a handful ol he 396 white children assignee a school in a black neighbor showed up on opening day. Two came by bus, and a half dozen on foot. Many white parents in Boston look their children to their old schools, where they were tolc they could sit in classrooms, but could not be registered. Announcement of the Boston plan led to a day of demonstrations on Tuesday.

In Mobile, school officials said pupils reported in orderly fashion. Spot checks showed all was quiet and businessliike in the Mobile city-county schools, largest system in Alabama with some 68.0CO pupils, about per cent of them black. In all some 26,000 wiH reride the buses to school, but most of them will be transported because they live two miles or more from their schools. School officials in Ponliac, said they were satisfied with opening day attendance Tuesday of about 63 per cent of enrollment. They expressed confidence the figure would grow in the days ahead.

The most serious incident Tuesday dynamite in Pontiac, destroyed 10 where buses eight days ago, was the arrest of nine women who sought to prevent the buses from leaving a parking lot. School Supt. said security Dana Whitmer would be increased to prevent a repetition of a rash of attacks by black students on 18 white students near Pontiac Central High School. He attributed the attacks to outsiders. In Jackson, public school officials reported 28,277 children attended classes Tuesday under a new desegregation plan, with the number of students riding buses more than double the 2.009 who rode last year.

Asst. Supt. R.B. Dayton said attendance was down about 700 from last year's opening day hut be attributed: this to confusion over bus schedules and routes. "We'll have evertyhing worked out by the end of the week," he said.

In Portsmouth, public schools opened under a court- ordered busing plan with first day attendance about 2,000 less than expected. Of 25,000 pupils enrolled about 11,500 are to be bused. Chehalis Sets Roundup Of Stray Dogs In City A concentrated drive to pick 1 up all stray dogs in violation of the city's dog leash law will be made in Chehalis next Monday and Tuesday. The city commission took the action at a Tuesday session in response to complaints of dogs running at large. Two dog catchers will seek to apprehend every stray dog in town next week.

Unless contained on the dog owner's property, all dogs must be on leash when on the public streets and sidewalks and all dogs must be licensed, the city heads emphasized. In other business. Don Mitch 11, assistant school superintendent, presented a drawiag of a proposed traffic F. Concern over parking and drainage problems said caused by the construction of new homes at the comer of West Street and Ohio Avenue was pointed out in a letter to the city commission by Robert I. Venemon, a representative for the West Side property owners.

''We request that before additional bouses be placed on these lots the planning commission go over the problems that will arise and meet with the construction company and citizens of West Side to discuss the matter," the West Siders asked. The letter was referred to the City Planning Commission. FP District Will Buy Trucks, Build Station Commissioners of County Fire District (Fords Prairie) agreed Tuesday to issue warrants totaling S23. XX to finance purchase of i Warrants will be repaid at No. 12 par value plus accrued interest two used pumper trucks a assist in constructon of a new control barrier on the West High School parking lot at the 16th Street entrance and fire substation in the eastern end requested parking space for ol the district, school buses at curteide on' Issuance of the warrants 16th Street for an nour each purchased by the Centralia morning.

The city heads had Branch of Security State Bank, no objections. means the fire district in effect A $30 claim for damages for is borrowing on its future a pair of slacks was submitted budgets. The present tow-milk by Mary E. Heiribigncr. Odessa, allocated to the district i The woman received the! remain constant.

Fire Chief damage in a fall behind the city Jerry Grill said Wednesday. hall on Aug. 30. The claim was The fully equipped, being of referred to the city attorney. Meeting Changed was showing signs of develop- and John is the son of Mr.

and ment and could reach tropical storm hours strength in 24 to 16 the center said. Mrs. Sy Sylvester of Chehalis. The car. owned by Mrs.

Sylvester, is still missir.g. the Board i 1 of Directors of School District. pumpers are obtained through the City- Seattle. Grill said the fire commission also is planning ceostruction cf a substation in the Little Hanaford-Salzer Vallev area. It regularly scheduled for Monday, would be the fourth station for Sept.

13, has been postponed to the district. Others are at Fords Tuesday. Sept. H. in the library' Prairie.

Hanaford Valley and of Mt. St. Helens High School. Lincoln Creek. at six per cent per annum.

Grill said the final maturity date is July, IS76. Brush Fire Controlled OAKVILLE A slash burn in hardwood brush was to be touched off several miles north of here at mid-morning Wed- a by a 20-man Weyerhaeuser Company crew. A company spokesman said Die bum was to cover a 239-acrc area wy-re the brush has cut and pi'ed in stacks. Thf area is heir? so that it can be planted in trees this fall. In addition to the men.

two puTr.pcr trucks and a bulldozer were at the scene to k-xp the fire control. U.S., South Viets Push Drive Against Enemy SAIGON (AP) US. forces! west and the DM7. to the north. and put the South Vietnamese said ,1.

Ma and i He iaiJ intelligence esti-1 in a vulnerable position air today and South mated that there were 13.COO-]200 US. helicopters are fop- a 9 northeast of Khe Sath blasted suspected Xorth Viet- operation betow in the area two weeks ago but 1 zone. current estimates place the Tnerc was DO major fighting number at 6.000-10.000. reported and the commander "Thcv went back Xorth be- said thousands of Xorth Viet-: a of the American! Phu said. "Thev namcse troops had fled Xorth during two weeks of massive BS2 homing raids that were aimed at softening up the region in advance of ground thrust.

Maj. Ceo. Pham Van Phu. commander of the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division, told newsmen that the 12,500 troops in the drive so far have might come back. That is why I have my men there." He said he had no plans to go into Laos.

1 While there was r.o major ground fighting reported, there were some enemy harassing attacks, wourxtng an undisclosed number of South Vietnamese soldiers. Associated Press correspondent Ho'ger Jensen reported from the northern front. The Soulh Vietnamese reopened thre-e fire bases and cs- there were plans the border into Laos. Col. Le Trung Hien.

a narr.ese targets in the' rolling South Vietnam- foothills and mountains below the DMZ and to the west toward the Laos, border. It marked the first time that US. troops had returned to Ifr Vacdegrift base since the allied thrust into Laos. The base was reopened for the current operation calkd Lam Son 810. but is manned by South Vietnamese cse headquarters in Saigon, said the forwardmost government troops were 15 miles from (he Laotian border and 10 miles from Khe Sanh at last report.

In the heaviest raids in two week', more than a score o' U.S. fW bombers dropped 600 tons of bombs on Xorth Viet bunker compxes and troops for the most part Phu the South Viet-; tablished four lar.dir.g zones to i storage sites eroding Kr.c The aim of tbe drive is to fc narncse operation, launched! the east aod north of Kte Sanh Sansh -South Mor.day, would last about two more weeks. The dry season in Vietnan-fse officers field said there were Highest winds of 75 miles ar, found four enemy base camps then ar.d hour whipped around the eye. in the cperatiooal area in the the region is expected to end plans to reope-n the Khe Sanh monsoon rains and I combat which wrvcd Fern, churning fte Gulf with I northwestern corner of South of 55 to 60 mites an hour, I Vietnam bordering Laos to tow cloud covers are due to begin setting ia. This would limit U.S.

air cover aod troop BfU the main operations base for the allied drive Wo Laos last February. Tbe officers also rupt Xorth Vietnamese supplv Two I S. 7th F.cet dcstrojers routes and infiltration corridors opened fire with their five-inch leading into South Vietnam from Laos and the WE. aid it was the first a major South Vietnamese force had moved as far west along the guns from positions in the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of Vietnam. And U.S.

eight-inch howitzers just brought into Vandegrift combat base oo High-1 DMZ since the Laotian.