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The Times Recorder Today's Weather FORECAST Considerable cloudiness, windy and colder today and tonight. High to the low 50s. (Details on Page 2-B) Your "Good Morning" Neivspaper 108TH YEAR NO. 3924 PAGES ZANESVILLE, OHIO, 43701 FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1971 TEN CENTS Sentence Review Pending Orders Calley Today's Chuckle "It's not the work I enjoy," said the cab driver. "It's the jopie I run into." Cleveland Press.

i' i pH'Tiiiiiiipiniiiiiiffi11 'WmMm-- Jiiiy 'fyi-1 i kit Freed Fmm Custo dy post and would be free to come and go, as he was for the year and a half while charges were pending against him. If denied, he likely will be shipped to the Fort Leavenworth, disciplinary barracks this weekend to begin serving the sentence, which could be commuted after 10 years. Because of the seriousness of the charge on which Calley was convicted, it appeared unlikely that the base commander, Maj. Gen. Orwin C.

Talbott, would grant the requests. Balancing this out, however, was the fact that Calley demonstrated during the long period he was under charges that there is little likelihood he would flee. Latimer Wasted statements by Calley's jurors that they tried to give Calley every benefit of the doubt in their deliberations. The 70-year-old attorney said there were Ziegler, emphasized that Nixon's action was "not a legal step. It is a step taken at the President's discretion.

"He just personally felt Lt. Calley should not be put in the stockade or sent to Leavenworth while the review is taking place." Earlier, defense attorney George W. Latimer had visited Calley at the stockade and said "I don't think he's discouraged. He's doing well." Calley was fully aware, via television and newspapers, of the furor raised by his conviction on murder charges in the My Lai massacre. Appeal's in his case could take three years or longer, and Latimer has petitioned for deferment of sentence until the case is finally decided.

If granted, the 27-year-old Calley would return to his bachelor apartment here on wWWltl NiUUuu I liillllliMki aPI Telephoto) various groups across the country was the order of the day Friday. Members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstrate In front of the United States Court of Military Appeals Thursday against the Lt. Calley verdict. Protest against the verdict by Letters, Telegrams Arrive Case Bombards murdering civilians at My Lai. "This is not a legal step.

It is a step taken at the President's discretion," Ziegler said. "He just personally felt Lt. Calley should not be put in the stockade or sent to Leavenworth while the review is taking place." Ziegler confirmed that the White House has received an unprecedented deluge of communications on the Calley conviction, virtually all of them seeking clemency for the young lieutenant. Nation Against By United Press International An outcry against the conviction and life sentence of Lt. William Calley Jr.

sounded across the nation Thursday. Clamor for a presidential pardon of the soldier found guilty of killing 22 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai spread from the halls of Congress to cities and hamlets throughout America. White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said at the Western White House in San Clemente, that the flood of communications pouring in was "by far" the greatest since Nixon became President. He said the ratio of telegrams and phone calls was running 100-to-l in favor of Calley. Gov.

Edgar Whitcomb of FT. BENNING, Ga. (UPI)-President Nixon stepped into the case of Lt. William L. Calley Jr.

Thursday and ordered that he be freed from the stockade while awaiting review of his murder conviction. Nixon ordered Calley freed from the cell and confined instead to his quarters. The 27-year-old defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday for the murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. Legal sources estimate the review of the case would take at least six months three to four months just to get the entire trial transcript typed. Further appeals if the review leaves the sentence of life in prison standing could take years.

In San Clemente, Nixon's press secretary, Ronald News Dip ssai Pledges Come WICHITA, Kan. (UPI) Public contributions and pledges totaling $800,000 to "save" the supersonic transport program killed last week by the U.S. Senate have been received by the Boeing a company spokesman said Thursday. The Boeing-Wichita division said a man from Houston called and said, "I have a check here for $10,000, where do I send it?" Boeing spokesmen said the company is sending all the money back with letters of acknowledgement. Fires On Rampage WEST PLAINS, Mo.

(UPI)-Dozens of forest fires raging over hundreds of acres and whipped by gale-force winds swept through the Ozarks hill country Thursday. Forestry officials estimated some 30 fires had destroyed or damaged about 800 acres of pine trees. Firefighters used thousands of gallons of water and chemicals sprayed from airplanes in an attempt to control the fires. Asks Com million COLUMBUS (UPI) Ohio State Sen. Douglas Applegate, Steubenville, introduced a resolution Thursday asking President Nixon to consider commuting the sentence of Lt.

William L. Calley Jr. Mines Closed WASHINGTON (UPI) -Most of the nation's coal mines closed Thursday while members of the United Mine Workers observed the 73rd anniversary of their first labor contract calling for an eight-hour work day. The I'MW signed the agreement in 189S. i Scramble For Scrambler 196S Honda 175 Scrambler, like new.

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This requires successive reviews by the convening authority in this case Lt. Gen. Albert O'Connor, the 3rd Army commander and several other military command levels and the secretary of the Army. Calley has been confined to Suez Canal to shoulder their national responsibility on its eastern bank," the Egyptian agency said. The worsening crisis in the Arab world overshadowed reports of Egyptian success in winning support from West European nations for the Arab position in the diplomatic battle against Israel.

More shooting was reported in Amman during the day and Joins In Calley's Indiana ordered flags over state buildings flown at half staff. Alabama Gov. George Wallace, directed the state's Selective Service director to see if Alabama can suspend its draft until Nixon pardons Calley. Flags flew upside down in protest over a confectionery store at Johnstown, N.Y., and at 75-year-old iRobert Whita-ker's home In St. Louis, Mo.

A sign on Wock's store at Johnstown said: "Closed in protest of the sentencing of Lt. William Calley. If you are inconvenienced, think of our boys in Vietnam." Adelbert R. Root, a retired Glens Falls, N.Y., banker, resigned from a local draft board. Draft boards quit en in science at all age levels surveyed, and their performance improved with age.

Almost all their advantage was in physical science. Adult women did better than men on questions related to reproduction. Alf four age groups in big cities and smaller places wrote worse and did worse in science than those in urban fringes and medium-sized cities. News Agency Reports Egypt Will OK Formal Cease Fire numerous mitigating circumstances which would hava allowed a not guilty verdict. "What they did was they spent 13 days working (deliberating) so they could salve their conscience," Latimer declared.

One of the jurors, Maj. Harvey G. Brown, said Calley received "as fair and impartial a trial as any man ever received. If the verdict "is tearing this country apart," he said, "it is good because maybe it will make them look within themselves to find out what's wrong." The jury, like Calley, the judge, and President Nixon, was deluged with telegrams and letters from citizens enraged over the verdict. IBrown said he saw only one telegram that was at all complimentary of the jury's work.

Protest masse earlier at Athens and Blairsville, and Elizabeth-town, Tenn. Members of the Quitman, Ga. board vowed not to induct any more men. iRetircd Col. Roid Stubbs, who was Wallace's North Carolina campaign manager in 1968, said he would burn his uniform and medals Friday.

Whitcomb, calling Calley's conviction "a body-blow to America and its system of military defense," asked Nixon to grant a pardon to Calley. A resolution calling for a presidential pardon was introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives. One urging executive clemency was before the Illinois legislature. Four Wisconsin lawmakers announced they would introduce a similar measure. Drive Set To Raise U.S.

Wage WASHINGTON (UPI) House Democratic leaders began a drive Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage to $2 an hour by 1973 and add up to 7 million workers to new wage-hour law coverage. Speaker Carl Albert gave the blessing of the Democratic leadership to a bill by Rep. John Dent, that would provide the first increase in the wage floor since Jan. 1, 1968, when it went to $1.60 an hour. Albert also indicated the minimum wage bill was a part of the Democrats' overall preelection year plan to emphasize bread -and- butter economic issues jobs and wages without waiting for the Nixon administration to make proposals.

"Minimum wage legislation fits into a developing pattern of congressional initiatives to get people back to work, to put a decent wage in their pockets so they can start buying again, and thereby enable industry to gear up to meet the renewed demand," Albert told a news conference. Dent cheerfully told reporters he expected the administration to oppose his bill, but that he expected it to pass. He said there would be brief hearings in late April and the bill would be ready for House consideration in four or five weeks. Dent's bill, introduced Thursday, would increase the minimum wage for all presently covered non-farm workers to $1.80 on Jan. 1, 1972, and to $2 a year later.

Farm workers, now at a $1.30 wage floor, would go to $1.50 Aug. 1, 1971; $1.60 Jan. 1, 1972; $1.80 a year later and $2 on Jan. 1, 1974. The bill would extend wage-hour law protection the minimum wage and 40 hour work week to all federal, state and local government employes.

Plight Women Are Favored In Nationwide Survey House OKs Largest Military Pay Hike Calley SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) President Nixon Thursday ordered that Lt. William Calley be removed from the stockade at Ft. Bennnig, and confined to quarters while a review of his life sentence is under way. Press Secretary Eonald Ziegler said the President called Adm.

Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and ordered that Calley be removed from the stockade in which he was put following his conviction on charges of Drug Sale Charges Are Filed CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (UPI) -Two men were charged Thursday with selling dangerous drugs to a student at Cambridge High School, culminating an investigation which began in February when students became ill from an apparent overdose of drugs. Police levied charges against Alan Dale Saffner, 24, and Handy Lee Sivers, 19. Charges were filed as a misdemeanor because it was the first offense for the pair police said. The pair was held in city jail pending a hearing in Municipal Court. Police Chief Albert Dusz said five juveniles would be charged through juvenile authorities with Illegal use of dangerous drugs.

Police report the arrest of the two men was the second drug case in the last three months involving Cambridge High School students. 'Dusz said 19 youths were involved in the first case, but most of them were referred through the juvenile court to the Muskingum Area Mental Health Center at Zanesville for medical assistance. Teacher By United Press International Sheriff's deputies arrested striking Newark public school teachers on contempt of court charges Thursday in a continuing wave of teacher unrest in cities and. towns across the country. The deputies, acting under orders of a Superior Court judge, arrested three Newark teachers for picketing in violation of.

an anti-strike Injunction. They were released under $1,000 bond each provided by the Newark Teachers Union (NTU). In San Francisco, a strike by two rival teachers unions entered its second day and paralyzed the city's public schools. Two-thirds of the district's 4,500 teachers and 89.000 pupils remained at home. Teacher labor troubles also continued in Scottsdale, Nixon the stockade since his conviction and normally would be transferred to the federal penitentiary at Ft.

Leavenworth, Kan. to serve his sentence. The effect of the President's order is to put Calley under the same restraints in quarters at Ft. Benning that he was under when his trial was under way. Ziegler said the White House has received more communications regarding Calley than any other incident.

guerrilla spokesmen accused Jordan of completing plans for the 'final liquidation" of the Palestinian revolutionary movement. Radio Amman interrupted its regular 9 p.m. newscast to broadcast a government announcement of guerrilla attacks on two police posts and a post office. There was no mention of casualties. All the action came on a bill extending the draft until mid-1973 when President Nixon has said he hoped to achieve an all-volunteer Army through 'better pay, allowances and working conditions.

The House passed and sent to the Senate a record $2.7 billion increase three times what (President Nixon requested after repeatedly -voting down proposals that would have had the effect of ending U.S. involvement in the war in Southeast Asia. The bill which passed on a roll call extends the draft to mid-1973 when President Nixon hopes to achieve a zero draft call but it combines into one year starting July 1 the pay raises and allowances'. Earlier in the day, members, hearing complaints that draft dodgers were using conscientious objector status to avoid military duty, voted to extend from two to three years they must serve in nonmilitary service. Rep.

Wayne Hays, D-Ohio, interrupted the House session on the draft bill to announce Nixon's action which drew heavy applause from the nearly 400 members present to vote on an amendment to the draft bill. "I applaud the President's action," Hays told the House. "I know he has a verv sensitive political antenna and" he felt the heat immediately. The i House ordered the court martial and I think the White House should do something about it." Inside Index Church News 8 A Classified 8-10 Comic 11 Crossword 9 A Deaths 2 Editorials 4 A Financial 3 Jeane Dixon 12 A Sports Pages 4-6 TR-ACTION 7 Women's Pages 10-11 A By United Press International the semiofficial Egyptian Middle East News Agency said Thursday night that Egypt would agree to resume the formal ceasefire and reopen the Suez Canal if the Israelis pulled back from the waterway's east bank and permitted Egyptian troops to make a crossing. The agency said this offer was part of a "clear cut definition of Egyptian policy" drawn up by President Anwar Sadat.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, Syria warned Jordan of "serious consequences" if King Hussein's army launched new attacks on Arab guerrillas in Jordan, and Jordan charged Syria was allowing its territory to be used as a base for armed strikes against Jordanian villages. The Middle East agency said Cairo would be willing to accept a ceasefire for a limited period while U.N. mediator Gunnar V. Jarring drew up a time table for implementing the Security Council resolution of 1967. This resolution called for Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territory.

"During that period, Egyptian troops would also cross the Unrest in a suburban Pittsburgh school district, in Erie, and in Washington and Somerset counties in Pennsylvania. The situation in Philadelphia had stabilized after a teacher strike threat on Wednesday. Secret Warrants Issued In Newark, Judge J. Ward Herbert issued secret warrants for the arrest of teachers who have been on strike since Feb. 1.

It was not known how many arrest warrants were issued but Ron Pulanski, a spokesman for the NTU, placed the number at nine. However, Essex County Un-dersheriff Albert Collier said earlier that 25 warrants had been issued and that number of teachers arrested. The NTU said it had advised six other teachers for whom warrants were issued to surrender. CHICAGO (UPl)-A national survey Thursday showed females have better writing skills than males, men are more adept at science than women and people living in "urban fringes" are better in both fields than those living in other regions. The survey was conducted by the Education Commission of the States, a Denver-based coalition of political and educational leaders from 43 states.

The study was financed through a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. The survey was taken in 1969-70 of 80,000 persons in "four age groups 9, 13, 17 and young adult (26-35). The renorts are part of a series designed to provide statistical knowledge on skills of young Americans. Girls did consistently better in writing than boys, the report said, though the difference was not as apparent at ages 9 and 13 as it was at 17 and older.

Women typically did 3 per cent better than men in the older age groups, the reports said. Men did better than women Army helicopter was shot down supporting the operation. Two of the American crewmen were injured, they said. A total of 45 to 50 U.S. Army helicopters was used in the withdrawal operation, and the sources said they flew through sporadic Communist groundfire during the airlift.

Spokesmen said the supply dump which the commandos destroyed contained 1,000 gallons of fuel, one ton of mortars and other weapons and an electric power generator. Thieu announced the raid Wednesday in a news conference at Dong Ha in South Vietnam's northern quarter. He Black Panthers WASHINGTON (UPI) -The House voted the largest military pay raise in history Thursday to try to replace the draft with an all-volunteer Army. Before approving the $2.7 billion a year increase in military pay and allowances three times the boost President 'Nixon asked members refused to approve a move by antiwar forces to bar the use of draftees in Vietnam. Spreads "The next time they better come with guns," Pulanski said.

"No more teachers are going to be locked up. No more sacrificial lambs. If they want to come back, bring the National Guard." The Newark strike has sharply curtailed education for the city's 78,000 pupils. In San Francisco, the Classroom Teachers Association (CTA) joined the rival American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in the walkout after the AFT had been on strike for one week. The Bay City strike, which teachers' representatives indicated would last through next week's Easter vacation, centers around next year's school budget with teachers demanding retention of several benefits won in past years, including a pay hike.

Return said the attack, launched one week after the end of the major Sooth Vietnamese incursion into Laos, was representative of the type of hit-and-run raids South Vietnamese troops could conduct against Communist positions in either Laos or North Vietnam. In Saigon, the U.S. command announced that 58 U.S. soldiers were killed and 542 wounded in action last week. The death toll was four more than for the previous week, and marked the fourth straight week that fatalities had increased.

The casualties raised to 44,788 the number of Americans killed and to 296,911 those wounded in the war. SAIGON (UPI) South Vietnamese Black Panther commandos withdrew "safely" from Laos Thursday aboard U.S. Army helicopters after destroying a Communist supply dump containing fuel and weapons. Government spokesman said the 300-man Hac Bao Black Panther unit whose mission to harass enemy supply lines in Laos was announced Wednesday by President Nguyen Van Thieu killed one Communist soldier and found the bodies of 85 others apparently killed by U.S. bombing.

There was no report of commando casualties. Military sources said one U.S. i.

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