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1 1 1 Mexico Thursday, August 1, 1974 Phone be found in the cracks. Drought conditions are threatening crops in the midwest. (AP DUST MOSAIC-Corn field of the David Marple farm near Topeka, cracks because of drought conditions in the Midwest. Undissolved fertilizer pellets can Ledger CHANCE OF SHOWERS 14 PAGES Mexico, Lobbyists Fail To Observe Law (Editor's Note: This is the first of a -part series looking into problems of compliance with the Missouri lobbyists registration JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Between 300 and 400 persons register as lobbyists in the Missouri Capitol every year, but those who know their obligations under the 1965 lobbyists regulation law appear to be few.

Records of the House of Representatives clerk show less than 80 of the 400 lobbyists to register in 1973 filed required activities reports last January. Twenty per cent of the approximately 300 lobbyists registering this year failed to file a similar report by the May 28 deadline, and according to the same records, only about 16 per cent of those filing on time submitted C-of-C Supports Park Plan Overwhelming support was given to the park and swimming pool bond proposal to be voted on Tuesday, in a special polling of the board of directors of the Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce. Board members expressed the opinion that recreational development is essential to community improvement, the C-of-C announcement said, and noted that such recreational development is an essential asset to the town with respect to industrial development. "Industrial locators take a hard look at public recreational facilities in picking a site for new plant locations. The large complex of a new middle school in connection with a welldesigned park is certainly a good selling point when entertaining industrial plant locators, the chamber announcement said, adding: "The board felt that the small tax assessment necessary to develop a park that includes a 50 meter pool, 4 lighted tennis courts, a lighted baseball diamond, shelter houses, refreshment area, and extensive parking was an extremely worthwhile investment.

"The Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce strongly urges voters to approve the bond issue on Tuesday, Aug. 6." Mrs. Wayne Dies; Rites To Be Saturday Mrs. Dan Wayne, 76, of Mexico, died at 10:27 p. m.

Wednesday at the Audrain Medical Center after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at the Arnold Funeral Home with Don Wortman of Kentucky Road Christian Church officiating. Burial will be in Laddonia Cemetery, Born in Audrain County on April 13, 1898, Mrs.

Wayne was the daughter of Henry W. and Lillie E. Woodward Stuart. She married Dan Wayne in Mexico in November, 1955. A life-time resident of Audrain County, Mrs.

Wayne was a member of the Benton City Christian Church. Survivors are her husband; one son, John E. Crooks of Wheaton, four daughters, Mrs. Wanda Adams of Walnut Creek, Mrs. Chauncy O'Neal, Mrs.

Peggy Haynes and Mrs. Bob Remley, all of Mexico; three brothers, H. W. Stuart of Bloomington, Wilbur Stuart and C. C.

Stuart, both of Mexico; and two sisters, Mrs. W. H. Hollingsworth of Mexico and Mrs. Ocie Dubray of Perry.

Eighteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren also survive. Friends may call at the Arnold Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p. m. Friday. Next Few Days Are Critical One More Week Without Rain Could Do It KANSAS CITY (AP) Thousands of farmers will be out in their field today checking on what scorching heat and the lack of rain have done to corn, soybeans and hay so the government can tell you about it in round numbers.

From his 90 acres of firing corn in northwest Missouri and 65 acres of soybeans which have no pods, Dallas Pickett has one word for what the figures will add up to: "Desperate." Not until Aug. 12 will the government release its tabulation and projection of the counts that are being made today. But Dallas Pickett says even if good rains come in the next few days he'll get more than 50 bushels of corn to the acre instead of the 100 he usually averages. Farm officials from Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska through Missouri and Iowa into Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are talking about crop failures which will cut production from 25 to 75 per cent. William Murphy, a field 3-to-1 Vote Predicted In House 581-1111-120th Year No.

180-Fifteen Cents Unions Strike At Two Refractories Plants reports meeting the requirements of the law. Yet there has never been a conviction under the nineyearold law, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $500 fine. While most attention has centered on the activity reports covering the legislative sessions, the law also requires that: "Each person so registered shall, within 30 days after the convening of any regular session, file with the chief clerk of the House and the secretary of the Senate a detailed report under oath of all money expended by him in carrying on his duties as such registered agent from the day the regular session closes until the convening of the next regular session. This report shall indicate to whom the money was paid; for what purposes; and the names of any papers, periodicals, magazines or other publications in which he caused to be published any articles, advertisements or impeachment, O'Neill said. And the leader of the unsuccessful Nixon defense in the House Judiciary Committee, Rep.

Charles Wiggins, R- said, "At the moment, I would have to say the odds are that the House would pass them (the articles of impeachment)." The statements came as the House prepared for debate on the three impeachment articles approved by the Judiciary Committee. A number of procedural matters have to be settled, such as the length of time for debate, whether the proceedings in the House chamber will be televised and whether the committee's articles will be open for amendment. Meanwhile, there were these related developments: -O'Neill, a close friend of Vice President Gerald R. Ford, said Ford is well aware of the possibility that Nixon will be removed from office. That step would require a twothirds vote in the Senate after a majority vote in the House to impeach the President.

-White House aide Patrick J. Buchanan said the White House was keeping open the option of essentially giving up a fight in the House in order to editorials; and the proposed legislation he is employed to support or oppose." The statute also requires similarly detailed reports to' be submitted 10 days after the end of the legislative session covering activities during that session. "I was not aware it was there," said Teamsters Council 13 lobbyst Matt A. Abboud of St. Louis concerning the requirement for the interim report.

Abboud, as some other lobbyists, acknowledged that he had never read the law which governs his activities in the state Capitol, but, "I consulted some of those people who are lawyers in the legislature and they said you had to file the one report at the end of the session." Similar responses came from Missouri Bar Association lobbyist Wade Baker, Allan S. Clark of the Missouri Optometric Association, St. Louis County Counselor Thomas Wherle, Jay T. Bell of the Missouri (Continued on Page 5) expedite Senate action. However, a number of House members said this would amount to a cop-out.

-Two senators on a panel studying impeachment rules said they oppose a strict definition of what would be required to convict Nixon in a Senate trial. Sens. Robert C. Byrd, and James Allen, said each senator would make his own judgments by his own standards. -Sen.

Joseph Montoya, D- N.M., said Nixon should not use public money for his own defense in a Senate impeachment trial. Montoya, chairman of a Senate subcommittee reviewing White House budgets, said, "I would not want the President to use one nickel of the money for the White House in this bill for his own defense." -Nixon's Watergate attorney, James D. St. Clair, disclosed that more than five minutes are missing from White House tapes of a Watergate conversation between the President and two close advisers. House Speaker Carl Albert met with Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter W.

Rodino to discuss the procedural questions, but no decisions were reported. Three of five refractories in the area which had been threatened with a strike are working as usual today, but local unions at two plants struck at midnight after failures to ratify the national agreement. Workers were on the jobs at Kaiser Refractories in Mexico, CE (Walsh) at Farber, and Wellsville Fire Brick Co. Members of United Brick and Clay Workers International struck the North American Refractories Co. plant in Farber and the Harbison-Walker Refractories (Dresser Industries) plant in Vandalia.

Kaiser officials and Local 660 voted ratification of the national package late last night. Local issues have been settle as well, said William Mihalic. At CE, the superintendent Stig Scharthi said Local 806 last night ratified the national wage and benefits settlement, and voted a 10-working-day extension of work to attempt to settle local differences. Wellsville Fire Brick Co. Local 891 ratified the wage The weekly drought severity chart put out by the National Weather Service Tuesday night showed moderate to severe drought in the highproducing farm country from west Texas across the southwest third of Oklahoma to the Arkansas border and from southeast Colorado up through southwest and north-central Kansas into southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa.

The conclusions represented by the map are a little startling to most farmers in the midwest. State officials in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa are making surveys to substantiate requests that the federal government declare them drought disaster areas. In extreme western Indiana, similar steps are being taken on behalf of farmers who lost an estimated 30,000 acres of corn and soybeans in a massive hailstorm Saturday. Farmers in northeast Oklahoma around Bartlesville re(Continued on Page 5) As soon as the report is ready, which is expected to be next Wednesday, Rodino will go before the Rules Committee and request a resolution setting a time limit on debate and defining what kind of amendments, if any, will be in order. Most committee Democrats would like to prevent amendments to the three articles that have been approved, limiting members to motions to strike whole articles or sections of them, or to proposing additional articles.

The approach favored by the antiimpeachment Republicans I is just the opposite. They would like any further articles barred and the existing ones open for amendment. Also awaiting action by the Rules Committee is a resolution that would permit the House debate to be televised. Its approval is considered certain. Today's Smile "Tell me in plain language, Doc: What's the matter with me?" "You're just lazy." "Okay, now give me the medical term so I can tell my Banker) settlement and settlement of local issues.

The 25-month contract, to expire Aug. 31, 1976, provided 41 cents an hour basic wage increase the first year and 21 cents the second year. In addition it provides for unlimited cost-of-living raises, figured quarterly, based on the monthly announcement of cost-of-living index rises. It also provides for improved pension and insurance benefits. Elmer Pugh of Fulton, overall chief of the Fulton and Vandalia operations, said the Vandalia Harbison-Walker plant is shut down.

"Yes, we do have a strike. Other than that we can make no comment because the situation is not clarified to this degree," he said. The H-W plant in Fulton has Compromise School Bill Is Enacted WASHINGTON (AP) A long dispute over busing of school children has ended in compromise, and a $25 billion aid to education bill is on its way to President Nixon today. The House passed the revised measure Wednesday, 328 to 83, turning back lastditch efforts by antibusing forces to precipitate still another confrontation with the Senate. The House previously had voted three times to instruct its conferees to stand firm on a provision that would practically prohibit busing past the next-nearest school and allow reopening of court cases in which busing had been ordered.

The compromise finally adopted permits courts to order busing when such measures are needed to protect the constitutional rights of minority children. The reopener provision was deleted. Rep. Albert H. Quie, R- senior Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, said he expects Nixon to sign the bill.

Last week's Supreme Court decision striking down a controversial Detroit acrossboundaries busing order apparently helped put the compromise over. The bill authorizes funds for the next two to four years for various programs, some dependent on future appropriations legislation. OLD- TIMERS CAME afternoon to have a cup of Green Refractories Co. yesterday. From left are retiring chairman of the executive officer, John Sam Atkinson, Clarence Moten, all retired, and a different union and its contract does not expire at this time.

Charles Walters, manager of North American Refrac- tories, said Farber Local 858 had walked out after failing to come to an agreement on ratification. Hostage Siege Is Longest Ever HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (AP) A marathon siege at a prison library has entered its second week with officials pondering an offer from convict Fred Gomez Carrasco to free some of his 13 hostages in exchange for a chance to escape. Carrasco, a former narcotics kingpin serving a life sentence for assault to murder a policeman, has holed up in the third-floor library of the state penitentiary here since July 24. Two other armed inmates are with him.

Ultimatums, threats, proposals and counterproposals marked the seventh day of the siege on Wednesday. It was the longest hostages had been held in an escape in American penal history, according to the American Correctional Association in Washington, D.C. Carrasco set three deadlines, threatening to blow up some hostages with homemade bombs if his demands were not met. The deadlines, including one only 15 minutes slipped by without Negotiations were suspended until this morning after hostage Novella Pollard telephoned her daughter Kathy from the library with Carrasco's latest offer. Miss Pollard told newsmen Carrasco proposed the three armed convicts leave the prison in an unspecified vehicle with four of the hostages.

The other nine hostages would be used as "shields" but would "move to a safe place" once the other seven were inside the vehicle, Miss Pollard said. Prison spokesman Ron Taylor told newsmen "transportation will be the first order of business" in today's negotiations. Carrasco's first deadline on Wednesday was 8 CDT, at which time he threatened to explode a bomb if he was not given a bulletproof vest. Prison officials said he could have the vest if he set the hostages free. Carrasco refused, but the deadline passed with no explosion.

GREEN 'CTORIES retiring vice-president A.P. was the first time two company retired in one Mr. Mundy held an all the plant area as 600 to workers of first and to say farewell. Vance.) Carrasco reset the deadline for 1 p.m., but again took no action. As negotiations continued, authorities announced that Carrasco's 26-year-old wife, Rosa, had been charged with intent to facilitate an escape by slipping her husband a pistol on July 20.

Officials said they would give Carrasco the vest and drop the charge against his wife, who was not in custody, if he freed the hostages. Carrasco countered by saying he was dropping the demand for the vest and previous demands for ammunition and weapons. Talks then centered around Carrasco's proposal for transportation and four hostages. Texas Department of Corrections Director J. W.

Estelle delivered a written statement to Carrasco, outlining options previously relayed. "To your new and final demands of transportation plus four hostages, it is acceptable after the release of all the other hostages," it said. About 5:45 p.m., Carrasco telephoned prison officials and angrily told them he would blow up two hostages in 15 minutes with one of three bombs he claims to have fashioned, perhaps from handgun ammunition. The 15 minutes came and went. There was no explosion.

crops specialists at the University of Missouri, said "I would hate to make a guess, but yields will be well below the average of 88 bushels to the acre last year." Murphy found that the worst conditions are in northwest Missouri, which normally grows the largest share of the state's corn. "The next few days are really going to be critical," he said. "We have run out of subsoil moisture. One more week without rain could do it." James B. Boillot, state director of agriculture, expressed a fear that half of Missouri's corn crop will be lost but good rains still could save its No.

1 crop- soybeans. Murphy and Bud Nelson, who heads the Missouri branch of the crop reporting service, agreed that soybeans are in comparatively good shape and they can better withstand the dry weather. "They look better than corn," Nelson said, "but just because the fields look good now doesn't mean they will produce good beans." Rodino said he wanted to talk matters over with other committee members. The 10 Republican members who voted against impeachment held a meeting of their own to plan defense moves, and later met with House Republican Leader John J. Rhodes.

Rhodes, who says he remains undecided how to vote on impeachment, is meeting regularly with groups of Republicans to find out where they stand. Wiggins said the antiimpeachment forces are trying to assure that whatever debate procedures are adopted will provide a fair opportunity for their side to be heard. They also are working on a minority report that will accompany the committee's report in support of the three articles of impeachment, which charge Nixon with obstruction of justice, abuse of his powers and defiance of committee subpoenas. In preparation for the debate, both sides on the committee are assigning members to study specific aspects of the case, with the outnumbered Wiggins group turning to noncommittee members for help. Bill Would Allow Trading In Gold WASHINGTON (AP) A bill permitting Americans to buy and sell gold has been sent to the White House by Congress.

The measure, given final approval by the House, would allow the buying and selling of gold as of Dec. 31 if the President finds the transactions would not disrupt the U.S. international monetary position. This would be the first time since the 1930s that private citizens could conduct gold transactions. WASHINGTON (AP)-With House debate on the impeachment question due to start in two weeks, some leading congressmen representing both parties and various political philosophies say President Nixon's chances are poor.

Rep. John M. Ashbrook, R- Ohio, a leading House conservative who supports impeachment, said Wednesday he expects the House to vote to impeach Nixon by nearly a 3-1 margin. House Republican Whip Leslie Arends, generally considered the Republican congressional leader closest to Nixon, said of Nixon's chances of avoiding impeachment: "I would not tell him it looks good." House Democratic Leader Thomas P. O'Neill predicted more than 75 per cent of the House members will vote to impeach the President.

O'Neill said no firm counts have been taken but said his discussions with members indicate no more than 38 of the 248 House Democrats and fewer than 80 of the 187 Republicans will support the President on impeachment. Rep. Joe D. Waggonner, D- a strong Nixon supporter, thinks even fewer than 38 Democrats will vote against AP BACK yesterday coffee with two executives who retired William S. Lowe, board and chief Crum, still working, Williams and Louis Ferris Mundy, of manufacturing, It high executives of the day, and Mr.

Lowe and afternoon coffee line in 700 present and former second shifts dropped by (Ledger Photo by. Richard.