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Edith Threatens Gulf Coast 1 CORPUS CMRISTI, Tex. ter was about south- Tropical Storm Edith, east of Brownsville, which Is at which forecasters said may be- the tip.of Texas, and was mov- £come a hurricane tonight, has ing north-northeast at 8 to 10 fveefed northward toward the m.p.h. U.S. coast on the Gulf of Mexl- The National Hurricane Cen- 1 co. It became a threat today to ter in Miami shifted its guess of and sent still more Edith's landfall from Mata; rains into areas of Texas al- gorda Bay on Texas' central I ready reeling from the floods of coast to the central Louisiana coast.

In Pennsylvania searchers had recovered the bodies of nine persons drowned in flash floods Tuesday as Tropical Storm Heidi died in the North Atlantic. In a 6 a.m., bulletin, the National Weather Service said Edith had sustained winds of 60 miles per hour and that condi: WASHINGTON (AP) tions appeared favorable for Drugaddicted servicemen will her to reach hurricane strength have to undergo mandatory before nightfall. I treatment before they are dis- The storm was moving north charged, an administration a about 5 m.p.h. from a posi- spokesman says. Previously departing Vicemen, who are screened by a pre-discharge drug test, were j.

Schapp declared a state of treated on a voluntary basis, emergency in Delaware, "The Department of Defense gomery, Bucks, Chester and has fowarded to all command- Philadelphia counties after a ers directives advising them Hurricane Fern. I At 9 a.m. todav, Edith's cen- Gl Addicts Must Take Treatment tion 70 miles southeast of Brownsville. In Pennsylvania, Gov. Milton 'MEXICO (MO,) LEDGER 1 Saigon uaim 'Insults' Senator Pot smokers SAIGON (AP) City offi- priests, Buddhist priests, law- DOD US 6 cials claimed today Sen.

yers, doctors, housewives, stu- George S. McGovern un- dents. The only thing they had knowingly was meeting with a in common was a concern about Viet Cong terrorist group when the attitude of this government he was endangered by a rock toward the way political and fire-bomb barrage against prisoners are treated and the lumbia University says It a Saigon church. The senator way the prisons are con- oun i a national survey of protested to President Nguyen ducted." youngsters that those who use Van Thieu that the claim was a In a communique, the mayor marijuana are less likely to said the meeting was illegal be- come cigarette smokers than McGovern said he told Thieu cause the group had not obtain- those who don't. about the allegations at a meet- ed a permit required when The university's school of Ing later In the day and quoted more than 20 persons gather.

pu blic health said Tuesday Its the president as expressing U.S. official sources said the survey covered 1,701 surprise at the police version of disturbance appeared to have youngsters In the 12-17 age the melee at a Roman Catholic been coincidental with bracket from all sections of the church. McGovern's presence and those na tlon. He said Thieu promised he responsible "probably did not of the surveyed adolescents NEWARK, N.J. (AP) CO- massive low-pressure system that drug-dependent personnel dumped heavy rains.

COMMISSIONER SURVEYS CLUTTERED PRISON Oswald, New York State commissioner of surveys the clutter in prison yard at Attica State Prison where non-rebellious prisoners were kept The Attica Story (Continued from Page 1) der a cloud of tear gas. uauereu uy ncavy arnination did find abrasions After the assault, 40 bodies Jerome H. Jaffe told the Senate rams 'and New York City and other evidence of beatings were found. The dead included sub- Mavor John Lindsay asked on some bodies of hostages. But 31 inmates and nine hostages.

Gov Nelson A. Rockefeller to he said only one hostage was Severali mmatesi couldI notJe with limited terms of service are not to be given through five days of insurrection. Makeshift moat in yard was used as "first line of defense," according to officials accompanying newsmen. The riot in western New York ended with 40 dead and many more injured. (AP Wirephoto) would "look into it Immediate- even know he was present." ly." McGovern lodged his protest during a 45-minute meeting with Thieu that came just after Saigon city officials issued statements claiming that McGovern had unknowingly met with Viet Cong cadre at the church.

U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth House Votes Detention Camp Repeal who have used marijuana 10 times or less, 83 per cent are cigarette smokers. Cigarette usage fell to 64 per cent among those who have used marijuana 60 or more times, the school said. "Apparently, if you smoke pot a lot, who needs cigarettes," said Dr. Eric Joseph- The system spilled out over the North Atlantic seaboard I the option of declining transfer and absorbed Tropical Storm rby ASMRO (the Armed Serv- Heidi, the National Hurricane i ices Medical Regulating Orga- Center said.

nization) to VA (Veterans Ad- ew York and Connecticut I', ministration) facilities," Dr. ai so wer battered by heavy Affairs committee Tuesday. ciauil 4MJV "The effect of this directive is declare Staten Island a disaster cut on the neck, and that wound accounted for and prison offi- I that a man identified as drug area because of flood damage. was a sma11 nole the back of cials suggested they might dependent and who has, for ex- An unnamed tropical depres- the neck have bee killed and buried ample, two weeks' service re- i on packing winds of 35 Yhe medical examiner said In other developments maining will serve those in a drifted 130 miles west of Gran- "There were two types of mis- related to the uprising and the voluntary fizzled. Between July 1 and Sept.

10, Jaffe said, 4,440 servicemen showed positive reactions ward opiates, mostly heroin, in urine tests. That's 5.15 per cent of all tested. But only 23 GIs voluntarily VA hospital while receiving treatment," said Jaffe, director of President Nixon's special drug-abuse prevention program. ada in the Caribbean Sea, head- siles found in both the inmates decision to storm the prison: ing apparently toward the Ve- the hostages. Some were -A federal judge Buffalo buckshot.

Some were larger vacated an earlier order that caliber missiles." had authorized a group of law- State police who charged the yers, doctors and nurses to en- carried nezuelan mainland at about 6 m.p.h. The Hurricane Center said Jaffe said the mandatory this depression, which dumped son program was started after the heavy rains on the Windward nfles Islands, would bring a flash flood danger to northern Venezuela today and also would soak the islands of Bonaire, Curacao as hostages, and Aruba. treatment plan The and ter the prison. State corrections officials successfully fought the order on the grounds that there rebellion erupted last Thursday and the inmates took was still a "state of emergen- 38 guards and prison employes cy" at Attica. officials said about 150 Attica inmates had been Columbia Had One guard died Saturday of injuries suffered in the first surge of violence.

The rebels were crushed prisons Tuesday and additional Monday when heavily armed transfers were expected. About transferred to two other state agreed to be transferred to a Hifh Of 1O1 V4 hnonital fnr troatmpnt fnr fJ VA hospital for treatment for their remaining 10 or 15 days in the service, he said. "These figures made it clear to us, as well as to the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, that the system was not working as we had hoped," Jaffe said. state police, guards, sheriff's deputies and National Guards- 1,200 inmates were to be housed temporarily in a cell KANSAS CITY (AP) Light rain moistened acreas of Missouri early today and the forecast called for cooler weather with continuing showers in the north and central. Horse Drowned In Flooded Home SINTON, Tex.

(AP) When E. V. Saenz returned home after flood waters from tropical storm Fern receded, he had to get some strong rope to remove an unwelcome visitor. A horse had wandered into his living room and drowned during the storm. Ronald Goldman said he returned to his home by boat to find a pig in the bathroom, where the animal managed to keep his head above water by standing on the toilet and the lavatory.

80s in the central. Clear to partly cloudy and cooler weather was on tap for tonight and Thursday, with a chance of showers in the extreme southeast Thursday. Tonight's lows should range from 45-50, with highs Thursday voice demands for nature The extended forecast called pnson for cool weather with little or no Sunday. Highs should be in the 60s and 70s and lows in the 40s and 5fls through the period. In the past 24 hours, high temperatures over Missouri ranged from 101 at Columbia to 83 at St.

Joseph. St. Louis recorded a high of 100. Lows were from 69 at Cape Girardeau to 50 at Springfield. 'men moved into the prison un- block designed for 481 prisoners-.

at Attica. Demonstrations Staged By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican Gov. Ronald Rea- Demonstrators in two cities gan of California who said in Sacramento that bargaining with convicts holding hostages would sentence "every prison employe and guard to the possibility of death." Reagan compared the Attica riot with the bloody escape attempt Aug. 21 at San Quentin Prison in which three guards and three inmates died. "In both instances it reflects the revolutionary tactic of tak- In an orderly rally attended ing the revolution into the prison and attacking the establishment there," he said.

William L. Kunstler, the activist lawyer who also was among the Attica mediators, GUARD TELLS (Curley) Watkins gestures with his good hand and his broken right arm as he tells of his 97 as a prisoners' hostage at AtJ.ica, state prison. Watkins' wife, Peggy, brushes her forehead, as he tells how he was taken prisoner. (AP Wirephoto) WASHINGTON (AP) The son of Columbia, who reported Bunker was also present at the House has voted to repeal a law on the survey at a conference meeting with Thieu. detention centers student drug use.

The South Dakota Democrat, ifor suspected spies and sub- According to the survey, 15 an announced presidential versives during wartime. pe cent of the youngsters ha'd aspirant in 1972, said he is con- The 356 to 45 vote Tuesday tried marijuana and 3 per cent fident the persons who attended came after two days of debate use it 60 times or more, the church meeting were not in which the bill's supporters More youths in the West, 23 Viet Cong, but persons inter- recalled the imprisonment of per ce nt, use marijuana, the ested in prison reform and al- 112,000 Japanese-Americans SU rvey found. The figure was 20 legedly unjust legal living on the West Coast during per ce nt in the Northeast, 13 per procedures. World War II. cen in the North Central states "I told him (Thieu) I thought The Nixon administration an pe cent in the South, it was outrageous that a police supported repeal of the 1950 law "Somewhat surprisingly, our chief of this city would Imply to quiet what it described as survey did not produce the ex- that a U.S.

senator was here unfounded rumors that the law pe cted sex differences in marl- meeting with agents of the Viet might be used to imprison uana Josephson 'said. Cong," McGovern told news- po litical dissidents. i i use po almost as much men, "and that it was ridicu- The bill, which must still be as oyS) the survey found, lous on the surface that a police acted on by the Senate, also children of wealthier parents chief would make such a charge prohibits establishment of de- ten to smoke more marijuana and does nothing about it. tention centers without than those from lower income If the police chief knew congressional approval, households, the survey report he should have Detention of the Japanese- sai( Americans was ordered by Among youngsters in President Franklin D. am iii es with an annual income Roosevelt under his executive fa $10,000, 6 per cent had powers.

tried it; but with those in Before voting to repeal the families with an income of that some participants in the act, the House beat back two $15,000 and over, 19 per cent meeting that triggered the dis- amendments from the Internal had tried the drug. turbance Tuesday were mem- Security Committee designed to preserve the act in amended form and to permit detention centers to be set up without congressional approval. about this moved in." McGovern was referring to statements by Col. Trang Si Tan, Saigon's police chief, arid Col. Do Kien Nhieu, the mayor, bers of a Viet Cong-backed "student attack group." Nhieu named 18 persons, some of whom he said had been responsible for recent fire Men's P.E.

Class Opens Tomorrow Pesticides Are Linked To Cancer State Prison as reaction continues to the bloody end of its prisoner rebellion. About 150 persons paraded through the midday, 90-degree heat in Los Angeles Tuesday to show support for what they called the "Attica 1200" and to WASHINGTON (AP) A family of pesticides widely used on fruits and vegetables has been linked to cancer in animals by the Food and Drug Administration. Spurred by the FDA findings, bombings of American vehicles nrlrhooH in Saigon. LOCKFieeU "The people we talked to," $5Q Million said McGovern, "were Catholic VORTC TAPI Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has borrowed an initial $50 million of the $250 million in private bank loans the government The men's physical education class of the Mexico Evening School will start at 7 p.m.

tomorrow at the Hardin Junior High gymnasium. This class, taught by Marvin McCowan, will be for men who would like to get a physical rally after being sprayed on In a report prepared for a 0 fruits, vegetables, grass, flow-meeting of the American guaranteed to save the big de- workout each week. Volleyball ers, bushes and trees. Chemical Society, R.M. Philpot fense contractor from financial.

-will be the primary sport. Traces of carbamate, and of the National Institute of collapse. fee for the class is $6. presumably ETU, remain on Environmental Health Sciences treated fruits and vegetables at Research Triangle Park, purchased at food stores, Wo- N.C., and Ernest Hodgson of the" Environmental Protection dicka said, although the extent North Carolina State Univer- Agency is considering whether is unknown. sity, cautioned against using whole thing is too new" called "synergists." to evaluate the risk, Wodicka It has been found, they said, NOW SHOWING a ban, or lesser restrictions, should be imposed on some or Defense Committee, one speaker described the Attica inmates as "heroic brothers laying as in down their lives to human dig- told a gathering at Stout State Instant News nity." At the University of Oklahoma in Norman about 75 black students blockaded a one-way street for about two hours to show sympathy.

About 85 per cent of the Attica inmates are black or Puerto Rican. "There is one way the right way but it ain't the white way," the protesters chanted. They posted a sign reading: "30 University in Menomonie, that the inmates "were real men who had legitimate grievances." He said the riot was "the only way they had to bring their grievances to the attention of authorities." Atty. Gen. John N.

Mitchell told a Republican fund-raising dinner at Millburn, N.J., that the Attica rebellion and its bloody aftermath was a "most N.Y. (AP) New tinued lack of draft authority brothers dead, and things go on unfortunate situation," but he ATTICA, York State Corrections Commissioner Russell G. Oswald has admitted that eight hostages who were killed during an inmate uprising at Attica State Prison died of gunshot wounds. Oswald made the announcement after autopsy results contradicted earlier official as usual. In Buffalo, will create a military man- XI A power crisis.

In Buffalo N.Y state As- However, the government semblyman Arthur 0 Eye wept ficnp frniH SrafP could, if necessary, begin tap- toiu Duue ping a pool of 500,000 recent college and junior college graduates whose educational deferments have run out. The men are still draftable because their declined to make any more specific comment. all of these fungicides known as said in an interview. "If we find that synergists render inactive carbamates. its a problem, we will speak in a a substance called cytochrome No decision has been louder voice." P-450, which helps destroy reached, according to Dr.

Wil- Meanwhile, two scientists re- many foreign compounds, liam M. Upholt, EPA's deputy ported that chemicals used to "These may be insecticides assistant administrator for pes- make bug-killers work better in insects or such things ticides programs. He said there may extend their effect to hu- drugs appears to be "no clear-cut evi- mans. man, dence of imminent hazard to man" from the carbamates. Dr.

Virgil 0. Wodicka, director of the FDA's Bureau of Foods, wrote Upholt Aug. 23 that agency scientists had confirmed the chemical ethylene thiourea (ETU) causes cancer of the thyroid gland when fed to rats. A copy of the letter, which was not made public, has been obtained by The Associated Press. ETU is one of the chemicals that carbamates split into natu- I audience that the inmates had refused to kill their hostages when the police assault 3 fl hos A ere Eve said.

When the fore the draft law expired June attack they refused to 30 lun 8 kmves into their hos- SAIGON (AP) Saigon city ta 8 es vent wn 6 gas officials have claimed that Sen. they refused to kill them. George McGovern was un- when he shooting began, knowingly meeting with a Viet refus to kill.them. Cong terrorist group when he Eve a black legislator who was endangered by a rock and served on a mediating corn- firebomb barrage against a Saigon church Tuesday. The senator protested to whether the use of massive President Nguyen Van Thieu efeller for the tragic outcome.

force to put down the rebellion that the claim was a "personal- Rockefeller was supported by reports that inmates had slit deferments were acquired be- ine the throats of hostages as police inno attack began an assault against the rebels Monday. No guns have been turned up among weapons in the inmates' possession. Demonstrators in two U.S. cities have expressed support for the predpminently black and Puerto Rican prisoners at Attica, while other public reaction remains divided over mittee requested by the rebellious inmates, said he blamed Gov. Nelson A.

Rock- was justified. Abroad, the press generally reflects horrof and dismay over the violence. Governor Rockefeller of New York and President Nixon are both praised and Criticized for approving a 4vfcrdline stand to end the prison (AP) A vote on tabling the ension bill is expected and Pentagon chiefs Services Corn- are trying to senators that con- Thieu expressed surprise at the story and promised to "look into it immediately." LONDON (AP) The United States came under increased pressure today to devalue the dollar as 10 of the world's leading industrial nations gathered for monetary talks. The Nixon administration has resisted pressures for devaluation, but sources say a compromise agreement between the United States and the "Group of 10" is still possible. VOTE Sept.

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