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HOME EDITION Dclmarvu's Largest Newspaper VOL.49 NO. 96 PHONE 749-7171 FOR HOME DELIVERY SALISBURY, MARYLAND, THURSDAY, JIAUC1I 2:1, 1972 Two Section. 3fl PAGES SUnn On 10c 7QC Bj cqu The Weather Friday fair, highs in low 50s. (See page 24) 1 MVJUQO Congress Approves Rights On 91 Man's Death Is Blamed On o-wm i. i vJ, f'.

1 i Constitutional Amendment Goes To States "A Sain Ervin, second from right, was one of eight senators who voted against the amendment. Others are Rep. Martha Griffiths, and Sen. Marlow Cook, R-Ky. (AP Wirephoto) THREE SMILES AND A FROWN.

After the Senate voted passage of a constitutional amendment giving women equal rights, Sen. Birch Bayh, left, met with two supporters and one opponent in the Capitol. Sen. AT ODDS. AFL-CIO President George Meany, only two labor representatives on the original left, and two other labor members of President 15-member panel.

Chairman George Boldt, Nixon's Pay Board quit Wednesday leaving right, called the walkout a "surprise." Meany Denounces Board As 3 Labor Men Walk Off Off-Track Bill Rejected In Surprise Panel Move '4 Ronald L. Ziegler. "In the guise of an anti-inflation policy, the American people are being gouged at the supermarket and squeezed in the paycheck," said AFL-CIO President George Meany. Meany, President I W. Abel the AFL CIO United Steel-workers and President Floyd Smith of the AFL-CIO International Association of Machinists started the fight by quitting the Pay Board in a body with the accusation that Nixon's controls are loaded in favor of big business and against workers and unions.

ranks have been reduced to 12, its own rules require only 10 members for a and eight votes to pass a motion. The five public members of the board denied Meany's charges that the board has been unfair to labor. 5 a Bv NEIL GILBRIDE WASHINGTON (AP) An exchange of bitter charges between the White House and three resigning AFL-CIO members of President Nixon's Pay Board appears to have thrust the administration's wage-price controls into the political arena as a major election issue. "It is the President's view that a few labor leaders representing a small percentage of the 80 million wage earners in this country will not be allowed to sabotage the fight against higher prices." said White House Press Secretary By TOM STUCKEY ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -Aides to Gov.

Marvin Mandel began the task today of wangling a favorable vote on the Off-Track Betting Bill from the House Ways and Means Com mittee, which rejected the measure a surprise move Wednesday. The 11 to 5 vote against the bill caught supporters off guard and prompted Del. Russell O. Hickman, D-Worcester, to comment that "somebody is playing games Pay Board Business Goes Marijuana Panel Report Receives Mixed Reactions On Despite Labor Winds, Storms By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The high winds that sent showers and thunderstorms boiling through Maryland Wednesday were blamed for the death of a Bowie man fatally injured when a large tree limb fell on his head. Thomas R.

Bladen died In Prince George's General Hospi tal in Cheverly Wednesday night after being struck in front of his Bowie home. He had left the house to speak with Prince Georges County policemen about a car that had been abandoned in front of the house. The car was believed used in a holdup shortly before Bladen, 52, was struck by the limb. The afternoon storm also lift ed a portion of roof from the Board of Education office build ing in Upper Marlboro, setting a power line fire nearby. Fire officials reported slight fire damage.

Wind however, caused an estimated $60,000 damage to buildings in the Upper Marlboro complex. The National Weather Service at Friendship Airport recorded more than one half inch of rain and clocked wind gusts up to 59 miles an hour. Unotficial re ports, however, noted gusts reaching 80 miles per hour. The storm also lifted a spec tacular 200-foot-high water spout over the Severn River, the Weather Service reported. Pea-sized hailstones peppered th Baltimore metropolitan area briefly during the after noon storm.

Some 2,100 Anne Arundel (See STORMS, Page 22) Power Blackout Reported In Parts Of County- No major damage was re ported today as a result of an early spring storm that pep pered sections of the Delmarva Peninsula with high winds, rain, snow, hail, and lightning. The most far-reaching effect of Wednesday's storm was a 55-minute blackout for 1,100 cus tomers of the Choptank Electric Cooperative Inc. in Wicom ico County. A co-op spokesman said lightning striking a substation north of Salisbury caused the trouble. The Delmarva Power and Light Co.

and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. had no reports of damage. Although some sections Maryland had winds of 80 miles an hour which is above hur ricane force the peak wind velocity recorded at the baus-bury-Wicomico County Airport was about 48 miles an hour. A little more than a half-inch of rain fell in the Salisbury area. At one time during the afternoon storm, it was reported that hail whitened the ground in the Delmar area.

There was another report that a construction trailer overturned in the Snow Hill Rd. area. In the Salisbury area, the mercury climbed to a high of 65 on the third day of spring. The lowest recorded temperature was 38. Wicomico County Bingo Bill Is Passed By House ANNAPOLIS Wicomico County's bingo bill is now half way through the legislature.

The bill to remove th2 ceiling on cash prizes in bingo games and to permit an unlimited number of games in a year by nonprofit organizations was passed by the House of Delegates on Wednesday. It now goes to the Senate. The bill, sponsored by Wicomico Dels. Joseph J. Long and Richard M.

Laws, retains all other controls. Meantime, a handful of other Eastern Shore bills were given final approval in the legislature. Tne Senate on Wednesday passed the House bills from Worcester and Somerset Counties. Those bearing the sponsorship of Del. Russell O.

Hickman of Worcester County which were enacted include those to provide for salaries of assistant and deputy state's attornies in his county; to remove the $1-a-day ceiling on per-prisoner fees paid to the sheriff for feeding prisoners; and to change the intervals of redistribution of the Worcester room tax to municipalities. Three bills of Del. Carlton (See BINGO, Page 22) By JOHN LENGLE WASHINGTON (AP) Ending lour decades of reluctance and indecision, Congress has approved a proposed constitutional amendment designed to provide equal rights for women. The 84-8 Senate vole Wednesday that completed congress-sional action on the proposal brought shouts of joy and a-spirited champagne party by supporters. But Sen.

Sam Ervin, who lost 10 attempts to modify the amendment, said: "You are. crucifying women on a cross of equality Forgive them. Father, they know not what-they do." To take effect, the amendment must be ratified by legislatures of 38 states within seven years. It would become effective two years after ratification. Hawaii, acting an hour after the Senate vote, became the first state to ratify.

"It finally happened." said Hep. Bella Abzug, I don't believe this amendment will have the effect oi creating identical human beings. I do believe it will create identical legal rights," said Sen. Birch Bayh, floor manager of the amendment. Ervin, who doggedly led a (See RIGHTS.

Page 22) Dacca Sheik Is Popular Man In Bangladesh By ARNOLD ZEITLIN DACCA (AP) The best show in Dacca starts at sundown at the prime minister's house when the people come to meet Sheik Mujibur Rahman. "This is impossible," roared Mujib one hectic evening. "How do they expect me to get my work done?" He was lecturing adoring adherents who had jammed the corridor in front of his office in the two-story villa. The supporters wanderd happily off, having seen their leader but another mooning batch soon replaced them. Outside the walls of the house, a half dozen antique buses rolled in from the countryside carrying several hundred members of a workers organization, waving banners and placards.

They wanted jobs. Inside the house, in a room cheerfully brightened by yellow print upholstery, Mujib returned to his work and did not look up for the appearance of a foreign journalist he had summoned for what the newsman thought was to be an interview. Suddenly, the door to the room was flung open, the drapes across the door flapped and in rushed six weeping and waiting men who had fought for liberation of Bangladesh. One man held up an arm In a cast and swathed with gauze. He swept across the room and hurled himself at the sheik's feet.

A second revealed an artificial leg. A third pulled at hjs shirt and showed his scars. The others climbed over a journalist and an ambassador in their eagerness to get to the sheik. The sheik patted their heads, murmured his gratitude and sent them, still wailing, on their way. They had come to thank him for financing their treatment.

They left noisily and a pordy Foreign Office protocol officer wheeled is what looked like 'a casket covered with red velvet. It contained a 4-foot elephant tusk from the Chittagong hill tracts. "For Mrs. Gandhi," said tha- protocol man. The visit of tha (See SHEIK, Pago 22) CRT In Today's Times Amusements 24 Ann Landers 16 Bridge 38 Classified Ads 30-38 Comics 37 Crossword Puzzle 36 Deaths Funerals 23 Doctor Says 9 Editorial Page 10' Jeane Dixon 19 Jumble 37 Local Happenings 14 Market Reports 22 Merry-Go-Round 2 Polly's Pointers 13 Sports Pages 26-29 Television 24 Weather Tide 24 3X By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The recommendation by a national commission to abolish criminal penalties for private use of marijuana has drawn mixed reaction among both the nation's youth and law enforcement officials.

Some officials gave qualified support to the idea, but others branded recommendations by the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse as impractical and even dangerous. Harry J. Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962, said the commission's recommendations could have "very serious national repercussions" and he called the findings "terrifying." Alaska Pipeline Hazard Examined Meany said politics played no part in the decision by the executive council of the 13.6 -million member labor federation to pull its representatives off the Pay Board. But the AFL-CIO's political strategists have been gearing up for months for an expected all-out effort to defeat Nixon in his re-election bid next November.

The AFL CIO resignations left only two labor representatives on the 15-member board, Teamsters President Frank E. Fitzsimmons who said he will (See LABOR, Page 22) Wa Ikoff They said 28 of the board's 54 formal votes had been unani mous. The union members had been in the majority of 36 votes, they said, and had voted in the majority on five of eight major wage cases decided by the full board. disruption of the environment would result." But he conceded in an interview that the extensions actual ly would have a small impact since they could share rights-of-way already carrying oil pipelines from Canada. decora compared the pro posed trans-Alaska oil pipeline with alternate routes through Canada in a 90-second recorded announcement offering "further insight into environmental ef fects of moving oil from the North Slope of Alaska to the lower 48 states." His statement made no men tion of the unavoidable impacts on Alaska's Prince William Sound or other segments of the tanker route that would be needed to haul oil from the pro posed pipeline southern end at (See PIPELINE, Page 22) Communist forces also at tacked the command post of a bouth Vietnamese armored cav airy regiment in southern Cambodia early today, shelled the main South Vietnamese base for the current operations in eastern Cambodia and fired 2fil rockets and mortar rounds at five government positions along the demilitarized zone and farther south near Hue.

Twenty-nine rockets hit the big Tay Ninh West base camp 60 miles northwest of baigon killing seven persons, wounding (See ATTACKS, Page 22) Powellville Fire Co. Dinner Mar 26 Noon til 5 p.m.-ad Berlin Furn. Budget Bargains 7 Pitts Benin ad. nary vote and was set up for final action later this week or next week. Backers of legislation to re distribute state aid to education among the subdivisons gave up their fight for this year.

A proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit dis crimination against women was passed and sent to the Senate A bill to require eye examinations for Maryland motorists every four years failed (See OFF-TRACK, Page 22) commission, received the report without comment. San Francisco Undersheriff Reuben Greenberg said he "agrees completely" with that recommundation, "we think the use of marijuana should be restricted but not made Illegal, the same way alcohol is." But the proposal not to prosecute marijuana users and not to legalize it cither was, in the opinion of Alabama Public Safety Director W. L. Allen like "trying to follow the line of being just a little pregnant. He said he opposed the report Anslinger, who spearheaded passage of the federal Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, said lib- (See MARIJUNA, Page 22) Sometimes It's Better To Miss Bus In Russia WASHINGTON (AP) If you're a U.S.

Navy officer, it's better to miss the bus in Lenin grad than to catch the wrong bus especially it it run oy tne Soviet Army. This moral springs from a fresh diplomatic incident which, it was learned, the State Department is about to ac knowledge publicly. According to Washington's version of the wrong-bus affair: Cmdr. William II. J.

Man-thorpe and Lt. Cmdr. Steve S. Kime, naval attaches with the American embassy in Moscow, finished a sightseeing outing in Leningrad March 14 and headed for the railroad station. So they hopped on a bus an unmarked bus.

Thcv soon dis covered they were riding a mil itary dus, got ott and started walking toward the station. But on the way, they were apprehended by a Soviet army officer who took them to a nearby military hotel. The Rus sian Army men there seemed unpersuaded when the attaches produced their diplomatic Identification, which is supposed to let them go free in such cases. The Soviets searched the pair, took away their belongings, and held them for an hour and a half before rcturnine their things and letting them go on to the station. Back in Moscow, the Ameri-(See BUS, Page 22) Double Knit Sport Coats See Lee Johnson ad page 23-ad.

Gas Cooks Better, More eco-nomically Citizens Gas ad. Mandcl's only immediate re action was that he hoped "the committee will reconsider its vote and approve the bill." But sources close to the gov ernor predicted the vote would be turned around and that the measure would come to the floor with a favorable report. The vote on off-track betting capped a busy day Wednesday for the House of Delegates in which: A bill to abolish tha death penalty in most cases in Mary land barely survived a prelimi But Walter Richter. director of the Texas Program on Drug Abuse, said the group's report was "a very sane and humane and reasonable approach" that would free law enforcers to deal with the problem of hard drugs. "I would be the last one to recommend anyone get involved with pot, but I think this helps put it in perspective," he said.

The 13-member commission, at the end of a year's study, urged Wednesday that the government end prosecution of marijuant users but continue jail terms and fines for growing or selling pot. President Nixon, who appointed nine members of the Anvhow. the FPC decided last vear to do its own survpv. So it set up a series of task forces and study groups to look into the gas supply situation and promotlv staffed each Dan- el with a majority of gas industry representatives. This brought a howl of pro-! test in Concress.

Sen. Warrpn G. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, introduced a bill which would reauire the FPC tn use its own staff people to do a gas survey. In hearings on that and other bills this week. FPC Chairman John N.

Nassikas told the com mittee that would be all but impossible. "It would take 475 man years to make the survev." Nassika testified. If 100 additional staff people were hired, "assuming we could even find loo py- perts," the job would take nearly five years and cost 20 times what the current survey is targeted for, he said. But the committee also heard from Alan S. Ward of thn FpH.

eral Trade Commission who is all for the Magnuson bill. "For the industry to be ever so honorable as it is nresentlv rnn. stituted its total revenues are directlv doDcndpnt unon its own count of reserves," Ward said. He urged enactment of the bill to "assure an alternative source of information." No matter how it all rnmps out, the consumer probably will have to pay a higher price Nassikas says. Gas Gives U.

S. Heartburn Pain By STAN BENJAMIN WASHINGTON (AP) Interior Undersecretary William T. Pecora says an Alaska oil pipeline would be a greater spill risk than one through Canada, but the trans Canada route would cause more damage be cause three times the distance, in Canada, is in permafrost. The department's environmental-impact statement says the permafrost distance of a Canadian route is 1.5 to 2 times that of the proposed Alaska route. And it rates the land disruption about equal in severity either way.

Pecora also said, in a prepared statement issued by the department, that a Canadian pipeline route would require ex tensions east and west to the U.S. Midwest and West Coast, and "inevitably, much actual By BROOKS JACKSON WASHINGTON (AP) The Pay Beard remained in business today, determined to continue in one form or another despite the walkout of three labor members. "I think it very likely that the Pay Board will go on, but how and in what manner remains to be seen," Chairman George II. Boldt said. "There's more than one way to skin a cat." The board planned tentatively to continue work today on proposals to drop wage controls from small firms and to give some further relief to 1 -wage-earners.

The absence of three labor votes decreased the likelihood that any such proposals would be adopted. In any event they would require approval of the Cost of Living Council. Meanwhile, the White House faced a decision on whether to allow the board to continue in its suddenly lopsided condition, or to reshape it in some way. A number of options appear open. Balance could be restored by adding three more union or nonunion representatives of labor or by paring away three public and three business members.

Also, the board could be reconstituted entirely of 1 1 members, as is the Price Commission. Before Wednesday's resignations, the board comprised five members, each from labor, business and th public. Another alternative would be to do nothing. With three labor votes gone, the board's decisions could become more conservative and the administration could point to the absent union chiefs as the reason. "If I were the President," one nonunion board member said, "I'd wait until the dust settles before doing anything." After today's meeting, the board plans a two-week Easter recess.

Although it was scheduled Jong before AFL-CIO President George a and two AFL-CIO colleagues resigned Wednesday, the break will serve to give the administration some breathing space. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said the board will not be disbanded, but also didn't comment on what its future form might be. Meanwhile the board should have little trouble functioning. All its rules and guidelines remain in place.

Although its N. Vietnamese Step Up Attacks WASHINGTON (AP) The federal government is trvine to figure out who's got gas and who hasn't and the nroblom is causing a serious case of bu reaucratic neartourn. The gas involved is natural. In recent years it's been emerging from the ground at a sieaciny decreasing rate, resulting in shortages that have triggered rationing in wide arpas of the country. New gas is lying around under the ground waiting for pro- aucers to come tor it, but the producers aren't looking much.

They claim that erratic Federal Power Commission regulation or rates tney can charge for gas doesn't provide enough profit margin to finance explor ation. The FPC is rnnsirWituT changing its regulatory system, but first the commission says it must tina out what companies have how much gas and where. Therein lies the rub. The FPC has never gone Into the gas fields itself to inventory supplies. It has.

instead, alwavs relied on figures supplied by tne American lias Association, an industry organization which collects data on ens siinnlinc from the producers. But because AGA is an industry group, the charge has been made that it helped the gas industry overrate its problems and create an artificial ens shortaee to force FPC to raise gas rates. AGA says this coumn De turlher from the truth. SAIGON (AP) Communist forces slashed into a district town in the Mekong Delta on Wednesday firing automatic weapons and rocket grenades and killed 19 of the local militiamen and police and nine of their wives and children. Another 29 of the defenders were wounded in the attack on True Giang, 50 miles southwest of Saigon.

The assault force destroyed the police headquarters and a housing complex for the families of the defenders and heavily damaged the district headquarters, the Saigon command said-Spokesmen said the enemy left nine dead behind, and one man was captured, along with a B40 rocket grenade launcher and four AK47 assault rifles..