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OdessaIamericam The "A good listener is not only popular but after a while he Anows something. Wilson Miz'ner HOME EDITION Price 70 Cenis A FREEDOM NEWSPAPER Odessa, Texas, Thursday, May 24, 1973 48 Pages 4 Sections Vol. 48 No. 143 25,000 Unreported UMergafe Cose (v5ilC Mm fmmi $widiB c3 fefi WASHINGTON (AP) Gerald Alch. the IISBSSlp ill xi "I personally did not receive or disburse any money during my campaign," Mills said.

"My campaign manager advised me that the (Nixon) administration had arranged for funds to be made available. I had no access to the money nor did I direct or authorize expenditure of any of the money." The 1972 Nixon campaign finance committee, which the Post said supplied the money, was already in operation in 1971. The Washington in the story Wednesday, quoted several sources as saying they helped deliver the $25,000 cash contribution to Mills' campaign manager' the day before the May 25. 1971, special See SOLON'S, Page 2-A lawyer who accused James W. McCord Jr.

of lying, found his own truthfulness on trial today at the Senate's Watergate hearings. He offered to take a lie detector test. And a Democratic senator, Daniel Inouye, asked the committee to clear the air by determining whether, the Justice De-. partment actually has any evidence of connections between Democrats and violence-oriented groups. Committee Chairman Sam J.

Ervin today scoffed at McCord's suspicions of Sen. Howard Baker, asked Alch how this conflict could be reconciled. Alch said a third man, Bernard Shankman, might be able to verify one account or the other. If not, Alch said, he and McCord could submit to a polygraph test, a so-called lie detector. Alch said he would do so.

Alch also stuck to his story, denied by Fensterwald outside the hearing, that Fensterwald had told him in a telephone conversation, "We're going after the Alch told Baker he would submit to a polygraph test to support his version of that conversation. Only Alch and Fensterwald were on the line at the time, he said. Alch conceded he had lett some details out of his testimony on Wednesday, and conceded it was theoretically possible that some of McCord's contested statements could have resulted from a misunderstanding. But he adamantly repeated his flat of McCord's testimony that Alch had told (he former CIA man that his personnel records could be falsified. McCord said Alch told him his records could be doctored to show falsely that he had been recalled to duty for the Watergate operation, and that the new CIA Director James R.

Schlesinger "'could be subpoenaed and would go along with it. Alch denied that statement repeatedly, "I didn't say that." he said. REP. WILLIAM O. MILLS Dead In Home pliWlliplI ISA EASTON, Md.

(AP) U.S. Rep. William 0. Mills, R-Md, was found shot to death in a barn at his home today, apparently a suicide Mills' death came one day after the Washington Post reported that he had received a $25,000 contribution from secret funds of President Nixon's campaign finance committee. The contribution was not reported to the Maryland Board of Election, an apparent violation of state Jaw.

When asked if Mills had shot himself, aide Jack Shaum replied, "Yes, from all indications." Local authorities said there was no evidence of foul play. Mills had a gunshot wound in the lower left chest, a hospital spokesman said. Mills, 48, appeared in good spirits Wednesday when he was photographed with other congressmen on the House floor in Washington. A Maryland radio station said today it received a telephone call from Mills about 10 p.m. Wednesday night.

The congressman recorded a denial of the Post report, station WEMD said. "I wish to assure everyone that I've done nothing improper," the recording said. Mills' body was discovered shortly before 8 a.m. today, officials said. Time of death was set at 7:05 a.m.

Authorities gave no details on how the body was discovered, other than that it was found in the barn on the Mulberry Hill Farm where Mills stabled his four horses. Mills is survived by his widow. Norma Lea; a son, William O. Mills Jr. and a daughter, Linda M.

Haley. At Easton Memorial Hospital, spokesman Dave Thackery said powder burns on Mills' shirt indicated he had been shot at close range. Mills was first elected to Congress in a special election in 1971. He replaced Rogers C.B. Morton "who was named secretary of the interior.

Thackery said the body was being taken to the medical examiner's office in Baltimore. Mills was seen briefly on the House floor Wednesday when the members gathered for a formal photograph. He was laughing and joking with the members seated near him. Mills' congressional tenure was marked by tragedy a year ago. Three aides were killed in a traffic accident in Anne Arundel County, in February 1972.

Mills had never held an elective post before he3was elected to Congress. Before the election, he had been an aide to Morton. Prior to that he was an official of the Chesapeake Potomac Telephone Co. on Maryland's Eastern Shore. In the statement Mills issued in response to the Washington Post article, he said, "I have done nothing improper." But he declined to say whether his 1971 campaign had received the contribution or whether it had been reported.

Ssfei: 9S 'A slim. NASA skylab director William C. Schneider Wednesday night announced that several proposed sun shields had been thoroughly studied and tested and that three had been selected to make the trip. He said a device that operates like an umbrella had been selected as the first choice to cool down the Skylab by shading an area exposed to the sun's heat after a protective shield ripped off when the laboratory was launched May 14. Schneider said it was chosen because it promises 'maximum crew safety and the highest probability of success." To deploy" it, the astronauts would dock with the Skylab and enter the sweltering workshop section, where temperatures surpass 120 degrees.

They would then push the device through an airlock into space, where it would unfold like a parasol. The back-up devices are shades which would require space walks by the astronauts. One is a curtain that would be erected on an A-frame by Kerwin after he exited a hatch in the workshop. The other would be deployed by Weitz leaning out the open hatch of the Apollo craft as it was maneuvered 10 feet from the station. Experts estimate that once a shield is in place, temperatures should drop to a livable 70 degrees within a day or two.

Until they do. the astronauts would sleep in the Apollo ferry ship. Also being loaded aboard the Apollo today were replacements for medicine, and film believed spoiled by the high heat. Some food also is believed to have been CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (API The packing of giant sunshades aboard the Skylab salvage ship was delayed today so they could be chemically coated to prevent possible deterioration from solar radiation.

A jet plane stood by to fly them from Houston to Cape Kennedy, and officials remained confident they could launch the astronauts' rescue mission Friday. The last-minute decision to coat the shades was made after tests showed that long-term exposure to ultraviolet radiation might deteriorate a nylon material in the devices. Space agency officials said the spraying of the shades with a protective chemical was expected to be completed by early afternoon and they would be flown to the launch site from the Johnson Space Center, Houston. "We're still on schedule for a launch Friday," reported countdown test supervisor Bill Schick. He said material could be stowed aboard the astronauts' Apollo ship as late as one hour before the planned 8 a.m.

CDT liftoff Friday. Crews packed aboard tools and olher equipment needed to repair America's orbital laboratory. Space agency officials -were xptirr)istic that if a sun shield can be raised to shadow the overheated 85-ton lab from the searing rays of the sun. astronauts Charles Conrad Dr. Joseph P.

Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz can complete a full 28day mission aboard the lab. If the space mechanics can unjam a power-producing solar panel, they should be able to conduct-more experiments than presently planned because they'd have more electrical energy. However, officials said chances of freeing the stuck arm are 'in. I Ki I 1 1 i 'V I If such connections, but said the committee would investigate them.

Alch, McCord's former attorney, agreed to submit to a lie detector test as the committee grilled him for more than two hours about his assertion that McCord "had lied about him. Alch stuck to his denial that he had pressured McCord to falsely blame the Central Intelligence Agency for the Watergate wiretapping. He also repeated his statement that McCord's present1 attorney. Bernard Fensterwald. once told him "We're going after the President of the United States." Fensterwald denied it.

Alch offered to take a lie detector test about that, too. Fensterwald told newsmen he and McCord will agree to take lie detector tests, but only if it becomes the policy of the Watergate committee to require such tests from all witnesses. Alch said McCord has wished to defend himself at the Watergate trial by saying that he wiretapped Democrats to prevent attacks on officials of the Committee for the Re-election of the President. McCord has said he had obtained information from the Justice Department's Internal Security Division indicating that the Vietnam- Veterans Against the War were planning violence at the Republican convention, and that the VVAW kept offices at Democratic headquarters. That allegation has been denied by the VVAW and the.

Democratic party. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, raised the question, saying: "I believe these charges should be investigated and that any Democrat involved in any illegal activities should be prosecuted. On the other hand if these charges have no substance, the air should be cleared." Specifically, he called for "whatever evidence and information.it has collected which indicates the existence of a criminal conspiracy or the involvement of the Democratic National Committee, or any of the Democratic presidential candidates named in Mr. McCord's testimony, to wit Mr.

(Edmund Muskie or Mr. (George McGovern, with any violence groups." Ervin then said the committee's staff investigators already were looking into the matter. Then he remarked, "I've found a lot of people in authority in Washington that see subversives and dissenters and ghosts hiding under a bed and under every rose bush, and unfortunately some of them get into the Internal Security Division." Ervin made clear he doesn't think much of the polygraph or lie detector, which he described as 20th century witchcraft. Fensterwald says he agrees that lie detector tests are wholly unreliable. But he added: "If the chairman orders all the witnesses to take lie detector tests of course we will do so also." Alch was questioned at length at the Senate's televised WateVgate hearings as both Republicans and Democrats sought to shake Alch's contention that McCord had lied.

Alch refused to back down. "I do riot enjoy. effect, calling a man a liar." Alch said. "I am not looking to bury Mr. McCord.

My appearance here is a reaction, not an action." Alch conceded that on some points, McCord might have misunderstood things he said. But he insisted that would not have been possible in the CIA matter. "You can't interpret a man saying 'I'm going to forge CIA- documents with the assistance of the CIA director out of a man saying what do you want for lunch, or see you in Boston," or out of a defense lawyer raising the question of the CIA, Alch testified. (AP Wirephoto) GERALD ALCH LISTENS. Watergate Hearings harmed, but there is plenty aboard so that replacement is not needed.

Lii'ile Change Seen CdDO (Posses? 'Cites' asin Wecrfher For AUSTIN (AP) Texas legislators finally passed a $9.7 billion two-year state budget bill today that meets Gov. Dolph Briscoe's no-new-taxes mandate and leaves a surplus. Meanwhile. Speaker Price Daniel Jr. said he had the votes to force the lobby control issue into a House-Senate negotiating committee.

"It's close," he said. "The lobby is really working. Daniel contends the Senate's substitute for the House's lobby reporting bill was written with the lobby's help. Rep. Dean Cobb, D-Dumas, said he would move today for a conference committee to work out differences with the Senate over a bill reinstating the death penalty.

He said Senate amendment allowing judges the option of -sentencing convicted murderers Supreme Court guidelines. The House voted 116-18 to send the public school finance issue to conference. Senators passed their own version Wednesday of a bill that started out in the House as a complete revision of the school finance system. But they substituted the governor's two-year stop-gap bill that set up a two-year study and provided $39 million in emergency grants to the 113 poorest school districts. A Senate amendment designed to strip out the grants may have made them perpetual, according to House sources.

Representatives approved a compromise $9.7 billion general appropriation bill for 1974-75 which was written by a House-Senate conference committee. The vote was 128-14. Senators gave their approval Wednesday. The final legislative action sends the Weather in the Permian Basin settled into summery doldrums Thursday with no change in sight. The forecast from the National Weather Service at Midland Regional Air Terminal was short and simple, calling for clear to partly cloudy skies with little change in temperature through Friday.

Observers said a weak front passed through the area Wednesday but it went Wednesday's high of 89 at Terminal was expected to be exceeded by two or three degrees today and Friday. The Weather Service said some late afternoon and early evening thunderstorms were expected to develop Thursday along a line from San Angelo to Big Spring but that was the closest that any activity was foreseen. A cool front dragging its feet across Texas set off a new round of storms during the night from western areas of the state into the central and eastern sections, and some of the violent weather last into this morning. Although tornadoes lashed down from the boiling thunderheads in several localities, no injuries and only limited damage were reported. Police said fierce winds ripped the roofs off about a dozen motel units in Temple and damaged a lumber mill, other business structures and several mobile homes in that Central Texas city as funnel clouds' welfare recipients to register for work was removed at the insistence of Senate conferees who told the House, he said, feet are set in concrete.

In" action Wednesday, Senators passed and returned to the House for action on amendments bills that would Restore the death penalty for killing on-duty firemen, policemen, jailers, prison guards or reform school guards; murder in the course of prison or jail breaks; murder for hire; or killing someone during a burglary, robbery, rape or arson. The House bill would make death mandatory, while the Senate version would allow total judges to impose life imprisonment instead of death. Senators added murder with a bomb planted in a public place to the list of death penalty offenses and also prescribed capital punishment for what were called "godfather-types" who hire killers. Allow insurance companies to cut their premiums for car insurance below the uniform rates set by the State Insurance Board, but only with board approval. Rep.

Don Cavness, D-Austin, the sponsor, said he would ask the House to accept minor changes made by the Senate in the competitive rating bill and send it to were seen in the area. Four persons trapped in a wrecked mobile home were hardly scratched A police dispatcher said the winds gusted up to 75 miles per hour hurricane force at times in Temple. A twister spinning through the little Bell County town of Seaton battered small buildings and trees, and another tornado danced over an area northeast of Dallas between Rockwall and Lake Ray Hubbard. Moderate to strong thunderstorms still surged along a line from 20 miles west of Childress toward Guthrie in the Panhandle-Plains sector near daybreak, whije others remained active around Texarkana and Marshall in the state's northeast corner and near Nacogdoches and Lufkin in East Texas. Skies were mostly clear outside the storm zones.

One alert issued by the National Weather Service and in force past midnight warned residents of 68 counties in Central and East Texas against possibly damaging storms. Rains falling at rates up to two inches per hour and hail accompanied the turbulent weather. The cool front stirring up the trouble, after coming'almost to a halt across North Central and Northwest Texas 24 hours earl-ker, lay close to' a standstill this morning along a line from Texarkana to Waco and Midland. Wednesday afternoon's top marks went as high as 94 at Wink in West Texas. Amarillo and Galveston were the coolest spots with highs of 80.

to life imprisonment would maKe tne dhi recent U.S. measure to State Comptroller Robert S. unconstitutional under Inside Today's Calvert for certification that it falls within the state's income. Rep. Neil Caldwell.

D-Angleton, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee said the measure would leave about $37.5 million fn the treasury, counting some revised revenue and school funding estimates. He said a House amendment requiring Odessa American The Quipster Abe Lincoln said it's better to be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. VIETNAM U.S. Envoy William H-Sullivan Conferred With President Nguyen Van Thieu For An Hour Today On Proposals To Strengthen The Vietnam Cease-Fire. (Paee 5-C) Swsodfa mm mmy; 00 The Weather FORECAST FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT TERMINAL: Clear to parti cloudv with little change In temperature today through Friday.

Southwesterly winds 10 to 20 miles per hour. High today low tonight 62. high tomorrow n. Yesterday's high 89. overnight low 60 AMUSEMENTS 3D CAREER 3D 11C DOCTOR'S COLUMN 10C EDITORIALS 10B FINANCIAL NEWS 8B FINE ARTS 2D HORSE INJUN JACOB YON 11B IOC OIL NEWS -SB SOCIETY NEWS 1-3B 7D TEMPERATURES the land when it is offered for sale, he said.

Also; farmers outside the program cannot get federal commodity loans when they are unable to sell their crops, Cla'y-ton said. "We would rather not have any programs, or else they should control the price of other things like farm machinery," hesaid: "You hear stories about the guy who drives up in a Cadillac to get food stamps. Maybe it's the guy he works for who gets it for him, but you hear these stories and it drives those people (in his district) up the. wall." he said. "My district is anti-welfare.

It's, a See FARM. Page 2-A Heatly, $8,353, Cottle County. AH five said they saw no relationship between their taking governmental handouts and their votes on governmental handouts for the poor. The federal Cotton and Feed Grain Program is voluntary, and the landowner must ask to participate, but Clayton said. "They've got you where.

you've got to participate jn the program or you'll go broke." Cotton farmers cannot sell their cottn unless they are in the program, he said. And grain farmers outside the; program lose the production history that is necessary for later entrance into the program, he said. This affects the price of joint House-Senate committee on appropriations because, the five senators said, they should be handled in separate bills rather than in the state spending law. In return for an agreement not to plant cotton or feed grain on 25 to 45 per cent of their land holdings in 1972, these representatives received the following federal subsidies: -Bill Clayton! D-Springlake, $57,214 for land in Lamb County. -Pete Laney, D-Hale Center, $51,942.

Hale County. Short. D-Tahoka. $25,874. Lynn County.

Elmer. Martin. D-Colorado City, $14,257. Mitchell County. AUSTIN (AP) Five House members who received a total of $157,640 in federal agricultural subsidies last year say they see nothinginconsistent about their votes to toughen rules on state welfare subsidies.

All five voted for an amendment vto the House appropriations bill that would require able-bodied persons to apply for jobs with the Texas Employment Commission before they could qualify for All- but one. Rep. W. S. Heatly, D-Paducah, also voted for an amendment that would require welfare recipients to swear they meet all requirements of welfare laws and regulations.

Both amendments later got the axe in a CITY MAX. MIN. .86 63 80, 45' Denver 77 13 El 88 58 Fort Worth 84 66 Galveston 80 75 Maria 87 48 New York 61 53 Oklahoma City 78 58 San Antonio 82 74 St. Louis Sun sets today 8: 45 p.m.; Rises Friday at 6:46 a m. WORRY CLINIC YOUR HOROSCOPE 4A.