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p7" The Home Neivspaper of the Calumet Region Hammond-East Chicago, Indiana; Calumet City-Landing, Illinois Sunday, May 26. 197 1 10 Sections-120 Paes-35c 68th Year-No. 289 Ki ssinsers- Pact 'Close ,4,. lit tJlltlilS VrJ it mm tflli mm THE TIMES PUBLISHES Because of the difference in state laws. Memorial Day 1974 will be commemorated Monday in Indiana, Thursday in Illinois.

To better mark the holiday in both states, The Times will publish a newspaper both Monday and Thursday. Only the circulation and news departments will be open Monday. ixon: JERUSALEM (AP) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger appeared to be closer than ever to a final Syrian-Israeli disengagement agreement following five hours of talks Saturday with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus. Kissinger flew back to Israel late Saturday night and said he would return to Damascus on Sunday.

He left two aides there working on what Syrian sources said they believe is the text of a final pact separating the opposing armies in the Golan Heights. The secretary had planned on conferring with the Israeli negotiating team Saturday night, but the meeting was called off at the last minute because most of the negotiators were attending a Labor party gathering at which Premier-designate Yitzhak Rabin was trying to hammer out his new slate of cabinet ministers. A senior American official said Kissinger had moved Israel and Syria "quite close" to an agreement limiting military forces in the border area but was unable to close the gap between the two sides completely. Officials had predicted before Saturday's 11th session with Assad that the secretary would make another visit to the Syrian capital during his current peace mission only if a settlement was reached. Kissinger told newsmen before his jet took off from Damascus: "We continued our detailed examination of various elements of a disengagement agreement.

Two of my associates, Mr. Carlyle Maw and Mr. Alfred Atherton, stayed behind to work on the preparation of some basic documents, and I will return tomorrow to discuss further details with President Assad." Earlier, a senior American official said Kissinger would return home by Monday night whether or not he achieved a troop separation in the Golan Heights. By then he will have been away from his desk 30 days trying to end the fighting and separate the Syrian and Israeli armies. In Key Biscayne, a White House spokesman said President Nixon would visit the Middle East "at some point in the near future," but there was no immediate conomy Time To Remember The Calumet Region joins with the nation in honoring its dead as Memorial Day weekend begins.

Many will visit cemeteries. A lone visitor stands among rows of grave markers to place flag on soldier's grave in New York. emorial Plans Lni 9 ver indication whether the trip would be linked in some way with Kissinger's current mission. In Jerusalem, a senior government official said a Middle East visit by Nixon could augur well for "a successful conclusion of the disengagement talks." The senior U.S. official with Kissinger said the secretary had not yet formally presented a U.S.

proposal to the two sides regarding a thinning out of their forces in the Golan Heights. This, and argument over the size of U.N. peace keeping unit, are the two key issues standing in the way of an agreement. The U.S. official said if Assad "gives" on the points in dispute, Kissinger would be ready to make his formal proposal, expecting it to be accepted.

About two-thirds of the draft agreement is already completed. But the official stressed that throughout the negotiations there has been a "tendency toward hangups" and that there was no certainty Kissinger would be able to complete the settlement. An unfounded bomb scare aboard Kissinger's jet outside Tel Aviv delayed his flight to Damascus for about an hour. A spokesman for the U.S. security force said an anonymous caller had warned officials of El Al, the Israeli national airline, that he had placed a time bomb aboard the plane but a thorough search proved the threat unfounded.

Child, 4. Drowns CEDAR LAKE A four-year-old boy drowned in Cedar Lake Friday after apparently falling from a pier. Dennis James Smith, son of Charles and Mary Smith, 7405 W. 136th Lane, was recovered about 100 feet from the east shore, near Hickory Subdivision. The Lake County Marine Unit, assisted by Cedar Lake police and fire departments, recovered the body in about four feet of water at 11:30 p.m.

The boy was pronounced dead at St. Anthony's Hospital in Crown Point. The drowning was the first in Cedar Lake this vear. INSIDE THE TIMES Xnelear phtnt foes have new weapon in arsenal. 17 ..) in pit limits will nave lives over the holiday Id Business Markets 48-49 Classified Obituaries 21 Editorial 1 1 Sports 65-72 Familv Theater 70-71 Local" 17 TV MAC.

Isn't it the Truth Everything last year was more than in 11)72. For instance, there were more mortgages, murders, marriages, muggings, comedians and comediennes, au-tos, wigs, delinquents, jails and idiots of both sexes. Only what we got for a dollar was less-like honesty in government. "Evoay nation has the government it deserves." -Joseph De Maistro, 1811 Phone: WK2-3100 more a qucsiion of "which day?" rather than "what does it Indiana residents will observe Memorial Day Monday. Illinois public schools, state, county and city offices and banks will observe the holiday on Thursday.

The Post Office and all other federal agencies will close Monday. Toll Roads Manned USUI; hall and schools will be closed Thursday. The post office will observe holiday hours Monday with no window service or regular delivery. Most Illinois parades will be Thursday. The big Loop parade will be on the traditional day even though the Veterans Administration office in the Federal Building will be closed Monday.

Sauk Village residents will observe Memorial Day on three different days. The Village Hall will be closed Monday, the schools will be closed Thursday, and veterans groups are holding services today. To confuse matters even inore. Chicago's CTA will operate on "holiday" schedule Monday. It will be on regular schedule Thursday when just about everything else in town is closed.

South Shore trains will also have a Monday holiday schedule with regular service on Thursday. Indiana communities planning parades and services Moiidav include: CEDAR LAKE American Legion sponsored services at 8 a.m. at German Methodist Cemetery. Holy Name Cemetery and Historic Cemetery. A parade will form at 10 a.m.

in Midway Ballroom parking lot. Parade route: south to east on 1.13rd to Fairbanks St. and north on Fairbanks to (Continued Hack Page This Section) oe 'Easing' ill An exception is Calumet City. City Hall, the public library and all city government offices will be closed Monday. Public and some parochial schools will be closed Thursday.

The American Legion Parade will be Thursday. The VFW observance will be Monday. In Lansing, the VFW and American Legion Parade is Thursday. The village Members of the General Sevice Employee Union Local 73 struck Tuesday after they were unable to come to agreement on a contract. The collectors have been working without a contract since January.

The toll roads affected include: the Tri-Statc. the Northwest and the East-West tollways. The tollway authority has asked motorists to help by carrying correct change and using the automatic toll booths. a three-week break. It was nearly three months ago that construction was to resume, but since that time' absolutely no constructiion had taken place.

Continued construction of the tower is being "blocked" at this time by tin? Federal Communication Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration. The Times has learned that the television station applied to the two federal regulatory agencies for a tower 4111 feet tall, not 4(il feet tall. A spokesman at Clianiiell f0 said construction should resume 'Tiny minute now." He said tentative approval from the FCC and FAA has been granted for the (Continued Back Page This Section) More toll collectors have returned to work after walking off the job Tuesday in a dispute with the Illinois Toll Road authority. According to the authority, some collectors are still out and supervisory personnel are manning toll plazas. Tollway officials said they expect no additional problems during the holiday.

A spokesman for the authority said holiday traffic back-ups may be alleviated by the dual holiday this week. Permit Delays Tower KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) -President Nixon reported encouraging progress Saturday in easing the nation's economic ills but prescribed more "harsh medicine" a prudent federal budget, tight money and no tax cut to complete the economic recovery. In a national radio address from his bayside home, Nixon also announced that his former law school professor, Kenneth Rush, will become his Cabinet-level coordinator of domestic and international economic policies. Rush now is No.

2 man at the State Department. The President said he would send Congress next week a special report on the state of the economy and would hold a series of meetings with labor and business representatives. The Florida White House said the report would go to Capitol Hill on Tuesday and would deal with a review of the inflation situation and measures necessary to deal with it. A ranking Nixon adviser said, however, that no changes will be proposed in the administration's economic game plan. In his 18-minute radio address, Nixon told the nation: "We are beginning to emerge from a very difficult period in the history of our economy Wc are not completely through this difficulty, but all the economic indicators prove that we are making encouraging progress.

"The weeks ahead will still require restraint and sacrifice. But the ultimate goal of prosperity in peacetime is one which is worthy of sacrifice. It is attainable." The President said, "The requirements for full economic recovery may sound like harsh medicine budgetary restraint, no tax cut, tight money but there is no alternative." He singled out suggestions for a general tax cut as "possibly the gravest danger to the economy today." "However popular that may be, nothing could be more irresponsible than to cut taxes in the present inflationary situation," he said, repeating his opposition to Democratic proposals for a cut. "Another temptation we must avoid," Nixon said, "is the call for cheap money by means of monetary expansion. This will only speed up the rate of inflation and increase the cost of borrowing money." The prime lending rate is hovering at about 11-' -j per cent, and Nixon indicated he sees little relief soon.

"If we are going to check inflation we cannot quickly (Continued Back Page This Section) HAMMOND-Another "faulty permit" is delaying construction of WCAE's television tower on Calumet Avenue near 12flth Street. Construction on the tower was stopped in February when it was discovered that the educational television station had forgotten to acquire the necessary building permits and formal approval of Hammond. Work on the tower was Mopped about 114 feet short of its eventual 4H4 feet height. localise ol a threat" ol the television station losing certain federal grants, (he city pi. in commission held a special nirctin'g solcv to consider issuing a conditional use permit for construction of the tower The tpecial meeting gave Channel 50 RAINLESS HOLIDAY It's too good to hope for, a rainless Memorial Day.

Hut that's what the weatherman is forecasting. Temperatures will be on the chilly side, with highs in the mid (ills. Skies wiil be partly cloudy. Today, temperatures are expected tn reach the mid to upper tills. There is a HO per cent chance ol rain.

Temperatures and weathei map on Page 16.