The Daily Chronicle from Centralia, Washington • Page 1

Paris powwow poses peace prospect puzzle WASHINGTON (AP) Henry A. Kissinger is back in the United States after a unique two-day meeting with top North Vietnamese a meeting the White House denies produced a settlement of the war. What, if anything, came from the Paris sessions remains a secret held by a handful of administration officials. Kissinger talked to President Nixon by telephone Wednesday night after his return to Washington and will provide a complete report at the White House tonight after the chief executive returns from a campaign trip to California. The President's chief foreign-policy adviser emerged from his Air Force plane smiling and looking relaxed, but he refused to meet with waiting reporters about his talks with Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy.

"I can't say anything," Kissinger shouted to newsmen who implored him to stay a while after his jet touched down on a rain-slicked runway at Andrews Air Force Base. Centralia-Chehalis, Washington ClttO tU STOPOVER IN MOSCOW Three American fliers arrive in Moscow Wednesday (j.g.) Morris Charles, It. Mark Gartley and Maj. on their way home from a North Vietnamese prison Edward Elias. AP Wirephoto camp.

At the Moscow airport, from left, are Navy Lt. POWs flying home to military greeting COPENHAGEN (AP) The three American pilots are flying home today, happy to be within hours of the land they left to fight a distant war, concerned about the hundreds of prisoners of war. they left behind. Lt. Norris Charles put it succintly shortly before he and two colleagues released by Hanoi took off for New York.

At a Copenhagen news conference he said the American people were in fact bringing the trio home. Then, concerning the remaining prisoners, Charles told Americans: "If you really want to bring these men home you can do it. If you really want to end the war you can do it. I call on you to help me bring the men home I can't feel too free when I consider the men who are left behind in North Vietnam." Charles, his fellow Navy Lt. (j.g.) Mark Gartley and Maj.

Edward Elias of the Air Force appeared to be in fine shape as they arrived in Denmark after an overnight stay in Moscow. They had flown from Hanoi via Peking and Moscow, traveling on commercial planes in the company of a group of American antiwar activists. That was an effort to avoid any attempt by U.S. authorities to take the pilots into custody while en route. In Washington, Defense Department spokesman Jerry W.

Friedheim said the three fliers will be met on their arrival in the United States by a team of military officials, including physicians and led by Dr. Roger Shields, spgcial assistant to Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird for Prisoner of War- Late News Bulletins WASHINGTON (AP) A former Navy pilot was described today as telling a Senate probe that the Navy as well as the Air Force launched premeditated bombing attacks against North Vietnam under the guise of "protective reaction." BEIRUT (AP) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat called on Palestinians today to form a government in exile as an answer to what he described as American-backed Israeli efforts to eliminate them as a force in the Middle East. A substantial part of the guerrilla movement has opposed the idea of a government in exile. SAIGON (AP) U.S.

jets from three bases in Thailand set lire to more than half of a 70-buUding military storage complex In a major coordinated raid northwest of Hanoi, the Air Force reported today. The raid Wednesday was the first of the war against the depot miles northwest of Hanoi Missing in Action affairs. Friedheim said their return to military control would likely come at that time. At the New York airport, the men will be reunited with members of their families and will have a chance to meet with the press "if they desire to do so," Friedheim said. He said the doctors also would want to see if they require any immediate medical treatment and if so could be sent first to a military hospital in the New York area.

Two Winlock teachers foil in dismissal appeal Two teachers protesting a decision by the Winlock School Board not to rehire them for the current school year lost their case Wednesday in Lewis County Superior Court. Judge Dorwin J. Cunningham's ruling against the teachers, Alyce Hartwig and Juanita Ellison, both Chehalis, was based on an interpretation of the state's continuing contract law which provides that teachers who have not been notified of non-renewal of contracts by April 15 are to be considered automatically rehired for the next school year. The two Winlock teachers argued they did not receive notices of non- renewal from the school board until April 17 and 19, thus nullifying the board's decision not to rehire them. Judge Cunningham, however, upheld the defense, represented by Lewis' County Prosecutor Brian Baker, after he presented evidence that the notices had been sent by registered mail on April 13 and that memorandums of mail delivery had been placed in the teachers' mail boxes at their homes the following day.

Following the judge's initial ruling, the teachers abandoned other points in their appeal-suit. They had sought $20,000 in damages each and a court order reinstating their Came the When a bleary-eyed traveler asked for lodging at the Lewis County jail Thursday morning, jailer. Dwight Withrow was at first hesitant. Sheriff's deputies said Francis Bruner, 37, Kelso, knocked on the jailhouse door at the county courthouse about 5 a.m. and asked the jailer if there was a vacant bunk on which he might sleep for a few hours.

Withrow, after ascertaining the traveler's name and address, did better than that. He fixed up Bruner with a cell, too. Deputies said a teletype inquiry indicated Bruner was wanted by Cowlitz County authorities on two district court misdemeanor warrants. After the few hours sleep he asked for, Bruner was awakened and transferred to the custody of Cowlitz County sheriff's deputies. teaching contracts, plus court costs and attorney fees.

The two teachers, along with three other certificated personnel in the Winlock School District, received notices of non-renewal of contracts following defeat of a 16-mill, $115,000 maintenance and operation levy last spring. An appeal-suit by a third teacher, Mildred Belleque, had previously been rejected by the court on procedural grounds. Peyton fete approaching Paul Peyton, who is retiring as Centralia City Light superintendent after 40 consecutive years, will be honored Friday night at a public reception. The event will start at 7 p.m. with a social hour at the Hallmark Inn, Centralia, with a dinner following at 8:30 p.m.

The public is encouraged to attend. Reservations for the no-host affair may be obtained by informing Centralia Public Works Commissioner Edward F. Conzatti or by telephoning the city clerk at 736-4992. Weather table changed Beginning in Wednesday's edition of The Daily Chronicle, the National Weather Service began a new format in The Weather Elsewhere section. Before the section had reported high and low temperatures and precipitation during the previous 24 hours in a number of selected American cities.

The new system is oriented toward forecasting. Following the name of each city is the sky condition expected for the day the report is given. Highs and lows are predicted for the next 24 hours and afier the highs and lows, sky conditions are predicted for the next day. Pacific Northwest and Alaska reports will remain the same as in the past. CLEARING Partial clearing with chance showers TKursday night.

Cloudy Friday. Highs in mid 60s. Lows 35 to 45. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Complete weather oiv page 10.

What the reporters wanted to ask about specifically was a report that an agreement had been reached to create a three-segment neutral regime in Saigon with a cease-fire going into effect in October. In Paris, meanwhile, Thuy said rumors of an imminent agreement on a war settlement are "without foundation and contrary to the truth." Thuy, who is North Vietnam's chief peace negotiator, said his delegation has been besieged with calls asking about rumors of an agreement. "I want to make it clear that such speculation is without foundation and contrary to the truth." He said the positions of the two sides "are still far apart and contradictory." Although Kissinger wouldn't discuss the meeting--his 18th secret session and the only one to last more than a day--White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said in California the report of an accord had "no substance." Substantive or riot, the originated by KKO broadcast White House correspondent Clifford Evans had a major effect on the New York stock market in late trading Wednesday. Speculators operating on the basis of the Evans story and other subsequently denied rumors sent the Dow Jones average climbing more than 10 points. Although the market rally moved primarily on the basis of these officially denied reports, confusion caused by the immediate refusal of the White House to comment plus speculation by other administration officials also played a part.

When asked about the Evans story, Ziegler originally said only that "I cannot comment at all on the substance of the discussions" Kissinger had with the North Vietnamese. Another building block in the speculation was the statement Ziegler made Tuesday when he disclosed Kissinger was staying in Paris an extra day. He pointed out to reporters that Kissinger had said Sept. 16, one day following his last secret discussion with Tho, "the fact that these talks are going on would indicate a certain seriousness." In addition, State Department sources who normally refuse to discuss- any aspect of the Kissinger-Tho meetings said the extension of the latest session was an interesting and possibly significant development. The last new ingredient in the negotiations was a statement issued earlier this month by the Viet Cong and claimed as a different proposal on setting up a postwar government in South Vietnam.

The proposal called for a three-party regime; one segment picked by some officials of the current government, but excluding President Nguyen Van Thieu; a second part selected by the Viet Cong and the third comprised of neutral elements. State court bans death penalty Thursday, September 28, 1972 34 Pages 84th year, 62nd issue OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) The Washington Stale Supreme Court Thursday struck state laws allowing capital punishment, saying they are unconstitutional under 'a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The high court ruled unanimously that the state laws come under the U.S.

Supreme Court ruling which banned the death penalty as it is imposed in some states. Three of the justices forging the majority in the U.S. decision last June held that imposing the death penalty is discretionary--that a person is at the mercy of a jury or judge. The Washington high court said the state's death penalty is at the discretion of a jury and thus the state laws are affected by the U.S. Furman vs.

Georgia case. Judge Robert Utter, writing the opinion, said the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling came on a state appeal of King County Superior Court Judge David Soukup's decision to defer the death penalty imposed against Leydell Baker, who had been convicted of first degree murder in Seattle. Despite a jury request for the death penalty, Judge Soukup deferred the sentence on the condition that Baker spend the rest of his life in prison, with no possibility of parole. The high court refused to rule on the state's challenge of the sentence deferral, saying the question of whether a trial court may defer the death penalty has become academic.

Utter said the case will be sent back to Superior Court for resentencing because "we are uncertain what disposition the trial court judge would have made had the decision in Furman been prior to the trial." Although the death penalty was considered overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court decision, the brief, three-page decision officially said the state laws are written in such a way as to come under the crucial U.S. ruling. TM' Twin Cities Bus system plan abandoned CRAFT, the Citizens Regional Advisory Forum on Transportation, has abandoned its proposal to set up a temporary bus system for the Twin Cities but plans to continue to work, on a long-range basis, for a permanent bus system, the Rev. Eric Ottum, CRAFT chairman, said Thursday.

Lack of a broad base of public support was one factor in the rejection of the temporary bus service plan, said Ottum; but, after careful study, it was also determined that a temporary system would be too costly and there was difficulty in establishing an equitable financial load for the merchants planning to participate in the subsidized program. Another reason, said Ottum, was that there has been no marked increase in the use of FISH during the time after the demise of Twin City Transit. FISH, he explained, is a voluntary organization which provides free transportation, among other things, in time of need for anyone. CRAFT is now exploring two possibilities for establishment of a permanent transit system, said Ottum. One proposal calls for a publically- supported transportation system.

CRAFT is now working on a petition to Suit seeks $600,000 A $600,000 superior court damage suit was filed Thursday in the Lewis County clerk's office by James Cheney, Packwood, in behalf of his two minor daughters, Dena and Dorrie Cheney. Lewis County Clerk Margaret Donaldson said the suit names Loren G. Gayken and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Loren George Gayken, as defendants.

The suit arises from a traffic accident on the White Pass Highway Aug. 10, when a car driven by the younger Gayken collided with the Cheney vehicle. The two Cheney girls suffered permanent injuries and disfigurement in the mishap, the plaintiff's suit alleges. In addition to damages totaling $600,000, the suit seeks compensation for medical expenses. put an initiative to the voters on a future ballot.

More public support is needed to make this plan work, said Ottum, and those interested in promoting the plan may notify Mrs. Jean Manicke, 736-9414. Another plan is to develop a system supported by federal or state tax funds which are available to incorporated non-profit service organizations. Findings on this idea have been turned over by CRAFT to the Lewis County Council on Aging, which will soon be incorporated. In the meantime, said Ottum, there are alternative methods of transportation available between the Twin Cities, namely taxicabs, Greyhound Bus Lines and FISH.

FISH, 736- provide free transportation. Those who do not feel like asking for a free ride from FISH, Ottum said, could make a donation to the FISH operation. Local churches can also provide free transportation, when needed, Ottum said. Ottum urged bus riders to mount a word-of-mouth campaign aimed at making the public aware of the need for bus service. "Bus riders must get out and convince their neighbors that a system is wanted and needed," said Ottum.

"We in CRAFT," he added, "encourage all citizens interested in public transportation to begin talking it up so that when the initiative reaches the voters, it will pass and our com-, munities will be served with a more comprehensive system of Smith overtakes Kalich in near-complete count State Rep. Warren Smith, R- Chehalis, edged ahead of Democratic challenger Hugh Kalich, Toledo, as absentee ballot counts in the Sept. 19 primary election were completed Thursday in the counties of Lewis, Cowlitz, Wahkiakum and Pacific Counties of the 20th Legislative District. Only Thurston County has yet to finish counting absentee ballots. The Thurston County auditor issued 2,400 absentee ballots but only a small part of the county is in the 20th District.

With the unofficial returns complete in four counties of the district, Rep. Smith has edged Kalich by 14 votes. The incumbent representative has received 7,021 votes to 7,007 for his challenger. Both, men will have another go at it in the Nov. 7 general election.

Following the end of regular voting Sept. 19, Rep. Smith trailed Kalich by 125 votes. In the only contested position where there remained any doubt following regular balloting, Chehalin R. E.

(Dick) Bieker now leads Centralian George H. Bright by 615 votes for the Republican nomination for state senator. Bieker has received 3,656 votes and Bright, 3,041 votes. Bieker, the apparent winner, will face incumbent Sen. Gary Odegaard, D-Onalaska, on the Nov.

7 ballot. Sen. Odegaard received 12,479 votes in the primary election. The official canvass of election returns in all counties will be completed Friday. Bloodmobile at Mossyrock The Lewis County Red Cross Bloodmobile is in Mossyrock today and visits Morton Friday, with quotas of 75 pints set in each location.

The Mossyrock visit is being sponsored by the Mossyrock Lady Lions. The blood van will be at the Lions Club Building from 3 until 7 p.m. On Friday, the bloodmobile will be at the Morton Masonic Temple from 3 until 8:30 p.m., the extra time allowing for persons traveling from distant points in Eastern Lewis County. The Morton visit is sponsored by the Central Lutheran Church, Sacred Heart Catholic Church and the Women of the Moose. EARLY SNOW BLANKETS WHITE PASS Snow lolling at the summit of Pan Sept.

19 added an Interesting feature to the surrounding mountain tops, while at the time whetting skiers' for more'snow. Five Inches fell by the lodge at the 4,500 foot level and Inches were recorded at the top of the chair lift. Intermittent snow hot fallen since that time. The first snowfall at the post last year wot recorded Sept. 23 Chronicle Staff Photo.