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-H I 16A CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Mon Not 18 1974 Coal talks delayed by funeral WASHINGTON (AP) The coal strike is continuing and consideration of a new contract has been postponed until after the funeral Monday of a union official slain in an attempted holdup Contract negotiators of the United Mine Workers and their bargaining council of regional leaders recessed their discussion Tension flared resume meeting Wednesday There were indications that some council members were pressing for a redistribution of benefits in the tentative agreement UMW Vice President MikeTrbovich has said there is serious disagreement on a number of points The delay in bargaining will force the strike into a third week if the current offer is eventually approved because of the lengthy process of membership ratification of a pact once the bargaining council accepts it Interior Secretary Rogers Morton said Sunday he saw no advantage to the US government interfering in the coal strike On the CBS program the he said sides are working hard to get the strike settled and the best thing is to let them In coal producing areas UMW officials were skeptical of the pact's chances of approval Nick Bruno president of United Mine Workers Local 6410 in Central City Pa-predicted 65 per cent of his members would vote against the contract wage part isn't too he said many men feel they should get more than five days sick Wolf Huber of Local 998 in Tire Hill Pa sees an 85 per cent negative vote early agreement was more or less a surprise" he said "It was too easy" In Welch WVa George Redd vice president of UMW Local 6196 said: still playing a waiting game with the contract we'll know more in a few days" "I've talked to several miners and many of them aren't excited about contract I don't think a quick ratification is said Don Widener a clerk at US Steel Company's No 2 mine at Gary Steel and railroad companies have already announced layoffs of 15000 workers and according to federal estimates a four-week strike could result in as many as 400000 layoffs Guy Farmer the chief industry negotiator said the industry has made its final offer and the coal companies not open to renegotiate the agreement" The tentative agreement covering 120000 miners calls for wage increases of 9 per cent the first year and 3 per cent in each of the following two years plus cost-of-living increases and improved fringe benefits Industry officials figure the contract gains at 628 per cent while union officials figure them at 497 per cent Padre ADDED IT ENOUGH? From Page 1 diplomats acknowledge they always look for They are reported to view it as a warning to Moscow to stay out id any potential fighting and as a reassurance to Israel that the United States would not stand by if Moscow did not stand by Since that Kissinger news conference and the reports of the Israeli mobilization high administration officials have been trying to play down the immediate danger One authoritative administration official in telling of the events of the last few days said that on Thursday Mordechgi Shalev an official of the Israeli Embassy here told a senior State Department official that Israel had mobilized thousand This was reportedly done in response to Israeli intelligence reports of a Syrian build-up of artillery and tanks near the Golan Heights coupled with an unusually large number of Soviet ships unloading at the Syrian port of Latakia Neither Israeli nor American intelligence was said to have known how many of these 50 or so ships contained military equipment but some of the ships did Mideast still From Page 1 itiatives to settle the Middle East conflict outside the Geneva peace talks If correct the report would mean Egypt is abandoning Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger's proposal of another interim Israeli withdrawal iri Sinai In occupied Jordan Arabs marched through three cities shouting and throwing stones in a second day of pro-guerrilla protests Peres the defense minister told Arab leaders in Nablus the West Bank's largest municipality with 75000 residents that if violence continued a full military administration would replace the present Arab municipal governments in the region The demonstrations were in support of guerrilla chief Yasir Arafat and the increasing political power of his Palestine Liberation Organization But the protests were milder than the riots that broke out Saturday when one teen-aged Arab girl was killed by a blow in the head and 50 Arabs were arrested Tass the official Soviet news agency Federal funds fail to aid asked Tony Peres chief of the local Follow Through project which according to evaluation reports has had little measurable impact on academic performance Other school officials say the extra Individual attention made possible by the federal programs improves a child's "self-image" and attitude as has the use of Spanish for children more comfortable in that language talk to the Head Start kids and you can tell they're verbal in both said Dr Jose Cavazos principal at Zavala "And they ask questions they want to know why" Yes he said he does see signs erf progress But one project administrator observed that "the federal government doesn't send me money based on the smile on a child's face" The government wants hard evidence of academic improvepient in exchange for its aid and has gotten it only occasionally is already Corpus Christi School Supt Dana Williams observed He is glum about the chances of "anything massive" from federal sources but says the state Legislature may act to fill the gap "These programs are said Vallado "Local districts can't do it The US Office of Education has found that the programs for the disadvantaged which work well are indeed expensive The office estimates it takes $300 to $400 in funds over and above a district's per-pupil expenditure to make much impact classes in the target schools four nurses four visiting teachers and four health-attendance aides Title I funds three pre-kindergarten classes to supplement the classes for which are offered by Head Start funded by the local Community Action Agency Another federal program Title VII funds a bilingual teaching program through Grade 4 at Travis Elementary and at one non-Title I school Crockett Follow Through provides bilingual instruction teacher aides field trips and health services at Lamar and Zavala schools in kindergarten through Grade 1 About half the Follow Through funds go for medical dental and psychological services and programs to involve parents in the school program Despite the programs the disappointing achievement test scores keep rolling in Evaluations of the federally funded programs have shown results that are at best spotty Gains made in the lower grades where services are concentrated fizzle out as the children continue in school Mrs Mills points out that the programs touch only the "lowest of the achievers isn't dramatic when you start that she says of the progress she sees "How do you evaluate what the program has done for the child's health and for the 4-year-olds From Page 1 Penrod Harris agent in charge of the local FBI office said they would not enter the case until it was established that Miss Gardner had been kidnaped In a related development Kleberg deputies questioned as a possible witness a girl hitchhiker picked up about noon near Edroy She was released later Kleberg Sheriff's deputies now assume that the gunman and Miss Gardner have left the island by car of a contract offer by the coal industry to attend the funeral of Sam Littlefield in Bessemer Ala Littlefield was shot when he walked in on a hotel room robbery of two other union men A memorial service was held for him in Washington on Saturday The negotiators were expected to Shalev told the State Department that the Israeli Cabinet had just made the decision to mobilize and that it was "precautionary" to guard against a surprise Syrian attack and was not offensive in nature the US official said Shalev apparently asked the United States to seek similar assurances from the other parties involved At his news conference on Friday and before the Israeli mobilization became-publicly known Kissinger hedged on the issue of when he had learned of the Israeli move "This recent flare-up has only come to our attention in the last few he said Kissinger reportedly sent cables Friday to the heads of State of Syria Egypt and Saudi Arabia The Syrians and the Egyptians quickly cabled back that they had no intention of launching an attack and King Faisal said he would do what he could to calm the waters according to the US official Kissinger had breakfast yesterday with Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin of the Soviet Union and a "small of their conversation was said to have been about the Middle East He then had lunch with Ambassador Simcha Dinitz of Israel and Shalev and pains were taken to conceal the fact that the lunch had been arranged only the day before tense said a cruiser destroyer and submarine will call at the Syrian port of Latakia from Nov 20-23 It said Vice Adm Nikolai Khvorin commander of the Soviet Black Sea fleet will head the flotilla The visit was seen as a public reaffirmation of Moscow's support of Syria The announcement of the visit came two days after Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin charged that 20 Soviet ships were anchored off Latakia unloading military supplies Rabin warned Syria against any unilateral arms buildup and his comments have been interpreted in Moscow as an attempt to justify a preemptive strike against Syria Israel partially mobilized its reserve forces last week as a precautionary measure but admitted the call-up only Saturday The alert stemmed from intelligence reports that Syrian troops had been placed on alert for possible war Israeli military sources said But reports reaching Israel said the United States and the Soviet Union helped defuse the situation by sending messages to the Egyptian and Syrian leadership 855-2228 Ford says travels are for From Page 1 there might be an agreement at Vladivostok on the numbers (of weapons to be allowed) maybe on the Ford's big jet stopped here for refueling after the first leg of his nine-day journey To a cheering crowd of military personnel and dependents at Elmendorf Air Force Base he said: "Alaska gives us an inspiring farewell boost as we proceed on America's quest for peace and improved international relations" Ford promised will be no EQUIPMENT ADDED TEACHERS: IS lessening of interest in the defense of Alaska" There has been some talk of cutbacks in defense installations in Alaska want to reassure you today that my administration is energetically seeking world peace but remains aware that the best insurance for peace is the maintenance of first class military forces ready for defense" As Ford headed for Japan'Communists Socialists and other anti-government groups planned protests there over charges that nuclear weapons have been routinely brought into Japanese ports by US warships On Sunday police raided extremist 'pursuing law agents Florida Alabama and Georgia authorities cooperated with federal agents in trying to hunt down Knowles When he was finally captured it was not the hundreds of law enforcement agents who brought him in but a lone hunter David I Clark 27 of this small town about 30 miles south of Atlanta Knowles was armed with a revolver police said had been hunting" said Clark fellow was coming out of the woods with a gun He could have killed me then and there" Clark said Knowles told him that he needed help had my shotgun" the hunter said was bleeding down the face and had a headband around his head" Clark said he then yelled to a neighbor to call the sheriff More tlian a hundred officers had been combing the area with bloodhounds and helicopters after Knowles crashed through a police roadblock and vanished into the woods on foot Residents of the area where Knowles was captured alerted by the intensive search had bolted their doors and hidden all day GBI Director William Beardsley said Knowles had been identified from photographs by a Lakeland Ga service station attendant who told authorities that he saw Knowles in a car Saturday with two other persons The gasoline attendant reported the vehicle's license number to police and it was learned the car was rented by Meyer last Wednesday Beardsley said Officials said Meyer had been staying at a motel in Ferty Fla A search of the motel room revealed that his belongings were still there according to Florida authoritiesL education In Corpus Christ! per-pupil pvting Awn Title I has been as little as 130 in some schools Williams said it has averaged about $180 per pupil over the years A district experiment in beefing up 'spending concentrating funds at two schools produced only mixed results and was discontinued this year In 1972 Coles and Lozano schools were selected as targets for the concentrated spending because of the great need at each school More than 80 per cent of the children from those schools were considered "educationally Per-pupil spending from federal funds alone rose to $335 and $389 at the schools financing a big increase in staff extra materials and for the staff Results were promising in the lower grades but less than hoped for in the upper grades The program was discontinued this year Mrs Mills said federal auditors would not allow the district to continue such a broad program in the schools after the percentage of "disadvantaged" children was cut "at least partly because of our efforts we Another (actor was the cut in the Title I funds available Vallado said said Supt Williams of the apparent failure of the federal effort to close the gap" "I don't consider the money wasted" he said he added that he is not optimistic about equalizing achievement as long as inequalities in society persist (Tomorrow: Financing the programs) peace hideouts in Tokyo and seized iron staves and helmets intended for use in anti-Ford protests At the same time 2600 hel meted students staged a zigzag five-mile march past government buildings and the US Embassy In Japan Ford will meet Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka whose political position has been shaky -Questions about his wealth and financial dealings as well as the nuclear controversy may lead to his political undoing Ford and Kissinger will try to clear this hurdle by stressing thecountry-uxountry relationship visit to any country is to the government and not to any particular individual" the secretary of state told a news conference Friday Ford's four-day visit the first to Japan by an incumbent President will cover security nuclear nonproliferation and oil although its primaiy purpose is to calm fears about US overtures to mainland China and reassure Tokyo that it will be protected in any union of oil-consuming nations The administration is keeping Ford's South Korea stop low key A State Department report issued last month said do not approve of Korea's policies on human The government of President Chung Hee Park has arrested some of the country's most prominent citizens including the only living former president a Roman Catholic bishop Protestant clergymen and dissident writers However the United States considers South Korea important strategically Stationed there are some 38000 American troops and a large arsenal of nuclear weapons share a common devotion to the preservation of peace and the deterrence of aggression" Ford said The high point of the trip is expected to be the mini-summit with Soviet leader Leonid I Brezhnev in Vladivostok Nov 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