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Complete Report on Page 3 The Weather THE HILLSDALE DAILY NEWS VOL 61- No. 146 Hillsdale, Michigan, Tuesday, September 22, 1970 10 Pages, Plus Tabloid Supplement Price 10 Cents Arab Leaders Seeking Ways To Stop War By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS As tanks slugged it out in rocky northern Jordan and Palestincans battled royalists in Amman, leaders of the Arab states assembled in Cairo today to consider ways to stop the Jordanian civil war. Some Arab leaders have advocated military intervention. Cairo Radio announced at the last minute that the summit conference had been postponed for eight hours, apparently because of uncertainty over how many leaders would attend. It was rescheduled for noon EDT.

The United States continued NEWS BRIEFS WASHINGTON (AP) The government announced today emergency transportation plans to move goods and passengers by trucks and buses in the face of Wednesday night's threatened nationwide railroad strike. The Interstate Commerce Commission announced the emergency plans while talks continued at the Labor Department in an effort to resolve the long dispute over elimination of locomotive firemen's jobs. President Nixon has exhausted all present legal delaying measures to stop a strike. WASHINGTON (AP) Officials of the two-year-old federal rat control program report marked success in some cities but say the rat population is growing across the nation even in the suburbs. WASHINGTON (AP) Congress meets in joint session today to hear a report by former astronaut Frank Borman on the treatment of American soldiers held captive in Southeast Asia.

Borman recently completed a tour of more than a dozen nations as an emissary for President Nixon in an unsuccessful bid to gain release of the prisoners. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -The Cambodian military command says Communist troops who stalled the government's first major offensive have lashed out at heavily reinforced Cambodian forces inntwo shelling attacks today. NEW YORK -The U.S Coast Guard and Canadian Air Force have joined in a search for three balloonists believed down in rough Atlantic seas southeast of St. John's, Nfld. The three, who were attempting to make the first transatlantic crossing in a balloon, were last heard from Monday evening when they radioed that they were losing altitude.

to reinforce its military power in the eastern Mediterranean, but officials in Washington said President Nixon was still searching for a diplomatic solution to the crisis and that U.S. warships were standing by only in case they were needed to evacuate the 400 or so Americans in Jordan. The U.S. ships were stationed less than 100 miles off the Israeli coast, within short fighter range of Jordan, and the Pentagon alerted troops in the United States and Germany to prepare "to support an evacuation operation for Americans in Jordan should that be necessary." However, there were fears in Arab and other quarters that President Nixon was considering using troops to protect Jordan's monarchy if it became apparent that the guerrillas and Syrian tank forces would succeed in toppling it. King Hussein accused Damascus of ending in two tank battalions during the weekend, and U.S.

Secretary of State William P. Rogers demanded that they be removed. The Syrians contend the tanks are from units of the Palestine Liberation Army stationed in Syria and not units of the regular Syrian forces. The alleged Syrian intervention was certain to be a major topic at today's Arab summit meeting. President Nureddin Atassi of Syria arrived in Cairo late Monday and met for more than two hours with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to discuss "means of halting the current atrocities against the Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan," according to Damascus Radio.

Sources said Nasser also tried to convince Atassi not to boycott today's meeting. Damascas Radio said Atassi would not attend, and Iraq, and Morocco sent word they too would stay away. Whether Hussein and guerrilla leader Yasir Arafat, would go to Cairo was unclear. Amman radio said Jordan's delegation would be made up of three officials including Prime Minister Mohamad Daoud. It did not mention Hussein.

The king did not accompany the Jordanian delegation when it arrived at Cairo's airport early today and Daoud did not say publicly whether the monarch would come. The guerrilla's radio station at Baghdad broadcast a bitter denunciation of the meeting. The statement told the rulers to "go back to your palaces be- UP -The creek at the north edge of Hills- pipes connecting new wells to the city water main HOOKING dale Street has been dammed up and the last of the under the creek were installed this morning. Less Spending Promised cized U.S. policy as stimulating inflation elsewhere.

To combat "decay in the world's monetary he proposed an international effort to control the market in Eurocurrencies--largely American dollars outside the United States. This huge stock of funds, estimated at more than $45 billion, has added greatly to American influence over the world economy in recent years. Giscard said that the dollar ought to have a "highly fixed" value if it is to be a standard for others. of, young the streets people demonstrated cause you are not the ones who make decisions now." It vowed to "go on fighting until the plotters are overthrown." Maj. Gen.

Jaafar el Numairi, president of The Sudan, conferred with Nasser early today, presumably to discuss Numairi's call for "direct intervention to separate the warring parties." Omdurman Radio said Numairi called for imposition of an immediate cease-fire. Col. Muammar Kadafi of Libya called earlier for a pan-Arab peace-keeping force in Jordan. The Sudan, Egypt, Libya and Algeria are members of an Arab League commission to seek peace between Hussein's government and the Palestinians. A cease-fire ordered Monday by King Hussein apparently had little effect.

Fighting was renewed today near Irbid, Jordan's second largest city 10 miles soith of Syria, between the tanks that moved in Sunday and Hussein's armor. In Amman, guerrillas and government troops fought gun battles on two hills. Arafat said in a statement broadcast over Damascus Radio Monday that the "revolutionary forces" had lost 8,000 dead and "tens of thousands" wounded and that fighting was continuing nine hours after Hussein called for the truce. Army troops shelled commando positions in Amman, the capital, and at two refugee camps, he claimed. Other Damascus Radio broadcasts said Royal Jordanian -bombers struck "advancing mechanized units of the Palestine Liberation Army" between Irbid and the capital, 50 miles to the south.

Irbid and Ramtha, also a site of heavy battling have heavy guerrilla populations. Nixon Reinforcing Power But Hoping For Solution By JOHN N. HIGHTOWER AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) Al- lives. though President Nixon is steadily reinforcing U.S. military power in the eastern Mediterra- nean, officials say he still is searching for a diplomatic solu- alert tion to the Jordanian crisis.

At the same time Nixon ap- Extra parently has run into opposition from two key allies, Britain and the France, to his contingency plans for intervention in Jordan. Diplomats here also reported deep uncertainty over whether King Hussein himself has clearly signaled a need to Nixon for assist- also ance in saving his regime. The administration and the Jordanian ruler, whose regime is forces beset by Palestinian guerrillas opposed to his peace policy, have out, been exchanging messages but hopes informants said Hussein's preferences for action were not clearly defined. A State Department spokesman Monday refused to say whether Hussein had asked U.S. after intervention.

Other authorities later indicated the State Depart- ment and White House should be able to interpret the latest Hussein messages any way they wish -depending on what they consider the wisest course to follow. At the United Nations, diplomats reported Jordan might ask for protective action by the Security Council, a possibility complicated by the fact Syria is a member of the council and Jordan is not. Syria stands accused by Jordan and the United States of sending some army units into Hussein's country. France's attitude toward intervention in wording which implied slaps at both the United States and Russia was ex- pressed Monday by President Georges Pompidos who warned against any further foreign involvement in Middle East warfare. He said intervention is already creating a dangerous situation for world peace.

Diplomats said Britain feels a U.S. thrust into Jordan for any Police To Vote School Board President Wednesday city will Police hall meet to at vote 3 Department p.m. on the Wednesday ratification personnel at Disputes HEA's Figures of a police contract between the city and the Teamster's Union. A tentative agreement on a contract was reached during mediation last Wednesday and since that time the city has been reviewing the contract for typographical errors. It appears that the contract is acceptable to both sides.

None of the details in the package have been released. Indications are that police department employes will ratify the contract. COPENHAGEN (AP) U.S. Secretary of the Treasury David M. Kennedy promised the nonCommunist world's financial authorities today that the United States would keep down government spending and not "fuel an excessive burst of demand." He told the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund: "We fully acknowledge that the inflationary process in the United States, as in the world at large, is not yet under full control.

As elsewhere, the response has been slower than experience or theory would have led us to expect." Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the French finance minister, criti- Osseo Man Killed In Auto Mishap Killed Mishap By CARL HARTMAN Associated PRESS Writer Bentley of Tampa, Fla; Mrs. Vernon (Laura) Kelley of Morenci and Mary Sines of Osseo; four brothers, Frank of Hillsdale; Richard of Quincy; Irwin of Hillsdale and LeRoy of Osseo. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Ned M. Towns Funeral Home in Hillsdale.

The Rev. Charles Bloomer will officiate and interment will be in the Lakeview Cemetery, Hillsdale. Monday to protest the presence at the meeting of former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, now president of the World Bank.

About 2,000 demonstrators marched to the meeting hall Monday shouting "'Hang McNamara!" Some 600 policemen protected the building. McNamara was not inside at the time. Bands of youths hurling firecrackers and stones roamed the streets well past midnight. Some 30 demonstrators were arrested and some were hurt, although no figures on the number of injured were available. Rocks and firecrackers were thrown at the entrance of the Tivoli Gardens, where McNa- James Parker, president of the Hillsdale Board of Education, today cited errors in figures compiled and presented Monday by the Hillsdale Education Association (HEA) in The Hillsdale Daily News.

The errors deal with proposals made by the HEA during mediation. Walter Martinen, president of the HEA, admitted that some base salary figures in the HEA chart under proposal 3 were incorrect but said that the con- mara was having dinner. Demonstrators also smashed the door of the hotel where he was staying and broke windows in offices of American Express and Pan American World AirWays. Inside the meeting hall, the richer countries prepared to squelch an effort by the poorer ones to get more "paper gold" as a form of financial aid. Paper gold is another name for the Special Drawing RightsSDRs- last October by the International Monetary Fund.

Some $9.5 billion worth of SDRs are to be distributed by the end of 1972 as a means of building up national reserve funds that support the growth of world trade. troversy over corresponding figures in proposal: 2 resulted from an intervening HEA proposal not released by the HEA. The correct figures for HEA proposal 3 are $7,000 instead of $7,050 for the BA minimum salary, $7,125 instead of $7,175 for a BA plus hours minimum, and $8,000 instead of $7,450 for MA minimum. In proposal 2 the disparity is caused by a labeling problem resulting from the exclusion from Auto Negotiators Return To Talks DETROIT (AP)- Negotiators for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. return to the national bargaining table today, but there is little hope for a speedy settlement of the strike by 344,000 workers, now in its second week.

The main-table bargaining session was to be the first since contracts between the UAW and the Big Three automakers expired at midnight Sept. 14. When talks broke down shortly before the strike began, the union and the company were 2 cents apart on the first-year wage package and were also purpose might well make the situation worse and cost more lives. The Defense Department announced that infantry and paratroop units in this country and Europe have been placed on alert for possible use in removing Americans from Jordan. Extra Air Force C130 transport planes were deployed to airlift the troops.

A third aircraft carrier, the John F. Kennedy, was reported speeding to join two flattops already in the Mediterranean. Some medical units in Europe also were put on alert. State Department press officer Robert J. McCloskey said if US.

forces have to be sent into the country to get American citizens out, the Nixon administration hopes the operation can be conducted peacefully and by prearrangement with the government of Jordan. So far as the 38 Americans among 54 hostages behind held after three airliner hijackings are concerned, however, the problem is not with the Jordanian government but the Palestinian guerrilla forces holding them in secrecy somewhere near or in Amman. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has threatened to kill Americans throughout the Middle East if the United States sends in troops. The problem is how President Nixon could rescue the hostages or evacuate other Americans without multiplying the perils of death under which they already live. Nevertheless, expansion of the conflict by Syrian intervention appeared to increase, greatly the possibilities involvement.

The White House and State Department announced the United States is dispatching two military field hospitals to Jordan to assist in treating casualties of the bitter fighting of the past week. McCloskey said the United States is discussing arrangements with the International Red Cross for getting the hospitals into the country. Whether they would require regular troops to protect the doctors and nurses was not clear. Live In Hillsdale County Because EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the twelfth in a series called "I Live in Hillsdale County Because The series features man-onthe-street interviews in which persons are asked to explain why they have made their home i in Hillsdale County. OSSEO RESIDENT Mrs.

George Seiple raised five children at residences around Waldron before moving to the family's present home at rte. 2, Osseo. The children now grown have scattered to other parts of the world, but Mrs. Seiple, her husband and one younger son remain in Hillsdale County. Donald Edward Sines, 27, of 543 Bowditch Road, Osseo, was killed Friday, the result of an accident at 8:30 p.m.

on Carpenter Road, just north of Pike Lake Road. Sines was struck by a car as he walked along the side of his car to get into his stalled vehicle. According to sheriff's deputies who are investigating, the Sines' car had run out of gas. Sines' brother, Robert, had just finished putting gasoline in the car and the victim was attempting to get into the front seat of the car to see if it would start. Cecil Thorp, 27, of rte.

2, Lake Wilson, driver of the car that hit the victim, told sheriff's deputies he was driving north on Carpenter Road, came over the crest of a hill and did not see the Sines' car until it was too late. The Thorp car sideswiped the Sines' car which was parked part way on the road and then hit the victim. Ned Towns, county coroner, said death was due to hemorrhaging. A farm worker, he was born in Hillsdale April 12, 1945 to Edward and Lula Rose Ellis Sines. They survive him.

Surviving besides his brother, Robert of Osseo, are his wife, Debbie Wood; one daughter, Kimberly Kay at home; three sisters, Mrs. Walt (Janet) the chart of one HEA proposal, Martinen said. In the chart submitted by the HEA the BA minimum was set at $7,050, BA plus 20 hours minimum at $7,175 and the MA minimum at $7,450. The school board lists proposal HEA 2 with figures of $7,550, $7,675 and $8,050 respectively and in addition lists the number of increments as 12 instead of 14. Death Cause Confidential far apart on fringe-benefit demands.

No major new proposals were expected at today's session. Meanwhile, the economic ripples of the strike continued to spread Monday. General Motors announced it had laid off 6,711 more employes at plants which were not struck by the UAW. The union exempted 27 GM facilities from strike action. Those facilities produce parts or services vital for the operation of Ford Motor Co.

and Chrysler where UAW members are continuing to work without contracts. The latest round of layoffs brought to 26,995 the number of men furloughed by the giant automaker since the strike started, more than a third of the 540 men normally employed at the 27 facilities. The layoffs also brought to a virtual standstill operations at GM's Central Foundry Divisions in Saginaw, and Defiance, Ohio, and at its Harrison Radiator Division in Lockport, N.Y. The three plants normally employ 11,500 men, all but 1,415 of whom have been laid off. Steelmakers also expressed fear Monday that a prolonged strike could seriously curtail fourth-quarter earnings and disrupt production schedules.

General Motors normally consumes about 10 per cent of the nation's steel production. When union and company bargainers last met to discuss the national contract, the UAW was asking a 63 cent an hour wage increase in the first year of a proposed three-year contract and GM had offered 38 cents. Also separating the two sides were the unions demands for a restoration of unlimited cost-ofliving wage increases and retirement at a $500 monthly pension after 30 years service without regard to age. LONDON (AP) What killed Jimi Hendrix, 27-year-old American rock guitarist, will be kept officially confidential until there has been an inquest. Authorities said a postmortem examination was completed "We moved to Osseo about 15 years ago.

We were farming and Monday but that the results decided to stop and move to a small place our boy has a horse would be withheld pending a and we have cats. that's about the extent of our farming now. coroner's hearing still to be set. "I was born near Ransom. My husband and I graduated from Hendrix was found unconscious Hillsdale High School and so did our children.

We think that's at the home of a friend Friday pretty nice. and pronounced dead on arrival "One of the reasons I like Michigan is because of the change of at St. Mary's Abbot Hospital. He seasons. We have a girl who lives in California and she's came to Britain Sept.

6 for a homesick. I think that's the reason. series of appearances. "Another daughter lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We have a son in the Philippines he will be leaving soon for British fans had voted him top Vietnam.

Another child lives in Fayette, Ohio." pop musician of the year in 1967..