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Classified Ads Havt Made For A Long Time. Want Ad Dept. Phone 564-2741 Not convinced farmers will get enough fuel to harvest crops this summer YOUR FREEDOM "We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are." deBalzac NUMBER 125 NINETY-FIFTH YEAR Member Associated Press Photo by Rich Gaver POPEYE AND FRIEND Members of the local Pawnee Shrine Club entertained grade school children last week with a variety of circus acts. LINCOLN, Neb.

(AP) William E. Peters, top energy official, said Tuesday he did not know if crops would be lost this summer because of fuel shortages. Farmers have the top priority in theory, he said, but he was not convinced farmers would get all the fuel they should be receiving. Several weeks ago, Kansas Gov. Robert Docking was in Washington asking for a special fuel reserve for emergency use during the wheat harvest.

The initial response from the Federal Energy Office was favorable, but the Federal Energy Office has since rejected the request. Peters said he did not know whether there would be crop losses, but he said wanted to be sure there would not Nebraska Gov. J. James Exon sent a telegram to dent Nixon appealing the decision, but had received no response as of Tuesday. In denying the request, the Federal Energy Office said agriculture already had the No.

1 priority in fuel allocation. Peters said farmers obtain the priority by going to their regular fuel distributor and filling out forms to have their fuel needs certified. The distributor is to take the certification to his supplier to get the fuel. Peters said there is no way to tell how many farmers have certified their needs. He said farmers who do not certify their needs could be in trouble during the wheat harvest and irrigation seaseon.

He added that farmers with certification were not necessarily out of trouble. He said farmers were supposed to contact state or federal energy ficials if they had problems receiving their certified needs. Peters, the state tax commissioner, was made the top energy official by the legislature. If fuel shortages turn up, the state can attempt to deal with them through its regular emergency fuel reserves, Peters said. When the state thought it would receive a special wheat harvest reserve, officials decided to use fuel from the regular reserve to move combines from the Dakotas down to Kansas and Oklahoma for the harvest.

Peters said the state would go ahead with that plan. The fuel shortage will be compounded if the wheat harvest and the irrigation season come at the same time, Peters said. Another factor will be the number of vacationers on the highways. Peters said farmers will be competing with them for available fuel. And a fuel shortage is not the only problem facing the wheat grower.

Officials have long been concerned that a threat of a tuel shortage could scare custom harvesters into staying close to home. Peters said he did not know what effect the federal action would have on the custom harvesters. TROPHY WINNERS Kent Franzen and Jim Ernst teamed up to finish second at the Exlporers District Road Rally held over a 75-mile course in northwest Omaha. The Columbus High juniors were three minutes off the winning time posted by a high school graduate team from Omaha. Ernst drove the 1974 Grand Prix sponsored by Ernst Olds-Pontiac-Cadillac Columbus.

COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 28, TELEGRAM WEATHER OUTLOOK Showers and thunderstorms recurring again Tuesday night, possibly extending into Wednesday morning. Lows Tuesday night 60 65, with upper 50s. Not as warm Wednesday with highs upper 70s and lower 80s. 1974 28 Pages Today Published daily except Sundays, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, g- InCependenco Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Days. 1JC Single Copy High court invites White House reply BY A HEAD Elmwood's Gary Bornemeier uses his head to break the tape Field Championships held in Omaha.

At far left is Dale Jones of Silver Creek, at the finish of the Class 100-yard dash at the 72nd Boys Annual Track and Kissinger going back to Damascus JERUSALEM (AP) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger postponed his return to Washington again today and headed back to Damascus instead, making a final effort to win a disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria. Kissinger set out on the surprise flight his 13th trip to the Syrian capital in 31 days after the Israeli government held a five-hour marathon session but failed to reach a decision on the latest truce bargaining. The secretary said earlier that he would not return to Damascus. He changed his mind after another meeting with Premier Golda Meir and Israeli negotiators.

Kissinger had planned to send his top aide, Joseph Sisco, for a last trip to the Syrian capital and then return to the United States. Giving no reason for the sud- den switch in plans, Kissinger drove from Jerusalem to Ben- Gurion Airport shortly after the Israeli government announced it needed further from Syria. The unexplained appeared essential to any agreement. Israeli reports suggested the critical differences in negotiations were over insistence on linking the promised Israeli withdrawal to a broader pullback in the future. Israeli Information Minister Shimon Peres said the Israeli cabinet had gone over the total and general balance of the whole in first session without concentrating on any particular sticking points.

Earlier Kissinger met for two hours with the Israeli negotiating team, where he reported on marathon talks with Assad. JAWORSKI HAS EVIDENCE 1RS was instructed to harass political enemies WASHINGTON (AP) Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski said today he has evidence that the White House instructed the Internal Revenue Service to audit or otherwise harass political enemies, including former Democratic Party Chairman Lawrence F. Jaworski said in papers filed with U.S. District Court, that a discussion of those matters was withheld by the White House from a tape recording turned over to the Watergate grand Sodhouse Society to hold annual meeting June 9 McCOOK, Neb. (AP)-The Sodhouse Society, which claims nearly 1,000 members in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and the Dakotas, will hold its annual spring meeting here June 9, according to Society Vice President Phillip Gardner of Broken Bow.

Gardner said the group would hold morning and afternoon business sessions, and that the meetings would be open to the public. jury on a claim it was to Watergate The privilege claim, on minutes of a tape recording of Sept. 15, 1972, was upheld by U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica last year.

The filing today asked Sirica to reconsider that decision. Exon says most money spent on his nomination LNCOLN, Neb. (APi-Gov. J. James Exon said Tuesday the approximately $50,000 spent in behalf of the Exon-Whelan team in the primary election was spent for his nomination, not felt the sum was necessary for the nomination of Exon said.

Responding to charges by Richard Larsen of Omaha that he interfered with the rights of the people by in over $50,000 to brainwash the people into voting for Gerald Exon said the amount was smaller than had been spent in past gubernatorial elections. Exon said informing the people was what the campaign was all about. WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today invited President lawyer to respond to Special Prosecutor Leon request for prompt review by the high court of refusal to surrender 64 subpoenaed Watergate tapes. The court said White House lawyer James D. St.

Clair promised to respond by Thursday. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica ruled May 20 that Nixon must surrender the tapes, but St. Clair asked the U.S.

Court of Appeals here last Friday to overturn that ruling. Jaworski then asked the Supreme Court to take jurisdiction in the case. If the Supreme Court accepts the case, it will bypass the appeals court. Justice William H. Rehnquist took no part in the invitation to the WTiite House for a response to petition.

No reason was given for his abstention and his office refused comment. office also refused to say whether he would participate in future developments in the case. abstention from future developments would raise the possibility of a 4-to-4 deadlock by the nine-member court. Under Supreme Court rule a tie vote would uphold decision but would not establish a precedent for future cases. Nixon had promised during a similar dispute with predecessor to abide by a Supreme Court ruling, but declined to define what he would regard as a definitive ruling.

Rehnquist was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Nixon in 1971 and formerly served as an assitant attorney general under former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell, one of the defendants in the Watergate cover-up trial. Jaworski wants the tapes as evidence in that trial.

appeal marked the first time that the Supreme Court has been asked to intervene in the long-running legal battles over the White House Watergate tapes. Jaworski suggested that, if the Supreme Court accepts the case, briefs be submitted by June 14, after which the court would hear oral argument. ruling followed a precedent which he set last August in a battle over a similar subpoena issued by the then- Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. That ruling was upheld by the appeals court. Rather than appeal it to the Supreme Court, Nixon set in motion steps wiich led to the firing of Cox.

However, he later surrendered the tapes which Cox had sought. Last month, Nixon released a edited transcripts of a number of White House conversations dealing Watergate and said afterward he would release no more Watergate-related material, either to Jaworski or to the House Judiciary impeachment inquiry. In both cases the President claimed that the subpoenaes constituted an unwarranted intrusion into presidential confidentiality. In his order, Sirica said the materials must be turned over to him by May 31. The subpoena asks for tapes and documents relating to 64 Nixon sees inflation dip White House conversations between June 20, 1972 and June 4, 1973.

The prosecutors are seeking the material for preparation for the Watergate cover-up trial scheduled to begin Sept. 9. Although the Supreme Court rarely bypasses the appeals it has done so in cases involving seizure of steel mills in the 1950s, a coal mine strike during War II and few other instances. Jaworski said the Watergate matter was sufficiently important tu justify another exception. Otherwise, he said, there would be lengthy delay in the cover-up trial.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to recess for the summer late next month and would not normally return until October. The court said Justice William H. Rehnquist took no part in the invitation to the White, House lor a response to petition. Chamber banquet here Friday night WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon sent Congress today a special economic report predicting that the surge in inflation should subside to about seven per cent in the last quarter of this year. In the past three months the cost of living increase has been at an annual rate of 12.1 per cent, the highest level since 1951.

The President, following up on a weekend radio address, told Congress he sees of in the economic outlook and added: the recent events are not conclusive they tend to strengthen the expectation that in the remainder of this year, output will be rising more rapidly, prices will be rising much less rapidly and the unemployment rate, while it will probably rise further, will not reach a very high point before it As the report to Congress was released, Nixon convened a mid-morning Cabinet meeting, presumably to discuss the economy as well as other current issues. Among the participants was Kenneth Rush, designated by Nixon on Saturday as coordinator of domestic and international economic policy. Nixon's economic comments came in a preface to a special report prepared by his Council of Economic Advisers. The advisers made these major points: the fourth quarter of 1974 should see a rate of inflation substantially below the recent 12 per cent rate We would suggest that the rate in vhe fourth quarter might be in the neighborhood of seven per budget deficit for fiscal 1975 will be larger than originally estimated, $11.4 billion instead of $9.4 billion, but the deficit for 1974 should be smaller than forecast, $3.5 billion instead of $4.7 billion. the policy of monetary restraint succeeds in subduing inflation, rates will But the economic advisers did not predict by how much.

unemployment rate which was 5 per cent in April probably will rise to between 5.5 and 6 per cent in the months ahead. half of 1974 should see an increase in production of between 2 per cent and 4 per cent. Even with a 7 per cent inflation rate in the fourth quarter, the annual rate probably would exceed the 8 to 9 per cent figure recently forecast by some economic experts. 81 at 1 p.m. 61 low this morning 78 high Monday 57 low Monday 71 high Sunday 55 low Sunday 75 high Saturday 54 low Saturday 72 high year ago 50 low year ago .22 moisture .80 downtown By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Moist, unstable air at the lower levels Tuesday set off more shower and thunderstorm activity in Nebraska and forecasters said there was a chance of more of the same Tuesday night and Wednesday.

However, an eastward-moving cold front was due to cool things off a bit in the state Wednesday, with afternoon highs expected to range from the 70s north to 80 to 85 south. Reports of rainfall to the National Weather Service included Palmer .70 inch, Fullerton .18, North Omaha .25, Norfolk .30, The Record New accidents reported 7 Total to date 373 Last year490 Injuries 435 Deaths 2 Fire calls 46 Last year 27 Days without call 5 Ambulance calls 282 Last year 246 Today's Index Markets 2 Horoscope 2 Women's News 5 Editorial 6 Entertainment Page 9 Comics 10 Sports 12, 13 Classified Pages 25, 26, 27 Council Chairman Herbert Stein has been predicting a fourth quarter inflation rate of six per cent. The special report on the economy and the Cabinet meeting headed agenda for the day: Scottsbluff .12 and McCook .10. McCook reported the state high Monday of 94 degrees while Sidney had the low Monday of 50 degrees. Mostly cloudy through Wednesday with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.

Lows Wednesday night mid 50s northwest to 60s rest of the state. Not as warm Wednesday with the highs from the low 70s northwest to near 80 extreme southeast. Gov. Evans does not think Nixon should resign OLYMPIA, Wash. (APi- Gov.

Dan Evans, chairman of the National Governors Conference, said Tuesday he is disappointed that the edited Watergate transcripts no sense of at the unfolding political espionage and cov- erup. But the Washington State Republican said he think President Nixon should resign or that the transcripts alone give justification for the House of Representatives to pass a bill of impeachment. Evans said he was disappointed at the and excessive time spent on potential once the President learned of the Watergate bugging and break-in. was simply not a sense of outrage about what was going he said. there was a discussion of all of the alternatives.

I think in terms of blackmail or payoffs there is any alternatives. I think there needed to be any discussion of alternatives. there should have been a flat assertion that we could not engage in any kind of blackmail or coverup or payoff. A direct and firm order along that Evans said the National Governors Conference meeting in Seattle next week likely will not take a position on impeachment. He said the governors, as well as the potential jurors in Congress, publicize official positions.

More rain in forecast Five traffic deaths in state By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Five persons died during the long Memorial Day Weekend in Nebraska traffic, the State Patrol said a Papillion man and an Omaha woman were killed Monday night. The State Patrol said they were killed in a car-train crash east of Valley. They were identified as Robbin Bellanti, 21, Papillion, the driver of the vehicle, and Carolyn Amestad, 2J. Omaha. The Patrol said car was struck broadside by a Union Pacific train.

An elderly man, who was driving out of a cemetery near Broken Bow, was killed Monday. He was 79-year-old Pearl Waters of Broken Bow. His car was in a collision with a car driven by 29-year-old Virginia Hall of Cozad, who was driving south on Highway 21. The York County fice said Mrs. Beth Welch, 61, of York was killed Saturday night in the collision of a car and a truck on a York County gravel road four miles east of York.

A spokesman said she was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, Orvan Welch. 61, when it was in collision with a pickup truck driven by Larrv L. Epke, 27, of Waco'. Welch and Epke were hospitalized at York. A bicyclist, also was killed Saturday night.

He was Scott Ross, 13, of Grant. The State Patrol said he was struck by a car driven by Jerry D. Wolford, 27, of Lewellyn. The mishap occurred south of Kingsley Dam on Route 61 in Keith County. The Nebraska highway fatality toll for 1974 stands at 121, compared with 151 at this time last year.

Several hundred are expected at the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce 1974 annual banquet, set for Friday evening at Holiday Inn. Keith Barrett of Lincoln will be the guest speaker, as part of a program. Social hour will start at 6:45 p.m., with dinner at 7:30 p.m. the program about 8:15 and dancing to the Larry Marik Quartet at 9 p.m. Tickets must be obtained in advance.

Barrett is a building systems consultant. Avocationally, he has become widely known as a humorist and banquet speaker. He a appeared before many Chamber of Commerce groups and more than 200 various trade organizations and civics clubs throughout the midwest and southwest. He attended Oklahoma Baptist University for three years, then finished at Central State in 1950. In 1952 Barrett was called back into the Army where he served as a information and education specialist, and was recipeient of several outstanding contributions troop morale.

After his second hitch in the service, he continued to make public appearances, combining KEITH BARRETT humor with sometimes more serious thought. For the past 12 years he has been speaking on a semi-profess ional basis averaging about five appearances a month. An avid barbershopper he is past president of the Lincoln Chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Singing in America. He has been master of ceremonies for over 150 shows in the central states..