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Ttlt-t-CGtQR FULL Ttm N. Reports In Y. Tax Omaha For Those Planning Travel Abroad 6 More Records At Drake Relays! Peach Sports Section FULL COLOR. -FtlttrCOtOR" 900 Vacancies In U. of I.

Dorms Page One of Local News Section COLOR Ib Herat and family Section Section fo) LTQ The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday Morning, April 26, '1970 186 Pages 11 Sections General News Section Convrlqhl. 170, Det MtinM Knltlir and Tribun Company 17 is SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE SAVING TIME (3L FULL Picture Magazine Due to circumstances beyond our control, this isMie of The Sunday Register does not contain Picture Magazine. This magazine, which is edited hy mir stall in Des Moines, is printed on special rotogravure presses in a Chicago printing plant. Because of a strike in Chicago, we have not received copies of Picture Magazine for this Sunday. We expect that next Sunday we will be able to resume our distribution of Picture Magazine, and we hope to include also with The Sunday Register next week the copy of Picture Magazine which was scheduled lr todav.

AM AS A RESULT OF LAUNCH OF SATELLITE Closer Now to Missile Capability By Stanley Karnnw t. The Washington Post I HONG KONG Communist China has launched its first earth satellite, Peking announced Saturday. An official communique transmitted here by the New China News Agency said fhe satellite, sent into orbit Friday, is circling the globe every 111 minutes, broadcasting a Chinese revolutionary song titled "The East Is The communique disclosed hp satellite weighs 3S0.fi pounds, more than double the i i ht of "Sputnik," with i which Hip Soviet Union opened Ihe space age in October, In Ihe view of Western ianalysts here. Peking's achievement, indicates the Chinese may be approaching the deployment of an intercontinental ballistics missile (I.C.B.M.). Specialists familiar with China's advanced weapons program have been speculating that.

Peking might test its first l.C.B.M. this year. These specialists believe that the Chinese I.C.B.M., expected to have a range of some miles, may be launched from a test site under construction since 1965. The. test site, in the Lop Nor region of China's northwestern Sinkiang Frovinre, may also have served the Chinese satellite launched nn Friday.

lechnolocical acenm-p 1 i I reflected in the launching is regarded bv Western analysts here as a sign that 'the Chinese scientific commu nity was probably less devas A. to Kbit IffiEl 1 Ml Our Ecological Dilemma In our desire to clean up our environment, we arp anxious to find answers which won't interrupt our continual efforts to produce more goods and improve our material well-bein. Dr. Jiuny Commoner of Washington in SI. Louis, one of the early disciples of Earth Day, says it may not be possible to continue population and production growth and still maintain a livable environment.

Hy Dr. Harry Commoner (Reprinted from Environment mflaaztne hy permission of the publisher, Ths Committee for Environmental Information, St. Louis.) With startling suddenness environmental pollution has jumped to the top of the agenda of public concern. A short time ago the condition of the environment was largely a I WaTU k. -iKMOwO if I wm M.

I I i 1 lilt AV Se Third News Move Clock Ahead Now If You Forgot In case you forgot to move: your clock ahead one hour when you went, to bed Saturday night you should do so now. Iowa and the rest of the nation now are on Daylight Saving Timp The hour you lost in the change will be regained on Oct. 25, when the nation returns to standard time. 8,200 IGWS GET MORE AID UNDER GJ. BILL $175 a Month If Unmarried By James Risser (Of The Reqisier's Washington Rui paij) WASHINGTON, D.C.

Some 8,200 Iowa veterans will be among (he beneficiaries whpn Ihe first chocks are mailed nut next month under the new, generous G.I. educalion bill. Veterans' educational benefits will go up by about one-third. and Veterans Administration (VA) officials believe the bill will encourage more returning Vietnam veterans to go back to school, at the same time help-! ing those already receiving aid to meet rising costs of college and trade schools. Congress is expected to ap-prove President Nixon's request for additional appropriations for the bill, retro-active to Feb.

1. 1970. An additional $132 million will be needed for the balance of this fiscal year. An extra $275 million will he needed next fiscal year, bringing the total cost of the program to about $1.34 billion, the VA csti-! mates. i VA Administrator Donald E.

Johnson, a West Branch, native, said veterans enrolled in college will receive a check about May 10, which pays the higher monthly rate and includes retroactive increases from February through April. Veterans studying at bclow-collcqe levels, including apprenticeship, on-the-job and co-opcr-lative training programs, will 'receive checks about the same i time, but they must continue to i certify their attendance to the VA each month to be eligible, Johnson said. I Details of Bill For the 8,200 Iowa veterans now enrolled in various educa- VETERANS ricn.se turn to Page Three $275,000 Award InSmton'PUTi DETROIT, MICH. (AP) Aj federal court jury has awarded a Detroit couple $275,000 in; damages from a leading manu-i facturer of birth control pills, The U.S. District Court jury; deliberated 2'i days before making the award to Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Tobin. Mrs. Tobin charged she developed blood clots in her legs as a result of taking Enovid, manufactured by G. D.

Scarle Co. of Chi-! cago. Attorneys for Searle said they would appeal the judgment. Mrs. Tobin said she began taking Enovid in 1962, but quit in 1963 when she developed the blood clots.

She was hospitalized three times in 1963 for treatment of the clots and ultimately had to have part of her hip joint replaced with an artificial joint, because of circulatory damage, she alleged. to THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm today, high in the 70s. Increasing cloudiness tonight, low the 40s to lower 50s. Cloudy with a chance of rain Monday. Sunrise 6:19, sunset 8:07.

Weather map on Page 9-G. PRICE 35c in PROBE FIRING OF HOSPITAL TECHNOLOGIST i Testimony Critical! Of Pathologists From Th Requter't Washington Bureau WASHINGTON. DC. A Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee is investigating 1 the firing of Roma E. Brown, from a laboratory co-ordintor's post at Bishop Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, Neb.

i Miss Brown, president of the 16, 50 n-m ember American Society of Medical Technologists, was fired this spring after testifying before the sub-; committee. Her testimony included some highly critical statements about controls which she said pathologists exercise over hospital medical labora-tories. The result, she said, is higher-than-necessary hospitalization costs. I many cases, hospital patients are charged a patholo-' gist's fee, even though all the laboratory tests are performed by medical technologists and here is no consultation between the patholooist and the attend ing physician, she told the sub committee. A spokesman for the subcom mittee staff said the circum stances of Miss Brown's dis-; missal are being investigated.

It is a federal crime to retaliate against a witness before a committee of Congress, the spokesman noted. Report Due The investigation began as soon as news of I he dismissal reached the subcommittee. Eventually a full report will be made to subcommittee chair-man Senator Philip Hart Miss Brown said her super-, visor, Dr. Earl G. Greene, director of Clarkson's pathology department, dismissed her when she returned from Washington.

Dr. Greene cited problems as the reason for the dismissal and has not elaborated. "He wouldn't have any statements at this time seeing as TECHNICIAN Please turn to Page Five Rogers Issues Cambodia Plea NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) -Secretary of State William P. Rogers accused.

North Vietnam Saturday night of violating international accords by invading Cambodia and called on other nations to consider what counter-action might be taken. Rogers did not specify, in a speech prepared for the American Society of International Law, just what counter-steps he had in mind. On Cambodia, he said, "It is encouraging to note that the foreign ministers of such nations as Indonesia, Thailand and Japan are initiating con sultations to determine what action they can take in the international community to pro tect and restore the independ ence and neutrality of Cam bodia." Affirms Prohibition Of Divorce in Spain MADRID, SPAIN (AP) -The Spanish Supreme Court has confirmed that divorce, even for foreigners, is prohibited in Spain. I subject for discussion among scientists. Although some of us did venture from our laboratories to alert the public and legislators to the problem, until recently the response was one of polite attention, but little demand for remedial action.

Now, suddenly, things are different. Anti-pollution picket lines have appeared before industrial plants, and legislators are being pressed for new laws to limit pollution. Citizens have taken legal action against polluters. Student groups have organized to defend the environ-' mont from attack. Important state-wide environmental conferences have been organized under the DAYLIGHT Legislative Bills List THE COMPLETE list of the nil bills and joint resolutions enacted bv the 1970 session of the Iowa Legislature carried in the Third News Section.

Adult Crossword Bpforp You, Buy IT Briefly 3G Classified Ads Commercial News Editorials Gallup Poll 7G Gardens Market News Open Forum, Books Section Radio Schedules 15TV Stamps 8G Theaters 85 Travel, Resorts 10W Visual Arts, Music 71 Weather, Day's Record 9G Your Sunday Register today consists of eight regular sections: Three news sections. Peach Sports, Home and Family, Farm, Iowa TV Magazine and Comics, plus a special advertising section. Strong Warning On'Relaxacizor' WASHINGTON; D.C. (AP) -The Food and Drug Administration has warned of possible damage to the heart and other vital organs from an electrical exercising device called the Relaxacizor. The agency said Salurday that an estimated 400,000 owners should stop using the machine.

A federal district judge in California last week ruled the Relaxacizor is a hazard to health and limited its distribution to prescription sales only. 1 The machine, which costs between $100 and transmits shocks to the body through pads. The. purpose claimed for the device is exercise, and waistline reduction. H.S.

Horseshoe Course: Grads Earn $10412,000 By Charles Hillinger Th Lo Anqr )e Times SACRAMENTO, CALIF. "Put your leg up." shouted the pert 17-year-old as she wrestled with a horse, trying to get it to lift a front leg. it! Stop moving31 the vacated old state fair-around," yelled Val Campos. 1 grounds here, it draws students sponsorship of the governors of California, Vermont, and New Hampshire. The President, in his State of Ihe Union message last January, designated environmental quality as the major domestic issue for the 1970s.

The immediate reasons for this intense concern are not difficult to detect, for they constantly assail our senses: Our eyes smart from smog, our ears throb with the noise of automobiles, aircraft, and construction tools; we are assailed by the odors of polluted waters and the sight of mounting heaps of rubbish. 'That's right. Get mad. Cuss him out," kibitzed Larry Fisk. "Get his leg bent.

It isn't bent enough; Val." over, and grasping the horse's leg under her left arm, Val began filing the hoof with a rasp. Val Campos Is one of three girls and 17 boys enrolled in what is believed tn be the only high school course in horseshoeing in the United States. Conducted in the dairy barn "'om nearoy scnoois. After graduation in June they will earn $10,000 to a year. Ranging from 16 to 18 years old, they are getting a jump on those who wait until they are enrolled in higher institutions such as California State Polytechnic College at Pomona.

Horseshoeing at Cal Poly is an elective in the Animal Management Department and gradu- HORSESHOES- Pfease turn to Page Seven Km. U. I. Pat. Off.

Potomac Fever tated during Mao convulsive cultural revolution than reports suggested. When Mao escalated his campaign to purify China in August, 1966, he carefully decreed that scientists and technicians not be molested as long as they loved their country and supported communism. Nevertheless, Red Guards and other radicals disrupted key departments, among them the Scientific and Technological Com- SATELLITE I Please turn to Page Three Russians Crowd I Easter Service MOSCOW, RUSSIA I SUNDAY I (API Thousands of Russian Orthodox Christians I crowded into Moscow churches early today for hours-long ter services. Throngs of non i believers gathered on sidewalk? outside. Squads of police, on foot and horseback, kept the crowd in check outside the Patriarchal Epiphany Cathedral.

A few I youths were led away, appar-I ently for disorderliness. Hooting and jeering at the faithful, which has been taper-! ing off in recent years, was rare, and the ritual procession outside the cathedral at midnight moved without obstriK4-: ion. A rougher group was outside the Rogozhskoe Cathedral of i the Old Believers, a sect separated from the patriarchal church. There, youths climbed trees to shout catcalls and whistle at the worshippers. a number of youths broke through police barriers to shove their way into the church.

2 Barry Commoner Piease- trwyt to Page Stx Enormous Problems Less apparent than the fact of pollution is what can be done about it. The problems are enormous in size: Cities are running out of places to dump garbage and rubbish, and a lake as large as Erie has been nearly totally polluted. The problems are bewildering in their complexity: If we expand sewage treatment facilities, we only increase the pollution due to rotting masses of algae; if we incinerate garbage, we intensify air pollution; if we attempt to control smog by means of exhaust devices which reduce waste fuel emission, we worsen the pollution due to nitrogen oxides. The degradation of the environment in which we live has become a pervasive, intractable, discouraging problem. 11 clashes noisomely with the magnificent progress of the age, with the marvelous competence of our new machines, with the rising productivity of our factories and our farms, with the new inventions that have revolutionized communications and management.

It raises perplexing questions about the human value of our technological competence. Why has a society which is so enriched by the progress of technology now beepme so impoverished in the quality of the life which that technology supports? What are the causes of this dismaying paradox? What can be done to resolve it? The following thesis may provide some useful insights into these problems: We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. Environmental pollution is not tn be regarded as an unfortunate but incidental by-product of the growth of population, the intensification of production, or of technological progress. It is. rather, an intrinsic feature of the very technology which we have developed to enhance productivity.

Our technology is enormously surcesstul in producing WASHINGTON, D.C. Some Southern senators may still be sore. That's why plans call for Judge Blackmun to appear before the Senate committee casually munching on blackeyed peas and chitlins. Oil companies raised the price of gasoline as if there was ever any doubt about who was going to pay for those offshore oil leaks. Then there was the 6-year-old who blew his weekly allow--ance and his dad it was because of cost overruns.

A Senate bill would send American politicians to Russia for study. Makes sense. A lot. of them need studying. I Smog note: One New York kid wan nearly laughed out of his neighborhood when he came back from vacation with a weird tale about the sky being blue.

'Attorney General Mitchell says Americans will soon he able to walk the streets in safety. Of course he makes'no guarantee once the sun goes down. Hrry Turner COMMONER- 0.

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