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The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, January 4, 197222 Pages Two Sections Cenvrnlit, lit. Dm Mini RUlr tut Irikwn Cnny Price 10 Cents an fo) C2 JV 'THERE'S A DANGER OF FALLING Exciting. Hectic Day For Youngest Mayor FPC TO RELY ON OIL EXECS MAJOR PUSH EXPECTED BY FOE'S FORCES i U.S. LEADS IN ARMS, SAYS LAIRD AIDE Replies to Stand of Private Group FOR GAS DATA Expect Study Will Effort to Influence Affect Prices U.S. Politics Seen North Vietnamese jump U.S.

patrol, shoot down three medical evacuation copters: PAGE 4. By George Anthan (The Register's Washington Bureau Chief) WASHINGTON, D.C. The By George C. Wilson Wl Waihlnglon Post WASHINGTON, D.C. The United States is "second to no Federal Power Commission (FPC) has set up 11 task forces one with respect to over-all mil to conduct a comprehensive itary power," an aide to De survey of the nation's natural gas needs.

Secretary Melvin R. Laird said in response to the American Security Council By Peter A. Jay (Si 1972 Wshlngton Post SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM The buildup of Communist supplies in South Vietnam's central highlands has reached "historic" proportions and may indicate a major offensive early this year, senior U.S. military All 11 task forces are headed by officials of oil or natural gas companies, their meetings will be closed and the data they gather will be kept confidential. FPC officials said that the drive to convince the American people that the Communists are overtaking them in armed strength.

The American Security Coun public and Congress will be able to see minutes of the task sources said Monday. cil is a private pressure group According to intelligence re force meetings. But officials of the House government informa ports, the sources said, North Vietnam is gearing up' for tion subcommittee are concerned that the minutes will be large-scale military action in the first months of 1972 in an only brief summaries of what effort to make a political impact actually takes place. FPC officials also said that in the United States perhaps before President Nixon leaves results of the task force studies will be made public and that for Peking, China, in February. "The enemy has never stock each task force will include at least one member of the FPC piled as much stuff up there (in REGISTER PHOTO BY DAVID FINCH Outgoing Ayrshire Mayor E.

B. right, congratulates Jody Smith after Smith was sworn in as Ayrshire's mayor in the town's high school. MORE PICTURES: Page 3. By Robert Krotz (Register Start Writer) AYRSHIRE, IA. The nation's youngest mayor, described by his mother as "just a common boy," was sworn into office in which focuses on national defense issues.

The council, with the support of retired Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Harry Treleaven, President Nixon's former television adviser, is trying to raise $450,000 to publicize the allegedly adverse position of the U.S. "It is this administration's objective to ensure that we never fall into second place," William J. Baroody, special assistant to Laird, wrote several congressmen in a letter the Pentagon released Monday.

staff. the highlands) as he has now," one general officer said in an interview. "He's in a frame of Blanket Secrecy James Kronfeld, an aide to mind to make a push, and Representative William Moor- that's what we're going to see." Ayrshire Monday in a brief ceremony at Ayrshire High School But judging by the attention head chairman of the House subcommittee, said, "Their conclusions aren't a lot of people and find out'what's on Already in Place The sources said the military supplies brought down the Ho Chi Minh Trail from North being showered on 19-year-old Jody Smith Monday, Hizzoner their minds." Other Messages the Mayor is anything but a of good if you don't know what data they were using. It's this blanket of secrecy that bothers us. They so around gathering Cites Constitutions, Holds RADIOACTIVE I Ayrshire PES MOINES In addition to the call from President Nixon, Smith re- data but don't let anyone know common boy.

Shortly after receiving a neratulatory Vietnam over the past few months were already in place before last week's U.S. bombing raids on supply depots above the demilitarized zone. They gave no location for the Girls Sports Curbs Invalid ceived congratulatory tele' LEAK ON PLANE Miln 200 grams from Gov. Robert Ray, Senator Jack Miller Ia), By Stephen M. Johnson telephone call from President Nixon, young Smith told a gathering of newsmen, some of JACKSONVILLE, FLA.

(AP) Lt. Gov. Roger Jepsen and oth supplies, but they are presum what the data is." The task forces will cover such areas as natural gas supply, gas technology, synthetic gas, industry regulation and future legislation. The gas survey, according to er state and national govern A Delta Air Lines plane con ably in the mountainous area around Pleiku and Kontum, The Baroody letter represents Laird's views, a Pentagon spokesman said. Besides declaring that "today" the U.S.

is second to none in military power, the letter made these points: The U.S. "still has a sub-s a i a 1 numerical advantage" over the Soviet Union in the number of nuclear warheads that can be whom had come to this tiny taminated by leakage of radio Copyright, 17J, Des Moines Register and Tribune Company The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) violated both the Iowa and U.S. constitutions by not allowing married women, mothers, or divorcees to participate in high school sports, Federal District Judge William C. Hanson has ruled. ment and Iowa municipal officials.

asked the nation to take where the borders of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia active material made nine pas the FPC, "is designed to obtain Palo Alto County town from as far away as Canada: meet. an overview of the prospective notice of Ayrshire, a northwest The ruling came in the case Two South Vietnamese fire "It's been an exciting, hectic jIowa community 0'f 243 persons. of Mrs. Jane Christoffer Rubel support bases near Kontum senger flights into 11 U.S. cities during the weekend, health and airline officials said Monday.

An Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) official in Atlanta day. Now I'm hoping tor a qui- which he said took "America's growth of the natural gas industry, its markets and the gas supplies needed to meet them." et two years in office. Nothing much is going to change here, but I hope I can do something of Ruthven, who filed a $125,000 damage suit in November charging that IGHSAU violated her constitutional rights by forbidding her to play varsity bas said, however, the AEC "has no information to indicate that The survey, it is believed, will play a major role in future FPC decisions on regulation of natural gas prices. This is the second con ketball for Ruthven Consoli any health hazard exists to airline employes or to passengers." boldest and most progressive step in implementing 18-year-old voting rights." Smith, a tall, bespectacled young man who hopes someday to be a city manager, surprised a few Ayrshire townfolk last fall when he defeated eight-year incumbent Mayor E. B.

Swanson, a retired farmer, by MAYOR Please turn to Page Three were targets last spring for furious assaults by the North Vietnamese, who were repulsed in several weeks of bloody fighting. South Vietnamese troops in the highlands were placed on alert last week, following reports that two North Vietnamese divisions were moving into position to the west of Pleiku, across the border in Laos and Cambodia. Two brigades of South Viet troversy over secrecy at the dated High School. Mrs. Rubel is married and the mother of a thirteen-month-old girl.

Judge Hanson awarded no damages in his decision, not for the town." Legal Ironies Smith, a 1971 honor graduate of Ayrshire High School, said he already has noted certain legal ironies about his new job as mayor, which also makes him a justice of the "I now have the power to FPC in recent days. The agency also has an WILLIAM JANE HANSON RUBEL nounced it will gather informa Dr. Chester L. Nayfield, director of the radiological health section of the Florida Division of Health, advised passengers on any of the flights to check with their local Civil Defense unit, fire de tion from utility companies on how much the firms pay for the ing that IGHSAU repealed several of its bylaws dealing with eligibility of married students on Nov. 18.

Judge Hanson wrote that IG-HSAU's bylaws constituted "an oil and coal they use in their generating plants, but will keep INSIDE Top Chess Match Bid by Belgrade NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) -The U.S. Chess Federation dis marry others, but if I want to the information secret. nam's Airborne Division, assigned to operations in Cambodia, were to be reassigned soon to the Pleiku area, it was The FPC said the U.S. of Information Act author- closed Monday that bids opened disclosed here.

get married myself I must have my Dad's signature on the marriage license because I'm under 21. "And I can prosecute my peers for illegal possession of THE REGISTER Race Takes Shape FPC- Please turn to Page Two in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for the site of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world unnecessary public interest in and involvement with Jane Ru-bel's marital state and conjugal relations. "They cause the state to invade marital privacy without rational justification and to violate Jane Rubel's right to partment or county health department to determine if their baggage was contaminated. "There's virtually no chance that the passengers would get sick from the contamination," said Nayfield. A Delta spokesman in Atlanta said the radiation came from a leakage in a shipment of radioactive medical isotopes of molybdenum flown from New York DM.

Gets Dose championship chess match next June showed Belgrade the high The thinly populated central highlands have long been considered one of South Vietnam's most vulnerable areas. Some officials among them John Paul Vann, the senior American in the area have been known to suggest that the South Vietnamese in effect Of Biting Cold "We are confident that the Soviet Union does not have an effective 'first-strike' nu-clear attack capability against our strategic forces today." First strike means the ability to destroy the other power's long-range weapons before they can be fired. Laird, shortly after taking office, told Congress that the Soviet Union is going for first strike capability. The Baroody letter steps back from that position. The Nixon administration is not allowing U.S.

strategic forces "to stagnate" during the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT). Weapons improvements proceeding during SALT, Baroody said, include putting multiple warheads on 550 of the 1,000 Minuteman ICBMs; deploying the antibal-listic-missilc (ABM) defense; converting 31 of the 41 Polaris submarines to carry the larger Poseidon missile; moving strategic B52 bombers farther inland where So-v i submarine missiles would have a hard time hitting them; developing ULMS, the large submarine to succeed Polaris, and the Bl bomber to succeed the B52. Congressional cuts in the Pentagon budgets over the last three years "have impacted directly on our future capabilities, especially those reductions in the' research est bidder. The Yugoslavian city's privacy and personal freedom." PRESIDENTIAL race nears its final form as President Nixon enters New Hampshire pri For the second consecutive $152,000 offer of prize money year, Jan. 3 gave Des Moines a for the match was reported by E.

B. Edmondson of the U.S. 'No Concern' Judge Hanson concluded that "these matters of status and mary Page 10 solid dose of winter. beer, but I can't buy it, either." A busy liberal arts freshman at Iowa Lakes Community College at nearby Em-metsburg who also drives a school bus mornings and nights, works in his father's service station, referees basketball games and umpires baseball games. Smith said he anticipates no problems in carrying out the duties of his office.

He said the President's tele-, Monday it was biting north abandoned the highlands by concentrating their forces in the thickly settled lowlands federation. Fischer has said he would prefer a match in the PAY BOARD will cut back 12 to Houston, Frjday aboard personal life were not of any winds that sent temperatures tumbling through the day; a United States or Canada, but per cent aerospace industry pay boost, business member of board says Page8-S the site was expected to go to year ago it was the 13Vi-inch; concern to the authorities." Until their repeal about two weeks after Mrs. Rubel's lawsuit was filed. IGHSAU rules BUILDUP Please turn to Page Four the highest bidder. The Chicago blizzard that paralyzed all of; convention bureau offered Iowa.

$100,000 the minimum set for! Monday's daytime high tern-! the bidding. perature in Des Moines of 24; kept any female student who had ever been "associated with a marital status" or who had been "associated with mother the plane, a Convair 880. George Shedd, an assistant vice-president for Delta, said the package, weighing 860 pounds, was shipped from Union Carbide of Tuxedo, N.V., to Bio-Labs, of Houston. Nayfield said first checks by health teams showed evidence of contamination to clothing The total amount of the suc-ldegrees was recorded at 12:30 phone call "caught me by sur- rpssfnl hid will he pivnn in and dronnod bv eartv prise" and interrupted a meet-1 City Council Acts to Ban Sex Bias in Jobs, Housing By Job Van and Kathrya Christcnsen hood ineligible for athletic players, with the winner receiv-'evening, to 8, then by midnight ing with Ayrshire city officials competition. ing C2.5 per cent and the loser had fallen to a low for the before his swearing-in per cent day of 5.

ny. He said his conversation A measure to prohibit sex discrimination in employment and housing under city ordinance received first-round approval from the Des Moines City Council Monday night. The council, in other cave final approval to an ordi- "rP adoption of the amend- with Mr. Nixon lasted about Firm 'Bullish on "He congratulated me and 'said he was sure I would do a These rules. Judge Hanson declared, violated guarantees ia the U.S.

Constitution of 'equal protection under the law for all citizens, and similar provisions of the Iowa Constitution. bags and to a runway at West Palm Beach, Fla. Health officials were roping off affected Kfff Art hilmprl in Ivi ovinrk'eA job." said Smith. i mont concourse areas in other ida airports to check for radio- He knpw I dnvi a srhorJ nam I0 oegm increasing sewer and Army accounts. activitv.

Judge Hanson noted that bus. and he asked me what else rates in Des Moines and hi sub-1 cuncilman Russ La Vine, I do. I told him about my refer- urban communities that use opposed the idea the last President Mxon is wymg wi was veTT fortunate that while Mrs RuM wa eeing activities, and be aked if Des Mxnes' sewage treatment time councilmen discussed it. NEW YORK. N.Y.

(AP) Merrill Lynch is bullish on America," a voice proclaims as a herd of bulls comes thundering across Lbe plain in a television commercial. Neither the bulls nor the plain are American, how ever. "There is no place in the United States where vou can find I participated in sport smooth relations with the Soviet material has a very short from participating in sports at Union and China. He has shied half-life." said Nayfield- Ruthven High School male stu- away from provoking the Flights involved included dents were not: viets by such declarations as number from Houston to At-! "There is no such exclusion I farili'ies. questioned Mrs.

LaBlanc about The amendment tbe the commission, suggesting it than 500 fsghtir.g bulls in one place," explained Dennis acts as a "judge, jury and intent to put a new lanta. Dayton, Columbus of mak students wt fcrve the strategic bomber tnto produc Mtatolo us of husband or fa or more prosecute" and is a duplication Imed in central Mexico. Too Clam)' "1 told him no. that I too clumsy, and he said that's fn-ny because when he as ir. college he I ked sprts.

bit he was too clumsy to play. He tho knew that I ork in my father's filing jtitj-'m." said Smith. "and he said he ori.c-d in a filing statWm be as ywung, too. He said viumfj, i uuul i ne unpad oi sucn pij- Advances in weaponry have $21 from Chicago to Louinille, cies has been discriminate not been enoudi to persuade Atlanta and Tampa, and 2 aeainst Jane Rubel on the such retired military men as from Tampa to Atlanta. of ber sex.

Mates with the Wheeler aad Gen. Lyman L. Flights Sunday were number same statuses have not been so Lemrbtzer that the VS. is IRl from Atlanta to Miami treated. city's Homaa Rights Ordi-Bance ttet at approved a I prohibit sei div trimiiiatina ia empi mt-trt and boovinj eitept fr -profit public accpfli-mndatiMH fr wonea or bh-b Eikt'm? rstabfisaoeBtft already rcRiKg to owe vti would al be eseoipL a LaBlanc, chairman tif of the state (civil rights) commission." Switches Sides BJt after Mrs.

LaKarc rebutted these arguments. LaVne switched sides, ssyirg. 'Because it's Brenda LaBlanc COt AOL Pieaae ftf to Page TVce 1 "Tbe frig America rattle raacbet keep uly a scare baTIs lr breeding pTv sad the rest brcmne steers," be said. -A we wa toe steerC Tbe cornmercial was made for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, rentier fc Smith, tbe world's largest brokerage bouse. In Wall Street parlance, being bullish means an investor is confident that a stock or the market itself will rise.

Investors bo lack such coBbdenx are called bears. maintajnir tJe arms iu trora Miami to Atlanta, Judge Hansen wrote tbati RULING Pleage turn to Pcje Seven I that's a very gd ay ti IVh are suppjrting the coun- from Atlanta to West Palrn cil's 'Operatkm Alert a Beach and 854 from West Palm iUiSsve Crusade far Survival" Beach to Tampa mi Chicago. r. know lots different kinds the hxr.hu Kehls Commissnm..