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Siin.Nn\ i 3. l')75 U.S. 4 May Strike First' In Case Of Nuclear War By MILNE WASHINGTON I Defense Secretary James Schlesinger says the United States might be first to use nuclear weapons and might even consider striking first at the Soviet Union, although it is a "very, very low probability." "The United States has consistently refrained from disavowing the first use of nuclear weapons," Schlesinger said. Asked if the Soviet Union may be a target, he said: "First use could conceivably --let me underscore conceivably --involve what we define as strategic forces and possibly, possibly --let me underscore possibly --involve selective strikes at the Soviet Union. "We do not necessarily exclude that but it is indeed a very, very low probability." It is a further refinement of Year's Fifth Case Of Rabies Found The fifth rabid dog case for the year was confirmed Monday in the southern part of Dona Ana County, Gayle Cupp, state rabies control coordinator said today.

The rabid dog makes the seventh case of rabies in the county this year and ups the state total to 24, Mrs. Cupp said. She said the other two rabies cases this year have been a bat and a skunk. The most recent case was confirmed Monday by a state laboratory report. The dog with rabies was a mixed shepherd and collie type, 3-years-old, female and was yellow and tan in color, Mrs.

Cupp said. County Animal Control Officer Vicente Montoya picked the dog up from a brickyard on the New Mexico, Texas, Mexico border Friday. The dog died Friday afternoon and was sent to the lab for testing Sunday. Mrs. Cupp said another dog who was picked up with the rabid dog did not have rabies.

She said investigation shows the rabid dog appeared very skinny and seemed to be a stray. She added it seemed to have made no contacts with humans. Mrs. Cupp said Dona Ana County is the only county in the state which has had rabies detected in domestic animals this year. Eloisa Summers Dies In California Eloisa Summers, the first child to be baptized in San Albino Catholic Church and a descendant of the Fountain family of Mesilla, died Tuesday lOnion Market! A I 1, demand for white prepacks light, market steady; others demand very good, market firm.

Prices FOB Las Cruces District, 50- pound mesh sacks--Yellow grano--Prepack, $7 to S7.50, S7.50, few i commitments lower; medium, S7 lo S7.50, mostly $7.50 with occasional lower; jumbo, few S8 to S8.50, with occasional higher. Whites--Prepack, $6.50 to S7.50, occasional medium, $8 to $9, mostly S8.50; jumbo, $9.50 to $10, mostly S10. Las Cruces Shipments--June 30, rail 2, truck 60, total 62. Total to date, 844. in La Jolla, Calif.

She had been living there with relatives and undergoing medical treatment. a Mass for Mrs. Summers will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church in La Jolla. Burial will be in Las Cruces but a time has not yet been set.

She was a great-great-grand daughter of Col. A.J. Fountain who was a community leader and innovator in the territorial days. Her parents were the late Mr. and Mrs.

Albert J. Fountion. A surviving brother, Art a i owns Fountain Theater in Mesilla. In addition to Arthur she also is survived by another brother, Gilbert, Santa Barbara, two a Mrs. Fidel Sanchez, Camarillo, and Cherie Summers, New York, N.Y.; a son, Ted Summers, Los Angeles, and six grandchildren.

PSL Gets Contract For WSMR Work An extended three-year contract in the amount of $8,844,182 for data reduction and computer work at White Sands Missile Range has been awarded to the Physical Science Laboratory, it was announced. The contract was renewed by the Analysis and Computer Division, National Range Operations which has offices at the missile range. Although the PSL offices are based at New Mexico State University it is estimated that 74 per cent of the work is done at the missile range. It also is the largest contract PSL has and has been renewed approximately every three years since the officials said. Currently, the program employes 109 staff members, 84 NMSU students and 41 student spouses.

The contract was renewed for fiscal year 1975-76 which started Tuesday, July l. U.S. nuclear strategy. Since Schlesinger took over, he has been working lo add the possibilities of limited nuclear exchanges lo the long-standing policy of massive nuclear retaliation. He says the President made the decision.

First, Schlesinger said Defense Department planners were trying to increase their selectivity and flexibility so the President could do more than just choose between doing nothing and unleashing the nuclear arsenal. Pentagon officials said that in a crisis with ground combat probably under way, the Soviet Union or any other enemy could try firing a single missile at an isolated U.S. military target, such as the nuclear missile sites in the northern The U.S. response might be to fire a single missile or send a single bomber to destroy a specific and limited Soviet target to prove U.S. willingness to fight.

Further refinement came Monday when President Ford was asked about his policy in terms of both tactical and H-bombs was made after World War II. By the 1960s, the United States was talking about absorbing the first blow. "Our arms will never be used to strike the first blow in any attack," President John Kennedy said in 1961. The doctrine was common enough to be accepted by conservatives such as Sen. Barry Goldwater, a retired Air Force reserve general and a military expert, although he thought it a mistake.

"I think the United Slates has pretty much destroyed the idea that we will ever use nuclear weapons as a first strike weapon," Goldwater told the Senate June 2. Dona Ana Woman Wounded A Dona Ana woman is in fair condition at Eastwood Hospital in El Paso today after suffering A I NINE-YEAR-OLD girl cries out in the background as she wonders if her mother and baby sister being lifted into an ambulance will be alright. The persons were riding in a sportscar in Salem, Oreg. when the collision occurred, Mrs. a Zicbarl, 31, holds one-year-old Shannon to her chest for comfort as she receives help.

(UPI) strategic nuclear weapons. from an apparent self-inflicted "This," Ford replied, "is a gunshot wound Monday, matter that has to be deter- Allie Densmore, 74, who lives mined if and when there are village of Dona Ana, any requirements for our apparently shot herself in the national interests and I don't upper jaw with a .22 caliber believe under these circum- rifle, according to Dona Ana stances that I should discuss County Sheriff's officials, how, when or what kind of Sheriff's officials said the 'Undeclared' Candidate Busy In Heavy Campaigning Slate weapons should be used." U.S. officials have reserved the right to use tactical nuclear weapons --those with battlefield ranges and less powerful warheads. The threat of using strategic nuclear A-bombs and bullet lodged itself in the left side of the face area, where it shattered. She was taken to Memorial General Hospital and was a to Eastwood Hospital in El Paso.

By RICHARD H. GROWALD UPI Senior Editor WASHINGTON I He received kisses from three strange women, six standing ovations, one audience growl, one protest sign, a lei around Windows Busted By Vandals At Several Local Buildings A spate of rock throwing in estimated damage over $900. the a i hours Tuesday caused damage to the Reports to the Las Cruces Police Department on all the display windows in at least 12 incidents were similar, listing Las Cruces business i a i i and with damage window front display no attmepts to Local Death Notices Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Graham Mortuary Chapel for Bertha B. Bell, 83, former resident of Las Cruces and High Rolls, N.M., who died Sunday in Glendale, Calif.

Sh? had lived in Glendale for 18 years. Burial will be in Hill Crest Cemetery. Mrs. Bell is survived by two daughters, Inez Smith, Los Angeles, Evelyn Rogers, St. Thomas, V.I.; a son, Charles B.

Bell, Los Angeles; eight grand children, 23 great-grandchildren, and one great-great- grandchild. a i requests memorial donations be made to the visually handicapped. Cos tales Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Masonic Cemetery for Elaine Costales, 10 weeks, 940 Lee's who died Monday in an Albuquerque hospital. The Rev.

Robert Getz will conduct the services. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Costales, two sisters. Lisa and Chyrl, of the home address; paternal grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. a Costales, Las Cruces; a a a parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andy i a a a a uncles, and cousins. (joud Services are pending with Graham's Mortuary for Sarah Goad, 90,1014 S.

Luna, who died in Memorial General Hospital Tuesday night. II urri'ii Private funeral services were held Tuesday at Crowe Funeral Home, Bangor, Maine, for Sadie Warren, 75, who died Sunday in a Beacon, N.Y., hospital. Burial was in Mt. Pleasant Catholic Cemetery, Bangor. She is survived by two daughters, Alicia a i a Bawol, Las Cruces, and Louise Bouthillier, Concord, and a son, a i a Beacon, and by 12 grandchildren and one great- grandchild.

break into the building or reports of i materials or merchandise. Most of the incidents occurred i i i and about 5 a.m., with most of the vandalisms discovered as merchants opened their stores Tuesday morning. Stores hit by vandals Tuesday include Baskin Robbins, 1492 E. Missouri; Las Cruces Abstract and Title 230 S. Water; Qniversity Shell, 1305 S.

Solano; Molts Five and Ten Cent Store, 1330 S. Solano; House of Sofas, 1101 S. Solano; Speedmart Grocery Store, 300 El Molino; Adams Tire Company, 2223 N. Main; Mesilla a i Mercury, 1601 N. Valley Firestone Tire and Company, 311 S.

Main; College Discount House, 1802 S. Espina; a professional building at 2020 S. Solano and the legal offices of Crouch, Parr and Herring, 220 S. Water. Although not all firms today- had given police damage i a those reported averaged between In other police incidents, two U.

S. Marines from Camp Pendleton, were jailed Tuesday evening on outstanding AWOL charges. The pair were stopped by police walking along Main near Chestnut about 8:30 p.m. and discovered to have been AWOL since June 16. Jailed were Thomas E.

Lafollette, 23 and Robert L. Herrin, the neck, and a chat with Lowell Thomas. He proved once more he doesn't seem to sweat. Such was Tuesday, one day in the life of an undeclared 1976 White House candidate -President Ford. At 9:55 a.m.

Ford motioned Stan Scott, his assistant for black affairs, into the presidential limousine and, in an eight- car motorcade, swung out of the White House grounds to the glee of a i tourists and drove through the sunlight greenery of Rock Creek Park to the Sheraton Park Hotel where some 3,500 NAACP delegates rose when the organ churned "Hail to the Chief." Ford got 'the day's first standing ovation. It lasted 23 seconds. Republican presidents in recent times have not been noted as favorites of black crowds. But Ford went to work. "I want to thank (NAACP director! Roy Wilkins for inviting me to speak Roy said Sunday on TV that you could expect from me today 'a Stock Trading slowed with the stock market sharply lower near midsession, officials at Quinn and Co.

of Las Cruces reported. More than three times as many issues declined than advanced and trading was slow. The 1 p.m. EDT Dow Jones industrial average was off 10.95, at 866.47. agate NYSE MOST ACTIVES A5ARCO Genl Foods off Levitz Furn Collins Arkman NCR Corp 33ViOfflV AMEX MOST ACTIVES Svntex off Reaseacfl-Cott CM I Corp xupVi Dvnaleclron Hanover Pete up VB LOCAL INTERESTS Diebolfl El Paso Corp Farah Glover HanesCorp El Paso Electric Hunt Bldg.

Mart lot or rhetoric but no The crowd applauded. Ford went on, "He is wrong about the rhetoric, but right about the specifics." More applause followed this speaking device of "getting it out" --mentioning the fact that he might not be the darling of his hosts. The audience growl came once, when Ford said: "Today, blacks are better educated, better housed and employed in better jobs." But two sentences later, when he voiced support for the NAACP stress on economic progress for blacks the applause was back. At speech's end Ford stepped the, platform.and shook the hands of hundreds of blacks who surged forward. Two young ladies kissed him.

A third yound woman rushed up, clutched him and posed while another photographed them. Arm in arm Ford walked from the convention with Wilkins and the day's second standing ovation. Back into the limousine for a 55 mile-an-hour journey to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, where Ford said: "We expect to intensify the efforts of the federal government (in health matters) We will work with and not against the private sector." Outside some 1,000 doctors, nurses, technicians and patients cheered until he had shaken virtually every hand. lonesome, young man hoisted in his hand a two- foot-square sign reading "U.S. out of Korea," but it was unlikely Ford saw it.

Ford To Announce Early Next Week IZViunch Munch lunch 10 off 1 Bid: lOVi Ask: IIK'I Bid: 3Vi By THOMAS UPI White House Reporter A I I -President Ford is expected to formally announce his candidacy for a full term in the White House early next week. The President already has made it clear on several occasions he intends to run. He recently told a visiting delegation: "I expect to be elected." White House press secretary Ron Nessen ruled out this week for the long-awaited formal announcement. He also told reporters the President would not declare his candidacy in his home state of Michigan when he travels to Travers City and Mackinack Island late next week or in the Democratic stronghold of Chicago where he will deliver a commencement address July 12. Aides said all signs point to the official declaration early next week, about the same time Howard (Bo) Callaway resigns as Army Secretary and takes command of the new President Ford Electon Committee.

Ford said in an interview Monday with three columnists --Marquis Childs, David Broder and Carl Rowen --he expects to go into the primaries in numerous states. "I am looking foreward to it," he said. "I love to campaign. I think it is a very wholesome aspect of the American political scene." He also held out the possibility of debating his Democratic opponent. Past presidential incumbents have rejected that route.

In the political spectrum, Ford describes himself as a "conservative" on fiscal affairs, a "moderate" on social legislation and an "internationalist" in foreign policy. Mission Delay Is Sought Until Cosmonauts Return ARTIST'S CONCKI'T depicts the historic moment, scheduled for July 17, when an American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut will greet one another in space as (heir spacecraft dock. However, Sen. William I'roxmire today requested postponement of the project i two cosmonauts already in orbit on another mission return lo earth. (UP!) By STEVE GERSTEL WASHINGTON I -The CIA fears the Soviet Union cannot handle the upcoming Russian-American space mission and bring back one of its own space lab crews at the same time, Sen.

William Proxmire, D-Wis. disclosed today. Proxmire called for a postponement of the joint mission --the first of its kind --until the Russians bring back to earth two cosmonauts now in space. Proxmire said the Russians do not intend to bring down the cosmonauts in the Salyut lab before the July 15 launch of the Apollo-Soyuz mission. The CIA fears were expressed by Carl Duckett, deputy director for science and technology, at closed hearings before Proxmire's appropriations subcommittee.

At his request, the CIA declassified one sentence of Duckett's testimony in view of the upcoming launch date. stated, "I do not think they (the Russians) are in good shape to handle two missions at once from the command point of view." Proxmire said "this warning from the nation's top scientific intelligence expert should not be taken lightly." Prof. Konstantin Bushuyev, Russian technical director for the flight, told his American counterpart Sunday there has been no final decision to continue the Salyut mission during the joint flight. But he said Soviet officials have studied the possibility and have determined the Salyut mission would not interfere with the Apollo-Soyuz flight. Bushuyev said Russia is using different control centers for the two missions with different personnel and that under no circumstances would Apollo-Soyuz personnel be diverted to the Salyut flight.

In addition, he said, the joint flight has been given communications priority if the two flights came within range of one tracking station at the same time. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said America's technical director, Glynn Lunney, agreed the provisions described by Bu- shueyev "were adequate and satisfactory to assure that there would be no effect or interference with the Apoilo-Soyuz mission." The three-man American Apollo and the two-man Soviet Salyit are scheduled to link up in space July 17. This would not be the first time the Russians have had more than one space crew in orbit. In October, 1969, seven cosmonauts orbited in three Soyuz ships, and two manned Soyuz flew simultaneously earlier that year..