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TOMORROW CLOUDY, MILD Winchester Evening Star 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES 77th Year No. 173 WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA, 22601, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1973 10 Cents Vietnam Peace Accord Is Signed President Calls for Prayers KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) Like countless Americans across the nation, President Nixon and his family will say prayers of thanksgiving today as the shooting ends in this country's longest war. Nixon; his wife, Pat, and daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower plan to attend a special church service at 7 p.m. EST at the Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church near the Florida White House, press secretary Ronald L.

Ziegler said. Raymond C. Sandy, chairman of the Frederick County Board of Supervisors and Winchester Mayor Stewart Bell have jointly asked their fellow citizens to join each other in a 'moment of silence' at noon tomorrow in honor of the cease fire in South Vietnam today. Nixon flew to Florida from Washington on Friday shortly after he signed a proclamation designating that hour for prayer and thanksgiving. It coincides with the hour a cease-fire is to take place in Vietnam.

The President issued the proclamation after Congress requested one be made. In it, he said in part: "A long and trying ordeal for America has ended. Our nation has achieved its goal for peace with honor in Vietnam. "As a people with a deep and abiding faith, we know that no great work can be accomplished without the aid and inspiration of almighty God. No time can be more fitting for grateful prayer and meditation than the opening moment of the peace we have achieved with His help.

"Now, therefore, I do hereby designate 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time as a national moment of prayer and thanksgiving and the 24-hour period beginning then as a national day of prayer and Gibb Covers Wide Range Of Subjects By PAT ROBINSON Star Staff Writer Democratic Del. Duncan C. Gibb of Front Royal told a Winchester group today that he does not favor giving the state's planning district commissions service district powers. He said he favored limiting candidates' campaign expenditures and favors "some type of no- fault automobile insurance," predicting that some kind of it will pass.

He declined to make any predictions about the upcoming gubernatorial election, saying he preferred to venture no opinion "until I know who's running." And he also said that he "did not vote" for Sen. George McGovern, unsuccessful Democratic contender for president last November, but that he did support Murat Williams, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the 7th District Congressional seat. THESE WERE but a few of the topics Gibb discussed at a 9 a.m. informal meeting with interested people of the area in the Winchester Corporation Courtroom. After the hour-long session, Gibb left to begin a tour of Clarke County areas to continue his meetings with the people he represents in the Legislature.

Last night, Gibb spoke to some 60 people at a meeting of the Stonewall Democratic Club at the Holiday Inn East, devoting a healthy portion of his talk to pari-mutuel betting, an issue which also came up at length in today's session in Corporation Courtroom. Gibb said that the sponsors of the bill to allow pari-mutuel betting in Virginia "have decided to put it to the vote of the people this November in a statewide referendum. This gives the people the opportunity to voice their opinion" he said. "I think it's up to the people." SAYING HE wants the benefit of a public hearing Monday on pari-mutuel betting before committing himself to a stand on the matter, Gibb said his concern is "the criminal impact" allowing establishment of horse-racing tracks in Virginia might have, as the revenue probably would be insufficient to offset this criminal impact. (Continued on Page 2) Peace Is 'In' Hand The hand of U.S.

Secretary of State William P. Rogers signs the Vietnam peace agreement in Paris today to end the longest war in American history. The photo was made from a TV screen. (AP wirephoto) Final Land Grabs by Reds in South Viet SAIGON (AP) Communist forces stormed into the major city of Tay Ninh and its Cao Dai temple today and attacked smaller towns across South Vietnam in what U.S. officials said was a grab for land before the ceasefire.

It has been widely presumed by allied officials that the Viet Cong would like to claim Tay Ninh City, a provincial capital 55 miles northwest of Saigon, as a political base. They believe it is important to the Communists because the city is near Viet Cong and North Vietnamese military bases and supply depots along the Cambodian border. The South Vietnamese military command said the Communist troops had been driven out of several hamlets around Tay Ninh. But they acknowledged enemy troops still held two edges of the city. U.S.

officials said the attacks might prove of some success to the Communists. in giving them control in new areas before the cease-fire goes into effect at 8 a.m. Sunday 7 p.m. EST today. One U.S.

soldier who watched a buddy die in a predawn rocket attack on Da Nang Air Base said: "The only irony of it is that a good friend of mine from the same hometown as I'm from was killed this morning. He was supposed to start initial out-processing this morning to leave. He just got killed." He was the third American serviceman to die since the cease-fire was announced Focus on Va. Prisons InMonday Supplement The Star takes a searching, in- depth look at Virginia's prison system in a special 16-page supplement to be published Monday. The text is by Star Staffer David Smith, who spent two months interviewing prison officials, guards and ex-convicts across the Old Dominion.

Wednesday. A Marine security guard was killed in a rocket attack on the Bien Hoa Air Base before dawn Friday, and an observer was killed later the same day when his helicopter crashed 100 miles east of Saigon. Thirty-one American servicemen and civilian advisers and technicians have been wounded since Wednesday. The Saigon command reported 160 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attacks across South Vietnam during the 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. today, the highest number in nearly a year.

About two-thirds of the attacks were by rockets and mortars, and it was the third successive day that enemy attacks topped 100. The Saigon command claimed 533 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops killed. South Vietnamese reported their losses were at least 70 men killed and 363 wounded. Still fragmentary reports listed at least 10 civilians killed, 44 wounded and more than 30 homes destroyed. North Vietnamese troops also fought their way into Trang Bom Village, about 20 miles northeast of Saigon on Highway and fighting was reported near the district town of Trang Bang, along Highway 1 about 30 miles to the northwest.

Agnew to Leave For SE Asian Tour WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Spiro T. Agnew will begin a seven-nation Southeast Asian trip on Sunday "to discuss post-war relations," the White House says. No reporters or photographers will be taken along. White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Friday that Agnew's first stop would be South Vietnam.

Ziegler said other stops would be Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, but he did not announce the order they would be visited. The trip will last "something over a week," Ziegler said, and will be for Agnew to "explain the continuing American role in Asia." Sessions in Paris Conclude Longest War in U.S. History PARIS (AP) Agreements on ending the fighting in Vietnam and calling for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces were signed today in two sessions in the ballroom of an old hotel near the Arc de Triomphe. In the first session this morning, the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong signed the overall agreement that for the United States means the end of the longest war in its history and a conflict paid for in the lives of nearly 460 men and billions of dollars.

This signing took 18 minutes and ended with champagne toasts. But outside, demonstrators were waving Viet Cong and North Vietnamese flags and booed the Americans and the South Vietnamese. In the second signing session, Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh of North Vietnam signed a separate group of documents and this officially brought an end to the diplomatic efforts for peace in Vietnam that began in 1968. As the U.S.

and South Vietnamese delegations left, the crowd across the street booed and jeered, then burst into the "International" as the Viet Cong foreign minister, Mrs. Binh, came into view. The South Vietnamese delegation announced later that it had expressed "its deep surprise" to the Frnech government for permitting the demonstration to take place near the scene of the signing. About 300 French and Vietnamese, waving a forest of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong flags, stood behind police barriers opposite the entrance to the conference center. Draft Ends WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R.

Laird today announced the end of the military draft. His announcement came five months ahead of President Nixon's goal of switching finally to an all- volunteer armed forces. Laird made public a message to senior defense officials saying: "With the signing of the peace agreement in Paris today, and after receiving a report from the Secretary of the Army that he foresees no need for further inductions, I wish to inform you that the armed forces henceforth will depend exclusively on volunteer soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. "Use of the draft has ended." Signed at the first ceremony were three protocols, or annexes, and the main agreement entitled: "Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam." The protocols cover the release of prisoners, the operation of the four-nation control commission of Canada, Indonesia, Poland and Hungary and the operation of the temporary Joint Military Commission to be set up by the four parties to the agreements. The documents set aside for Rogers and Trinh were three protocols plus a fourth covering U.S.

removal of American mines dropped in North Vietnamese waters. The only difference in the documents in the morning and afternoon session is in the preamble and the designation of the signatories. The agreement signed by all four parties refers only to "the parties participating in the Paris conference on Vietnam." The U.S.-North Vietnamese documents formally designate the four parties by name, includimg the Republic of Vietnam, meaning South Vietnam, and the $268.7 Billion Budget WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon has told congressional leaders that his fiscal 1974 budget will total $268.7 billion, an increase of about $19 billion over spending for the current fiscal year which ends June 30. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield told newsmen of the fiscal 1974 budget after he emerged from a White House meeting Friday called to brief congressional leaders. The budget goes to Congress Monday.

Mansfield said the new budget would carry a deficit of about $12 billion, less than half of the current year's projected red-ink total of $25 billion. The White House announced that Nixon would make a nationwide radio address Sunday at 6 p.m. to discuss the new budget and "its impact on the nation's economy and economic stability." Official confirmation also was made Friday of White House plans to dismantle the White House offices of Economic Opportunity, Emergency Preparedness, Science and Technology and the National Aeronautics and Space Council in an effort to cut costs. Other agencies are to take up their duties. Confirmation of the cutbacks, taken alongside Nixon's scheduled radio speech, heightened speculation that the White House is anticipating a battle in Congress this year over the budget.

That was supported further in a Nixon talk Friday to directors of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. "I'm in the midst of one of our more- difficult the beginning of a new battle, the battle of the budget," he told the group. The administration has said that the only way to avoid a tax hike or a big resurgence of inflation is to bring the budget under control, which it says can only be done by slashing costs. Mansfield also told newsmen that Congress should stay within the budget ceiling drawn this year by the White House, the first official word the administration plans to ask Congress for a legal ceiling this year. It lost a battle with Congress for one last year, but Nixon impounded $10 million in appropriated money, to trim the budget.

provisional revolutionary government, meaning the Viet Cong. This complex procedure was a compromise avoiding any mutual recognition by the two rival South Vietnamese governments. The signing ends for the United States a war that saw its first soldier killed in action in 1961. Since then 45,931 Americans have died in action and 303,605 have been wounded. Rogers met for an hour in the morning with French President Georges Pompidou to express President Nixon's appreciation for Pompidou's help in concluding the Vietnam peace agreement.

France has hosted Vietnam peace talks since May 1968. The agreements call for a cease-fire to begin at 7 p.m., EST. In the morning session, each of the four envoys signed their names 32 times. Then in afternoon session, Rogers and Trinh each sighed 40 times more. Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam of South Vietnam and Mrs.

Nguyen Tri Binh, the Viet Cong foreign minister, joined Rogers and Trinh in the signing of the over-all agreement in the morning session. After this session the South Vietnamese officially protested to the French government, host of the signing ceremonies, that the demonstrations outside the old Majestic Hotel had disturbed "the serenity" of the occasion. The demonstrators booed and jeered as the U.S. and South Vietnamese delegations arrived and left. They cheered and sang the Socialist anthem, "International," when the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong officials came and departed.

Selecting a Pen U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers selects a pen before signing the agreement to end the Vietnam War during the first signing session at the Hotel Majestic in Paris today. Man at left is an unidentified aide. (Ap wirephoto) Assembly Leaders Seeking Extension RICHMOND, Va.

(AP)-The Virginia General Assembly's first 30-day, odd-year session under the revised state constitution will a little longer, as House and Senate leaders have agreed an extension is necessary. "We'll wind it up on Feb. 24," Senate President Pro Tern E. E. Willey, D-Richmond, said Friday.

It isn't quite as cut and dried as the pronouncement, however, as resolutions authorizing the extension must be approved by two-thirds of the members of each chamber. This means that 67 of the 100 members of the House and 27 of the 40 members of the Senate must approve the extension. The House is of a mind to extend, but there has been some grumbling from a sizeable number of senators known informally as the "30-Day Club" who want to get it over on time. Those senators are expected to lose their argument, however. The extension is because of 745 House bills and about 350 Senate bills that were introduced before the deadline last Wednesday.

Some senators, notably Leslie D. Campbell D-Hanover, have accused the House of footdragging, inferring that 30 days would have been enough had the delegates buckled down to work. House Minority Leader A. R. Giesen, R- Staunton, rose to rebutt these charges Friday.

Giesen said, "I think this body has been fulfilling its duties to the people of Virginia to give due consideration to every piece of legislation." House Speaker John Warren Cooke, D- Mathews, then spoke, saying, "The gentleman from Staunton has certainly succeeded in stating the position of this House." Warm' Week Ends On a Rainy Note "Warm" for January weather that marked most of the week turned into drizzly rain today. Rain fell on only two days with a total for the week of .53 inches. This brings the rainfall to date to 1.14 inches. Temperatures for the week averaged about 20 degrees above normal. They were: Monday: 35 high, 32 low.

Tuesday: 44 high, 42 low. Wednesday: 38 high, 33 low. Thursday: 45 high, 28 low. Friday: 55 high, 34 low. Today: 42 high, 40 low.

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