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Monday, Oct. 23, 1972 Ofo Austin tatramari Austin, Texas Page 11 3 More i Migs Fall To USAF 1 -in nil--. By DENNIS NEELD At, ft ft. II 'vfcff'e fA a --fM 1 i a UMPKIN These pumpkins, neatly stacked in a row at a fruit stand in Richardson, a Dallas suburb, give a foundation for a figure of a witch that flies over, the building in the back- ground. From the number of pumpkins the owner must be expecting a booming Halloween busi- ness.

(AP Wirephoto) Tower Doubts Viet Decision the Texas Longhorns will be raffled off. Drawings will be at 8:30 p.m. Games, booths and food be part of the evening's event. Proceeds from this annual. PTA fund-raising event will be" used for special projects at Joslin.

(Staff photo by Ray Cobb) JOSLIN JUBILEE Looking over posters promoting the Joslin Elementary School Jubilee are Jeffrey Nelson, Russell Nelson-and Randy Nelson. The Jubilee celebration is set for Friday from 6 to 9:30 p.m., with a variety show in the cafeteria the highlight of the entertainment A handmade afghan and a football autographed by IT IT mmxracw A. ivi. tidoin UT Hosts Poetess Giovanni His Residence U.N. Arms Debate Under Way By WILLIAM N.

OATIS UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.! (AP) The annual U.N. arms debate opens today with about, two thirds of the nations in fa- vor of the world disarmament! conference proposed by the So viet Union but with the United States and China opposed. Mexico, the Soviet Union and the United States were the first speakers. The debate in the General Assembly's main polit ical committee is scheduled to last through Nov. 3, but the subject is so complicated some believe it might continue into December.

Both France and China in the past have resisted all efforts to involve them in the 10-vear-old, 25-nation Geneva disarment committee. Now France has agreed to participate in a preparatory committee for the world confer-! ence that the Soviet Union pro posed a year ago. Its Aug. 25; reply in a U.N. poll on the sub-! ject suggested the commits consist of the 15 Security Coun-I cil members, including the Big Five.

Though no reply from China has been published, Deputv foriegn Minister Chiao Kuan-hus said in general debate Oct. 3 that a world disarmament conference would be an "empty-talk club" and "it is better not to hold it." However, some diplomats re-i mained hopeful that China1 could be induced to join a prep-! aratory committee for the con ference. Others were doubtful Interest In Sciences Discussed Current growth in Student interest and enrollments in the natural sciences is not a holdover from the science boom of a decade ago but reflects a lasting interest in the sciences by society. That is the opinion expressed by three University of Texas educators who will discuss higher education in the natural sciences this week on "Insight: tomorrows university, a weekly radio series of The University of Texas. Dr.

Stanley R. Ross, provost of the University of Texas, will be joined in the discussion by Dr. Samuel P. Ellison dean of the College of Natural Sciences at UT Austin, and Dr. Harlan Smith, chairman of the Department of Astronomy and director of The University of Texas McDonald Observatory Mount Locke.

"Insight: Tomorrow's i i broadcast nationally over 85 radio stations, is produced by the UT Austin Communication Center, in association with the University News and Information Service. Charles Garrett, news and public affairs producer for KUT-FM radio service of the University, moderates the half-hour program. "Insight'' may be heard locally on KUT-FM at 1:05 p.m. Oct. 26.

British Columbia covers about 234,100.000 acres, and nearly 60 per cent is forest land, 95 per cent of which is publicly owned and under the management and protection of the B.C. Forest Service. SAIGON (AP) U.S. Air Force jets shot down three North Vietnamese MIG21s in a dogfight west of Hanoi eight days ago, the U.S. Command announced There were no U.S.

losses in the aerial battle Oct 15; spokesman said. He said the kills were not confirmed until today and that was why the an-nouncement was delayed. 1 Eight. F4. Phantoms were es corting when they engaged four MIG inter ceptors close to the North VieM namese the spokesman said.

In the ensuing battle one MIG was downed 35 miles west of Hanoi and two more 100 miles west of Hanoi, he reported. The Phantoms were from the 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance and thei 388th Tactical Wings based in Thailand. The latest kills brought the number of MIGs shot down over North Vietnam since the begin ning of the Indochina war to 177 66 of them this year. The United States has lost 71 air craft to MIG interceptors dur ing the war, according to Com mand figures. American warplanes flew only 140 strikes against military targets in North Vietnam Sunday but' an Air Force spokesman said this was due to bad weather.

Swing-wing Fill jets pounded an army barracks 40 miles North of Hanoi, causing several secondary fires in the area, the Command reported. Navy pilots from the carrier Kitty Hawk and the Enterprise pounded the Hai Yen naval base, eight miles northeast of Vinh and a boatyard 22 miles from Haiphong, the Command announced. It said more than 20 B52 bombers raided supply dumps in the southern panhandle of North Vietnam today. On the ground, North Viet namese and Viet Cong units interrupted traffic along the capi tal, according to field reports. They moved into positions on both sides of the road close to the village of Bung Cao from which they had been cleared only two days ago.

communist forces Kept up their resumed offensive in the central highlands of South Viet nam, concentrating their at tacks around the city of Pleiku. Three 7th Fleet led by the guided missile ship Cochrane, dueled with North Vietnamese shore batteries during a gun fire attack on a rail road siding 29 miles south of Thanh Hoa. None of the U.S. vessels was hit, the Navy re ported. U.S.

Troop strength in Viet nam declined by another 600 men last week to a total of as of Oct. 19. President Nix on has set a ceiline of 27.000 GIs in Vietnam by Dec. 1. Only male crickets chirp; only male lightning bugs light up; only female mosquitos bite.

if -1 J. M. ODOM Died Monday University Presbyterian Church and was affiliated with the Austin Country Club and the Citadel Club. Among the many buildings around Austin which his company built are the State Health Department Building complex, the City National and the American Bank, Travis and McCallum High Schools, the IRS Service Center and VA Data Center, and a number of major power stations. He is survived by his wife and brother Will Edward Odom of Austin.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at Weed-Corley Funeral Home and burial will be in Austin Memorial Park. 'Pi tm. I. in i i business which he started in 1928.

Odom was born Sept. 18, 1902 in Ballmger, and moved with his parents to Austin soon thereafter. He attended Austin High School and graduated from the University of Texas in the mid-twenties. While at UT, he was a member of Phi Beta Kanna and Phi- Lambda Upsilon, an honorary chemical engineering society and Delta He married the former Vola Mae Phillips of Fort Worth March 3, 1928. Throughout his life, Odom devoted much time and effort to furthering the needs of higher education.

He served on the University of Texas Development Board since its inception and was named to Gov. John Connally's Committee on Higher Education. He was one of the charter members of the Headliners Club of Austin and also served as its president. Odom also served as the first president of Associated General Contractors of America, Austin chapter; served two terms, on the Board of Governors of San Antonio branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Bank, of the UT Ex-Students Association, and the Texas Fine Arts Association. He was a member of the Black poetess Nikki Giovanni will speak Tuesday at 8 p.m.

at the University of Texas student union here. Ms. Giovanni graduated with honors in history in 1967 from Fisk University. She did graduate work at Columbia University and the University of' Pennsylvania. Her books include "Black Feeling Black Talk," "Black Judgment" and "Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis." Admission to the program will be free to UT Austin students, faculty and staff with current identification and $1 for others Ms.

Giovanni will speak in the main ballroom of the union. Coeds Elected To Council WACO Two Baylor University students from Austin have been elected to the university's Inter-Dormitory Council for the 1972-73 school year. The coeds are Pricilla Denham, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William E.

enham of 805 W. 16th; and Vickie Maynard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Maynard of 8604 Silver Ridge. Miss Denham, a 1970 graduate of Stephen F.

Austin High is a sophomore philosophy major. Miss Maynard, a May grad uate of Lanier High School is a freshman mathematics major. Dies at v. Prpmincnt general contractori and life-long Austin resident, Jamie M. Odom of 2211 Windsor Road East, died Monday morning at his residence.

He was the owner of J. M. Odom Construction Company, a Pop Singer Arrested 2nd Time STAMFORD. Conn. (AP) pop singer Billy J.

"B.J was arrested Saturday for the second time in three days, both times in connection with automobile accidents, police said. Police said Thomas left Stamford hospital Saturday driving "at a fast rate of speed" and struck another vehicle. When officers arrived i nomas oecame abusive, was handcuffed for the trip to police headquarters, where he continued to be abusive to officers, police said. Thomas, 30, was charged with breach of the peace and evading responsibility, police said. He was released on bond for hearing at an unspecified date Police did not indicate how serious the accident was.

Boy Hit By Auto Recovering A 9-year-old boy is recovering fn Brackenridge Hospital Monday from Injuries suffered when he was struck by a car in front of his home about 3 p.m. Slmday. Louis- Montague, son of Mr and Mrs. Frank Smith of 1909 Peijueno, is being treated for a fbroken leg, cuts and internal njuries. He was listed in fair Monday morning.

'The incident involved a car Mven by Gary F. Johnson ol 411 -Brentwood, said police. No ttation was issued, police said Midland Couple Still Hospitalized Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Caffey, ol I.idland.

remain in By MIKE COX Staff Writer U.S. Sen. John Tower said in Capitol press conference Monday he sees "no significant breakthrough" in the Vietnam war negotiations before the Nov. 7 presidential elections. "My prognosis is subject to change without notice," he added, noting that the situation has been changing quickly in recent weeks.

Tower said he believes presidential envoy Henry Kissinger is "trying to determine what the South Vietnamese government is willing to do to reach some sort of agreement that would lead to a cease fire." The Republican senator said that four years ago the U.S jumped the gun" on Saigon in peace effprts and that this time we re going to make sure our ducks are lined up straight." He said the hope is that "When a game plan is devised Panel Slated For Discussion A tri-ethnic panel composed of Velma Roberts, Joe Rubio ana 1 nomas Philpolt are; scheduled to discuss U.S domestic economic policies in the series "Issues for the 70s the moral-ethical dimensions of public policies." The panel will speak at the Catholic Student Center at 8 p.m. Tuesday, near the University of Texas campus. Connally Talk Repe at Tonidit Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally, national chairman of Democrats for Nixon, will present a 30-minute telecast at 6:30 p.m. Monday on KHFI, Channel 42, a repeat of the program presented Friday night.

Connally, former Texas governor, will speak on national defense and related subjects. Auto Strikes, Kills Child HARLINGEN, Tex. (AP) A Harlingen child was struck by a car and killed late Sunday. Officers identified the victim as Hector Cintron, 3, son of Mrs. Sarah Cintron.

Officers said the youth was struck and killed by" a car driven by George Wcldon King, 61, of Big Four Meet BERLIN (AP) Envoys of the Big Four Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States met for almost three hours today, opening a new round of talks aimed at clarifying their rights and responsibilities in this divided country. Vicunas are found only in the Andes in South America at altitudes from 14,000 to 18,000 feet. it will be everyone's game plan." The principal topic of the onference was Tower's I campaign against Democrat Barefoot Tower aides issued a three-page release "to set the record straight" on "wild, desperate charges" by Sanders. Tower said his campaign is gaining momentum and that a telephone poll of 600,000 Texas households shows his lead "is substantial." Campaign workers are calling back "undecided voters" and (finding they are "breaking three to one in our favor," the senator said. "We feel very good about the election." Some voters.

Tower said, plan to mark their ballot for President Nixon but vote for Sanders "to salve their conscience." "But a lot of people who say they have never voted for me before say they plan to this time," the senator said. There is even a "measurable" number of voters in the Rio Grande Valley predominantly Mexican-Americans who plan to vote for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, but cast their ballot for Tower in the state race, he said. Tower said the number of these votes been measured, but that it would be large enough to survey. The votes, he said, will come "from Mexican-Americans who feel I have a good record in that area and from "some whn were disappointed in the outcome of the Democratic primary." Tower made these other comments in the Monday press conference A Drnfilp nn Tnwpr hir consumer advocate Raich Nader, Tower said, "is the opinion of the man who prepared it." He said the general reaction in Washington to the entire 12-volume set of Nader profiles was "one of great disappointment." Revenue sharing. Tower said, is only a "stop-gap" measure to provide needed money for state and local governments.

Tower said that in the long run he favors the federal government abandoning taxation in some areas to save local money in that manner. The U.S.-Russian wheat deal this year has affected Oklahoma and Texas wheat farmers adversely, Tower said, "but next year theV will benefit." Asked about the possibility of a similar wheat trade with Red China, Tower said China does not nroducie much the U.S. would want and that China's credit "would have to Ixs pretty good." In the three-page release Tower reacted to what he said were Sanders' allegations about the senator's stand on Social Security, vocational education, Senate absenteeism, environmental protection and diseases Texans know I am against cancer, strokes and heart disease 1 mmniu 1 1 'I V-Jvl If 1 F7 is fiirackenridge, Hospital Monday Qvith injuries suffered in a 'I- fit 1 1 tDl I ne-car accidert near Oak Hill he iatyrday. st -M Caffey, 65, is recovering from ra fractures suffered in nj accident. His wife, Lizzy, 51, i ifis In serious condition in the injury.

Mrs. Ratcliff said that the house began to tremble and then seemed to explode when the funnel struck. (AP Wirephoto) ANOTHER BATTLE-Fredrick Fraske, 98, only surviving soldier of the Indian Wars, sits by mementoes of his life in his home in Chicago. He is cared for by his 67-year-old daughter who says that the Veterans Administration is ignoring his needs. (AP Wirephoto) TORNADO DAMAGE The home of Harold Rat-cliff was completely destroyed when a tornado touched down early Sunday near Marshall.

Five people were in the house and all escaped serious intensive care unit being treated a head Injury, a hospital ipokesman said. rrf-arti iirf on. w.ili rtfrlirfli rfh imjartLJt-i.