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METROPOLITAN Police Board OKs Record Budget The Newsmakers- News of MDNESDAY, DEC. THE WORLD CambciaitsCl-ush Los Angeles police commissioners approved a record $141,924,639 departmental budget request for 1971-72 a 29 increase over the current figure but still must obtain approval of the city administrative officer, mayof and City Council. Po-, lice Chief Edward M. Davis said the boost was primarily attributable to the need for7121 additional patrol- men. A spokesman described the proposed budget -an "austerity doc- ument in line with Mayor Sara Yor-ty's demand for departmental belt tightening.

But continuance of existing programs requires additional funds, he said A Superior Court jury- convicted Thomas E. Devins, 30, of the first-" degree murder of wealthy Norma Carty Wilson who disappeared in Switzerland in 1968. (See Page 1.) Relaxation of city regulations covering the hiring of persons with arrest records, parolees and probationers was called for by Los Angeles City Councilman Arthur K. Snyder. He contended the current policy of disqualifying applicants on the basis of existing parole or probationary status placed the city in the position of working against other governmental agencies seeking to place the former law violators.

4 Two men held responsible for three deaths, during a robbery spree were each sentenced to two lifetime prison terms. Superior Judge Charles C. Stratton pronounced the sentences against Alexander J. Cue-vas, 21, warehouse clerk, and Robert V. Ovieda, 21, brass factory laborer.

Both men were also given one-to-15 year terms for the robbery of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Coppes on Feb. 14 as the couple emerged from a restaurant.

Qn Feb. 17, the prosecution charged, they killed clerk Ruben T. Diaz, and a customer, Thomas S. Dashney, 18, while holding up a Whittier market. And three days after Jthat, it was alleged, they fired fatal shots it Keith W.jCarrlnger, clerk in South San Gabriel dairy.

A final 'accounting' filed with Los Angeles City" Clerk Rex E. Layton disclosed that the Committee for Citizens against the Charter Hoax collected $86,517.29 and1 spent to defeat Proposition the proposed new City Charter on the Nov. 3 ballot. The money was raised from contributions by present and retired Water and Power Department employes. A final statement by Los Angeles Forward, which supported the Charter, showed receipts of $7,562.48 and expenditures of $10,905.70.

Tch, tch There was Old Glory, fluttering upside down- from "the flagstaff atop the California- Division of Highways building oh Spring St. near 1st St. Flying the American Flag upside down is a signal of distress but a secretary In the office; of the building manager, -said, "We're not in any particular distress, except for all the calls we're getting about the Flag. It's being fixed, Somebody goofed." Former Carson Mayor John Junk, 34, and former City Councilman H. Rick Clark, 36, pleaded innocent to soliciting and, accepting bribes for zoning favors.

Superior, Judge George M. Dell set Janl 8 arguments on pretrial motions and Feb. 22 for trial. Junk is still a councilman. Another CarsorC councilman, Dannie H.

Spence, 28, and three other men also charged with conspiracy and bribery were ordered to return to court next Tuesday to enter pleas. the Day CtmplM tram Die Lm AW-i Times, ftw Angelas Tlmes-Washinstsn Post News Service and major wire and supplementary new agencies. Atthing Rbrfs stake. Tijerina, who headed a'groap called the Alianza, which lays claim to early Spanish land grants is serv-j ing a three year term for participat ing in the destruction 6f; govern ment property" and assaulting federal officers. i Over streng objections, tbe.I United States.the U.N.

General As- sembly rujed that Palestine Arab.re fugees Were entitled to "equal rights and A resolution, approved 4T to 22 with 50 ab--stentionir also declared that the refugees' inalienable rights were an "indispensable element" in a just and lasting peace settlement. U.S. delegate Richard Gimer said the resolution could be applied in the future to other peoples who have no sovereign status but 'also may have long-standing claims to self-deter- mination." Palestinian ruerrillas ambushed a Jordanian army patrol north of Amman, a government official said, less than 24 hours after the Arab Truce -Committee talked guerrillas and government forces into laying down their-arms following five days of sporadic fighting. The guerrillas claimed that government forces shelled a. Palestinian refugee camp near' Amman for five hours.

The. status of Russian Jews has generally, deteriorated over the, past gix yters while a great deal of Soviet propaganda has the character of primitive anti-Semitism, according to a ripprt commissioned the Socialist International and released in Stockholm. Representatives of labor and social democratic parties in Sweden, France andjtaly made' the War crimes and- crimes against humanity were condemned in resolution by the U.N. General Assembly's Social Committee. It called on member nations to arrest1 persons guilty of aggressive wars, racism, apartheid and.colonialism and extradite them to their native countries for trial and punishment.

The measure. was approved 47 to 4, with 41 abstentions; The United States, Britain, Australia and Portugal voted BO. '--'V The bullet-riddled bodies oMhree persons were found if a deep gorge 50 miles south of Guatemala City, the government said. One was identified as" Humberto Gonzalez Juarez, a leftist former 'government official and owner of a leading radio station. The others were Armando Bfaun Valle, a businessman and engineer, and Catalina Zambrano, Braun's sec retary.

government "spokesman Said there was no apparent motive. 1 HAPY REHEARSAL Alan B. Shepord in space suit dur- ing practice sessibn at Cape i Kenrwdy Apolb 14 mean walk he is to make With- His partner, Edgar D. Mitchell. MwifWPWtl1.rirtt Wlrwhol i SPORTS Georf Alien, the Rams' coach, feels the Rams and Detroit Lions, are playing'the best football in the National League at this time and predicts a "championship game" Monday night at the Coliseum.

Wills is fearning the difficulty of one of the main assets of successful baseball managing pa-. tiance in his new role as pilot of the'Hermosillb team in the Mexican Mhter'league. i Wilt Chamberlain's season-high p6 points Gail Goodrich's second-half helped the Lakers defeat the( Phoenix. Suns, 121-112, to bobst their. Pacific Division lead over San Francisco to 2H garjaei.

-See Sports Section If i 1 4 lr i Mm 1 Aerospace engineer George Florea All This Santa Wants Is a Fufl-Time Job! Santa" Claus in San Mateo, is looking for a sympathetic fellow Santa Claus to tell what he wants for' Christmas." He wants 1 another aerospace job. George 48, was design engineer with Lockheed Missiles Space Co. But that was 10 months ago and now, with jobless benefits of $65 a week ended, he's working for $2.50 an hour' as Santa in a local department store. "It helps to ease the sense of bitterness and despair," he said. Florea is one of about 10,000 engineers, scientists and technicians who are jobless in the area.

"I'll spend it all- on said Dr. Julius Axetrod, the American co-winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine as he arrived in Stockholm to receive his portion of the $80,000 award. The 58-year-old biochemist and chief of the pharmacology, section of the National Institutes of Health in Be-thesda, shared the award with a British biophyslcist, Sir Bernard Katz, and a Swedish physiologist, Ulf von Euler. The pre-' Eentation to be made Thursday. Vice President Nguyen Cae Ky of South Vietnam was asked at a Saigon press conference to comment on the eight-point peace plan offered by Viet Cong negotia- 'I: THE NATION Nixon Asked to Hold A formal request was presented to the White House by about two doz-.

en correspondents asking that President Nixon consider holding more news conferences. It coincided with the announcement that Mr. Nixon's first news conference in almost five months will begin at 4 p.m. PST Thursday and be televised live across the country. The correspon- dents' request led to a lengthy and sometimes prickly exchange with presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, who strenuously denied any suggestion that Mr.

Nixon has been avoiding reporters and ha failed to communicate with the people. Affidavits filed with a Us Vegas court revealed the vast scope of the Nevada empire of Howard Hughes, over which a power struggle is being waged. (See Page 1.) Funds for the SST airliner were apparently saved from extinction by a vote of 213 to 174 in the House of Representatives. Rep. John Tunney changed his stand to oppose the plane.

(See Page 1.) The government rested its case against 1st Lt. William L. Calley Jr. but may call twq additional witnesses. (See Page Senate-Hoiise conferees slashed $2.5 billion from a public service jobs and manpower training bill in an effort to avert a presidential veto.

Administration officials had said there was no money in the budget for the original bill authorizing $12 billion. legislation also would impose a reorganization of the manpower training programs, turning authority to run them over to may-ors and governors. The Supreme Court ruled 4 to 2 against private claims for up to one-fifth of the government's vast oil shale holdings in the West. Potentially billions of dollars were it stake In the dispute over development Justice William d. Douglas, speaking for the majority, said claims to mineral locations on al lands are lost when token or po improvement work has been done.

A hearing has been Set for Monday In U.S. District. Court in Hartford, two brothers, both' Roman Catholic priests, on whether 1 i II dons beard and goes to work, tor Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh at the Paris talks. "Never trust a woman in politics," was his advice.

Arthur Armitag made the last Guinness Book of Records, but he hopes to lose that record and set a new one in doing so. Last Fe-. bruary Armitage, of Knottingley, weighed 561 pounds, making him the heaviest man in Britain. But Armitage, who weighed 5 pounds at birth, decided he 'was tired of being a and the ridicule drove him to trim 196 pounds off his 5 foot 9 frame. The 41-year-old bachelor hopes his 600 calorie-a-day diet will bring him down to 225 pounds by June- total loss of336 pounds and another Guinness record.

Americans should be the first to praise George III, said the speaker, "for enabling them to become independent in the first place." Thus did Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, strike a blow for his ancestor who managed to lose the American colo- nies. "My great etc. grandfather George III, of not so blessed memory to some," said the prince, "was not only' smart but lucky to have figured out that the eventual 'United States would be better as a trading partner than a subservient." The prince's revelations were made with a broad smile as he addressed 4he annual dinner in London of the Pilgrim's Society, an Anglo-American group. More News Parleys they should be allowed to deliver sermons while in federal prison. The Rev.

Daniel Berrigan, 49, and the Rev'. Phillip Berrigan, 47, were convicted of destroying draft records. Father Daniel was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and Father Phillip to six years. Six alleged members of the radical Weatherman organization were charged with plotting to bomb public and private property in New York City. Bail was set at $250,000 for the alleged mastermind of the conspiracy, Richard Robin Palmer, 40, and $,50,000 bail each for Martin Lewis, 25, Christopher.

Trinkle, 19, Claudia Coning, 22, Sharon Krebs, 33 and Joyce Plecha, 26, all of New York. No date was set for the trial. The six were arrested last Friday as they allegedly were about to fire bomb a bank. The six also were accused of planning to bomb President Nixon's former law firm in New York City, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie Alexander. A federal judge declared unconstitutional Alabama laws that prohibit the marriage of a white person and a Negro.

The Justice Department filed the suit after a soldier stationed at Ft. McClellan, Army Sgt. John Voy-er, 21, said he and his black fiancee, Phyllis Bett, 18, of Anniston, were refused a marriage license Nov. 10. Voyer said they were, told it would be illegal to Issue them a license in Alabama, They were married last Friday in Tennessee.

Negotiators reported reaching tentative agreement on a new contract for 3,000 striking Midwestern fuel-oil truck drivers, whose walkout" had posed a threat of a fuel shortage over a wide Details were not disclosed, but the drivers, who now earn an average of $4.07 an hour, had been seeking increases of .65, 60 and 50 cents for a three-year contract. The bodies of Theos Thompson, Atomic Energy Commission member, and an aide have been recovered from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed 25 in Lake Mead, the AEC- said. Thompson, 53, his aide, Jack Rosen, 46, and Bill Smith, 37, an AEC employe, were killed in the crash. The pilot, Chuck Rowland, survived. Divers to find Smith's body: and the search was given' up.

1 War in Indoehina-4-DUg-in Cambodian soldiers inflicted a crushing, defeat on, nemy troops who attacked near the South border northwest of Saigon, Phnett Penh reported. (See Page 23, Part Jr.) i Secretary of State William P. Rogers said Hanoi's interest in a negotiated settlement of the Vietnam war was "absolutely zero." (See Page 22, Part 1.) j-r colors of the U.S. 4th and 25th Infantry Divisions left Vietnam after, four years of fighting across Indochina. A color detachment representing the 4th Division flew from Cam.

Ranh Bay to Ft. Carson, Cola, where the division will replace the 5th Division, being deactivated. A detachment of the 25th Division left Ben Hoa for the will be based as a Pacific reaction force ready to move into any trouble spots. Two young French teachers were sentenced to prison terras for unfurling a large Viet Cong flag from atop a national war monument in Saigon last July. Mean Pierre Depris, who got four years, and Andre Marcel Menrat, who got three, appeared, before a South.

Vietnamese military, court and. pleaded guilty to charges of endangering national security," Sen. J. Fulbrighi said there. were indications that U.S.

officials-knew no-prisoners were at ah alleged POW camp in North Vietnam and that a rescue.attempt there last month "had other, purposes." The-Arkansas Democrat made the comment In blocking for the second time immediate consideration of a resolution, commending' the Army and Air Force raiders for heroism. went out at Buckingham Palace and Queen Elizabeth, had by candlelight as a slowdown by electric power workers was followed by wildcat strikes in England. (See Pagel.) A Roman Cttholie priest proudly told a military court in Burgos, Spain, that he was a member of a secret Basque guerrilla group and carried a pistol for more six months before he was arrested. (See Page 25, Part 1). A note of sociability creptlnto the strategic arms limitation talks: between the United States and the Soviet Union at Helsinki as delegates planned tq' meet for a trial deep-sea run the hew Finnish ice' breaker ApuFor the coming weekend, the Americans accepted a Soviet invitation to yisit Leningrad; Britain made a major concession in negotiations to enter the European Common Market, indicating it wai ready to accept a single transition period 6f five years to adjust to market practices in agriculture as well as in industry.

It had originally asked -for a six-year transition" in agriculture and only.three years lh Industry. I More than 5,000 Eurocrats international civil servants-working, for the. European Common Market-prOclaimed A strike. Frustrated by consistent inability to deal with six different governments and dissatisfied with a failure to. agree on higher salaries, they called the first full-scale walkout in -the, market's 12-year history PreVi releases threatening harm to I U.S.

officials in Latin America unless Mexican-American activist leader Reles Lopez Tijerina is reed-were circulated in Mexico City. They contained -an "open letter" to President Nixon, asking him to free Tijerina, which was signed by the head of the Federal Alliance of Free Peoples, headquartered in Albu-. querqtte, N.M. The letter, also said the safety' of American officials in 'Washington and New Mexico was at BUSINESS Executive's of' Trans World Airlines reassured the airline's, major creditors at a private meeting that rumors circulating in the financial community that TWA oh the brink of financial collapse- are "com-. pletely unfounded." The Securities Exchange.

Com-isiiisslon declined to say when it-will make; public a massive staff study en-, private investment partnerships which points to potential jtock 1 Trofit takers hit the stock market, driving'- prices moderately lower across broad front in moderately fictivB trading. The Dow Jones- in- dustrial average closed down 3.56 at 815.10.' 4r See Financial Section SAYS UNION MAY STRIKE Dennis, president 'of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, telling newsmen in yVashington that a walkout will called even if Congress grants President's request for delay. He -said later moratoriunn was possible. INry PlW I Ill Wirt SOUTHLAND San Diego Supervisors Rescind Pay Boost San Diego County supervisors, by a vote of 3 to 2, rescinded a $3,000 salary increase they had voted them- selves last week. Supervisor William Craven, who voted for the increase last week, moved for reconsideration, saying that although the pay raise was necessary, he had concluded that it was ill-timed.

He was joined in the vote to rescind by Supervisors DeGraff Austin and Henry Boney. Supervisors Jack Walsh and Harry Scheidle opposed rescinding the raise from $16,000 to $19,000 annually and Walsh said the action was in response to a "vocal minority and not to the majority of San Diego County voters." Benedict Castle in Riverside has been sold to Teen Challenge to be used as a drug addiction rehabilitation and religion study center for young persons, Clifford Morrison, executive director of the organiza- THE STATE tlon in Ontario, announced. The 26-room structure, modeled on Spanish castles, was built by the late financier Charles Williston Benedict. Later it was sold to the Raman Catholic Servite Order ep brt'ed'ly for' $750,000. Morrison did not disclose the price paid by Teen Challenge, a national nonprofit organization which is supported by civic organizations, churches 'and private donors.

Sale of the old Ventura County Courthouse to the city of Ventura for $145,000 was approved by the Board of Supervisors. The city plans spend $1.3 million to restore the building for use as a city hall. City offices will move into the building in about a year. Built in 1912, the structure was closed last year after being declared, The county eventually will build a new-courthouse in East Ventura. quested the action during a hearing of an appeal by Harvle Lee Farmer Jr.

of his dismissal as a guard at the jail. Farmer, who was fired Nov. 25 for "not assisting fellow deputies in subduing unruly inmates," contended he refused to take part in beating a prisoner who was mentally ill. Sentences for campus disruptions at UC Berkeley during a disciplinary hearing were handed down by Municipal Court Judge George Brunn after the nine defendants' entered guilty pleas. Judge Brunn gave three defendants 15 to 30 days in county jail.

The others received 15-day suspended sentences. nine were tried last August but a jury was unable to reach a verdict. The charges grew out of disruptions April 30 during a hearing for Mri, Rosalind Epstein for alleged misconduct during an anti-ROTC demonstration. She later was sentenced t6 15 days In jail. ''( Peregrine Falcon' Decline Laid to Pesticides Only 10 peregrine falcons were counted in California during this year's nesting season, according to a State Fish and Game Department report which blamed their decline on pesticides.

Dr. Steven Herman, Humboldt State College naturalist who prepared the report, said only two nests with eggs, from which four falcons were born, were found last summer in a state survey. The birds, which can dive on prey at 100 m.p.h., already are virtually extinct east of the Rocky Mountains and their numbers are decreasing alarmingly all over the "world, Herman said. Their disappearance results from "contamination of the food' chain by chlorinated hydrocarbons, principally DDT," he added. A federal Investigation of allegations that a mentally ill prisoner was beaten by jailers at San Frin-cisco's city jail has been asked.

The city Civil Service Commission re V..