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173 Dayton, Ohio, Sunday, February 28, 1971 181 Tagcs nn ist ianK 31 ake EWS HI St ox Ch. 16 Goes Dark l-i -v Heavy Antiaircraft Fire Keeps Copters at Bay SAIGON (UPI) South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese armored units fought atop Hill 31 in Laos Saturday night in the first major tank battle of the Indochina war. Heavy Communist antiaircraft fire protecting the Ho Chi Minh trail held U.S. helicopters at bay. Sf I Hoang Xuan Lam, Saigon's field commander.

"North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese forces are now fighting for control of the hill," he said. Elements of a an North Vietnamese force, led by soldiers riding Soviet-built PT76 tanks, overran South Vietnamese defenders on Hill 31 last Thursday. Lam ordered an armored counterattack and, by 5 p.m. Saturday, he said South Vietnamese tanks Dolly Newt Photo by Bill Sltepntrd PET SHOW SOMETHING TO GO APE OVER There were some 60 entrants smoked cigars, rode a bike and seemed real friendly, but the crowd of. a 500 was a little cautious about petting him.

Corcoran was entered by the Vets' club, an organization of former servicemen. cats, even an alligator in Saturday's pet show sponsored by the Kennedy union at the University of Dayton, But none could top the ape man escorted by Jack Klein. The ape, who goes by the name of Jim Corcoran, By JIM NICHOLS Daily News Staff Writer Much troubled WKTR-TV, Channel 16, was dark Saturday. It appears it will remain dark. The public was just as much in the dark as to exactly why the station had stopped telecasting.

"The board of directors made the decision last week to go to black," a former ploye said. "It's not off the air for any technical difficulties. "WE WERE all at the station last night to watch the final signoff. It was rather sad. But no one said why we were leaving the air." Officially, the management of Channel 16 was silent.

William Sharer, the general manager, could not be reached. Neither could any of the directors. The telephone company reported the phone at the station was off the hook. One source close to the station did suggest that a check of a 1 Communication commission records would show why it had quit broadcasting. Channel 16 has been racked by troubles since the reported bribe scandal involving the former chairman of the parent Kittyhawk John A.

Kemper Jr. THE STATION, which has been on a limited 4:30 to 10:30 p.m. schedule for some time, was the target of a bankruptcy action earlier this week. MCA Universal Television systems and United Artists television sought an involuntary bankruptcy petition, claiming Kittyhawk owes them $68,880.52 for unsecured licensing films. The station had until Mar.

10 to answer the petition. Earlier iiiis month the entire board of directors of Kittyhawk and Kemper's wife, Ann, were added to a suit filed in U.S. District court by Springfield Television Broadcasting operators of Ch. 22. The amended suit claims the directors knew of a conspiracy between the company and an ABC official to get American Broadcasting Co.

affiliation. The suit also claimed Mrs. Kemper wrote a check for part of the a 1 1 $50,000 bribe. When Channel 16 was supposed to return to the air at 4:30 p.m. Saturday with an old movie, there was not much public reaction.

But about 6:30 p.m., people started bombarding other media with questions as to why. That was the time for the station's most popular program Roller Derby. Today's Chuckle The average husband is one who lays down the law to his wife and then accepts all her amendments. Carle Submits Budget With $14.2 Million Hole BANK HOLDUP JUST ONE BIG FLOP PHILADELPHIA-W-A man walked into a branch of the Fidelity Bank in suburban Upper Darby Thursday and handed a note and a paper bag to teller Joan Meehan. She glanced at them and collapsed.

From the floor she told head teller Rena Pifko, "I think I'm going to be sick." Miss Pifko hit the silent alarm. The robber grabbed the note and the bag and took-off. had pushed to within 100 to 200 yards of the top of the hill. Lam said South Vietnamese paratroopers and a cavalry had destroyed 15 of an estimated force of 25 North Vietnamese tanks in the counterattack and that "hundreds" of North Vietnamese had been killed. "THE FIGHTING in Laos is becoming intense and that is what we expected," a spokesman at South Vietnamese headquarters in Saigon said.

"We would like to see the enemy stand and fight. Now, they are doing just what we expected them to do." As the battle for Hill 31 raged into the night, field reports Saturday told of other heavy fighting in Laos around South Vietnam's fire support flank Highway 9, the axis for the 19-day South Vietnamese offensive into Laos todutthe bases Hong Ha II and Delta. Ho Chi Minh trail north Vietnam's main supply line. Lam said South Vietnamese defenders of Hong Ha II killed 54 North Vietnamese Friday and a Saigon communique said 45 more were slain Saturday when a Communist attack was hurled back. Five South Vietnamese were reported slain in the action Friday.

Lam could not give South Vietnamese casulty figures for the fighting Saturday. U.S. HEADQUARTERS in Saigo announced that Communist gunners shot down three U.S. Army OH6 Cayusa helicopters Friday two in Laos and one in Cambodia. Three Americans were wounded in the Laos crashes.

Headquarters had reported 18 American helicopters de stroyed in Laos since the offensive began Feb. 8 with 15 U.S. servicemen killed, 19 wounded and 14 missing. Eight other Americans were killed when two helicopters collided in the air. r- -f iiiiil 1 mmmz'm (a itJ III i uv? iu jz 1 By DENNIS POLITE Daily News Staff Writer Dayton School Supt.

Wayne M. Carle will hand the school board a proposed appropriations budget of $42 million Thursday night, an amount $14.2 million below what is needed to operate the schools for the entire year at the present level. Carle said unless the beard finds additional funds er reduces the staff to 38 per cent1 cf its present level, the budget Will only take the 1 through approximately five weeks past Labor THE SUPERINTENDENT said the proposed budget Is not one "which addresses in any expanded way many of the needs and problems confronting the district In his message to the board along with the budget proposal he said, since present law permits borrowing only 50 per cent of the expected revenue from the new levy in the first year, the board would have to campaign successfully for 25 mills by the end of 1971 to enable the district to borrow enough funds to cover the projected deficit. CARLE said the budget was drawn up in accordance with KLEIN GIVES HIS PET A LITTLE HELP He's More of a Swinger Than a Rider Sniper Shot Last Straw; Veteran Policeman Quits WSWE: New York With B.W.; The Sights, Sounds TWO WEEKS in New York: A smorgasbord of sights, sounds, impressions from the stage to the skyline, B.W., Page 11D. OHIO STATE BUCKEYES close in on Big 10 title and NCAA berth by holding off Michigan.

Jim Ferguson, Page ID. Although South Vietnamese military headquarters in Saigon reported that its troops had recaptured Hill 31, the commander of the South Vietnamese task force in Laossaid the issue was still in doubt. "NO ONE is in control of the top of the hill," said Lt. Gen. tJM PTL.

ANDY TRAVIS Who's the Enemy? buddies for their help mounted his Harley and headed for his south Dade county beat. Two days later, Andy Travis ended a distinguished 10-year career as a motorcycle patrolman with the Dade county public safety department. Sheriff E. Wilson Purdy called his resignation "another outside New Orleans. He had come north to bury his brother in Detroit.

"MOSTLY, I GO by car, if can," he said, rubbing the gray beard stubble erupting on his furrowed black face. Bad weather prompted him to leave the driving to Greyhound this time. "Can't afford no airplane, no sir," he said. "Hey, man," whispered Bill Bragg, 19, of Greenville, "can you smoke on the bus?" He cupped the orange glow of his cigarette in his hands. fit tsj Curran Attacks Nixon Plan Dayton City Commissioner Charles J.

Curran attacked President i 's revenue-sharing proposals in a speech given before a union convention Saturday. Curran said, "The true effect of any major expansion of federal revenue sharing with the states would be the destruction of government as you and I know it today." Teh commissioner spoke before the District Seven convention of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America at the Mall Motor Inn. "Give to any person or group, including the national government," Curran said, "control over the purse strings of local government, and you have destroyed the independence of local ogvernment." tragedy in the continuing assault on the police that is apparently designed to intimidate society into subjection to the lawless element." ANDY TRAVIS, a 6-foot-l-inch, 200-pound father of a four-year-old daughter and 10-month-old son, explained his resignation, which came five days after Miami policeman Victor Butler was slain by an unseen sniper. "Nowadays you kill a policeman and it's a joke except to the families," he said. Mrs.

Judy Travis put it this way: "Our daughter cried herself to sleep Tuesday night because someone shot at her father. How do you explain this to a 4-year-old? This time they missed. But what about next time?" Travis said the Tuesday sniper attack on him in an area some 10 miles from his regular beat was "the last straw" in a growing feeling he has that cops, not robbers, are the public's chief enemy. He said if the public "would rally around their police, it would help. A pat on the back is a good incentive.

But if I get killed on the job now, nobody will remember it in six months." Bragg, his hair at shoulder length and a moustache growing shaggily across his lip, was on his first bus ride. He had a date at an Army induction center. Silver-haired bus driver Bob Gerhardt stepped along the aisle at Cincinnati, checking tickets. "Hi, neighbor," he said to Rollins, who fished out his ticket. "Wanta switch seats chief?" Gerhardt said to another man.

"That one you're in don't the board's statement at the Jan. 28 meeting that a budget be submitted based on projections from the December, 1970 budget hearings. The amount asked in the hearings was $56.3 million. The superintendent notes that no new tax levy has been voted in the district since 1966 and the total school millage of the district, 29.4 mills, is at its lowest point in five years. Other points in the budget include: Continuation of the Living Arts and Multiple Motivation programs.

A projected drop in enrollment of 1,500, and a proportionate decrease in staff through attrition. Elimination of the department of urban education from the general fund after June 30, with federal funding to be sought for its continuation. Deletions of contributions by the district to such cultural institutions as the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton i 1 a r-monic, Dayton Museum of Natural History and several other associations for a total of $46,000. "Since no proposal is made for building modifications, reorganization of schools must be limited, as announced earlier to present levels of staffing and to the existing facilities that are most adequate for the initial phase of the conversion," Carle said. CARLE said the "Focuses on the basic problem of continuing public schools in Dayton in 1971." By law, the board must adopt an appropriations budget before the end of March.

It cannot appropriate any more money than the amount certified as income by the county auditor. The superintendent said items which will suffer from the lack of funds include facilities improvement, the reading reform program, community schools, employe compensation and others. TERMINAL "But I just don't like flying. I haven't flown since the war. I know, it sounds crazy." O'Brien would have plenty of time to ponder the view from the bus window.

He'd be on the bus more than 30 hours. His was a vacation trip from Toronto to Miami. HIS BUS TICKET cost him $101, he said. For $154 he could have journejed by plane. And faster.

"Oh, I'd rather take the train," he said, as the coach lurched into the line of buses parked at the Cincinnati U.S. Child Health Study Faces Drastic Fund Cut Horoscope 16C Jean Kappell 2C Movies 11-13D Obituary Notices 7B People 20A Si-ings ID Sports 1-8D They were examined and interviewed and blood samples were taken periodically. The children born to these women have been examined periodically ever since. 6 information already has come out of the study. There have been some 500 scientific publications and three symposia, and two comprehensive books are to be published soon.

TERMINAL TO LOW INTO 2(Ts Crisp, Sunny Day Here If you've been waiting for a crisp sunny Sunday for some hiking or other outdoor activity, you should be in luck today. The weather man promises just that, a 1 a a day, mostly sunny with the temperature ranging up almost to 50. There's no rain in the weather picture. When the sun goes down, there will be little doubt that winter is still around, with the temperature dipping again into the 20's. MIAMI (UPI) At 2: 02 p.m.

last Tuesday, it began to sprinkle. A quick glance up-w a told motorcycle cop Andy Travis a downpour was just seconds away: He spotted a gas station in the next block, changed lanes and hunched behind the windshield on his just-tuned Harley-Davidson police special. A shot pierced the traffic noise on busy U.S. Route 1. Travis looked over his shoulder at a half-dozen rows of low-rent ghetto apartments that line the six-lane highway between Coconut Grove and Coral Gables.

He saw two black men step around the corner of one of the pink, two-story apartments. Another shot rang out. Travis saw the muzzle blast, but not the gun. HE his right hand 90 degrees and his big Harley leaped a d. He skidded into the service station broadside, hollered for everyone to duck and grabbed his radio mike.

Within minutes, half the motorcycle cops in Miami were combing the area for the snipers. They come quick when a buddy is in trouble. The search, proved futile. Travis unhurt thanked i depot. "But they aren't available." The dapperly suited O'Brien was the exception to the riders The Daily News met on a roundtrip to Memphis, last week.

More often, bus passengers were the poor, the job-hunters, the GIs almost all on the bus because it's travel's cheapest offering. In some remote areas, it's the only way. Joe Rollins, 58, and nearly deaf "from that noisy boiler room job I used to do," was headed home to Slidell, Business News 16-20D Classified 7-19B Crossword Puzzle 12C Dr. Alfred Messer 20B Dr. Peter Steincrohn Editorial Pages 2, 3B Home Family 1-8C meeting here a few days after thePresident's proposed budget was made public.

Recently some of them have expressed concern and surprise, noting that the research is focused on areas the administration has singled out for high priority. "This Is the best longitudinal study of child development that has ever been done," said a New Jgngland doctor who directs a part of big effort. He predicted the cutbacks will seriously compromise the study. The study began Before any of the children were born and was designed to continue until they were all at least eight years old. Purpose was to match events during pregnancy with the outcome in terms of the child's health.

FOR EXAMPLE, if a baby proved to be a 1 1 retarded, physically defective or abnormal in other ways, the mother's record-and stored samples of her blood could be examined to see what influences might have caused the damage. Between 1959 and 1965 about 58,000 women were enrolled early in their pregnancies. By HAROLD M. SCHMECK JR. (C) New York Timet Servlco WASHINGTON The administration hasordereda sharp cutback in one of the largest studies ever organized to determine the cause of such tragedies as mental retardation, nervous system defects ami childhood behavior disorders.

The study administered by the National I i of Health, is being conducted at major medical instituions in 11 cities throughout the country. It has been in progress about 12 years at a total cost of roughly $100 million to date. The project is now in its final stages, with about two more years to run. It is esti-. mated that its funds for fiscal 1972 will be cut about 25 per cent, to a level of about $5.5 million.

SOME SCIENTIST involved in the effort believe the cut, in combination with stringent budgets of the last few years, will hamper the research at the stage at which some of the most important gains are to be made. Doctors collaborating in the project were told the details at a 13-Hour Express, a Long Ride to Memphis By DICK DANIS Daily News Staff Writer Jay O'Brien, 50-year-old Canadian Broadcasting Co. employe, stared out a tinted window of Greyhound bus 5136 at the Cincinnati skyline coming up starkly in the early-mom-ing haze. The coach the New Orleans Express whined and swayed along the concrete expressway ribbon, rolling south. "The only way to travel is by air," O'Brien said, stretching his legs, arching his back and settling back in his seat.

"DAMN, THEY oughta give you the bus for that," he said to a reticentyoungblack woman when he looked at the fare stamped on her tickets. She was traveling with an infant and two toddlers. She was changing a diaper when Gerhardt walked by. "Uh-huh," she replied, closing a safety pin at the crying baby's hip. Greyhound is the nation's largest bus operator.

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