The Evening News from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan • Page 1

CHRISTMAS IN Midsummer Christmas celebration was one of photographer as he snapped them opening gifts, blowing noisemakers, piay- the hit features Tuesday for youngsters in the Community School summer ing with their new toys and visiting with Santa to put in their advance orders recreation program at Washington School. Tiny tots apparently took it very for the "real Christmas," which, after all, is only five months away, seriously too, with nary a one cracking a smile for the Evening News (Evening News photos by Brent Patton) Today in the News Lashes out Edging closer to an open counterattack on Ms Watergate antagonists, President Nixon has lashed out at those who "spend their time dealing with the murky, small, unimportant, vicious little things." A for himself, Nixon declared: spend our time building a better world." President selected an unusual toast at a state dinner Tuesday night honoring Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei comments apparently aimed at his opponents in the continuing Watergate controversy. According to sources, Nixon, has been charting a counterattack directed at the Senate Watergate committee and special Watergate prosecutor Archibald offensive reportedly scheduled for launching later in August. Nixon's apparent reference to his AVatergate antagonists came as he said both he and Tanaka seek peace and progress in the world. Judge rules A federal judge has ruled that the -Nixon administration "ignored the stated goal of Congress" by halting approval of low-interest housing loans for poor rural Americans.

Tuesday's decision was the second time in eight days that U. S. District Judge Charles R. i had ordered the government to release impounded housing subsidy funds. The government has appealed Richey's earlier order to restore a much larger subsidy program administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Tuesday's order was directed to the "Farmers Home Administration, which suspended the program for 18 months in January. Last year, $900 million worth of interest payments were made under the program. Launeli drive Cambodian troops launched a new drive southwest of Phnom today in a attempt to relieve the pressure of insurgent forces on the city's southern defense perimeter. U. S.

B52 bombers hammered at insurgent positions seven miles south of Phnom Penh along the Prek Thrnot river, while American Fills, Phantoms and Corsairs were in action on several sectors around the city. The thunder of U. S. bombs" shook Phnom Penh continually. The Cambodian command said government infantrymen and armored personnel carriers moved out west of the embattled village of Prateah Lang, nine miles southwest of the capital, in an "important attack." Prateah Lang lies at the western pivot of Phnom Penh's southern defenses.

Another government column in the area has been stalled since Friday, and the new drive apparently is an attempt to find a soft spot in insurgent positions farther west. Three days till Lizzie Borden liberation day Nuclear protest A Michigan physician joined a chemistry professor from St. Louis in supporting a University of Pittsburgh radiation professor who claims nuclear power plants can have harmful effects on humans living nearby. Dr. Gerald A.

Drake of Petoskey, spoke at a hearing held by a panel formed by Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp. The panel is studying claims by Dr. Ernest Sternglass of the University of Pittsburgh that a nuclear power plant in nearby Ship- pmgport, Pa. has endangered life in the surrounding area.

Sternglass, a professor of radiation physics at the university and a perennial critic of nuclear-powered generating plants, claimed both infant deaths and incidences of cancer have climbed in the 15 years the nuclear plant has been in operation along the Ohio River. He said infant deaths have risen from an average of no more than 22 per 1,000 births in the 1950s to a 1971 average of 70 per 1,000. Burton divorce Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton stayed out of sight in Rome today, the city where their love affair began 10 years ago, after a spokesman in New York announced that they are going to get a friendly divorce. "They are not going to fight each other," said the spokesman, John Springer. "They are very amicable toward each other." He added that the Burtons are parting because of "A series of personal disagreements" and not because one of them is romancing with somebody else.

Springer said the couple will get their divorce in Switzerland, their legal residence. The American actress and the Welsh actor separated on July 3. A tearful reunion followed in Rome on July 16 and they moved in with producer Carlo Ponti and actress Sophia Loren at their palatial on the outskirts of Rome. Springer said Miss Taylor had moved to a hotel, but none of them would admit she was a guest. Burton was supposed to be at the Ponti villa still, but nobody there would talk.

The lid is down The government has clamped a lid on information about expenses at President Nixon's residences at San Clementc, and Key Biscaync, but officials say it's only temporary. Both the head of the General Services Administration GSA and a White House spokesman said the news embargo will be off as soon as a comprehensive report on public spending on Nixon's private residences is completed. Rep. Jack Brooks, accused the White House at a news conference Tuesday of attempting to block a congressional investigation of federal funds spent on Nixon's California and Florida residences. He said GSA director Arthur F.

Sampson refused to give him information he was seeking on the spending. Brooks is chairman of the Government Activities Committee. Sampson, later in the day said the information was being withheld but not solely on White House orders. "The decision was made jointly by GSA, the Secret Service and the White House," he said. High zoo costs "The soaring cost of food has made me shop around like a housewife," says Dewey Garvey, who makes out the grocery list for the 2.000 animals at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.

"So far we haven't been hit by shortages. And there absolutely will be no rationing or cutback in quality," he added. The commissary manager at Brookfield, one of the world's largest zoos, said the price of a pound of horse meat has rocketed from 33 cents to 66 cents since Jan. 1. Three hundred pounds of horse meat are needed daily for the 100 or so animals that have it as their main course.

A lion devours 10 pounds a day. Garvey's list includes 1,000 pounds of apples a week, 800 pounds of carrots, 500 pounds of bananas, 200 pounds of sweet potatoes, 300 pounds of rough lettuce and three tons of cereals. The Evening News Sault Ste. Marie WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1973 VOL. 73, No.

171 Michigan PRICE 15 CENTS U. S. doubling rate of supplies to Cambodia to beat the deadline WASHINGTON (AP) As the Aug. 15 cutoff date for American bombing in Cambodia approaches, Pentagon sources say the United States is doubling the rate at which military aid is shipped to the government in Phnom Penh. 88 persons die in crash of ietliner at Boston By DANIEL Q.

HANEY BOSTON (AP) "People were scattered all over the ground. There was no sound. They were all dead," nurse Maureen Kennedy said in describing the scene of a jetliner crash in which 88 persons ciisd. The mother, brother and sister of Harold Baker, 2144 W. 4th Sault were victims in the Boston plane crash which claimed the lives of S8 persons yesterday.

Baker's family came from the Burlington, Vt. area, and they apparently were on their way from Vermont to Boston for a weekend holiday and a baseball game. Mr. and Mrs. Baker departed last night for Vermont.

Names of those members of Baker's family who were killed were not known here. "There was nothing humanly possible to be done for those people. I never felt so helpless in all my life. I never felt so inadequate," she said after returning from the burned wreckage of a Delta Airlines DC9 that lay on a foggy runway at Logan international Airport. One person survived Tuesday morning's crash, th2 worst ever at Boston.

Air Force Sgt. Leopold Chouinard, 20, of Marshfield, was hospitalized in critical condition with burns over most of his body. Delta Flight 723 sliced through a 2Vi-foot-high seawall and disintegrated while attempting a landing at the airport. Federal Aviation Administration officials would only say that the. pilot, Capt.

John N. Striel was flying the jetliner 230 feet too low and 3,500 feet short of the usual touchdown point. An 11-man team from the National Transportation Safety Board today began trying to find out why. Among the victims were Chester Wiggin a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Robert W. Moran, an assistant New Hampshire attorney general.

William C. Keepers, the airport's chief traffic controller, said was no word of trouble" in routine talk with the jetliner at 11:08 a.m. "He (the pilot) was issued clearance to land, given runway visual range of 6,000 feet and acknowledged the transmission," Keepers said. "That was the last contact." A minute later, the twin-engine plane clipped the wall, flipped over and broke apart. Its wreckage was sprawled across a gravel strip next to Boston's harbor and the 10.000- foot runway beyond.

The airport had been shut down once Tuesday morning because of bad weather but had been reopened. Witnesses said a fog bank was sweeping across the runways as the jet made its final anproach. The plane had left Burlington, at 9:12 a.m., 12 minutes behind schedule. It made an unscheduled at Manchester, N.H., to pick up passengers stranded there when a flight to New York was cancelled because of fog. We want to give those guys every chance we can," said one qualified source.

Since Jan. 1, 1973, the United States has shipped to Cambodia 21 T28s, four C47 cargo planes, £1 river patrol boats, 30 ar- inored personnel carriers, eight 155-millimeter howitzers, and a large number of mortars, smaller artillery guns, trucks, communications equipment, ammunition and small arms. Pentagon officials say the only reason more sophisticated weaponry is not going to Phnom Penh is that Cambodian military forces are not sufficiently trained to use them. Congress has approved legislation ordering President Nixon to halt all military activity in Indochina by Aug. 15.

Until then B52 bombers and tactical fighter bombers like the Fill arc expected to continue to hit concentrations of North Vietnamese Communists and Cambodian rebels. Defense Secretary James R. Judge drops charges against St. Ignace six ST. IGNACE Charges of disturbing a public meeting against six St.

Ignace residents were dismissed today in 92nd E. Germany's Ulbriclit is dead at 80 BERLIN (AP) Walter Ulbricht, the spade-bearded East German Communist leader whose monum-ent is the Berlin wall, died today, the official news agency ADN reported. He was 80. Ulbricht had been ill since he was replaced as party first secretary by Erich Honecker in May 1971. He retained his post as chairman 01 the State Council, making him titular chief of state until his death.

He remained a member of the party's Central Committee and Politburo. ADX reported earlier that Ulbricht suffered a stroke July 19. District Court by Judg Robert A. Wood. The charges were originally lodged against the men in connection with incidents reported by the Mackinac Island police in the early hours of Tune 7.

I Disturbance charges dropped today were those against Mayor Ron Walker, id Johnson, Joseph Visnaw, Jerry Gallagher, Michael Huskey a nd Quentin Goudreau. According to Judge Wood the Mackinac Island police officers involved were reluctant to testify because of the animosity which has built up between the communities over the incident. Aggravated assault charges pending against Johnson and Huskey were also dismissed today by Judge Wood, and he added that the county prosecutor intends to request the circuit court to dismiss the charges asainst Johnson and Visnaw of obstructing a poiice officer in the performance of his duty. Schlesinger has said it is doubtful whether the Phnom Penh government can survive without American air power. There have been reports that the Americans are considering persuading the South Vietnamese to send some troops and planes to help out their Cambodian neighbors.

In recent days, civilians, including bank clerks and civil servants, have been called out to train in the use of American- made weapons in case rebel forces should reach the city's defenses. Before the Paris peace accords were signed iast January, the United States rushed in millions of dollars worth of equipment to South Vietnam. U.S. officials said that was necessitated by the provision in the peace agreement limiting American aid to South Vietnam to replacement of military equipment lost or destroyed in battle. There is, however, no restriction on U.S.

aid to Cambodia. U.S. military aid to Cambodia is financed under a consressionally approved continuing resolution permitting aid to continue while work is completed on the budget for the fiscal year that began l. The Pentagon may provide aid at an annual rate of S133.2 million, the same as iast year. The latter bound over to circuit court for trial after a preliminary hearing in District Court June 27.

Beef industry takes complaints to Washington, would end freeze By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Representatives of the beef industry took their complaints to Washington today, amid a rising chorus of protests about a beef shortage caused by the continuation of price ceilings. Many wholesalers in the New York City area planned a one- day shutdown today because of a lack of supplies and consumers across the country sought ways of balancing the budget and feeding their families. A spokesman for the American Meat Institute said representatives of producers and processors would meet in Washington at 2 p.m. EDT with Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz in an effort to get the ceil- inss on beef prices lifted.

Cost of Living Council officials repeatedly have said the ceiling will stay on until Sept. 12. The council also announced on Tuesday that it would probe the entire profit situation in the meat industry and officials expressed skepticism about reports that wholesalers and packers could not afford to continue operations. Virginia Knauer, President Nixon's special assistant on consumer affairs, said in New York on Tuesday that food prices probably will stay at present levels. "Prices will start stabilizing and leveling off, but the days of cheap food are 1 she said.

Fred Filiir.ger of the Internal Revenue Service in C-eveland, Ohio, said he was investigating complaints from commercial meat buyers who said they had been offered beef at illegal, over-the-ceiling prices. Dave Doherty, director of sales for in New Orleans, said the situation was getting worse. "We're only able to get about one-third of our requirement for beef and we're scrounging up fryers (chickens) from any place we can get them," he said. "Some of the stores are already running short and we're beginning to put other things in the meat canned hams, sausage, orange jjice, whatever." Officials in Houston. said there won't be any roast beef on the menus in the school cafeterias this fail.

'The price of beef is just too high," said Claude Keen, food service director for the district. He said lunch prices were increased from 40 to 45 cents for elementary schools and from 50 to SO cents for secondary schools. National Service forecast for the area 10 miles of Sault Ste. Marie. Mostly cloudy with showers and thundershowers this afternoon and toni'rt.

High in mid 60s: lov: in mid Thursday mostly c'oudy with hi2h in upper 60s. Eas- to northeast winds z'. to 16 miles hour this afternoon. becoming northerly at 5 to 13 per hour tonight. Probabilities of rain 40 per cent this afternoon.

50 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Thursday. Haying outlook: chance of showers again on Sat- ura Sault Temperatures Highest yesterday £4 Today at II a.m. SO Lowest last 5S Warmest or. this date ZB in 1935. Coldest on this date 35 in 1947.

Sault Precipitation 24-hr, precipitation to 7 a.m. 0. Total accumulated this month 0. Departure from normal this month in. Total accumulated since Jan.

19.96 in. Normal since Jan. 1, 16.17 in. Sun sets 9:09 EDT Sun rises 6:19 EDT.