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Environment Laws In Big Package WASttmQTON(AP) -President Nbten's 1971 plan for pro- letting the environment will be a multi-headed package empha- sising prevention of ecological crises and giving states major reponsibilities in the field, congressional sources say. In one of the administration's new proposals, noise limits would be placed on everything from construction equipment to power lawn mowers and snowmobiles, the sources say. Regulations would prohibit scarring of the land, such as by strip mining. The administration's legisla- tivepackageand the President's environment message, due on Capitol Hill about Feb. 8, will commit the federal government to greater expenditures in the popular fight against and and water pollution and in creation of more parks in urban areas.

Explaining the more than 20 proposed measures to key congressmen this week, administration spokesmen have been selling the program chiefly as preventive legislation to avoid crises in the future, an observer at one briefing said. One of the major new responsibilities for state governments would be to come up with specific land-use regulations within the scope of broad federal guidelines. The President will ask Congress for about $20 million in the fiscal year beginning next July 1, the sources said, to offer the states as grants in developing land-use plans and enforcement procedures. Private firms, port authorities and local the federal governmentr-would have to comply with the state land-use policy before they could begin construction projects under this law. Other administration proposals, sources said, will include: limiting the amount of certain chemicals and other toxic substances in manufacturing processes and in marketable products.

on sulfur oxide emissions which result when some coal and other fossil fuels are burned. The administration, it explained, wants to place new taxes on fuels with high sulfur content as an incentive for greater use of low sulfur fuel. tax on gasoline containing lead additives as an incentive for motorists to buy non-lead fuel. This was proposed during the last session of Congress but failed. Regulations against unlimited ocean dumping of wastes and sewage.

Clear Udall Robinson Of Shoplift Charge NFO Trucks In Caravan To Market KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A caravan of 15 trucks loaded with wheat is expected this morning at the Bartlett Grain elevator in Kansas City, Kan. The trucks are driven by members of the National Farmers Organization seeking to publicize "that the farmer is underpaid by rule of the national economy," Don Florea, of Brighton, said. The farmers are from Logan, Sheridan and Gove counties in northwest Kansas and from Brighton in eastern Colorado. They started their 400-mile trip from Oakley, Wednesday morning.

Gene Herl, chairman of the Logan County chapter of the NFO, said his grain is bringing no higher prices than it was in 1940. Duane Wulfkuhle, Jackson County, NFO chairman, said farm prices are 67 per cent of parity, the same as they were in in 1933 in the midst of the depression. Florea said they had arranged to sell the wheat for $1.52 a bushel. The rate at most elevators in his area, he said, is $1.27 a bushel. A number of wives and children accompanied the caravan.

The trucks bore hand lettered signs reading: "We can get along with second hand equipment. Can you get along with second hand food?" And "Unity or perish." Freckle-Faced Flier Stuart Roosa Is Gee-Whiz Kid Of Apollo Crew SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Stuart A. Roosa is the folksy, "gee Whiz" kid of the Apollo 14 crew, but his freckle- faced candor hides a steel core and an awesome temper. 'We're the greatest crew ever put together for a space flight," says the 37-year-old Air Force major. Even though he won't land there, flying to the moon, the greatest thing that has ever happened to me," he adds.

Roosa's radiating enthusiasm is in sharp contrast to the calmly deliberate approach of his crewmates, Apollo 14 commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. and lunar module pilot Edgar D. Mitchell. Shepard and Mitchell enjoy concerts and society affairs.

Roosa, the command module pilot on Apollo 14, prefers fishing with his three sons, hunting and listening to Johnny Cash. While Shepard and Mitchell land on the lunar surface, Roosa will be left alone to orbit the moon in the command module. For 45 minutes out of every two hours for a day and a half, Roosa will pass over the back side of the moon, out of touch with earth and completely alone. And as part of some photographic experiments he will conduct, Roosa must turn off the cabin lights and submerge himself and the spacecraft in Gilt Price Sets Record FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart L.

Udall was cleared today of a charge of shoplifting after the involved dropped the case. Judge J. Mason Groves of Fairfax County Court ordered the action after the commonwealth attorney said the Dart Drug Co. in nearby McLean, declined to press the charge that Udall, earlier this month, pocketed a 95-cent package of paying for them. Udall said released outside the courtroom that he readily admitted at the time that he had absentmindedly put the cigars in his pocket before he bought and paid for a full box of cigars.

"My failure to pay for this item was an absentminded oversight: I did not have the slightest intention at any time of depriving the drug store of its property without payment," Udall said. The arrest was made by an off-duty policeman who was serving as a special security guard at the store. Udall noted he had volunteered his admission and explanation at the time but that he had been arrested within seconds and that "once the arrest was made, everyone I turned to arresting officer, the store manager, the justice of the peace (who later described my arrest as 'ridiculous'), met my pleas with the statement: 'It's out of my hands. I have no authority to do A Yorkshire gilt raised by Claude Robinson Jr. of Wellsville was auctioned last week for $7500, a new record for a gilt of any breed, according to the American Yorkshire Club.

The sale was held at the University of Missouri Livestock Pavilion in connection with the Yorkshire Type Conference at which breeders from 19 states showed 250 head of breeding animals and 31. pairs of littermates. The Robinson gilt, farrowed July 1 was judged champion gilt and the Yorkshire club called her one of the best gilts ever shown. Bidding for her started in aflurryof excitement and as stakes increased, the bidding narrowed to Marvin Smith of Salisbury, and Dick Kuecker of Algona, Iowa. Smith held out to win at $7500.

Kuecker later purchased her littermate sister at $2000, the second highest selling gilt. The championship is a daughter of HPH9 Bigun 5-6, first junior boar at the 1969 National Barrow Show. She weighed 344 pounds and adjusted to 220 pounds at 142 days. PLAY DATES SET FULTON The William Woods-Westminster College Theatre will present Robert Bolt's stirring and highly acclaimed drama of the reluctant martyrdom of Sir Thomas More, "A Man for All 8:00 p. m.

Feb. 16-20 at the William Woods Campus Center Theatre. Judge Tosses Decisions' nd Jury's Is Evening Course Kent Report "Great Decisions 1971" is one of the courses scheduled to start Monday night at 7 p.m. at the Mexico Evening School. The course is offered cooperatively with the University Extension Center.

It will deal with some of the crucial foreign policy problems of concern today. The kit of materials that will be used has been prepared by the Foreign Policy Association, a non-profit organization. It is not connected with any governmental agency. The discussion type course will be led by Ralph Powell. Topics to be covered are: (1) Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia; (2) Middle East Conflict; (3) Latin America and the United States; (4) Man and His Environment; (5) Communist China and the United States; (6) Dissent, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy; (7) West Germany and (8) National Priorities and World Peace.

Fee for the course is $9 which includes the kit of materials and it will meet one night a week for eight weeks. Instant News WASHINGTON (AP) The White House says it is not trying to bypass the House Ways and Means Committee and its hostile chairman by dividing enue sharing plan into at least seven separate bills, most of which would be under the jurisdiction of other committees. section of Upstate New York shut off from the outside. At least five persons have been killed in the storm. WASHINGTON (AP) The nomination of John B.

Connally as Treasury secretary seems headed for approval in the Senate Finance Committee. He appears before the panel today. CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) launch team makes final adjustments to the two Apollo 14 spaceships, certifying them ready for flight to the moon Sunday. PHILADELPHIA (AP) A 50-foot wall of flame sparked by explosions has swept a half- block section in suburban Conshohocken, killing one man, injuring 48 persons and destroying a dozen homes.

Young Farmers Hear Speakers SCOTT'S CORNER The Young Farmers of R-6 held their meeting Monday and Larry Wilburn, president, called the meeting to order. There were 17 members and 27 guests present. Dale Schnarre, area farm management specialist, told about the Corn and Soybean contest results. He then spoke on irrigating for corn. Mr.

Schnarre showed slides of several farms that have an irrigation system in the county. C. W. Browning, area agriculture mechanization specialist, discussed' drying and milo. He then discussed the different types of fans and the amount of air they force out.

Phil Becker is secretary. CLEVELAND, Ohio 1 federal judge today threw out a grand jury report critical of the Kent State University administration but let stand 25 indictments the jury returned as a result of violence on the campus last May. U.S. District Court Judge William K. Thomas ordered the report of the special Portage County grand jury to be "physically expunged and destroyed" within 10 days.

His 50-page memorandum ruled against all of the 18-page grand jury report except for the indictments. The jury investigation was ordered by former Gov. James A. Rhodes after 13 students were shot, four of them fatally, during a confrontation with National Guardsmen on the campus last May 4. The jury's report was critical of the Kent State administration and stated that the National Guardsmen on the campus were not liable to criminal prosecution.

Thomas' ruling came in suits brought by students and faculty members of Kent State. They contended the jury report was prejudicial and went beyond powers of a grand jury. The report contended the university administration had fostered "an attitude of laxity, overindulgence and permissiveness with its students and faculty to the extent that it can no longer regulate the activities of either Most of the 25 indictments named Kent State students or former students on charges of rioting. None of those indicted have been tried. The jury report noted "we do not condone all of the activities of the National Guard" at Kent State but that Guardsmen "fired their weapons in the honest and sincere belief that they would suffer serious bodily injury had they not done so." "They are not, therefore, subject to criminal prosecution under the laws of this state for any death or injury resulting there- from," the report claimed.

that "pure blackness" a quarter-million miles from earth. Roosa doesn't flinch at the idea. "I'm gonna take tune to look at the scene and probably appreciate it. It'll probably be a good feeling," he says. "I've always preferred flying by myself." What will he do, he was asked once, if Shepard and Mitchell become stranded on the moon's surface? "I'd come home alone," he said without hesitation, "After I was sure there was nothing I could do to help them." The red-haired Roosa has exhibited a fearsome temper in the past, but the spaceman has learned to hold it in.

He gives a reporter at least partial credit for that. The newsman once mentioned his temper in a story and the astronaut later told the reporter, "I'm glad you did that. It helped me a lot." Roosa was born in Durango, and grew up in Muskogee, Okla. He developed an ambition early to become a pilot and never wavered. After two years in Oklahoma State University, Roosa joined the Air Force and became a pilot.

After touring several air bases he returned to college under an Air Force program and graduated with honors from the University of Colorado with a degree in aeronautical engineering. The space agency selected him as an astronaut while he was working in experimental test flying at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. To the good-natured distress of his crewmates, Roosa plans to take into space several reels of tape recorded country music. Some country and Western stars have provided him with the tapes. In addition to his three sons, Christopher, 11, John, 10, and Stuart 8, the astronaut has a daughter, Rosemary, 7.

Despite the memory of Apollo near disastrous moon mission of last risks of spaceflight don't worry his family, says the astronaut. "Joan knows the problems," says Rossa of his wife. "She knows how dependent you are on power and own little world out there. I don't think she has a lot of trepidation." Mrs. Roosa sounds a little less enthusiastic.

'Stuart wants to go, so I want him to go," she says. "But the moon's a long way away. 1 feel a little bit nervous, but I'm glad he's going." Roosa himself knows the terrors and dangers of the space business perhaps better than most. He was capsule communicator in 1967 when three astronauts died in a spacecraft fire at Cape Kennedy. He was talking to them from Mission Control only moments before the craft burst into flames.

The astronaut is optimistic that this country will keep an active space program operating despite a declining space budget in recent years. Roosa plans to keep working in the space program after his flight and, hopefully, work his way into another mission. "I certainly would like to go back and walk on the moon," he says with a grin. Latin States For Ecuador Against US Corn Return Repays US For Hybrid Use KENTLAND, Ind. (AP) A 10-year-old good-will gesture to Yugoslavia will be repaid this year with the sale of corn seed to American farmers fighting Southern corn leaf blight.

Edward J. Funk Sons, of Kentland, a major U.S. seed corn producer, revealed Wednesday they are importing Yugoslavian blight resistant seed to meet a serious shortage in this nation. Don Funk, the firm's sales manager, returned from Yugoslavia on Tuesday with agreements from two companies to supply seed. Plant breeders at Purdue University, the University of Illinois and other Midwest schools a decade ago showed Yugoslavian geneticists how hybrid corn was producing substantially larger yields.

The Yugoslavs carried hybrid seed and the know-how for producing it home with them in the early 1960s. It became necessary early last fall for American corn growers to acquire large quantities of seed that did not include a strain, Texas male sterile especially vulnerable to the blight. Producers said there wouldn't be enough seed to go around, even with hurry-up production in Argentina and elsewhere in the Southern hemisphere, because of the blight which reduced the 1970 corn yield in the United States by about 10 per cent. Funk said the price for Yugoslavian seed will fluctuate and the markup also will be affected by the necessity to grade and treat them with fungicides and insecticides. Funk said all of the hybdrids his firm buys will be descendants of strains from the United States.

He said the Yugoslavian hybrids had passed inspection at the University of Illinois. WASHINGTON (AP) Latin American nations have closed ranks behind Ecuador and against the United States in agreeing to take up an Ecuadorian charge of U.S. coercion in the conflict over American fish- ifi2 By a vote of 22 to 0, the hemispheric community convoked a special meeting of the Organization of American States on Ecuador's allegation that the U.S. has been in violation of Article 19 of the OAS charter. The United States vigorously objected to the charge but abstained in the vote Wednesday night at the Pan American Union.

Within hours of the vote, the American Tuna Boat Association in San Diego reported seizure of three more U.S. fishing vessels off Ecaudor's coast. There now have been 17 seizures since Jan. 11. Ecuador's charge stems from the military sanctions imposed last week by the U.S.

after the first four vessels were seized within the 200-mile limit over which the South American nation claims jurisdiction. Article 19 prohibits use or the encouragement of use of "coercive measures of an economic or political character to force the sovereign will of another state U.S. Ambassador to the OAS Joseph John Jova rejected the allegation, saying the United States was compelled to impose the sanction under a law aimed at deterring illegal ship seizures. Jova urged the case be taken before the International Court of Justice or the Inter- American Committee on Peaceful Settlements. But the OAS Permanent Council ignored Jova's appeals and hemispheric foreign ministers will take up the issue Saturday.

The ministers already are gathered here for a discussion on ways to combat terrorism. U.S. sources, explaining the unanimous defeat of the American position, said there was no precedent in hemispheric history for rejecting a call by a member state for a special meeting. The OAS is unable to force the U.S. to lift the sanctions, which banned military sales to Ecuador for 12 months.

But Ecuadorian foreign minister Jose Maria Ponce Yepes said he hopes a censure of the U.S. action will create sufficient pressure to prompt a backdown. Liquor Vote Issue Splits Alliance MEXICO (MO.) LEDGER HANNIBAL A group of ministers who withdrew from the Hannibal ministerial alliance, rather than take a stand sale of liquor by the drink, has formed a new group, the Ministers Ecumenical Fellowship. It was formed by 12 ministers representing Hannibal's largest denominations, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Catholic and Christian. Ministers remaining in the alliance, representing 12 smaller denominations, mostly Baptist churches, announced they oppose sales of liquor by the drink.

A local option proposal will be voted on in a special election Feb. 2. The new ministerial group pledged itself to a "position of understanding and respect for each other" and to "take a positive Christian approach in all matters and to abstain from the arena of political pronouncements where divergent backgrounds make statements divisive." Those withdrawing in addition to Heimbeck are the Revs. Henry E. Trevathan, Park United Methodist Church; Deane K.

Lierle and Lawrence R. Veatch, First Christian; Leo Buhman and Jerry Kaimann, Hannibal Catholic; William H. Bunge, Arch Street Methodist; David Meeker, Second Christian; Ronald Trinity Episcopal; J. Ff edefick Lawson, First Methodist; and James Beahan, Oakwood 'Christian. The Rev.

Mr. Heimbeck was president of the Alliance and the Rev. Mr, Bunge was vice president. The ministers who withdrew said they would continue their relationships out of "concern for the moral good and well being of the community." Public Opinion Helping PWs ST. LOUIS (AP) Public pressure appears to be having a noticeable effect on the way North Vietnam treats prisoners of war, Brig.

Gen. Daniel James Jr. of the U.S. Air Force said Tuesday. James, the highest ranking Negro in the Air Force, said in recent months more letters and packages have been reaching prisoners.

"No nation can afford to be thoughtof as inhumane," James said in an interview prior to addressing the annual dinner meeting of the St. Louis Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He said North Vietnam apparently does not want the reputation either. The officer said North Vietnam also is releasing more films showing small groups of prisoners. Prescriptions Pack Punch! KIWANIS TRAVELOGUE Tuesday Feb.

2 "Expedition Peru" Tickets At The Door $1.50 Remember Whenever illness has you on the ropes, your registered Pharmacist is in your corner ready to serve ydu. Logan LIBERTY SAIGON (AP) Military sources say all U.S. Air Force combat units are to be withdrawn by the end of 1972, leaving only advisers and technicians, if the air war is sufficiently Vietnamized by then. NOW! They challenged an untamed land! WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS' UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Egypt's U.N.

ambassador says Israel's latest communication in the Middle East peace talks has not raised his hopes for a settlement. Snow, wind and bitter cold numb the Northeast, leaving a ISJU DUIW Pioduc'iom EVENINGS 7. -00-9. -00 Matinees 2:00 IN PERSON ON STAGE KPCR's OWN WEEK-END WARRIOR BILL WHYTE SILVER BALLAD SINGERS A COUNTRY MUSIC SHOW YOU WILL NEVER FORGET FEATURING Bill Whyte, Gary Whyte, Tim Burke, Elsberry, Dave Palson, Wentzville, Jr. Fishburn, Auxvasse, Crystal Motley, Vandalia, Mo.

ADMISSION In Advance $1.25 Children 50c At the Door $1.50 5.12 Town: Mexico, Mo. Dote: January 30, 1971 Time 8:00 P.M. Place: Audrain 4-H Center Exclusively Booked by Don Whyte (Phone 3 1 4-898-24 1 4) Advance ickets Available from NFO Members Mexico Evening School Education Is A Continuous Process Enrollment will be held Monday night, February 1, 7 o'clock, at the Mexico High School for the following adult classes except those otherwise stated. For more information or to make reservations in limited classes, call 581-5684, Director of Adult Education. Advanced Sewing Tailoring Clock Repair Antique Furniture Refinishing and Woodworking Astronomy for Amateurs Beginning Sewing Blue Print Reading Basic Ceramics Bridge Cake Creative Writing Crocheting Driver General Fix It Course Guitar Playing Judo Self Defense Income Tax Knitting (starts March 15) Lingerie Office P-E.

For Women Great Books Public Speaking Rapid Reading (starts March 15) Spanish Upholstery Beginning College Courses (Northeast Missouri State College): Fundamentals of English LL100; General Psychology SSI 66 The following classes are offered in conjunction with the University of Missouri Extension Center. Call 581-3231 for reservations. Advanced Oil Painting (Starts February 23) Great Decisions Interior Home Landscaping (Starts February 9) Gourmet Foods (Starts February 23) Personal Appearance (Starts February Limited Classes EVERY MERCURY'S A STAR IN ITS OWN CLASS! LINCOLN MERCURY'S STAR OF THE WEEK! MERCURY MARQUIS MERCURY COUGAR Ml IU IKY MOMl-m-Y MERCURY MONTEGO MERCURY COMET rl pruMU-r Kxrvr. 1 lii.j,!,- Olll J(JU )OIII mum-j CARROLL MOTOR COMPANY.