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The Weather Highs tomorrow may get above freezing for the first time a week ami a half with tern jeratarw the law tm mM M'a. Vol.97 No. 104 Cease fire A "Possibility" Within 24 Hours PARIS (AP) Henry A. Kissinger and Le Due Tho met today for what may be their last session in the current phase of their negotiations for a cease fire in Vietnam. Kissinger was expected to fly to Washington to report to President Nixon soon after his meeting with Tho in a suburban villa.

Before they met, a subcommittee of experts from both nations held a 90 minute meeting to discuss details of a settlement. French press reports said agreement was near on the issue blocking a cease fire accord, the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam. La Nation predicted agreement in "a matter of hours." But Humanite, the French Communist party newspaper, said Kissinger was insisting on fundamental changes in the draft he and Tho worked out in October and "is holding up the signature of an accord which could lead to a cease fire within 24 hours." Kissinger was accompanied this morning by William J. Porter, the U.S. delegate to the four party weekly peace talks, and William Sullivan, deputy assistant secretary of state for Southeast Asian affairs.

Tho's delegation included Xuan Thuy, the North Vietnamese delegate to the four party talks, and Nguyen Co Thach, Hanoi's deputy foreign minister. Kissinger's plane arrived at Astronauts For Last Lunar Probe SPACE CENTER, Houston AP) Two jubilant American adventurers prepared today for a farewell lunar exploration. But already aboard their lander Challenger was a new discovery samples of intriguing orange soil possibly dating to the last fiery gasps of a dying moon. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H.

Schmitt, in their last geology field trip in the moon valley of Taurus Lit trow today, take an eight mile drive along the base of a high mountain and at the foot of wrinkled hills, using an electric car with a patched fender. The astronauts, saying they "like to cover new ground," traveled a mile farther than planned on Tuesday night, gathering many bags of lunar samples, including scoops of the orange dust never before found on the moon. The orange material was found during exploration of an ancient avalanche, 4.4 miles from the landing camp in Taurus Littrow valley. By coincidence, it was found by Cernan, not Schmitt, a geologist and America's first professional scientist in space. Great Bend Tribune First liM Throughout The "GoMrn Belt Area" Of West Central Kansas 201? Forest Ave Great Bend, Kans, 67530 Orly Airport Tuesday night from a U.S.

air base in Germany. Airport authorities said the U.S. embassy ordered the crew to prepare for departure today after the meeting with Tho. President Nixon's national security adviser conferred for 4 hours Tuesday with Hanoi's chief peace negotiator after two subcommittees met earlier in the day to discuss details of the cease fire draft. The two peace negotiators had met for 52 hours during the past three weeks when Tuesday's session ended with cordial handshakes at a villa in Gif sur Yvette, 15 miles southwest of Paris.

French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann, who keeps in close contact with both sides, said Tuesday that a compromise is "possible and likely" despite "some signs of intractability." "I have always been convinced that there will be a settlement before the U.S. Congress meets" on Jan. 3, Schumann told a press luncheon. Reports from Saigon today said that President Nguyen Van Thieu feels President Nixon is hoping to announce a peace settlement during the Christmas season or in January, during his State of the Union address or at his inauguration. Legislators who attended a reception at the presidential palace said Thieu also told them he does not believe Nixon will sign a bilateral agreement with North Vietnam.

Preparing "Hey," exclaimed Cernan as he stumbled into the soil at the rim of a crater called Shorty. "Wait a minute there is orange soil." "It's all over," Cernan went on excitedly. "Orange. I've stirred it up with my feet. On earth, scientists were also excited by the discovery, though cautious in their evaluation.

They said the orange soil may have originated from "the last gaseous gasp of vol canism" on the moon. While Cernan and Schmitt motored on the moon, their crewmate, Ronald E. Evans, labored in the command ship America orbiting overhead. Evans is operating an array of science instruments which are photographing and probing large slices of the moon. Evans, on a different rest cycle from his crewmates, awoke from an eight hour rest at 8:30 a.m.

EST. Officials said his exploration from orbit was going smoothly and that he had spotted formations in three locations that could be evidence of once active volcanoes on the moon. Bird Count Registration Meet 7 A.M. Saturday The registration and orientation meeting for Barton County's fourth annual Christmas Bird Count will be Saturday, Dec. 16, at the Highland Manor at 7 a.m.

Sherman Nystrom, professor of biology at the Barton County Community Junior College and director of the count, reported that the count will begin immediately following the meeting. There is a $1 registration fee which goes to the National Audubon Society. According to Nystrom, persons interested in participating in the bird count should attend the preliminary meeting and pay their fee. He stated that there is no other activity that creates more excitement in bird and nature clubs than the annual count and there is no event in the rest of the world that can compare with it. The state bird count, sponsored by the Kansas Ornithogogical Society, will be combined with the Audubon count.

Registration fee for the KOS Count is 25 cents. In case of inclement weather, the alternate date for the Count is Saturday, Dec. 23. More than 15,000 bird watchers will be prowling in nearly a thousand localities across North America, trying to rack up the highest count on record, Nystrom said. Counts will be made in all 50 states and in the ten provinces of Canada during the official count period of Dec.

22 to Jan. 3. Leaders of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and 4 groups interested in merit badge work in bird watching may contact Prof. Nystrom at the college. NewspaperBBCHIVE Tot's Slayer Acquitted For Insanity HUTCHINSON, Kan.

(AP) Larry David Thrift, a 28 year old former car wash attendant, was found not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday in the August 1967 death of a 3 year old Hutchinson girl. The acquittal in the trial, delayed more than five years because of the defendant's mental status, came in Reno County District Court. Judge James Rexroad made the ruling after Thrift earlier agreed to waive his right to trial by jury. The body of Renee Talbot was discovered stuffed into a laundry sack behind a Hutchinson warehouse near Thrift's apartment. Thrift also is awaiting trial on charges of assault against a 10 year old Hutchinson girl.

Those charges led to his arrest on the murder charge and the recovery of the Talbot girl's body. The acquittal ruling means Thrift will be returned to the Larned State Hospital for additional treatment and safekeeping He is subject to release when the hospital's chief medical officer feels Thrift has recovered. Worker Injured The fire department ambulance was sent to Petro Log, 702 Patton, at 9:59 a.m. when a logging tool fell on an employe. Firemen said that Lyle Cason, 19, Route 3, and other employes were cleaning the tool when the 400 pound unit fell on Cason 's right knee.

He was taken to the Central Kansas Medical Center for examination and treatment. Coffee at Johnsons Johnson Refrigeration, 1015 McKinley, will host the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce coffee this week. Members and guests will be welcomed at 9:30 Thursday morning with coffee, rolls and doorprizes. Wednesday, December 13, 1972 PANDEMONIUM Somewhere in the midst of the mass of humanity is Barton Juco Coach Dick Nagy and his Cougar players. Fans flooded the basketball court Tuesday night after the Cougars defeated the third ranked Hutchinson Juco Blue Dragons.

The final score after a double overtime was 95 94, giving the Cougars their first win over the Reno County club as the Cougars start their fourth year of basketball competition. Vern Asks TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Atty. Gen. Vern Miller says he will recommend to the Kansas 1973 Legislature it approve retaining the death penalty for certain felony crimes.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the death penalty as it was being applied in this country. However, the court appeared to have attacked capital punishment because of the inconsistent manner in which it was applied and did not strike down the death penalty completely. Miller said a discussion of keeping the death penalty for certain offenses was a major topic of a meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General which he attended last week in San Diego, Calif. Miller said some attorney generals feel the death penalty can only be retained with a mandatory death penalty for certain crimes.

feel there could be some type of committee set up or a court, to review mitigating circumstances and perhaps let this body decide whether the death penalty should be imposed, Miller said. Miller said Nebraska's Attorney General Clare Meyer outlined three steps which a plan in that state proposes. These are: The legislature would decide which crimes should carry the death penalty. The jury would decide only the guilty or innocence of the accused, but would have the power to reduce the charge from first degree murder. A judge or a panel of judges would determine, based upon the circumstances of the case, whether the convicted person should receive a death sentence.

Miller said the attorneys general passed a resolution calling for retention of the death penalty for 10 crimes, and he said he agrees with those. The 10 are: Murder of any police officer, corrections employe or fireman acting in the line of duty. A contract murder committed for pecuniary gain by a defendant after being hired by any person and the person who hired the killer. Murder by the malicious use or detonation of any bomb or similar destructive device. Murder committed by a person who has continuously been convicted of murder in the first or second degree.

Murder committed by a de Hold on Death Penalty fendant while under the sentence of life imprisonment. Murder committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate a rape, kidnapping, arson, armed robbery, armed burglary or when death occurs following the sexual molestation of a child under 13 years of age. Murder resulting from the hijacking of an airplane, train, bus, ship or other commercial vehicle. Multiple slayings. Murder committed for purpose of avoiding or preventing lawful arrest or effecting an escape from legal custody Miller Leading Boyle In Miner Vote Count WASHINGTON (AP) The government reported today that challenger Arnold Miller has taken the lead over United Mine Workers President W.

A. "Tony" Boyle in the union's court ordered election. Miller had 11 774 votes to 10, 673 for Boyle, said the Labor Department, which is conducting the vote count under heavy guard. The vote count is inconclusive so far with more than 100,000 votes still to be tallied. Miller's running mates, Mike Trbovich for vice president and Harry Patrick for secretary treasurer, also moved ahead of their opponents on Boyle's slate.

Trbovich had 11,146 votes to 10,573 for Leonard J. Pnakovich while Patrick had 11,423 votes to 10,307 for Wilbert Killion. In the initial vote count report Tuesday from 53 of the un 1972 U. Circulation Dept. 793 3521 Classified Ad Dept.

793 3521 News Department 793 3546 Murder of a public official. The attorneys general also adopted a resolution which says they advocate "the death penalty be provided as a legal punishment where it is deemed appropriate by the Congress and the states's legislatures within their respective jurisdictions." Miller said only one attorney general did not support that resolution. "We plan to submit through legislators a bill calling for the death penalty under certain conditions, along these guidelines," Miller said of the attorneys general resolutions. ion's 1,300 locals, showed Boyle with 2,180 votes to 1,587 for Miller. Miller, running under the Miners for Democracy banner, is filling the insurgent shoes of the late Joseph A.

"Jock" Yablonski, who was found murdered along with his wife and daughter several weeks after losing the union's 1969 presidential election to Boyle. U.S. Dist. Court Judge William B. Bryant ordered the count of election results after the wide spread voting fraud the 1969 contest.

1969 contest. Boyle has repeatedly disclaimed any knowledge of the Yablonski slayings. Several local and district officials and mineworkers from Pennsylvania and Tennessee have confessed or been indicted in connection with the shootings. The Labor Department count, conducted under heavy guard, also showed Boyle's running mates well ahead of their Miners for Democracy opponents. Labor Department officials estimated that some 130,000 out of the nearly 200,000 union members had voted in the election which was conducted Dec.

1 8 in 25 states under the supervision of 1,000 Labor Department agents. The sealed ballot boxes were shipped to a Labor Department office in suburban Silver Spring, where the count is being conducted. The outcome is not expected to be known for several days. Both sides predicted victory, and said the first announced votes were inconclusive. ofMlS ISSUfi 24 PAGES 2 SECTIONS Grenade Mailed to Salinan SALINA, Kan.

(AP) An investigation headed by the FBI continues today into a live hand grenade mailed Tuesday to a Southwestern here. The grenade was deactived by a Ft. Riley bomb squad a little more than two hours after it was received at the phone company. Authorities said the employe realized what the package contained as it was and the BI were notified. The bomb squad summoned from Ft.

Riley, about 50 miles away, deactivated the phone company. Dick Berger, district manager for Bell, said part of the building was time but telephone service Authorities said the grenade was foreign made but with an American made detonator. The pin had been pulled and the detonator was held in place with a short piece ot string. A spokesman for the bomb squad said the grenade contained black powder and possibly could have exploded. Police Chief John Woody package was mailed, but he Warrant to Pump Stomach CINCINNATI (AP) Cincinnati police said Wednesday they had to search a man's stomach, so they got a search warrant to have Sam Fenderson's stomach pumped.

Vice squad specialists James Simon and Al Hamman said that as they approached Fenderson, 40, in a restaurant he jammed 16 paper packets into his mouth and swallowed them. Hamman said he grabbed Fenderson by the throat in an attempt to stop the swallowing, but Fenderson struggled and hit the officer. Hamman's thumb was knocked out of joint, police said. The officers charged Fenderson with assault and resisting arrest and obtained a search warrant saying they were looking for heroin. The packets were pumped from Fenderson's stomach and sent to a laboratory for testing.

The results will not be available for several days, police said. "We couldn't imagine why he didn't get sick," said Simon, but added, "I guess the stuff didn't get out of the packets into his stomach. "And," he said, "we got him right to the hospital." Fenderson later was returned to jail. Dog Retrieves Canned Quail MEADVILLE. Mo.

(AP) How many hunting dogs will go after a quail and bring back a three gallon cream can? Art Heaton of Meadville has one. Clark Milhgan. an area assistant at the Fountain Grove Wildlife Area near here, gave this report to the State Department of Conservation: Milhgan and his brother, John, were to meet at Heaton 's home. They arrived to find Heaton's dog wandering around with a three gallon cream can stuck on its head. The can couldn't budge.

They tried a little soap and water. Finally, Clark Milligan drove to Meadville and bought a chisel and hammer. They got the can off and in it was a dead quail. It turned out that Heaton had hit the quail with his pickup and it stuck in the grill. He removed the dead bird and tossed it in the can and the dog went after it.

Holiday Concert Thursday "An Evening of Christmas Music" will be presented by the vocal music department of Roosevelt Junior High Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the city auditorium. The public is invited to attend. The seventh grade chorus, girls glee club, girls' ensemble, Roosevelt Singers and the Roosevelt mixed chorus will perform familiar Christmas songs and favorite carols. Mrs.

Jenny Allford is director of the choirs. ,0 Bell Telephone Co. employe unwrapped and Salina police grenade in tne alley Derund tne cleared of all personnel for a was not interrupted. would not reveal where the said it was not mailed locally. ARCHIVE EWSPAPER:.