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NewspaperRRCHIVE Great Bend Tribune First Paper Throughout The "Golden Belt Area" Of West Central Kansas The Weather Fair to partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Wednesday. High tomorrow low to mid Vol. 97 No. 137 Tuesday, January 23, 1973 Circulation Dept. 793 3571 Classified Ad Dept.

793 3521 News Department 793 3546 THIS ISSUE 10 PAGES 10'i Lyndon B. 'WFWWWM. Police Recap 72 Activities A recap of the past year's activities of the Great Bend police department lias been released by Acting Chief Capt. Duane Dugan. During 1972, 1,182 cases were reported.

This was an increase of 156 over the 1971 total of 1,024. Of these, 820 were cleared for a clearance of 69.37 per cent. In 1971, 574 were cleared for a clearance of 56 per cent. During the year, Dugan said, 391 persons were arrested and 159 juveniles were processed or questioned for juvenile offenses. Traffic summons issued in 1972 totaled 2,631 as compared to 2,566 for 1971.

Of these, 2,341 entered pleas or were found guilty while 290 were found not guilty. In 1971 2,436 entered pleas or were found guilty while 130 were found not guilty. Telephone calls received totaled 32,673, down 5,912 from the 38,585 calls received in 1971. Window calls were down 141, showing 6,521 for 1972 and 6,662 for 1971. Radio transmissions were up, 99,378 for 1972 as compared to 98,484 for 1971.

Major accidents for 1972 totaled 502 as compared to 572 for 1971. There were 271 injury accidents, up 47 over the 224 1971 total. There were 27 less minor accidents with 362 recorded during 1972 as compared to 389 for 1971. Police cars traveled more than 10 times around the world as the seven patrol units totaled 252,658 miles for 1972. Missing Youth Found Slain KNOXVILLE, Term.

(AP) The body of a 16 year old Knox County youth, missing since Jan. 16, was found Monday floating in a quarry in eastern Knox County, the sheriff's officers said. Deputies said the body of Steve Hayes was found clad only in a jacket. The Knox County coroner's office said the youth had been shot twice in the chest. Hayes had been missing since he and a companion.

Army Spec. 4 Noel Bachman, 19, of Quapaw, were picked up and robbed by three men while hitchhiking a week ago. Bachman, who escaped from the trio after being beaten, said he saw the men put Hayes in a car and drive away after he had fled. He said one of the three fired three shots at him as he ran. The soldier, stationed at Cap Kennedy, made his way to a farmhouse and notified authorities.

He was later treated at a hospital for head injuries. City Has Own Private Eye Something new in Great Bend, and perhaps the western area of Kansas. a private detective agency has been opened here. Lanny Brummel, former Great Bend policeman, has opened the Brummel Detective Agency at his home at 1015 8th. He is both licensed and bonded to conduct the agency for investigations of all types and the gathering of confidential information for clients.

Brummel spent nine years in law enforcement during which he attended various schools in police work. He completed a 150 hour course in law enforcement and while with the police department received five awards for outstanding work in criminal investigation. Inmates on Hunger Strike MC ALESTER, Okla. (AP) A major hunger strike began at the Oklahoma State penitentiary Monday with a majority of the 1,875 inmates refusing to eat. Fewer than 100 inmates went through the convict food lines at morning and a similar number ate at noon, Warden Park Anderson said.

Anderson said there would be no attempt made to force the prisoners from their cells. He said the cell doors had been locked. The penitentiary is continuing to prepare meals, Anderson said, and the food will be available to any prisoner who wants to go and eat. Complaints included the quality of food, inadequate medical attention and a request that the state prison system be taken over by federal prison officials. The strike was described as the most widespread in recent history.

New Cock Fighting Bill TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Rep. John Peterson, Topeka, said Monday he will introduce legislation to outlaw cock fighting in Kansas Saturday the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state law prohibiting cruelty to animals does not outlaw cock fighting. Johnson Dead of Heart Attack NO PLACE TO GO Local salvage yards are full and no longer are accepting cars. Filled to capacity and hampered by bad weather, the operators are faced with disposal of the junkers.

State and federal regulations forbid burning to gut the cars and metal reclaimers don't want them unless they are cleaned inside. Local residents share in the yard operators problem as the only place left for disposal of cars is the county landfill where they must pay a fee. Yard operators are hopefull the state will allow a few days for burning so stacks of cars (as above) can be prepared for disposal. Henry Home Following Short Talks' Session Various Sources Report Pact Initialed by Kissinger, Tho PARIS (AP) Henry A. Kissinger conferred with Hanoi's Le Due Tho for 3 hours and 45 minutes today and then flew back to Washington, ending a negotiating session that the White House said was to complete a Vietnam peace agreement.

Kissinger and Tho emerged from their secret meeting and posed shaking hands in front of the International Conference Center on Avenue Kleber in sight of the Arc de Triomphe. But they gave no indication whether the cease fire agreement was now complete or whether further decisions were required from President Nixon or President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. It was however, that official U.S. and North Vietnamese photographers were admitted to part of the session. Kissinger flew into Paris late Monday night.

By the time he drove to Orly Airport to takeoff for Washington today he had spent little more than 16 hours in the F'rench capital much shorter than his previous negotiating visits. He told newsmen waiting as he moved to his plane that he had no statement to make. Nor was there any immediate comment from the other parties to the negotiations. But the news agency Agence France Presse reported shortly after Kissinger's departure that Thousands REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) An armada of fishing boats and planes evacuated 5,000 Icelanders early today from a small island off the southeast coast after a volcano on the island erupted for the first time in history. By dawn the lava had reached the outskirts of Ves tmannayjar, the only town on the island of Heymaey.

But by then only 300 of the 5,300 islanders remained to be taken off. The sea around Heymaey was lit up like a busy street by the lights of the hundreds of fishing boats the government rushed to the island 75 miles southeast of Reykjavik. Ashore the lava had not reached the houses A Vestman "all indications from the various sources available in Paris seem to confirm" that Tho and Kissinger initialed the accord before ending their meeting. In the United States, the St. Louis Post Dispatch quoted unnamed sources in Washington as saying an agreement was initialed by Kissinger and Tho, that President Nixon and Secretary of State William P.

Rogers will go over the agreement in Washington and if it meets with their approval Rogers will fly to Paris. The White House would not say whether Kissinger had initialed an agreement. Neither South Vietnam nor the Viet Cong took part in the meeting. But shortly before the meeting, Kissinger conferred for the second time in 10 hours with South Vietnam's foreign minister. Tram Van Lam, who flew in from Saigon to be on hand for what many expect to be the final negotiations.

The two also lunched together later. Kissinger, President Nixon's top foreign affairs adviser, arrived four minutes after his North Vietnamese opposite number at the conference center, the former Hotel Majestic where the long deadlocked sem ipublic talks have been held. Both were smiling. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler also announced a short time later that Flee Iceland's New nayjar yei, but several were ablaze from the heat of the flow.

The islanders drove their livestock and pets to the harbor and the airstrip in hopes of getting them away. There were no casualties reported and no panic. One islander, Jon Stefansson, said he was getting up to go fishing at 2 a.m. when he heard "terrible noises." "Then I heard a siren from the fire station and thought there must be a fire somewhere in town," he continued. "The volcano just didn't enter my mind.

But when 1 looked out of the window, it was plain what happened." Women, children and hospital Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon will address the nation by television and radio at 10 p.m. EST tonight presumably to announce the initialling of the Vietnam peace agreement. Kissinger was returning to Washington. He made the announcement through an unusual telephone conference call to The Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters. The announcement of Kissinger's return came amid reports of a possible final peace settlement but Ziegler would not comment on the substance of the talks.

Neither would he say what progress, if any, had been made. It was Kissinger's and Tho's first ineeting there, their previous negotiations having been held in suburban villas with each acting as host alternately. Some observers concluded that the move was another indication that agreement was near. There was no official word on whether a date has been set for signature of the agreement. Outgoing Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird hinted to newsmen in Washington Monday night that the text may be initialed Wednesday.

Kissinger returned to Paris Monday night and went into immediate conference with Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam of South Vietnam. They met again today before Kissinger's session with Tho. patients were flown out despite a rain of hot ash falling on the airstrip. The other residents left by boat. Officials for a time feared the harbor at Vestman nayjar might be closed by the oozing lava, but this danger did not materialize.

Vestmannayjar is only 150 yards from Helgafell, the volcano that had not erupted since the Vikings discovered Iceland in 864 A.D. But the first outpouring or lava flowed away from the town and into the Atlantic, and it was some time before the flow moved toward the houses. Ships of Iceland's large fishing fleet and its five coastal patrol boats were sent to the island. All buses in Reykjavik The Disposal Of 'Junkers' Poses Local Headaches The problem solvers are now faced with a problem of their own as state and federal ecology regulations are being enforced. Persons having disabled and junk cars have, in the past, been able to take the cars to local salvage yards for disposal.

Sometimes, depending on the condition of the vehicle, they were able to recover a few dollars. Oftentimes, however, the cost of getting the car to the salvage yard exceeded the amount that they were paid for the junkers. The salvage yards have now come to the point where they can no longer accept junk cars. The yards are full. "Our yard is full," Clem Barton, operator of Auto Salvage, said today.

"With the bad weather, it's almost impossible to move about in the yard and the only place we have open is the drive in front of the shop. We have a masher that is wanting to come in but right now shut down as far as taking more cars." Even if Barton had room for more cars, he still has another problem. State and federal regulations forbid the burning of junked cars. In the past the cars were set afire and all burnable interior items were consumed by the fire. The cars were then mashed and the metal sold to reclaimers in Kansas City and other places.

"We can't burn them," Barton said, "and the mashers don't want them unless they are (Continued on Page 2) Volcano were commandeered and dispatched to Thorlakshofn, on the southern coast where the rescue armada was to land the evacuees. The eruption was preceded by a small earthquake Monday. Then during the night a fissure 2,000 to 3,000 yards long split open and began spewing out lava and ash. Volcanoes are comparatively common on Iceland, where most of the Kentucky size main island is formed from lava. The present eruption is about 20 miles northeast of where an undersea eruption in 1963 created Surtscy, a new island made of lava where there had only been ocean before.

Suffers Fatal Attack At Ranch Late Monday SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) The body of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson will be flown to Washington to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda and receive the nation's final trib e. Johnson, whose dreams of a Great Society were dampened by divisions at home over a war in Asia, died Monday of a heart attack at 64. Johnson's coffin will be carried on a horse drawn caisson in a procession to Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon. A ceremony will be held in the rotunda.

Funeral services will be held Thursday in Washington's National City Christian Church, after which the body will be returned to Texas for burial in the family cemetery of the LBJ Ranch. Before the body of the nations 36th president is flown to Washington, it will lie in state from noon CST today until 8 a.m. Wednesday at the LBJ Library in Austin, Tex. There will be a full honor guard. Johnson was pronounced dead at 5:43 p.m.

EST Monday aboard his private plane at San Antonio International Airport. The sudden attack ended a distinguished public career which saw Johnson rise from simple Texas roots to both houses of Congress, to the powerful post of Senate Democratic leader which earned him the reputation as a masterful politician, to the vice presidency and finally to the presidency after LBJ Rites Thursday AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) The nation will pay its final respects to former President Lyndon B. Johnson in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington. Burial will be in the family cemetery at the LBJ Ranch near Johnson City, following funeral services Thursday at the National City Christian Church in Washington.

Tom Johnson, news secretary to the former president who died Monday, announced this schedule early today: Starting at noon CST today and until 8 a.m. Wednesday, Johnson's body will lie in state at the LBJ Library here with full honor guard. Wednesday 8:30 a.m. CST The body will be taken to Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin. 9:15 a.m.

CST Johnson's body will depart Bergstrom for Washington on a presidential aircraft. I p.m. EST The aircraft bearing the former President's body arrives at Andrews AFB, Md. 1:20 p.m. EST The body will be taken from Andrews to 16th St.

and Constitution Avenue in Washington, where the coffin will be transferred to a horse drawn caisson for a procession to the Capitol. There will be a flyover by Air Force planes as the caisson passes 4th Street. 2:30 p.m. EST Ceremony in the Capitol rotunda, where the body will lie in state until 8 a.m. Thursday.

Thursday 9 9:30 a.m. EST The body will be moved by motorcade to National City Christian Church: west on Constitution Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue; northwest on Pennsylvania to 14th Street; and north on 14th to Thomas Circle. 10 a.m. Funeral services at National City Christian Church. II a.m.

12 noon EST Motorcade to Andrews AFB. 12:30 p.m. EST Depart Andrews for direct flight to LBJ Ranch. 3 p.m. CST Arrive LBJ Ranch.

3:10 p.m. CST Depart LBJ Ranch to family cemetery. 3:30 p.m. CST Final rites. the assassination of John F.

Kennedy in 1963. As the first Southerner to hold the presidency since Andrew Johnson, his accomplishments in the domestic fields of civil rights. Social Security, education and housing were highly praised. He was credited with pushing through social programs Democrats had been trying to enact since the New Deal days of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

When Johnson inherited the presidency, he inherited the war in Indochina. Following his election as chief executive in 1964 by a landslide margin, he greatly expanded the U.S. involvement in Indochina and opposition to the war mounted at home. The war eventually was a major factor in his dramatic announcement in March of 1968 that he would not seek re election. On Monday, 51 minutes before he was pronounced dead, Secret Service agents respond ContinucdonPage2) Lawmakers To Enforce Bill Deadline TOPEKA, Kan.

(AP) The deadline for submission of hills to the legislative bill drafting department by individual legislator passed late Monday afternoon and legislative leaders say they will enforce their deadline to avoid a glut of legislation at the session's end. For the balance of the session, only those bills submitted to the drafting department by legislative committees will be accepted. The deadline Monday and the fact that between them the two houses passed ll bills Monday and saw the introduction of 31 others should serve to con firm the now accepted notion that this session is off to an unusually fast start. Among new bills introduced Monday were one in the House to legalize marijuana, impose a 2 per cent severance tax on natural gas and enact a system of no fault insurance as proposed by Fletcher Bell, state Insurance Commissioner. The new Senate bills included one to make Topeka the permanent site of state inaugurations, establish a new corridor in the state freeway system running north south along the U.S.

281 route, and establish a new unified school district for Pawnee Rock. Kan. The Senate passed a house bill repealing the authorization for the city of Emporia and Lyons County to consolidate their law enforcement agencies. Voters of the area had resoundingly defeated a referendum on the matter last November. The repealer, if given final Senate approval Tuesday as expected, should be the first bill to reach Gov.

Robert Docking's desk this session. The House had already passed it. The Senate also got a resolution commending astronaut Ronald Evans. The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed for passage a bill creating a Kansas Consumer Protection Act, which would impose stiffer regulation regarding abusive debt collection and deceptive sales practices, as well as provide a "cooling off" period on door to door sales. The bill goes to the Senate for debate.

Reports Book Theft The theft of a book was reported to police Monday. John D. Badwey, 53, of 5809 Hemlock, told officers that between 8:05 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. the book, owned by the city library, was taken from his car while the vehicle was parked near the library.

Title of the book. Badwey reported, was "Friend to Friend." NewspaperR.

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