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THE WEATHER: El Paso and Vicinity Mostly fair and cooler Sunday. Northerly winds 5 to 15-miles-an-hour, increasing Sunday night. High near 57. TODAY'S CHUCKLE: Forbidden fruit is responsible for many a bad jam. (C) Seven Luted Wires of 1r Associated Press (AP) and New Yerk Times News Service Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 90th Year.

No. 32 124 PAGES IN ELEVEN SECTIONS PRICE 20 CENTS EL PASO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1970 Halts Nationwide Mail trike Judge I 4 Labor Chief Denies Nixon Intervention 1 Senate Demos To Fight For Larger SS Benefits I i r-x I I US I s-a 1. 'J? and eight Republicans. It was opposed by 13 Democrats and 28 Republicans. The provision, however, was dropped in the Senate-House conference on the tax bill which adopted a straight 15 per cent Social Security increase.

This boost will raise the minimum from $55 to $64 for an individual. Mansfield commented "it is obvious that no one can live on $55 or $64 in these times." Supporters of the $100 amendment argue that Social Security payments at the bottom of the scale are so low that 1.5 million old persons now receive welfare checks to supplement their Social Security benefits. The campaign has won some Republican support. Sen. Winston L.

Prouty, for one, long has contended that the U.S. minimum pension is one of the lowest in any developed nation in the world. The $100 minimum is opposed by the Nixon administration as too costly. It estimates the annual cost at $2 billion. Earlier Democratic regimes took the same view.

An early sponsor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, has contended that such a minimum should be financed out of the Treasury's general revenues. However, Mansfield and Byrd would raise the money in regular Social Security by raising the taxable wage base from $7,800 to $12,000. 19 LADY IN A QUANDARY Lorraine Doyle of North Kingston, 22.7., is symbolic of a lot of people Saturday who might be affected by the threatened cessation of rail traffic.

Chief Advisor Predicts Slowdown In Inflation 10-day injunction had not decide 1 precisely what steps it would take. But he denied the Labor De partment had told the railroads the admi aistration planned to seek a special law t3 halt the strike and lockout. He said Undersecretary "of Labor James Hodgson had told railn ad representatives "We are not comrritting the administration to any particular form of action and they should not advise the judge that their position was based on the administration." However, he said, Sirica's restraining (Continued on Page 12-A) South Viets Slaughter Enemy Unit SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese troops trapped a company of North Vietnamese regulars Saturday in ragged hills three miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, killing 72 enemy soldiei and capturing 11, military spokesman said Sunday. It was the biggest battle along the DMZ since mid-November, when American forces killed nearly 200 enemy troops in a two-day fight. Ten South Vietnamese troops were wounded in the latest action, which lasted nearly eight hours, spokesmen said.

Field reports said a South Vietnamese infantry battalion was on a sw eep operation when it spotted the enemy moving near Cam Lo, a district town of about 14,000 persons, most of them re fugees. Officers said the governrrent forces surrounded the enemy, called in South Vietnamese air and artillery attacks, and moved in for a mopping'-fep operation. The enemy company was part of the North Vietnamese 27th Regirient. which has been operating in the area with freshly fitted troops for the past few months. "We wiped them out," one South Vietnamese officer said.

During ie mopping up, the government battalioa found 72 enemy bodies and took prisoners, five of them wounded, headquarters said. The South Vietnamese also reported seizing three heavy machine guns, three light machine guns, 11 Chinese Communist made rifles, four rocket launchers, and a mortar. The allies have been expecting a North Vietnamese attack against Cam Lo and Mai Loc to the south aro and the Tet lunar new year, which begins Thursday." Both towns are filled with refugees and pacification workers. The government troops were part of the South Vietnamese Division, which has long been regarded by American advisers as the best of all Government divisions. Also the best-equipped South Viet-(Continued on Page 12-A) Demo Leader Raps Nixon's Safeguard Plan WASHINGTON (AP) Pre sident Nixon's proposed expansion of the Safeguard antiballistic missile system was challenged Saturday by the Senate's Democratic leader, who forecast a price tag reaching $50 billion and demanded "Where the hell is it going to end." "What is going to happen to people," asked Sen.

Mike Mansfield of Montana, "if weapons spending is to be boosted? "The issue is of such magnitude that I believe another debate is in the offing," Mansfield said in an interview. The last one locked the Senate in defense debate for two months, and ended on Aug. 6 with a 50-50 roll call vote which defeated an amendment to block the first phase of the Nixon ABM proposal. That involved deployment of ABM missiles, radars and computers at two sits to defend U.S. offens.ve missile installations, and the purchase of land for 10 more.

Nixon said Friday night he has decid-(Continued on Page 12-A) WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democrats plan to renew their drive to win a $100-a-month minimum Social Security payment for the individual, a 56 per cent increase over the present benefit. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana told a reporter Saturday another attempt will be made "as soon as the appropriate vehicle comes along." Mansfield and Sen. Robert C. Byrd, successfully sponsored an amendment to last year's tax-reform bill calling for the $100 floor. The 48-41 vote for the amendment was a surprise.

Only five years earlier, the Senate rejected, 79 to 12, an attempt to fix a $70 minimum payment. The Mansfield-Byrd amendment was adopted with support of 40 Democrats Laird Issues Tough Orders On Hiring WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird has issued a tough memorandum ordering his top subordinates' to tighten up compliance with nondiscrimination requirements i defense contracting. Laird's memo was disclosed Saturday amid obvious Pentagon embarrassment over a Civil Rights Commission complaint that the McDonnell Douglas Corp. had been awarded a multibillion-dollar airplane contract without any check being made to determine whether the firm is meeting federal equal-opportunity requirements.

Laird sent Secretary of the Air Force Robert Seamans Jr. to St. Louis Friday to meet with company officials. At the same time. Laird told the service secretaries and key assistant secretaries of defense.

"I am shocked by the apparent situation in which we find ourselves vis a vis compliance with moral and legal equal-opportunity provisions and procedures on defense contracts." Ordering "immediate and vigorous corrective action," Laird demanded a thorough review of the entire equal-opportunity compliance situation, including the procedures by which the Pentagon monitors contractors to insure they are not discriminating against Negroes or other minority groups. U.S. Will Give More Fighters To Chinese WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is hauling 34 old F100 jet fighter bombers out of storage and will give them to Nationalist China, it was disclosed Saturday. The Pentagon said plans for this transfer preceded a congressional fiht over funds to supply modern F4 Phantom fighters to the Nationalists. Money for the Phantoms was dropped last week from a compromise foreign aid bill.

Three weeks ago, the United States acknowledged it had decided to give Nationalist China a squadron of 18 F104 interceptor jets to help modernibe Formosa's air force. The Defense Department put the F100 plan in the same context, billing it as modernization even though the 34 jets are the earliest model FlOOs dating back about 16 years. "These aircraft, as well as the F104s, are being provided as part of the modernization program, underway for a number cf years, by which that country's F86 squadrons, of Korean War vintage, are being replaced," the Pentagon said. In this context the FlOOs are billed as defensive weapon and thus, by implication, no threat to Communist China across the Taiwan Strait. However, the F100 has been a mainstay in the Vietnam war where it has been used extensively on bombing missions inside South Vietnam against suspected enemy positions and concentrations.

The F100 was built to carry about 6.000 pounds of bombs. The planned gift of the 34 FlOOs to Nationalist China came to light as results of a brief announcement 10 days ago that North American Rockwell Corn, of Los Anseles was heine given a increment on a contract for reconditioning and modification of F100A planes. Today's Prayer jj Lord God, We pray in gratitude for Jesus' birth. May His presence be our guiding light. Help us to express our thanks, also, By helping others in every way we can.

For Jesus' sake. Amen. Marina Pabon, 2624 Samoa. WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge Saturday halted for 10 days a threatened nationwide railroad shutdown and the strike that prompted it after a railroad attorney told him President Nixon would seek special legislaton Monday. But the White House, in a statement by Secretary of Labor George P.

Shultz, denied the administration told rail attorney Francis M. Shea that it would seek a la to halt the lockout and strike. "We may or may not submit legislation but we did not tell him we would." Shultz said in calling Shea's comment in court "something of a misrepresentation The Union Pacific, which had been struck Friday midnight, began resumption of service after the court order. Other lines which had threatened to grind to a halt at 10 p.m. Saturday in industry retaliation for the strike against the UP continued in service.

Only one train on the Penn-Central was cancelled, one that had been scheduled to leave New York at 6:30 p.m. for Washington. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica, in granting restraining orders against both the railroad lockout and the strike against the Union Pacific, said the delay would give Congress time to take any action it deemed necessary.

"In this case there is no question that irreparable harm would be suffered both by the railroads and the unions and the approximately 500,000 employes," Sirica said. Shultz said he would use the 10 days to try to get a voluntary agreement between the railroad and four AFL-CIO unions representing some 45,000 rail shop maintenance and repair workers. Shultz said the administration had been considering, before the court acton, special legislation but that in light of the Martin Sees No Drug Law Change In Texas The Texas Legislature probably will not reduce possession of marijuana from a felony to a misdemeanor, as the federal government is likely to do, Crawford Martin, State attorney general said Saturday in El Paso. Martin is here attending El Paso Bar Judicial Conference. He has announced for a third term as attorney general.

He answered "I doubt it," when asked if the next legislature would reduce the first possession penalty. The federal penalty is 2 to 10 years imprisonment, and the Nixon administration and the U.S. Senate have called for it to be a misdemeanor, and a sentence up to one year. The penalty in Texas on a first possession is two years to life, or a difference of 99 years in the proposed federal penalty and the maximum state sentence. Martin said marijuana is not considered addictive, and that the federal government is reclassifying it from the narcotic category, to one of dangerous drug.

Heroin, which is physically habit forming, is narcotic, as well as being a dangerous drug, said Martin. "El Paso and Laredo are the two cities in Texas where it is easiest to get drugs," Martin said. The state and federal government will hold joint hearings on drugs in March and April in Houston, and perhaps El Paso, he said. Martin was asked about a Teens Times survey which interviewed local teen drug users, which showed 56 per cent of El Paso teenagers have experimented with drugs. "There are too many drug pushers," Martin said.

Most parents do not know when their children are using drugs, he said. Martin said the best program in the state today to urge youths to not use drugs is Stamp Out Stupidity (SOS), and he singled out Dr. Russell Deter of EI Paso for praise. Dr. Deter has helped form SOS clubs in schools all over Texas.

Armes Makes Bid For JP Precinct 2 Jay J. Armes, owner of The Investigators, 1717 Montana, Saturday announced his candidacy for Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2, now occupied by Ruben Can-delaria. In reaching his decision, Armes said: "I would like to bring to the attention of the people of El Paso and especially to the people of Precinct 2 that this will not be a mud-slinging campaign. "I have the support of several county and state officials and many others who have seen the accomplishments of a self-made man. I make emphasis on the fact that I am self made because no one has ever handed me any positions nor have I ever been obligated to anyone.

"I am the owner and operator of The Investigators and have been working as an investigator for over 10 years conducting every type of investigation from criminal to domestic including juveniles and working in conjunction with the law enforcement agencies." Armes is a graduate of Ysleta High (Continued on Page 12-A) Southern School Desegregation Ordered Monday Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Many Southern school systems are under orders to end separate schools for blacks and whites Monday, although desegregation of student bodies in some instances will be limited. Some school systems are going ahead with complete faculty integration but only partial student integration while the others different criteria have been used by the courts as to what constitutes desegregation. Still other schools will be closed as public officials prepare to implement court orders, and other officials have said they cannot or will not comply with the orders. The U.S. Supreme Court, overruling a decision by the U.S.

5th Circuit Court of Appeals, on Jan. 14 ordered complete desegregation of both faculties and student bodies in 14 Southern school districts. It was to be accomplished by Feb. Afterward, the appeals court said the deadline would apply to 17 other districts in the same states Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Louisiana. Some U.S.

District Court judges applied the deadline in school suits still under their jurisdiction. Others said only faculty desegregation was required. Nixon Nudges Reserve Chief On Tight Money WASHINGTON (AP) Arthur F. Burns was sworn in as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Saturday and got a verbal nudge from President Nixon to do something about high interest ratas and tight money. Burns took the oath at a ceremony in ths White House East Room with most of the Cabinet, an array of Washington officialdom and friends looking on.

One old friend, Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan administered the oath. Burns has been one of Nixon's top advisers. At the Federal Reserve Board he replaces William McChesney Martin who had served as chairman since 1951, under an appointment by the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Burns had Cabinet rank at the White House and Nixon and the Cabinet chipped in at an earlier ceremony and presented him the chair he had occupied in the Cabinet room. i. -4 4 "A Z.6 5 "1 She's sitting with her luggage in the Pennsylvania Station in New York waiting to take a train that might never arrive or leave. (AP Wirephoto) per cent. For 1969, the average was 4.7 per cent.

McCracken reaffirmed what had been said about unemployment in the President's own economic message; namely, that it would rise somewhat during the year as the anti-inflationary policies being followed by the government take hold. But "I do not see any large rise in unemployment," McCracken said, and, under questioning, he agreed that he would consider a rise in the unemployment rate to 5 per cent of the work force "pretty large." Smith Announces Criminal Appeals Court Candidacy Earl W. Smith of San Angelo, has announced that he will be a candidate for a seat on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. It will be Smith's first statewide race. Smith was in El Paso Saturday to attend the annual El Paso Bar Association Banquet.

He will file Monday as a candidate for judge. A native of Plainview, Smith has been city attorney and district attorney of San Angelo, and was county attorney for Tom Green County. He has a background as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. Smith was appointel by then Lt. Gov.

Ben Ramsey to the Law Enforcement Study Commission in 1957. He was also a member of the panel selected by the State Bar of Texas to revise the Code of (Continued on Page 12-A) DALE RESLER 1 1 ly (C) 1970 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON President Nixon's chief economic adviser said Saturday that the pace of price increases should fall to a rate of 3.5 per cent a year by the end of 1970 and that the rise in unemployment, resulting from the administration's anti-inflationary policies, should not be large. Paul W. McCracken, the chairman of tha council of economic advisers, added these details to the predictions contained in the annual economic report of the President, at a news conference. The report itself was made public Friday.

A rate of inflation of 3.5 per cent in the final quarter of this year would compare with a rate of 4.7 per cent for the same period of 1969. The figures that McCracken was using were those that measure the change in prices for the entire national output a statistic known to economists as the deflater for the gros3 national product. In general, economists consider it a better measure of the inflationary trend in the economy than the consumer price index, which measures price changes only for those articles and services bought by middle-income city families. For 1970 as a whole, the administration predicted that price increases for the entire national product would average 4.3 Traffic Claims One El Paso's traffic record for the new year was marred during the week ending Friday midnight with the death of one person just as the week began. In the 191 mishaps investigated by police 84 persons were injured.

So far this year one person has been killed and 311 others have been injured in 816 mishaps compared to nine dead and 318 injured in 779 mishaps a year ago at this time. Dale Resler To Receive Human Relations Award Index Dale Resler, local prominent businessman and long-time civic and church leader has been selected for the Seventh Annual National Human Relations Award presented by the El Paso Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Resler will be honored at a testimonial dinner in the EI Paso Country Club, at 7:30 p.m. March 10. He succeeds Rev.

B. M. G. Williams and Mrs. Maurice Schwartz, co-honorees named in 1969, J.

Francis Morgan, 1968, Dorrance D. Roderick, 1967, Elias G. Krupp, 1966, the late Dan Ponder 1965, and Sam D. Young recipient of the first Award given in 1964. The selection is based on Brotherhood activities, the promotion of religious and racial harmony within a community and is made by a secret screening committee.

Dr. Pete Boverie, chairman of the Board of Directors of NCCJ cited a long list of projects in which the honoree has participated on behalf of all religious, welfare and ethnic groups in El Paso. Resler has been a devoted parishoner of Trinity Methodist Church since his (Continued on Page 12-A) Enriquez Enters Justice Race Hector Enriquez Jr. announced Saturday that he has filed with Democratic County Chairman George McAlmon as a candidate for the post of Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2. Enriquez, 29, who operates his own State Farm Insurance agency in Tigua, is a graduate of Jefferson High School and is presently attending classes at the University of Texas at El Paso, majoring in sociology and political science.

He spent four years in the Navy and is a Vietnam veteran. Enriquez said he wants to make himself available to the public if elected, by holding a responsible schedule. "I want this office," said Enriquez1, "and I will guarantee the public that I will live up to the requirements and expectations of the position." Enriquez said he would like to famil-(Continued on Page 12-A) Allen-Goldsmith 6A Goren 8C Amusements SD Juarez Report 7A Ann Landers 6C Markets 9-10D ArtBuchwald 3B Merry-C Jo-Round 6A Austin Report 7A Obituaries 5E Books SD Oil 11D Building 8D Patterns 6C Cameras SD Prop Pitch 7D Career Corner 11B School Menus 4A Chess SD Social Security 14D Church 7D Spanish SC Classified 5-12E Sports 1-5D Crossword 11D Stamps SD Dr. Thosteson 6C Stars Say 6C Editorials 6A TV(Logs(EP) SD Everyday Tell Me Why! 6C Events 6A 20 Years Ago 6A Farm-Ranch 4E Vitals no Firing Sked 8A Weather gA Gardpning SD Women 1-7C.