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Page I Journal Thursday, December 13, 1973 Tape gap can't be blamed on secretary, report says WASHINGTON (UPI) A preliminary report by technical experts said today that President Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, probably did not cause any of an 18-minute gap on one of the Watergate tapes. c- A preliminary report on their examination of the tape of a June 20, 1972, recording of a meeting between Nixon and Haldeman, then his top aide, was given to Judge John J. Sirica by electronics experts. Miss Woods has testified that she may have caused part of the gap in the tape by pushing the record button accidentally while she was transcribing the tapes. White House counsel J.

Fred Buzhardt said the noise in the gap could have been caused by an electric typewriter and a high intensity lamp. But the technical experts told Sirica that the preliminary report showed "neither the Tensor lamp nor the typewriter was the likely cause of the 18-minute buzz." "Tests made with sophisticated instruments," the expert said, showed that the typewriter and lamp "could not have produced the buzzing sound" on the tape. They also said that the ISminutes of con- Kissinger, Tho to resume talks WASHINGTON (UPI) Henry A. Kissinger and Le Due Tho, who negotiated the ceasefire that led to U. S.

withdrawal from Vietnam, will meet in Paris Dec. 20, presumably to discuss the greatly increased military activity in Indochina. A White House announcement this morning of the meeting between the U. S. secretary of state and North Vietnam's chief negotiator said only that the meeting was for a discussion of "matters of mutual interest in the present situation Gerald L.

Warren, deputy presidential press secretary, declined to be more specific on the reason for the meeting but it apparently was arranged because of widespread violations of the cease-fire and stepped up fighting in Vietnam and Cambodia. The meeting will be the 28th between Kissinger and Tho. who negotiated the fragile cease-fire agreement that went into effect last Jan. 27 and was followed by the total withdrawal of U. S.

combat forces from Vietnam: Kissinger kicks off Mideast tour CAIRO (UPI) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger arrived from Algiers tonight for talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on problems affecting next Tuesday's Middle East peace conference in Geneva. Kissinger and his team flew in from Algiers where Kissinger met Algerian President Houari Boumedienne on the first leg of his seven-nation tour of the Middle East. On the eve of his departure from London, Kissinger called on Western Europe, Japan and Canada to join the United States in a crash program to end the world energy crisis. He urged the creation of a multinational team to work out a common plan of action and said the United States was prepared to offer "major financial" backing.

The officials said that the head of the U.S. delegation to the Middle East peace conference would be announced Friday. Kissinger will personally lead the delegation at the opening of the conference but is expected to remain in Geneva only a few days. He is due to visit Portugal and Spain Dec. 20-21.

Penland named municipal judge (Continued from Page 1) court. Appeals from both courts are filed in Saline county district court. Civil suits are filed in magistrate or district court. Penland says he'll continue to hear cases filed in the small claims division of magistrate court. Will he have enough time for all duties? "The time problem is related to a salary problem because the salary for magistrate judges has been so low that they must also practice law for additional income.

When, in this case, the salaries are integrated I should see little difficulties in the area," Penland said. Penland's salary as magistrate judge is $10,550, paid by the county. After Jan. 1, that will be increased to $12,265, plus the $6240 salary paid to the municipal judge a total of $18,505. The dual role will work, Penland says.

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Stockton candy store robbed STOCKTON (HNS) Rooks county sheriff's officers are investigating a strong-arm robbery of Fred's Service, Stockton. A sheriff's office spokesman said 3 males entered the cigarette and candy store about 3 pm Wednesday and escaped with between $25 and $30. Cardinal dies VATICAN CITY (UP!) Italian Cardinal Giuseppe Bettrami, 84, died in a Rome clinic today, Vatican sources said. versation eradicated by the buzz "is probably not retrievable." They said they would need to conduct further tests to determine whether the tape recorder itself "could have caused the buzz." It will take until the first of the year to complete these tests, they said. Miss Woods testified that when she was transcribing the recording of the Nixon- Haldeman meeting, she was distracted by a telephone call and may have accidentally pushed the record button.

But she said her "accident" could only account for about five minutes of the 18 minute gap. Sometimes, Santa's beard wef with tears (Continued from Page 1) work. Then Santa hears words that do not coincide with what Santa ought to be hearing in the spirit of Christmas!" Dieckhoff says. It is not all such fine cheer at least it wasn't during the "war as Dieckhoff says. Some tears "The kids at Schilling Manor were really touching.

There were many who cried and asked me to bring home their Daddy from Vietnam. I didn't know what to do at first. I could promise nothing. I said I would try and in the later years I sometimes would say their daddy would be home next Christmas. Sometimes that cheered up the young said.

Last Dec. 16 Dieckhoff had appeared at a private party and as he was leaving he slipped on ice on the front steps. He suffered a severely bruised back and his wife helped him to a later appearance at the Salina Labor Temple. "I cried in pain beneath the whiskers, it hurt so bad. But I managed to laugh," he said.

Later that night he was treated at St. John's hospital but refused hospitalization. Instead, he asked Bill Roberts, a friend, to be his "back-up Santa" if the pain was worse during several scheduled appearances the next day. Dieckhoff says he's made more than 500 appearances as Santa for children and adults at Christmas functions sponsored by area clubs, businesses, private homes, skilled nursing horr.es, hospitals and civic- organizations. His first appearance was in 1963, when the late Grover Simpson became ill and asked Dieckhoff to substitute at a function at the Salina Country Club.

"After that, I was hooked," he says. The next year he went to Kansas City, costume company for a tailored Santa suit, found a set of sleigh bells and purchased other equipment necessary to be "the best Santa I He charges for his appearances "only when the sponsors can afford it." Then he endorses the $25 checks over to various Salina charitable organizations. someone else might have a more merry Christmas," he says. Busiest intersection By United Press International More than 89,000 vehicles a day pass through the busiest street intersection in Los Angeles, at Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards. New courf building price tag is hiked TOPEKA, Kan.

(AP) The 1974 legislature will be asked to authorize spending $2 jnillion more to "improve the quality" of the new state Supreme Court building now being designed. The Capitol Area Plaza Authority approved Wednesday the request of the additional money, which would up the estimated cost of the structure from the $8.4 million appropriated by the 1973 legislature to $10.4 million. Jack Bradley of Topeka, one of the architects designing the building, said the extra money was needed to make the building what he believes the court and the leg- islature want it to be. The building to be located south of the statehouse near downtown Topeka is the first building proposed in the Capitol Area Plaza development, which will eventually include several new state buildings. The authority also decided to ask the legislature for $480,000 in planning money for a new state office building to be built in the Plaza complex and for $136,000 to plan a new state printing plant on land at closed Forbes Air Force Base south of Topeka.

The Supreme Court buildine is due to be completed in mid-1976. This is energy crisis? Vern Miller, editor swap verbal flayings (Continued from Page 1) tical. Vern Miller was called, either by Simmons or another agent, and Miller called the night editor. Much of what Miller said was laced with obscenities and was unprintable. At the Wednesday press conference, Miller said he did express "in strong language" his feelings about the editor and the act of publishing a picture "which could certainly cause serious consequences for my agent." He said Simmons would be killed if the photo ran.

The attorney general didn't stop there in the press conference, However, he went on to attack Awbrey, personally. "I'm not concerned about the reporters of that 'paper. They have been great. They've printed the news very fairly," Miller said. "But the editorials do indicate to me that one of the editors is very politically motivated in his writing, meaning Awbrey, the former campaign manager for Richard Sea- Jon in Reno County," he added.

Answers Awbrey, "I am delighted that Miller gives due credit to the fairness of the reporting in our news columns. I plead guilty to the charge that most of my writing which appears on the editorial page is political. But his other charges are about as shoddy as the end results of his highly publicized Awbrey said he would have been "flattered if asked to carry the banner for Dick Sea ton Republican candidate Miller defeated to become attorney general 3 years ago)." "However," Awbrey added, "I wasn't, and my sole contribution to the 'management' of that campaign was $25 cash." Miller told reporters that the fact that the picture of Simmons, which ran in the News' early editions but was withdrawn after Miller's declaration that it would mean his agent's life, "certainly has jeopardized the agent." "He is at this time involved in purchasing drugs throughout the state of Kansas. He is involved in testifying in many cases. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard they were actually running a picture of an undercover agent in the newspaper.

There are many suits filed and they never run pictures of those litigants. But the mere fact that he is an agent working for me makes him vulnerable to this additional harrassment," Miller said. Miller staunchly defended Simmons' work for him. "I'm aware of the political leanings of the editor of the Hutchinson News," Miller said. "He certainly has a right to do as he pleases, but it is a disservice to the people when the paper is this irresponsible.

"This is the most irresponsible, politically-motivated bit of reporting I have ever been aware of," Miller said. "The identity of his undercover agent at the Hutchinson fiasco was no secret hereabouts, and certainly was no revelation by the Hutchinson News," Awhrcy said. Record ransom paid for Paul Getty III ATT. A r.rn^~A A -i i Weekdays between and 7:30 pm. Syndajr Mifeen 1:00 am and ROME (UPI) A record $3.4 million ransom has been paid to the alleged kidnapers of J.

Paul Getty III, grandson of the American oil billionaire, police sources said today. "AH of the money has now been paid," the sources close to the investigation said. "They are waiting from one moment to the next for him to be freed." The ransom was paid in several installments to the alleged kidnapers who have kept young Getty more than five months and at one pnini sent a human ear to a Rome newspaper saying it would be followed by other parts of his body unless the ransom was paid. Gail Harris, mother of young Getty, refused to comment on the report of the payment, insisting: "Nothing has changed. Everything is just as it was before." Sets record The ransom is the highest ever paid for an individual, surpassing by more than $1 million the ransom paid almost exactly two years ago for West German supermarket owner Thomas Albrecht.

It was paid in installments since the very bulk of so large an amount of money in small notes would have taken a small truck to deliver. The payment brought to the final stages one of the most bizarre kidnapings in modern memory and came just five months and four days after the 17-year-old J. Paul Getty III disappeared from a Rome piazza after arguing with three of his hlpnv friends. The alleged kidnapers first asked for $17 million but later reduced the figure, first to $5.1 million and finally to $3.4 million. Getty one of the world's wealthiest men, said throughout he would "not pay one cent" toward the ransom of his grandson, He said yielding to kidnapers would open his other 14 grandchildren to the danger of abduclton.

New York, as seen from the Empire State building, is still the strong challenger for Paris's title of "City of Light" despite the energy crisis. (UPJ Photo) Warnings ignored Claims bureaucrats could have corrected oil crisis ByJOHNFIALKA (C) 1973 Washington Star-News WASHINGTON Government officials who dictated federal oil policy missed 3 opportunities to correct a growing shortage in the United States oil supply system that loomed long before the Arab oil cutoff, a Senate investigator charged Thursday. Lavern J. Duffy, a lawyer for the Senate a i I vestigations, charged that federal officials could have moved to prevent last Winter's fuel shortage and this Summer's gasoline shortage. Instead, Duffy asserted, key officials with background in oil matters found them- 1 selves diverted by other matters and lower echelon bureaucrats with knowledge about the growing problem found their reports ignored.

"This'iis a classic case of a bureaucracy setting a course of action not in response to the nation's needs but to secure its own comfort," Duffy said in testimony prepared for the subcommittee, a unit of the Senate Government Operations Duffy was the leadoff witness at hearings to determine why the nation was headed for a shortage of as much as 400,000 barrels of oil each day this Winter even before the Arab states blocked oil shipments in mid- October. Duffy said Philip L. Essley a researcher and experienced petroleum engineer with the now-disbanded office of gency planning, produced a study in that correctly predicted U.S. oil pro-" duction would peak in 1972. The Essley report, which could have; prompted the government to make a major change in a program which restricted oil- imports, was "ignored" by his superiors at OEP, who, although charged with watching oil matters, were busy trying to implement the President's wage-price freeze, Duffy- said.

By April of 1972, six months after Essley's prediction, other OEP officials had begun to worry about the problem, but their efforts were handicapped by what Essley described in a memorandum as a faulty federal sys- tern for making supply predictions. The results, according to Duffy's mony, was that the decisions to loosen and. finally abandon the restrictions on oil im-' ports were delayed for months. The pro-, gram had pegged allowable imports at 12.2 percent of domestic production. Both OEP's director, Gen.

George Lincoln, and the man who acted as his superior, Presidential aide Peter Flanigan, opposed early moves which might have eased the oil supply situation in 1972, according to Duffy I'A' War oil reserves drained to aid forces in Indochina (C) New York Times WASHINGTON The Defense department said Wednesday it was drawing upon the nation's war reserves of oil in the Pacific to supply the South Vietnamese and Cambodian armed forces with their daily "minimum military The Pentagon said the United States was currently providing about 22,000 barrels of petroleum products daily to South Vietnam and 1500 barrels daily to Cambodia. It described the total as "considerably less than two-tenths of 1 percent of current United States domestic oil demand." The Defense department acknowledged these fuel needs would be met indirectly out of civilian supplies of fuel in the United States, as the war reserves are eventually to be replaced with fuel commandeered from domestic stocks. The statement on oil supplies for the two Southeast Asian countries came in a "fact sheet" issued in response to questions from newsmen over several days. The Pentagon spokesman, William Beecher, said the being provided the two countries was designated directly for military use. According to the Defense department each country is meeting its civilian petroleum needs through purchases in the world market.

The department said the United States was "taking no action to replace" any of the South Vietnamese supplies destroyed Dec. 3 when Communist forces set fire to an oil storage depot at NHA Be 7 miles southeast of Saigon. More than 700,000 barrels-about 50 percent of South Vietnam's civilian oil reserve-were reported destroyed. United States military assistance teams in the 2 countries are to monitor the shipments to make sure they are used for military purposes, but Beecher conceded there could not be "100 percent assurance that none was being diverted to civilian uses f.l I Dimmed business lights likely (Continued from Page but not to limit them. If the exports become too large, he said, limiting action would be imposed.

Under the gasoline allocation program announced Wednesday, the average motorist may find himself even more than 25 per cent short of his usual needs, since priority users would take their deliveries before the remaining gasoline filters down to local service stations. But in explaining the gasoline cutbacks Wednesday, the energy office kept falling over itself. At first the new office gave the public the right impression of the shortage by Issuing the wrong figures; 10 hours later it revealed the right figures, but created the wrong Impression. Finally, more than 12 hours later, energy officials managed to make both the production cutback and the extent of the expected shortage clear. The gasoline cutback was only one major aspect of a wide-ranging proposal to con- trol petroleum distribution from refineries down to gasoline service stations and for fuel oils, all the way down to final consumers in a form of rationing without coupons.

Only gasoline would remain without a' consumer rationing system, pending a final decision by the end of this month But even gasoline would be allocated on a priority basis to important users who purchase readily-controlled bulk orders. Although the allocation regulations are to take effect Dec. 27, following review of public comment, it appeared likely some changes would be made before they become final, As they now stand, the proposed regulations would require homes and schools which heat with fuel oil to reduce their: heating nix degrees below last winter's lev-; els; offices and other buildings would have to cut heating 10 degrees. Airlines would take a 15 per cent fuel cut In January, forcing them to drop more" flights from their schedules. I "IH 'i is I.