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Big welcome for By DENNIS STERN Boisterous revelry gave way to sober reflection, resolution and football bowl games hs mankind welcomed an infant 1972 Saturday. The first day of the New Year was also a time for parades decked in flowers, solemn forecasts for the year ahead and several quick dips in frigid waters. Lighting the New Year Fireworks light up the sky ever the Bethesda Fountain in Centra! Park in New York Saturday, ringing in th 1972 New Year, at the thousands of specstators look viewing the traditional battery of televised New Year's loomaJl contests. The President worked in his White House office Saturday morning, then watched parts of the Sugar, Cotton and Rose Bowls. Later in the day iie was scheduled to go to Andrews Air force Base to see his wite, Pat, off on a nine day state visit to Africa.

ONE million persons in Pasa dena, watched the B3rd annual Tournament of Roses Parade preceding the Rose Bowl game.Thousands had camped out overnight to get the best vantage doM. A floral spectacle of white chrysanthemums and carna tions sculptured into a shim mering "Winter Wonderland" by the city of Glendalc, was voted the most beautiful float. In Philadelphia. 16.000 mem bers of the "New Year's Day Mummers and Snooters' strutted up Broad Street carry ing on a tradition that began with ceteorations by Swedish seiners in ttie laxis. Mummery, hs the event is called, includes 22 string bands, 4 Taney divisions clad in garish costumes and 5 comic clubs decked out in feathers, s'atin and spangles.

Like their fellow club mem bers in other parts of the country, daring "Polar Bears" made their annual plunge into the icy cold ocean df New York's Coney Island. IN ROME, a 75 yeaiMld Belgian known as "Mr. Okay," carried on a water tradition of his own, diving from a down town bridge into the chilly wa ters ot tne Tiber River, Okay, whose real name is Rik De Sonay, said his 53rd New Year's Day plunge would De tne last. He Hurt, his side in the fiO foot dive this year and had to be hauled out of the wa ter by river police. But the rules also will reduce benefits far an estimated two million persons whose incomes are at the upper range of the government's poverty scale.

Further, at least "60,000 persons in a dozen states will lose food stamp eligibility altogether because those states currently have higher income eligibility standards than those allowed under tlie new federal rules. Last month 2S senators asked Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to block eligibility cuts. The department, however, plans to proceed with the new rules unless forced by Congress to do otherwise. However, congressional pressure short of lawmaking has forced the Agriculture Department to change its mind before. A recent example was the decision a rter arm twisting from Capitol Hill to restore some food items, including scram bled eae mix, to a special wel fare food program available to pregnant women and small children.

Another recent change was in Seattle where the department, following a court ruling and cries from the Senate, decided hurriedly to distribute donated food in addition to operating the stamp program. Still another recent ease where tile views of some Con gress members prevailed was a decision to stop allowing retail stores to give a mod stamp customer up to 40 cents in cash change when purchases were made with me coupons. Food aid for low income families, school kids up By DON KENDALL WASHINGTON (AP) Government food aid to low income families and needy school children is at a record high and will rise even further early in 1972, says the Agriculture Department. In November, 1tie most recent month for statistics, food stamps were being used. by Ifl.B million persons who pay an average of about fl.SO for coupons wUi $10 at grocery stores, the USDA reported Saturday.

That was up about 400,000 from the food stamp enrollment in October and 1.4 million more tSiait a year earlier, according to figures issued by the Food and Nutrition Service. Free or reduced price lunches were served to 7.8 million school children in November, some two million more than a year earlier. The previous high Court upholds assault conviction in absentia BOSTON AP) The state Supreme Court has upheld the conviction in absentia on charges of assault, of Vincent L. Flemmi, 41, of Boston's Hyde Park section. The court ruled Friday that while a defendant in general is entitled to be present at his trial, the trial judge may make an exception when the defendant disappears while trial is in progress.

Flemmi disappeared after liis trial began in March, 1870. Testimony continued and Flemmi was convicted on a charge of assault to murder James Ab boul, 33, of Boston. The defendant was recaptured seven months after he fled, and later was sentenced to a 14 18 year term in Walpole Stale Prison. Trial Judge Eugene Hud son wlio said in iuflolk Superi or Court he did not believe Flemmi's account of being kid' naped. Flemmi asserted he wis tak en by men who said the trial Id the tiny seaside community of Lanikai an windward Oahu, in Hawaii, citizens held their annual "recovery day" brunch.

Prom Boys Town, Italy, Pope Paul VI called for a "new jus lice" to bring peace to the world. President Nixon, from an easy chair in the White House, joined millions of Americans in was 7.3 million last April, the agency said. Edward J. Hekman, who administers the food programs, said he expects moderate increases in food stamp enrollment during the next few months. More counties are being added to the stamp program, and new regulations allowing an expansion of benefits to the neediest families are expected to attract more people, Hek man saia in a statement.

THE new regulations, adopted last year, have stirred criticism among antihunger advocates, including a growing number in Congress. Under the new rales, an additional 1.7 million persons are expected to become eligible for food stamps, most of them in the Southern states. had been postponed. He said he was released in Holyoke, but did not return to Boston for fear of being killed. The charge stemmed from a struggle in a car in Boston Dee.

19, 1963. Abhout told the court Flemmi pointed a pistol at his head, and in the ensuing fight Flemmi himself was shot in the shoulder and Abbout was bitten on the hand. COIN STAMP SHOW Sunday Jan. 9 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.

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official and the Bangladesh government. The U.S. diplomat, Herbert Splvak, leads ti mission accredited to the former Pakistan government that ruled in East Pakistan, The U.S. has not officially recognized Bangladesh, giving the mission no diplomat ic status in Dacca. MEANWHILE, thousands of joyous Bangladesh refugees marked New Year's Day by returning to their homeland as India began to clear out hundreds of displaced person camps.

The refugees steamed across the border on bare feet, on ox carts, in private cars and taxis, on Indian trains and United Nations' trucks. Peace Action groups pickets White House By CAROL ROSS WASHINGTON (UPI) The National Peace Action Coalition started off the new year "out in the streets" Saturday with a picket line outside the White House to protest recent U. S. air strikes over North Vietnam. NPAC coordinator Jerry Gor don said Ihe picket line of 70 persons was "a symbolic protest" to kick off the organization's antiwar agenda leading to a massive demon stration in New York City April 22.

"We're starting off the new year out in the streets," he said, "because this is the most effective way to protest the war." Gordon said he thinks antiwar sentiment is now "at an all time high because people see the war is not winding down." The demonstrators picketed for two hours in sunny but cold weather on the sidewalk outside the White Houses's north entrance. Several in the group carried placards that read: "Vietnam for the Vietnamese Out Now," and "Mr. Nixon, what happened to your secret peace plan?" while others chanted slogaiis like "End the War in Indochina, Bring the Troops Home Now." Penn Central's doom was well spelled out Bv EDMONO LeBRETON WASHINGTON (AP) For months bofore the Penn Central Transportation Co. collapsed fi nancially, one of its directors vainly warned his colleagues, Rep. Wright Patman, said Saturday.

Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee, cited information ho said was obtained from Robert S. Odell of Francisco and said "it removes any doubt that the directors knew that the company was engaged in highly questionable investments in real estate and other enterprises or thai its management was headed on a disastrous course." Patman commented in a statement accompanying the sixth and Tinal volume of a report by the committee staff on Penn Ceniral, which went into reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act in 1970. Odoil who had been a director ol the New Yorft Central Railroad, joined the board of THERE'S NOTHING PHONE ORDERS GL 4 6412 Chicken UlNNtK Vt Chicken, I iron sled Potatoes, Cole Slaw, Toasleil Roll 99 ALL WHITE MEAT ISC EXTRA Year In his New Year's Dav dress, the Pope said every man snouid get a fair deiil from society. "Tne littler, the poorer, the more suffering, the more de fenseless, tne lower a man has fallen, the more be deserves to be assisted, raised up, cared for and honored," he said. President Ton Due Thang of North Vietnam used his New Year's message to charge that U.S.

forces in Indochina "once again revealed their cruel na ture by bombing and strafing his country during the latest wave of attacks. U.S. involvement in the war entered its 12th year. In Italy, officials spent the day calculating the damage caused by illegal fireworks that are traditionally set off during the night to welcome the New Year. They reported that at least five persons were Jailed and 500 injured.

The NPAC picket line includ ed both the old and young, the conservatively dressed and those in the usual antiwar garb Of flak jackets and bluejeans. Meanwhile, the Quaker Peace Vigil entered its 214th day of around the clock protests outside the White House north fence. The dozen or so participants in the vigil which started June 2 huddled together under blankets and sipped steamhiB coffee while watching the picket line. IN A statement released to se press, Gordon said Pres ident Nixon "brags that he has withdrawn hundreds of thousands of troops from Vietnam, One point should be made crystal clear: Nixon has not withdrawn a single troop." He said any troops that have come home have i s. been brought home by the antiwar movement.

Gordon's statement said, "There wilt be no year of grace for Nixon through next November, (His) shoddy attempts to deceive the public will never succeed. As long as the war rages on, the antiwar move ment will see to it that the. American people get the truth about it." tha new corporation formed when that railroad merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad. The report said that as early as July 1968 Odcll voiced concern about some of the real estate ventures of the railroad and that he tried unsuccessfully the following year to bring about a management sbakeup. "Unfortunately, Mr.

Odell was like a voice in the wilderness and his efforts were successfully sidetracked by the railroad's management and the other directors," the report said. Patman said in a letter of transmissal the incident "is one of the most vivid examples imaginable of the complete breakdown of the director system in a great American corporation. It clearly spotlights the need for reform." The report said the directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and of Ponn Central alter the 1B merger, voted dividends totaling almost $216 million PAWTUCKET BOULEVARD Winter Hours Thurs. 10:30 am to 7 prn Friday Saturday 10:30 am to midnife SUNDAYS 10:30 am to 11 pm Figure Show High Tmpera)tri Expert For Daytime Sunder lialald frtiipilali Rain i of parti forecast South. Snow of the today through much it predicted for Midwest and the West.

Cloudy, rain or snow LOWELL AND VICINITY' Today cloudy with rain developing, probably starting off briefly as light snow. Highs around 40. Southerly winds increasing to 15 to 25 m.p.h. Tonight, rain ending late at night, Lows lower 30s, Tomorrow clearing, highs in the 40s. Probability of precipitation, tonight.

Massachusetts, Rhode Is land Today cloudy with rain developing probably starting off briefly as light snow. Highs in the lower 40s. Rain tonight, end ing late at night. Lows lower Tomorrow clearing with highs near 40. mi Today, cloudy, windy W'lh aw finsslhly changing la rain In i pardons hy oltcrnoDn.

Hiehs In Tonlghl, nnw tapering off to and ending by morning. Low5 jn cloudy wlfn Highs in Ihi thane of snow flurries. Is. prcbaiJlllly of pretrial, nt today and lonioht. fO PC.

Courts Probate WILLS FILED tin of Carlisle, who died Oct. 10, 1565, executorr arid left his estate brothet ln iaw, George A Collins Low hti i uqjal shares to he Eons Charles John AYKR DISTRICT to endanger ond reaving scene, continued to at Aver, speeding, I Shirley, breaking and reglsTry action. entering In dov tlr Littleton. W. ot Lillieton, operal during th years 1953 1569, although there was an aggregate net loss over the period of $2 5 million.

Many of the directors, the report said, were also officers or directors of financial institutions that were large stockholders or creditors of the railroad, while some directors held substantial amounts or Penn Central shares personally or represented corporations that held large blocks of stock. The report questioned investment of substantial sums from the Penn Central Supplemental Plan, Pension fund investment decisions, it said, were made by David Bevan, chief financial officer of Penn Central. LOWELL SUNDAY SUN, JAN. 2, 1972 A9 Dtit from NOAM, NATIONAL WIA7HCH iWJ6f, US. Dtpl.

ef Commvf art Hot lndialtd Consull local Frcair ftmJJi The nation's weather Thee will cold weather in tht Srat Plains states and in tha Rocky Mountain States. ED per cent today, 70 per cent Partly cloudy oncf milder In likely, Pnit! bmlnnlng ending tonight Tomorrow, highs In the New Hampshire Snow developing 1o doy, likely becoming mixed with or changing fo rofn late today ond tonight. Highs todoy ond lows tonlpht to 30s. Variable claudlness Monday. Highs 20s to becorr.l ram sournem sections imp in the dcy a tonight.

Hfehs today; toens north to slond Soulh lo i 30 knols today, th. visibility over i the precipilutlon today. Champagne, at Lit Inlet commit felony, found In prob Dnald Hilton, 515. Charles T. Hvsnoi, slqri violation, SID.

Rlcnard F. ot Wfstfo. WesKenf, slop Weilford, sli rrank Brady, at Groton, la.ee motor vehicle, continued la Jon. a Melvln L. Grant at Avr, drug Marvin F.

White at Ayer, drgn violation, dismissed by order of the court. Curley K. Day 1 1 1, of Ayer, drug vlDla Kostandln, at Grolorr, speeding. ihtry action. ol Oroton, excessive Louis R.

Guerrero, ot Snirlty, leaving COUilJig property damage. Whrian. Shirty, drunk MkliQil Gerlh, at tHWrHl! boltery, dismissed at rtqurst Ayw, operaflng w.l. iour reci rnrir low clah ol, referred iV rralslrv Kredcrlcfc H. BnrtWt, ol Groton, mall Dennis G.

McEJinan, of Littleton, miner In posKssCon ef alcoholic bevsragc. tiled without Finding; ond pold courr cosfs SID Robert C. Brlancs, at Littleton, speeding rt Peppcrell, oper hn Staff, ot Grofon, Illegal possession BLTSceml, at Groton, Illegal hn Roc ha, ot Peppcrell, leivd, losclvl operatlng j'j'2 dF mot after suspension df license, guGty, nq after suspension, continued, Jon. 6. regisiroHan in possession! placed an uninsured and i continued, Jan.

Margaret Lorwn, at LitHelon, drunk id operaHng under Influence, continued. JANUARY 1972 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 II 12 13 14 75 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 iCIOIC Sun today 4m i Lftnpth of day 9 7 fflln. A1 9 p.m. tost night fc A1 9 P.m. losl night Soulh, IS m.plh.

A1 9 p.m. JJjSfj tf. fWfb 7 am. 7 p.m. Saturday nbn operating to ejanqjr, delendant dDlnutfcd.

ond botlej'y by moans of dangerous weapon, operating under Influence ond operating 1o endanger, defendant defaulted. WOBUPN DISTRICT Anthony fA. Zucker, at Burllngpfi, speeding, de foulL Michael Dayltj ot Bur ling tun, speeding, S25. Ctarle WiiilwoMh. ot Hurllnglcrt, geedFng, no registroflon In precision, Robert Cleveland, at Wilmington, no tlcensc, tiled, speeding, sm, endangering foMIng to slop for apollee officer HS.

Burlington, larceny Pajl Anderson, ot Burlington, minor posscssfon of alcoholic beverages, S25. John J. Mahoncy, at Burlington, House OF Correction, flhr J. SNvUflfl, pi Eurlinalon, ml halJc fwvernncs, $5D( nnrrotlc, S0, oangeroLrs wpepam, sax mon Kenneth W. Tavenner, at Burlington, Idle and disorderly, pc auction, one year.

Jomes H. Buck, III, ot Builinglon, minor alcoholic beverage possession, 550, Robert G. Gale, at Burlington, bpeetfTrxj, SIS, opcrallng under Influence, WO, Burlingfon, endon in i i mumijmilfiiiii Trend? HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) A male nurse sworn Into the Air Force by a woman was the first person to enter tht U.S. armed services this year, according to Capt.

Lawrence OFner of USAF recruiting operations in New York. Steven M. Kern of Canaan was commissioned a second lieutenant by Capt. Blcnc W. Grcenfeldt at midnight Friday in the office of U.S.

Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr. Capt. Greenfieldt is Air Force New York Stale Nursing Advisor. Kern had worfced as a nurse at Columbia Memorial Hospital here and volunteered for service In the Air Force.

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