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(ContinuM from Page One) NUMBER 10 (Continued rom Page One) no federalization of welfare program the smaller pro said would most of of the Viet always slows down time prior to the said Delta 1 14 miles the border and nine President Nixon tells a gath ering honoring the Apollo 14 as tronauts that much remains to be done in space and that the United States must continue its space program this nation is to continue to be a great na Astronaut Alan Shep Calio a Houston and his Cheryll it he was because of that Mills good col House and Sen the way be a great na To the casual tourist Haiti is a land of dancing rhythm lov ing laughing people But many of its residents are in fact hun gry and illiterate 1959 and 1961 that a new Senate could determine its rules by ma jority vote unhindered by past rules But Vice President Spiro Agnew has said he would sub mit to the Senate for its decision any questions involving the con stitutionality of procedures in volved in the filibuster right That ruling would make the issues subject to debate and once again it would take a two thirds vote to limit that debate Nixon also noted he is on record favoring measures to ex pedite the business of Congress But he added: I feel that spe cific changes in congressional rules are matters properly to be determined by the Senate and House of Representatives and it would be inappropriate to sug gest how the Senate should pro ceed in considering its rules or was no indication as yet the bombing have been the result of a Pressed as to what he thought it might have been Mitchell re plied less than a The attorney general said he and President Nixon discussed the bombing during a White House meeting this morning and also what services the executive branch might offer the Con gress Dunphy has us that it is no longer possible to operate in quite the open man ner that we attempted in the The building will be kept as open as possible under the cir cumstances he said and ex pressed belief visitors will un derstand the need for steps make our buildings and grounds as safe as Powell said the number of current vacancies on his author ized staff of 622 is little high er than at 33 Patronage positions he said total 248 Over the long range Powell added the percentage of patron age openings for students could be cut in comparison to the total force However he said he does not the patronage system in with this particular Gravel said he expects legis lation be forthcoming to do away with the patronage sys eventually as far as the police force is concerned Capt Edwin Joyner of Army ordnance said that while he tell what we think it that caused the blast it possibly may have been a clock device with 15 to 20 pounds of dynamite that could have been carried in a briefcase The estimate he added is based looking at the dam age and on our past experi He said the device could have been placed a marble wall our first impression That's why no one saw Powell said the solution was to close the building down but perhaps restrict certain areas that are open Meanwhile investigators were working amid remnants of the shattered area There were no injuries in the blast Authorities screening rubble for clues declined to reveal whether they found anythipg to point toward suspects in the blast that came at 1:32 am a no occupation 166 Naples St: one count of selling LSD Houston Gosney 25 no occupation 642 Spring St: two counts of selling LSD and one of selling hashish and LSD Johnson Negro of Collinsville formerly of Dan ville already in custody in Martinsville on another count: a charge of selling two foils heroin and two capsules secobarbitol Owens Miles 20 occupation 643 Spring St Apt 3: two counts of selling LSD one of selling hashish and one of selling marijuana A 1 Tanna nl The saying funds to political campaigns of various candidates seeking fed i eral offices a violation of the ederal Corrupt Practices Act The defendants were using the non partisan league as a means for the union to make contribu tions to the candidates accord ing to the indictment The in dictment also charged that in order to conceal the nature of these contributions Boyle and Owens authorized Kmetz and Howe to make illegal contribu tions out of the funds in addition the indictment said checks written on the bank account were drawn to in the amount of the au thorized contribution And the indictment alleged these amounts would be deposit ed in the personal accounts of Kmetz and Howe who would write checks on their accounts payable to the candidates or committees Those named as recipients of the contributions and the amounts they are alleged to have received are: Salute to Humphrey Dinner Committee $30000 1968 Demo cratic Congressional Commit tee $5000 in 1969 $5000 in 1968 and $2500 in 1967 Republican Victory Dinner $2000 in 1969 Republican Leadership Dinner $1000 in 1968 former Rep Ar nold Olsen Minn Campaign Committee $1000 in 1968 Re lute to Rep John Saylor Pa Committee $1000 in 1968 Re elect Wayne Morse committee $1000 in 1968 Republican Victo ry Gala $5000 in 1967 and a committee for former Rep Wayne Hays Ohio $250 in 1968 The maximum penalty con viction would be two years in prison and a $10000 fine on i each count of the Corrupt Prac i tices Act violation and five years in prison and a $10000 fine on each of the conspiracy and embezzlement counts A spokesman fo the UMW said there would be no immedi ate comment on the grand action Today indictments are the latest in a series of legal trou bles for Boyle Pending is a Labor Depart ment suit to invalidate 1969 election over the late Jo seph Yablonski The suit filed nearly a year ago was the re sult of an inquiry touched off by the murders of Yablonski his wife and daughter in their iso lated Pennsylvania home short ly after the election Then Secretary of Labor George Shultz said the litiga tion was based on most widespread and intensive inves tigation in the history of the Landrum Griffin consum ing more than 43000 man hours The six page complaint accused the UMW of widespread corrup tion and asked for an injunction to prevent the Boyle regime from spending any more money without maintaining adequate records as required by law sourian is chairman of the Na tional Conference Nixon may have lost points however in the imprecise area of judging the turnout a presi dent can command on the streets of a major city Arriving at the Iowa capitol building shortly before the lunch hour bodyguards de toured him at relatively high speed from the front of the hill top structure where hundreds of dissi dents had gathered The notable aspect of the anti Nixon demonstration was that it encompassed not only ob scenity chanting youths opposed to the Vietnam war but: AL CIO and particu larly its construc tion workers the men Nixon embraced as allies in the 1970 off year campaign who now reb el at his efforts to fight inflation by trying to pare their wage gains Joining the anti war demon strators and labor elements were members of the National armers Organization who raised such placards as Want Not and a scattering of ecologists who want Nixon to do more to protect the environment i Nixon still may have carried the day however when Hcarnes wound up beside him NIXON TRIP President Nixon won mittee repeated assertions Kis 1 singer planned the Cambodian and Laotian invasions and called a hard line approach to trade with Eastern Europe the Cuban Russian sub base inci dent and to the strategic arms limitation talks power begins with his 110 man National Security Council staff While Cabinet members the 1 Joint Chiefs of Staff and others are on the council it is Kissin 1 ger who holds the reins Sym ington said Kissinger is chairman of the six groups under the security council: the Verification Panel which monitors the SALT talks the Vietnam Special Studies Washington Special Action and Senior Review groups which deal with critical issues across the board the Committee named for a Nixon directive with that number which handles the covert intelligence effort and the Defense Programs Re view Committee Then there are the six interde partmental groups which deal with world regions each under an assistant secretary of state In addition Symington said Kissinger figures out all the an swers to presidential news conferences this point someone might ask Is there any danger resulting from this Kis singer Symington asked Because of such concentration of decision making authority he said Congress nor the people have any real knowl edge let alone any voice in the formulation of policy decisions which could well determine the The senator said a start to ward reversing this trend could well be made taking a long hard look at the $23 million re quest for the Tittle State De currently in resi dence at the White House INDOCHINA WAR The US assessment of American backed South namese offensive into Laos and Cambodia is that it has put Ha noi on the defensive blunted North ability to launch major offensives in South Vietnam and made possi ble the withdrawal of more US troops CAPITOL BOMBING With debris still littering the halls of their wing of the Capi tol' senators open an inquiry into the bombing they view as a symbolic attack on the nation The patronage laden Capitol police force says President Nix on needs professional ism more trained security per WASHINGTON The Supreme Court confronts an invisible but formidable wall today the one separating church from state NATIONAL The prosecution in the Angela Davis case says there is whelming that she plotted a courthouse escape in which four died Rock musicians may have soul but country singers have heart and prove it with a huge benefit that brings in more than $60000 for the education of youngsters whose fathers died in a Kentucky coal mine Ah alert woman discovery is helping erase fear and pain from the lives of hemo philiacs born with blood that will not clot southwestern Cambodia Vietnamese and Viet smashed into to attempt to influence individu trust you will agree with the wisdom in this Nixon wrote Scott who had asked for his help in the effort to change the filibuster rule The last attempt to break the rules filibuster came one week ago and fell eight votes short of the two thirds margin it needed The vote was 50 to 36 On eb 18 the first cloture vote failed 48 to 37 none votes short Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield who favors the rule change said he will let the debate continue and seek a fourth cloture vote next week if the sponsors want one verdict was not supported by I the evidence and I am as reaso nably sure as one can be after nine years that I made no such Casey said he was not present in the chambers when the exchange he described to the committee took place based my testimony on a telephone conversation with my lawyer the night before the hearing when I was informed by Sen Proxmire that he planned to bring this case up which I had dismissed from my mind a long time Casey then turned to the tran script which he said he had got ten late Monday After the jury had awarded the Plaintiff Henry ield of In dianapolis $41450 the tran script disclosed the judge called the opposing attorneys to the bench Then Casey said reading from the transcript court said going to think a long time about it Gentlemen I believe I will con fer with you in chambers for a few minutes There be any ruling I just want to talk about the Later said Casey the plain tiff agreed to settle for less than half the amount the jury had awarded was always my under standing the plaintiff was will ing to accept that much less money because he had reason to fear the case would be set for new trial There was no other plausible reason for tak ing less than said Casey ield had charged the publish ing company and Casey then an editor for the firm used mate rial from a ield manuscript that had been rejected While Casey awaited the next round in his battle to win confir mation the agency he would head was aswarm with BI agents Sources said it was unclear whether the agents were re 1 checking background or trying to determine if someone in the SEC had leaked potential ly damaging information about the New York tax lawyer on revenue sharing So appar ently did Patrick Lucey of Wisconsin the only other Demo cratic governor present Lucey declared he wax con vinced his state would fare bet ter under the Nixon proposals than under any alternate plan for 100 per cent federal financ ing of welfare costs Hearnes acknowledged he had suggested recently a federal takeover of welfare might be preferable to planned revenue sharing But he said he was persuad ed otherwise after talking in Washington last Wednesday with Rep Wilbur Mills chair man of the House Means Committee As Hearnes told persuaded largely published reports Ark saw a total federal take over of welfare as the practical alternative to revenue sharing But then he related he and Lucey and other governors met with Mills and were told the Ways and Means Committee chairman would only want Un cle Sam to assume the cost of the least expensive portions of the varied welfare programs Aid to the blind was one he said in response to a question JVJU1C HUWvVvl was the report that Mills opposed federal financing of aid to dependent children or in some states aid to families and dependent the costliest part of the package Therefore said Hearnes for the Nixon plan Moreover he emphasized the proposal has the overwhelming support of the na governors There was some question however whether the gover version of stand was accurate The representative was una vailable but associates said they believed Mills was thinking of eventual most of the i Takeover of crams they 1 likely be a first step in the grad i ual assumption of many welfare i programs WASHINGTON (AP) Nixon administration foreign competition necessitates development of a supersonic jet liner promises environmental questions will be answered be fore commercial SST production is allowed projects can be stopped if their continuation is found to be environmentally William Ruckel shaus head of the Environmen tal Protection Agency told House Appropriations subcom mittee Monday As an example he cited Pres ident Jan 19 decision halting the cross lorida barge canal because of its impact on the ecology The key issue in continuing development of two experimen tal SSTs is economics Ruckel shaus said appears most of the environmental questions can be answered without the two prototypes but the proto types can answer them Secretary of Transportation John A Volpe said the US ver sion of the 1800 mile an hour plane must be developed to keep pace with Soviet and British rench planes already flying If prototype testing shows the SST will do irrepara ble harm to our Volpe said will do every thing possible and the Presi dent has asked me to say this to ensure that a United States SST docs not fly in commercial There is no evidence of such harm Volpe said and develop ment and test flying of two totypes answer fears with is too close now to end federal aid for the plane But Rep William Minshall Ohio asked why the program! at least be slowed until environmental issues are set tled in effect are shooting craps with the mon ey and as they say in Las Ve gas what if you crap he added Ruckelshaus replied the eco nomic argument is if you do slow it down we become nan competitive with the British rench and Russian Environmentalists have urged Congress to drop government subsidization of the SST pro gram contending the plane would adversely affect climate and produce unbearable noise House and Senate hearings continue this week on whether to stop funds for the prototype program expected to cost $1342 1 billion if and when finished 1 An initial test in the new Con 1 gress could come in the House in two weeks inal action is slated by the end of this month when current SST funding ex pires ard Jr gets a award Sen Stuart Symington urges Congress to halt proliferation of what he calls the a web of White House panels groups and coun cils mastered by Henry A Kis singer William Casey President beleaguered nominee to head the Securities and Ex change Commission acknowl edges the SEC has made inquir ies into fees paid to his law firm by a New York race track of which he is a director The Nixon chief environmentalist says the $13 billion SST program must be kept alive not to answer eco logical questions but to meet foreign competition President Nixon declines to intervene directly in the long running Senate battle over the filibuster rule leaving latest attempt to end the mara thon debate headed for a third straight failure The first big legislative conf rontation of the 1971 House comes this week on an obscure but recurring issue: whether the Treasury should be allowed to raise interest rates on long term bonds half hour after a male caller told a Capitol switchboard oper ator: building will blow up in 30 minutes You will get many calls like this but this one is real Evacuate the building This is in protest of the Nixon 1 involvement in President Nixon speaking lat er in Des Moines Iowa said the violent people want (is) to frighten public officials and the American people into the place where we will not have the open buildings the open society that we do would like to keep the President in Washington rather than come out in the he added it While Nixon was urging up graded security measures Capi tol police clamped down on the flow of people into the Senate wing where according to the Capitol office dam age was figured at more than $300000 The blast shattered windows in the aged West ront but ap parently caused no serious new cracks in the crumbling last re maining visible piece of the original Capitol structure The explosion tore apart a room and heavily dam aged adjoining rooms The ground floor site included pri vate offices used by Sens Caleb Boggs Del and Everett Jordan NC There was dam i age to the Senate barber shop Some inside walls buckled un der the impact of the blast that produced the worst harm to the building since 1814 when the British set it afire Powell told reporters 15 of his men were in the building at the time of the blast including one officer who had inspected the room just before the warning call but not after it The policeman found nothing out of order during that check Powell added Senators and congressmen of both major parties described the bombing variously as de plorable cruel tragic and the act of a madman or a revolu tionary Senate Republican 1 Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsyl vania said: is apparently a political Sen Jennings Randolph chairman of the Public Works Committee said: incident represents an attack on the very center of government itself The Capitol building is not only the seat of our legislature but one of the great national treas Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called the bombing a sacrilege and orcing Rela tions Committee Chairman JW ulbright Ark said there is rational explanation for ir rational I know what they seek to accomplish by can only say a tragic" barbaric thing for anyone to said Sen George Mc Govern SD while Sen Har old Hughes Iowa said: yone who would plant a bomb like that in any place let alone the Capitol has to be a revolutionary or completely Vice President Spiro Ag new president of the Senate called the blast a act of outrage which will be nei ther tolerated nor condoned by Americans who value our sys tem and its House Speaker Carl Albert Okla expressed concern the incident may result in tions that might be put on the freedom with which citizens are allowed to visit these build House Democratic Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana said very large and a very powerful was used There were reports that two or three sticks of dynamite were in the bomb but authorities were will ing only to publicly rule out black powder compounds President Nixon who was in formed about the explosion about a half hour after it hap pened said he had arranged with Atty Gen John Mitchell for members of the Capitol Po lice orce to obtain the latest available training from the Jus tice Department and Secret Service one round in his fight for revenue sharing but may have lost in other areas in his first major postelection appearance outside Washington End Ave near Bethel St an unidentified driver who backed into the street from a driveway and then left the scene was blamed for the headon collision of two autos The investigating officer was told that as Lester Conway Cobb 613 Betts St swung his car into the left la'ne to avoid a collision with the backing auto an approaching compact driven by Lewis Agee oster Jr of Gretna crested the hill When oster saw the lane occupied he braked and his car skidded into the larger one Damages were estimated at $450 to the front windshield seat and steering wheel of the compact and some $400 to the front of auto Damages totaling about $300 were listed yesterdav in collision on Arnett Blvd Bethel Hildridge Martin 114 Kings Court reportedly made a right turn from Keens Mill Road and struck the right rear of the southbound auto of Alyce King Dee 115 Greenwood Lane A hit run incident last night on Grant St resulted in some $200 damage to the rear of the car of Robert Rod Law 1015 Branch St He told police the fast moving hit run vehicle made a wide right turn from Blaine into the lane in which Law was 1 approaching the intersection Only minor damage was listed in other traffic accidents yesterday and during the night hours more South Vietnamese Rang ers were in the vicinity of rang er landing zones north of High way 9 and that all ranger ele ments had been pulled back closer to the border Associated Press correspond ent Holger Jensen reported from inside Laos that two other South Vietnamese bases were attacked Monday night and to day Jensen west of miles north of Highway 9 was the target for 10 rockets but most of them landed outside the perimeter Aluoi the main base for the South Vietnamese airborne troops along Highway 9 was hit with mortars for two hours Jen sen said from Delta 1 nearby he could see explosions and offi cers reported several direct hits on stores of artillery shells The first elements of a 600 man South Vietnamese marine battalion began moving into Laos today to reinforce battered paratrooper units Informed sources also reported that a ma rine brigade had been moved from its base at Neak Luong in eastern Cambodia to the Saigon area and put in strategic re serve possibly to join two other marine brigades already on the i northern front In the raid on North Vietnam the US Command said 15 fichfpi' bombers Sunday at tacked I which The citation suggested since there seemed to be an abun dance of moon craters it was i likely iron shot became the first celestial hole in Nixon said the citation was and attested by Vice President Spiro Agnew wishes to point out that Capt first two swings were embarrassing failures and that he knows how it Agnew who hit three specta tors with tee shots recently stepped up with few words in self saying he was a very good golfer who just happens to have a few bad first Roosa and Mitchell both told Nixon they were honored to re ceive the medals feel particularly honored to receive this award in the pres ence of you said Roosa it is each and ev ery one of that made Apol lo 14 the success it Mitchell said we have been able to increase the base of scientiific knowledge by some measure and to inspire peo ple in this country to continue space exploration because of the knowledge we gain from adequate reward for The President took time out to spotlight a space age romance introducing Anthony physicist with the Manned Space Center new wife the former Madison The two were to be next Sunday Nixon said but moved up the wedding date to Monday so Calio could bring his new wife to the dinner Nixon also put in a plug for the space program telling the guests that America set as its goal remaining first in because to continue to Referring to leagues in the the President noted the nation has a tendency to let its interest recede after a success ful space achievement He said this is followed by a reduction in support for the space program cannot be the case if this nation is to continue to be a great he said Dr Werner Von Braun the father of space pro gram said he was delighted with comments but add ed of the people in the room were friends of the pro gram And Rep Olin Teague of Texas ranking Democrat on the House Science and Astronautics Committee added fine but where is it in his troops in defense of its supply 1 lines as opposed to offensives continuing disruption of the supply lines would affect his capabilities to conduct off sive operations in both Cambodia and Vietnam and at the same time enhance the Vietnamization process pro vide additional time for the de velopment of Cambodian forces and permit continued withdraw als of US In contrast to the optimistic official assessment other US sources said the operation in Laos was ill conceived and poor ly planned One source said the South Vietnamese army had not im proved as much as some Ameri can generals are saying and had of some bases leaving large numbers of wounded to fend for themselves This source said the timing was poor as far as the weather was concerned and that rains fog and low clouds had ham pered US air support While the official American sources said the drive had cut enemy truck traffic in the pan handle of Laos by 50 per cent in the past four days other sources said it appeared that traffic had up a to the west of the routes cut by the South troops about this rainy season in said one source takes the supplies a i i long time to move so they want to get too much in at the top of the trail Traffic has been slowed a little due to the South Vietnamese offensive but I think they're ever going to cut the trail have to put a fence up all the way across i On the battlefields today a major fight was reported at Landing Zone Brown 12 miles inside Laos and six miles north of Highway 9 North Vietnamese troops moving under cover of a morar barrage assaulted the base dur ing the night But field com manders said they had advance information of the attack and two battalions were waiting to give the enemy a recep The South Vietnamese claimed 68 North Vietnamese killed and reported two of their own men killed and nine wound ed Lt Col Tran Van An the spokesman at South Vietnamese military headquarters in Sai gon said government forces had abandoned a base called Hotel 2 south of Highway 9 the main east west route being used in the South Vietnamese drive He said two infantry battalions had moved Sunday from the base to another position after three days of heavy fighting South Vietnamese field com manders claimed 200 North Vietnamese were killed in the fighting at Hotel 2 while South Vietnamese losses were 35 killed and 120 wounded consider the evacuation from Hotel 2 a tactical move Col An said Laos there is no fixed position for South Vietnamese troops The offensive is with us so we move Earlier Saigon headquarters had reported that US fighter bombers attacked an enemy tank force closing in on Hotel 2 1 and destroyed eight light tanks A South Vietnamese spokesman said allied forces have knocked out 52 of North PT76 amphibious tanks in Laos i ield reports said that no INTERNATIONAL A British hospital claims it has a cure for gambling fever a real winner The idea is to make betting boring Illegal land seizures of private farms by Chilean peasants since the election of leftist President Salvador Allende have reached as far south as Puerto Montt a provincial capital chilled by ant arctic winds occupation 424 Claiborne St: two counts of selling drugs Roach alias Dennis Wayne Roach 19 no' occupation 487 Jefferson St: two counts of selling marijuana Wayne Ross 21 no occupation 625 erry Road: two counts oi selling LSD and one of selling marijuana Horace Smith 19 no occupation 499 Middle St: one count of selling LSD (Vick) Lane Soyars 21 student 136 Garden Grove St: two counts of selling LSD and one of selling hashish and LSD Wesley Swain 24 Goodyear sorting and labeling 447 Elizabeth St Ext: five counts of selling drugs Wayne Talley 24 City of Danville Public Works Department 1217 Claiborne St: three counts of selling LSD and one of selling marijuana Kenneth Wiles 25 truck driver 326 Thomas St: two counts of selling LSD In the course of the arrests it was reported police found' various items such as syringes a hashish pipe and unidentified pills and capsules which when may lead to addition al charges The commonwealth attorney credited Detectives Earles and Hugh Wyatt with being instrumental in development of the cases declaring that they worked night and day under every conceivable condition! and through their imagination and brilliant? investigative work were able to submit to the grand jury the i results of their He suggested that the work of these men pointed out the need for a full time force to work on? cases of this nature uller also said the case reflected a need for reorientation of policy in the police department of the outcome of these he asserted reminding that the burden is upon the Common wealth to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt think this investigation has pointed out that the main empha sis of our police department'' should be on work rather than on arresting as many good citizens as pos sible for going 35 miles per hour in a 25 mile zone which has been the policy in the The local police force according to uller of many good hard working' people who should be allowed Ito develop their abilities in an Lance Oakes 19 no atmosphere free of sunaay antiaircraft batteries threatened American planes attacking the Ho Chi Minh trail The announcement said results of the one hour strike were not known but no US plants were lost It was the 16th at tack on North Vietnam this year and the third of such large size within nine days The US Command an nounced the loss of two more helicopters: a big Air orce CH53 supporting Laotian army forces that crashed in the Plain of Jars killing two Americans and wounding two others and an Army UH1 shot down with all four American crewmen killed while supporting South Vietnamese troops in eastern Cambodia In North Cons mortars only oil refinery and set six of its 22 storage tanks afire The refinery at Kompong Som 115 miles south west of Phnom Penh had been shut down since December be cause the tanks were full and enemy operations made it haz ardous to truck gasoline and fuel oi) north to Phnom Penh The enemy also fired about 15 mortar rounds into the Kom pong Som airport 10 miles southeast of the city but no cas ualties or serious damage was reported In Phnom Penh inance Min ister Tim Nguon and US Am bassador Emory Swank signed agreements covering $185 million in US economic aid including $10 million worth of impprts for the Cambodian i economy and $85 million worth of American surplus tobacco i cotton cotton yarn and vegeta ble oils American sources said nego tiations would open shortly on another $60 million in US aid The Bee: Danville Va Tuesday March 2 1971 5 A The Senate is asked to take 26 1 states off a legal hook attached to a string of loans Washington made to them 135 years ago during the first fling at federal revenue sharing if firm was hurriedly consum mated in Louisiana after they tried to block it in California Casey said there was no effort to evade California law plagiarism suit brought against Casey and a publishing house Prentice Hall Casey pro duced Monday night a trial transcript sealed for nine years to support his version of the outcome of the case The recollection disclosed Sunday conflicted with the ac count Casey had given the Banking Committee earlier The White House meantime said Monday President Nixon is firm in his support of Casey Press secretary Ronald Zie gler said the issue has been studied and in no way do we feel this disqualifies In the interview Casey said has been some discus sion between Roosevelt Race way and the but added he know whether the mat ter still was pending Roosevelt Raceway agreed to pay firm $60000 a year for four years starting in 1967 to settle a $240000 bill incurred up to that time The SEC staff raised the pos sibility of a violation of securi ties regulations by the compa failure to spell out in detail in its proxy statement that the 560000 payment was part pay ment of a $24ooov aeor Raceway red a proxy statement as they thought it should said Cas ey who was named a director of Roosevelt in May 1969 The racetrack corporation was the object of an attempted takeover by two different com Madison Square Garden Corp and Transnation Develop ment Corp In October 1969 the SEC filed a civil suit in New York in which it accused Madison Square Garden Corp of acting to boost the market price of Roosevelt stock in an effort to defeat a tender of fer Madison Square Garden de nied the allegations Casev said he had no tics to Madison Square Garden which acquired the largest single block of Roosevelt stock in a number of purchases by a subsi diary in the summer of 1969 In fact said Casey officials of the track asked him to come on the board they ought I was particularly fitted for the protection of the inde pendent shareholders of Roosev Casey when questioned about the 1962 plagiarism suit at his nomination hearing told the committee the judge had ad vised counsel he thought the verdict against Casey and the publisher was not supported by the evidence Sen William Proxmire Wis who has asked for reopen ing of the hearings produced a letter from the judge Sunday night which disputed account Judge Braxton Craven Jr of the ourth Circuit US Court of Appeals wrote he did not re call telling the attorneys an yone else after the trial that the WiB MmiiOWte.