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The Daily Intelligencer from Doylestown, Pennsylvania • Page 2

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PAGE 3 THE DAILY INTtUIOENCEft THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1971 22 Americans Die In Attacks THE END OF SST--Four worried looking Boeing employes peer from the cockpit of the SST mockup as company spokesmen announce Wednesday's Senate vote killing the program. Company officials say 7,000 employes will be laid off and all SST development halted as soon as official notice of the project's end is received, which is expected today. 'The Escapes Again MONTGOMERY, 111. (UPD- The anonymous, one-man antipollution campaigner who calls himself Fox" has escaped with his secret identity intact once again. However, police in this community crediting themselves with at least foiling an attack on the Armour Dial Co.

One even caught a glimpse of the furtive figure as he slipped away in the darkness. That's more than post police have been able to accomplish since the lone crusader started i a warfare tactics against large companies and utilities he considers to be major polluters. Montgomery police went into action after Chief Jack Hughes received a tip Tuesday night that an attempt would be made to cement a drain pipe of the Armour plant outside of town. ARE YOU PREGNANT ana' need help Help far you and baby a as near as the telephone Call Birthright MO 7-3910 NEW JERSEY 609-848-1818 Wt will provide financial and medical guidance, counseling and family living. Policeman James Meinholz was posted as a lookout.

He reported everything normal at 9 p.m. But at "9:30 p.m. he spotted a figure in dark Citizen clotnin skulking along a creek v-mzen near the drain pipe SAIGON forces closed down their armed base af Vei ttifn miloc frnrvi Laos today and pulled back deep inside South Vietnam. i forces moved across the border and their attacks claimed at least 22 American lives, field reports said. UPI correspondent Stewart Kellerman reported that a 90- vehicle convoy left Lang Vei on dusty Route 9, rumbled past the.

Jihe Sanh air strip and stopped at a combat base 24 miles inside South Vietnam. That left Democrats Prod Wai- Fund Cutoff WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Democratic Policy i prodded the Democratic majority in Congress today to vote for a cutoff of all funds to support U.S. military operations in Indochina after Dec. 31. The action came at the start of a week of meetings by various Democratic groups to prepare -for the 1972 presidential campaign.

Democratic state chairmen gathered today for a two-day Khe Sanh, 12 miles from the border, as the closest American hasp to Military spokesmen in Saigon said all of the South Vietnamese forces that had moved into Laos Feb. 8 to cut the Communist Ho Chi Minh supply trail had moved back across the border by this morning. However, field reports said company of South Vietnamese marines were airlifted" to Artillery Base Hotel, two miles- inside Laos, by American helicopters to form an infantry outpost "with reconnaissance responsibility." At Khe Sanh, GIs were'busy- dismantling the foot helicopter assault pad. from which thousands of support missions were flown during the Laotian campaign. The U.S.

command also reported the loss of live more helicopters, bringing to 94 the number of American choppers destroyed while supporting the operation. Five men were reported killed, putting the casualty figure for the opera- lion at 66 dead. 79 wounded and 28 missinff The weekly casually report said 55 American servicemen were killed in action in Indochina battlefronts a week, including three dead and 12 injured in aircraft losses over Laos. U.S. battlefield deaths the week before numbered 45.

According to medics at Khe Sanh, 22 Americans were killed Wednesday in shellings, ambushes and the shooting down of helicopters. Galley Showing Strain FT. BENN1NG, Ga. (UPI)Lt. William L.

Calley Jr. is beginning the strain of the long wait for a life-or-death verdict from his court-martial jury. The short, balding officer was puffy-eyed during Wednesday's court session, which he was required to attend because of the reading of further testimony to the six-officer jury. One of his attorneys said Calley had not slept Tuesday night. A guilty verdict by the jury, in its ninth day of deliberation today, could bring a sentence of death or life imprisonment on charges that Calley murdered 102 civilians at the South Vietnamese village of My Lai on March 16, 1968.

There were indications the military judge, Col. Reid W. Kennedy, would allow ihe jurors to continue their deliberate pace at least through the weekend. The defense has asked that Kennedy prod the jurors into action, but the judge, instead, commended Ihe panel for its thoroughness. The jurors.

all combat officers, requested and received two blackboards Wednesday, apparently to chalk up key facts of testimony by 104 witnesses and other pertinent data. Speculation was the jurors might be using the blackboards as they are used in military classrooms--the facts on one board, the courses of action on the other. The jury is being read, at its request, testimony from some witnesses who appeared earlier in the trial Estate To Then, as Meinholz moved in session TM campaign organiza- i i i i 9 i-nA in cnmo nf tno SACRAMENTO, Calif (UPI) --The last will and testament of Bertrand Larramendy said briefly: "Because I am extremely- grateful to have lived in this country, I leave my entire estate to the government of the United States of America." The U.S. government is 5171,682 richer today. Who was Bertrand Larramendy? What touched off his desire to leave all his money to the government? Very little is known about him, and even less about his generosity.

However, his attorney said Jor the catch, the figure darted away and melted into the darkness of the surrounding woods. tion and to hear some of the party's prospective candidates for the 1972 presidential nomination. The policy council met At least Meinholz' Wednesday with 68 of its 100 ion of the scene was more members present, under the fruitful than the attempted cnairmansn i Sen. Hubert H. capture He turned up a of Mi nneso ta.

the flashlight, still lit. a 100-pound part 1968 sack of cement, a quantity of that three months before I Larramendy died on Sept. 26. 11969. at the age of 83.

he signed jthe will without explaining his was one more "clean" getaway. In the past year, he has scrawled nasty signs across the quantity lime and a note which said: "Armour-Dial has polluted this creek for long enough; the animals of the forest can no longer stand it." Meinholz also found the sign of the fox--an orange sticker imprinted with the head of a fox--which always has been left at the scenes of the Fox' exploits minutes before the law. But for the Fox himself it i tial nominee. reasons. DIAMANTIS TAILORING Ladies' 1 Men's CUSTOM MADE SUITS Alterations RistyPng 18 YORK RD.

HAT9ORO PHONE OS 5-OW NV Envoys Cancel Talks In Protest PARIS (UPI)--North Vietnam canceled today's Vietnam peace talks session to protest U.S. bombing raids against its territory. The Hanoi announcement Wednesday followed a three- week boycott of the stagnant by both North walls of industrial plants, Vietnam and Viet Cong chief plugged up sewage pipes ana. delegates. Alleged U.S.

threats most recently, sloshed what ae claimed to be waste from a steel mill on the white-carpeted floor of the office of A top U.S. Steel executive. to invade North Vietnam were cited by the Communists as the reason for sending their second- string delegates since Februa- irv. BUCKINGHAM TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS The May 18th Primary Election is of vital importance to the future of Buckingham. Register Republican and vote for Bob Pierson for township supervisor.

WHY BOB PIERSON? He has a lifetime of government and planning experience. He is executive secretary of the Bucks County Conservancy, an organization dedicated maintaining and upgrading the county's environment. He is a 19 year resident of Buckingham. BOB PIERSON STANDS FOR: A rural Buckingham Township with open spaces and the continuance of farming. A high standard of Township ordinances and their enforcement.

A Township government responsive to the will of the community. An orderly development of Township resources that will retain the Township's character. TO VOTE IN THE MAY 18th PRIMARY YOU MUST REGISTER BEFORE THE MARCH 29th DEADLINE TO VOTE FOR BOB PIERSON, YOU MUST REGISTER REPUBLICAN VOTER REGISTRATION HOURS THURSDAY, MARCH 25th 8:15 A.M. to 4:15 P.M FRIDAY, MARCH 26th 8:15 A.M. to 4:15 P.M..

7 P.M. to 9 P.M. SATURDAY, 27iJi 3:13 A.M. 12 Nccr, MONDAY, MARCH 29th 8:15 A.M. to 9 P.M.

DEADLINE MAIN FLOOR, OFFICE OF REGISTRATION BUCKS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, DOYLESTOWN Sponsored by Citizens for Bob Ptorson, Wm. Huntmet, chairmen. The Nation And The World Egypt Forces Ready To Battle Israel The semiofficial Cairo newspaper Al Ahram said today Egyptian armed forces have a in large scale maneuvers and are now ready to take on Israel in battle if need be. News of the war games coincided with the end of wide- ranging meetings between President Anwar Sadat and his military commanders. His sixth and last session Wednesday lasted four hours.

Al Ahram said the maneuvers "showed that our forces are ready to engage the enemy immediately." Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad said Egypt has reached the end of the road in its efforts to solve the Middle East crisis. "We have nothing before us but to insist on liberating our land." Riad told 300 diplomats of the foreign ministry Wednesday. "We will not give up any of our rights any of our land or the rights of the Palestinian people." Riad was to leave Fridav for i Paris to head a conference of Egyptian diplomats from western Europe. Agnew Blasts CBS Rebuttal On Pentagon ST. LOUIS, Mo.

(UPI)--Vice President Spiro T. Agnew leveled a new volley of criticism at CBS television Wednesday, accusing the network of "deliberately publishing untruths." He also attacked a Newsweek magazine report that a new image was being created for the vice president. He said he was "totally- dissatisfied with what (CBS) characterized as a rebutttal on the part of administration officials, including myself," to the network's documentary. "The Selling of the Pentagon." Italians Protest Alka Seltzer Ad ELKHART. Ind (UPI)--The manufacturers of Alka Seltzer said Wednesday the "spicy- meatballs" commercial which won an award Tuesday night Hospital Register DOYLESTOWN.

HOSPITAL March 24 Admitted Ty Cobb, Doylesown; Can- terine Flataker, Souderton; Anna Livinghouse, Warrington: George Bauhof. Richboro; Cheryl Brinkman. Doylestown; Crowther, Newtown; Lisa Stiles, Doylestown; John Holroyo, Richboro; Nell Funk, Holdcong; David Carbonell, Fountainville; Joanne Andreasen, Doylestown; James "McLean, Ivyland; Alice Bruner, Chalfont. Discharged Theodore Allen, Perkasie; Claire Sherry, New -Hope; Plant, Doylestown; Gary Gotwals, Hatfield. GRAND VIEW March 24 Admitted Shelly edman, Sellersville; Beverly Lutchen- dorg, llersville; Donna Tillger, SellersviEe; Luther Besch, Sellersville; William Pharo, rkasie; Shirley Maries, a i Jack Binsberger, Dublin; Wilmer Landis, B1 ming Glen; Florence Telford: Oscar Bauer, Quakertown; Carl Schanabel.

Discharged Judith Frank, Perkasie; William i tzler, Trumbauersville. fert Tnoid nteimhtle nodal occnmd in 196 TrtiMi Haiiy Wfllj Jrt Ihe Wietl rf his DUIJ-M Motor Wapm sLrutk a Columbia hinds ridden by Jliss Thomas. FROM ONE BROKEN BICYCLE TO 60,000 DEATHS THIS PROGRESS? last year ncady 60.000 people died on U.S. highways. And we, at Harleysvillc Insurance, aic asking for your help in hailing this slaughter.

AYe have picpared a Political Action Kit that help you work with your legislators for the enactment and enforcement of stricter traffic laws. Send for your copy today. has been removed Irom the air. student, and others in the but not because of pressure from an Italian American The commercial features a man trying to say "Mama mia. that's a-some spicy meatballs" but who finally settles for Aka Seltzer.

The commercial took top honors at the llth Annual International Broadcasting Awards ceremonies Los Angeles as the most humorous television advertisement. Trtcia Settles For June 12 wedding party more time to complete their studies. Somantha Eggar Gets $1 Divorce Alimony LOS ANGELES (UPI)-Film producer Tom Stern received a $25,000 property settlement Wednesday from his wife, actress Samantha Eggar. when the couple's six-year marriage was dissolved in Superior Court. Stern, 37, agreed to pay Miss Eggar $1 yearly as token alimony.

He said in his suit against the 32-year-old actress WASHINGTON (UPI) Tri- that she had stashed more than cia Nixon, after some days of indecision, has settled on June 12 as the day for her wedding to Edward Finch Cox. The couple had planned the ceremony for either June 5 or in community assets in foreign banks. Miss Eggar received custody of their two children, Nicholas 5, and Jenna Louise, 3, and after waived child support June 12 but the later date was testifying her gross earnings selected to give Cox, a law averaged S200.000 a year. Obituaries JONAS S. LANDES Jonas S.

Landes. a retired Doylestown Township farmer, who was also a custom farmer for many years, died Wednesday in Francoma Mennonite Home He was 8L He lived in the Pine Run section of Doylestown Township, where he farmed for more than 50 years. He retired about three years ago. His wife, the former Anna Myers Landes, died in 1949. Mr.

Myers was a guest at the Mennonite home for a year and a half. Born in Plumstead Township, he was the son of Abram and Esther Shaddinger Landes. He was a member of Doylestown Mennonite Church. He is survived by five children. Daniel M.

Landes, Fountainville; Mrs. Florence Kindy, 1 ea dville: Jonas M. Landes, Doylestown; Clayton M. Landes, Doylestown RD Mrs. Rachel Kerr, Hatfield, and a foster daughter.

Mrs. Margaret Blanks, Columbus, Ohio. There are 26 grandchildren, two great- grandchildren and three great- great- grandchildren. Three brothers, Ruben Dublin, and Daniel Frederick, also survive. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Monday in Doylestown Mennonite Church. FRANCIS G. MYERS Francis G. Myers, a former Bucks County sheriff, died Wednesday in the Doylestown Manor Convalescent Home. He was 83.

Born in Tinicum, he was the son of the late Abram and' Sarah Gruver Myers. He was the husband of the late Anna S. Myers. A resident of Hfiltown, he formerly lived in New Britain Township where he operated farms for a number of years. He served as sheriff from 1941 to 1945.

He was a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Dublin; the Pennsylvania Sheriff Association and the national farm loan agency. He is survived by a son, Mahlon Myers, Perkasie; a daughter, Mrs. Lydia Terrell. Sanford, a brother, Norman Myers, Chalfont.

three grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services will be held 2 p.m. Monday from the St. Luke's theran Church. Dublin.

FUNERAL NOTICES LANOES, 24. 1971. of FrancoiM JUenuupite Home. HaUield R.D. formerly of Doylestown, R.

Jonas husband of the late Anna Landes. Aged 81 vears. ReUtues and friends are invited to attend scn'Ces on March 29 at 2 o.m. at the Dojlts- to'in CSurch i-liere irienu mh call Sunday evening 5 to 3 and Monday at 1 pjn until Urns uf sen Interment adjoining cemetery Paul Hunsickcr Funeral Home in char 'c MYERS, Francis G. 24 of March of Fretz Rd.

Perkasie, RRl, Pa Hus band of the Inte Anna S. Mje'rs. Funeral semces for relatives and Tvill be held Monday 29th. of Marcn at 2 p.m. from St, Lukes Luthern Church.

Dublin. Pa. No viewing Interment Dublin Union Cemcterj J. S. LEAVER Funeral Home Buckingham, Pa.

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