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Weather Rain Ending, Much Colder Tonight And Thursday. See Roundup On Page 18C. THE DAILY TIME -NEWS Times-News Family More Than 23,500 Reaching More Than Alamance County Homes With 85,000 Headers 84th YEAR-No. 140 PRICE 10 CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS UPI TEHPHOTO SIRVKB NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN. NORTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE BURLINGTON, N.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1972 WOMEN'S NEWS SERVICE UPI STOCK SERVICE ASSOCIATED AFTERNOON DAILIES AP AND KINO FEATURE SERVICE 56 PAGES 4 SECTIONS North Vietnam Sets Hard Terms For Release Of POWs HONG KONG (AP) North appeared today to harden its terms for the release of U.S. prisoners. Hanoi said the United States must abandon its policy of Viet- namizing the war to obtain the prisoners' freedom. An end to Vietnamization has always been implicit among Communist demands for a final solution in Vietnam. But this is the first time it has linked it with the prisoner issue.

Previously, the Communists at the Paris peace talks had linked a timetable for a U.S. forces withdrawal to the overthrow of President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. An end to Vietnamization, the process of training South Vietnamese forces so South Vietnam can defend itself, would, at this stage probably mean the fall of Thieu. President Nixon repeatedly has emphasized the importance of Vietnamization to his withdrawal plans. Radio Hanoi, in a Vietnam- ese-language broadcast, said the "only way for (President) Nixon to get the U.S.

prisoners of war back to their families' is to follow "two basic points: "1. Completely end the war of aggression in Vietnam and withdraw all its troops from Vietnam, and "2. Completely end the Viet- namization policy of continuing the war." The broadcast said the Viet- namization policy was a "plot to withdraw U.S. troops but still continue the war of American aggression by puppet forces under U.S. direction and with U.S.

support and supplies." Reiterating that the Vietnam- ization program is a continuation of the U.S. war, Radio Hanoi continued: "Once again we directly tell Nixon that as long as the U.S. still stubbornly prolongs the war, the more U.S. troops will continue to die in vain and the longer the men caught red- handed while creating crimes will be kept from reuniting with their families. "Whether the U.S.

prisoners of war can go home or not depends entirely on the policy of Nixon, whether he wants to end the war of aggression in Vietnam or not end it." Radio Hanoi termed its broadcast a "commentary answering the lies and falsehoods voiced by Nixon" in his television interview Sunday. Muskie's Campaign Launched By WATLER R. MEARS AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, coy no more, has begun his declared campaign for the White House, summoning Americans to "a new beginning'' while a top Republican accused him of "badmouthing the United States." The Maine Democrat formally announced 'his candidacy-obvious for a year--on $30,000 worth of nationwide television time Tuesday night.

"I am seeking the presidency not merely to change presidents, but to change the country," Muskie said in his lu-min- ute announcement. "I intend to lead--to ask you to make America what it was to Abra- Luck Was With Driver The driver of this truck was hospitalized with back and rib injuries yesterday in an accident at San Diego. But the driver of the car look carefully and you will see it crushed under the truck -walked away with a cut hand. Paul Hammand of Whittier, Calif, was the driver of the truck which was loaded with canned goods. The lucky driver of the car was Thomas Giambalve of Copiague, N.

Y. (UPI Telephoto). 43 Types Of Operations Outpatient Surgery Plan Praised DURHAM Significant savings of both time and money are being realized by patients and hospitals alike in an experimental outpatient surgical unit operating at the Watts Hospital in Durham. In response to growing concern over the rising cost of hospital care and increasing shortage of hospital beds, Waltsihospitals could be successfully Hospital and North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield have joined forces to sponsor a special hospital ambulatory surgical unit at the Durham community hospital, in an effort to determine whether some of the uncomplicated operations now being performed in general Wandered In Jungle Survivor Of Crash Found After 12 Days By WILLIAM HEATH LIMA, Peru (AP) A 17-year-old girl survived an airliner crash in the Peruvian jungle on Christmas Eve, wandered for days in the tropical rain forest, swam across flooded areas and waded through swamps, then built a raft that carried her to a woodcutters' camp. Juliane Koepcke, the daughter of two noted German-born ornithologists, was brought to the jungle colony of Tournavista Tuesday by two woodcutters who found her semiconscious, floating down the Pachitea River aboard the log and vine raft.

From there she was flown to a U.S. missionary center at Pucallpa, 500 miles northeast of Lima, and reunited with her father. Her mother is missing in the crash. Juliane's father, Dr. Hans Koepcke, and her mother had lived in Peru for more than 20 years and were the leading authorities on Peruvian birds.

The girl was reported suffering from hunger, exhaustion, tuts and bruises, but she seemed to be in fair shape. She had made many trips in fhe jungle with her parents, and the couple she lived with while attending high school in Lima. So far she is the only survivor of 92 persons who were aboard an Electra turboprop that crashed 12 days ago on a flight from Lima to Pucallpa and Iquitos. Aerial and ground searchers redoubled their efforts today, seeking the wreckage, but officials said there was no indication the girl saw any other survivors. The plane was operated by a Peruvian airline, Lineas Aereas Nacionales, and five U.S.

citizens from the missionary center at Pucallpa were among the passengers. Amanda de Pina, a nurse at a medical post in Tournavista, said Juliane had only a partial memory of the crash and her harrowing 10-day trek through See SURVIVOR on Page 2-A handled on an outpatient basis at lower costs and with greater efficiency Patients chosen by their physicians to participate in the study receive hospital care, but do not occupy a hospital bed customarily provided inpatients undergoing the same procedure. Following required laboratory and x-ray studies which are performed in the 48 hours prior to admission, patients arrive at the unit early in morning. They then undergo physical examinations and pre-anesthctic evaluation i of impatients and proceed through the usual operating room and recovery room routines. After this the patients, return to the unit for further observation and are discharged home in the late afternoon by their surgeon.

They arc provided a follow-up visit in their homes on the first or second post-operative day by a member of the unit's nursing staff to check on any postoperative complication and to provide assurance to the patient and answer any questions. Some of the 43 different types of operations which have been performed Ambulatory Surgical i include excision of breast tumors, cysts, and cervical polyps; and nerve repair; body cast change; therapeutic abortion; tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, reduction of fractures and full mouth extraction. In a study made to evaluate the first nine months of the Ambulatory Surgical Unit, Watts physicians Jama? Davis, chief of the surgical staff and the unit's director, and Don E. Detmer have found a saving of 25 per cent in hospital costs and a time saving of about Uvo days per patient for operations done on an outpatient basis At the same there has been favorable response from all concerned parties patients, surgeons insurance carriers. and hospital administration -according to a paper describing the results of the program presented by Dr.

Davis at a recent meeting of the Southern Surgical Association. The success of the Watts Hospital Ambulatory Surgical See SURGERY on Page 2-A ham Lincoln--'the last hope of "Ultimately, of course, what is at stake is your future," he said. "I am not telling you that I can guarantee the best of all possible worlds. All I am asking is that we pledge a new beginning." Muskie did not mention his Democratic rivals, and he said would be foolish to blame all the nation's ills on the present administration." But he said if President Nixon's administration "had been candid with the country, if they, had been straightforward, we could have done far more than we have. Republican National Chairman Robert J.

Dole said Mus- kie seeks to win in 1972 by fear, exploiting divi- slveness and condemning the good, all the while pretending that America's weaknesses and problems are President Nixon's and not his own." Muskie recorded his announcement Monday at his chilly summer home in Kennebunk Beach, Maine. It was followed by a brief, televised appeal for campaign contributions, to help See MUSKIE on Page 2-A Board ToVisit Schools DURHAM (AP) Gov. Bob Scott announced plans Tuesday night for the state's new higher education governing board to visit early this spring the campuses of the 16 schools it soon will govern. Scott said this after the 35- member board assembled at the Quail Roost Conference Center near Durham for its initial meeting, which followed a dinner. The first session of the governing board was behind closed doors, and Scott, ex officio of the board, said he wanted the meeting closed to "give the new board a chance to about anything want to talk about." The board resumed its session at Quail Roost this morning.

No decisions were expected to be made. The agenda included a determination of terms of the individual board members, the appointment of committees' on personnel, office facilities and codes, and an explanation of the act setting up the board. The board, created by the 1971 General Assembly will serve officially as a planning committee for the next six months. It will assume its role as a governing board Jan. 1 The board includes 16 persons elected by the board of trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina from among its membership, 16 persons elected from the membership of the boards of the state's 10 other institutions of higher learning, and two non-voting members from the state Board of Higher Education.

Most observers expect that President William C. Friday of the present Consolidated University of North Carolina will be chosen to head the new University of North Carolina Sys- Cameron West, present tern. Dr. director of the state Board of Higher Education, is considered a likely choice to be named executive vice president. Gov.

Scott recently wrote the board members that "a- new breadth of understanding and a broadened concept is going to be needed. Amusements 2B L. M. Boyd IOC Bridge 20A Business 7C Classified 20-21C Comics. 5B Doctor IOC Editorials 4A Horoscope- 5C Obituaries- 14C Sports- 14-18A TV, 2B Weather 18C Women's News 1-5C Security Unit Is Under Probe WASHINGTON (AP) The FBI investigation into the latest leaks of highly classified information to newsmen is centered on the National Security Council headed by presidential adviser Henry Kissinger, administration sources say.

The FBI was ordered into the case last week when columnist Jack Anderson began publishing what he said were verbatim notes of high-level White House conferences and meetings involving American policy decisions in the India-Pakistan war and the Middle East situation. The White House has never acknowledged the Anderson reports but there never has been a denial of their contents and officials are known to be seriously concerned about the disclosures. The FBI, which will not comment on ongoing investigations, is said by the sources to have checked the departments of State and Defense last week and found no evidence the leaks Anderson came from either agency. When asked if this left the investigation in the National Security Council, the sources said yes, but they would not say if the search has narrowed to any particular person. There has been no use of lie detectors, some officials say, and the investigation at State and the Pentagon was far more routine than in earlier incidents.

In the last reported FBI search last summer, lie-detector tests were given several officials, including four in the State Department, in trying to determine the source of a pub- See SECURITY on Page 2A Charlotte Asks Court For Rules RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -Counsel for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg N.C.. School Board asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today to establish ground rules in which it would be free to operate its school system. "We are entitled to be able to know when we can make a decision and make it stand," said attorney William .1 Waggoner of Charlotte.

Waggoner added the board constantly was being "nitpicked" and had decisions it See CHARLOTTE on Page 2-A Pay Board Fails To Cut Pay Hike By BROOKS JACKSON, WASHINGTON (AP) The Pay Board, torn by indecision and uncertain of its own legal powers, set another meeting today after failing in a third try at cutting a 12 per cent raise for about 100,000 aerospace workers. The board, reportedly split 10 to 5 against approving the full raise, worked off and on for about nine hours Tuesday in separate meetings of its labor, business and public members. The board never convened in full session. At the end, at least three members openly questioned whether the board has the pow- to roll back raises to a specific figure, as the five business members reportedly want to do with the 12-per-cent aerospace raise United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock and President Floyd E. Smith of the AFL-CIO International Association of Machinists, whose union members' raises are at slake, questioned whether the joard could legally do more than veto an unacceptable con- can set standards to guide labor and management in revis- ing any rejected contract to gain acceptance.

Virgil Day, who is a General See PAY on Page 2-A tract. I personally believe the board has only the power tOj say yes or no," said Woodcock, a labor member of the board. 'I raise the same question," said Smith, also a member. Public member William G. Caples, president of Kenyon College in Ohio, said the board has only a veto power.

But Caples said he thinks the board Gardner "HP 1 lo Back President CHARLOTTE (AP) -Former Congressman Jim Gardner of Rocky Mount today announced his support for reelection of President Richard Nixon, and in reply to reporters' questions said he will decide by mid- month whether he will run for governor. Gardner spent about live minutes endorsing Nixon and about 20 minutes saying what he would or wouldn't do if he ran for governor. He denied in questioning by reporters that See GARDNER on Page 2-A 75 And Picking Up Steam Ervin Knows Nothing Of His 'Retirement' By JOHN KILGO KQ Syndicate CHARLOTTE U.S. Sen. Sam Ervin 75 years old and picking up steam--knows everybody says he's about to retire, and he knows that everytime a political poll is taken here, his name tops the popularity list among North Carolina voters.

Walk among Tar Heel politicians and you hear the whispers over and over: "Sen. Sam is sending all of his furniture and belongings back to North Carolina. He's calling it quits after this term." Gov. William B. Umstead appointed Ervin to the Senate in 1954, and he's been a fixture there ever since.

The Hugh Morton poll shows Ervin as the most popular politician in North Carolina. i Bowies' poll indicated the same thing. A kind word from the senator wouldn't hurt a politician's chances these days. Ervin's term expires in two years. The senator and I had this conversation: Q.

Everybody down here says you're going to quit after this term. True or false? Ervin: I've heard all that talk. I'm a day-to-day man myself. I never decide anything like that this early in advance. I haven't made up my mind what I will do when this term expires, and I won't for a long while yet.

But I understand everyone else has retired me. Q. The political polls in North Carolina show you to be Top Dog. Does that give you a boost? Ervin: People tell me that I've shown up veiy well in the polls taken in North Carolina and that certainly makes me feel good. I don't know what to read into all that.

I've never taken a poll myself. Q. Do you believe in political polls? Ervin: I don't know if I do or not. Politicians don't seem to take a bad poll, do they? A couple of people who were thinking about running gainst me took polls lo measure their chances and said they came out very well. But shortly thereafter they announced they wouldn't run against me.

Q. Are you going to pitch in and help some of the North Carolina candidates this year? Ervin: I sort of doubt it. I think I'll probably just vote and keep my choices to myself. Q. What do you think about North Carolina's Presidential primary? Ervin: I think it's foolish, the way it's set up.

We're going to divide the vote and it appears that all we will accomplish is to divide the Democratic Party on just about every score. Q. Do you still favor Sen. Henry Jackson as the Democratic candidate for President? Ervin: I think he's the best man but I don'l known if his campaign is getting off the ground or not. I haven't heard whether or not he plans to run in the North Carolina primary.

Q. Can President Nixon be beaten in North Carolina? Ervin: I think it depends upon the Democratic candidate and the party platform. Politics is in a very fluid state right now and things are uncertain. I think it's too early to start predicting. Q.

These are strange times, senator. How do you feel about the future of the country? Ervin: Well, if I wasn't an optimist I guess I'd be very pessimistic right now. You don't, in my opinion, build a great country by giving people federal handouts for a living. You don't build a great free enterprise system when the government takes most of a man's profits in the form of taxes. You have problems when you heavily tax the people to give money to those who won't work.

But like I said. I'm an optimist by nature. I stay encouraged that we'll work on I our problems. SAM ERVIN KWSPAPLRl.

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