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Tribune Dally Noon temperature: Thursday: 79 High: 83. 4 p.m.. Wednesday Low: 68. 5 a.m.. today Barometer: steady Sunrise: 5:51 a.m.

Sunset: 18 p.m. AMES. BUONE. NEVADA: Partly cloudy tonight lows lis to 70. A chance or thunders owcrs Friday and warmer highs in the lower 90s.

Volum 106 No. 10 Amw, Iowa, Thursday, July 13, 1972 Ton Cents No thanks A car turns left off Duff Avenue, apparently paying heed to the Fntcr At Own Risk sign placed on a portion of North Dufr Avenue closed for widening work south of Main Street to Lincoln Way. (Tribune photo by Jim Mone) DISCRIMINATION SUIT The legal committee of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union will try to bring suit against Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. for alleged hiring discrimination against women. The ICLU also criticized the state's 30 day residency requirement for voting.

The requirement no longer applies to presidential elections, but still applies to state and congressional elections under an attorney, general's ruling. Propose budget $41 .7 million more than current biennium Regents study asks $246.7 million CORN CROP Roger Sutherland, director of the Iowa Weather and Crop Reporting Service, said Wednesday Iowa farmers will harvest 10 per cent fewer acres of corn this year than in 1971 10,450,000 acres compared to last year's 11,570,000. Sutherland said the set aside program is responsible for the reduced acreage in Iowa, but even so a billion bushel crop is possible. CEDAR FALLS. (UPI) The staff of the Iowa State Board of Regents today unveiled a proposal which would call for a $41.7 million increase to finance Regent operations during the 1973 75 fiscal biennium.

The study, requested by the regents: last month, would require a $246.7 million appropriation from the state for.opera tion of the state universities and two special schools during the biennium. The staif report was considerably less than the amount sought earlier by figures, from the institutions. Equal to Previous Request At midday, the board was reviewing the various proposals but had not come to any decision. Regent Ralph Wallace of Mason City said the staff report calling for the $246.7 million the lowest of any proposals submitted which still "have a rough time getting through the legislature." The appropriation request for the 1973 75 biennium submitted by the staff is approximately equal to the request by the institutions for the current, biennium. The legislature last year trimmed that request to $205 million for the 197173 biennium.

Fear Harm to Schools The institutions' request was considerably more than the fiscal staff recommendation, and estimated that a minimal appropriation of $278.6 million would be necessary to adequately carry on present programs. During the morning debate, university officials pointed out various problems with cutting the appropriation and the accompanying budget under their figures and renewed charges that it would harm the educational quality at the five institutions; The state appropriation would finance approximately two thirds of the operating budget requested by the regents next 6ar' Recommendations The institutions are currently operating on an overall budget of $329.1 million, including the $205 million state The institutions project that the budget for the coming biennium will be $411:1 million; but the staff report trimmed the askings to $377.1 million. The staff report calls for appropriation increases of 12.5 per cent during the first year of the biennium, while the budget increase is 7.8 per cent higher than this year. For the second year, the appropriation increase would be 9.9 per cent, while the budget spiraled upward 7 per cent. See Regents, page 20 ASKS OPINION Charles Dunham, Deep River newspaper publisher and commander of the Legion, Post sponsoring a frog jumping contest Saturday, has asked Iowa Attorney General Richard Turner to attend contest and determine first hand whether a frog jumping contest with a $50 first prize is skill or chance.

Turner recently began a crackdown on lotteries and games of chance. Study water hyacinths for waste water control Says Hughes showed integrity in California challenge decision By HARRISON WEBER MIAMI BEACH (IDPA) Harold Hughes is a very complex man. Xv. 'v Some convention strategists are still bewildered that Iowa's Senator voted to seat the California delegation as As convention floor manager for U.S. Sen.

Ed Muskie, Hughes knew the importance of the California credentials fight. Yet, Hughes voted to support the position of U.S. Sen. George McGovern on this crucial issue. Some people claim Hughes' stand cost the Muskie forces 200 votes on the California question; obviously there is no way of telling precisely what effect it had.

One delegate, Edris (Soap) Owens, Newton, tried to put the matter in perspective at a meeting of Iowa's Muskie delegates after they learned their candidate was pulling out of the race. See lowans, page three An Iowa lawmaker says officials at I he training school for girls at Mitchell vi tie attempted to cover up problems at the institution. See page 24. The Iowa Legislative Council rejects an effort to. create a study committee to probe the concessions at the Iowa Slate Fair.

See page 15. Chess master Bobby Fischer demands Tv. cam eras be removed from the hall where he is challenging Boris Spassky; See page five. President Nixon asks for the biggest disaster recovery program in U.S. history for the victims of Agnes.

See page three. Water hyacinths, the much publicized scourge of waterways in Florida and other Gulf Coast states, may. be imported to Iowa as a control of waste water. R.L. Vetter, Towa State University animal scientist, told an audience at the 54th annual Cattle Feeders' Day here today, that use of the plant ianimal waste lagoons and sewage lagoons may be recommended.

A floating plant with an extensive root system, the water hyacinth has proved a nuisance in warm climate regions where it could not be con i.trbllecL Iowa's freezing winters would provide adequate controls, researchers believe. i Research by Iowa State University botanists shows the hyacinths can remove large quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus from waste water lagoons. Vetter said cattle Willi consume large amounts of fresh hyacinths under special, conditions, when fed at one third of the total ration, although the high water content of the plant prevents use as a high energy ration. Processing cpsts also are "high," he said. UNAUTHORIZED ENVELOPED Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden (pictured above) were reprimanded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Tuesday for carrying 400 unauthorized and signed envelopes to the moon in a plan to sell 100 of them to establish a trust fund for their families.

The astronauts, authorized to take 232 envelopes on their 1971 mission, took an additional 400. Ray orders state units to cut budget requests HIJACKINGS Two armed men hijacked a National Airlines jet Wednesday night, demanded and received a $600,000 ransom and parachutes, and then forced another National airliner from Philadelphia to Texas. The plane blew out four tires on landing at a smalt airport near Houston today. Officials said it could not take off again because of its size, and there were no facilities at the airport to refuel the craft. Today another man surrendered after he succeeded in obtaining a $200,000 ransom from American Airlines in Oklahoma City, following the hijacking of an American jetliner.

"what we can survive without and what we can't." He flatly denied that his order means that all state departments, will receive 10 per cent less money during the next two years. To Force Analysis Ray said his cutback "is not aimed at hindering effective programs. It's merely a matter of forcing the analysis for priority programs. It does not mean that we don't intend for there to be increases for salaries. This is a budget making process it isn't arbitrary slashing of a program or a hinderance." The governor said he has reason for optimism as he heads into the lengthy process of budgeting for the coming biennium.

"I think the economy is improving and there are many indications of this both in the business and government sector. If the economy continues to climb, we'll have a natural growth to help us in taking care of necessary basic costs. The plunging economy so disrupted tax revenue estimates for the 1969 71 biennium that Ray's Administration suffered the first general fund deficit in modern history. Throughout the dilemma, however, Ray remained steadfastly opposed to a tax increase and forced state government cutbacks instead to balance the budget. The governor noted that he resisted, a tax increase in 1969 and implemented an income tax hike in 1971 so that spiraling property taxes for school funding could be checked.

He said the income tax increase was "basically a shift" rather than a shift" rather than a tax hike By CHERYL ARV1DSON DES MOINES (UPD Gov. Robert. D. Ray said Wednesday he has ordered all state departments to work with 10 per cent less money than they are now receiving in drawing budgets for the coming biennium. Ray, whose four years in office have been marked with bare bones budgeting, said he has asked each department to draw its 1973 75 budget based on receiving only 90 per cent of the current operating appropriation.

One of the first state departments to feel the brunt of the Ray budgeting order will be the State Board of Regents, which opens a two day meeting in Cedar Faljs today on budgeting. Tentative spending proposals from the three state universities call for a 43 per cent increase over their present funding level. "I think the regents are going to have to critically look at the budgets that are being submitted to them," Ray said. New Procedure The governor said he doesn't know how much money is actually involved in the spending shake down, but the order does represent a dramatic departure from past budgeting when departments have used their current level as a base for future askings. "What we're really saying is don't start at 100 per cent begin with what you have less 10 per cent." Ray said the thrust of his order is to determine NORTHERN IRELAND Seven persons died in the continuing violence in Northern Ireland Wednesday and today.

The deaths increased the fatality toll in almost three years of violence to Coupal defends right of way purchasing policy 'British officials studied a new truce offer from the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The Provisionals said they would be willing to negotiate a new ceasefire if the British forces would honor it. The Provisionals ended a two week ceasefire Sunday with renewed violence. PARIS TALKS When the Vietnam peace talks resumed in Paris, France today after a 10 week suspension, the Vietnamese Communists rejected President Nixon latest peace plan and said they will settle for nothing except acceptance of their own plan. They said Nixon's ceasefire plan is aimed at maintaining the US, military presence in Vietnam and the regime of Nguyen Van Thieu.

DOCK CONTRACT Negotiators for Hawaii's longshoremen and the stevedoring industry reached agreement Wednesday night on a new contract, following 15 months of talks and the threat of a crippling strike. that land which is needed for highway construction. However, there are many occasions when small remnants of land would be left after construction." The highway official said It is more economical for the state to acquire entire parcels of land, use whatever is necessary for highways "and then sell the remainder rather than sever the entire parcel." Coupal said Baringer is right in assuming the remaining land is less valuable per square foot, but he pointed out that "the valuable portion has already been used for highway purposes." In answer to charges by a state official, Iowa Director of Highways Joseph R. Coupal Jr. has denied the Iowa State Highway Commission has been overanxious in purchasing right of way for proposed highways, with the result of a large quantity of sup'us land on hand.

Coupal said charges of waste made earlier this week by State Treasurer Maurice Baringer were apparently based on a misunderstanding of how the commission operates. Baringer accused the Commission of purchasing land for four lane highways and then building the roads in a different location. Coupal said, however, "Our policy is to acquire only SLATER FIRE A fire of undetermined origin completely destroyed the Slater Farmers Cooperative Creamery Wednesday night. Firemen from Slater, Huxley and Madrid fought the fire, which began about 9:45 p.m. and lasted until 3 a.m.

The creamery was unified in July, 1970 with the Mississippi Valley Milk Producers Assn. of Davenport. The 58 ycar old building was abandoned at the time. (Tribune photo by Jim Mone).