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(THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) as (Etti VOL. 103. NO. ISO. MAIN EDITION KANSAS CITY, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1971-46 PAGES For "cfmm 10 More Troops to Laos Chouteau Crash Two motor cars, owned by the public works department, collided about 9:30 o'clock last night on snow-covered Chouteau bridge.

Treated last night for cuts and bruises at North Kansas City Memorial hospital Sean T. Vaughan, 17 years old, 3813 North Elmwood avenue, and Robert N. Robinson, 50, of 3501 North Poplar avenue. Robinson was driving the public works car (above). (Star photo by Randy Leflingwel!) Late Winter Punch Slams Mid-West A late winter snowstorm left up to 5 inches of snow on parts of Kansas and Missouri yesterday and last night, some falling on parts of Kansas still recovering from the worst blizzard in years.

The Kansas City area was expected to receive up to 2 inches of snow by morning, with the possibility of more snow or rain today and occasional snow and colder temperatures tomorrow. Late last night about 1 inch had fallen, but most streets were reported clear with snow melting on contact. Public works department trucks in Kansas City were spreading sand and salt in anticipation of cooler early-morning tures. Colorado, had the potential of a severe winter storm for later in the week. The system was expected to swing south into New Mexico and Texas, then move Northeast today.

Warnings to cattle ranchers and travelers were issued for Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Elsewhere warnings were in effect for Northern Arizona. Some points there reported 3-inch snowfalls in a 6-hour period yesterday. In Michigan and Minnesota road crews cleared 12-foot drifts The Weather The National Weather service said streets would be mostly clear today with a few slick spots early today on bridges and at other locations. The high temperature was expected to be in the 40s.

Snow was reported across most of Kansas and Missouri with rain in Southeast Kansas and Southern Missouri. Accumu- 1 a i of snow included 5j inches at Garden City, 4 inches at Dodge City, 3 inches at Great Bend and 2 inches at Salina. Heavy fog followed the snow in much of Southwest reducing visibility to zero. The weather service said the storm was not expected to be of major proportions today. But it added the cause, a low pressure system developing over Eastern Cloudy with a chance of snow mixed with rain today, tonight and tomorrow is the National Weather service forecast for Kansas City and vicinity.

Probability of precipitation 50 per cent today and 30 per cent tonight. High today in the lower 40s, low tonight in the upper 20s or lower 30 s. High tomorrow in the upper 30s. Midnight ..35 2 o. 1 a.

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.41 41 41 40 .34 33 33 .33 10 p. .......32 p. Midnight ...33 1 a. 2 a. On Inside Pages The world's largest-ever polling operation, spread over 10 days, is beginning today in India to determine the fate of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Socialist government.

An electorate of 275 million will be eligible to vote in what is considered the most crucial election in 23 years of independence. 16. that blocked streets and highways and stranded motorists. One man was reported missing in Michigan when an ice floe on which he was fishing was broken off from the shore by high winds. The near-blizzard forced can cellation of the North American ski flying meet at Cooper peak near Ironwood, Mich.

Twenty- five top skiers from the United States, Canada and Japan were to have competed but officials said 40-mile-an-hour gusts made the slope too dangerous. As snowplows cleared more than a foot of snow off Minnesota roads yesterday hundreds of motorists left hospitals, gymnasiums, churches and jails where they had taken shelter two days before. M. C. Sagedal said his two nights in the Windom, jail were pleasant.

He was one of more than 50 persons stranded in Windom. Dozens at a local restaurant whose owner said, mental attitude of everyone was real New snow was scattered in a spreading pattern across the mountains from New Mexico to Oregon. Prisoners Kill Texas Deputy Waco, Tex. sheriffs deputy was killed and another roughed up yesterday when several said at least to escape the McLennan County jail. Killed was Bobby Mayo, 39, chief jailer, who with a trusty had rushed to the aid of Al Blackwell, another jailer, when Blackwell was jumped.

Mayo, who was shot in the head, was dead he hit the an officer said. Officers believe he was shot with a Derringer taken from Black well. From The Star's Presa Services South Vietnamese military command is dispatching as many as 16,000 troops northward to bolster battered units ing seven North Vietnamese regiments in vSouthern Laos, military sources near the battle front reported yesterday. They said the troops were being drawn from other areas of South Vietnam and flown to the Laotian operations zones in C- 130 cargo planes. Tne South Vietnamese originally committed 16,000 troops to the Laotian incursion that began February 8.

It could not be determined from the military informants at Quang Tri how many of the 16,000 fresh troops would be replacements or how many would be classified as additional troops inside Laos. The South Vietnamese forces facing seven enemy regiments in Laos are engaged in the biggest battle yet of the Indo-China war. A North Vietnamese regiment at full strengeh numbers 2,900 men. Lt. Gen.

James W. Sutherland, commander of U. S. forces supporting the South Vietnamese offensive, said the North Vietnamese appear to be mar ing all their forces to thwart the Laotian drive. is he said at Khe Sanh.

enemy has chosen to react with everything got left, so it appears weTl have to fight him right American armor and tank units moved to the South Vietnamese-Laotian border to prevent a possible eastward movement of a North Vietnamese tank battalion that supported the Communist assault against the contested hill position. A South Vietnamese military spokesman in Saigon said 19 Communist tanks had been dc stroyed in the battle for hilJ 31, where enemy troops a South Vietnamese paratroop base and were not driven out until Friday. Heavy fighting at hill 31 was reported to have tapered off yesterday and there were reports that the paratroopers were pulling out of the base to positions south of the hill. U. S.

helicopters providing fire support still were drawing heavy antiaircraft fire and the losses continued to mount. The U. S. command announced three more were shot down Saturday and field reports said another went down yesterday. Three crewmen were reported kilted and one wounded in the four crashes.

The command acknowledged 35 helicopters and two fighter- bombers were destroyed in the Laotian operation on both sides of the border. A spokesman said American air casualties were 40 men 18 missing and 34 wounded. There were field reports of many more helicopters shot down or damaged. The U. S.

Command reports only those aircraft that are considered total losses. Though ground fighting was at a lower level in Laos, it remained heavy more than 300 miles to the south in Eastern Cambodia, where a parallel drive by more than 20,000 South Vietnamese is trying to smash North Vietnamese supply routes, base camps and sanctuaries. North Vietnamese troops attacked the headquarters of three South Vietnamese task forces and a ranger battalion north of Highway 7, a main supply route leading from Eastern Cambodia into the southern half of South Vietnam. Three bases were targets of 240 rocket and mortar rounds, and the fourth came under infantry assault, Primary Ballot on Page 10 Part of the official ballot which will face voters when they enter the voting booths in city primary election appears on page 10. Precinct maps giving the location and address of polling places will appear on pages 6 and 7 in The Star this afternoon.

Work Long Just To Pay the Taxes New York will be this average daily bite out working two hours and 37 minutes out of an eight-hour day this year just to pay your taxes, the Tax Foundation, said yesterday. MRS. GANDHI United Nationi officials and some Big Four representatives move with unexpected speed to clear the way for Big Four action on the newly stalemated Arab-lsraeli peace talks. 6. A team of more than 30 mountaineers from 12 countries begin a 200-mile march they hope will take them to file top of Mount Everest-the world's highest peak-in 11 weeks.

7. State Sen. Tom R. Van Sickle (RFort Scott) asks Gov. Robert Docking to request the immediate resignation of Robert N.

Woodson, Kansas director of penal Institutions. Van Sickle's statement accuses Woodson of appropriating state property for his own use. 11. Jack Nicklaus a pressure-packed birdie putt on the 17th hole to complete his double sweep of all the world's major golf titles with a victory in the P. G.

A. National championship. 22. The leading editorial: The sewer bonds on the ballot tomorrow are important. They will let the city fight pollution at no public cost.

32. Deep down under all the surface arguments about what we are doing in Indo-China, James Reston writes, something the American spirit keeps the nation from facing the facts in that tragic peninsula. 33. Rioters led by neo-Fascisti fight with the police in t'Aquila, Italy, in the Abruzzi mountains, 50 miles northeast of Rome, in one of the communal revolts troubling Italy. 34.

Sports Women's News ...............14 Deaths 12, 20, 25 Comics .......................31 Editorial Comment 32, 33 Movies .......................12 Television, Radio 33 Want Ads Officers said the prisoners rushed Blackwell as the officer put food in a tank where several prisoners were held, A trusty ran to another part of the jail and told Mayo. Mayo rushed to aid and as the trusty threw a chair at one of the prisoners, the deputy was shot. County, city and state officers surrounded the courthouse where the jail is before any of the prisoners could leave the building. The Waco police department rushed 18 men to the scpne and they were joined by deputies, highway patrolmen and officers from other cities. A helicopter dispatched from Austin, by the Texas Department of Public Safety surveyed the roofs of the surrounding buildings and the courthouse to determine if any prisoners had escaped- officers combed the jail for weapons as soon as prisoners were returned to their ceils and found the Derringer.

Mggg flJ! Thought for Today learning is a treasure which follows its owner proverb. That means that if you earn $10,000 a year, taxes will take $13.15 out of a $40 daily wage. The foundation, a private research organization, said that of Late News At Deadline Members of Machinists nnion local No. 92 and Metal Polishers nnion local No. 146 went on strike against the Rival Manufacturing company here at midnight.

W. C. Smith, secretary-treasurer of the metal polishers, said the 21 members of his union and 450 machinists met yesterday and voted to reject the final contract offer. Smith said the company and unions were on economic issues despite two months of negotiation. Quebec que won re-election yesterday as leader of the Parti cois, which seeks independence for Quebec province from Canada.

Seattle Coast Guard reported that its icebreaker Staten Island struck an underwater pinnacle off the MacRobertson coast of Antartica, and four of its forward compartments were flooded. Stellacoom, Wash. Between 200 and 300 persons demonstrated quietly at the McNeil island ferry dock here in support of a work strike at McNeil island federal penitentiary. Louisville, Ky. 1,000 members of local No.

201 of the Tobacco Workers union voted to go on strike at the P. Lorillard corporation's cigarette-manufacturing plant. of your paycheck, $8.70 would go to the federal government and $4.45 to state and local governments. Hopeful on Rail Pact Washington (Monday) (AP) A congressionally imposed strike deadline passed with little notice at midnight in the midst of marathon bargaining sessions between the rail lines and the United Transportation union. Labor department officials counseled optimism and said in any case there would be advance notice in the event U.

T. U. leaders called their 190,000 members off their jobs into a shutdown of the rail system. will be co nationwide railroad strike said the labor secretary, James D. Hodgson.

think we can be assured the negotiations will go Sharp as the tax pinch will be this year, it quite as painful as last year, when it took two hours and 43 minutes each. ammimLaM working day to earn enough to i pay the tax collector. retary of labor, who sat on the negotiations and said he was The decline is due in partv federal tax reductions, the foundation said. The survey showed that work time necessary to meet the tax bill will be one hour and 34 minutes longer than the time required to pay for food. Tax payments also require more working time'than housing, clothing and other family costs.

The foundation estimated that slices taken out of a $40 daily wage by expenses other than taxes would be about like this: Food and tobacco, housing, transportation, clothing, medical, recreation, $1.60, and all other, $7.80. A foundation economist said that out of the tax dollar, 33 per cent would go for defense pur poses, 20 per cent for education and 6 per cent for welfare. authorized to speak for both ides, said he expected the talks ntinue past midnight on a basisl Yesterdays bargaining session began at 10 in the morning and continued through the day with only brief breaks for meals. Usery did not rule out the possibility of a walkout, but said the union promised adequate notice before a strike that could cripple or halt the rail transport. Some progress had been made daily in marathon talks that began Tuesday, Usery said.

Emergency legislation barring four major rail unions from striking was passed December 10 and expired at midnight. The other three unions settled with the carriers earlier this month at wage rises averaging 44 per cent over 42 months. Usery said the bottleneck in current talks was three major work rule items complicated by the consolidation of four unions into the United Transportation union after the latest rail contracts were signed. In halting the strike and barring any resumption before today, Congress also voted a 13.5 per cent retroactive pay raise. The four AFIrCIO unions, while not bargaining as a unit, all had been seeking a 40 per cent pay rise, a cost-of-living provision and other benefits.

They had averaged about $3.50 an hour. The carriers had accepted a mediation recommendation for a 32 per cent wage increase if it were tied to work- rules changes management insisted were necessary for efficiency. The unions opposed the rules changes on the ground that they would eliminate thousands of jobs. February 4 the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Workers W. J.

USERY, JR. and the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, representing about 60,000 and 3,000 workers respectively, announced agreement on settlements. February 14 the largest of the four unions, the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, representing about 180,000 rail employees, also announced a settlement. Humphrey Reflects Says He Would Have Ended War Washington Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) said yesterday if he had been elected President in 1968 all American troops now would be out of Vietnam.

He also indicated the United States should decline to provide air support for South Vietnamese forces when American withdrawal was complete. Humphrey appeared on Meet the Press program. Humphrey, who was the Democratic candidate opposing President Richard Nixon in 1968, said he would have notified the South Vietnamese government of his withdrawal timetable after his election. Informed there are about 330,000 Americans in Vietnam now and asked if he would have had all of them home by now, he replied: Humphrey said the question of training South Vietnamese troops after a U. S.

pullout should be treated the same as when other friendly powers asked for help. Generation A 90-year-old Pi with youth. John G. Nelhardt In Star Magazine, Sunday, Mar. ap? poet communicates Duchy Vetoes Suffrage Vaduz, Liechtenstein (AP) men of little Liechtenstein kept up the barriers against liberation yesterday, deciding by a mere 80 ballots not to give women the vote.

In a nationwide referendum the men burghers of the smallest hereditary monarchy decided 1,897 to 1,817 against suffrage. Only four Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Yemen-still do not grant women the vote. Groups of jeering young women demonstrated in the streets of Vaduz and elsewhere after the result was announced. Banners bore the slogans: are ashamed of happened to your and your own dirty February 7 opposition to votes for women finally crumbled in neighboring. Switzerland when men there, voted by a substantial majority to give women a say in national affairs.

300 and sandwiched in a narrow valley between Austria and has been trying to get the world to take it more seriously. Jt has always enjoyed a somewhat Ruritanian image as a pocket-sized duchy that prospered from such diverse activities as a large false- teetto factory, endless series of colorful postage stamps and little brass name plates on dingy doors concealing the one-room tax havens of numerous worldwide enterprises. has made us the top foils in one official said after the vote was announced. But a leading promoter of the thriving tourist industry took a longer-range view. expect us to lie he said.

vote might even improve About 70 per cent of the eligible 5,000 men voters turned out for the balloting. Although both political parties recommended a vote in favor, the men probably were conscious of one important are outnumbered by women in Chicken Man' Baffles Experts Oklahoma City There is something out there. It walks like a gorilla, leaves hand prints like a man, rips doors off their hinges, and it likes chickens. For want of a better name called abominable chicken man. a long story and it goes like this: An El Reno, farmer walked out to his chicken coop one day in December and found its door on the ground, apparently thrown there after being ripped off the wall.

On the surface of the door, and inside the coop on the walls, were several strange hand none ever before. They were about 7 inches long and 5 inches wide. The farmer called a state game ranger. The ranger had never seen anything like it either and he sent the door to the Oklahoma City zoo to see what experts could make of the prints. The experts were baffled, too.

Lawrence Curtis, zoo director, says the prints appear to be those of a primate. A primate is an animal like a gorilla or a man that can stand erect. The thumb of the print is unusual. Curtis says it crooks inside, as if it were deformed or had been injured. resembles a he said, more like a man.

It appears tfcat whatever made the prints was walking on all fours. There were some footprints on the ground Whatever it was was barefoot Barefoot in December. Since Curtis got the first print he has had reports of similar findings around the state. A Stillwater, man and a McAlester, woman have told him of discovering similar prints. The woman has a photo graph she is mailing to the zoo for comparison.

shown it to several mammologists and several wild life experts in Oklahoma and some passing through. All agree it. is a Curtis said prints were made some sort of a man, perhaps one looking for Asked about the wide disi tances between the points porting similar prints, Curtis said, has to be more than one unless The abominable chicken man is being compared with reports of similar findings from California. In this case persons have reported seeing a 7 foot manlike creature wandering in the northern wilds. Curtis is trying to find a book and a magazine article that tell about the California sightings.

eager to make a comparison. In the meantime he has the chicken coop door in his office, for reference, and one supposes', for conversation..