The Parsons Sun from Parsons, Kansas • 1

ii mt rn WEEKEND EDITION VOLUME 101 NO 262 PARSONS KANSAS 67357 SATURDAY-SUNDAY APRIL 21-22 1973 16 PACES Say Mitchell Approved Payments for Bugging 1 trruK Vi- fc WASHINGTON (AP) Quoting an associate of former Atty Gen John Mitchell the Washington Post said today that Mitchell testified he approved payments from President re-election campaign funds to the seven Watergate conspirators after the June 17 arrests at Democratic headquarters But Mitchell reportedly maintained under oath the Post said that the money was in- tended to pay their legal not to buy their silence He did not mention amounts of money the Post said Mitchell testified for about three hours Friday before the federal grand jury investigating the Watergate case Afterwards he told newsmen he never handled any payoff money to buy silence from the defendants He also said that while discussions about bugging Democrats were held in his presence such e2E HIGHWAY ACCIDENT Dale Cook of 1 Oswego talks with a highway patrolman at right following an accident Friday 72 miles east of Parsons on US160 high way A milk truck Cook was driving was struck from the rear by a car driven by Kenneth Shrum 18 of St Louis Story on page 12 (Sun Photo) Regents Ask Hike In Faculty Salaries Hopes Rise for Start on Big Hill operations were ever approved by me at any time under any He was not available for comment on the Post story The associate told the Post that Mitchell testified he believes Jeb Stuart Magruder the deputy presidential campaign director went over head to unnamed officials at the White House to obtain approval for the Watergate bugging Mitchell served as campaign manager until two weeks after the Watergate break-in Magruder has been quoted as saying that Mitchell and White House counsel John Dean III approved of and helped plan the Watergate operation spearheaded by Gordon Liddy Mitchell was followed on the grand jury stand by Dean Dean declared on Thursday that he will not allow himself to become a scapegoat in the Watergate case Asked to comment on what Dean would tell the jury his attorney Robert McCandliss said: Dean has made his statement and will stand on The New York Times quoted what it said were sources close to the Watergate case today as saying that Dean supervised payment of more than $175000 in $100 bills to the seven defendants and their lawyers after the June bugging The story said the payments were to buy their silence and the Continued on page 12 Dyles as new chancellor In other action the regents: the KU Medical Center at Kansas City Kan to seek $266000 from the state Finance Council to replace federal funds to be lost after July 1 The funding has financed the cancer information service a statewide medical library artificial kidney and organ transplant program and regional coordinating offices for health services and education Kansas State University to seek the Finance approval for increasing its general fees expenditure limit for this fiscal year from $59 million to $61 million It would replace about $174000 lost in federal funding it according to informed sources in state government The damage issue was one of two which blocked a start on Big Hill and threatened all other pending federal water projects in the state Hillsdale Dam on Big Bull Creek in northern Miami County which is adjacent to Johnson County was the next engineer reservoir up for clearance in Kansas An authoritative state source said that a second issue over which Topeka and the engineers in Washington were deadlocked for many months was on repayment by the state on contracts for reimbursement on water supplies drawn from federal reservoirs such as Big Hill One source said today he was confident that the question can be worked out with the corps now If fact he said new language for it was submitted to the corps by the state at a conference about two weeks ago in Washington and so far the state has heard no objection First construction money for the $74 million project in the Timber Hill area also known as the Labette County Ozarks was appropriated in 1972 by Congress President Nixon recommended another $500000 this year for the new fiscal 1974 federal budget Big Hill long has been a dream in southeast Kansas The late Myron George then con- LAWRENCE Kan (AP) The Kansas Board of Regents approved a motion today calling for faculty pay increases of 10 per cent at the University of Kansas and Wichita State University and 11 per cent at Kansas State and the three state colleges The motion was made at the meeting by Mrs Prudence Hutton Newton who said the increases are part of a three-year package for which the regents will seek legislative approval Henry Bubb regent from Topeka said the board must advise the legislature that unless the state raises faculty salaries competition for good faculty members will catch up with Kansas The board also formally ratified its selection of Dr Archie The Weather PARSONS AREA (Via police radio from the Wichita weather bureau) Severe weather warning until 6 pm today partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms possibly heavy and producing heavy rains with the chance of flash flooding in low areas today and tonight southwest winds 10-25 mph rain ending Sunday high today near 80 low tonight 48-55 high Sunday 68-75 precipitation probability 70 per cent today and tonight 50 Sunday Twister Alert Touches SEK i gressman from the old 3rd District introduced a bill in the late 1950s which authorized a study to determine the feasibility US Sen James Pearson initiated authorization of the reservoir in 1962 his freshman year in the Senate Rep Joe Skubitz now the 5th District congressman also has worked on the project in the US House Skubitz issued a press release Friday which said passage of the legislative amendment in Topeka this week construction of Big Hill explaining the amendment dealt with water supply contracts The congressman or his Beast Tracks Found Here Animal tracks possibly those of a were found today at the Elba Martin home 1229 17th in Parsons Martin said catlike footprints measuring about five inches in width were found in his gardens and yards The Martin property extends to Labette Creek Police investigating the case said they would try to contact a game warden to identify the prints Carl Cloke Labette County sheriff said he had had no similar reports from rural residents Scali abstained instead of casting a veto as the United States had indicated it might China and the Soviet Union also abstained as did Guinea The United States had demanded equal condemnation of Israel and Palestinian terrorists for the upsurge of violence in the Middle East A decision by the 15-member council needs the approval of nine members including all of the Big the United States the Soviet Union Britain France and China Stewart Pharm Ph 421-1150 adv An amendment passed in the waning hours of the Kansas Legislature may clear the way finally for a start of construction on Big Hill Dam in western Labette County The amendment to the State Water Resources Act permits Kansas to enter into a contract with the US Army Corps of Engineers that allows individuals to sue the state for damages arising from injuries or deaths at a federal reservoir State Sen Robert Bennett of Prairie Village president of the Senate confirmed today action on the amendment He was instrumental in obtaining legislative approval The amendment now goes to Gov Robert Docking but there is no indication that he will veto similar weather conditions as probable in an area along and 70 miles either side of a line from 25 miles south of Chanute to 35 miles north of Kirksville in north-central Missouri An 80-degree reading at 1 pm today was highest of the year in Parsons A south wind was measured at 10-20 mph late-afternoon thundershower produced 030-inch of rain bringing the total to 075-inch high was 76 and the low 68 Heavy rains since Friday along a thunderstorm alley in western Missouri washed over into eastern Kansas the weather service said The Highway Patrol reported today that K31 west of Fulton and K35 east of Xenia all in Bourbon County were closed because of high water The eastern third of the state faces the prospects of additional showers and thunderstorms throughout the weekend the forecast said A warming trend Sunday to the 60s in eastern Kansas may be followed with new rain prospects by Tuesday the service said top readings in Kansas ranged up to 81 in Topeka and Coffeyville Lows overnight were from 33 in Goodland to 70 in Coffeyville and Pittsburg nado alert for areas of north-central Texas central Oklahoma and south-central and southeast Kansas The notice said threat of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging would exist from noon until 6 pm The area of the greatest threat the service said was along and 70 miles either side of a line from Mineral Wells Tex to Wichita Mineral Wells is a short distance east of Fort Worth Another alert by the service issued in early afternoon cited Southeast and eastern Kansas remained today on the fringe of heavy rains and covered by a tornado watch until 6 pm Weather turbulence late Friday was marked by sharp showers and hail ranging from light in the Parsons area to golf-ball size in Erie Both hail onsets were brief of about 15 minutes each and no major damage was reported As far as could be learned they were the only hail incidents in the immediate area In Topeka today the national weather service issued a tor- Security Council Condemns Israel office apparently was in error The amendment dealt with suits for injuries or deaths and the water supply question remains to be resolved The amendment assure in itself a start on construction The Country Parson easier to keep a friendship than to regain Hanoi Claims US Sabotage SAIGON (AP) North defense minister Gen Vo Nguyen Giap charged that the United States has deliberately sabotaged the cease-fire in Vietnam Hanoi radio reported today In a speech delivered Friday night at a farewell party in honor of visiting Viet Cong Lt Gen Tran Van Tra Giap said that the United States has instigated Saigon government troops to Cambodia and continue operations against Communist-held territory in South Vietnam reason the United States has recently halted the removal of mines in the waters ports and rivers in the northern part of our Giap charged it has brazenly ordered reconnaissance planes to encroach upon the aerial territory of the Democratic Republic of (North) Giap said that the United States has been conducting massive bombings in Cambodia and has resumed air strikes in northern Laos in violation of the Vientiane peace accord Hanoi being used rather than manned reconnaissance planes because of the risk their crews might be killed or captured The sources also reported the United States had sent the highflying SR71 reconnaissance plane over North Vietnam The SR71 which carries a two-man crew can train its cameras from 80000 feet aloft above the reach of antiaircraft guns and missiles But Defense Department spokesman Jerry Friedheim refused any comment when asked about North charges that US reconnaissance planes had violated its air space twice on Thursday Although such flights are not specifically barred by the agreement Friedheim acknowledged at a briefing that such flights technically would be barred under the terms US Prods and Promises UNITED NATIONS (AP) The UN Security Council today condemned Israel for its commando attacks against Lebanon The vote was 11-0 with four abstentions on a British-French resolution that also condemned acts of violence which endanger or take innocent human This would cover Palestinian terrorist blows which have prompted Israeli reprisal and preventive attacks against presumed guerrilla bases in Lebanon US Ambassador John A neutrality statement was a broad hint that the United States would reconsider its suspension of mine clearing operations in Haiphong its suspension of economic aid talks in Paris and its bombing and reconnaissance operations if Hanoi would halt its military operations in accord with the Paris agreement will judge the response from Hanoi by their actions on the Bray said Friday North Vietnam provides the logistics support to the insurgents in Cambodia Bray said and it is within its power to at least a first step to dampen down their offensive Pointing out that it is not possible for North Vietnam to decide what parts of the agreement it wishes to observe Bray I said that it has been the purpose of the United States to carry out the obligations it assumed in signing the Paris Meanwhile the US Pacific Command Friday announced the two fliers were listed as missing in Southeast Asia after their F4 Phantom was reported overdue Wednesday from a mission over Cambodia Search operations for the two crewmen were unsuccessful the command said It refused to say whether the plane has been shot down US aircraft including B52s continued operations over Cambodia for the 45th straight day Friday The operations are being conducted at the request of the Cambodian government the command said At the Pentagon sources said the pilotless drone aircraft are WASHINGTON (AP) -Sharp prods plus a promise of positive US response are the Nixon latest efforts for obtaining compliance with the Paris cease-fire agreement In related developments two Air Force pilots were reported missing on a mission over Cambodia and Pentagon sources say the United States has resumed sending pilotless radio-controlled reconnaissance drones over North Vietnam State Department spokesman Charles Bray said Hanoi find a prompt and quite positive response on our if it showed good faith by complying with Article 20 of the agreement Article 20 calls for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Cambodia and Laos and a respect for their I I ulation walking shorts They gave each other a respectful and wide berth (AP Photofax) THE FACE IS FAMILIAR "Mr Chips" appeared unsure about recognition of George Bayliss a 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