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i i THE WEATHER FORECAST Showers Likely Tonight Partly Cloudy Saturday Always Open YORK PA FRIDAY -EVENING JUNE 16 TIGHTEN BELTS COLLEGES TOLD CENTS 1) A Vi "WH TtfAp T7 CENTS PA I IN KJ MtJKH Bulletin 'vNEW YORK Author Clifford Irving was sentenced toj two and a half years in prison and fined $10000 in federal court today for his part in the bogus Howard Hughes autobiography wife Edith who admitted she forged the name to withdraw from a Swiss bank checks intended for the billionaire recluse was sentenced jto serve two months of a two-year term and also fined $10000 The Irvings are to surrender August 28 to begin the prison terms Military Assistance Sen Proxmire i Raps Number Of Aid Brass WASHINGTON (AP) Sen William Proxmire said today the US milifary i aid program top-heavy with admirals and generals in administrative As the Senate opened debate on a $17-billion military aid authorization bill the Wisconsin Democrat said as chairman of the foreign operations appropriations subcommittee he intended to this program and cut it is no reason for the military to live high off the he said Proxmire cited examples In India1 he said a US brigadier general heads a (Continued on Page 12) 1 Mills' Dream Ticket Democrat Sees Himself and Kennedy Running United Press International Rep Wilbur Mills says he has a dream himself and Sen Edward Kennedy Mills the Arkansas Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means Committe said: think that Sen Kennedy could make a great vice president foi a while It would be a stepping stone Then later on into the top 1 Mills also said that if Kennedy were drafted by the Democratic convention next month in Miami Beach he would reconsider his refusal to accept the vice presidential nomination if Kennedy- asked him to Mills predicted Sen George McGovern the front-runner would fail to get the nomination if he fell short on the first ballot 1 Sens Hubert Humphrey and Edmund IS Muskie were trying to prevent a first ballot McGovern victory by wooing the nationwide block of 4813 uncommitted convention delegates Beef Price Index Chicago Indicator Climbs to: Record High WASHINGTON (UPI)-A key index of wholesale beef prices set a record high last week Agriculture Department records reveal Experts said the figure' for this week' might be even higher The records cover average weekly Chicago prices for wholesale steer beef in 600-700 pound choice I grade carcasses sold by the carlot The average price for the week ending June 10 was a record 5890 cents a pound up 158 cents a pound from a week earlier Agriculture Secretapr Earl Butz waging a brisk counterattack against public concern about risking beef prices conceded last week that is still tension in the on the issue But the farm official insisted strong beef prices are due primarily to rising consumer demand and said the best hope of increasing supplies to fill this demand lies in 1 giving cattlemen a chance to profit NOW: MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-The an offshoot of the say the Air has seeded Miami Bayshore golf" course with marijuana in preparation for a harvest and on the eve of the Democratic National Convention AUTO LOANS RATES REDUCED EAST PROSPECT STATE BANK Phone Ken Nlckol at 252-2511 Adv sW-tf Home Edition JUICY TARGETS Record 350 Strikes Are Flown Against Vietnamese Installations SAIGON (AP) US warplanes hammered North Vietnam with a record 350 strikes Thursday including at tacks on three MIG air bases a naval base and an army barracks but stayed 60 miles away from Hanoi because Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny is there all of the raids were in the southern part of North Vietnam and none was very close to a US spokesman said combination pf good weather and lucrative targets was the reason for the high number of A communique reported the northernmost strike was against the Ninh Binh railroad and highway bridge about 60 miles south of the North Vietnamese capital Show of Good Will US informants termed the suspension of bombing in the Hanoi-Haiphong area a show of good will toward the Soviet Union and a precautionary measure to avoid any incidents during meetings with North Vietnamese leaders on the Vietnam War The informants said they knew of no plans to extend the suspension beyond visit unless there are political developments during his stay It is not known how long he will remain in Hanoi In the airstrikes on the MIG bases Air Force F4 Phantom pilots reported cutting runways and taxiways at the Bai Thung Khe Phat and Quan Lang bases have effectively stopped MIG activity at these three one Air Force officer declared Kissinger's Trip Secrecy Surrounds i Latest Journey to China WASHINGTON (AP) Henry Kissinger has embarked on yet another mission of personal diplomacy but his fourth trip to China remained somewhat mysterious despite the public announcements President adviser for national security affairs left Washington Thursday night on the first leg of the trip that will take him to China Monday He (planned a weekend rest stop in Hawaii The official statement said Kissinger would hold consultations with Chinese leaders to further the normalization of relations between the United States and the Peoples Republic of China and continue the exchange of views on issues of common The only concrete word he had for newsmen at his departure from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington was a definite when asked if he would visit Hanoi i SD Cloud Seeding Officials Claim Flood College Experiment Not Connected WASHINGTON A Federal officials say there was no connection between experimental cloud-seeding in South Dakota and the unprecedented flood which killed more than 200 people last weekend The Bureau of Reclamation said Thrusday its meteorologist monitoring the South Dakota cloud-seeding projects Dr AM Kahan of Denver had found that there definitely was no eause-and- effect link between the seeding and the flood Kahan said researchers from the South Dakota School of Mines seeded storms 20 miles south and 20 miles north of Rapid City in the early afternoon of June 9 The radar detected a small rainfall from each of the clouds seeded then but it fell on dry flats not near the Black Hills Kahan reported Kahan who is in charge of the Reclamation a Atmospheric Water Resources Research Program said radar later detected the separate already-large clouds bunching over the Black Hills that night A decision was made not to seed these he said because they already were substantial Just how substantial they were even radar forecast The clouds let loose more than 10 inches of rain in a four-hour period June 9 flooding Rapid City and adjacent communities NEW UMW ELECTION WASHINGTON (UPI) -A federal judge ordered the United Mine Workers Union today to conduct a new election by Jan 1 The judge William Bryant on May 1 voided the 1969 re-election of A Boyle as president of the coal union Circulation Books 1972 I i Senator Suggests Jurists Ride School Bus to Sessions WASHINGTON (UPI)-The nine justices should ride yellow school to the Supreme Court Sen Herman Tal-madge D-Ga made the suggestion as he opposed a request for funds to provide them each with a limousine and chauffeur am told that for no more than $1000 an extremely utilitarian and attractive althougH slightly used vehicle could be secured which would admirably meet this Talmadge said refer of course to that reliable mechanical beast of burden which is second only to the little red school house as an American institution the yellow school Talmadge oted that is a matter of record that the justices themselves are ardent supporters of this method of 'Strip Angry Man Orders-Tax Agents Memphis Officers at Mercy of Gun-Toting Dry Cleaning Operator MEMPHIS Term The state revenue agents were at the mercy of the angry man with the gun but they in any hurry to obey his order to leave However it courage that was holding the agents in the dry cleaning establishment on Park Street Thursday it was embarrassment They were stark naked and there was a big crowd outside Finally three of the four officers took deep breaths and sidled furtively onto the sunlit street certainly hated to walk out the door without any clothes on I was said John Mabile one of the agents who had gone into the firm to collect $167 in back sales taxes from owner LaSaunders Hudson and later found themselves facing a gun Crowd Cheers The crowd laughed and then cheered and whistled when Mabile and fellow agents Vince (Continued on Page 12) Chess 'Mania' Spassky Claims Fischer Fears Harm From Red Champs MOSCOW (UPI) World chess champion Boris Spassky said today his American challenger Bobby Fischer to be suffering from a persecution mania and thinks that Soviet chess players are determined to harm Spassky referred to repeated reports that Fischer allegedly has been accusing the Russians of efforts to prevent him from taking world championship and of contriving to hold the championship matches against his will at Reykjavik Iceland There is nothing to the 35-year-old champion said in answers to questions at a news conference I am sorry for Fischer although every man has a right to say what he Unlike Fischer who is reported to have boasted he would beat Spassky- the sandy brownhaired handsome world champion said do not know who will win but I am sure it will be an important and interesting The Russian and American champions last played against each other in West Germany in September 1970 when Spassky won three games and drew two Aside from the reference to Spassky refused to be drawn into a verbal slugging match with Fischer and generously praised the American Controls Rationing Pood Chains Fear Another Big Prife Hike WASHINGTON Representatives of he food chains are consumer groups to expect nother big rise in food prices' particularly meats in coming weks The Price Commission saying that it is concerned about a possible sharp sue in retail food prices becauf of an increase at the wholesale level is scheduled to meet discuss the situation next Wediday A spokesman that a number of option are under consideration A spokesman fr the food chains Timothy I McEnroe public relations director with the National Association of Food (Continued on Page 12) VOL 194 NO 17 AGNEW FAULTS 4 Candidates Included in Group Veep Defends US Air Attacks NEW YORK Vice President Spiro Agnew attacking four leading Democrats including two presidential candidates Thursday night defended stepped-up US air attacks against North Vietnam as aiding victim of Addressing a dinner of the Religious Zionists of America Agnew compared the North Vietnamese attack on South Vietnam with the German attacks on western Europe in World War II and said President Nixon was right in ordering the attacks McGovern Humphrey Agnew singled out Sens George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey both seeking the Democratic nomination and Sens Edward Kennedy and William Fulbright fortheir stands on the resumption of the bombing of North Vietnam the weeks following the invasion of South Vietnam a number of United States senators went on record condemning not the criminay actions of the North Vietnamese aggressors but the actions of the United States in helping the victim of aggression McGovern called what we did to defend South Vietnam and Humphrey called our move Kennedy referred to what we did as and Fulbright said it was and Agnew said United States launched an air and naval attack in defense of the invaded Agnew said is immoral or barbarous or inhumane about Nixon's Appeal Urges Congress Approve SALT Agreement Defense Money LA Times Washington Post News Service WASHINGTON President Nixon appealed to Congress to approve the strategic arms limitation agreements by Sept 1 and to vote new money to support a defense system Only with a strong defense he said will there be the proper for the Soviet Union to enter into serious negotiation cm further arms cuts He said he hoped the second phase of the SALT talks could begin in October Shapp-No Fault Governor Says Senate Will Pass Measure in 10 Days ALLENTOWN Pa (UPI) -Gov Milton Shapp said his no-fault insurance bill for automobiles will pass the State Senate within 10 days and Pennsylvanians will have nofault by fall at the latest Shapp made the remark at the dedication of a new Schafer brewery near here He said expect it to pass the Senate within the next two days and go over to the His no-fault proposal is more practical than the one which had been bogged down in Shapp said earlier bill was a true no-fault bill but there were many legitimate objections which the insurance industry He said the current proposal is superior to the Massachusetts no-fault bill that has resulted in 70 per cent rate Meany Denies Making Pitch To Kennedy Chicago Dally News and Sun-Times Service WASHINGTON AFLCIO President George Meany has denounced as a report that he (recently asked Sen Edward J(Ted) Kennedy to run for the Democratic presidential nomination to stop front-running Sen George McGovern A spokesman for Kennedy said 1 he Massachusetts Senator met with Meany on May 15 to discuss prospects for a na tional health insurance bill and other legislation of interest to the labor federation did not ask Kennedy to do anything or talk about (Continued on Page 12) PRICE: COPY 10 PER WEEK 50 1ST HURRICANE Sprawling Tropical Depression in Caribbean Could Be MIAMI (UPI) A sprawling tropical depression continued to strengthen in the northwestern Caribbean today and the National Hurricane Center said it could become the first tropical storm of the hurricane season Late Thursday night hurricane forecaster Neil Frank said think there is a good chance that it will be Friday (it would be Agnes) but there is nothing favorable for any very rapid further strengthening at this time main concern is to tell folks around and south of Cozumel and in the northwestern Caribbean to seek and stay in safe A weather bulletin compiled with the help of military reconnaissance aircraft Thursday evening said small craft along the east coast of Yucatan Peninsula and over Florida Keys should remain in protected water Frank said the wide low pressure system has been responsible for heavy rains during the past four Dr five days and was expected to drift slowly south of Cozumel early today but no firm path could be projected Ships recorded winds with gusts to 60 mph in squalls in the Yucatan Chanel Thursday and continued heavy downpours were reported in Pinar Del Rio Province in westernmost Cuba Sinatra Missing Whereabouts Kept Secret by British LONDON Frank Sinatra still sought by a US congressional crime committee dropped out of sight again today as mysteriously as he did earlier this month Officials at nearby Luton Airport said the singer-actor left there Thursday night aboard an executive jet chartered under an assumed name They said they were under orders not to' disclose the destination The London Daily Mail newspaper quoted Harold Davison European agent as saying the singer left London after abortive discussions involving his comeback from retirement to star in a film musical The London Evening Standard said Sinatra had been in London rehearsing for the film Little and discussing the part with Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe who wrote the musical are just too many problems for it to be worked out in' a satisfactory the Mail quoted Davidson as saying thinks a great property and a very great score but he is not making the picture and he has left Sinatra flew to London earlier this month ostensibly to discuss the part after failing to appear before the House Crime Committee about his role as vice president of the defunct Berkshire Downs race track in Hancock Mass Press reports from Washington said the committee still was trying to get Sinatra to appear before it next month Illinois Showdown Delegates Picking Chairman to Dem Convention SPRINGFIELD 111 (AP) -Illinois delegates to the Democratic National Convention choose their chairman today in an election which has turned into a bitter battle between backers of Mayor Richard Daley and supporters of Sen Adlai Stevenson III Stevenson aides said Thursday night that they still lacked votes to upend the mayor of Chicago who has chaired every Illinois delegation to Democratic conventions since 1956 but that the contest probably would be close As late as Wednesday night Stevenson supporters had predicted victory but since the challenge to Daley developed last week he has in the words of one delegate the Inside Reading Ann Letters 26 Arrow Prayer 25 Astro-Graph 13 Background Map 8 World 10 By the Way 15 City Obituaries 36 Comics and Puzzles 23 County Obituaries 31 Crossword Puzzle 6 Editorials Columnists 4 Senate Committee Plans Hard Look At Soft 9 Contacts WASHINGTON (UPI) -Senate small business sub- committee announced plans for hearings next month on the new contact lens a product one senator said has grown into a monopoly market The soft lens is made of water absorbing plastic bill- ed as more comfortable for the wearer Some doctors have- questioned the concept particularly procedures for keeping the lens clean Sen Thomas Alclntyre D-NH subcommittee chairman said large firm has a monopoly of the soft lens market because the Food and Drug Administration has not approved the applications of smaller firms advertising and promotion appear to be causing a shift in consumer preference away from the competitive hard lens market toward the monopolistic soft lens he added view of the reasonable doubt concerning the safety and efficacy of the soft lens this situation seems less than Busing Moratorium May Not Aid Mich Nixon Tells Milliken Measure Awaiting Signature Help DETROIT President Nixon has told Gov William Milliken that a congressionally passed moratorium on court-ordered busing is not likely to block the implementation of a massive school busing program in Detroit and 53 suburbs Nixon told Milliken in a 10-minute phone conversation late Thursday that are that the moratorium awaiting signature not cover the Detroit US District Court Judge Stephen Roth ruled Wednesday that a nine-member panel was to finalize details of a busing plan designed to integrate largely black city schools The (Continued on Page 12) Abortion Vote Pa Lawmakers Will Seek November Referendum HARRISBURG (AP) Two legislators say they will seek a referendum on next ballot to let the public decide if abortions should be permitted in the Commonwealth Reps Marvin Miller R-Lancaster and Robert Rowe R-Lebanon said they would try to amend a pending House bill that would outlaw all abortions even if a health was jeopardized to include their referendum proposal are few if any in the legislature equipped with expertise in theology and medicine but our system does permit us to bring into play the fundamental constitutional right to choose via the referendum Miller and Rowe said in a joint statement amendment will permit the people without theory without dogma to decide what they believe to be best for the society in which they Individual Employers Up In Arms Over Religion Tag LA Times Washington Post News Service WASHINGTON A government proposal requiring federal contractors to compile lists of religious and ethnic' minority employes for inspection in discrim Lnationcomplaints has met heavy public opposition Labor Department officials said Industry has balked at recordkeeping headaches the proposal might create and religious and ethnic groups are concerned about a possible invasion-of-privacy factor said George Travers an associate director of the Labor office of Federal Contract Compliance' Five Meetings However he said think it is possible to obtain approximate (minority group) numbers without infringing on an and hold additional corporate record keeping to a minimum Travers said his office has scheduled a series of five meetings next week with an assortment of religious ethnic industry and labor groups to thrash out the problems A final version of the anti-discrimination guidelines will be forged after that he said but he set no deadline Bulletin WASHINGTON (UPI) The union representing US commercial airlines pilots announced today its members would conduct a 24-hour walkout Monday as part of a world wide protest against air piracy i Capt John president of the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) said negotiations with the United Nations had failed to bring about action and that a one-day shutdown of all airline traffic was the only remaining step to dramatize the situation Other unions in the airline industry including one representing pilots from other nations were expected to participate in the strike The shutdown will begin at 2 am EDT Monday One Remaining US Reveals Plans to Pull 196th Brigade SAIGON The US Command announced plans today to pull one of the two remaining US ground combat brigades out of the war' zone leaving the job of guarding the sprawling Da Nang air base to the South Vietnamese division that was routed during the battle for Quang Tri A command communique announced plans to deactivate the 196th Infantry Brigade and end ground combat role in upper South Vietnam The (Continued on Page 12) Trial Lawyers Stock No-Fault War Chest 4 Association Is Soliciting Its Members For Money to LA Times Washington Post News Service WASHINGTON The American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA) the principal opponent of either federal or state no-fault auto insurance legislation is soliciting its 25000 members for contributions of up to $1000 each for battle for preservation of our adversary system of i membership pledges of and memberships of $500 now or over the next three have been made part of 25th anniversary campaign Edward Swartz said in a solicitation letter I you prefer you may make a special contribution of either $250 or Swartz said pledges and all ontributions are Swartz could not be reached but Paul Bloom an ATLA official said the sums raised in the campaign which he classified as financial will be used educational An Author Swartz author of That said in the letter that ATLA seeks to meet the (Continued on Page 12) Mrs Nixon to Attend Memorial Service I RAPID CITY SD (AP) -First Lady Pat Nixon will attend memorial service for the victims of last flood which claimed more than 200 lives President wife will fly from Los Angeles for the service at a local high school the White House announced Thursday as Rapid City residents continued to bury their dead and clean up their city The number of known dead edged upward to 207 Authorities said 192 bodies had been identic fied and more than 600 persons are missing Explo Eyes Blacks Negro Leader Says Involvement in Crusade on Rise DALLAS A black Campus Crusade for Christ leader says black involvement in the evangelical movement among young people is on the rise despite the relatively small number of Negroes participating in Explo 1 a whole lot of black faces here I Chuck Singleton 21 of Joliet 111 said Thursday the percentage of black young people attending Explo is very large compared to other evangelical meetings us time Our numbers will grow by day our witnessing spreads into the (Continued on Page 12) FOAM RUBBER Cut 1o any size shape or thickness Sofa and chair cushions refilled 9 to 5 daily YORK BEDDING 350 Queen 854-5551 Adv 124-tf Study Commission Forecasting of Spending Is Over SAN FRANCISCO The of spending on higher education during the 1960 is over and the Carnegie Commission today forecast increasing austerity on the campuses The commission on higher education said the campuses will get only $16 billion a year in new money by 1980 leaving a $10 billion gap compared with their current rate of spending And if the federal government were not expected to come through with in funding the gap would be even more the commission said In a sweeping report on the of the commission called for careful but determined belt-tightening by the colleges themselves in order to avoid the damage that could be 'caused by cutbacks Releasing the report at a meeting of the Assocation of Governing Board of Universities and Colleges commission chairman Dr Clork Kerr acknowledged that it going to shock a lot of Among those who may be shocked are the professors The commission said they do not usually their wares to market But it said the factual situation in the academic job market is that faculities are going to get smaller pay in- (Continued on Page 12) Telephone 'Credits' PUC Orders Companies to Allow For Service Interruptions HARRISBURG (UPI) The Public Utility Commission (PUC) has ordered telephone companies across the state to adopt a uniform schedule of credits to customers for interrupted service The PUC said its order affects Bell Telephone Co and approximately 80 independent phone companies Most phone companies already make allowances for out-of-service periods on an individual basis which no uniform guidelines the PUC said Under the commission's order a phone company must make an allowance of one-thirtieth of the monthly rate upon customer notification of an equipment-caused service interruption lasting at least 24 hours The PUC said interruptions in service due to natural disaster or other conditions beyond the control of the company also require a one-thirtieth credit for each 24 hours after customer notification The commission said credits will not be extended when caused by negligence tampering improper use or non payment of bills on the part of the customer 'Earth's Better Half' Shirley Temple Black Forming a New Group STOCKHOLM (UPI)-Shirley Temple Black is forming a group to be known as Better which will call for a greater voice for women' in environmental affairs Mrs Black a member of the American delegation to the UN environment conference said the small number of women in the 114 delegations was a shocking indication of the submissive role played by women in their 1 Poorly Endowed Pa Treasury9s in Trouble' on Bras HARRISBURG Pa (AP) poorly endowed treasury could go flat busted if the commonwealth made all its purchases rthe way it bids for brassieres a harried state legislator says Rep James Wright Jr a Bucks County Republican wrote to the state secretary of property and supplies inquiring why the state needs foam-filled and lace bras for its institutions A constituent had asked Wright said that he be kept abreast of the bidding policies' for clothes He then' discovered that the commonwealth buys only from a nationwide mail-order house citing only the catalogue numbers Wright suggested that the bidding practices deserve an uplift Financial 22 Hand Into the Future 8 In Education 12 Inside Report I- 8 Riesel I I 8 Social 26 Sports 16-21 TV Schedule 24 Almanac 22 Win at Bridge 11 Page 2425 Word-a-Day 12 1.

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