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City Final Details on A 15 Saturday, 31ay 1, 1971 10 Cents Covering The Inland Empire A Gannett Group Member San Bernardino, Calif. Touch Fair Air Mules tfUo bet lfiflli iw AP wircphota Marine Sergeant Runs to Meet His Commander-in-Chief after President Nixon welcomed 1st Marine Division home from Vietnam at Camp Pendleton Nixon Vows Peace to Honor 1st Marines presented the division its second presidential unit citation for servire in Vietnam and he paid homage to the 20 1st Division Marines who won the Medal of Honor there, all but two posthumously. "The question which really remains," Nixon said, "is whether this war is ended in a way that will achieve our goal, and that, goal is a Vietnam with a chance to defend itself from a Communist takeover. "If we fail to achieve that, goal, if we take the counsel of those who would have us leave Vietnam, even if it means turning over the country 1o the Com By JAMES M. NAUGHTON New York Times News Service CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.

President Nixon welcomed the vanguard of the 1st Marine Division home from Vietna.m yesterday with a pledge to end the war "in a way worthy of your service." The President stood before officers and men of the division, clad in olive drab combat uniforms, and told them and 10,000 spectators that he knew the question in their minds was, "What will the verdict of history be about your service in Vietnam?" In terms of personal heroism, Nixon answered, it is He himself Sharply Cut Rail Passenger Service Starts By PETER BEHR Gannett Nws Service WASHINGTON New national air quality standards were established yesterday by William D. Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who warned that Los Angeles and nine other major U.S. cities will have to restrict auto traffic and make other "drastic changes" in commuting habits to achieve the goals. Ruckejshaus said his agency would see to it that such steps, where necessary, would be taken in order to reach the clean air goals by the July 1, 1975, deadline established by Congress. "The law is clear these are not ideals, these are standards necessary to protect human health," he said.

"With our standards in Los Angeles at peak periods you're ging to have to have almost no Ruckelshaus said. Under certain weather conditions on certain days, the city would have to eliminate five out of every six cars which now travel its streets. The standards issued yesterday cover six major pollutants sulfur oxides, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, photochemical oxidants, nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons. KrA cased its standards for photochemical oxidants and hydro-carbons after receiving objections from California officials and others who asserted the standards were not scientifically sound and could not be met. These objections followed the announcement of EPA's proposed standards last January.

"We agreed to accept somewhat less of a safety margin in oxidants," said Dr. Delbert Barth, an EPA scientist, but he and Ruckelshaus said the less stringent standards still provide adequate safety margins. Photochemical oxidants are produced in the atmosphere when hydro-carbons and nitrogen oxides are exposed to sunlight. They irritate the eyes, nasal (Continued on A-2, Column 4i Jets Grounded By Air Force WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force yesterday temporarily grounded all of its Fill aircraft, following the 13tli crash of the swingwing jet fighter bombers. This is the second time in about IS months the Air Force grounded the Fills, plagued for several years by political, production, and operational problems.

They were returned to operational status only last July following a long series of tests. In the latest accident an Fill crashed April 23 in the Mojave Desert near Edwards Air Force Base, killing the two crewmen. The Air Forcer said investigation showed the recovery chute compartment door friled to separate from the crew escape capsule, making it impossible for the two pilots to parachute free. (Continued on A 2, Column 4) Today's Headlines Inside World B52s continue to hammer southern end of Ho Chi Minh Trail. (A-10) Peking denounces Nixon's "fascist suppression" of war protest.

(A-2) Vietnam Medal of Honor winner killed during alleged robbery. (A-2) Former Detroit bank official, (hree businessmen held as embezzlers. (A-16) State Air Force recruiter slain in Berkeley; young attacker captured. (A-4) State adopts emergency welfare rule in line with U.S. laws.

(B-6) CI Area Air Force rescue learn creates goodwill with Green Giants." (Metro) First tri-ei'y drug roundup results in fi7 arrests. (Metro) Sports The Milwaukee Bucks rip the Baltimore Bullets to win NBA championship. (A ll) Angels rally, but fall short as Detroit takes an easy 7-4 victory. (A-ll) Specials Newest rock musical star is 75-year-old grandmother. (A-6) Black models are leaping to (op in fashion world.

(A-6) Index (Four Newi Section) Ann Landers A-7 Billy Graham A-8 Bridge A-8 Churches C-l, 2 Classified C-3 to lfi Comics B-9 County News B-3 Crossword C-4 Editorial B-lfl Financial B-6 to 8 Good Health A-8 Living A-6, 7 Obituaries C-3 Sports A-ll to 14 Star Gazer A-7 Television A-8 Theater A-fl Vital Records C-3 Weather A-15 CC? Nation Amtrak Turns Back Court Challenges parade field, that neither demonstrators nor political critics would hasten him in his program of disengagement from the battlefield. "As I welcome you home, I can Say to you that, the nation is proud of you," the President told the combat, veterans. "I can say to ynu, you come home mission accomplished. "When you went to Vietnam five years ago, you found a country there with millions of South Vietnamese under Communist rule and the whole country threalened by a Communist takeover. (Continued on A 2, Column 4) failed to win even committee endorsements yesterday.

Mansfield warned that he- would delay the confirmation of Boger Lewis, Amtrak's president, to the corporation board, and that, he would take a dim view of Amtrak's future appeals for federal subsidy. The National Association of Railroad Passengers, which gave enthusiastic (Continued on A 2, Column 1) Final Runs cause of a heavy freight service load. He said hundreds of children jammed into Southern Pacific's "San Joaquin Daylight" this week for a last ride on its daily trip between Oakland and Los Angeles. "There also are a lot of old retired people using their passes for the last time," he said. One agent said cars normally empty (Continued on A 2, Column 1) munists," the President continued, "then your service and the service of thousands of other Americans two and a half million, in fact, in ViPtnam will have been a failure.

"But we are not, going to fail," he said. "We shall succeed." Nixon flew here yesterday morning from Washington, where antiwar demonstrations, nearlng the end of then-second week, continued In underscore the opposition to his gradual pace of withdrawals from Vietnam. But the President sought; to emphasize, through the pomp and color of a lengthy military ceremony under the sun on a wide green bill to delay Amtrak could have been enacted before the new service began at midnight. Sen. Warren G.

Magnuson, a Washington Democrat and another disappointed sponsor of the new corporation, said that, once the nearly 200 doomed trains were dropped from the schedule today, "it will be pretty hard tn get, them back on the tracks again." Efforts in both branches of Congress to delay and expand the Amtrak system CanH Get Stateroom Crowded on one train (Santa Fe's Super Chief) going between Los Angeles n-nd' Chicago and one from San Diego to a sharp reduction from present service. Coy, 20 years with the railroad, said he didn't know what was going to happen to him and five other station workers. Bob Morgan, Southern Pacific's chief clerk at the Fresno depot, faced a similar problem, though he said there should be few layoffs of employes be to the public and the railroads should be obvious," Corcoran wrote. "These factors in themselves require that the plaintiffs, motion be denied." In the Senate, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was denied the unanimous consent he needed to introduce a bill that would have delayed Amtrak's start. The Montana Democrat offered the bill, instead, as an amendment in another measure on the floor, but with the House not in session yesterday, nn Apple Valley Family Trains Are By CHRISTOPHER LYDON WASHINGTON The National Railroad Passenger Corp.

also known as Amtrak officially went into business at 12:01 a.m. today. It brought the nation a new and bittersweet era of intercity railroad service, elminating almost 200 trains, including some storied in song and legend, but also promising to provide faster and more comfortable service on those that remained. The new, quasi-governmental operator of the deficit -ridden rail passenger service survived last-minute challenges both in Congress and in the courts. The last of these an appeal by railroad unions and passenger groups for a court order delaying the start of Amtrak was turned down yesterday by U.S.

District Judge Howard F. Corcoran. He was upheld last night by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. William G.

Mahoney, a lawyer for the alliance of unions that tried to block Amtrak in court, said between 10.000 and 25,000 men would be out of work today. In his ruling, however, Corcoran declared that the protection of displaced workers including six years of guaranteed pay rather than the usual four years was more than had been granted in earlier train discontinuance cases. "The frustration of the intent of Congress and the threat of grave injury AP Wirephfllo KATE WKBB freed in Cambodia 1 ski Kate Webb, UPI Bui eau Chief, Released by Reds LOS ANGELES (AP) Regular passenger trains, crowded Ike in the railroad heydays of World War II, chugged across California yesterday on the last trip of an era. A federal judge in Washington D.C. refused yesterday to delay the midnight start of America's new Amtrak network of passenger trains which will eliminate most California passenger train service.

"I hate to see it. happen. The public is not going to like- it," said John Miller, 68, yardmasfer at Los Angeles' Union Station. Miller retired yesterday after 27 years with the Santa Fe Hailway. but insisted he wasn't retiring because of the Amtrak takeover.

Amtrak is a semipublic corporation formed to improve rail service and cut fiscal losses. "This is the way it's going to he, so what's the use of squawking," Miller said. With Amtrak, the 18 trains that come and go daily at Los Angelof, will be cut to seven a day each way. Down at the station, Union Pacific's "City of Los Angeles" pulled out Chicago and Kansas City with American and state flags streaming from each side of the locomotive." By the time it left California 280 persons were to get aboard, more than twice its usual load. The train was too crowded for Chuck Coy, 47, ticket agent at Victorville, 100 miles east of Lor.

Angeles, to get Mr. and Mrs. George Newton of Apple Valley a stateroom for themselves and two teen-aged daughters for the historic ride. The Newtons were disappointed. "This is a great train," Mrs.

Newton said. "It's fast, pretty, and the service is always great. We wanted to be nn the last ride." Coy said Amtrak won't have passenger service through Victorville and tram travelers will have to drive 30 or 40 miles to San Bernardino or Barstow. He said the new system will have I iff-. i nt rk tj" tv THNOM PENH (UPI) Catherine M.

(Kate) Webb, United Press International bureau manager in Phnom Penh who has been missing since April 7, was freed today by her Communist captors. Miss Webb, 28, was thought to have been killed by her captors because the body of a woman fitting her description was found in the same area southwest of Phnom Penh nine days later. Miss Webb telephoned the UPI bureau in Phnom Penh this morning to report she had been released and was in Kom-pong Speu, 34 miles southwest of Phnom Penh. She said she was "alive and well" and that her driver-interpreter, Chhim Sirath, also was with her and safe. Miss Wehb di'd not give details of her rapture, imprisonment snd release in the telephone call.

An automobile was sent, tn Kompong Speu to return her to the capital. Kompong Speu is the headquarters base for the Cambodian army's 13th Brigade. Miss Webb and five other persons were listed as missing after being captured April 7 while covering a battle on Highway 4 about 55 miles southwest of Phnom Penh. Witnesses said Miss Webb was captured by three soldiers believed to he North Vietnamese regulars when Communist forces overran Cambodian army positions. Ten days later, advancing Cambodian troops found several bodies in the area, including that of a Caucasian woman.

Two Cambodian army officers, Capt. Ouk Chan and Lt. Ny Vanty, examined the body of the woman and subsequently (Continued on A 2, Column 3) Sun-Teleoram phrrto 'Cfy fif Los Angeles" on Its Final Hun "Adios" icn says it all in Kan Hernardino yards.

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