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air express The Newspaper Of The Americas EDITION Member of The Inter-American Press Association 61st Year 195th Day President Orders i All-Out Job Push 1 hi For Vietnam Vets Divers in Gin-Clear Water Probe Ship That Fell Victim to Treacherous Shoal sophisticated proton magnetometer device helps unlock Davey Jones locker SOTSJ it- earn Locates 18 Shipwrecks Off Tortugas 4: Ron Gilibs Checks Coral-Encrusted Cannon it will never rust in front of a restaurant Also Urges Training Programs WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon Sunday ordered highest priority for an mobilization of federal to place the growing number of unemployed veterans of the Vietnam era in jobs or training am greatly concerned at any denial of civilian job opportunities to these young men who have borne the bur- den of Nixon said in a letter giving personal to Secretary of Labor James Hodgson to head the effort am also deeply concerned at the evidence that the most serious problem is experienced by those with educational deficiencies or other disabilities" Nixon said HODGSON told a White House news conference that the new program calls for a total new effort that current programs creates new priorities and estab-' lishes mechanisms needed to do the He said there are 370000 Vietnam-era veterans now unemployed a rate of 108 per cent of those between ages 20 and 29 compared with 84 per cent of those of the same age who did not serve in the military The President told Hodgson to coordinate his effort with Chairman James Oates of the Jobs for Veterans Committee which has been spotlighting the problems and declared speed action I call upon all government agencies to draw fully upon resources at AS FOR COSTS Hodgson said an effort will be made to do the job with current resources but if this is not enough ask for more money no matter what it to achieve the goal Actually he said a costs because every veteran who gets employment gets off the unemployment compensation rolls Nixon directed Hodgson to draw upon the resources of the National Alliance of Businessmen and the secretary noted that the alliance has been able to find employment for several hundred thousand disadvantaged people he said NAB pledge of a large number of veteran placements that will be in addition to that present hiring pledge for the disadvantaged" Other plans announced in letter and news conference include: For the first time veterans will be given priority status under the on-the-job program financed by the Labor Department Hodgson said hope to add at least 20000 veterans to the OJT rolls at the cost of about $20 million Under this about 100000 veterans now Turn to Page 2A Col 8 By GENE MILLER Hirald Staff writar Underwater archeologists have located 18 shipwrecks on the shallow coral reefs of the Dry Tortugas the National Park Service reported Sunday Exploring a marine graveyard for the first time with a $21500 proton magnetometer they have found another 16 possible wrecks since May 21 still said George Fischer the project director None has yet been identified SOME MAY have sunk in the mid-1700s including one wreck in 10 feet of water with nine cannon that measure eight Teet six inches each They are now encrusted in coral Other almost certainly wentdown in the mid- 1800s during construction of the massive and now deteriorating Fort Jefferson the of the Gulf In gin-clear water abounding with grouper one compact wreck contains perhaps J00 solidified barrels of cement The wood dissolved long ago There the ocean floor is covered with granite and blue stone floor slabs once intended for the guns of the fort and Uncounted ingots'of base metal cast in squares long bars and round pigs THE VALUE historically or otherwise is unknown I At this juncture a team of National Park Service archeologists is laboring mostly in a survey capacity I The team is a 17-man collection of young scientists inor- dinately bright high spirited and low budgeted They worry a lot about what the hierarchy of the Depart- ment of Interior thinks about their groovy expedition for the Dry Tortugas are indeed a subtropical paradise remote and hauntingly beautiful Hopefully they will be able to test-excavate several sites this month methodically and systematically uncovering per-' haps a two-meter square of wreck or two to determine dates TO FISCHER a shipwreck is a capsule a nonrenewable historical resource" and he believes it a crime for anyone to haul a cannon out of the ocean for example and allow it to rust as junk in front of a restaurant The project is He is 34 and the possessor of an ulcer a certificate of competency from the swimming pool of the Street YMCA in Washington and a button on his hat that proclaims Little Was winter a historian Ed Bearss researched the National Archives for shipwrecks in the Dry Fischer said he found 150 through the 19th The Dry Tortugas lie 68 miles west of Key West and for centuries hapless mariners have piled vessels onto the dangerous shoals some torn asunder and lost forever in hurricanes THIS IS NOT to imply that salvagers worked wrecks there before for they have One captain sued a keeper of a lighthouse at Loggerhead Key in the 1830s claiming the Turn to Page 3AW Col 1 Press Wirt phot Mrs Len Broilrick Receives a Kiss From Her Husband fertility drug-induced birth of nine believed to be a record 3 of Living Nonuplets In Breathing Distress a live in Canberra have sold the rights to their story to a Sydney newspaper radio and television group for an undisclosed sum Mrs Brodrick a former nurse entered the hospital three weeks ago after tests showed she was likely to have sextuplcts Five days ago doctors advised her that further tests indicated nine babies would be born It is believed the babies were born two months prematurely Brodrick has been living at the hospital for the past few days Medical teams have been on standby since Friday morning and each child had an individual doctor at birth' I In a televised broadcast Broderick said "Geraldine looks Asked about names for the seven children he said leave that for at least a week too much else to consider at The babies are understood to have been provisionally baptized at the hospital by a Roman Catholic nurse SYDNEY Australia (AP) Three of the surviving seven nonuplets born to a 29-year-old woman here were having trouble breathing Sunday night and one was receiving respiratory treatment Doctors said the other four surviving infants were in satisfactory condition considering their size and premature birth All the babies weigh between one and two pounds Their mother Geraldine Brodrick is well and up on some sleep" doctors said Staff Photos by ALBERT COTA Matt Fischer 8 Holds Civil War Buckle Cosmonauts end Garden Cast Votes From Space NOT seen the are in incuba- Israelis Fire on 2 Arab Jets Untended Divers Live 5 Days on Sea Floor (parliaments) of the Soviet republics vote for the wise foreign and domestic policy of our Communist Party for the implementation of the grandiose plans of the new five-year economic The news agency Tass disclosed the vegetable garden in the sky are continuing aboard Salyut to study the influence of the conditions of weightlessness on the development of higher Tass said MOSCOW (UPI) Three Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Salyut orbital laboratory cast the first votes from space Sunday and tended a vegetable patch growing Chinese cabbage inside their craft give our votes to the candidates of the Inviolable bloc of Communists and non-party members" Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky Vladislav Volkov and Viktor radioed to earth where Russians were electing members of the Supreme Soviets SHE IIAS babies who tors The five boys and four girls Were born naturally in 32 minutes just before dawn Sunday in what was described as a record multiple birth Two of the boys were stillborn Mrs Brodrick had taken fertility drugs to correct a hormonal disorder Doctors would not comment on the chances for the survivors Soon after the births Dr John Greenwell medical superintendent of the hospital said: to the babies is not small The next 43 hours is critical" Mrs Brodrick and her meat salesman husband Len 32 have two other children Belinda 5 and Jacqueline 4 both born by Caesarean section THE BRODRICKS who Eeolotjtj Spurs Concern for Public Properly i Cabinet Grows Wary Over Land Sales United Preia International Israeli anti-aircraft batteries fired at two Egyptian jet fighters Sunday flying over the eastern bank of the Suez Canal the third time the Middle East ceasefire has been broken on the Suez front a military spokesman said in Tel Aviv The aerial Incident occurred shortly after the announcement by El Yam Shipping Co that one of its oil tankers the Coral Sea had been fired upon in the Red Sea Friday as it steamed toward the Israeli port of Eilat Official sources in Jerusalem said the Israeli government believes Arab guerrillas acting with the consent of authorities in South Yemen were responsible for the attack The tanker was hit by ba-znoka fire shipping officials sad but damage Was slight no casualties were every habitat drive until this one had depended on large surface support teams to keep a handful of divers alive on the bottom Robert Wicklund project manager for the Hydro Lab Undersea Research Program said planned Hydro Lab to operate with minimum support from surface personnel The habitat was designed to get its life sup-port from an unmanned barge floating on the surface week we put threb divers from the local Underwater Explorers Club down and left them alone for 24 Wicklund said "They had no problems decided to go ahead with the Westinghouse team and let them operate alone" The three scientists re- ccived air water and electrical power through an umbilical cord that runs from ftie barge to the eight-by-40-foot habitat FREEPORT Bahamas (AP) Three diver-scientists have become the first men to cut themselves off from support by surface personnel and operate independently for five days on the sea floor Rick Cheshcr Charles Hamlin and Art Shammer all Wcstinghouse Corp researchers surfaced Saturday after spending a working-week in Hydro Lab a one-room underwater house that was submerged in 50 feet of water at the edge of a coral reef Hydro Lab is an experi- mental facility operated by the Perry Foundation a nonprofit oceanographic research center founded by submarine builder John Perry Many underwater habitat experiments have been performed including ijhe US Scalab series and the Tcktile experiments But Perhaps greatest economic asset is its land both public and private which is becoming increasingly valuable Herald Urban Affairs Writer Juanita Greene will examine the developments in Florida land in a series of stories that will appear from lime to lime In her first she lakes a look at the status of some of the slate-owned land interest but that is not the most important aspect since there much state land left to sell The Cabinet is nurturing a well-founded suspicion that much of the state land was sold illegally and that an offensive could be waged to recoup millions of acres of it for the public No such crusade has yet Snl be launched but the stakes By JUANITA GREENE Htrild Urbn Affairs Wrlltr Land owned by the public is getting much more deferential treatment from the Florida Cabinet in the wake of the big ecology rumble A new mood of concern and protection hovers over the mud flats and mangrove swamps the marshland and the Island and estuaries of Florida Once considered an ex- Chuckle Remember way back when thefehief concern of student bodies was student bodies? pendable nuisance thisype of public land was sold off mile on mile TOD AY THE NEW policy includes no more sales unless they are dearly in the public Turn to Fage 1IAW Col 1.