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THE KANSAS 'CITY STAR MAIN EDITION VOL 90 NO 330 PRICE 10 CENTS KANSAS CITY THURSDAY AUGUST 13 PAGES To Subscribe Call 421-1200 For Classified Ads Call 221-5500 GAIN IN PERSONAL INCOME Figures for July Show an Increase of 36 Billion Dollars Decline in Employment More Than Offset by Pay Raises and More Working Hours A DROP IN JUNEi to Pay Nader $425000 By Comparison 15 Billion Was Decline in Previous Month Sen Theodore McNeal Sen Richard Webster Rep Cantrell John Vaughn Political Debate a Crowd-Pleaser FACTORIES ARE SAME Payrolls Don't Change in Month After a Steady Slide in disarray on the shelves the Plaza National bank Commerce floor is littered with paper and bank and Empire State bank General Motors said in Detroit that settlement of the law suit at this time was considered desirable in order to avoid a very substantial additional expense and demands upon the time of corporation personnel which could be incident to trial and subsequent appeal of the case General Motors said it has denied and does deny any wrongdoing or legal liability in connection with the Nader claims It said the settlement in no respect constitutes and admission of any of the claims asserted by Nader The investigators according to Nader's lawyers questioned the consumer advocate's landlady and other of his associates to learn about his personal habits His lawyers described Nader as an whose only aim was to help the public The attorneys said that another suit against the corporation seeking punitive damages of about 7 million dollars was New York (AP) General Motors corporation has agreed to pay Ralph Nader consumer advocate S425000 in his invasion of privacy case his attorneys announced today Nader sued the largest motor car manufacturer four years ago for about 2 million dollars to compensate for what he claimed was "harassment and and invasion of his privacy The case which the attorneys said was settled out of court stemmed from attack in 1966 on the failure of car manufacturers including General Motors to design safe cars General Motors suit contended had hired a private investigation agency Vincent Gillen Associates Inc to inquire into the private life The suit said that the investigation was designed harrass and Nader so that he and other potential critics of products would be restrained from publicizing information about them Cantrell (D-Overland) house appropriations committee chairman Webster whose gangling appearance and cutting wit have By Wayne Mitchell (A Member of The Star's Staff) Carthage Mo They came from miles around last night to this Southwest state senator take on three representatives of GovJ Warren Hearnes in a debate on state finances Missouri town to hear their earned him a Senate nickname drew giggles from the audience when he several times referred to him-! self as a country before lashing into the Hearnes And the more than 1050 per- administration for waste andj sons who crowded into 980-seat inefficiency in government Memorial hall disap- Webster compared pointed as Sen Richard to a country store owner who Webster (R-Carthage) backed goes to a banker (the people) by former state Rep Max 'and tells him he needs money Hearnes! all of Kansas City and the Clayton bank Jefferson Bank and Trust company and Mercan tile Trust company all Louis banks have free use: Jiuy of state money on deposit andjS311 no checks had been drawn on' any of the accounts for the past six months until he said "And you know' what caused about 5 million of 20 million dollars on deposit there to be transferred? I mentioned I was going to discuss it at a little de- eluded and a bate in Carthage Mo crease with the Speakers for the administration viewpoint did not deny the allegations by Webster about favored banks McNeal said Washington st-sonal income to a the Income for the a seasonally rate of 8018 billion gain decline of 1 when the effects federal pay The department private sector increased by same as in June (AP) rebounded in 36-billion-dollar Commerce department reported today month was at adjusted annual dollars The compared with a billion in June of the retroactive raise are in-2 3-billion inpay raise excluded reported that wages and salaries lVz billion the he see any customers but there is an awful lot of Webster said the banker would tell him to clean the place up first and what saying when the governor wants to wash the windows sweep the floor and cut out the dead wood and then wants to talk about additional taxes this old country boy will be there to THE CARTHAGE SENATOR who often is mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for governor chided Hearnes for allowing the state treasurer to leave some state funds in non-interest-bearing accounts in politically favored He listed the banks as Civic CURB CAMPAIGN CUST Conference Committee Measure Would Restrict Broadcast Spending by Major Political Candidates Effective 30 Days After Enactment Would Apply to November Elections Myers of nearby Webb City Mo took on John Vaughn state comptroller ana budget director Sen Theodore McNeal (D-St Louis) senate appropriations committee chairman and Rep (Lucky) for a loan "So the banker goes down to the store to check things out before making a Webster said "When he gets there the windows are so dirty people see in the merchandise is (Continued on Page 2) The Weather 'Partly Cloudy LINE UP ON ABM SITES BULLETIN That Members Refuse to Sign Report Adopted 3-2 Generally fair with light winds tonight becoming partly cloudy tomorrow with southwesterly winds 10 to 15 miles an hour is the weather forecast for Kansas City and vicinity Low tonight in the lower 70s high tomorrow in the 90s Probability of rain 10 per cent tomorrow 12 midnight 76 9 a 77 Sen Edward Brooke Marshaling Forces for His Amendment Would Take Missouri and Wyoming Out of the Safeguard Picture Washington The House voted this afternoon to override President veto of a 44-billion-dollar appropriation bill for the Office of Education A final decision awaits action by the Senate The roll call vote by the House to bowl over the school bill veto was 289 to 114 This was 20 more than the two-thirds needed The House then turned to consideration of the veto of an 18-billion-dollar measure to finance the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs the Veterans Administration and a score of other agencies BIGGEST ISSUE On Inside Pages 80 85 87 90 lam 2am 3 a 4 a 5 a 6 a 7 a 8 a 741 0 a 73 11 a 69 12 noon 73 1 71 2 70 71 74 Observers Say It Will Be Highest Hurdle in Senate Relative humidity 6 a 68 per cent 1 38 per cent fading 6 a 2998 inches 1 2996 inches Precipitation in 24 hours ending 6 a none River stage today 7 feet no change Lake of the Ozarks 6 a 26 feet below full reservoir It said declining employment was more than offset by higher pay rates and increases in working hours Factory pay rolls were the same as in June and the department said have now declined by 2 billion dollars since they reached their peak last December Since then manufacturing employment has dropped by almost 600000 workers and hours per worker have declined as well Federal wage payments declined offsetting an increase in state and local payrolls For the first seven months of this year personal income reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 793 billion The department said this was an increase of 57 billion or 8 per cent from the corresponding period of last year CONCEDES SENATE RACE Richard Southern (D-Monroe City) Won't File Contest Monroe City Mo State Sen Richard Southern (D-Mo-nore City) conceded the Democratic primary race in the 18th district today to Norman Mer-rell Lewis County educator Southern also announced plans to withdraw as a member of the state retirement system upon completion of his term in January 1971 The legislator the youngest senator in Missouri when elected in 1966 at 30 years old said his concession was being made despite the final vote canvass completde this week He said it disclosed a reduction of his margin of loss to 186 votes out of 22654 cast do not wish to become involved in a legal contest which would be harmful to our he said Southern added: the recent campaign there were editorials and statements that I supported a special legislative retiremen plan and inferred I was interested in improving my legislative retirement benefits I opposed special legislative retirement I was not interested in its benefits at my ag of BULLET SPRAT KILLS MAN William Van Trease 712 Northeast 44th Terrace Is Victim Admitting much of the blame for the social atmosphere in which his son was arrested on a marijuana charge Sargent Shriver says he was a position to do something about it" when he served in Peace Corps and poverty programs Then he assails the "atmosphere of this society" which generates "tremendous pressure with fantastic temptations" for millions of youths Double moral standards and official "prevarications" are on the list he says and he laments what he calls the lack of glory and spirit in recent Shriver American history Page 20 Catholics battle Londonderry police after a day of Protest- and parades in Northern Ireland 9 Area response to the House approval of the amendment on women's equal rights ranges from elation to confusion Feminists are happy about the action while lawyers and businesswomen are cautious about comments preferring to study the amendment in detail 10 Ray Floyd referred to as the Angry Playboy of Golf defends his off and on the course 13 American and South Vietnamese forces battle North Vietnamese trying to launch an offensive against the pacification program in the northern provinces 21 President Nixon's first has turned out to be just one more government document dealing mainly with past economic events and of doubtful utility in helping ease inflation The leading editorial 30 Edgar Hoover's annual report for 1969 just released to the press contains one small ray ot statistical hope: The rate of increase in serious crimes last year was not quite as high as the rate of increase a year before 30 PAGE MARKERS Sixth TV Station KBMA Channel 41 On Air Here in Fall By Joyce Wagner (The Star's Television Editor) Kansas City will have another independent ultra high frequency (UHF) television station added to its list of operating channels this fall when KBMA-TV channel 41 goes on the air The station will begin testing its color signal Friday and will continue to run test patterns infrequently for the next six weeks until its scheduled airdate of Monday September 28 The third UHF station in Kansas City and the second station to go on the air in the last year KBMA is owned by Westport Television Inc a company headed by William Grant president of the Business Assurance company general offices are on the 18th floor of the A building Thirty-first street and Southwest trafficway The station which shares the WDAF-TV tall tower has its studio equipment and transmitter housed in a small prefab building at 3017 Belleview at the base of the bluff behind tower According to Bob Wormington general manager a memory control computer put programing and announcements on the air control audio and video levels prepare the Federal Communications commission log as the material is telecast and note any discrepancies in Wormington also said the computer can change programing and announcements on a notice is the first installation of its kind in the United he added although the Canadian network is putting a similar system into operation during the coming (Continued on Page 2) The bullet-riddled body of a 44-year-old repairman for an elevator company was found about 6 today in the back yard ot 307 East Twenty-eighth avenue in North Kansas City Police said the man was identified as William Willard Van Trease of 712 Northeast Forty-fourth terrace He was a repairman for the Montgomery Elevator company Metro Squad Called Jerry Livingston chief of public safety in North Kansas City said the Metro squad had been called into the investigation and was expected to begin working today The body bearing seven gunshot wounds was found about 6 o'clock by James Koch who lives at 307 East Twenty-eighth Koch said he and his wife Washington House-Senate conferees split sharply on party lines agreed today on a bill to limit broadcast spending by candidates for major political office with a provision designed to cover this general election Republican members of the conference committee from both the House and Senate refused to sign the compromise report adopted on a party line vote of 3-2 The bill passed by the House Tuesday would have taken effect January 1 exempting all elections in 1970 The Senate version however carried an effective date 30 days after enactment Under the compromise worked out in two closed-door sessions the 30-days-after-enactment provision remains but a proviso was added that exempts any race in which either candidates had made contracts with broadcaster as of August 12 The compromise package also would defer the effect on primary elections until next year It would cover candidates for President vice-president Senate House governor and lieutenant governor and retain a House provision under which states may by law elect to have other state officers brought under its coverage the best we could Harley Staggers (D-WVa) chairman of the House commerce committee who led the House conferees said Staggers said Sen John Pastore (D-RI) made it clear that he would not accept any bill unless it related directly to the 1970 elections But Hugh Scott Senate Republican leader immediately blasted agreement and served notice he would oppose it when the package is brought before the Senate changing the rule of the snapped Scott think it represents a rather frantic effort to help their (Democratic) Scott specifically took exception to the rollback provision on contracts calling it a is a bill that will help incumbents and hurt said Scott is a bail out procedure to help Other features of the bill would Declare that no broadcaster can charge any political candidate more than the lowest charge paid by any commercial advertiser for the same time period Repeal the equal time requirements for President and vice-president candidates only The measure sets a limit of 7 cents a vote cast in the last general election or $20000 whichever is higher as the spending ceiling for the covered candidates in the general elections The primary ceiling would be half that amount Ul- Sjr TO SUBMIT GAS TREATY The beauty of an oil well is in (he eye of the beholder and often depends on how much stock in the company the beholder owns By Joe Lastelic (Of The Star's Washington Sureau) Washington The Nixon administration must clear one more hurdle before it: can go ahead with adding sites in Missouri and Wyoming for the Safeguard antiballistic missile system Predictions are that it will be the most difficult hurdle in the ABM contest in the Senate It is an amendment of Sen Edward Brooke (R-Mass) who is opposed to expansion Instead of spending the extra 322 million dollars for sites in Missouri and Wyoming Brooke would spend it all on the present two sites in Montana and North Dakota The Brooke amendment Is scheduled for a vote next Wednesday The Nixon forces arej opposed to it Sen Henry Jack-son (D-Wash) leader of the forces favoring more sites predicted the vote on the Brooke amendment will he closer than the two the administration won yesterday Sen Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo) and Sen Harold Hughes (D-Ia) wanted to forbid deployment at all sites at a savings of 944 million dollars but continue research and development at a cost of 365 million That lost 62 to 33 Sen John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky) and Sen Phillip Hart and North Dakota and continue work at the sites in Montana and North Dakota and continue research but forbid expansion to Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri and planning for Warren Air Force base in Wyoming both Minuteman missile complexes That would save 322 million dollars They lost 47 to 52 It was the key vote in the de- bate so far Thirty Republicans and 22 Democrats voted to support the expansion while 12 Republicans and 35 Democrats voted against it BACK TO PEACETALKS Chief Hanoi Negotiator to Return to Pari Soon Paris North Vietnam announced today its chief peace negotiator Xuan Thuy will return to the Paris peace talks soon The 79th session was held today Thuy left Paris in May after boycotting the meetings for several months in protest against what Ne called President downgrading of the peace talks Thuy objected to the appointment of Philip Habib formerly third-ranking member of the delegation as chief negotiator Habib was replaced at the bead of the delegation last week by Bruce American sources have indicated privately that Ambassador Bruce was awaiting the return of Thuy and Mrs Binh before presenting new American proposals he is believed to have ready White House to Send Geneva Protocol to Senate Washington (AP) The White House will submit to the Senate next week the 1925 Geneva protocol banning chemical and biological warfare Rep Richard were sleeping in a bedroom ad-1 McCarthy (D-N Y) said today jacent to the back yard and He said he hoped it would be were awakened by gunshots He offered without any reservations told police he peered into the on the use of antiplant and ha darkness and saw what ap- rassing chemicals BRANDT BACK TO BONN a flashlight he said he found the body An Inquest Held Chancellor Ends Visit to Moscow to Sign Treaty Alternatives Offered In Nerve Gas Dispute Washington There are other and better ways of getting rid of Army nerve gas than sinking it in the Atlantic ocean in an old ship a federal judge was told today One suggestion of Miss Lola Lee a lawyer was putting the gas filled caskets in a surplus missile pit filling the pit with a strong alkaline chemical and then sealing it to let the chemical detoxify the gas Miss Lee appeared before Judge June Green on behalf of the Environmental Defense Fund seeking an order to stop the Army from disposing of the gas in the ocean off Florida The gas now is at Sunny Point being loaded onto a surplus Liberty ship Miss Lee said the Army had given inadequate notice of what it proposed to do with the gas She argued that the Army was acting on a as-(Continued on Page 2) Moscow (AP) Willy Brandt West German chancellor flew home to Bonn today after signing a nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union and inviting Alexei Kosygin Soviet premier to visit West Germany NIXON SIGNS RAIL BILL Measure on Retirement Annuities Hike Approved Washington AP President Nixon has signed into law a measure providing a temporary 15 per cent increase in regular railroad retirement annuities A inquest was held at ll in the North Kansas City municipal courtroom by Dr Pate Clay County coroner and Tom Allen an assistant county prosecutor The verdict by a 6-man jury was that Van Trease had been by a person or persons Dr William McPhee a pathologist who conducted an autopsy of the body at Newcomers chapel in North Kansas City told the jury he found five holes in the back and two in the right arm two of the shots apparently The increase is for the period punctured the heart and right from last januarv 1 to June 30 limg 1972- Dr McPhee said the man was attired in a pair of gray cove-I rails which were pulled over It will affect 72 per cent 0 railroad retirement beneficiar- ies The remaining 28 per cent dark green trousers a light blue receivcd increases by the auto-short-sleeved shirt and a blue the Social matic effects of 1969 Security amendment IMPRESS GOVERNOR Saigon (AP) Gov John McKeithen of Louisiana said today after a tour of military bases he was with Amerioan servicemen in Vietnam Phone Sunday Want if In before 11 a Saturday Adv sweater The pathologist said four slugs were recovered two from the chest one from the right arm and one from inside the clothing Dr Pate said the slugs ap- (Continued on Page 2) McGilley Memorial Chapels An-ttoch Chapel LHwood Main Woodland fc LiWT Adv EYE TO SMOKING BAN Washington (AP) The Interstate Commerce commission says it will conduct hearings on Ralph proposal to ban smoking in busses Nader says a health hazard as well as annoying Daily rental andor leasing Broadway Ford 34th-Broadway Adv A NATIVE HAT is worn by Charles A Lindbergh pioneer American aviator presented him by a tribe at Lake Sebu Philippine Islands as he accompanied a 4-day expedition by the government to help assist minority tribes in economic and other pr-olems (Wirephoto) READY FOR ANY EVENTUALITY is the 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