The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

THE KANSAS CITY STAR KANSAS CITY FRIDAY JANUARY 1 5 1 97 1- 3 2 PA3ES For Ad Call 721 550l To Sutmriba Cal 421 1700 MAIN EDITION 10c VOL 91 NO 120 Battle in Cambodia For Access to Sea drive Wednesday to reopen1 Highway 4 which has been closed by North Vietnam troops since November 21 Phnom Penh has been cut off from its seaport Kompong Som creating shortages of oil gas and other imports in the capital The plane shot down in Cambodia was an Army spotter craft that crashed in Kratie province in the northeastern part of the country The crewmen were rescued Sources said enemy is still in the vicinity of the While the southern task force tried to push the north the Saigon government said a force of South Vietnamese marines was moving south toward the Pich Nil pass the other enemy stronghold on the highway about 60 miles southwest of Phnom Penh A total force of 5300 South Vietnamese and 8000 Cambodian soldiers launched the two-ended the plane apparently was on a reconnaissance mission spotting North Vietnamese positions for artillery on the South Vietnamese side of the border It was the first American aircraft reported lost in Cambodia since December 12 and the 52nd reported lost there since last May The command said a total of 7431 American planes and helicopters now have been lost in the war since January 1 1961 The only significant battlefield action reported in South Viet-i nam was a clash between about 50 North Vietnamese and American forces from the 5th mechanized infantry division less than two miles south of the demili-jtarized zone headquarters said seven North Vietnamese were killed and there were no American casualties Headquarters said one American was killed and seven were wounded in mine and booby trap incidents A second Ameri Saigon A South Vietnamese task force trying to reopen Phnom highway to the sea battled North Vietnamese forces today around a key mountain pass 95 miles southwest of the Cambodian capital The command announced that an American plane was shot down in another sector of Cambodia South Vietnamese military headquarters said the task force smashed into more than 200 North Vietnamese at Stung Chhay one of two key mountain passes controlled by the enemy on Highway 4 Fighting raged until dusk yesterday as South Vietnamese fighter-bombers and artillery pummeled the North Vietnamese positions on the heights overlooking the road Reports from the area said the fighting resumed today A South Vietnamese spokesman said 41 North Vietnamese and five government troops had been killed and 28 South Vietnamese wounded is not clear who controls the the spokesman said Tet Truce Is Planned Saigon President Nguyen Van Thieu said today he will announce next week a cease-fire for the Tet new year holiday beginning January 27 Thieu did not disclose how long the South Vietnamese truce would run but said it would be anything This suggested he would announce a 24-hour truce similar to the cease-fires called by the South Vietnamese for Christmas and New The United States and other Allies customarily join in observing the cease-fires declared by the Saigon government can was killed and seven others The Viet Cong last month unilaterally proclaimed a 3-day were wounded in the accidental cease-fire for Tet the most important holiday of the year for the Vietnamese Israel Raids Arab Base las were killed and seven wounded in the 3-hour fight The guerrillas said they killed or wounded at least 15 Israelis Lebanon lodged a protest with the Security Council but did not request a meeting Khalil Abu Hamad foreign minister called in the ambassadors of the United States Brit ain France and the Soviet Union to ask them to support the Lebanese protest The Lebanese army was put on a state of alert Two army tanks arrived after the Israelis pulled out and took station on the beach flanking little harbor The area was thick with armed guerrillas Newsmen were barred from the guerrilla base and it was impossible to verify the guerrilla claim that it was An Israeli spokesman said the raid was in retaliation for several Arab guerrilla raids on Israeli settlements along the Lebanese border On the diplomatic front Gun-nar Jarring mediator was waiting at headquarters in New York for reaction from Egypt and Jordan to proposals which Israeli leaders communicated to him last weekend when he visited Jerusalem Arab sources said they saw no concession in position because it still demanded establishment of recognized boundaries in advance of talk about withdrawal of Israeli troops from the territory they occupied during the 1967 war Premier Golda Meir of Israel said yesterday she expects a negative reply from the Arabs The Israelis came in at midnight with two helicopters putting down on the beach and two farther inland The A1 Fatah guerrilla organization claimed some raiders landed by boat and that the attack was preceded by a naval bombardment However army officers on the spot reported there was no sea landing Guerrilla and Lebanese army communiques reported the Israelis launched two attacks the second three hours after the first The raiders landed on the beach and fired bazookas into a house by the roadside in which a guerrilla leader lived villagers reported The Israelis also dynamited a guerrilla command post on a nearby headland No other houses on the waterfront at in the main part of the village half a mile inland were fired upon Sarafand Lebanon Israeli troops flying in over the sea by helicopter today raided a secret harbor base used by Palestinian guerrillas to smuggle men and weapons to Arabs in the occupied Gaza Strip An estimated 120 Israeli commandos swept through this little fishing village in South Lebanon to blow up two shoreside guerrilla strongpoints But the guerrillas and the Lebanese army said they fought off the raiders before they reached the main base In Tel Aviv the Israelis reported killing 10 Arabs at the base and wounding many more It was the deepest incursion into Lebanon since the attack on the Beirut airport in December 1968 Government and guerrilla communiques said two guerril twins of Yuma Ariz There are 54 of the big wheels on the train which was built eight years ago and is used very little (Wirephoto) Big Wheel The 10-foot wheels of the Army's 580-foot "Overland Train" for which the government would appreciate an offer dwarf Karl and Keith Hupper 22-month-old Criminal Justice a i Focus Area-Wide The Weather Partly cloudy and warmer through tomorrow is the National Weather service forecast Light southerly winds tonight increasing to 5 to 15 miles an hour tomorrow Low tonight 12 to 18 high tomorrow in the 30s Precipitation probability 5 per cent tonight 10 per cent tomorrow Nixon Wants Wide GOP Markey president of the Clay County Bar association and Abe Shafer IV president of the Platte County Bar association Bill Vaughan Says -Jl A veteran football fan says he has so little interest in the Super Bowl that he care if he missed 15 or 20 seconds of it Rep Rogers Morton of Maryland who is leaving the committee and Congress to become secretary of Interior Thomas Evans jr of Wilmington Del and Mrs Tobin Armstrong wife of a Texas rancher were picked as co-chairmen of the committee By Roger Moore A Member of The Staff Mayor Ilus Davis and George Lehr presiding judge of the Jackson County court said today they will announce plans for a committee made up of area lawyers end the presiding judges of three counties that will study the administration of criminal justice in the Kansas City area jA press conference has been called by the mayor at 4:30 this afternoon in his office the City hall A more detailed report of the responsibilities will be announced then Davis and Lehr said the com mittee members are from area bar associations the presiding judges of Cley Platte and Jackson Counties and other persons familiar with the legal profession A tentative list of persons appointed: John Gibson president of the Kansas City Bar association Guy Magruder president of the Lawyers Association of Kansas City Patrick Kelly dean of the University of Missouri-Kan-sas City law school Harold Holiday president of the Jackson County Bar association Mrs Judith Whittaker executive director of the Lawyers Committee on Urban Affairs Robert lawyers that it can grow so that it can attract independent voters and Democratic would like this building to be the building of the open he said would like the Republican party to be the party of the open Meanwhile Sen Bob Dole says whatever the titles in the new 3-way party leadership arrangement going to be the The national ratification of Dole this afternoon as the chairman is a formality following President recommendation The Kansas senator succeeds ashington AP Nixon urged Republicans today to make the party of the open so that it will grow among all people of all faiths and races Nixon spoke at the dedication of the Dwight Eisenhower National Republican Center a party headquarters housing the national committee and other 0 offices Mrs Mamie Eisenhower cut the ribbon formally opening the 4-story building on Capitol Hill Nixon said Eisenhower always urged that the be an open party He said the advice of the late President would be to it in such a way Unofficial Relative humidity 5 a 84 per cent Barometer reading 6 a 3054 inches River stage today 1 feet fall 3 of a foot A restless corpse In need of discovery helps a brother search In a short story In Star Magazine Sun Jan adv Flier Talked Out of Suicide Davis and Lehr Edward Bauman presiding judge of the Clay County court and Henry Miller Platte County presiding judge will serve as co-ordina-tors of information Davis has been meeting recently with the county judges and lawyers to investigate some way a community-wide study could be made on criminal justice without duplicating efforts already made by several area and state bar associations Davis has often criticized the Jackson County office and the courts for their disposition of criminal cases after they have left the police department The committee will conduct a comprehensive examination according to Davis to measure the extent and nature of crime here It will examine the func- i i and effectiveness of agencies such as the office and courts that deal with crime Davis said he hoped the study could identify and isolate inefficiencies and injustices in the system here and make valid recommendations to improve them Lehr said committee members would seek the advice and assistance of persons in sectors of the criminal justice In a joint statement the two See CRIME on Next Page On Inside Pages New York policemen by the hundreds are off their regular beats as the result of a pay squabble but a harried Mayor John Lindsay promises residents of the nation's largest city that necessary steps will be taken to assure their protection Other policemen and supervisors are covering vital areas and strikers say they will respond to emergencies LINDSAY Page 5 Chicago teachers reach a tentative contract agreement after Mayor Richard Daley serves as mediator in a round-the-clock bargaining session 5 The snip of a ribbon puts the Aswan dam industrially "on stream" a formal ceremony because it has been in operation since last summer 7 with the pilot who said he was Chuck Davis and 32 years old was relayed by the Los Angeles International airport tower all right come down see you take care of you all right going to happen to Bill Keane FAA duty officer quoted the psychologist as saying Davis took off from the Santa Monica field at 1 a in a plane owned by a flying club and began radioing messages that he was going to dive his plane into the Pacific ocean because he want to live reached at the center after Davis asked for her Keane said she told him Davis was being treated for emotional problems Davis made two landings Keane said before making a final landing at the airport at 2:27 a George Kelly Santa Monica police sergeant said Davis had fled by the time officers could reach the plane Kelly said it was not immediately known if Davis had been authorized to take the plane Keane said the FAA would conduct an investigation into the possibility of violations of feder- Santa Monica Calif A distraught pilot who said he was going to crash his light plane into the sea was talked into landing it safely by a woman psychologist today After a tense 30-minute conversation the pilot was persuaded by Dr Jan Ogilvie to land his plane at Santa Monica airport Dr Ogilvie spoke to him from the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention center by a radio-telephone hookup The pilot eluded police after landing however by taxiing the plane to a remote part of the field and escaping on foot Dr conversation Keane said Dr Ogilvie was al flight regulations A Washington woman is an instructor in grief She Jk ff Jf I I 1 teaches parents of dying children how to cope 10 Ilf lif ft I I I I I The Dallas Cowboys might rate an edge in Sunday's Super ai ww i mi lr The Dallas Cowboys might rate an edge in Sunday's Super bowl in Miami but Baltimore Colt fans believe that Quarterback Johnny Unitas's superior work will swing the decision their way Sporting Comment 17 A variety of ways to trim the cost of buying a car is presented by Sylvia Porter in the last of a series on combatting inflation 19 The leading editorial: The petty political ploy by Missouri's Democratic governor against the new Republican auditor is not in line with the constructive leadership expected of the state's chief executive 28 A solid majority of collegians oppose disrupters of campus Hit and feel they should be expelled or suspended 32 PAGE MARKERS Movies 14-15 TV 31 Speaking the Public Mind 30 Sports 17-18 Want Ads 20-28 What's the Doctor Say? 29 Women's News 10 The formation of a non-profit corporation to operate public and instructional television for the Kansas City region was announced today at the first meeting of its board of directors Twenty-three area business civic and education leaders have agreed to serve on the board for the corporation known as Community Service Broadcasting of Mid-America Inc Edward Matheny jr a lawyer and spokesman for the new hoard said the corporation hopes to take over control and management of channel 19 which has been operated since 1961 by the Kansas City school district as KCSD-TV The corporation also will consider expanding into other areas of non -commercial television and broadoanting in the metro politan area Matheny said Matheny said he was extremely pleased with the willingness of area leaders to serve on the board never been identified with anything where people were as willing to Matheny said it takes a lot of arm-twisting The affirmative response from very busy people with a lot of other commitments shows how important they feel public television is to this Matheny said one of the first challenges the corporation will face is improving the power of the signal for channel 19 in order to improve the quality and range of reception throughout the metropolitan area He said the board also must consider the possibility (converting the voted to co-operate with the formation of the non-profit corporation The board voted to consider proposals from the corporation to take over the license financing and operation of channel 19 and to consider purchasing instructional television for in-school use from the corporation rather than providing its own Channel 19 currently broadcasts taped lessons during the school day for viewing in the classrooms The school support of public television for the 1970-71 year ran out this month and this programing is continuing now by contributions from outside sources Zoel Parenteau station manager for KCSD-TV said contributions to date include $19-See TV on Page station to color as quickly as possible The formation of the non-profit corporation was spurred by the financial difficulties of the Kansas City school district which has been reducing its limited funding to the educational television station Last July the Kansas City Board of Education voted to provide only $27000 half the amount it provided the year before to fund public television this school year Public television here is offered in the late afternoon and at night as an alternative to commercial broad-casting It Includes a wide range of programs from Sesame Street for preschoolers to Civilisation for adults interested in art and culture In July the schootaboard also An all-night drizzle in balow-freez-ing weather covered Lancaster Pa with a sheet of ice that stopped traffic closed schools and made walking hazardous but Walks George Sapp 11 didn't mind Ha put on his ice skates and skimmed smoothly along the sidewalks (Wirephoto) Mocley A Business Company Aav Phone ne Want Ads In before rdey Adv Suni mir unds.