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"A mSB ihotitrf never ashamed io say he has Wong, which is b«t saying, i« other words, that he i§ wls«f today than Jt« was yisCeritoy." Pop« PAMPA AM) VfClWff g ,-Mostly cloudy Uifdiigh frw morning. Partly cloudy ami 1 title Nwrttcr Fftday afternoon. Low tonight tfl.rMIMft. High Friday mlddle-Wi. .Wind* from i«'is trtph, mmi VOL. «& - NO, Certified by ABO ftffi PAMPA BAIL? NEWS, TtttmSQAY, 0CfOBER *3, I JL/fT J. ~ T** ) '-•*' "-F- T JLi*m •» ^ » ^^ » »• » V- 41; KAtiVrALL .~J4{ Su»*et today ** liM f>.JH<? Sunrise Frldiy-MhSS i.ni. _ I;' - .„. j-.jni ;-.- n Y--' : M"r "*' (II PAGES TODAY) •Hftlft S/errct Club Joins UT Students In 'Save Our Trees' Campaign AUSTIN, ( UP I) -The- Sierra Club, a conservationist group which counts among its victories the saving of Grand Cainyon and the defeat of the Texas Water Plan, has joined a group of university students to save some trees. The club may learn as early as today whether it can chalk up the University of Texas at Austin trees as another succes- ful campaign. . ., , District Judge James Meyers Issued a. temporary restraining order Wednesday prohibiting contractors from uprooting any tiore trees on the campus. The ooiurts and th« office of iimiver xees were removed to pave the way for the expansion of Memorial Stadium, the home gridiron of the second ranked Texas Longhorns, Meyers set a hearing on the issue JEor 9 a; m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, but said he could hold a hearing on the issue today or Friday. The Sierra ; Club entered the picture when 26 student demonstrators, pulled from the treetops by policemen on fire ladders, decided to take their "save our trees" protest to the 'Zodiac 1 Pleads For Help Over Talk Show SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-AJ troubled man who said he was the "Zodiac", slayer of five persons pleaded for help, complained of headaches and cried out "I've got to kill" during a two-hours of bizarre conversations. Wednesday on a television talk show. However, police said there two surrender appointments with attorney Melvin Belli, who told the caller, "All of San Francisco wants to help you. the hand is out, you can feel the hands out." There also was a challenge Issued to Zodiac—from the brother of San Francisco cab driver Paul Stine. The cabbie was shot to death Oct. 11, anc the killer mailed a piece of Stine's bloodied shirt with ? boastful letter to a newspaper Stine's brother, Joe, 34 operator of a Modesto servic station, issued anvitinerary_ o his daily habits and challengec Zodiac to "come and get me. "I don't carry weapons," sai the 165-pound Army and Air Force veteran. "I don't feel need any. I was very close t Paul, and now I want a chanc at his killer." Capt. Martin Lee, 'chief nspectors for the San Franciso Police Department, said the man 'who called the KGO-TV sity President Dr. Norman Hacker mail. Hackerman told fiv« of the students and one unidentified Instructor' he doubted his office could do anything "about a contract made by the board of regents." . . The 26 students, one of whom sported a sign reading. "Do these trees have to be butchered?", were hauled to jail and charged with disorderly conduct. Bulldozers knocked down trees while police blocked off remaining students. : The students climbed the trees at 8 a.m. just as bulldozers arrived to begin excavation work. A campus police officer told the students, through a bullhorn, they faced arrest i f they remained in the trees. One girl climbed high into a cypress tree an t d, screamed "help, help''! and'"rape" "as officers .tried to take her down a ladder and firemen held a net Sergeant Major Takes '.'.'•' **'' "•"" " '' • • Fifth Amehdhnent WASH^fGTON (UPI)— Sgt. Maj. William O.Woold ridge invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to.answer questions today at a Senate hearing on his alleged role in what has been described as a Bracket by some Army sergeants in run- norning talk show and identi- ied himself as "Sam," was "a erson with a mental problem." However, police said th'tre was 10 way of telling whether or not he was the zodiac slayer, who las bragged in cryptic notes of killing five persons in four eparate attacks during the past "10 months. "I need help," the caller said vhile viewers watched,program lost Jim Dunbar and Belli, whose presence was requested by the man. "I'm sick...I don't want to ' go to- the gas chamber." Belli, • who defended Jack Ruby for the killing of presidential assassin Le« Harvey Oswald, agreed to ask Disk Atty. John Jay F^erdon not to press for-the death penalty^ Ferdon below her if she'fell. Justice of the , Peace ; Bob Kuhn set .bond of $100 for 25 .of the .protesters. The 26th was also charged with using .abusive language^ according to an Austin policeman. The Sierra 'Club led a .fight against a dam project along the C o lor ado River which club members argued would flood the Grand Canyon. The conservationist organization also came out against a $5 billion project to divert water from the Mississippi River to dry sections ;of Texas. Voters defeated the plan earlier this year. ning GI clubs.. .,-••-. At almost th« same time the beribbcned Wooldridge— as well as three' other men linked to the alleged:scheme of kickbacks, rakeoffs and other irregularities — took the 5th —the Army announced a further downgrading of Woodridge's status. ' ' ' . ' - ..-''. Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor said the, former top- ranked enlisted man in tone Army was-being "involuntarily released" fromh its Sergeant major program. In effect, it meant that he was-being barred from any future role as a key non-commissioned 'advisor on assignment of enlisted men to senior positions from the 'battalion level on up to all- Army :' •'•"";' : '-' '•':''•! . . . Wooldridge, ,the first sergeant major of the Army > (h« no longer holds that distinction), was called before the Senate investigations subcommittee for questioning about earlier testimony by investigators that he and a group of •• buddy sergeants milked thousands of dollars from operation of clubr on bases for soldiers. Wooldridge, his: green Army SCHOOL TRUSTEES ion ,.coulo make no'* "promises or guarantees" other than.a fair trial. The man claiming to be Zodiac made 13 separate calls during the two-hour program, but police said none was long enough to be traced. The weird, conversations:%ere (Set ZODIAC, Page 2) AT RIOT TRIAL U.S. Marshals Take Away Birthday Cake CHICAGO (UPI) — Bobby Seale, the Black Panther party leader on trial for conspiring to Incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, was 33 years old Wednesday. While exactly a party, exactly dull, either. Scale's fellow it it wasn't wasn't defendants tried to bring a birthday cake into the courtroom and U.S. marshals confiscated the cake. "You can jail a cake, but you can't jail a revolution," Seale efendants and 20 black specba- ors—the largest number of Negroes to show up so far—to told' a "Bobby Seale Day" at he trial. Most of the action came in the afternoon session. While the seven other defendants lined up /outside the courtroom, defense attorney yelled. By that time the whipping cream.had hit the fan anyway, trial of the a "raMroad Nixon on called the "Chicago Eight" operation from down." He told the judge and a prosecutor they were "racists' and called "pig." a U.S. marshal a . The turmoil came from the attempts of the seven other State Pollution Watchdogs To Regulate Burning By United Press International The state's pollution watchdogs and agricultural officials are joining to regulate a raftch management tool dating back to Texas' open ranges—the burn- mg of salt grass along the Gulf Coast. > ; . v The goal of the State Air Control Board of * Austin and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service of College Station is to develop a set of guidelines to, preserve the burning of salt grass, yet prevent undue ai pollution. Dr. C. Leinweber, head of the range science department at A&M is acting as liaison between the ranchers and the state officials. "We relize we have to have the cooperation of ranchers if this thing is to work at all," Leinweber said. uniform decorated with live rows of ribbons, told the committee: "I respectfully decline to answer the questions on the, ground it might incriminate me." , In addition -to WooWridge, thos* taking 'th« 5th: Amendment w*r« M., Sgt. William E. Higdon, Narva« retired, Hatcher Sgt. l.C. and rttir»d Pr General Meet _ • iv- ' ''\ ' • f . ',< '• '' ' '' " "' •• ' • School trustees, engaged in a one-hour 'executive session relating to ''School personnel preceding a general discussion of major . Pampa High School improvement projects today in Carver Educational Services Center. , . > , Herbert .Brasher, school chitect; representative of Lubboek architectural, firm of Brasher-, Goyette, and Rapter, presented plans and specifications-for ,the science wing, girls', ar thel , . Day id L.' Thomas, la^ryW for Wooldridge, Higdon and Narvaez, told th« committee at the outset that his three clients had been, advised not- to answer questions becaus* of the ','accusatory nature" 'of the hearing. 0 Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, D- Conn., chairman of th« group, toW Thomas: "Each one of them will 'have to ' state themselves that they will take the 5th Amendment;" Wooldridge, the first Witness, gave his name, age and home address. But when Ribicoff asked the first question—about his military background—he invoked the constitutional protection against self-incrtmin- ation. At the Pentagon, at almost the sam« time, Resor acted to bar Wooldridge from holding any command position as senior enlisted adviser in the future. gymnasium, and music hall." Ralph Ball-of Amai-illo, the on-ti\e-3ob j supervisar, for the district's 13 construction (See SESSION, Page 2) •THIRSTY? Scott Wall, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Wall, 21.25 Christine tries to save time on his way to school by catching a few drops of rain to quench his, thirst. Pampa's rainfall measured by 64 .hundreths of an iridh from 6: a.m.,Wednesday through 6 a.m. this morning. Scott is a first grader at Stephen F. Austin, School. . - -.;,,...; (Staff -'Photc') UF Lags, Drive Extended The report of today's United Fund meeting matched the weather outside. It was dismal.- UF leaders heard a report Stating the anticipated drive completion data of Oct. 21 wa« cancelled because th« funds have'reached only 88.7 percent :)f the $90,200 needed to keep health and welfare agencies operating in Pampa in 1970. .Working propective donor's 1 sards is, the hdld-up, according io UF president Jerry Sims. •'!, ''Many cards have .not been worked and many persons hav« not been • contacted. It is fch» 'personal contact that counts," Sims said. '•'',. -•-.'..• k .' * In spite of the setback, UF leaders offered a ray of sunshine in the confident statement that Pampans will not let th« drive down and that, the $90,200 goal will be met. "It will take just a Httl« longer than w« had planned," Sims said. • William Kunstler asked the udge to allow them to present a birthday cake to Seale, who is in custody on a murder charge. 'I wouldn't even let anyone bring me a birthday cake in here," the judge $aid. When the seven tried bo brimg the cake in, a marshal! grabbed it from Jerry Rubin. "Cake- naper," Abbie Hoffman thout- ed. "They've arrested your cake," ReraUe Davis yelled to Seale. .INVOLVEMENT A Pampa: motorist really got '"involved" •;with the United Fund Wednesday. The large 'UF banner spanning the 200 block North 'Cuyler came loose from its overhead moorings and draped down over a car of a. passing motorist. • City patrolman ; Joe Brewer came to the lady's assistance, when the : banner became entangled in the underpinnings of the car. The feminine motorist was not .identified, but .for a few, minutes, she was really "involved" with •', the c u r r e n t United Fund campaign drive for $92,500. ~*SLr ^* »ll Of Guerrillas ^ t Alarm Arab, Moscow Regimes LONDON (UPI) — Moscow and Arab governments are alarmed- by the rapid growth and increasing aggressiveness of the Arab guerrilla movement. ;. Neither the Kremlin nor Arab rulers can deny formal support for the guerrillas as a "liberating" fighting force 'against Israel. Neither can they ignore the threat to their own .interests looming in movement's. the rapid commando expansion and its appeal to Arab, youth, Most ranchers from Louisiana to Brownsville burn in late summer to provide fresh growth that is nutritious during the fall and winter. They claim burning is the on. ly way to utilize marshland that is so saline only salt grass will grow. Leinweber said the main purpose is to get rid of an accumulation o! dead plant material that Is so devoid of nutrients cattle can starve on it. Another purpose is to destroy litter that serves as a habitat for mosquitoes and other in- Sadler Says Treasure Has 'Voodoo'Spell Doctors Say Contraceptives Should Be Given To Teenagers sects. Cattlemen' being asked AUSTIN Commissioner handed over : (UPI)-' Land Jerry Sadler sunken Spanish NEW YORK (UPI)-Even in the absence of parental consent doctors should prescribe contraceptives for sexually involved teen-agers who consult them, according to four faculty members of the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle. They urged this course on the profession in the new issue of the influential journal, "Postgraduate Medicine," which was reaching its subscribers today. "Although the teen-ager should be encouraged to seek parental consent, the physician It's fun to sew on a NELCO (Adv.) should try to manage the situation so that the patient's suffering are miniriial. "We feel that unwanted pregnancy is a disease—a disease with consequences that affect every lever of society." The urgers were Dr. Nathaniel N. Wagner/ associate professor of psychology and psychiatry; Dr. Ronald J. Pion, director of family planning and education in the school's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; and Pion's research assistants, Nina Perthou and. Byron Fujita. for suggestions before regula (ions are adopted. Meetings with ranchers are .reported scheduled in most of the qoun* ties to be affected. INSIDE TODAY'S NEW$ Pages Classified -15 Comics 10 Crossword 8 On the Record 5 Editorial 14 Jeane Dixon -11 Sports 13 Women's News -..U Abby U TV 5 Food 7 treasure to some court appointed guardians and said "They'll be sorry." Sadler said Wednesday there was "voodoo" attached to one piece of the treasure, * silver crucifix believed to have once belonged to a relative of Ponce de Leon and worth $50,000. "Legend has it that that little crucifix hjis a voodoo attachet to it," Sadler said, "the woman that it was supposed to have belonged to, they say, was in chains." The snuff. dipping land com missioner, who earlier this year prohibited his employes from wearing miniskirts or sideburns said the crucifix "gave me a double hernia. They'll be sorry They don't know what they'r getting into." , Sadler kept the .artifacts In seven vats in a "fireproof, bui glar proof" vault in the Ian office. He said th« water to the vats was phanged every othe If H comes from i fldwe. store ff» fcnvt tt. L«wli day to preserve the treasure but crities said th* fresh wat§ caused rapid. 4et«waU»n h« treasure AVl>iph had been In ea water,for 416 years. . Part 'of the 'treasure' is being laimed'.by an; Indiana -salvage irm which recovered it from he Gulf of Mexico near Padre sland. The- firm said Sadler greed .split the treasure once it was recovered, but later eneged. A county' historical association filed suit in District Judge } aul Martineau's court ohal- enging Sadler's authority to make any contracts for salvag- ng ti'easure from lauds belong- ng to Texas public schools. Federal officials also claimed the treasure because required customs duties were not paid. "I've been looking for the descendants of the Indians that met the Pilgrams :'at Plymouth Rock to lay claim to it too," the 6? T year old Sadler said. "They'4 have mpre claim on it than anyone else." Meanwhile, however, Sa.dle<r asked state Attorney General Crawford Martin to preserve thj treasure "for the school children Q| Texas" and protect the iirtifajcts "from poM-Ucians Congress Asked To Replace Aging Merchant Marines WASHINGTON (UPI)-President Nixon hands Congress today a long-range multibilUon plan designated to replace the nation's aging merchant, marine with a fleet of fast, efficient, newly designed steam ships. . In his message, N'ixon is asking Congress for $300 million to subsidize construction of 30 new merchant ships ,a y'ear.'foi Hie next decade. Under the present program, ship construe- tion is down to 10 a year. Tied to the Nixon program is a plea to the maritime Industry to invest about $4.5 billion during the next decade. The American merchant fleet is the sources said. j Russia is especially uneasy over the guerrilla situation because of the .problems it could .soon 'pose for the Kremlin^ • The guerrillas are not pro- Russian. Essentially they are strong : nationalists—so'metimes anti-Russian. They ; are 'not bound by any wider political commitments. •' Many are Chinese- orientated. Some have, in effect, • been trained in Communist China. Guerrillas are being supplied with Chinese arms arid Peking has pledged its open support for their anti-Israeli ventures. The .guerrillas also have no ties to armistices or United Nations agreements. Moscow has. no controlling hand over "their actions fta" it has, for instance, in Egypt, where Russia's entire Middl« East position is largely anchored. ,; Communist diplomats have made little secret of their growing fear the commandos or their radical supporters might attempt , to overthrow current arab regimes in the Middle East. Moscow appears most worried about the possible impact of the accelerating commando movement on pro-Soviet leaders in Egypt, Syria and Iraq. .: Jordan is rated the ripest .of the Arab nations for guerrilla pressure but it is presently outside the Kremlin's sphere of influence. Lebanon's Tightrope = '•!'. ' ' ; ;, .' ' '' • Beginning To Snap would piuixder the perma n.ent school fund,.'* now down to 963 ships, placing it sixth in the world standings and one step below the Soviet Union. . . Nixon's program also sees an end to the controversial operating subsidy program for the new ships. Gaining more speed as a result of newly designed holds, -and innovations like containerization, the ships are expected to be up to five times more efficient than the present fleet, two-thirds of which are more than 20 years old. The lack of new ship construction, and high operating costs for American ships, have resulted in a situation in which only about 5 per cent of the nation's foreign commerce is now carried in American flag ships. In his campaign, Nixon pledged to boost the total to 30 i BEIRUT (UPD-Fon two decades', Lebanon has'walked a diplomatic' am} .political tightrope in the Middle, East. Now the rope'is beginning to snap, To no one's surprise. The latest clashes between Lebanese troops .and Palestinian • guerrillas were precedecj by "a long series of events that pointed to serious trouble, over Lebanon's reluctance to house guerrillas. A' mountainous country about 135 miles long and varying between 20 and 35 miles wide, Lebanon in the past 20;.years has . created a modern, Westward-looking society, both envied and disl'iked by ' fellow Arab states. ' • ' The 196? Middle East war ty of the Arab commando movement. The latest trouble . with the Palestine guerrillas has been seething ever since last April, At that time, Palestinian, refugees and supoorters of Arab commandos clashed with Lebaneje security forces over government restrictions on the guerrillas. Sixteen pesons died in tr.e rioting. In May. the army said Palestinian guerrillas had "daU ly provoked" clashes with the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon an:l that the army had been forced to take "deterrent measures. 1 ' A month later, President Charles Helou called for expulsion of the guerrillas. In an official statement, Helou claimed that the presence of the conimandos was an invitation to Israel to attack eroded the. foundation's of the country's southern borders. Lebanon's traditional neutrali- Shortly thereafter, an Israeli, ty, although it managed to patrol blew up several houses avoid combat with the victor ions Israelis. Since then, Lebanon's domes , tic stability has been threa-j encampments on the northern tened by political crises, the;slopes of Mount Heruvon, rise of radical Arab governments in once moderate coun- in a so'uthrai Lebanese borde-r village and Israeli jets attacked, sites described as guerrilla. per cent. tries and the growing populari- inside the Lebanese border. The Israeli strikes, as, had expected, had come.