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l( I tWMUd'l MA Weather Mostly cloudy and continued cool tonight and Saturday. Lows tonight in the middle to upper 20s and highs Saturday in the lower 40s. Probability of precipitation 20 per cent Satur. day. Thursdays high was 43.

Todays low was 26 degrees. See map, page 4. Patoer it not happiheu." William Godwin Serving Northwest Ohio More Than 87 Years 10 Cents Viet Offensive Routs Ra SAIGON (AP) A swelling Vietnamese'-we strengthening reports that North Vietnam may move part of its air force closer to South Vietnam's borders. Meanwhile, U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers joined 7th Fleet destroyers in an air and naval bombardment of North Vietnamese gun positions firing from the southern half of the DMZ.

(See NORTH, Page 3) sion, and Capt Gerald R. Vol-loy, 28, Cincinnati, Ohio, on his 110th mission, fired missiles at the MIG about 35 miles north of the DMZ. They said the MIG exploded into a fireball. It was the fifth MIG reported down by U.S. fighters this year and tiie 116th of the war.

It was the farthest south a MIG has been shot down in pveral and 36 wounded. The U.S. Command said that of two Air Force F4 Phantom lighters escorting bombers raids against the Ho Chi Minh. trail supply network in intercepted and shot down Soviet-built MIG21 on the North Vietnamese side of the border Thursday night. The F4 crewmen, Capt.

Frederick Olmsted, 29, Chula Vista, Lady Truckers Charge Bias, Seek Long Hauls With Guys ivn mn nm 'Pom natita fn. vha in in the nrocess of divorcing her hus Fla. Two petite fc who is in the process of divorcing her husband. Barney R. Brown, vice president of the Lakeland -trucking firm, said that the ruling had nothing to do with discrimination.

It creates too much'of a problem. The policy of Watkins Motor Lines is to have both male and female drivers, he said. We do allow male drivers to drive together or single, and we do allow female drivers to drive together or single. Watkins personnel direator Arthur Farr xtHwt that the company employs several husband-wife teams. Mrs.

Barnes and Mrs. Blackburn, both under 5-foot-2 and 105 pounds, learned to LAKELAND, (AP) male truck driven have filed sex discrimination charges after a company ruling that prohibits single women from making longdistance hauls with men driven. Ever since-1 was a little kid I wanted to drive a big truck, said Virginia Barnes, an attractive 35-year-oid brunette. They gave me a chance and then they took it away from me. Mn.

Barnes and 48-year-old Pauline Black-, burn have filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Watkins Motor Lines Inc. of Lakeland. The women complained after company of- ine women compiaineu wier spent the past few days making their own sets of ears. They wore them during the bunnys visit and during the ig egg hunt that followed. (News Photo by Dennis Laman) Easter Bunny School Head and was, of attention.

their hero, ficials decreed on March 1 that drivers of opo drive huge ttactw-tta at a voc 3 Gli Put Halt On Prices Freeses, Cuts 1 Beef Sales WASHINGTON (AP)' A day after Treasury Secretary John B. Connally talked with leading chain-stored executives about the high cosKof food, three supermarket chains moved to stop the spiral. Grand Union and Winn-Dixie put freezes on current prices Thursday. Safeway Stores, cut beef prices in its 246 stores in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania; Delaware and the District of Columbia. Grand Union froze fresh meat and poultry for 30 days in its 500-plus stores in the East, and Winn-Dixie, with 871 stores in the Southeast, froze all food prices through April.

Paid To Farmers -The Agriculture Department, meanwhile, announced that the prices paid to farmers for beef on the hoof dropped 20 cents per hundredweight in the month aiding March IS. A record high of $32.60 per hundred pounds of beef was set last month. It fell to $32.40 in the latest price period. The decline, though slight, was die first since last sum mer. Safeway said it lowered its meat prices as a result of the drop in prices paid for cattle.

Basil Winstead, vice president of Safeway, said the reductions had been planned for some time to take effect during the Easter weekend, but Safeway decided to make tints effective two than planned as part pledge to the administration to WASHINGTON (AP) Pres-do everything in its power tolident Nixon today blocked, for help keep food prices low. days, the threat of strikes in Jawboned two railroad labor disputes. On several cuts of beef, Safe-1 Nixons action appointing way reduced prices 10 cents a emergency boards under the pound. National Railway Labor Act Wednesday, Connally sum- removed the possibility of the moned representatives of the 12 railroad strikes which could largest food chains Tb' discuss have come at midnight tonight the high food prices. One case involves a wage and Those taking part in the work rules dispute involving meeting said no pressure was some 6,000 AFLCIO Sheet Met' exerted by the government, but Connally and Agriculture Secretary EaS L.

Butz said after the session that a drop in prices of meat could be expected soon. Both said it would be a result of declining wholesale prices of beef, not because of government pressure. Interviewed Thursday by the National Public Affairs Center for Television, Butt said the drop could be expected in the coming month as declines in prices at the farm filter through the farm-to-market channeL A Winn-Dixie spokesman said the firm froze its prices in an effort to further assist the federal government in their effort to control inflation. Grand Union President Charles G. Rodman said: "By holding the price line on meat for a month, we are doing something positive in the fight on inflation.

SPLITTING HARES The paid a visit to three Whittier Start classes Thursday afternoon course, the center of everyones The children, hopping to emulate Nixon lUGbl UU1IU Ull SStaireat For as part of its al Workers who work in the repair shops of all the nations 'ail lines. The union had announced no specific strike action, but it was believed prepared to stage walkouts on al east several major rail lines. Congress has intervened with special legislation to prevent or avert major strikes over the last two Sheet Metal negotiations. The other emergency board action by Nixon involves the big Penn Central Railroad system and the AFL-CIO United Transportation Union. The uniop had said it would strike the Penn Central at midnight Friday if the company carried out plan to start eliminating some 6,000 jobs through layoffs over several years.

Nixons action automatically bars any change in the status quo in both disputes until days expire. Presidential press secretary tional school. They handled Watkins rigs for nearly three months before the company ruling. Both women say they never asked for any special treatment from their male partners. Mrs.

Barnes said, I got my blouse dirty and I got my hands dirty. When we unloaded 40,000 pounds of concentrate, I unloaded my share-half. posite sexes could not team up on trucks with sleeping quarters unless they were married, There is less chance of hanky panky on the road than there would be in tiie trucking offices, scoffed Mrs. Blackburn, a pretty divorcee. I think I should be able to drive a truck because of my ability, not because Im married, added Mrs.

Barnes, a mother of two Delays Railroad Strike At Least 60 Days North Vietnamese onslaught in tiie far north drove South Vietnamese from two more bases today in tiie heaviest fighting there in four years. Field reports said a third base also may have been abandoned. One base was given up Thursday in the first day of enemy attacks on bases along the demilitarized The air war also heated up as a North Vietnamese MIG21 was shot down and tiie United States lost its second computerized four-engine gunship in two days and one of the Air Forces biggest rescue helicopters. New U.S. air raids were launched inside North Vietnam after a nearly, two-week lull and American jets attacked enemy gun positions in the southern half of the DMZ.

Hundreds of South Vietnamese troops and some American forces, at the option of local ield commanders, were op dered on heightened alert after intelligence reports that tiie Communist command was planning to broaden its attacks countrywide. U.S. and South Vietnamese Held commanders in the 3rd Military Region includes Saigon and if surrounding provinces increased the state oi readiness for all of their troops. The U.S. headquarters for Saigon ordered all Americans off the streets of the capital.

But an hour later the headquarters of Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the top commander, rescinded that directive. One source said was rescinded because it was determined that the basis for it was erroneous. He said an intelligence report that there would be increased enemy activity in the region was never confirmed.

The South Vietnamese military command stopped just short of terming tiie heavy North Vietnamese attacks an offensive. This is the beginning of highpoint of military activity in this particular area, said the Chief Spokesman, Lt Col. Trung Hien. In the central highlands, six government bases were shellei from dawn to dusk Friday, am one of them was hit with 100 mortar rounds. One ground t-tack was reported.

First reports said the oily government casualties were three troops wounded. North Vietnamese gunners poured hundreds of rounds leavy artillery, rocket and mortar shells into South Viet namese bases guarding the northern frontier today, following up Thursdays' estimated 000-round barrage. North Vietnamese troops bat tied government forces and armored columns Mar Dong Ha, nine miles south of' the DMZ, and farther west near Camp Carroll. The Saigon command said SIS North Vietnamese troops were killed in three battles, 17 south killed one on Tnn a Terrorist Survivor Found After NATO Hostages Slain Turkey (AP) anything. They are going to kill the hostages, the lo1sfnit inf erroristtj illed An qaptui ANKARA, Turkey One of the terroristt-who kidnaped and killed nree radar technicians was qaptured alive The colonel commanding the troops later asked again to see men protected with bulletproof vests.

They found the technicians Saturday over 6,000 crew assignments it believes are uar necessary. The Sheet Metal Workers, however, said Thursday it had no plans to strike. Uhion President Edward J. Carlough said in a statement Zieglers suggestion the union would strike was completely false and misleading. The administration fully aware of the fact that we had no present intention of striking the nation's railroads, Carlough said.

The Sheet Metal have sought more money and tighter work rules in a new nationwide contract covering 6,000 workers Ronald I Ziegler said Thursday Nixon believes the country could not tolerate a nationwide shutdown of rail service. Under the Railway Labor Act, Nixon can sign exeedtive orders creating presidential boards to look into UTU's dispute with the Penn Central Railroad and the Sheet Metal Workers dispute with the Association of American Railroads. Creation of a board would make any strike illegal for 60 days. UTU said Thursday it will strike Penn Central if the money-strapped railroad -cuts the size of train crews. Penn Central reaffirmed- Thursday it dans to phase out beginning dead in a corridor with the ter the hostages, but was answered with curses and a shout: Welrorists holed up in another sec didnt come here to give in, we'hion of the twtvstory house.

ensuing gunbattie in terrorists traded fire troops, the terrorists came here to die An hour after the technician from a North Atlantic Treaty Organization base was killed, alive, were heard from inside and the terrorists threw out a hail of grenades. Kubat said the colonel on the scene feared that the terrorists might be able to escape when darkness set in. After four hours during which the terrorists refused to show In the which with 800 The turkish reported to intensify leftist The NATO two Britons In Istanbul explosions today, Interior Minister Ferit Kubat announced. The terrorist, Ertugrul Kur-ecu, was hiding in hay bales in' the mountain village where tiie terrorists and their hostages were killed Thursday, told Parliament He said Kurkcu has admitted that the terrorists shot the technicians. Ten of the leftist guerrillas, were killed in tiie shootout with troops at Kizildere, a village in the rugged Pontus Mountains of north Turkey.

In the wake of the killings, several explosions occurred in Istanbul during the night Kubat gave this account of events during the daylong showdown between the terrorists and the. troops surrounding their hideout: At one point, one of the hostages was shown to the troops through a window. The technician shouted: These people dont understand i- Michigan Pot Law Eased Ccises Light 1 60 government was readying plans today a crackdown on extremists. technicians were and a Canadian. officials said the were set off by tiie Dev Gene Revolutionary Youth Organization, a Marxist group which sympathizes- with the Turkish Peoples Liberation Army, to which the 10 dead ter rorists belonged.

One of tiie explosions broke the windows Istanbuls big gest store, Vakko. -Another was aimed at army stores several blocks from the Istanbul Hilton HoteL Other blasts were reported in more remote areas of the city. Index Business 7 Classified 23 IS Comics 20,21 Deaths. 4 Editorial 19 Entertainment Sports .1618 TV Schedule 11 Women 14, IS tence had been struck down. In passing the new law, the legislature directed the state Parole Board to review the sentences of persons convicted under the old law.

More than 500 cases were scheduled for review and a number of persons were released because they hai already served die penalty time provided by the new law. Boyle Guilty 2 Others Innocent M. fhaiaMB itiA IINIMIa 0 the unions John Owens, secretary-treasurer was found innocent on two counts and James Kmett was found innocent of tiie four counts with which he was charged. -Kmett is dirdttor of the union's politic cal arm. WASHINGTON (AP) The United Mine Workers President W.

A. Tony Boyle was fcon-victed today in U.S.. District Court of 13 counts stemming from campaign contributions paid through the union between 1966 and 1969. LANSING, Mich. (AP) -Michigan has been witinut a statute making possession of marijuana Illegal since March 9.

But, much to tiie relief of law enforcement officials, a ham of pot smoke has failed to descend upon the state. The prospect of a pot smokers paradise arose when tiie state Supreme Court, citing-a variety of constitutional reasons, knocked down a felony provirion of state law that pro-vided a jail term of up to 20 1 rears for possession of man- pan, which -it classified a hard drug. A comprehensive new law goes into effect Saturday that removes marijuana from the lard narcotic category and makes a punishable by no more than a one-year jail ternii and a $1,000 fine. Penalties for evrry conceirl able type of drug violation will, be spelled out in a 50-page stat-l ute, tiie result of endless hours of legislative haggling. Gov.

Williaip Miliiken joined many critics in charging that the high court acted prematurely by striking down portions of tiie old law tiie new one went into ef. feet Miliiken said that while he I agreed With softer marijuana penalties in the new law, tbs decision striking down sections of die present one was unnecessary and regrettable. Chief Justice Thomas M. Kavanagh said that until April1 1 there would be no way of. prosecuting anyone for posses-1 rim.

He also said, however, that World Chess Match Threatened challenger Bobby Fischer was set to start June 22. The second half of the 24-game match was to be played in Reykjavik, Iceland, under a compromise agreement reached in Amsterdam by the International Chess the BELGRADE, Yugoslavia The Belgrade of the Spassky-Fischer chess snnoiinced they are dropping plans organize the match in the scheduled period in this city -The contest between world Federation fIdEt and Crime Rise Is Smallest In 6 Years WASHINGTON (AP) -Making its smallest increase in six years, serious crime in the United States rose 6 per cent during 1971, according to the Justice Department. The department said Thursday that statistics show crime in cities with 250,000 or more population rose 2 per cent, while in the suburbs and rural areas it went up by 11 and 10 per cent, respectively. Murder, forcible rape and robbery were up 10 per cent across the nation, the report shows. Armed robbery increased 16 per cent Aggravated assault and burglary rose 8 per cent, while larceny ($50 value or more) and auto theft rose'2 per cent.

The northeastern states showed the biggest increase with 10 per cent. The western states had an 8 per cent rise, the southern states 4 per cent and the north central states 3 per cent. (AP) organizers world today -to champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Uhion and American two players. Saving Time Lajiv Amended amendment a time-, to WASHINGTON (AP) Pree-Ident Nixon signal the split-state Saving Time amendment to the Uniform Time Act Jodiy. 4 B52 Crashes On Florida Ilduses The recalled Indiana to tiie.

1966 law grants dozen, states straddling zone boundaries a new power exempt parts of thcfriselves from observing DST. TORNADO IN FLORIDA Firemen stand beside wreckage said as many i20 JJLSj- Lari of a mobile home destroyej-by a small tornado that slammed sons suffered ilgM. Sixniiar winds in a park near MacDill Air Forre Base Wly today. Offiiials Clearwater area of Florida, r. (UPI Telephoto) 1 'i Air Force Base, flamming into a number of-houses and causing numerous casualties, fire; men said today tiie law against sale of mar, juana-was.

still in effect only the 20-year minimum ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) A gianrAit Force. BS2 bomber crashed in flame near McCoy I I K..