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die steadily sagging ecostomy. Some six million persons 6.5 per cent of the work force unemployed in November. The December figures were expected to be worse. Even the most optimistic administration prediction does not see a reversal of the trend until late winter or early spring, while some experts be- unaccustomed speed, Congress not only passed legislation es a VI i the unemployment programs, out quicxiy approved an urgent sunolemental aobrooriations bill con- tabling $4 billion to get the program started immediately. Three basic measures were passed during the last three days to set up the WASHINGTON (UPI) A $6.5 bH- Hon anti-recession package, creating 330,000 public service jobs and giving new and extended benefits to millions of the unemployed, awaited President signature Friday.

Congress has completed action on the program, which was designed to aid time who cannot find because of much later nextjfear. The tabor Department figures show the number Of unemployment Insurance recipients increasing in every state. For the week ending Nov. 30, the department said, a total of 2,982,600 persons were receiving benefits -up -A $5.5 billion bill, creating jobs at salary of IMOO a year in public safety, health Care, cMM care, sanitation and other public serv- are endtied to 31 wm ice areas. This bill also grants 26 meaning a fuH year oi weeks of special jobless benefit! to now be paid, workers not now covered by unemploy- urgent supplei ment Insurance, mainly state and local vkUng $4 billion for all Weather Council to complaints Increasing today and cooler.

Cloudy with a chance of showers Sunday. High today 68, low tonight 42. Sunset tonight 4:46 p.m., sunrise Sunday 6:53 a.m. POMONA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1974 4 Sections Number 325 Accuses Reds of st missing as intelligence predictions of a temporary cutback in the current upsurge of fighting over Christmas appeared to be coming true. Casualties during the latest 24 hour reporting period dropped off to 81 Communist and 61 government soldiers killed, the lowest sjnce the heavy fighting began two weeks ago, according to official records.

repatriate all combatants missing in the Vietnam conflict. stand convicted in the court of world opinion of blatant and shameful disregard for the basic principles of the note said. can begin to remove this stain on your honor and integrity by a simple act release forthwith of information on those persons on whom information folders have been A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy said folders with details on the 87 had been given to the Communists, but they had refused to answer American requests to account for the missing men. Fighting, meanwhile, tapered off in South Vietnam over the past 24 hours, nist members of the four-party Joint Military Team, claimed the inaction of the Communists violated provisions of the Vietnam peace pact signed in Paris on Jan.

27,1973. The Joint Military Team, comprised of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and the United States, is responsible for locating and trying to worded note sent by the U.S. Embassy to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations. The note accused the Communists of and shameful disregard for the basic principles of by withholding information on 87 Americans officially listed as missing in North and South Vietnam. The note, addressed to Commu- SAIGON (UPD The United States accused the Communists Friday of deliberately stalling the search for missing Americans and demanded the of information on what has happened! to some of the more than 2,100 servicemen unaccounted for in the Vietnam war.

The demand was made in a strongly- 6 jailed as police break up $150, a week marijuana smuggling ring The three persons arrested at the charged with conspiracy to transport Holiday Inn Friday afternoon were Da- marijuana, sales of marijuana, and vid Greg Shelby, 26, of 304 S. 1st transportation. Upland, charged with conspiracy to Christopher Hell Shelby, arrested to sell marijuana and possession of mari- Calexico, was charged with traits- juana for sale; David Brown, 29, of 157 portation of marijuana, conspiracy to E. South Rialto, charged with transport marijuana, and grand theft transportation of marijuana, possession (aircraft). Also arrested in Calexico of marijuana for sale, and conspiracy was Sergio Baez Avila, 25, of Mexicali, to transport marijuana; and Lawrence Mexico, with transportation of Edward Perdew, 24, of 6681 Etiwanda marijuana and grand theft.

Etiwanda, charged with posses- Bond was initially set at between sion of marijuana for sale and con- 000 and $16,500 for each of the arrested spiracy to sell marijuana. persons. Danny Michael Janes, 22, of 12821 Upland police detectives assisted San Foothill Etiwanda, was sub- Bernardino County sheriff's detectives sequently at his home and in the surveillance and arrests. By ROBERT DASELER P-B Staff Writer A surveillance in Ontario and Calexico by police and detectives paid off Friday afternoon with the breaking up a marijuana smuggling operation and the arrests of six persons, four locally 'and two in Calexico. 190 p.m.

Friday, 28 law enforcement officers raided the Holiday Inn on Street near the Ontario International Airport, arresting three suspects, one of whom was armed with a handgun. Another suspect was apprehended at his home in Etiwanda. According to San Bernardino County detectives, the suspects used an airplane stolen Thursday from Cable Airport in Upland to smuggle approximately 400 pounds of marijuana across the Mexican border today. The pilot for the smuggling operation, detectives said Friday night, was Christopher Bell Shelby. 23, of 6181 Etiwanda Etiwanda, one of the suspects arrested in Calexico.

have reliable information that he was flying in two loads per Sgt. Gene Bowlin of the San Bernardino County Narcotics Task Force said Friday. is probably the biggest organization dealing in marijuana had this According to Sgt. Bowlin, the operation was smuggling from 400 to 700 pounds of marijuana into this country on each trip, or approximately 1,000 pounds per week. At current street prices, these amounts of marijuana probably have brought the smugglers about $75,000 per load or $150,000 per week, Sgt.

Bowlin estimated. The airplane was not recovered Friday, and detectives believe that is was abandoned in the Calexico Desert near the border. Value of the aircraft was set at $35,000. The smuggling ring is believed to have been in operation for a year or more. Cave-in traps 2 miners; rescue work continues Photo by United Press SANTA HIS BLOOD THIS TIME No, not all tuckered out already.

It seems regular blood donation. With no time to change Lt. Mike Healey of the Costa Mesa Police Dept. clothes, Healey appeared at the Santa Ana facility was playing Santa to several schools Friday when in his working clothes. Nurses were delighted that the Cross reminded him it was time for his Santa could take from his busy schedule.

The cave-in occurred in an 80-foot horizontal shaft called a stope, which is used to provide access to a silver ore vein. Supervisor Jerry Christian alt mining activity was stopped following the cave-in, which he said occurred at the end of the day shift. rescue crew is digging along carefully making the shaft as safe as he said. shoring up where The rescue crew was within 25 feet of the miners by early Friday evening. WALLACE, Idaho (UPI) A 15-man rescue team hoped to make contact today with two miners trapped deep in the Galena silver mine.

It was not known if they were alive. The miners, Herman Heder, 67, of Pinehurst, Idaho, and Donald Dunkle, 50, of Cataldo, Idaho, were trapped Friday when stress caused the sides of a mine shaft at the level to burst into pieces like broken glass. Mine officials would not speculate on whether the men survived the collapse. Remains of a woman found in Ethiopia portion, ribs, part of the backbone and most importantly a half pelvis with a sacrum were found over three weeks ago which are more exciting than the team said. The sacrum is the last bone of the spine and differs for man and women.

specimen represents the most complete early man discovery ever made in Africa, the news release said. The age has been confirmed by the recognized potassium-argon dating method developed at Case Western Reserve University and by the geological level in which it was found, the said. Important animal fossils have also been discovered in the same area along with less spectacular fragments of nine other man-like creatures. female fossil comes from a layer of sandstone which has produced fossil wood, rodents, crocodiles, pigs, elephants, gazelles, some monkey teeth and most exciting fossil crab claws. more than half of the skeleton of a human-like creature less than four feet tall to a news conference at the Addis Ababa Institute of Archeology.

hand, wrist, ankle bones, an almost complete right arm, most of the leg except for some missing fragments, a mandible with some teeth, a few skull parts, especially the back 100 pupils hospitalized by poisonous fumes ADDIS ABABA (UPI) An international anthropology team working in eastern Hardar region said Friday it has discovered fossil remains of a woman believed to be more than three million years old. Expedition members, including Karl D. Johannson of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, showed Christmas vacation and Christmas parties were in progress. got a headache and then started falling said a fifth grade student. The school, attended by 587 kindergarten through sixth grade students, was quickly evacuated and U0 children rushed to hospitals.

The other students were sent home. The school was ventilated and an investigation started to determine how the carbon monoxide gas was released into the building. appears there was a mechanical failure in the dampers in the boiler said John Faust, assistant superintendent of the city school system. CINCINNATI (UPI) More than 100 elementary school children were sickened and rushed to hospitals Friday afternoon after poisonous carbon monoxide fumes leaked from the heating system. None of the 110 children taken to four area hospitals was seriously ill.

Only two were admitted to a hospital and doctors said they probably would be released shortly. The carbon monoxide fumes, which caused heaches, dizziness and vomiting, began leaking into the Bond Hill Elementary School at 1:45 p.m. Friday. It was the last day of school before Trains in head-on collision about four miles south of Kingston. A fleet of ambulances sped to the scene to carry the injured to Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital.

know that about 50 persons have suffered about minor injuries and four others were seriously hurt, but we have no reports of anyone being killed at this time although there are four an Ontario Provincial Police spokesman said. KINGSTON, Ont. (UPI) A Canadian National passenger train collided head-on with a freight train Friday night near here injuring about 50 persons, four seriously. Police said there were no confirmed deaths but four persons were missing. Ontario Provincial Police said the collision occurred just before 9 p.m.

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