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Nixon Rules Out Limit On Use of U.S. Air Power WASHINGTON (UPI Nixon said Wednesday he will not limit use of U.S. air power in Indochina and refused to rule out the possibility South Vietnam may invade North Vietnam. The President also said the South Vietnamese continue to shoulder more of the fighting, so successfully in fact that the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers may be accelerated and Hanoi soon may wind up dealing with Saigon, not Washington, in any peace talks.

assessment came in an unscheduled 40-minute news conference at the White House. And while he talked in optimistic terms about Vietna- mization, he warned Hanoi that long as the North Vietnamese have any Americans as prisoners-of-war, there will be Americans in South enough Americans to give them an incentive to release the Nixon said the limts on use of U.S. ground combat troops outside Vietnam, as he has out- hold; place lined them before, still but am not going to any limitation upon the use of air power except, of course, to rule out a rather ridiculous suggestion that is made from time to time that our air power might include the use of tactical nuclear The President said there was no reason to believe mainland China would see the current South Vietnamese operation in Laos as a against them or any reason therefore (for them) to react to Israel May Give Back Some Captured Territory Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir has indicated Israel is ready to give back some captured Arab lands even though it is not willing to withdraw from all of them. Mrs. Meir said Wednesday night in a speech at Kibbutz Merhavia outside Jerusalem that the demand for secure and defensible borders not imply we are willing to cede nothing back to the She gave no hint of what territory Israel might be prepared to give up.

Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban had rejected earlier in the day a suggestion by U.N. envoy Gunnar V. Jarring that Israel give up all of the Sinai peninsula, captured from Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war, in exchange for peace guarantees from Egypt. Egypt had accepted proposal and had also offered to reopen the Suez Canal if Israel School Tax Increase Rejected would make only a partial withdrawal in the Sinai by moving its troops back 90 miles to the town of F.1 Arish. Mrs.

Meir said the proposal for partial withdrawal leave our strongholds in the hands of Egyptian and Soviet President Nixon told a news conference in Washington Wednesday he was by developments in the Middle East. has been more forthcoming than we had expected and I believe that Israel has been somewhat more he said. have hopes that when the present cease-fire expires that it will be The cease-fire is now scheduled to expire March 7. It has been in effect since August, with two extensions granted during that time. An Arab guerrilla threw a grenade at a truckload of Arabs from the occupied Gaza Strip headed for jobs in Israel today, wounding the truck driver and a passenger.

Gaza Arabs who work in Israel have frequently been the target of guerrilla attacks. Guerrilla sources in Amman said Jordanian government officials met with Palestinian guerrilla leaders at the top level Wednesday night for the first time since an outbreak of fighting Feb. 10. The sources said Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tel and A1 Fatah deputy leader Salah Khalaf discussed conditions in Amman, movement of guerrillas to Jordan valley bases and removal of guerrilla heavy weapons from Jordanian towns. Amman was quiet today.

Aladdin Hotel Sold For $16.5 Million SANTA BARBARA (UPI)Voter rejection of a tax rate increase for Santa Barbara high school and elementary school districts Tuesday has cost 300 teachers their jobs. The board of Education, in a special meeting Wednesday, said 300 teachers and administrators will be laid off beginning May 15 because of the defeats. The measures were defeated bv votes of 15,762 to 12,168 and to 5,701. In other elections In Southern California, bond issues in the Antelope Valiev-East Kern Water Agency and the Southern Mono Hospital District failed to receive the necessary two-thirds majority while two bond issues and a school tax rate increase were approved. The million bond issue to finance construction of seven treatment plants and feeder lines for Feather River Project water in the Antelope Valley East Kern Water Agency was approved by only 51.13 per cent of the voters while the $1.415 million issue for construction of a 15 bed hospital in the Mammoth Lakes ski resort area of the hospital district received only a 63 per cent majority.

Two bond issues totaling $8.5 million for sewer and water facilities near Palm Desert were approved by all three registered voters in the two improvement districts involved in the Coachella County Water District. And Bridgeport Elementary School District voters in Mono County approved a 53-cent increase in the tax rate by a vote of 123 to 77. GRAFFITI 1.971 Me Naught Syndicate Inc. LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) The Aladdin Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip was sold Wednesday for $16.5 million by Recrion Corp.

to a long-time Las Vegas gambler and a group of investors. Recrion formerly known as Parvin-Dohrmann will receive $12 million in cash and the buyers will asr sume $4.5 million in a first and second mortgage. Walter Gardner, associated with the Horseshoe Club in downtown Las Vegas, negotiated the purchase and a quarter of a million dollars was deposited in escrow which is to close May 15. Norris Goldman, president of Recrion, said that the quarter of a million dollar deposit would be forfeited if the deal did not go through even if the buyers failed to receive a gambling license from the Nevada Gaming Commission. Goldman indicated that ion might be interested in further Nevada casino investment.

The corporation currently owns the Fremont Hotel in downtown Las Vegas and the Stardust Hotel on the Strip. have sold the last losing subsidiaTy we Goldman said. The Alpddin Hotel and casino reported an unaudited pretax loss of $1,366,000 in the nine months ending Sept. 30, 1970. Previously Recrion sold the Holiday Inns of America.

The Aladdin Hotel, formerly known as the Tallyho, opened in the 1950s without a casino and in 1966 reopened with a casino operation. Sitting Bull's Son, Running Wafer, 111 MORRIS PLAINS, N.J, (UPI) Running Water, son of the famed Sitting Bull, the former head of the Sioux Indian nation in South Dakota, and the model for the Indian head nickel, celebrated his 111th birthday in a garden apartment in this suburban town. His silver-white hair flowing almost to his shoulders, the chief retains the dignified air which helped him win a $28,000 modeling fee from the U.S. mint. Running Water, whose Christian name is George Squires, was about 16 vears old when Sergeants Act As to Lonely Wives LONDON army has set up a special group of sergeants to act as to lonely young Army wives whose husbands are away.

They will help the wives with £rom fixing a fuse, calming a dog or dropping in for a friendly char. The scheme, officially called ganization, was disclosed Wednesday in the defense white paper. A pilot program has already been carried out at the eastern command headquarters at Colchester and been judged a success, an army spokesman said. The project will cover about 40,000 families, he said, with about one for every 200 wives- his father and his Indian troops annihilated General Custer and the seventh cavalry at Little Big Horn in Montana. At 111 years, Running Water is settling into a new home.

Clifford T. Beebe, an apartment development manager here, offered to set up housing for the chief and a niece. Beebe found the well-known Indian at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, here he was under treatment for a heart ailment. On his birthday Wednesday, Running Water said he is in good shape for a man 111 years old because he never married. had a girl friend and used to see her once a year, but that was 80 years he recalled.

Asked whether Saigon might decide to launch an invasion of North Vietnam, he replied: speculate on what South Vietnam may decide to do with regard to a possible incursion into North Vietnam in order to defend their national His response seemed to indicate that such an invasion, at least, was an option available to Saigon. He said the Laotian operation was going according to plan but conceded the South Vietnamese run into very heavy resistance on the road going into the Communist stronghold on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Gen. Creighton W. Abrams has reported, Nixon added that the South Vietnamese were waging the Laotian campaign a superior can say today that as a result partially of our success in Cambodia (last spring and based also on the present success of the Laotian operation, that the troop withdrawal program will go forward on schedule terms of troop withdrawals, the Cambodian incursion insured it and allowed us, as a matter of fact, to set our sights somewhat higher.

The success of this operation guarantees the continued program and gives the prospect of a greater troop withdrawal during the months He said he would have an additional announcement on troop withdrawals before May 1. Nixon said the United States continues with the Paris talks primarily because it hopes to reach some agreement on the prisoners-of-war issue, but he added: Running have to realize that as far as the negotiations affecting a political settlement for South Vietnam is concerned, time is running out for the North Vietnamese if they expect to negotiate with the United States. Because as our forces come out of South Vietnam, it means that the responsibility for the negotiations, increasingly, the becomes that of South Vietnam. do not want to suggest that there are any more concessions coming from our side to North Vietnam. We are not going to make any more concessions.

The time is for them next to act on the principles we have laid In other matters Nixon: he was by general developments in the Middle East because has been more forthcoming than we had expected and I believe that Israel has been somewhat more will be of some sort in the efforts to keep construction wages and prices in line. He declined to say if that would include the rumored wage and price controls. He called the construction industry because of rich a hope that he could work out a meeting with the 12 black members of the House, all Democrats, who boycotted his State of the Union message and have been seeking such a meeting. confident his revenue sharing plan will win eventual approval because overwhelming majority of the people are in favor of Wednesday night Nixon entertained more than 300 generals and admirals at a White House reception. In introductory remarks, he said who lead must inspire young men to Retired General of the Army Omar N.

Bradley was the highest ranking officer at the reception, the first Nixon has had exclusively for the military. Oil Spill Mixed With Mud, Sank NAVY IS CHANGING Sailors at Miramar Naval Air Station who already enjoy soul food, go-go girls, and rock music have something new to shore up the base reputation as the most station of the new navy: fashion shows. Michele Peatfield, ieft, models latest spring wear during lunch while ailors are entertained by dancer Marcia Bishop. (AP Wirephoto) Senate To Vote On Filibuster WASHINGTON (UPI) Senate today votes on killing a filibuster against making it easier to kill a filibuster. Nobody expected the filibuster to be killed.

With the outcome regarded as virtually certain, as many as 10 or 15 senators planned to skip the vote and keep their Lincoln Washington recess going. hate to come back to Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said. The vote was the first of three, possibly four, efforts to crack the filibuster and change one of the Senate's best-known rules. At stake was an effort by Senate reformers to allow three-fifths of those senators present and voting to cut off debate. The present requirements is two-thirds.

To get past the current filibuster and have a chance to change the rule, the Senate has to abide by the present rules and marshall a two-thirds majority. In effect since Jan. 25, the filibuster has dominated the Senate. Southern senators, with aid from conservative Republicans, have held the floor during days of long speeches in a largely empty chamber. Southern senators were supremely confident of winning the first round.

They conceded the possibility of some erosion on later votes but predicted they could prevent any change in the rules. Voluntary Price Freeze Suggested PORTLAND, Ore. The largest plywood producer has announced it will launch a voluntary nationwide price freeze the current recovery from historic lows shows signs of getting out of W. L. Hunt, president of Georgia-Pacific said Wednesday the company will take the action if increasing industry production fails to keep plywood prices at reasonable levels.

He did not spell out an exact the level on prices, but said they would be the unrealistic peak reached during the brief flurry at the end of 1968 and early weeks of It is hoped this advance notice of our intention will help make hold-the-line action fully effective if it becomes he said. is imperative serious housing needs at reasonable Hunt noted it would be the second time G-P took such action, with the company holding the 1968 price line for several weeks into early 1969. However, he said the company was forced to drop the move when most of the industry failed to follow suit, and in the following weeks plywood prices plunged and an 18-month depression in the industry resulted. LOS ANGELES (UPI)-One of the most important findings of a study of the Jan. 28, 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill was the discovery that most of the spilled oil mixed with mud and sank to the bottom of the channel.

Ronald Kolpack, a geological research associate at USC, said the findings of the Allan Hancock Foundation study may provide a clue to a means of getting rid of spilled oil elsewhere in the sea. Kolpack said Wednesday that rains in the Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties in January, 1969, washed about 80 million tons of fine sediment into the sea where the particles of mud became coated with the spilled oil and sank. Undersea erosion carried the oil-soaked particles to the deepest basins of the Santa Barbara Channel. Dr. Bernard O.

Abbott, who headed the reasearch team, said that the findings also showed that animal and plant life in the channel has been deteriorating for the past 30 years, possibly due to Ex-Highest Gl, Others WASHINGTON (UPI -The U.S. former highest ranking enlisted man and seven other persons have been indicted for conspiring through bribery and kickbacks to defraud enlisted clubs in Vietnam. A special federal grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday at Los Angeles against Sgt. Maj. William O.

Wooldridge, who once held the title of sergeant major of the Army, and the others. The indictment came as the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee opened hearings in Washington into allegations American businessmen had plied military and civilian post exchange officials in Vietnam with favors to win contracts for furnishing supplies. The favors, Senate investigators said, included a rent-free Saigon villa and heavy Chinese silks. In its second day of hearings today, the subcommittee planned to call as a witness Mel Peterson, a vice president of Jim Beam Liquor distillers. Jim Beam and Carling Beer agents were pictured Wednesday as dispensers of favors to U.S.

officials. Inflated Sales The 37-page Los Angeles indictment accused1 Wooldridge and bis associates of conspiring to monopolize sales of thousands of dollars worth of foodstuffs, bar supplies, gifts and other items at inflated prices from a company some of them had formed. The company was identified as Marmed, incorporated at Fullerton, Calif. Wooldridge was accused in the indictments of receiving kickbacks in varying amounts totaling $23,000. Other shareholders ini the company indicted were M.Sgt.

William H. Higdon, Redstone Arsenal, Sgt. L. C. Narvaez Hatcher, retired; Sgt.

l.C. Seymour Lazar, retired; and Theodore Bass, a civilian who had served as a noncommissioned officer in the Army. Also indicted were Sgt. l.C. William O.

Bagby, Fort Shatter, Hawaii; and Charles and Irene Terhune, civilians now living in Middlesex, England. All eight were charged with conspiracy. Lazar, Bass, Hatcher and Ihe Torhuncs also were accused of giving $14,000 in bribes to employes of enlisted clubs. The conspiracy charge ing population, industrialization and Abbott said nature over the years has proven a great healer and that sea animals In the channel, which have been exposed to oil seepage may be more tolerant to oil than those in parts of the world where they never have been exposed to it. The preliminary findings of the report, released last month, indicated that the spill had done no permanent damage to animal and plant life in the channel and that the area was well on the way to complete recovery.

However, Abbott said there was no doubt that occurred. whether the oil accelerated other changes that have been going on for years is hard to he added. A USC spokesman said that no restrictions were placed on the study or its support, despite criticism that the research was financed bv a $240,000 grant from the Western Oil and Gas Association. Ranking Indicted ries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The maximum for a bribery conviction is a $20,000 fine and 15 years in prison.

1969 Probe Wooldridge lost his title of sergeant major of the Army following a 1969 investigation by the subcommittee which collected testimony he was leader of a ring of career soldiers who pocketed thousands of dollars from slot machine rakeoffs, kickbacks from club entertainers and concessionaires and through selling goods to the clubs at inflated prices through the Marmed company. Witnesses said the sergeants put the money into secret Swiss bank accounts. The Army said at the time of the 1969 hearings it had insufficient evidence to prosecute Wooldridge. However, a Justice Department probe later was opened with the help of Army investigators. 1 Missing As Vessel CADIZ, Spain (UPI)-The Norwegian tanker Ferncastle exploded and apparently broke in two off the Spanish coast Wednesday night, a Spanish naval Command spokesman said today.

A radio message picked up by a coast station said the vessel had sunk. The command spokesman said the 500-ton Spanish cargo ship Navipeso had picked up 36 survivors of the explosion aboard the ncastle. The blast occurred in the Atlantic Ocean about 350 miles from Cadiz. Seven crew members of the Ferncastle were missing, the spokesman said. The Cadiz coast radio station said it overheard a report to Gibraltar coastal radio saying the Ferncastle sank late Wednesday night.

The report came from a Greek ship identified only by its registration letters, can now assume that the remains of the Ferncastle are definitely a spokesman at the Norwegian Embassy in Madrid said today. Mountains Moved 3 Feet by Quake LOS ANGELES (UPI)-The destructive Los Angeles earthquake was so powerful that dining the massive temblor the mountains at the western end of the San Gabriel range rose three feet and then slipped three feet to the south. State Geologists told a news conference Wednesday that the quake also caused several thousand landslides in the mountain range area and that studies were underway to try to determine whether heavy rain could cause future earth slippage. However, Westerly G. Bruer, chief of the California Division of Mines and Geology, said an investigation so far has shown no reason to believe than another destructive quake would occur in the northern San Fernando Valley for a number of for several decades.

The mountain range borders the worst hit area in the Feb. 9 earthquake. Bruer said the quake measured 6.6 on the Richter scale and was rated us a to temblor but not a such as the one in 1906 that hit San Francisco with an intensity of 8.3 However, Douglas Morton, a state geologist, said Ihe quake was powerful enough that mountains rose up three fpof In relation to the valley floor and moved three feet to the Damage from the quake, which took the lives of 64 persons, was still being tolled as some good news came from the federal government. Ralph D. Burns, western regional director of the office of emergency preparedness, said a bill which President Nixon signed into law last Dec.

31, provided for the federal government to pick up the entire tab for damage to public property. It also provided for funds for all or nearly all wages for emergency service. The public bill now totals an estimated $236.5 million and still is growing. However, the government will provide relatively little financial relief for owners of homes or generally uninsured property damaged so far totals $156.4 million. The list still is growing.

But homeowners and private businessmen are eligible for low interest loans and grants of $3,500 in some cases. Tn the major shock called the a block-by-block canvass of building was 80 per cent complete. Posted as unsafe by city inspectors in the 40-square mile area with the San Fernando Valley at its center were 271 private homes, 32 apartment buildings containing 882 dwelling units, and 234 private businesses. Those buildings will have to be repaired to meet city standards before occupancy or be demolished..