The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 2

Monday January 27 1975 2A THE KANSAS CITY TIMES Seismic Fault Opens Quakes Rock Imperial Valley Glimpses Brawley Calif (AP) Another series of mild earth-uakes rumbled through this littery desert town yesterday as city employees remained on emergency standby in the event of a major quake Over 30 tremors have been felt in the Imperial Valley community since- Thursday and scientists believe a newly formed earthquake fault south of town could be responsible Seismologists at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena said tihe exact number of quakes in the latest series could not be immediately determined but they said all were in the 3-point range on the Richter scale Authorities said there were no reports of injuries or damage from the latest tremors However several shocks since Thursday ranging from a 35 to a 47 Richter measurement cracked windows and brought merchandise to the floor in business district Seismologists said the quakes have all been centered about three miles southeast of the agricultural community-just north of the Mexican border Scientists believe the new fault line about seven miles in length and running in a northeast to southwest direction may have been formed between Brawley and the small community of Westmoreland 10 miles to the west Since the tremors began Thursday officials in Brawley have placed 100 city employees on emergency standby and have established a communications system in case of a major quake Kelli Kraxner 4-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Georg Kraxner 4510 Lloyd Kansas City Kellie was one of about 1000 persons who turned out yesterday for "Meet the Scouts" day at Kenner Arena Practice was open to the public and the players gave demonstrations of drills and rules (Staff photo by Peter Allen) mrl Kansas appeared fascinated as she watched Jim McElmury defense- Bulletin City Scouts autographs man for the Kansas hockey team sign Fuel Ammunition Reach Besieged Capital Lieng and other politlcan called for Thieu to resign and be replaced by a of national reconciliation and American people everything possible to stop the US government from furthering military to he Thieu government on the United States to its military involvement and interference in the internal affairs of South He appealed to the St Paul Workers in four shop craft unions staged a wildcat strike early today against the Burlington Northern railroad the firm reported A spokesman at the headquarters in St Paul said reports of pickets were coming in from throughout the Midwest The railroad serves the West including the Kansas City area and parts of Canada He said the railroad was continuing operations have received no word from the unions the spokesman said IN KANSAS CITY a Burlington supervisor said pickets had gathered outside the property in North Kansas City He said the picketing had not affected operations of the railroad Continued from Page 1A made no substantial progress in their 4-day counteroffensive to recapture Qnui Ba Den mountain which overlooks the city of Tay Ninh Ut said Soi th Vietnamese bombers continued attacks on the 3300-foot mountain in efforts to dislodge North Vietnamese forces that captured the strategic position Jan 6 Scuffles broke out between Saigon police and a group of Buddhist nuns yesterday after a convention of the political opposition Leaders of the opposition had urged the United States CLASSIC POLYESTER KNIT 11 to terminate military aid to the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and called for ouster Twenty nuns left the convention at An Quang pagoda and marched down the chanting anti-government slogans Witnesses said they were confronted by a group of uniformed and secret police and that in the melee four nuns were injured one seriously The leader of the nuns Huynh Lien claimed police threw rocks at her group and struck several of them with sticks and a metal object The seriously injured nun was struck on the head but was able to walk -with the assistance of other nuns The nuns have demonstrated several times in Saigon since September touching off occasional clashes with the police Since October their pagoda has been surrounded by police but they have used ruses to escape the blockade and conduct demonstrations About 300 persons attended the political convention called to mark the second anniversary of the Paris peace agreement which was supposed to end the war in Vietnam Tran Ngoc Lieng a lawyer and leader of the Popular Front for the Implementation of the Paris agreement called Good anywhere fit and flare flattery accented with accessory-wise jewel neckline Machine washable polyester knit in navy or mint for sizes 10 to 20 14V2 to 22 V2 Town and Casuals Downtown and Suburban Stores Phone 471-7515 Ford Declares MIA Day Washington (AP) President Gerald Ford has declared today the second anniversary of the signing of the peace agreement on Vietnam as National MIA Awareness Day In his proclamation signed Saturday Ford noted that more than 2400 Americans are still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia including 900 listed as missing and the others declared dead wtih their bodies never recovered Ford reaffirmed a commitment to seek the fullest possible accounting for those missing and the return of the remains of those who died He noted that the agreement contains specific obligations on these items President Ford and Archbishop Ford Attends Mass for Justice Washington President Gerald Ford joined Chief Justice Warren Burger yesterday at the annual Roman Catholic invoking divine guidance in the administration of justice Accompanied by their wives the President and Chief Justice heard Bishop James Rausch of Washington executive secretary of the American Congress of Bishops preach that abortion the human right to survive Later in the service Archbishop William Baum offered a prayer for the protection of Bishop Rausch said the right to survive also was threatened by violence in the United States torture abroad and continuing arms The bishop called for a re-examination of all facets of the administration of justice and declared must be in each of us something of the Judges lawyers federal officials and diplomats attended the service at St Cathedral not far from the White House Switch From Sex to Age Santa Barbara Calif Alex Comfort plans no further sex manuals such as his bestselling Joy of and But he may write a book on aging as revolutionary in its views as his sex treatises After all Comfort is as interested in gerontology the I study of aging and the problems of aged per- sons as he is in sex think exhausted the subject the British physician poet playwright and scholar said in an interview The book he is i thinking about writing would be heavy on trouble with society is that it knocks the old he said they are told they are uneducable unemployable and asexual they will think they are But we are the next COMFORT generation of old people and we put up with He hopes for a of old people who are totally militant and take anything from anybody The main thing to say to the old is: let the bastards grind you Arab Buys English Castle London An Arab ambassador in London has paid more than $12 million for an 18th century English castle used in the James Bond film Mereworth Castle near Tonbridge Kent was purchased by Mohamed Mandi al Tajir ambassador of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf land agents reported The castle surrounded by 385 acres of magnificent woodlands and gardens was sold by William Robinson who acquired Mereworth for $480000 in 1968 from the duke of family the agents said The purchase is the latest in a recent spending spree by wealthy Arabs in Britain estimated by Daily Telegraph newspaper at somewhere around $600 million Town to Two-Step Outside Law Rush Springs Okla (AP) Residents of this southwestern Oklahoma community are planning an illegal dance for next Saturday Police say they will not arrest anyone for stepping outside the law not that the dance will be lascivious or anything 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