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Pftwe Help in writing 8 flf Cepy Grounded Ship After Stormy Fight- Typhoon Hits Manila, Senate Passes Farm Measure 42 Dead Ship lays along a seawall in Manila Bay after being forced aground by typhoon Patsy Thursday. Severe winds also forced two other ships ashore. (AP Wlrephoto by radio from Manila) Roubideaux Asks Senate Approval Doubtful For Recount in 15 Precincts PIERRE The Hughes! County Auditor said today that Ramon Roubideaux. Democratic candidate for attorney general in the Nov. 3 election, has asked for a recount of the votes in 15 of the county's 18 precincts.

Mrs. Esther Anderson said Rouhideaux submitted 15 petitions, each signed by three qualified voters in a precinct, asking for the recount. She said district court Judge Clair Ledbetter had appointed a 3-man recount board and votes would be recounted day. Mrs. Anderson siad unofficial figures showed Roubideaux! his opponent, incumbent Atty.

Gen. Gordon Mydland by 465 votes. 2.630-2,165, in the county. She said Mydland's margin in the 15 contested precincts was 555 votes. A secretary in Roubideaux's office said the Democratic candidate had asked for recounts! in precincts in 14 counties, but! could recall the names of only 12.

They were: Davisnn, Ham lin, Roberts, Codington. Kingsbury. McPherson, Campbell, Union, Bon Hnmme, Yankton, Turner and Hushes. She said Roubideaux was nn a trip to Mississippi and would not return until next week. The latest unofficial state-wide returns from the secretary of state's office show Rntihideaux Foreign Trade Measure Is Approved By House By JIM ADAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A quota-setting trade bill that would throw up Congress's most formidable new harriers against foreign goods since 1930 has passed the House, but Senate approval is in doubt.

Opponents said the controversial hill to limit textile and shoe imports would touch off a world trade war. Backers said it protect threatened U.S. industries and jobs. I It passed the House 215 lo 165 Official Death Toll More Helicopters Are Enroute to E. Pakistan By ARNOLD ZEITLIN Associated Press Writer DACCA, East Pakistan (API More helicopters were en route to East Pakistan today as the official death count from last week's storm in the Ganges delta rose to 148,116.

Local newspapers predicted the final toll would reach half a million. Two British navy ships, the amphibious cruiser Intrepid and the converted aircraft carrier (mated two million survivors are by so much water that air drops would be difficult. India, Pakistan's traditional antagonist, announced Thursday that it would grant immediate clearance to Pakistani military aircraft carrying relief supplies from West Pakistan to East Pakistan. Getting clearance to fly over the 1.000 miles of Indian territory between the two parts of Pakistan ordinarily takes Draft Workshop To Be Held SIOUX FALLS Wi-The Sioux Falls Draft Information Service will conduct a draft counseling workshop Sunday and Monday, Nov. 22 23, on the Augustana College campus.

Heading the workshop will be Chris Willard of the American Friends service committee regional office in Des Moines, Iowa. Willard will discuss selective service law and procedure changes. teams and supplies aboard. The Intrepid carried five helicopters and eight landing craft while the Triumph carried three chop- pcrs. The helicopters will augment six U.S.

and two British hclicop- ters already dispatched lo hoi- ter East Pakistan's relief force of one C130 cargo plane, one helicopter, one short-takeoff-and- landing plane and one seaplane, Helicopters are the only means of getting aid to many of the stricken coastal regions and offshore islands devasted last Friday by a cyclone and huge tidal waves. No landing strips are available for fixed-wing planes, and many of the Ambassa or Joseph anc ew rom Rawalpindi to rj acea Thursday and said he wm he a "personal represent- at ve president Nixon to assist the East Pakistan govern- men! in very way feasible." Nixon ha? authorized a grant of S10 million in provide food and other relief to the storm victims. Weathermen from seven countries in the Asian typhoon belt met in Bangkok today and appealed to the U.N. General As- scmbly's members lo devote funds, manpower and scientific resources to seek ways to con, rnntimlpf i nn Paee 2 (Continued on Page 2) 1 REPORT Defense Rests Case in Tate Trial Without Calling a Single Witness Ry Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) The judge in the Sharon Tate murder trial met in chambers today with attorneys and defendants to try to solve a legal dilemma: how to permit the three women in the case to testify in the face pf their attorneys' refusal lo question them. The attorneys refused Thursday on grounds their clients woijld incriminate themselves.

They want tn rest the case without testimony. Said one: "I may watch someone commit suicide, but 1 won't help them." Attorney Paul Fitzgerald, leader of the four-lawyer team, told before the chambers session ihere were five possibilities-: 1. The judge could jail the attorneys for contempt for their refusal. 2. He could relieve present attorneys and appoint new ones willing to ask questions.

3. He could tell the women lo simply give narrative then be cross-examined. i. The judge could ask questions prepared by the women. S.

He could allow the defend(o $ct Ujeir OWQ attor- fneys-, a move deemed unlikely. Fitzgerald said all possibilities hold legal complications that could lead later to motions 1 for reversible error. He said the judge had indicated he would itake as long as necessary lo resolve the problem. The women all are members of Charles Manson's hippie-style family. Fitzgerald called the surprise decision to rest the case Thursday a drastic effort to thwart the women's determination to speak out "the truth." Manson, 36, is on trial with Susan Alkins.

22. Leslie Van Houten. 21, and Patricia Krenwinkel. 22. The state has said held total control over his followers and ordered them to kill Miss Tate and six others in August 1969.

There were reports that the three women, still loyal to Manson, were determined to tell a version of the bloody slayings which would clear Manson of blame while incriminating themselves. Manson, who had expressed no desire to take the stand himself, sat silent through Thursday's dramatic events which began with all four attorneys rest- ease- Ife arose and insisted on being heard, and the judge ruled they had a constilional right to testify. Miss Atkins, modishly attired in a royal blue pants suit, look the stand briefly hut was balked when her attorney refused to question her about the case. The two other women's lawyers said they'would refuse also. "We can so lo jail for contempt of court or we can he relieved as attorneys in this case." said Fitzgerald after a conference in the judge's chambers.

"He's considering both." Miss Atkins' attorney. Daye Shinn, refused to ask a series of 60 questions which she had prepared, saying. "1 fee! these questions will incriminate her I have a duty toward my client. I absolutely refuse to help incriminate a client on the stand." Superior Court Judge Charles Older several times ordered Shinn lo question his client but the lawyer would not budge. Fitzgerald said that during a conference in the judge's chambers the women suggested that the judge himself, or Manson, be allowed to pose questions, but Older vetoed both night with trade lob- 'byists filling the galleries.

Nixon administration efforts to cut the bill hack to the President's request for textile quotas a tax incentive to boost U.S. even come to a vole. But administration supporters said Nixon will make no decision on whether to veto the bill until he sees how it comes out of Congress. Senate opponents led by Sens. 'Jacob K.

Javils. and F. Mondale, have hinted they will filibuster if necessary to prevent a similar trade package from even being considered there. Opponents concentrated their attack, during two days of debate, on predictions the quotas would bring trade-war retaliation from the countries Japan and the European Common and would drive up U.S. prices by protecting American goods from cheaper foreign competitors.

But Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, the bill's floor manager, said the mandatory quotas would reverse a decline in textile and shoe industry jobs and force foreign competitors lo negotiate voluntary import curbs. "The Japanese would rather have the textile market they can get in the United States than retaliate," he said. Meanwhile Thursday in London. European business-men voiced growing opposition to the bill. The bill's textile and shoe quotas are the first since the Smool-Hawley Act of 1930, which brought broad restrictions against foreign goods.

The new bill would cut imports next year to 1967-69 levels, which trade sources say in some cases' would amount to a one-third decrease. The textile and shop import quotas could be increased 5 pel- cent each year after that until 197fi when the quotas expire. The hill also would set tariff- rate quotas on mink furskins and clycine, a chemical used in drugs and some foods, and establish a formula under which U.S. industries could force quotas or tariffs against other foreign products by proving imports are so high thai they injure the American markets. It would perpetuate ihe oil qu.Mas now imposed by administrative, not congressional au ihority, and thus prevent the president from shifting to a less restrictive tariff system against foreign oil.

The bill's tax for U.S. exporters, favored bv Nixon, would permit them to set up Domestic International Sales Corporations (DISCs) on which profits would he tax-free if put hack into more export operations. Reifel Votes For Trade Bill WASHINGTON (AP) The 215-165 vote by which the House sent to the Senate a quota-set ting foreign trade bill included: Minnesota Against Blat nik, Fraser, Karth, MacGregor, Nelsen, Quie. Zwach Dakota For None. An- dresvs, Kleppe.

South Dakota MANILA (AP) Damage left by Typhoon Patsy closed the Manila airport today, caused postponement of two major in- ternational conferences and may affect the visit of Pope Paul VI next week. Roman Catholic Church officials held an emergency meeting lo determine if the typhoon damage would alter plans for the Pope's visit, beginning next Friday. Part of the roof of the University of Santo Tomas, where the Pope will preside over a religious conference, was ripped off. Triumphal arches were blown down. But authorities in- i dicated they want the Pope's i three-day visit to go ahead as scheduled.

i While Typhoon Patsy had blown out to sea, the control tower at Manila airport was knocked out hy failure. One flight was diverted and alt incoming flights were suspended. The most powerful typhoon of the century tn hit Manila, Patsy slashed Manila and Luzon Island Thursday, killed at least 42 persons, injured hundreds and left thousands homeless. Damage estimates ranged upward to S80 million. Besides wrecked buildings and homes, and damaged airports, crop damage was severe along a 250-mile stretch of Luzon.

Three U.S. military installations were in the path of the typhoon but reported only minor damage and no serious injuries to American or Filipino personnel. The 24-nation Colombo Plan Conference Nov. 24-Dec. 3 was rescheduled for Feb.

16-25 because of storm damage in Manila. A foreign ministers meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations set for Dec. 11-12 was postponed with no date yet set. Winds up lo 124 miles per hour, the strongest to hit Manila since 1882, uprooted trees, ripped off roofs and shattered flimsy houses. The storm moved out into the South China Sea this morning, and the city was bathed in sunlight.

A spokesman at the U.S. Air Force's Clark base, 45 miles northwest of Manila reported no serious damage there. He said some houses lost roofs and three persons were injured. President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared a state of calamity in the Manila area, where tens of thousands were homeless and damage was estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars.

By MIKE SMANAHAN Associated Pfess Wrilef WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon has on his desk today a favored $3.5 billion farm bill which sets for the first time a limit on the subsidies -paid major growers for not producing. The measure passed the Senate. 48 to 35 Thursday after a lengthy and stormy fight in which opponents said the bill would cost farmers billions of dollars in income. The bill, which lays down federal policy on farm subsidy and farm support programs over the next three years, won praise from Agriculture Secretary Clif- ford M. Hardin.

"ft will give farmers an opportunity to take greater advantage of shifts in market demands from commodity to commodity hy moving away from fixed crop acreages toward greater leeway in crop plantings." he said. The bill limits subsidies to $55,000 on each crop of wheat, cotton, corn and other feed grain lands held from production. Senate opponents sought a $20.000 limit. There was no limit under past laws. During the Hnuse-Senale conference meetings House members refused to budge from administration-backed i- Clark Suggests 'May Be Time for Hoover to Retire' By BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) De- fpnding his son Ramsey as "not any Mr.

Milquetoast." former Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark has suggested it may he time for J. Edgar Hoover to re- lire as the FBI. "We're both getting pretty old," the 71-year-old Clark said of the 75-year-old Hoover Thursday in a telephone interview from San Francisco. "That's why I 1 At the same time, Clark, who is also a former attorney general, called Hoover "an old friend" and said "he's done a very fine job" as head of the FBI. Clark was asked to comment on Hoover's description of Ramsey Clark as a "jellyfish." The FBI director's blast, in a Washington Post interview Tuesday, followed the younger Clark's allegation in a just-published book that Hoover is overly concerned with his own reputation.

"He's always up," Tom Clark said of his son. "I've never known him to dodge any issue." As attorneys general, both Clarks were Hoover's boss, (though the FBI and its director I have considerable autonomy. "When I was there I had some problems, loo. but I never aired them publicly." the former Justice said of his relations with the FBI. He headed the Justice Department from 1945 to 1949.

Clark left the Supreme Court in 1967 after Ramsey Clark had been named attorney general. Since then, he has headed various projects to improve judicial administration and has served occasionally on other federal courts. He is in San Francisco presiding at an antitrust trial. In the interview. Clark appeared reluctant at first to comment on the dispute between his son and his former associate.

And, yet. Clark was emphatic in defense of his son. In one respect, Clark appeared In riifler with his son That was over the younger man's contention in his book, "Crime in America," that the late Robert F. Kennedy, who was attorney general from 19fil to 19R4, was the first attorney general to attempt lo control organized crime. "I Iried lo do ahoul il." Clark said, then added after a pause: "He had his hrolher in the White House, you know." sions of the measure, three sefi- a tors walked out of the session and refused to sign the conference report, among them S6fl.

Stuart Symington. The Missouri Democrat Thursday ridiculed the conference-reported hill as "both Unfair and inadequate and a hill which is certain to lower income." "Farmers especially resent these incredible efforts by Secretary of Agriculture Hardin td junk the parity concept in connection with price supports and loans." he said. Symington was disturbed over House conference members' refusal to go along with Senate language setting price supports for corn at $1.35 per bushel or 75 per cent of was higher. Instead, the conference dropped the figure to 70 per cent for two years and gave the secretary the authority to lower it to fi8 per cent in 1973. Southern opponents.

Including Sen. Allen Ellender, predicted disaster for cotton farmers. He said the hill would encourage overproduction and an eventual order from the Agriculture Department to drastically reduce the amount of acreage in production. The old law allows cotton farmers to produce on lfi.3 million acres nf land. The new bill reduces lhat figure to 11.3 million acres.

Other provisions of the bill include extension of both the Food for Peace and wool support programs. McGovern Votes Against Farm Measure WASHINGTON (AP) Here is how senators from Minnesota and the Dakotas voted Thursday when the Senate passed 4835 and senl to the White House a three-year compromise farm bill: Minnesota: North Dakota: Against Bur- click, Young. South Dakota: Nixon Opposed to Demo Solon's Major Illness Insurance Plan R. Verschoor May Run for Demo Post Robert L. Verschoor, Mitchell businessman, is beins urged by evcral prominent South Dakota Democrats to seek the post of state party chairman, a local party spokesman said today.

Verschoor, a longtime political associate of Sen. George McGovern since 195(i serving as his campaign secrelar.v-trea.sur- er in five elections said he is seriously considering making a hid for the chairman's poM. He is a former Davisnn County Democratic chairman. The Democrats arp expected to name a new chairman at a Dec. 11 meeting, to replace Huron attorney George Rhir Blue resigned lo accept appointment as special advisor to Governor- elect Richard Kneip.

Mrs. John (Beverly) Bruce of Mitchell has moved up from vice chairman to acting chairman un ihp party election is held. WASHINGTON tAP) The Nixon administration, all but promising to submit a similar plan of its own next year, has sharply criticized a Democrat's major-illness insurance proposal as hasty and ill-considered. Sen. Russell B.

Long of Louisiana sprang his plan Thursday and said the Finance Committee, which he heads, will vote on it next week. The plan would have the government pay 80 percent of medical costs over S2.000 a year or if beyond fid days, at an estimated cost of S2.5 billion a year paid for by increased Social Security taxes. Secretary Elliot L. Richardson of Health, Education and Welfare, whose department is drafting legislation along similar lines, said Long's proposal "has not received anything like adequate consideration." He noted there have been nn public hearings on Long's plan, and said they are needed ex amine its impact on other health insurance programs and proposals. "The administration is now developing an over-all health strategy for submission to the 92nri Congress" next year.

Rich ardsnn said through an aide One HEW draft proposal, which health officials has slrnng While House appeal, would pay all costs over or fio days, not just 80 per cent as in Long's plan. II would alsn he paid for out of increased Social Security taxes and would cnst an estimated S3 $500 million more than Long's. Officials say the While House views the plan as a political counter lo Democratic-sponsored blueprints for cradle-to grave national health insurance. The administration contends universal insurance would be unworkable, inflationary and cost an estimated $77 billion a year. Nixon has already promised lo introduce in January legis- lalive program of government- subsidized health insurance for all pnnr families with children, This would largely replace the federal-state modicaicl program for HIP poor, which Hie administration sees as discredited.

Proposals for family and major medical insurance would fill the most gaping holes in present coverage, administration health officials contend. Most middle income persons are covered adequately hy private insurance plans against all bid the most cosily illnesses, they sav. and lhe elderly have medicare protection. Two More Helicopters Are Lost in Vietnam News Briefs To Marry Time LONDON (AP) Actor Rex Harrison plans to marry for the fifth lime as soon as the courts free him from his fourth wife, actress Rachel Roberts. Disclosing this Thursday, a spokesman for the (i2 year-old star said the intended bride is Elizabeth Harris.

ex-wife of actor Richard Harris and a daughter of Lord Ogmore. Harrison and Wiss Roberts have been separated since last December. The spokesman said he did not know what plans they were making for divorce. Previous Harrison wives were Noel Thomas, actress I.illi Pal mcr and the late actress Kay Kendall. Back Sprain HOLLYWOOD (APi Comedian Red Skell.on is suffering from a painful sprain which has put him out of action the next couple of weeks A spokesman said Skelton.

57. twisted a back muscle while shopping and had postponed a scheduled Saturday lapmg oi "The Red Skelton Show" until Dec. 5. The postponed lapuio 1 the show to be televised Jan. 4 Attend Memorial LONDON (AP) Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

headed Ihe list of dignitaries at a St. Paul's Cathedral memorial service Thursday for Charles cle Gaulle. Amons those present was Lady Churchill. 85, widow of Sir Winston. Former Publisher Ries NEW YORK (AP) James W.

Brown. 68. former publisher of the newspaper trade maga zuie. Editor and Publisher, died Monday Hy (iKOIUJK KSI'ttU Associated Press Writer SAIGON (APi The US. Command today announced the loss o( two mnre helicopters, raisins the loll in the pasi two to three wnh a total of Americans killed and no survivors.

Headquarters said heliroplcr.i and pianos have been in the Indochina war MIICP Jan I. Klfil. II -aid S.ulHI Americans died in Ilieni Four American crew men were killed in Ihe cra.shrs of IVMI Army OHfi luiii- ble lop observation helicopters. One was down on ihp ro.i.sl- al plain 2Hli miles norlhi i of Saigon and the other in the liorthwcM parl of the country 11 miles from On a M.inne Corps CH4B that bringing a ipconnais.ianre team back lo Da Nang crashed into the side of a mountain in a heavy fug and all Marines aboard wcie killefl I' S. and South Vietnamese reported one new sigiufi- c-aut attack in Yu'inani, a mortar and ground assault un mill tia lurces six milrs imrthwi'st ol Pleiku City in Ihe mitral highlands In a two hour bailie this morning, Soulli Vietnamese headquariers said.

North Vietnamese and Viol Cong were killed: field rcpon six mil itunicn were wounded In Ca-mbodia. North Viei- namese Viet Cong harassing al- were reported to the north. and p.isl nf Phnom Penh, one six miles aw av The heaviest lighting occurred close to Prek Taien. on the easl hank of the Massac River about miles southeast nf the capital. Cambodian forces claimed five of the enemy killed in an eight-hour light and reported iwo Cambodians killed On Ihe Cambodian govern- inciii's emliatiled northern finnl.

h.ira-sing North Vietnamese fire closed Ihe airport at Kompong Chain 17 miles northeast of Phnom Penh South leliiHinesT forces sweeping for ilie lidh day ihroiigh Norih Vietii.nno-p tern- lory in Die iiortlieaxl corner of Cambodia still reported only light contact, but said ihey had liirned up more munitions stork- piles, including 500 shells for recoil less rifles WORKING WOMEN Tudav ihe average woman worker is married and 39 years old In she was single and Married or single, presently emplxved uiH'inploved, Ihe best place to job hum I- Republic Want Ads So start cheeking the "Help Wanted" columns today! 0 KILL AD Had manv WOMAN (Hi tn OUT mime Im 1 child 8 day week. 9 htjur Call afler 6 00..

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