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v-v- v-v 5 -v rM 9 m- Mi kNvf 4 ham Post-Herald FINAL EDITION ALABAMA: Rain largest morning circulation BIRMINGHAM: Cloudy PRICE TEN CENTS VOL NO 190 BIRMINGHAM WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18 1972 60 Pages In Five Sections Kissinger flies to Saigon amid hints of progress By Max Frenkel Id mt Now York Thna Nwi larvtca Henry A Kissinger was flying Tuesday night from another meeting with the North Vietnamese in Paris to a meeting with the South Vietnamese in Saigon amid strong indications throughout the government that negotiations for an Indochina cease-fire have reached a critical point Almost nothing is being said Senate rejects Nixon funds ceiling request UnHfS Pru International WASHINGTON The Senate late Tuesday once again rejected President Nixon's request for sweeping authority to cut appropriations to bring total federal spending under a 1250 billion ceiling A compromise budget-cutting plan which the House had approved 1M to 137 was re- Senate overrides water veto jected by the Senate 39 to 27 creating a parliamentary snail that delayed adjournment of the 92nd Congress for at least another day The vote came after another backbreaking session that stretched for Into the night in a futile attempt to be able to quit for the here about the substance of the negotiations And no one will speak in public even about their atmosphere Several Informed officials suggested however that there had been considerably more progress between American and North Vietnamese negotiators than had been acknowledged so far But there was uncertainty here about the reaction of President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam to the negotiations Watergate trial is set for Nov 15 By Agis Salpukns (c) 1WI Now York Tlmn NW Strvk WASHINGTON United States District Court Judge John Sirica Tuesday set the start of the trial of the seven men indicted in the raid on the Democratic national headquarters for November 15 a after the national elec- Photo by SIN MMiy This apparent snow scene was not that at all but a hot two hours for Birmingham firemen with special clothing and equipment as they righted a big chemical tanker in Ensley Tuesday The truck covered with foam to prevent fire overturned as the driver made a turn onto an 1-59 ramp It was righted by large wreckers (See story inside on Page 24) Signal heard in Boggs united nrm international was not known whether the United Arno International was not known whether the In Saigon as in Washington the puce of high-level meet- tjon ings was accelerating President Thieu held a second daylong conference with key aides and Cabinet officers week ANCHORAGE Alaska -Two Coast Guard helicopters searching for a missing plane carrying Democratic House leader Hale Boggs only congressman and two others Tuesday picked up brief electronic signals from an emergency beacon The choppers refueled in Junau and returned to the area which they searched without results for an before darkness fell The Coast Guard said a more intense survey would be conducted Wednesday The signal were heard about 4 pm CDT while the helicopter were over the ragged Chilkat Mountain range on the Mansfield Peninsula 10 miles south of Juneau Mountains in the range are as high as 4500 feet The Air Force at Elemen-dorf AF Base said a special electronic equipped C130 search plane would criss-cross the peninsula during the night All other private and military aircraft returned to their airfield and bases at nightfall The Coast Guard said it 1 9 i search heard from 12 from 12 minutes after takeoff When fog lifted near Juneau and the sun broke through low overcast at Anchorage about midday Tuesday scores of small planes took off in hopes of finding some sign of the missing aircraft "The airplanes are going out of here like it was going out of said Gene Bailey operator of a flying service at Anchorage la about 200 per cent of normal today" He said well over 100 planes were conducting private searches Air Force Coast Guard and Civil Air Patrol planes and 400 salmon fishing boat! battled through weather earlier In the day while searching the choppy sens of the Gulf of Alaska and the rugged snow-covered mountains along the shore Boggs and his colleague disappeared about 800 mile south of the polar regions where comedian Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post crashed in a heavy Alaskan fog on Aug 15 1935 The two men died in that crash Boggs the number two man in the House hierarchy as Democratic majority leader was in Alaska campaigning for Begich a freshman congressman representing the entire 49th state The search for the missing plane covered Its entire planned 550-mile route over the lonely Chugah Mountains to Price William Sound along the coast of Alaska to Glacier National Monument then inland to Juneau skirting the edge of St Elias Range The Coast guard said 400 salmon fishing boats based at Cordova were alerted to search Prince William Sound which is dotted with uninhabited rocky islands Planes flying between Anchorage and Juneau usually check in with a Coast Guard station 130 miles southwest of here but Boggs' plane failed to make the radio check South Viets retake two of 6 towns UflHtd Prm International SAIGON Government troops late Tuesday drove the Communists from two Central Highlands hamlets apparently seized under an order for a new offensive but the Communists remained in control of four others The Smith Vietnamese command in Saigon Wednesday identified the retaken hamlets as Plei Klor and Plei Darta also known as Plei To Bur Tih both about nine miles southwest of the pmdncial -capital of Kontum City The Communists were be- lieved to be acting under orders resulting from the Central Office of South Vietnam (COSVN) Resolution X10 Resolution X10 a copy of which was captured in the-Central Highlands calls for attacks throughout South Viet- nam to begin Oct 20 military sources said They remained in control of Plei To Tao Plei Klave Ngol and Phu My hamlets 25 12 and 11 miles southwest of Pleiku City respectively The three hamlets were captured early Tuesday morning about the same time Plei Klor and Plei Darta were Invaded Franjola said the Communists also were still holding Buon Soma Hang hamlet in Phu Bon Province near the Pleiku Province boundary was captured Monday morning a military spokesman said la the air war 20 waves of Air Force B52S Tuesday night and Wednesday morning flew raids in South Vietnam five more against targets in North Vietnam and one in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) Government rangers killed eight Communists in fighting along blocked Highway I 29 miles northeast of Saigon Tuesday There were no ranger casualties military spokesmen said Inside Bessemer Pullman plant may build Southern cars Diplomatic reports relayed from Hanoi suggest some more optimism in the North Vietnamese capital as well but a continuing emphasis on the problems that remain including disagreements between the North Vietnamese and their southern allies who direct the Viet Cong Some of the patterns of combat in recent days in hamlets close to Saigon have been interpreted as contests for maximum political advantage in case of a military standstill Although these signs of motion and progress offer obvious political advantage to President Nixon in his bid for re-election the White House and other official government spokesmen have tried to dampen speculation There has been no organized effort as there often has before to convey a political or propaganda message On the contrary officials who normally deal with reporters are urging them to be cautious with the available evidence The White House dealt as blandly as possible with the announcements of travels It issued a statement early Tuesday that the presidential adviser on national security was in Paris with four aides and William Sullivan an Indochina expert and deputy assistant secretary of stale for East Asia and Pacific Affairs for a meeting with Xuan Thuy permanent representative at the peace talks At 10:30 am Ronald Ziegler the White House press secretary announced that the Kissinger party was ready to fly on to Saigon to continue "the regular consultative process" with President Thieu Kissinger last visited Saigon In August His deputy Gen Alexander Haig Jr conferred with Thieu before joining the Paris talks last week Ziegler said Tuesday's brief Paris contact had been planned at the end of last four-day bargaining session and that President Nixon had ordered the visit to Saigon on the same Journey after he heard Kissinger's progress report on Friday year Both Houses earlier approved quickly and sent to the White House a Social Security-welfare bin that will force a huge Increase In payroll taxes next year for the national work force Both house earlier approved quickly and lent to the White House a Social Security-welfare bUl that will force a huge increase in payroll taxes next year for the national work three But continued partisan maneuvering In the Senate on the spending ceiling measure complicated by President refusal to sign a $24 billion water clean-up bill thwarted adjournment While the Senators bickered over the pending bill the House quit and decided to return Wednesday Rejection of the compromise celling plan means the issue now will be returned to a House-Senate- conference What the conferees will do with it wa uncertain John Ehriichman top domestic affairs adviser watched the Senate proceeding from the gallery as Democrats Including presidential nominee George McGovern stepped up to vote against the measure joining a handful of Republicans It was clear that President Nixon was waiting for Senate to act before vetoing the water pollution MIL He had until midnight to sign the water Mil into law to veto it and state hi objections so Congress could decide whether to vote to override the veto or to permit it to become law without his signature White House aides ducked reporters seeking to confirm whether Nixon was playing a waiting game but there waa little doubt that he was It appeared that for its part the Senate also was purposely delaying action to see what Nixon would do with tin water Mil before taking a vote on the spending limit As the House recessed leaders said they hoped to wrap up the session Wednesday so lawmakers could get back to work on their re-election campaign Whether or not Nixon sign- ed the water cleanup bin there was substantial opposition in the Senate to giving him the sweeping authority voted by the House to trim federal spending in the remainder of the business year ending next June 30 Senate opponents led by Sens Len Jordan R-Idaho and Hubert II Humphrey D-Minn were ready to carry their battle into the night If they succeed the entire spending issue would be reopened and all hopes for early adjournment of the 92nd Con-gross would be dashed Congress however did approve and send to the White House a 853 billion package of expanded Social Security and Medicare benefits And Souse Senate negotiations agreed on stopgap foreign aid financing until March 1 at an annual rate of 836 billion While Nlxim wanted unres- tricted authority to trim spending this year by between 86 billion and 810 Milk -typing bUtlayi to S2ft Mnk the House-Senate compro mise would exempt a number of programs from cute and specify that other broad categories could not be cut by more than 20 per cent' WASHINGTON President Nixon Tuesday night vetoed a 8248-billion bill aimed at ridding American waters of all pollution by 1985 But the Senate quickly voted to override the veto The Senate vote was 52 to 13 nine more than the two-thirds majority required to override The House is expected to vote on overriding Wednesday afternoon He had asked for a water pollution bill that would have committed 6 billion in federal funds over a three-year period and he called the trill which came to his desk "a staggering budget-wrecking $24 He said every dollar this trill asked above his proposal exact a price from the consumer In the form of inflated living coats or from the taxpayer in the form of a new federal tax trite or Nixon laid he waa prepared for the possibility that hi veto would be overridden by Congress saying: defeat of my proposal for a spending ceiling showed that many senators and congressmen are simply AWOL in our fight against higher taxes" He said if his veto is not sustained the issue will be clearly drawn with the spending so with this trill a vote to sustain the veto is a vote against a tax Increase A vote to override the veto is a vote to Increase the likelihood of higher Nfroa said the bill provides measure of spending discretion and flexibility which the president can exercise "And if forced to administer this legislation I mean to use those provisions to put the brakes on budget-wrecking expenditures as much as possible" Israeli airport takes cholera precautions Associated Crass TEL AVIV Officials of Israel's international airport reported they are taking extra precautions against the introduction of cholera Into Israel following an outbreak of neighboring Syria United Pm Internal tenal beeps came from plane and said all planes flying over Alaska were required by law to carry the emergency beacon sender More than 100 civilian planes joined a squadron of 40 military aircraft when the weather cleared to search for the twin-engine plane Hundreds of fishing vessel also hunted for the orange and white Cessna 310 that disappeared along the rugged -Southern Alaska coast during heavy rain Monday been no reported Air Force LL Col Earl Ray from search headquarter The two-engine plane carrying Boggs and Rep Nick Be-gich was flying from Anchorage to the state capital of Juneau near the southern end of the Glacierdotted Alaskan Panhandle when it went down With Boggs 58 who has represented the New Orleans area in Congress for 28 years were fellow Democrat Begich 40 of Alaska his aide Russell Brown and veteran bush pilot Dim Jonz They were last and the Bessemer riant apparently will build them A spokesman for Bessemer operation would not confirm the order but said the riant usually builds boxcars ordered from the company Southern Railway announced the purchase in Washington the headquarters Southern said the boxcars will be of the 70-ton variety and deliveries will start in the first quarter of 1871 The spokesman at Bessemer plant said such an order would good as curtailed (in operations) as we have been this He said the company would be able to recall some workers to complete the order Currently the Bessemer plant la building 200 boxcars for the Reading Railroad Co and 1 scheduled to make 500 boxcars for the Burlington Northern Railroad Co Prior to these orders about 1000 employes at the Bessemer operation had been laid off by Pullman Many have since been recalled and with the new order others are expected to be summoned back to work Cloudy skies will continue Cloudy skies and mild temperatures will continue in Birmingham Wednesday with a chance of rain Thursday The official forecast calls for "partly cloudy and mild Highs will be in the mid 70s with lows in the 50s Winds will be variable at 10 miles per hour or less The extended outlook calls for mild days and cod nights Highs will be in the 70s with lows in the mid 50s OsflV am tiss am Osltt' ISS am am fliffll stssssss am ssmsiss aia SSSSISS TP 0 3 71 am am am am am am I Despite vociferous objections from the four defense attorneys and agreement by the prosecutor that the date was too early for both sides lo prepare their cases Sirica refused to budge is likely therefore that little new material will come out from the courts on the case which has become an election issue Gary Ilart the campaign director for Sen George McGovern said today that Democratic chargee of political sabotage would bo turned into a campaign issue and that McGovern may go on half-hour television show lo deal with the issue There is a sense among the McGovern staff that the issue may induce voters to consider McGovern as an alternative and to look at his stand on the war the economy and other issues One of the men Indicted in the Watergate bugging Bernard Barker is scheduled to go on trial on October 30 in Miami on chargee of "false and fraudulent use" of a Florida notary public seal on a campaign check Circuit Court Judge Bernard Jennings of Fairfax County Va Tuesday ordered Hugh Sloan Jr a former official of the finance committee of the Nixon campaign to appear on Oct 30 to testify at the trial of Barker Judge Paul Baker who will hear the case in Miami signed orders to extradite Sloan and two other men Maurice II Stans a former secretary of commerce and now President chief campaign fund raiser and Kenneth Dahlberg chairman of the Minnesota Re-Kloction Committee to appear at the trial Henry Rothblatt who represents Barker asked Sirica Tuesday to restrain the Barker trail since it would make It very difficult for him to handle and prepare for both trials at once But as with the other four defense attorney who argued that the trial be postponed Sirica' refused to intervene and stuck to hit date Park said Hugh Smith the general manager will remain executive vice president and general manager and that the present staff will remain The Park group includes television stations in Greenville Richmond and Roanoke Va Chattanooga and Johnson City Tenn and Utica Park Broadcasting Is reportedly the largest broadcast group in the owned by one man K't 1 -1 1 a If: 1 Si )y' ii Southern Railway Tuesday ordered 1282 million worth iff boxcars from Pullman Standard Division of Pullman Inc Freeway bridge collapse kills 6 United Prm International PASADENA Calif The center span of a freeway bridge under construction collapsed Tuesday carrying members of a construction crew 100 feet to their deaths at the bottom of a ravine Police said at least six men were believed crushed to death as tons of wood structural steel and concrete crashed to the floor of the Arroyo Seco Wash about two miles Picture on Page 10 north of the Rose Bowl One man was missing and 10 oth- ers were injured The state Division of Highways said the crow was pouring concrete into the span of wood and steel forms when the four-lane 200-foot section gave way at 1:40 pm foreman and the whole crew went down at the same time from the said policeman Young Hundreds of rescuers picked through the jumble of wood steel and concrete at the bottom of the wash searching for the missing Cranes were brought in to lift the larger pieces of nibble The specific cause of the collapse was not immediately known Police said it appeared that the metal supports under the or concrete forms gave way when the pouring operation started RSnNN New York firm to buy WBMG-tv for $55 million An Ithaca broadcasting company announced agreement Tuesday to purchase WBMG-tv in Birmingham for R55 million Roy Park president and owner of Park Broadcasting WBMG has beat on the air since 1965 and is currently operated by Birmingham Television Corp of which a major stockholder Is the Southern Broadcasting group of Winston-Salem Tv Today 8 Weathermap 2 News 27 28 29 Inc of Ithaca said f475 million of the purchase price will be paid In cash and the remainder will be in the assumption of obligations Acquisition of UHF Channel 42 a foiltime CBS affiliate is -subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission The Birmingham outlet will bring the number of television stations in the Park group to seven the maximum allowed by FCC rale New vitamin debate seen In a new report likely to set off a new debate about vitamin a University of Texas researcher Dr Man-Ll Yew has told the National Academy of Sciences that the vitamin promote! growth and healing and youngsters need 20 times more of it than the Food and Nutrition Board recommends Scripps-Howard writer Don Kirkman report on Page 8 Rising employment and slate belt-tightening slowed the national welfare growth rate to a five-year low in fiscal 1972 the government reported Page 15 8 8 am IP am Mit am 10 am II am Neon With her son Tom at her side Mrs Hale Boggs receives a phone call from Alaska Gov William Egan iri her home in Bethesda Md i 1.