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Hie tragedy of Man: He starts off with a Country-and winds up with a Government! Our Daily Bread Sfccttf by Twi IwfttY Alii. N. Wnhbm ince a ISA, Give-Away Land Consumption Down Each day I leave my house rith the consignment of pUls for I p.m. carefully loaded in a 'plastic cup on the kitchen table. But when I returned home the other night the plastic cup had been knocked over and the pills scattered across the table.

I recovered all of them, and didn't have to look far for the culprit. I had left my Boxer dog in the house while I was uptown. The skunk had put his clodhopper feet on the edge of the table and scanned it for whatever was worth eating. Fortunately they were pills, and dogs are suspicious of as you know if you've tried 'worming your dog. Roger the Boxer didn't used to be that way.

I told of his fall from grace in a column a couple of years ago. I was preparing for an dinner at the house, and set out on the kitchen table to thaw one frozen chocolate cake. to the living room to watch iTV-and I dozed off. What awakened me was a isudden suspicion. I dashed for the kitchen, but too that I was left was a scrap of foil on the floor.

1 Once a thief. Hope Knife Star Printed by Offset VOL. 73 No. 81 2 Sections 16 Pages HOPE, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1972 Member: Associated Press ft Aadit Bereav ef Omlatfeas Av. net paM circulation I mos.

emlng ftept. city ibctfs if ytv ton to rCvCiVB yvwaT PKOTC 777-1431 bttweea art p.m.—Saturday before by p.m. and a carrier win deliver PRICE lOc Congressional Action Sought to End Strike SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Within hours after 13,000 longshoremen resumed a dock strike at 24 West Coast ports, the White House announced it would seek congressional action to send them back to work. "It appears that legislative action may be the only remedy to allow us to prevent another long and crippling strike," White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said in Washington Monday.

Ziegler said the administration was "examining alternative courses of action that might be recommended to Congress." He and other administration officials did not disclose any details, and political observers said it could take weeks of congressional hearings before any bill was passed. Picket signs appeared Monday morning at ports from Seattle to San Diego after Harry Bridges, president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, told members that last-minute bargaining talks had failed to produce a settlement before an 8 a.m. strike deadline. More than half the shipping which normally reaches West Coast ports has been diverted to Ensenada, Mexico; Vancouver, B.C.; and to East and Charges Filed in Heroine Smuggling checkup by the ngressional Joint Economic published Jan. 11 reported that the current total of subsidies in our country is "at least 63 billion dollars." If you suspected it was something like this that is at the root of inflation now you know.

How can government fight an inflation that is largely of its own making? It can't do the job without the help of. honest and plain-speaking citizens. The tide will turn only when the people I demand all subsidies be cut Uf and pledge themeflvet to defeat office-holders who won't bend to the new order. The Newsprint Division of the American Paper Institute reports that for the first 11 months of 1971 newsprint (the coarse white paper newspapers use) production fell off in both Canada and the U.S. Shipments off, and so was con- NEW YORK (AP) Twentythree men, most of them French citizens, have been charged with smuggling 1,500 pounds of heroin into the United States.

French-American cooperation has led to the arrest of 16 of them. Five are in custody in the United States, 10 in France and one in Canada. The indictment announced Monday told of get-togethers in a Paris cafe, delivery of suitcases in Naw York's Waldorf- Astoria Hotel, cash In six figures changing hands and a clandestine traffic in automobile keys. Federal authorities estimated the wholesale value of the smuggled heroin at million and gave it a street value of between million and 1300 million. U.S.

Atty. Whitney North Sey- Jr. sflid the JnJiatanrnt was Iliad Jan. 4. but not unsealed until Monday to allow French authorities time to round up some of the suspects.

Included in the indictment are 20 French citizens, an Austrian arrested in France and two Bronx residents identified as Louis Cirillo and John Anthony Astuto. Cirillo, 48 was arrested in Miami in October and is being held here. Astuto, 27, also known as Salvatore Rizzo, is still at large. The indictment accused the defendants of conspiring to conceal large amounts of heroia In usually shipping them to the United States. A key break in the caae came, last September when customs agenti uncovered a 940 million cache of heroin in a sports car brought aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth 2, and they made several arrests.

Esdy in October French rests in Paris and pounds of heroin, described at the time as France's biggest drug haul. Pakistan Death Threat North American production fell 2.7 per cent. Shipments dropped 3.4 per cent. And usage fell 1.5 per cent. Statistical evidence that high prices of raw material are -causing newspapers to retrench.

isn't likely to be cut, fewer pages may be the end esult. Which means a smaller hole" for the stories and itures for which you subscribe, haven't heard of any vspaper voluntarily reducing advertising volume as yet. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani businessmen who do not declare their foreign assets could face the death penalty, Finance Minister Mubashir Hassan warned today. He told newsmen that response had been poor to a government order to businessmen to give an account of their foreign assets by last Saturday. "We are extremely dissatisfied," said Mubashir.

"No decision has been made yet, but we are considering the death penalty for businessmen who do not complete these returns." He reported declarations totaling 120 million rupees, or nearly $25 million at the official rate. But he said this included bonuses, for returning foreign exchange, bringing the total down to about $15 million. According to the Finance Ministry nearly $60 million worth of foreign assets was declared in 1969. President Zulfikar All Bhutto has charged that at least $400 million has been secreted abroad by Pakistanis. "Traitors will be allowed to go unpunished, and subversion of the Pakistan economy shall not be permitted," said the Finance Minister.

"Soon we are going to start arrests and thorough investigation, and interrogation of these people who did not declare holdings will be started." industrial Production Gain Reported Encouraging Sign factory-production figure has been strong, rising at about a 7- per-cent annual rate. "This is very encouraging," the spokesman said. "It's the kind of thing that makes you smile." He said output was particularly strong in the manufacturing sector, moving ahead by 0.8 per cent. For all of 1971, however, performance of the key economic indicator was less than vigorous. The board said the index was 3 per cent higher than a year ago.

In past economic recoveries, the industrial-output indicator has grown by as much as 7 or 8 per cent. The moderate growth for all of 1971 left the economy with considerable slack. The December report indicated a possible quickening of the nation's economic pace, something the administration has watched for since the first Yesterday at Highway 29 and the year. the December increase reflected a snapback of coal production from a re- ith minor damage resulting, cent strike. The automobile m- ivestigating City Patrolman dustry, one of the key factors urtle charged Jenkins with a strong recovery, kept pro- riving with an expired driver's duction at about the November ise and an expired vehicle level of 8.6 million units.

cense Output of such materials as By BILL NEIKIRK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The ixon administration says a gain in industrial produc- last month is an encour- ing sign that the economy is to turn upward. The Federal Reserve Board ported Monday that its indus- ial-production index increased 0.7 per cent in December er a 0.6-per-cent advance in lovember. The December fig- was 107.8 per cent of the 17 base year, but 3.7 per cent low the mid-1969 peak. A spokesman for President ixon's Council of Economic said that since Aut, when the President made bold economic moves, the Accident Investigated Gulf ports, shipping sources said. The longshoremen's work stoppage was a resumption of one ended Oct.

6 when President Nixon obtained an injunction under the Taft-Hartley law. West Coast ports had been dosed 100 days. After the 80-day Taft-Hartley back-to-work order expired Christmas Day, the ILWU consented to the employer Pacific Maritime Association's requests for two extensions. The last one ended Monday. Before talks broke off Monday, ILWU negotiators had met through the night with the PMA and federal mediator J.

Curtis Counts. Bridges said in a telephone interview that the union "broke off on the issue of retroactivity." "Counts put to both sides the proposition that we stop the dock and continue talks with any final agreement terms retroactive to Nov. 14," Bridges added. "We agreed. The PMA steel, textiles and paper increased, along with consumer goods and business equipment.

Production of most household appliances increased but consumer staples declined. In a companion report, the Federal Reserve Board reported that the nation's factories operated at 74 per cent of capacity in the last three months of 1971, up slightly from 73.9 per cent in the third quarter of last year. The failure of factories to operate at closer to capacity is largely traceable to the sluggish increase in industrial production. Judgment in Prescott Case LITTLE ROCK In its proceedings Monday the Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed a judgment for $7,000 against Eugene B. Hale and son in favor of William H.

Hays and wife. The case was before the high court on appeal from the Nevada Circuit Court. Mr. and Mrs. Hays had sued the Hales for alleged breach of contract in connection with the sale of certain lots in Prescott.

BreakawaySoviet Ship Recaptured Without Gunfire U.S. No Longer a Easy Trade Mark WHIMSICAL literary creation, Don Quixote also conies out that way as sculpture. This eight-foot- tall tribute to the fictional knight was fashioned out of bits and pieces of junked cars by sculptor Pedro Delso for a place of honor in the public square of Bedlform, resort town on Spain's southeast Mediterranean coast. Hung Jury in Murder Trial In Hempstead Circuit Court Monday a mistrial was declared in the case of 0. D.

Green who was charged with murder in connection with the October 31, 1971 shooting death of Herbert Byers atOun. The jury was unable to agree so Judge John Goodson declared a mistrial. Robert West entered a plea of guilty to burglary and grand larceny and was sentenced to 10 years with five years suspended and a stipulation that the defendant must not be paroled until at least one third of the sentence was served. He admitted entering the home of Thomas G. Lockhard and taking guns and other items.

Three defendants, Troy Bishop, Larry Lollis, and Harold Ross, charged with burglary and grand larceny, pleaded guilty and was each given a five year sentence with the sentence probated. They admitted to entering the Verger Junior High Band building and taking instruments on October 25, 1971. In an appeal case from Municipal Court the penalty was almost wholly upheld. In City Court C. B.

Shackleford was convicted on charge of driving while intoxicated and fined $450, 30 days in jail and his driver's license revoked for one year. Yesterday all of the lower court's decision was upheld except the 30 days in jail which was suspended. A suspended sentence of 10 years against Terry York for burglary and grand larceny was revoked. Five years of the sentence was suspended. York was charged with breaking into a house and taking items.

The court adjourned until the April term. Lions Club Speaker King photo with Star camera ERNEST WHITELAW Ernest Whitelaw, Executive speak to the group by program Director Southwest Arkansas Planning and Development District, Inc. was speaker at the Hope Lions Club weekly luncheon Monday at the Town and Country. Mr. Whitelaw was invited to chairman Royce Pendergrass.

The speaker said that the Public Works and Economic Act See LION CLUB (On Page Two) By EDMOND LeBRETON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A congressional mission to Europe delivered the message that the United States is no longer the easy-going trading partner of postwar the Europeans leader of the legislative party says. "I think we got the idea across to people in decision- making posts of the European community that we simply can't afford to be patsies any longer," Rep. John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin said in an interview. Byrnes is senior Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which broke a long no-travel tradition to send a majority of its members to Paris and Brussels where they discussed trade issues with spokesmen for the Common Market and other European groups.

Byrnes said he came back with the conviction that the United States is now dealing with "a peer, and maybe a little more than a peer" in the expanding Common Market, and that international trade rules written when this country dominated export markets now have to be revised to provide competitive equity. Particularly troublesome, Byrnes said, are reciprocal trade preferences worked out bilaterally between members of the Common Market and outside countries, in many cases former colonies or dependencies. The problem will be aggravated, he said, by the entry into the European community of Britain, trailing its own network of special trading arrangements. "We were repeatedly told that these preferences are perfectly permissible under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade," Byrnes said. "We didn't always get exactly the same impression in talking with GAIT people." But he said "we have been relaxed in the past, not inclined to push for compensation under GATT.

By STEVE WEINEft Associated Press Writer JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) A U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker was authorised to fire across the bow of a Soviet fishing vessel it had seised after the ship broke away today with a party of Americans aboard, but the ship was recaptured with no shots fired. A Coast Guard spokesman at the 17th District headquarters said the icebreaker Storis "came about as close as you can get" to firing a warning: shot at the Lamut, flagship of an M4hip Soviet fishing fleet during a four-hour chase through the ice-choked Bering Sea. The Lamut, and another Soviet fishing vessel that had been seixed at the same time as the Lamut, and the Storis regrouped later today and were heading for a naval station. Lt.

Cmdr. Emmanuel Schneider, district intelligence and operations officer, said that although the Storis had received permission from Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C., to fire a shot, it outmaneuvered the Lamut in ice- clogged waters, boxing the Rus- See BREAKAWAY (On Page Two) Enemy Fire of (f.5. Bombers By GEORGE ESPER By Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP)'- A pair of North Vietnam's fastest MIG jets fired three missiles at two American fighter-bombers along the Laotian border within 100 miles of Hanoi Monday but missed, the U.S. Command reported today. The encounter was the second in three days between U.S.

and North Vietnamese jets. On Saturday, the Americans fired the missiles and the MIG21 escaped. The two American F4 Phantoms took evasive action in the engagement Monday and never got in position to fire back, U.S. spokesmen said. After launching their missiles, the MIGs foack across the border.

U.S. warplanes were out again in force over wide areas of Indochina today, flying more than 250 strikes against North Vietnamese supply routes, depots and troop locations. In the ground war, Viet Cong guerrillas kept up small-scale attacks across South Vietnam, with 26 more reported in the past 24 hours. Many of the attacks were along the central coast in Binh Dinh Province, where two American helicopters were shot down Monday supporting the South Vietnamese. There were no UJS.

casualties. The U.S. Command atid an Army Cobra -gunatup intV-an OH6 light observation helicopter spotting enemy positions went down 35 miles northwest of Qui Nhon, the provincial capital. South Korean headquarters announced that its forces have been carrying on eight operations along the coastal lowlands since Jan. 3 and have killed North Vietnamese and Viet Cong.

The operations, among the largest conducted by Korean troops in the last two years, are aimed at forestalling an enemy offensive in the lowlands. U.S. sources reported that South Vietnamese troops on a sweep north of Qui Nhon last week captured four boys 15 to 19 years old, and one of them admitted throwing the grenade in the Qui Nhon soccer stadium Jan. 8 which resulted in the death of 16 persons and injury to at least 130. The youth who admitted throwing the grenade said he was trying to kill the new province chief, Col.

Nguyen Van Chuc, the sources said. Chuc was wounded slightly by gre- All Around Town nade fragments Nearer Saigon, a South Viet- namaM infantry battalion reported finding the bodies of 30 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops 30 miles east of the capital after the region i saturated with air and artH 1 strikes. In Cambodia, spokesmen said bodian river gur stroyed several a battle Monday on Lake I Sap 120 miles northwest ok Phnom Penh, the lake is one of the world's richest freshwater fisheries, and there is a frequently recurring battle for control of it. Jury Picked in Murder Trial VAN BUREN, Ark. (AP) Jury selection is scheduled to begin here today in the murder trial of Guy Kuehn, 23.

of Uttte- ton, who is charged win the Sept. 7 slaying of Lonnie Trenthan, a Van Buren school custodian. Trenthan, 57, was found stabbed to death at City Heights Elementary School. Kuehn was arrested several days later in Omaha, Neb. Circuit Court Judge David Partian of Van Buren denied a motion Monday for a change of venue in the trial.

Nat. 0. Impson has filed for Hope School District 1-A board Post No. 3. Lavelle Bonds of Blevins and David Cummings of Patonos have filed for re-election in their respective school districts.

Mrs. Diane Lauterbach, Hempstead Revenue Inspector, has been informed by Secretary of State Kelly Bryant that the local revenue office will be closed all day Wednesday, Jan. 19 in observance of Robert E. Lee's birthday. a statewide observance including the State Capitol which will be closed.

Hope Fire Department had five runs yesterday, four to grass fires that didn't cause much one was to Southern Grain Elevator Co. where some soybeans were smouldering in a metal grain house. there was no way to estimate the loss but several truckloads of beans were removed, firemen said. All Hope Public School will close Friday for this allows teachers to catch up on records. absence becauae of sickeness was considerably heavy last week but is some better, Supt.

James H. Jones said. In unprecedented action the First Presbyterian Church congregation elected two women deacons, a woman they and others will be ordained January 23. Deacons were Mrs. Thomas E.

Hays Mrs. Floyd Leverett and Dr. William R. Capps. elected Elders were Mrs.

Crit Stuart William E. Tolleson and Dr. Lynn Harris. re-elected to another three years as Deacons were Floyd Leverett, Crit Stuart Jr. and Binford McRae.

Guernsey School PTA will have a benefit program Saturday, January 22, starting at 7 p.m. in the school the public is invited. The Dean's honor roll at The School of the Ourks at Point Lookout, Missouri for the last semester contains the name of Charles Martin (3.27) son of Mrs. Getola G. Martin of Hope.

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