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I THE CONCORD DAILY MONITOR New Hampshire's Capital Area Newspaper 158 CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1969 TWENTY FOUR PAGES- -TEN CENTS 'Research Only' Backers Foresee ABM Victory WASHINGTON (AP) Leaders of a bipartisan effort to limit the administration's Safeguard program to research while prohibiting any antimissile deployment or acquisition of sites, say they expect a lengthy debate but are confident of victory. Sen. John Sherman Cooper, and Philip A. Hart, D- prepared an amendment to block the Safeguard proposal for introduction today, bate on the entire missile ABM program entered 1 its second day. "It is unlikely that there would be any precipitate action," Hart told reporters.

Cooper said "I have always thought that we would have a majority. still do." Their amendment would not cut any of the $759.1 million in funds earmarked for Safeguard but would limit the use to research, development, testing and evaluation, plus "normal Compromise Set On Tax Sharing WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration apparently has settled on a compromise proposal in order to marshal support for its revenue plan, a key part of the President's program for decentralizing government. The plan, one of three possibilities studied within the administration, is aimed at satisfying both state and local governments, at odds over how the shared federal money should be distributed. Nixon gave revenue a high priority when he sent his tax message to Congress in April, pledging a start would be made during fiscal 1971. Presidential Counselor Arthur F.

Burns said Tuesday he definitely hoped a suggested bill could be sent to Congress this session, spelling out administration plan. 'Guts' of Plan Revenue sharing would give states, cities and counties- all strapped for money- a bigger share of the federal tax take. "It's the very guts of his plan to decentralize government," one spokesman said. Nixon has made a clear commitment to revenue sharing and dozens of bills have been introduced in Congress, but mayors and governors have been noisily split whether all money should go to the states of resdistribution or a portion should go directly to the cities. The compromise, known to economists as a "mandatory passthrough," would send the money to the states first but insure that specific amounts go to cities.

Meeting Burns said the governors, mayors and county officials at a meeting Tuesday did not discuss how much money would be i in the program at first or what the specific passthrough formula would be. The important thing, he said, is that "a start will be made," and hopefully that the amount will grow. Nixon told Congress he wanted to finance the program from money that will be taken in after repeal of the 7 per cent investment tax credit--now being considered in the Senate along with extension of the 10 per cent income tax surcharge- and normal growth of the economy. Congressional economists estimate that repealing the tax credit would bring in $1.35 billion a year at most. Start Of Countdown Nears For Apollo 11 CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.

(AP) Crews of specialists painstakingly inspected the Saturn 5 rocket and Apollo. 11 spaceship today with only hours remaining before the start of the countdown for the moon-landing mission launch. Engineers and technicians prowled the 36-story-tall combination both inside and out, searching for possible flaws that could delay or ruin the $350 million flight. The lengthy countdown is to start at 8 p.m. EDT Thursday, aiming for a liftoff next Wednesday at 9:32 a.m.

The three astronauts who will Penacook's. Red' Rolfe Had Several Careers Private funeral services will be held Thursday in Penacook for ex-New York Yankee great Robert A. "Red" Rolfe. Rolfe, who recently was named the Yankees' a third baseman, died Tuesday at his home on Governor's Island in Gilford after a long illness. He was Rolfe's career included brilliant performances as a player and as a coach.

At Dartmouth College he led the 1930 team to its first Eastern Intercollegiate baseball league championship. Later with the Yankees, he helped the New York club win five world championships from 1936 to 1942. (See Page 12 for Red Rolfe tributes by his Capital 'Area friends and Page 19 for Ruel Colby's cclumn of Rolfe i reminiscences.) Forced to retire from the Yankees in 1942 because of poor health, Rolfe turned to coaching. At Yale he served as baseball and basketball coach. He returned to the Yankees as a coach in 1946 but stayed only one season.

Basketball He then went to Toronto as a coach in the early days of the National Basketball Association. After a year with basketball, Rolfe returned to baseball, first procurement incident thereto," mainly at the Kwajelein Islands test facility. No Funds In addition, it would bar use lot carried any funds from including previous that over years for deployment of an ABM system or for purchase of any sites for such a system. Sen. John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, opened the long-awaited ABM debate Tuesday after predicting the Senate would uphold his committee in approving the Safeguard proposal.

"I think the position of the President of the United States is a tremendous factor," Stennis told reporters. Stennis had hoped to hold a. secret Senate session to lay out details of potential Soviet threats to the nation's security. But Sen. Albert Gore, balked at the chairman's idea of limiting the session to matters.

The issue was then put off until today. ABM opponents plan to hold a later secret session to lay out their contentions that the Safeguard system would provide only limited protection for the nation's Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile bases. With many senators planning to go to Florida next week for the launch of the Apollo 11 flight to the moon- and the splashdown in the Pacific scheduled the following week- any ABM showdown could be put off until the last week in July. As debate began, there was little open talk of any possible compromise. Senate Republican Leader Everett M.

Dirksen, asked for his estimate on the likelihood of Senate approval which he favors, said "I see it on the bright side- the good side." But Sen. George S. McGovern, an ABM opponent, said he still thinks foes will prevail by two or three votes. "I have found no slippage anywhere," he said. The key to the outcome lies in handful of senators being counted by both sides.

Arguments Here are the main arguments for and against the Safeguard antiballistic missile ABM system as presented to the Senate by majority and minority members of the Armed Services Committee: For: "The hard truth is that by the mid-1970s, unless we continue to make appropriate decisions to threats to our Minuteman and bomber retaliatory Returning Soldier Gets A Big Hug From His Mother, First GIs Come Home At Last, Leaving The War Behind FT. LEWIS, Wash. (AP) More than 800 American soldiers, some of them old beyond their years, slept under quiet skies for the first time in months, home from the war in Vietnam. The vanguard of 25,000 servicemen President Nixon is withdrawing from Vietnam flew into McChord Air Force Base near here Tuesday. "It's a wonderful feeling," said their commander, Lt.

Col. Peter B. Petersen of Arlington, Va. "I hope they bring them all out," said Elesto Williams, 23, Houston, Tex. Their first night at this Army post was a far cry from their last night in Saigon, where helicopter gunships hovered on the horizon to keep the Viet Cong from spoiling their exit.

(An account of the troops' unusual arrival in Vietnam, and their almost unreal departure, appears today on Page 7.) Compassion When the first group of 94 veterans, most of them in early 20s, stepped from their C141 transport plane, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staff, told them they would find themselves "morel mature, more dedicated to the service of others, more compassionate, more responsible, more realistic and more practical" than their contemporaries. Their reaction was mixed. "I'm going to go home and cut the grass," said Sgt.

Jerome DeBold, 38, of Titusville, Pa. "I'm going out and raise hell," said Dave Schutte, 20, of Quincy, Ill. "I'm going to be a bum during my leave," said Sgt. Kenneth Reynolds, 22, of Black Duck, Minn. "I want to get home to my girl," said Michael Santoro, 21, of Brooklyn, N.Y.

New Title Law Aids Motorists But It Displeases Auto Dealers By JIM WECHSLER papers for customers to a max- or Monitor State News Service imum charge of $1. Amendments to the state's Dealers Unhappy certificate of title law for autos, But the auto dealers are unpassed in the waning hours of happy. the legislative session and Thomas McKoan the N.H. signed into law this week by Auto Dealers Association, who Gov. Peterson, have touched off fought vigorously for a gubernaa new controversy.

torial veto of the amendments, charged that a sentence, added Proponents of the bill are to the measure in committee pleased. conference on the last night of It will exempt autos manufac- the session, "could eventually tured. prior to 1964 from having mean the end of title in the to be titled. It will exempt trail- state." ers of less than 3,000 pounds. The new phrase requires all And it will restrict dealership titles, prepared by dealers or charges for drawing up title others, be examined by the or city clerk to determine if they have been prepared cording to law.

Clerks will receive a $1 fee for this examination. "For the first time, this is injecting the clerks into the tem of title operation," said McKoan. Several Questions Although attorneys are now examining the new law, "to see how it affects dealership operations," McKoan cited several questions raised by its wording. "Must the clerk examine the (See TITLE LAW Page 12) MID- LUMBER, INC. P.

0. BOX 445 HAMPTON, N. H. 03842 Tel. 603 926-2221 DATE July 2, 1969 Kiwanis Trade Fair DOUGLAS N.

EVERETT ARENA SWEEPSTAKES PRIZE CREDIT EXACTLY. THE SUMS CO VOLS CTS DOLLARS 500.00 THIS OFFER VOID IN ANY STATE WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. Harry E. Smarkey TO THE 35 A. Church St.

Mid-Atlantic Lumber, Inc. ORDER OF Concord, B.H Ed Calla lane THIS CHECK WILL BE ACCEPTED TOWARDS THE PURCHASE OF ANY ONLY CHECK WILL BE ACCEPTED LOT AT BRIGHAM ESTATES ON OR BEFORE 30 DAYS HEREOF TOWARDS EACH LOT Raffle Irks Resident 'Checks' Search Unsu Unsuccessful Harry E. Sharkey has won a raffle but, while attending the recent Kiwanis Trade Fair at the Everett Arena, he thought he'd try one more time. Sharkey entered his name and address on a form, and dropped it in a box, making himself eligible for a drawing for a boat and motor door prize at the Mid-Atlantic Lumber Inc. booth.

Saturday, Sharkey, of 35A Church and a number of other area residents, received certificates resembling checks in the amount of $500 in the mail, from Mid. Lumber Co. of Hampton. (Sharkey's name was misspelled on the certificate.) Them Of the 814 troops, 776 are enlisted men and 38 are officers. Of the enlisted men, 118 are being released from active duty and 658 are being reassigned.

Sixteen officers will be reassigned and 22 will be released from active duty. The men go through the red tape of military processing today and practice for a mile-long welcoming parade in Seattle Thursday. Most weren't too happy about the parade. "We're all pretty tired and really, not too enthusiastic," said 1st Lt. Donald Sweeney, Milford, Conn.

The men came home under the banner of the Army's 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division, but only 138 of them actually fought with the division. The others were men from other outfits who had almost finished their year's tour of duty in Vietnam or were due for discharge from the Army. There were no antiwar demonstrators among the 500 relatives, beauty queens, boy and girl scouts, Little League baseball players and civilians who greeted the men at the base. But three Seattle antiwar groups said they planned a parade in Seattle Thursday to coincide with the soldiers' homecoming march. "I hope just one hippie breaks our ranks," said S.Sgt.

Art Blasko, 20, of Moosic, Pa. "We'll shave his head." (See ABM Page 12) Moscow, Peking Swap Protests On Intrusion MOSCOW (AP) A Soviet ficial said today the latest Soviet-Chinese border violence has caused indignation throughout the Soviet far east, the official news agency Tass reported. "We believe all attacks on they border rivers are perpetrated by the Chinese deliberately and with full knowledge of the Maoist clique," Tass quoted Yakov Ovchinnikov, deputy chief of the traffic board for the Amur River. The clash occurred Tuesday on an island in the Amur and each side has blamed the other for starting it. So far there has been no mention of Chinese casualties.

Protest Note The Soviet protest note said Chinese troops armed with submachine guns, grenade launchers and hand grenades killed one Russian river worker and injured three Tuesday "in the Soviet part of the Goldinsky Island on the Amur River." Peking also lodged a protest, saying the Russians landed frontier troops on the island, sent in gunboats and planes, and burned down a Chinese civilian home. Goldinsky or Pacha as the Chinese call the island, is located about 40 miles west of the Soviet city of Khaharovsk, where a Sino-Soviet commission has been meeting since June 18 to discuss problems of navigation on border rivers. The island is slightly west of the confluence of the Amur Ussuri rivers. Soviet and Chinese troops fought two bloody battles on a disputed island on the Ussuri in March. make the momentous journey, Neil A.

Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins, planned several more hours today in the command ship trainer, practicing the critical launching phase and what they would do in various emergency situations. Walter J. Kapryan, deputy director of launch operations, said: "We are, moving ahead to- (See APOLLO Page 12) Ostrov Sakholin U.S.S.R.

Khabarovsk Alleged Intrusion Claimed Here CHINA Vladivostok 200 N. KOREA Miles "My wife and I thought it a check when we first opened it," Sharkey said, "and if it hadn't been Saturday, I might have run right down to the bank to cash it. Because it was Saturday, it gave me a chance to read the check over," and he noticed the "check" was a. certificate of $500 toward the purchase of land at Brigham Estates in Winthrope, Maine. Two Cashed Not everyone who received the certificates noticed the fine print, and two "checks" were cashed at Concord National Bank and Concord Savings Bank.

Concord National has retrieved its $500 while Concord Savings is still deciding what to do about the incident. A Kiwanis Club official said the boat and motor were picked up by the owner of the company after the drawing and that no mention was made of the land offer when individuals mitted their names in the arabe: ing. After a number of telephone calls by The Monitor, MidAtlantic, to this point, has proven to be only an answering service, a post office box, a card on file at the Hampton Chamber of Commerce and an office where spokesmen for the firm are always out. as director of the Detroit Tigers' farm system in 1948 and as the team's manager the following year. He was named American League manager of the year after steering the Tigers to a second-place finish.

He stayed with Detroit until 1952, when he was replaced midway through the season by the late Fred Hutchinson. A native of Penacook, Rolfe returned to New Hampshire in 1954 and became athletic director at Dartmouth, a post he held for 13 years. As the regular third baseman for the Yankees from 1935 through 1941, Rolfe compiled lifetime batting average of .289. His best year was 1939 when he batted .329 and lead the league in hits, doubles and runs. scored.

He leaves his widow, Mrs. Isabel (Africa) Rolfe, whom he married in 1943: four sisters, Mrs. George W. Randall, Miss Helen Rolfe, Mrs. Maurice Foss and Miss Marjorie Rolfe of Penacook; two nieces and a nephew.

The private service will be held at Wendell Butt Funeral Home. There will be no calling hours. It was suggested that in place of flowers friends may make memorial donations to charities of their choice. Red Rolfe Action At Third Base In 1939.