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The Weather through Tuesday. Law ranging from the -teens in the on the coast, high Tues- On The Inside 5 Local 7 Business 14 Obituariet 1 Classified 10-13 Sports ft-9 Comics Women Editorial 4 Wycbe VOL. 247" omple PETERSBURG, COLONIAL HEIGHTS, HQPEWELL, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1969 AP Wirephoto PRICE: 10 CENTS Border Fight In Second Day SAIGON (AP) Hundreds of troops ambushed about 1 200 South Vietnamese paratroopers, killing 30 of the government soldiers and wounding 105 in a two-day battle that was still going on late today, the Saigon government said. The savage battle was one of five major fights reported in the past 24 three points near the Cambodian border and to the north and south of Saigon. The dead included 31 Americans and at least 127 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, allied spokesmen said.

The Viet Cong also shelled More than 35 towns and allied bases during the night as the. enemy's spring offensive continued in its third week. U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird told newsmen as he left Saigon fitter a four-day visit that the offensive is a "calculated escalation of the war." But he said "has not been successful" and the rocket attacks which have been made on Saigon were not (Significant.

Laird would not reveal the Pakistan Violence Flares Up KARACHI (AP) Anti-A merican violence flared up Pakistan today as leaders met President Mohammed Ayub Khan and proposed that Pakistan return to a parliamentary form of government. As the "peace" meeting took place in Rawalpindi, hundreds cf chanting student demonstrators set fire to the main door of the U.S. Information Service library in Lahore, 180 miles away. Because the fire brigade refused to go to the scene without police protection, the library staff put out the fire. Damage was restricted to the main door of the library and an American vehicle parked out- iide which was also burned.

In Rawalpindi, opposition leaders presented Ayub with detailed proposals for changing the whole way of government in Pakistan after his. promise to step down as -president. The opposition wants a feder el government with national elections based on votes for all ndulls. A statement issued after the Bcssion in Ayub's presidential guest house said that Sheikh lUujibur Rehman, leader of the powerful Awami League party from East Pakistan, wants representation on a population basis. This would give bigger say to East Pakistan which was roughly 60 per cent of Pakistan's 120 million population.

East Pakistan, which produces jute for valuable export, Is separated from West Pakistan by Indian territory. Both states would get more local control, with the federal government limited to defense, foreign affairs and currency, the sources said. But some disagreement was still reported among leaders of the six opposi- on parties banded in a coalition called the Democratic Action Committee. Not included in the talks with Ayub were former Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ah" Bhutto, leader of the leftist People's party, and 85-year-old Maulana Abdul Bha shani, leader of the pro-Peking wing of the National Awam party of East Pakistan. Thest two parties signed an agreement Sunday forming a leftis alliance independent of th DAC.

ommendtions be is carrying ack to President Nixon, except say that he would request ad- itional funds to strengthen the south Vietnamese armed serv- ces. At Da Nang Sunday, he lad indicated the amount would )e about $70 million. The secretary said American troops would be re- laced in due course by South 'ietnamese as the latters' armed forces grew stronger. iut he would not give any imetable. Laird said the question of the mutual withdrawal of American and North Vietnamese troops is one of the subjects under consideration in Paris, and consequently he did not feel it proper comment further in Saigon.

But he did say that on the basis of his trip, he could not foresee any circumstances which would require more American forces in Vietnam. Laird reiterated an earlier statement that continuation of rocket and mortar attacks on Saigon constituted a violation of an understanding with North Vietnam under which the United States stopped bombing North Vietnam on Nov. 1. "If they continue," he said, "an appropriate response, in either a diplomatic or a military way, will be made." Meanwhile, the Viet Cong pushed its spring offensive into its third week Sunday, and enemy troops dealt a battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers and a platoon of American air cavalrymen heavy losses in two border dashes. Another American ambush patrol suffered serious losses when Viet Cong roops outmaneuvered it and sprung their own ambush.

The South Vietnamese para irooper battalion reported 14 of its men killed and 80 wounded in (Continued On Page 2) Emergency Not Seen On Money BASEL (AP) Western Europe's central bankers decided Sunday the-French franc's troubles don't constitute an emergency requiring international action but the price of gold continued to rise today on Europe's free markets. Bullion was selling at $43.75 an ounce in London, 25 cents ver Friday's price. Dealers aid the demand was normal nd the turnover small, indicat- the upward movement was aused by the absence of sellers at the lower levels. On London's foreign exchange market the pound opened a tittle $2.3908 compared to 'riday's $2.3895. But the franc, which pulled sterling down last veek, was still shaky.

In Zurich, the price of gold umped from to 13.75-£H, hitting a record high "or the second time in four days. One bullion dealer said there was "demand from almost everywhere," but a banker said the buying "did not appear to be really hectic." After their regular monthly meeting, several of the bankers said the French government has enough gold current flow its borders. They also said France has not asked for help under emergency arrangements the bankers made last month to help countries with money troubles. However, the present uncertainty about the franc will not be resolved until the French government and the country's labor unions settle their differences over wages. The unions have called a 24-hour general strike Tuesday.

Ray Pleads Guilty To King Murder MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) James Earl Ray pleaded guilty today to murder in the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ray took the stand shortly after 9 a.m. Criminal Court Judge W.

Preston Battle asked the defendant if he understood what he was doing in pleading guilty, if the decision was of his own free will and if he understood that he waived all rights to appeal. Ray said he understood. Pereman, Ray's defense lawyer, told the court, "I've never had hopes of anything except to save this man's life." "It took me months to prove to myself that it was not a conspiracy," Foreman added. A jury was selected from a agent in charge of the FBI office in Memphis, The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported that Foreman had conferred with two of Ray's brothers and a sister last week, apparently to clear the way for a guilty plea. Ray, an escapee from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested in London last June 8, two months and four days after King was killed by a single shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.

Ray was returned to Memphis in July after lengthy extradition proceedings and 'since then has been held under extraordinary security precautions in an air- conditioned and TV-monitored cell block of the Shelby County jail. He has made fewer than a venire chosen two weeks ago. spokesman for' the court the jurors had no idea what case they would be hearing when they reported this morning. Five men were called to testify that King was, indeed, murdered. Those called to testify included: Rev.

Samuel B. Kyles, a Memphis Baptist minister with whom King was to have had supper on the eve of this death. Eskridge of Chicago, an attorney and close friend of the late civil rights leader. Jerry T. Francisco, the Shelby County coroner, who discussed the single rifle wound which King received.

N. E. Zachary, chief of Memphis homicide officers. Jensen, special half-dozen court appearances since his return, the first for his arraignment and the remainder as a series of procedural dfr ense motions were argued. Tennessee law in first-de- cases requires a ury to set a sentence regard- ess of the plea entered, but a provision of the statute urors who say they can not agree with a recommended sentence to be disqualified.

The law further requires that be prosecution must then that King was killed. Under the rules governing a guilty plea, the attorneys then stipulate that if the case had gone. to trial evidence would have been presented to show that Ray was the man who shot King. King was slain on the night of April 4 while in Memphis to help about 1,300 sanitation workers, most of them Negroes, in a strike against the city government. Suez Canal Quiet; Egypt Buries Riad TEL AVIV (AP) After two.

Saturday. They reported to U.N. days of heavy shelling, the Suez Canal was reported quiet again today. Egypt prepared a hero's funeral for its army chief of staff, Gen. Abdel Moneim Riad, who was fatally wounded by an Israeli shell Sunday.

"They are burying their general at noon, so we don't expect trouble today," an Israeli military source said. U.N. observers blamed Egypt for the start of the artillery duel Staff Photo By John H. Sheally II Snbw-Covererf Tree Limbs Frame Moforisis On Way To Work On Sycamore Street Less Opposition Seen If ABM Scaled Down WASHINGTON expected move (AP) An by President To Less Stormy Seas Apollo May Shift Landing Nixon 'to scale down plans for the Sentinel program may lessen opposition to the antimissile especially in the controver- to cope with the of money beyond SPACE CENTER, Houston i (AP) With stormy weather buffeting their planned Atlantic landing area, the Apollo 9 astronauts received word today they might have to shift their splashdown to calmer seas. Air Force Cols.

James A. McDivitt and David R. Scott and civilian Russell L. Schweickart then turned space age weathermen to report on conditions in the landing zone and over a wide area of the United States. McDivitt, the Apollo 9 commander, asked about the forecast for Thursday's planned landing southwest of Bermuda.

"Hey, Jim, I hate to bring that up," replied astronaut Stuart Roosa, the capsule communicator in Mission Control. Roosa reported there was slorm front moving through the area and "they're calling for fairly heavy winds, around 3( knots or so and waves aroum six to eight feet." "But we'll make sure the weather is good though," be assured Apollo 9. "I don't we'll plunk you down in the mid die of a front there." The astronauts can chang their landing area by their retro rockets earlier or lal er than planned. McDivitt reported Apollo ad spotted the s'corm from 97 per cent of their flight objec- icir high outpost. "It looks pretty rough and vindy," he said.

"You can see I lives. The crucial' lunar module, or LEM, checkout, Schweickart's space walk and the rendez- are remaining aloft to prove the reliability of the Apollo command ship tor 10 days, the longest period presently planned for a man-to-the-moon mission. Mission Control let the astro- the whitecaps from up where we are." "You're the best weather re- son we got," Roosa commented. 'We'll just let you pick your own area." "Okay, we'll be your friendly veatherman," joked the commander. He then reported the weather cloudy over South Texas, clear over Florida and stormy farther north along the east coast of the U.S.

Roosa reported winds around 60 knots were being recorded at Bermuda and told the pilots it was a good thing they weren't landing there today. If the launching had not been i Thirty-eight freight delayed three days from its hem" loaded with vous of LEM and command module occurred in the first five days. They defense system, Congress." Nixon studded nauts sleep nine hours and they awoke in good spirits. McDivitt recalled that wore had been radioed earlier that cooks aboard the recovery carrier Guadalcanal were preparing a 350-pound cake for their return to earth. "Ever since you mentioned it, Rusty and Dave haven't stopped talking about it," McDivitt laughed.

"I sure am sorry about that," said Roosa. News Briefs Ammunition Train Derails sial antiballistic missile program over the weekend in Florida and is scheduled to announce a decision early this week to employ a modified "thin" system with perhaps fewer missile sites than originally planned and further away from major population centers. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said in an interview that a cutback in the proposed number of missile sites "will satisfy some people" in Congress who are worried about the cost of the proposed ABM program. Critics fear the system once started will grow both in cost and intent from one originally estimated at S5 billion to protect the system and that was the 1968 high water mark for opponents. is expected to call for resumption work.on the system which started under the Johnson administration and was frozen last month amid controversy over its cost, effectiveness, danger to cities and effect on possible disarmament talks.

The administration has indicated it wants to proceed with a revamped version which could be used for bargaining purposes in expected arms limitation talks with the Soviet Union. The hope is that such a modified system would also be cheap enough to placate Sentinel cost critics and yet satisfy demands from the military and others for some sort of protection against possible Chinese attacks. It's also expected, that proposed missile sites for the nuclear-tipped Spartan interceptors will be moved as much as headquarters that they observed the Egyptians firing from one to 32 minutes before the Israelis opened up along the blocked waterway. Israeli shells bit Egypt's oil refinery, at Suez for the fourth time since the 1967 war, and the Israelis said a petrochemical plant and oil storage tanks were still burning today. Egypt said three tanks were set afire.

Israel said one of its Piper Cubs was shot down, three Israelis including the pilot were killed and 14 were wounded. Egypt said three of its men were killed and 13 wounded and it lost a MIG jet. Israel said MIG pilot was captured. Egypt also claimed its forces Drought down an Israeli Mystere jet, but Israel denied this. The semiofficial Cairo newspaper- Al Ahram said Riad.

bad flown by helicopter to Sunday and was- observing the artillery duel with a group of 6f- planned Feb. 28 date, the astronauts were to have come home today. The weather watch helped break the monotony of Apollo 9's seventh day in which the astronauts' drifted to conserve fuel and dreamed of home. They had another light schedule of picture checks, resting. The astronauts had completed an engine firing, and Following Reunion With Family Miner Resfs In Hospifal After Escape today near Clarkton.

Munitions experts from Ft. Jragg were dispatched to aid in reloading the ammunition, mostly artillery shells. The de- ailment occurred in an unpopu- ated area two miles east of Clarkton in Bladea County. The 'Seaboard Coast Line train was en route to Sunny Army munitions depot, when the derailment occurred. Sunny 'oint is near Southport in Jrunswick County, Authorities said there were no injuries and no explosions.

LARK, Utah Tough, grizzled William "Buck" Jones relaxed in a hospital bed today, freed from the tiny cell of rock that held him captive deep in a Utah-mountain for eight days. Jones, 61-year-old father of II, was brought to safely Sunday night by rescuers who had tunneled tediously through 25 feet of rock to his cubicle. After an emotional reunion with his big family at the mine entrance, Jones was whisked 20 miles to a Salt Lake City hospital for examination and rest. He weary, but obviously was in high spirits. "I want a shower!" he shouted.

"I think I need it." The echo rang down the hospital corridor He got a bath instead. Then he shaved himself, had a dinner of ham and eggs End a television replay of his rescue. A hospital spoheman said there would be no immediate in terviews. It was a tearful, joyful scene' vhen the tunnel train carrying ones to safety reached the sur- ace after a ride from he shaft in which he was rapped by a cave-in March 1. A cheer went up from more ban 300 persons crowding the opening, including Jones' entire family.

Her eyes glisten- ng, Mrs. Jones cried, "Buck, I love you:" His children shouted, "Hi, dad:" "Hello, mother," the weary, bearded Jones said to his wife. Then the two spent a private moment in the covered mine car before fellow miners carried him to an ambulance. "His kisses were very dusty," said daughter Velma Jones. Mrs.

Jones "said he was "very tired" but had laughed and talked with her. A nurse said Jones did not ap pear to have any cuts or bruises, but had "awfully red inees, probably from having to kneel a lot." Jones's quarters were about 5 'eet wide, and only high enough or him to crouch in. The rescue days of danger and frurtration for workers who risked their own lives in the narrow shaft of the lead, zinc and silver mine. Officials had feared a new cave-in which could have crushed Jones and taken the lives of his rescuers. A direct route through the feet of mud and rock which sealed Jones in the tunnel was abandoned after four days because of cave-in danger.

An attempt to drill an escape tunnel with diamond bits also ran into problems. The rescue was finally made through a tunnel which workers began chopping through solid rock Thursday. Rescuers had to pull Jones through a passageway less than two feet, wide, but he was far from helpless. "He came right down a ladder by himself." said rescuer Walt Graham. Another rescuer, Jack Glancy, said, "He believes Gw saved him.

Nobody is going to change his mind on that." Jones was trapped when the side of a tunnel in which he am another miner were working caved in. The other miner, Ger aid Charles, 25, jumped free. For days, there was silence as rescue worker picked slowly through the rub ble. Then Jones startle 1 them Wednesday morning by calling out: CLARKTON, N.C. (AP) Soldiers from Ft.

Bragg and Sunny Point were placed on guard at the derailment site to of ammunition jeep spectators away. Authorities said it might take eight days to remove the ammunition from the cars and reload it for shipment to Sunny Point. Some of the ammunition was scattered along the track. A crane was being sent from Rocky Mount to aid hi the removal of the ammunition. Authorities said the operation was hampered by the swampy land at the derailment scene.

Trains will be routed around the wreckage until the tracks can be cleared. Police Bus Ambushed, 2 Escape LONDON (AP) Two men ambushed a police bus during the morning rush hour in a tough South London district today, squirted ammonia in the faces of two unarmed prison officers and freed two robbery suspects being taken to court for trial. They escaped in a car, leaving six other prisoners on the bus. A number of passersby witnessed the ambush but it was over before they could summon help. The Home Office, said the two men who escaped were Kenneth Edward Drury, 29, a grocer charged with rohbery with violence, and John William Ferguson, 26, a salesman accused armed robbery.

The Home Office said the bus's doors were unlocked as a precaution in case of a traffic accident. It said two men leaped from a truck as the bus stopped at 3 red light and hustled Drury an Ferguson, still gether. into a man drove the truck away. handcuffed to sedan. A thin Town's Sole Price At $7,000 "When are you going get me put here?" Late Sunday Jones was watching television in his hospital room when he saw a visitor in the hall.

"All I have to say," Jones re- marked, "is 'that God had His arms around me." PODUNK CENTER, Iowa (AP) The whole town of Po- against Chinese Communist rockets to a $40 billion system geared against the Soviet Union. They see this as a major escalation of the arms race. Even supporters of the Sentinel admit the high cost, that it would take three years to build nd would be capable of interesting only small numbers of allistic missiles, nsophisticated intercontinental allistk missiles. Mansfield is one of a powerful roup of senators, which in- ludes Edward M. Kennedy, D- and J.

W. Fulbright, D- who have been fighting remediate deployment of the Sentinel missile system. An Associated Press poll over he weekend showed 47 senaton opposing funds this year for ientinel sites, 2-5 in favor of going ahead with the work and 29 undecided. Last year only 34 senators voted to delay deployment of 30 miles from major population centers. Location of the sites near cities had drawn criticism from citizens who feared accidental explosions or that the areas would become a targets for Soviet weapons.

Some 15 locations had been selected tentatively as missile sites at the time of the freeze, but work had started on only one, near Boston. Even advocates of the system have been urging Nixon to cut back on deployment to about six sites in order to ease opposition. ficers when the shell landed close to him. Others in the group were only slightly injured, but the 50-year-old general died shortly after he was taken to the Ismailia ixspitaL Riad was Egypt's 1 second- ranking soldier after the defense minister, Gen. Mohammed Fawzi.

President Gamal Abdel Nasser posthumously awarded him Egypt's highest military decoration, the Star of Honor. 'Riad became chief of staff in the sbakeup that followed the purging of the late Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer on charges of plotting against Nasser after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Riad had commanded Arab forces on the Jordanian front during the 1967 hostilities under a joint Egyptian-Jordanian defense agreement. Cairo said the firing began Saturday after Egyptian forces saw "many preparations on east bank of the canal "that included the setting up of rockets and the gathering of tanks" which "indicated the enemy's intention to commit an act of aggression." The first artillery barrage was preceded by a dogfight between Israeli and Egyptian fighters in which the Egyptian MIG was shot down. Johnny Can Read Beffer, honks To Mother's Work OMAHA, Neb.

CAP) Johnny can read group of better, thanks mothers who to a care dunk Center is for sale for 6 grand total of $7,000. The butt of thousands of jokes, the town consists of one acre in south central Iowa, and has a gas station, grocery store and under one and a four-unit motel. The town isn't on any road maps, is too small for the postal guide and doesn't have a zip code number, city manager but and its mayor, owner Homer Weeks, advertises it as "the hub of the world." Weeks, 41, says he must sell the town because bums received last August had forced him to close it down. The town's population reached its peak of 21 in the 1930s when four families lived there. Criminals Given Right On Bugging WASHINGTON TAP) criminal defendants whose conversations or "premises" were bugged by federal agents have a right to examine government transcripts and logs, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 today.

This includes government records relating to national security matters. The Justice Department has argued strenuously against such action. The point of the examination by defense attorneys is to determine if prosecution was built on illegal eavesdropping. The government already had conceded its obligation to disclose bugging if the bugging helped the prosecution. But it maintained this examination should be done by a federal by the defendant's lawyers.

enough to work without pay. A bucket of paint, a basement storeroom and $38 also went into the "skill enrichment program" at Dundee School, one of eight schools in the Omaha School District where volunteer mothers are hoping to provide programs that the schools cannot afford. "Things have happened that never would have happened without this program," said Dundee Principal Margaret Corcoran. "I've never seen anything more encouraging." The bucket of paint dressed up the converted basement classroom. The mothers trained for 10 months before their work began.

And the S8S. primarily from the Dundee Parent-Teachers Association, provided children's paperback books and poster materials. In five months, eight" mothers have helped 38 children overcome reading problems. Most pupils have gained a year in reading since October, said Lorie Conrey, a second- grade teacher who helped set up and direct the program. Some second graderi who once had trouble reading have jumped a book ahead because of the mothers' help, she said.

Every school in the district plans to develop a volunteer program eventually. The district has developed a special training program for based largely on the of the Dundee group. And the district is seeking £300,000 in federal funds over a three-year period to train volunteers to teach in public and nonpublic schools. Officials limit each class to four children, saying they learn best when taught in small groups. Parents must give their permission before vplunteen may work with their child.

Volunteers and children know each other only by Oral names "so the children wiH regard us as teachers' rather than teachers," said Mrs. Jack Baruhart, at whoa home volunteer mothers attended classes. The school district classifies the volunteers as teachers' helpers hoping to avoid problems that could arise over the use of noncertified instructors officiate said. The whole program probably falls into a legal "gray area." Mrs..