HOME EDITION 16 PAGES TODAY SECTION I P09W Gvnorol Nw Spoils Woottior, Mo voi, SocMty. Church Pog SECTION fegt Oossifad Farm foots STIjr (Bbtxnbata combined Januarv 2. 1929 with SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1971 OWENSBORO, 42301, i Asks Thorafl- 'i i -'I 1 3 it if 11 11 if liHy if ij 11 In Middle Ecasfr promise" in the Arab-Israeli peace talks being conducted by his special envoy, Swedish Ambassador Gunner V. Jarring. But he also expressed increasing concern that Jarring had not been able to break the deadlock between Israel and Egypt.
He singled out Egypt for praise, saying he noted with satisfaction "the positive reply" given by Cairo. At the same time he said Israel "has so far not responded to the request of Ambassador Jarring that it should give a commitment (on withdrawal) to By MILTON BESSER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Secretary-General Thant appealed Friday to Egypt and Israel to maintain the cease-fire in the Suez Canal zone due to expire Sunday. He praised Egypt for its response to peace moves and urged Israel to reconsider its position on withdrawal of troops from occupied Egyptian territory- Thant spelled out his stand to the Security Council in a report in which he asserted there were "considerable elements of mmr NO. 65 'U- DOWNHILL RACERS snow-covered hill, a day off toboggan and their world is Price Increase News Offsets Employment Rise Report Give four boys a from school and a complete until the going mind snow South Vietnamese tanks or armored cars were destroyed and two were captured in fighting in southern Laos Thursday.
The report, monitored in Tokyo, also quoted the Communist Lao People's Liberation Army as saying 60 allied soldiers were killed or wounded. The biggest clash reported by South Vietnamese headquarters occurred 26 miles west of the border outpost of Lao Bao and 7.4 miles southeast of Sepone. WASHINGTON (AP) White House advisers said after a drop in the nation's jobless rate was announced Friday that unemployment and inflation are easing, but a top government analyst took a cooler view and new price hikes added to economic uncertainty. Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally came from a session with President Nixon calling the February jobless drop "rather pleasant," and Staff photo by Dick Logsdon run.
The tobaggan team includes, left, Jim Grise, Joey Payne, Daniel Bowen and David Pendley, all of Owensboro. City Commission Votes 4-1 To Cut Next Board's Salary Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson said it was "hearten-ing. But the Labor Department's top jobs analyst, Harold Goldstein, said the picture was "sort of mixed" because of a drop in employment, a shorter average work week, virtually no rise in workers' earnings, and other figures in the February report. There was actually a slight rise of 28,000 unemployed to a total of 5,442,000 but normal sea that under the state constitution an elected officer's salary cannot be changed during his term of office.
Miller said he can see why an elected officer's salary should not be enlarged during his term but he saw nothing wrong with the officer volunteering to lower his salary. Commissioner Waitman Taylor said anyone voting for Puckett's proposal should agree to a salary reduction as of now. Tay gets rough. But even then they don't a spill off the sled or a chilly faceful of and they'll hop back on and continue their Copter Losses Again High U.S. Flies Viet Reinforcements into Laos the international boundary of the United Arab Republic." What Jarring proposed was an Israeli withdrawal to lines that existed between Egypt and British-mandated Palestine before Israel became an independent state in 1948.
That would mean Israel would give up the Sinai occupied in the June 1967 war. The status of Gaza appeared to be undetermined. Egypt seized Gaza in the first Arab-Israeli war and held control under the 1949 armistice agreements. (Continued on Page 2) sonal adjustment brought the rate down from 6 to 5.8 per cent of the work force. Virtually all of the statistical drop was caused by fewer people seeking part-time jobs, said Goldstein, who is assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
On the heels of the employment report, the bureau issued another report showing whole-continued on Page 2) lor's gross as commissioner is $6,000 a year but he keeps only $2,400, turning the remaining $3,600 over to the city's general fund as miscellaneous income. As for Puckett's suggestion that the mayor and each commissioner spend a day in city hall available to the public, Miller said there is no office space in the present city hall. He said the commissioners, one a day, would (Continued on Page 2) ing the arrest and his incarceration. Counsel for DeArmond contended Brown had no right to come on private property and arrest him for drunk and disorderly conduct. Brown defended himself by asserting he had a warrant for DeArmond's arrest on a child desertion charge.
He exhibited a copy of the warrant, allegedly signed by (Continued on Page 2) During its discussion of the PTA request board members emphasized that the number of court cases which Wilson reviewed clearly indicated that no action could be taken on the request. Wilson was out of town and not present at the board meeting. Dr. Hilliard said that he will advise the city PTA council on his recommendation. Representatives from the PTA did not attend the meeting.
The PTA recommended the Bible reading for the "guidance and comfort" of the students. The Supreme Court of the United States has held study of the Bible and prayer in the public schools to be in violation of the Constitution. Mrs. James Howard, council representative, was reported out of the city until next week and was not available for comment on the board's decision. In other business the board authorized destruction of nine bonds which matured June 30, (C6ntinued on Page 2) Federal Jury Decides Muhlenberg's Ex-Sheriff Not Liable for Damages The board of city commissioners voted Friday to lower the salaries of the next mayor and commissioners of Owensboro.
On a vote of 4 to 1, the board directed City Attorney Hugh D. Moore to prepare an ordinance that will reduce the salary of the mayor to $4,800 and the pay of the commissioners to $3,600 a year. The mayor is now paid $7,200 a year, the commissioners $6,000 a year each. Mayor Irvin Terrill, the lone dissenter, said Owensboro's mayor ought to be paid $15,000 a year and devote most of his time to the job. The salary-lowering motion was made by Commissioner Alton Puckett who said the new pay scale will save the city $12,000 a year.
Puckett also casually announced he will be a candidate for re-election as commissioner this year. Puckett made another motion to have the mayor and each commissioner spend at least one day a week in city hall so that the public will always have at least one elected officer to talk to during any day. This motion failed for the lack of a second. Commissioner John D. Miller sought to have Puckett's proposal take effect immediately but Moore told him President Might Not Sign Measure Against Chemical Warfare Rogers By EDWIN Q.
WHITE Associated Press rVriter SAIGON (AP) U.S. helicopters flying through deadly antiaircraft fire carried 1,000 more South Vietnamese infantrymen today into a battle raging near the key enemy supply point of Sepone in the Laotian panhandle. They reinforced another 1,000 troops who had been airlifted to a point south of Sepone Friday. The South Vietnamese reported killing 235 North Vietnamese soldiers with the aid of American air strikes. Field officers said South Vietnam now had committed about 20,000 troops in the drive to cut North Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh supply trail network through southern Laos.
The campaign took another heavy toll of American helicopters. U.S. Command spokesmen said in a communique today that five nore choppers were shot down and destroyed in Laos Friday, with seven Americans missing. The losses brought to 16 the number of American helicopters destroyed in three days. Hanoi's Vietnam News Agency claimed today that 20 82mm mortar and one 60mm mortar." Two South Vietnamese soldiers were listed as killed and 38 wounded.
Other troops of the 1st Infantry Division found the bodies of 101 North Vietnamese soldiers, apparently killed by U.S. air strikes, in an area 4.3 miles southeast of Sepone, the communique said. In the same area, South Vietnamese infantrymen reported plied: "Yes sir That is my judgment." The Pentagon announced meanwhile it has asked the National Academy of Sciences to study the effects of herbicides on plant and animal life and to recommend steps to restore any damage its use may have caused in Vietnam. Use of the chemicals in Vietnam now, is limited to remote areas and" around the perimeters of U.S. and South Vietnamese outposts, where the ene- James M.
Gholson of Alexandria, Va. A U.S. Embassy source said he believed the letters to be genuine. The airmen said they were being treated well. In a statement delivered to (Continued on Page 2) destroying 13 antiaircraft machine guns and seizing 13 other heavy weapons, 50 rifles and five tons of rice.
North Vietnamese gunners fired 300 rounds of 152mm artillery shells into fire base Aluoi, a South Vietnamese paratrooper outpost along Highway 9 but the command reported light casualties with no fatalities. Lt. Col. Le Thung Hien, a (Continued on Page 2) my might make use of jungle cover. An undercurrent in the hearing was the meeting across the witness table of Rogers and Sen.
Stuart Symington, who told the Senate Tuesday he believed Rogers has lost his role as chief foreign policy adviser to- presidential aide Henry Kissinger. Rogers was stoutly defended by Nixon in the President's Thursday night news conference, and he and Symington had nothing but smiles and pleasant words for each other. At one point Sen. Jacob K. Javits, asked Rogers: "Mr.
Secretary, you are in full charge here nobody's giving you orders?" Smiling, Rogers replied: "Of course the President is giving orders. I'm next in line." Symington had said that in his view Kissinger, the President's national security adviser, had (Continued on Page 2) ment measure Monday night. A subcommittee is working on four different drafts. Since the Senate loosened its bounds somewhat on mathematical equality, the House is expected to follow suit. The original Senate measure split seven counties.
The current House bill splits 31, but the number is likely to diminish sharply under the revised version. The Senate vote went about Troops of the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division crashed into strong North Vietnamese forces and called in U.S. bombers and artillery. "A total of 152 enemy soldiers were killed, 18 crew-served weapons and 64 individual weapons were seized," the communique said. "In addition, the infantrymen destroyed 12 antiaircraft machine guns, eight tons of rice, 19 houses, one But he said the Nixon administration strongly opposes any interpretation that would include tear gas and similar agents or the chemical plant killers that have been used to defoliate jungle growth in Viet-rnam.
"I think it is fair to say that if that interpretation is included, it would jeopardize and might well kill the treaty," Rogers said. Asked if he meant the President might not sign it, he re ters purportedly from the four and the wife of one pleading that a $400,000 ransom be paid to spare the airmen from death before a terrorist firing squad this morning. Police and troops were kept busy during a day of disturbances in Ankara with students throwing bombs, firing on police and conducting protest meetings. The Turkish Cabinet met to consider the situation. The letters asking that the kidnapers' demands be met were delivered to the U.S.
ambassador through a newspaper office. "If you have any idea of not doing what they want, please reconsider," wrote Airman 1C Richard Caraszi of Stamford, Conn. "We would like to live Please let my family know I love them and all will be well and to have faith in God. Please help us," wrote Airman 1C City School Board Votes To Take No Action About Bible-Reading Turkish Police, Students Clash Pair Killed in Search for Airmen Jimmy Brown, former sheriff of Muhlenberg County, did not use excessive force in arresting a man near Beech Creek, on Sept. 5, 1969 and is not liable for money damages sought in the aftermath of the incident.
That was the verdict of a jury Friday in Federal District Court here after about two hours and 10 minutes of deliberation. Herman H. DeArmond, the man arrested, sought damages of $50,000 from Brown on grounds his civil rights were violated dur reviewing his study, I am recommending that the board take no action. "Mr. Wilson has pursued the subject quite thoroughly," Dr.
Hilliard said. Marvin Moseley, vice chairman who presided in the absence of board chairman James E. Allison, concurred. "Mr. Wilson researched this very thoroughly," he said.
stricted to 10 minutes for each side before the vote but some strong language was used by Sen. Mack Walters, D-Shelby-ville, who voted "no." Walters, complaining his Blue-grass district has been emasculated by removal of Anderson and Scott counties, said: destruction of the 20th senatorial district has been (Continued on Page 2) WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon might not sign a treaty banning chemical and biological weapons if the Senate insists on including riot-control gases and herbicides, Secretary of State William P. Rogers said Friday. Rogers told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ratification of the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning chemical and biological poison gases would be a key step toward international disarmament. Students, posted at windows and on the roof of the dormitory at the Middle East Technical University threw dynamite sticks and opened fire at soldiers surrounding the building.
As police launched a nationwide search for the missing Americans, U.S. Ambassador William Handley received let- can walk. What does it matter whether his "sins are forgiven," or whether he is told "take up your bed and It does matter! Because man is a total being he cannot be divided up into neat mental, physical, spiritual and emotional compartments. What he is in one affects what he is in the other. His attitude toward himself, his acceptance of himself as a person, his willingness to accept God's forgiveness and the forgiveness of (Continued on Page 2) ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -Two persons were killed and more than a dozen wounded Friday when students exchanged shots with troops trying to enter a university dormitory in search of four kidnaped American airmen.
One of those killed was a student and the other a Turkish soldier. tattmta fur jGrirt For its Redisricting State Senate Okays Substitute The Owensboro Board of Education voted Friday to take no action on last month's request from the city PTA council asking that the board encourage teachers to read a passage from the Bible every morning. Dr. James C. Hilliard, superintendent, in recommending to the board that it take no action, said, "After conferring with the board attorney (William Wilson) and as expected.
The pro-reappor-tionment majority would have amassed 31 votes, but Sen. Clyde Middleton, R-Fort Mitchell, arrived late because of car trouble and was not allowed to record his "yes" in the official count. "This (bill) will withstand any constitutional attack," said Sen. William Logan, D-Madisonville. No one disputed him during the brief debate amendments were shut off and debate re EDITOR'S NOTE This is the 11th in a series of meditations which will appear in the Messenger and Inquirer each day during Lent.
Today's meditation has been prepared by the Rev. Earl Caldwell, pastor of Central Presbyterian Church. It is easy, as you read the story of the healing of the lame man, to get lost in the debate between Jesus and the Scribes and forget the essential point of the story. The man was healed. Up to this point he was lame, but now he By SY RAMSEY Associated Press Writer FRANKFORT, Ky.
(AP) -The Senate approved 30-7 and sent to the House Friday a substitute redisricting bill which splits portions of only Fayette and Kenton counties, but has a total variance of more than 18 per cent. The next step is up to the House, which is expected to receive its substitute reapportion.
