Arizona Republic (Newspaper) - February 22, 1971, Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix weather Variable cloudiness and a little warmer High 6569 low Yesterdays high low Humidity high low Details page 81st 282 Todays The original mistake was inventing the This in due to having Telephone 2718000 February 1971 TWO 44 Pages g 10 cents hardest hit Storms wreak Havoc in scores injured United Press International A wave of tornados cut across Missis sippi less severe out break hit Louisiana and killing at least 47 persons and injuring scores A paralyzing blizzard struck and surrounding trapping at least 300 persons in cars between Amarillo and A spokesman for Amarillo said the city was completely paralyzed and shut In where the major out break of tornados 41 persons were dead and many more were miss National Guardsmen and medical supplies were rushed to the delta where the worst of the damage was in In 17yearold Bob Biggers said one sounded like a roaring train but was shaped like a spinning Ive never been so scared of a top in my The Mississippi Civil Defense Depart ment said nine persons were killed in eight in seven in Delta five in Leflore five in Hum three at Little two near Bovina and two at About 40 most of them were injured when a tornado hit a trailer park near Inverness and Gary were virtually de in the Authorities said the twisters moved over most of the north ern half of the At least six members of one family were dead at and three were missing after a tornado picked up their house and destroyed A 10th member of the family was found lying in a field near Joe Bayou two miles from Delhi with a serious back Three other members of the family were in a neighbors house when the twister It looked like a thousand an area resident Police said damage in Mississippi was very The Mississippi Power and Light said distribution structures were damaged in the causing power shortages in several James asked President Nixon to declare the Missis sippi Delta a disaster The Texas Panhandle was paralyzed under 6foot snow Many airports and highways were closed from to Oklahoma and The Southern Pacific Railroad sent out special trains to pick up stranded motor ists in Oklahoma and It is be to be the first time in 30 years such action was Texas National Guardsmen stood by in heavily hit counties to aid in rescue and guard armories were pre pared to house lost A tornado hit the central business dis of a suburban Waco community of damaging a grocery cafe and several Continued on Page 2 Phoenix is leader in drugs Mitchell declares By CLARENCE BAILEY United States John Mitchell said here last night that Phoenix leads all American cities in controlling its drug problem a success that shows how a local government often can solve its problems better than Washingtons Mitchells compliment to the community a clear reference to the CODAC drug control organization of 43 local and state agencies was made to nearly persons attending a dinner sponsored by the Young Republican Trunk N Tusk Club at the residents of Sunburst Farms picket Hallcraft Homes display at 35th Avenue and Thun Photo by Waiter Groll derbird Road protesting plans to build housing near their n with L I By CHARLES HORKY Accompanied by dogs and Sunburst Farms re picketed the Hallcraft Homes display at 35th Avenue and Thunderbird protesting the proposed de velopment of housing next to their Faye president of the Sun burst estimated 200 persons and 50 horses took part in the Sunburst Farms is a community of approximately 350 homes on 1to 10 acre lots north of Thunderbird Road and east of 51st Many of the resi dents keep grow citrus and enjoy country association mem bers which developed Sunburst has requested zoning for apart townhouses and other residences totaling units across 51st Avenue to the west of Sunburst Part of the proposed development would be in Glen dale and part would be in an area of the We realize residential construction eventually will fill the thousands of acres of farmland and desert in our Risley All we want is for the developers to provide a buffer zone around us of homes on lots of at least an If people not used to farjn odors and noises move in next to the farm severe conflicts are bound to arise association members Gordon public relations tor of said the firm does plan a buffer zone along the western ry of Sunburst The buffer a 25foot bri dle path to be dedicated to the City of Glendale and a 6foot wall along the Kent The nearest house in the new develop ment would be 250 feet from Sunburst he We are proud bi Sun burst Kent We have pro vided 800 acres of controlled environ ment for the residents But we realize that not everybody can afford a Sunburst Farms home and we think the proposed development is the most logical land use possible in this he The Glendale Planning and Zoning Commission last week denied zoning request for the portion of the proposed development that would be in that Hallcraft officials said they intend to appeal to the City Jackie a Sunburst farm said the County Planning and Zoning Commission has recommended approval of request for zon ing in the portion of the development to be in our unincorporated The Board of Supervisors will hold a hearing on the zoning request at Epley I find it extremely exhilarating to find in its attack on the drug said the man who was President Nixons campaign This program has been conceived and executed by Phoenix people as a in the rate of drug cases declined for the first time in Phoenix has become a Mitchell Phoenix has learned to solve its own problem far better than the federal bureaucracy in The attorney generals remarks came when he departed from a prepared text calling for the New Federalism advo by President doctrine that seeks to restore a large measure of selfgovernment to counties and The fact is that we have made the federal government so strong it grows musclebound and the states and locali ties so weak they approach he The result has been a rising frustration in America and a mounting fear that our institutions will never again be equal to our Mitchell said these developments in years prior to the Nixon administration have brought about a national crisis and have raised a subtle and tal our federal system of government is still capable of govern The rising frustration challenge once again the basic ideals that have guided us for two and it asks whether the under present systems and programs are able to govern them He said the nation no longer can stagger under the tired old spend and elect formula of the Roosevelt era and he called for these three elements of re form the balance between the states and Washington the strength of the states and localities in resolving state and local and the federal bureaucracy so that it can get its own job done in the proper Mitchell said this was the essence of President Nixons New the Continued on Page 12 the way Phoenix has led other cities Mitchells aide explains stand on wiretapping United Press International WASHINGTON Defending the ad ministrations claim of an inherent pres right to wiretap dissident domestic Deputy Ri chard Kleindienst maintains there is no difference between Americans and for eigners if their aim is to destroy the gov It would be silly to say that an American because he is an could subvert the government by actions of violence and revolution and be immune and Kleindienst said in a recent Kleindienst was visiting in Phoenix last night in connection with John Mitch ells visit to that Kleindienst stressed he was not about free speech but about con duct inimicable to our free institutions conduct that presents a clear and pre sent danger to our form of that kind of activity that could be exact ly the same as similar conduct commit ted by agents of a foreign The whole question of internal securi ty is not a divisible subject according to the 2 man at the Justice You divide subversion into two parts domestic and He commented on response to ques tions about the current controversy gen originally by disclosures the gov bugged defendants in the Chicago Seven trial and heightened by two recent court rulings that electronic surveillance of domestic groups without a court order was The Justice Department asked 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati 5 to set aside a ruling by District Court Judge Damon Continued on Page 12 Tel Aviv cautious in reply to Cairo inside Mounting highway carnage stresses auto safety need By DAVE FITZPATRICK On a desolate stretch of 66 in northwest Arizona last an elderly California man died when he was thrown from his crashing car and skittered over sharp Investigating officers said seat belts would have saved his Several weeks a large num ber of Arizona highway patrolmen were diverted from their normal du ties patrolling the states roads to battle demonstrators near the Univer sity of That a string of highway accidents took six James head of the State Department of Public said some of those lives might have been saved if the patrolmen hadnt been shunted from their regular pa The deaths form part of a contin uing pattern of highway slaughter in If the pattern isnt broken and the statistics the first two months this year show it hasnt ber of traffic fatalities this year will set a record for the fourth straight year and for the fifth time in six In 80 persons lost their So far this year 118 have compared to 91 during the same pe riod last 1971 was the worst January in state Traffic deaths last year totaled eight more than died in 1969 and 63 more than the 695 who died in The death count in 1967 was but it was 643 in Traffic authorities say there is no single factor involved in the mounting nor is there a unilateral so Continued on Page 12 United Press International The Israeli cabinet yesterday wel comed Egypts expression of readiness to enter into peace agreements with the Jewish state and said Israel is prepared to begin negotiations But a statement issued after a hour session in Jerusalem said Israel would not withdraw to the 1967 prewar Such a withdrawal from occupied Arab territory was one of the major conditions set by Egypt for reaching a peace agreement with Israel in propos als submitted through mediator Gunnar Jarring In Western diplomatic sources said the Egyptian proposals were an unexpected breakthrough which showed Egypts serious desire for a rea sonable political One highly placed Western who cannot be identified for said If Israel turns it a golden opportunity will have been missed for a political Official Cairo Radio last night de scribed the Israeli statement as a twisted reply which ignored all the pro visions of the Security Council re solution of The broadcast emphasized Israels repeated refusal to give up all occupied Arab Israeli Foreign Minister Abba in an interview on Israeli state radio after the cabinet said the United States had advised Israel not to under rate the Egyptian He said officials had advised Israel they regard ed Egyptian President Anwar proposals as a new phenomenon in Egyptian Eban said the Middle East peace talks are now in a new He added he was cautiously optimistic there would be a positive outcome but warned many complex problems would have to be solved Fayek said some reports suggested that Israel in view of world public opin ion might attempt to find a for itself by answering Jarring in a polemic without pledging to withdraw from Arab territory as Jarring In the 27mem ber Palestinian Central which represents the 10 major comman do officially rejected pro for a Palestinian state of the Is west bank of Jordan PUBLIC WORKS JOBS The AFLCIO urged yesterday massive federal public works Page 5 OFFICERS policemen were killed during the weekend in sepa rate Page reacts to criminal rather than mental aspects of drug medical ex aminer reports Page LOST AND two small sons lost in stumble into The Egyptian cabinet also met t T and on the Gaza i three hours in Cairo to discuss the cent political developments in the committee also denied reports 31 of memorandum and Liberation Organization Information Minister rebelling against the leadership med Fayek told He said chief of the Al had become evident to world powerful guerrilla that Israel does not seek peace military spokesmen in Tel wants to impose its expansionist on the Arab on Page Red assaults chop up Viet unit in Laos Todays prayer Help 0 to live by your com and to abide by your teach Let no evil impulse gain mastery over Keep us far from wicked men and corrupt Strengthen our desire to perform good deeds and moti vale us to your Associated Press SAIGON Heavy North Vietnamese attacks sent an elite South Vietnamese ranger battalion into retreat yesterday in with nearly 300 of its 450 men killed or The North Vietnamese also took another toll of It was South Vietnams worst military setback in either the campaign in Cam bodia last year or the 2weekold drive into Laos to sever the Ho Chi Minn Trail from North The entire South Vietnam ese push into southern Laos was stalled for the fourth straight day by the fierce North Vietnamese attacks on ranger bases 6 miles inside Other units were farther along Highway 9 toward the first objective of the opera about 25 miles from the In administration officials held to the position that the ARVN oper ation in Laos is proceeding according to These officials said the North Viet resistance was anticipated but South Vietnamese forces are proceeding well with an operation that is succeeding in disrupting the flow of supplies in the Ho Chi Minh Trail officials at Quang near the said the survivors of the ranger battalion fled from a hilltop patrol base after they ran short of They carried 108 wounded with them but left behind 60 other wounded men to tend for the officials report Another 130 of their comrades lay dead at the officials explained the survi vors had no choice but leave the non walking wounded behind because of the ammunition The base had been under siege for three Massive American air power failed to save the ranger Military strategists had warned of ser ious South Vietnamese losses before the Laotian campaign was The ter rain of rugged mountains is unlike the flatlands of The North Viet are close to their supply The weary stragglers from the bat tered battalion fled to another patrol base 2 miles away and consolidated their positions with a battalion that had been under siege there for four The second base was reported under i Continued on Page 2
