Atchison Daily Globe (Newspaper) - June 14, 1972, Atchison, Kansas DISCOVER AMERICA ATCHISON DAILY GLOBE TEN CENTS PER ATCHISON KANSAS WEDNESDAY JUNE 14 1972 32 PAGES NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 28960 Russ Townsley Says Kansas Population Is Near Zero Growth But That's One Problem People Aren't Losing Much Sleep Over Into North Installing Water Record Number Of Bombing Raids SAIGON AP American flew a record 340 strikes against North nam on Tuesday and blasted at least nine more railroad bridges including four on the northwest line to China and three between Hanoi and phong the U.S Command said AREA Continued cloudy and cool with rain likely through morrow Kansas Mostly cloudy and continued cool tonight and tomorrow with possibly locally severe thunderstorms likely lows tonight in 60s highs tomorrow in Missouri Generally cloudy and continued cool with chance of showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow lows tonight near 60 highs tomorrow in 70s Rainfall 1.80 Inches Total for June 2 inches Normal for June 4.73 inches Total tor 12.29 Inches Temperatures barometric pressure humidity wind direction and velocity readings furnished by vision Inc weather channel Thermometer 12 1 LOW 64 Temperatures a year ago low 66 high 85 Taken at 2 p.m steady per cent RIVER STAGES Omaha 10.9 up 0.2 Nebraska City down 0.2 Rulo 12.1 down 0.3 St Joe up 0.1 Atchison 15.15 up 0.30 It was the largest number of strikes in one day since the re- sumption two months ago of daily intensified bombing to paralyze North Vietnam's ply and communications lines The closest of the bridges to China was 45 miles from the border Peking charged that raids earlier this week within 25 miles of the border ened China's security and were grave provocations against the Chinese people Only one mission over North Vietnam was reported day a raid on ply dumps 20 miles northwest of Dong Hoi But the big ers pounded North Vietnamese troop concentrations and ing areas along South nam's western border with Laos and Cambodia About 20 of the giant bombers dropped 500 tons of explosives in the A Shau Valley hard by the Laotian border The target was North Vietnamese troops 25 to 30 miles southwest of Hue who reportedly are targeted against the former imperial capital Along the Cambodian border half a dozen of the resses attacked troops of two Continued on page 15 Kissinger To China For Further Talks Chief WASHINGTON ident Nixon's top national curity adviser Henry A ger will go the People's lic of China for a four-day visit June for concrete con- with Chinese ers as a followup of Nixon's summit talks the White House announced today The aim of the meeting will be lo further the tion of relations between the two countries and to continue to exchange views on issues of common the an- made jointly here and in Peking said After Nixon's summit ing with the Chinese leaders in February it was announced that both countries would make an effort to continue contacts and that senior U.S tives would be sent to Peking from time to time Presidential press secretary Ronald L Ziegler said ger who will be making his third trip to Communist China is expected to meet with Pre- mier Chou and top of the Foreign Ministry in Peking I would expect all inter- national questions will be dis- Ziegler said adding that both sides will be free to raise any topic Kissinger is expected to leave Thursday afternoon or Friday Vietnam morning with a brief stopover I wouldn't relate this trip to in Hawaii He will leave Hawaii any particular he re- Sunday morning refuel in plied noting that either side Guam and arrive in Shanghai can raise any questions it al 5 os June 19 Zielger said Kissinger will be Zie8ler said that returning directly to ser nad a discussion about ton after the China visit hls forthcoming China trip with Japanese leaders when he was Ziegler was asked if the trip was tied to developments in Continued on page 15 Forecast More Rain Pays Visit To Hanoi TOPEKA Kan AP Showers and thunderstorms were forecast for eastern and central Kansas today and tonight with the chance of vere thunderstorms and locally heavy rains in the southeast Heavy rain fell in southwest north central and northeast Kansas in two stages late Continued on page 15 Issue Flash Flood Warning KANSAS CITY AP The National Weather Service sued a flash flood watch today for extreme northeast Kansas extreme east-central Kansas and the St Joseph and Kansas City areas in Missouri A special bulletin said a slow moving weather front was ex- to produce one to three inches of rain in these areas during the afternoon The weather service said that much rain on top of what ready had fallen could produce flooding in low-lying areas CALCUTTA AP Soviet President Nikolai V Podgorny arrived in Calcutta today en route to Hanoi touching off speculation he was on a peace mission Podgorny told The Vietnam problem should be solved fast and the cans should cease their ing there Experienced diplomats in Moscow saw Podgorny's visit to Hanoi as an effort to bring peace to Vietnam although they conceded they had no solid information to support their conclusion He had been scheduled to spend only an hour in Calcutta while his plane was refuelled But aides said the departure was delayed until Thursday morning because of bad er Podgorny is the first member of the Soviet high command to confer with North Vietnamese leaders since President Nixon and Soviet Communist party chief Leonid Brezhnev reviewed their opposing positions on nam during Nixon's visit to Moscow What Nixon and Brezhnev said to each other undoubtedly will be one of the major items of discussion between Podgorny Continued on page 15 CONSTRUCTION IS NEARING completion this week on this large water cooling tower in the rear yard area of Midwest Solvents Co in the 1300 block of Main street The Marley tower being in- stalled at a cost of approximately is designed to cool gallons of water per minute from 130 degrees Fahrenheit to 85 degrees Fahrenheit It will reduce substantially the daily water requirements at Midwest and the resultant effluent to White Clay creek according to Cloud L Cray jr Midwest president This installation is a particularly important step in our continuing program of pollution control and our efforts to bring our plant into complete conformity with state and federal requirements by Cray said Cray also said that a Tulsa firm Chemical Engineering of Oklahoma Inc has been retained by Midwest and will design a pilot plant and process to fully treat the process water of the Midwest plant See Rejects IRA Plan For Cease-Fire NEKA Students Receive Special Awards BELFAST Northern Ireland AP Britain's top man in Northern Ireland Tuesday night rejected as an ultimatum from ists an Irish Republican Army offer for a week's cease-fire in return for peace negotiations Whitelaw's sharp rejection of proposal from the IRA's Provisional wing pleased ers of the province's Protestant majority who have been ing him of being soft in his dealings with the Roman lic guerrillas The Protestants Ulster De- fense postponed for two weeks its plans to seal off Belfast as a protest against the failure of British Army to invade IRA enclaves in The British minister's deci- sion drew an angry retort from Bernadette Devlin the militant young Catholic member of the British Parliament from Mr Whitelaw doesn't want peace he wants he hasn't a hope in hell of ling she said Sean the chief of staff unveiled the IRA cease-fire offer to newsmen at a secret meeting place inside Free the barricaded area of Northern Ireland's second largest city IRA spokesmen said they were inviting Whitelaw to meet them inside Free Derry or they would meet him at a place of his choosing if guaranteed safe conduct They said the purpose of the talks would be to discuss their peace an end to in- of guerrilla suspects amnesty for all jailed or in ing and the withdrawal of all British troops A government statement said Whitelaw cannot respond to ultimatums from terrorists who are causing suffering to in- nocent citizens in Northern land and shooting British They should listen to Continued on page 15 Free Youths In Stabbing Case Here charges against Warren E Koch 19 1008 South Fourth street and Harold Bowen 23 Fort Riley were dismissed during preliminary hearings in city court yesterday on motion of Assistant County Attorney Larry R Mears The hearings for both young men began shortly after o'clock yesterday morning were recessed for lunch during the noon hour and concluded around 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon with the dismissal action by the county attorney's office Bowen was represented by John S May and Koch was defended by Phil Lacey Four witnesses were called to Continued on page 15 Under his order the use of DDT will be permitted in this country only for public health purposes and in three minor uses to protect crops where no effective alternatives are is on green peppers onions and sweet potatoes in storage All remaining crop uses of on cotton nuts and be banned m An attorney for formulators I loll I of DDT products immediately Lfi a federal appeals court to set aside the Ruckelshaus WASHINGTON AP A key measure of the nation's deficit de- signed to show the long-term dollar drain worsened in the first three months of the year Commerce Department said today The deficit on the so-called current account and long-term capital basis was billion on a seasonally adjusted basis compared with billion recorded in the last three months of 1971 Previous measures of the deficit in the first quarter showed ment but the balance on rent accounts is designed to look at the under- lying picture by stripping away impact of dollars invested overseas in short-term The measure released by the department today is designed lo show impact of trade and capital invested for longer terms It showed that it was a swing EPA Chief Orders Ban On DDT Use WASHINGTON AP der Protection The attorney Robert L trator William D Ruckelshaus erly said the brief appeal pre- ordered today an almost com- pared in anticipation of the de- plete ban on use of the was filed by his agent tide DDT in the United States with the U.S 5th Circuit Court Ruckelshaus made the ban effective Dec 31 1972 to allow a transition to substitute Continued on page 15 tides Sellers To Head Local Kiwanians Sellers was elected president of the Atchison Kiwanis club al the regular luncheon meeting of the organization yesterday at La Mall restaurant He will ceed Conway Tac Melcher Named president-elect was Continued on page 15 County GOP Holds Rally Fear Many Killed In Air Crash NEW DELHI AP A Japanese airliner crashed tonight at a village 15 miles from New Delhi's Palam Airport and police said about 80 persons were feared dead Japan Air Lines said the plane carried 76 passengers and a crew of 11 Police said about 10 persons have been taken to the All In- dia Institute of Medical ces some of them in critical condition An airport official said the plane had asked for tion about the weather tions The airport gave the re- quested information and then lost contact with the plane Delhi has been experiencing a heat wave for the past few days with temperatures ing up to 110 degrees Visibility has been poor because of dust storms and it was hazy all through the day Fifteen students in the Office Education department NEKA school received special awards for their achievements during the past school year Outstanding Student awards based on scholarship and cooperation plus participation in Office Education projects were presented to Terry loerger and Sieve McGraw secondary students from Tonganoxie who tied for the top placement Nancy Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald Smith 3 Drive received the Outstanding Student award for the lop secondary student Pen sets were presented to the three best of the Office Education Jeannette Brown Kaslon Terry loerger Tonganoxie and Kathy tingham Effingham The three topped all other Office Education students in selling to defray expenses of Business Skills contest sponsored by the Department in March for secondary students in the Northeast Kansas area The candles were made by Kathy's mother Mrs Leslie Nottingham Effingham Gregg typing pin awards were won by Nancy Finger Powhattan Nancy Smith Atchison and Kathy tingham and Mildred Schrader both from Effingham Debbie Farley Highland won the Gregg Senior award in thand transcription The Gregg Publishing Division Hill Book Co made the final judgment on the foregoing awards One-year certificates were to students who satisfactorily completed hours in office Mrs Donna Kussman Jim Carrol and Robert Griffin Nancy Finger and Ron Finger Powhattan Jack Jarrett Terry loerger and Sieve McGraw and Jane Neuman md Susan Harris Troy Many Hurt In Coal Mine Blast CONCORD Ala AP Two tanks of welding gas tally entered a coal crusher in U.S Steel's Concord mine late Tuesday causing an explosion that injured 27 men a nary investigation by ment officials showed today There were no fatalities en miners were hospitalized one in critical condition and seriously hurt hospital spokesmen said A U.S Steel spokesman said company mining officials along with authorities from the U.S Bureau of Mines and a state agency made the report ing A preliminary investigation of a minor explosion in the No Continued on page 15 Atchison county Republicans got together at the Kansas Power and Light Community Room last night to hear from announced local candidates and to talk about additional candidate possibilities for the Aug 1 primary election Raymond Jones presided in the absence of Dr Ed Hiner chairman of the Atchison County Republican Central Committee Dr Hiner was unable to attend due to illness in his family A petition for Mrs Joan Finney former secretary for Sen Frank Carlson and recently resigned election com- missioner of Shawnee county was circulated during the political meeting Mrs Finney reportedly wants to be drafted as a candidate of Kansas Republicans for the Second District Congressional seat Several petition signatures were obtained last night A similar petition for the Finney candidacy is circulating in Leavenworth county and other areas of the Second Congressional District it was reported at last night's meeting Each of the candidates gave brief remarks Continued on page 15 1 SELLERS will be Capt Gus Spera Jacques Sellers is assistant USD 409 superintendent of schools Blansett is with the Exchange Bank Captain Spera heads the Salvation Army here and Paul Jacques is associated with Brazeal Motors Inc The new officers will be in- stalled Oct 1 New members of the board of directors are Jim Strieby Dean Mike Gaines John May Rob Booe Jim Walsh and John Bishop Crossroads Report AROUND 30 PERSONS turned out for last night's Republican political Gabfest at the Kansas Power and Light Community Room Ray Jones presided in the absence of Dr Ed Hiner chairman of the Atchison county Republican parly The group heard brief remarks from local candidates and made suggestions about campaigning and candidates for the Aug 1 primary photo Dear I see where are harping on tax reform these days with the alleged objective of making corporations pay more taxes and individuals less This is not ignorance but political savvy that is speaking The politicians know as well as everybody else with sense enough to pound sand into a rat hole that only Consumers who have nobody else to pass the buck to pay taxes But of course there is a sized which still falls for the old gag not having learned that tax reform and tax increase are the same thing Scott Crossroads U.S.A
