Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph (Newspaper) - December 1, 1970, Colorado Springs, Colorado DOM NEWSPAPER COLORADO SPRINGS Of all men are least willing to pay What a satire is thin on Ralph Waldo RAPH TODAYS 1 STOCKS Year Both and Dial 6324641 COLORADO SPRINGS DECEMBER 1970 lOc Daily 20c Sunday Five 64 PAGES M HI Mi JHF Mil Hi Decay of Urban Areas May Be Getting Worse By NEIKIRK Measured in human WASHINGTON AP T h Census means increasing 1970 Census mirrors a for as the more troubled by central city decay 1affluent flock to homes in the and suburban leaving urban cores which may get worse in the dec ade One More in Congress For Colorado with declining tax bases and ris ing social i For the it means an I increased demand for land and highways but implies i problems of un planned growth and j Releasing its final 1970 nation Colorado will gain one mortal figures the Census representative in Congress as Bureau said population in many result of the 1970 cities declined sharply Colorados population was rein the last corded as Declines also occurred in the The new apportionment of decade of the but the House scats will be effective number of cities showing popu wilh the 93rd Congress tnc 1960s aP convenes in 1 Turn to Page Column 2 Bomb Blasts American Embassy in Phnom Penh By ESPER smashed during a 20round fUlGON APi An enemy rocket barrage on the Chu Lai wrecked an American I base headquarters of the medical station in South nam Monday killing or wound or ing the entire and in Phnom Penh a bomb exploded in the Embassy at dawn but injured no the Viet Cong an its torces would ob about 4 The reports said serve ceasefires inhere were no patients in the Vietnam for Christmas and but less than a doz Years and a ceasefire en Americans on the staff were south of Da It was the first rocket or mortar attack on Chu Lai since June Field reports said one of the 100pound missiles tore through the roof of the first aid station during the Tct festival of the killed or The Lunar New Year at the end of Commands security regulations South Vietnamese disclosing specific cas sources said he allies fgures in such would declare ceasefires fori The bombing in Phnom Penh the same holidays but would was the first terrorist on announce them until shortly be fore each They will probably be only 24 hours Million Down the Drain By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE AP The most complex satellite ever built lies n ashes somewhere in Africa or he Indian Ocean today while a board seeks to learn why t failed to reach The doomed Orbiting Astro OAO nad carried the worlds largest pace which might lave unlocked many secrets of he The National Aeronautics and Space Administration blamed he failure of the million project on a protective nose cone which did not jettison as planned four minutes after aunch here Monday The 12foottall made ol was de signed to protect the satellite during the rock ets upward thrust through the It was to have opened like a and the two parts were to have been blown off the rocket by explosive charges once the booster pushed above the Radio signals indicated the shroud deployed but did not fall There were these results had to carry along an extra pounds of weight for the re maining eight minutes of pow ered That was too great a burden for it to achieve orbital When the satellites solar panels and antennae tried to ex they were restricted by the sides of the even if orbit had been the OAO 3 would have been use NASA said the satellite plunged back to earth over Africa or the Indian It probably broke up from at Nose shrouds have been Jetti soned successfully on hundreds of flights from Cape But there were three notable failures in the Shroud structural failures re in destruction of a Mars shot in 19M and a tions satellite launch in The cone on the docking target satellite for Gemini t opened only astro naut Thomas to caQ it an angry Considerable confusion tar Turn to Column I White House Hits Price Hikes the Embassy there since it reopened 15 months ago after the and Cambodian govern Thc medical dispensary was Turn to Page 8A column 3 EXPLOSION IN IN PHNOM PENH Workmen clean up from explosion of bomb Tues day inside the in Phnom No one was injured in the explosion of the 50pound AP Wirephoto by Radio from Saigon WASHINGTON AP The White resorting to a new policy it earlier today the wage settlement in the General Motors strike and a presidential boards rec to increase wages in the railroad In its second inflation President Nixons Council of Economic Advisers also focused attention on price increases by the automobile the oil transportation indus crease substantially exceeds any trend estimate of gains in national the council It also raises costs further in an industry where producers ov are accounting for a sub stantial and growing share of the domestic market The council reserved an opin ion on the railroad wage pack age as a whole but zeroed in on a socalled escala try and the system of the copper tor clause under If an assumption about infla tion that represents no improve The Weather hy at Loses in Court The White House thus moved is explicitly embedded into a contract for future we thereby guarantee that these costs and prices will continue rising at an unchanged the council fostering an incomes poli a phrase covering presi pressure to hold down 1 inflationary wage and price PIKES PEAK REGION Generally fair with gusly winds Hish this afternoon near hieh Wednesday probability neir Monday VI Tuesday 1 2 n i r K 7 8 ft 10 11 Noon hours ended for or 21 hours ended al p V H p 10 11 Midnight Maximum noon Minimum today WEATHER BUREAU DATA 1 PETERSON FIELD Maximum for Zl hours at noon 57 Minimum for hours ended al noon i a year aco Minimum a year ato Wind velocity at noon 10 miles per hour Wind direction at noon ESK humidity al noon 18 per cent Spa level pressure al antl rising 21 hours ended at noon ft for current month 0 precipitation for current month 1rccipitation so far this year Sunset 4Ml Sunrise Wednesday COLORADO TEMPERATURES High Lew Low By JOHN SUNDVOR Gazette Telegraph Staff Writer A district court ruling Mon day may end a running legal battle conducted by against Colorado Springs over its annexation of that Judge Waino Johnson ruled the city acted properly in annexing the area lo in the northern portion of Dissident residents from the no known as the North Su burban Taxpayers Association charged that tin city should told the court that had maintained that have altered its resolution contained in the The council said that the it said that freezing into the Motors if such an assumption ng 11 per cent a year over The board did not recommend a cost escalator clause but did note that including one would yield a wage increase in excess of nine per cent annual Turning to price the council noted that General Motors announced additional price boosts for An increase of six to seven per cent in the price of passen er automobiles would add billion to the total cost a dealers and possibly bil ion to the cost to the council Such an the council translates into a rise of about of one per cent in the Wholesale Price In maps the city changed given additional public notice used by the city during the an when it proceeded to annex the when it changed the and said area in two separate Creamer also maintained thai law llot require a George an attorney lhc of survey prior to As for altering the boundaries for charged during his annexation courl presentation city moved the of the an by about during the proceedings never rcl ly were claiming that the city determined the throughout the econo would crowd further up ward costs per unit of the price Apart from further increases through the cost of living esca the two divisions of the for the years the in boundary about future inflation would sad die the industry for the larger cause of achieving a new stabili ty for the The presidential board has recommended wage increases in the railroad industry The council also noted price hikes in the oil saying that they come when petrole inventories are at a level um higher than is normal for this time of miles boundaries and previous from plats changes were included in thc He second and later That The area he did said the boundaries of the area he was covered determined by a by a new city The battle between and if ty s Tax Commission Certifies County Record Budget were not match the legal description never contained in the citys land lion of intent to City how Turn to Page Column 2 The Colorado Tax Commis New Billion Canal In Panama Is Proposed million 1971 fiscal Certification of the budget came before the tax commis sion in routine Rising costs and economic county officials gest of standing the for does at countys next year as with mill levy of To meet all requirements of federal and state county of said they had to increase the public welfare mill levy by The state had already Akron Alamosa Canon City Crook Denver Finning Collins Grand 12 Junta M Lamar 33 26 Pueblo il Salida M 34 Trinidad 42 57 27 7fi 31 70 which opened in will reach Alts maximum capacity of presidential commission has annual transits by the end of the By GEORGE GEDDA WASHINGTON AP ended a study with a controversial proposal to build a billion sealevel waterway I across Central America within a WEATHER Low Atlanta Charlotte Cincinnati Cleveland lies Fairbanks Korl Worth Honolulu 41 ro 57 Las High Low fl 22 Memphis t o Miami 71 T0 Milwaukee a II 30 New Orleans 7ti 31 New York 32 Cily 71 51 Omaha 112 Philadelphia 58 37 49 53 Me 37 Ore 44 Rapid City 62 Richmond 22 Louis 74 Sail Lake San 30 San 1 Seattle 9 j mi few miles of the Panama But before shovel is the proposal faces major budg and a wider canal is needed for defense purposes resulted in increased ex in all well publicized to Despite an increased assessed valuation of the tax levy for next year had to be in of States already has by the commissions proposals billion on the present welfare fund was the lar quires a approval construction and defense needed from the United Because implementation and bridges welfare Even though the welfare fund exceeded the established mill limitation for the county by the fund was certified The countys three basic funds certified by the commis sion include fund told that lney could use and Panamanian governments Flood also has warned against invasion of the Atlantic or the straints on world state Department by sea which said the waterway could be and to avoid intolerable the growing nationalism inarc as deadly as the in 14 Panama will complicate nego Environmentalists have also For some the relating to sovereignty the idea of mixing diplomatic and ecological sion considered nuclear the new canal and waters of the Atlantic and in both the a means of blasting open the for its The They say some 4j and But after spending mission avoided making of sea life might be 57 in The million studying the on these while undesirable Canal Study terrain and available jng they were outside its might 58 spent million before it Under questioning at a news 82 57 Kll 17 A big hurdle to be in the Senate is overcome conference retired the cost Kenneth one of the commissions five its conclusions over to President mended conventional excava ils i Nixon calling for the tion to run across Panama and Panel members said there are to the existing about the of in the Congress on canal of ocean mixing to sub The commission said the and possible conflicts with has spoken out against fears expressed by rent Panama the Nuclear Test Ban the saying SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS INDIA 9B Astrological Forecast 5A 1012B Classified 37C Comic 7B Date Line 2A Dear Abby 11A Editorial 8B Heloise 10A Local 1B News Briefs 8A Radio TV Logs 8C 1011A Sports 26B The Maverick 1B Vital Statistics 8A Weather Map 8A Worry Clinic 9A Todays Gazette consists of 5 Sections 84 If your paper is not please call 632 their own judgment in this res in order to meet needs and fulfill The county commissioners the budget to the state and made the an of certification at its Tuesday morning
