Columbus Telegram, The (Newspaper) - February 10, 1970, Columbus, Nebraska It will be a bad day for society when sentimentalists are encouraged to suggest all the measures that shall be taken for the betterment of the race Woodrow Wilson NUMBER 34 NINETY-FIRST YEAR THE TELEGRAM WEATHER OUTLOOK Partly cloudy through Lows tonight upper teens north low 20s south Highs Wednesday low 30s north upper 30s south UPI Leased Wire COLUMBUS NEBRASKA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10 1970 20 Pages Today Evening Except single copy Tunisian flood Nixon calls total mobilization of all relief gefs A M more us aid Americans in drive against pollution VAL Rescue workers loook at a partially snow-covered automobile out- side the three-story which was crushed when tons of snow rolled silently off foot Dome Mountain in an avalanche early today By noon rescuers had pulled 48 bodies from the wreckage They feared the death toll would climb higher by the hours costliest snow disaster since World War II UPI Avalanche kills 48 VAl France UPI giant avalanche rolled down Dome tain at breakfast time today burying i three-story youth hostel and a hotel under Ions of snow Rescue workers pulled 48 bodies from the wreckage but feared he death loll would mount in what was France's worst snow disaster since World War II At least GO other persons were rescued from inside the tangle of snow and timbers many of them hurt so badly hey were not expected to live There was no immediate report of American casualties Rescue operations were by blinding swirling snowstorms which cut visibility to near zero The snow one of he heaviest in memory in the alpine region south of Geneva was still falling when darkness fell Local weather authorities reported winds oi gale force piled up huge snow drifts on roads leading lo the disaster area Only a few ambulances and other rescue vehicles got through hut others were forced lo wait for snow-clearing equipment It was the worst avalanche oil Dome Mountain since 1917 This tiny village almost deserted when the snow is pone is the home of Jean Killy former French Olympic ski champion and one of the world's premier athletes It hit the hostel like a a witness said of the avalanche The impact of the onslaught crushed some cars and carried others away like on a tidal wave Some of the victims were in the parking area unable to flee the avalanche in lime An estimated 200 youths all under 25 were in Hie hostel run by the French Union of Fresh Air Centers and an equal number of skiers were believed in Edelweiss Hotel when the wave of silent while death descended upon them Must of lhc victims were French German and Belgian skiers who had come to this resort on the Italian border for Lakeview High honor roll Ten students at Lakeview High School have earned high on the school honor roll for second period Having an average of 93 per cent or more in all subjects Seniors Lynn Jenny and Soulliere juniors Kathy Brock and Sharon sophomores Carol Abraham and Jo Luchsinger freshmen Paul Soulliere Jane Galley and Gehring Also named lo the honor roll were the following students earning averages of 90 per cent or Freshmen Bob Diane Wilke Grant Marcia Schmid Debbie Claudia Beck Diane Zavodsky Sophomores Rachel Janssen Wilke Janelle Asche Sharlyn Sander Tim Mark John Steve McWilliams Marcy Rosenthal Sue Ginger Loseke Rita Sempek Richard S c in p e k Kodad Juniors Marilynn Theilen Marcia Connie Mueller Sara Rickert Roger Coffey Mary Cindy Jim Beiermann Darla Seniors Korte Bobbie Schumacher Clarence Penny Janssen Enid Jerome Sempek some of the best skiing available anywhere One of the heaviest snowfalls on record in this ski haven d a in aged communications blocked roads and held up ambulances Irving to get lo the scene from other villages A second avalanche cascaded down a nearby mountain hear Chamonix blocking the road between and Le Col des but causing no injuries H was cleared later but kept closed for fear of more snow slides President Georges Pompidou dispatched minister Raymond Marcellin to Val to oversee the rescue operation It was Europe's worst avalanche since 1065 when 100 persons died at Germany Huk terrorists kill 4 Filipinos MANILA Communist Huk terrorists Monday killed four Filipinos assigned to guard a Voice of America transmitter facility in Tarlac province GO miles north of Manila The guards were part of an attachment assigned to a security detail around the transmitter the United Slates uses to beam its broadcasts lo Southeast Asia TUNIS DPI of State P Rogers met with Bahi today within earshot of noisy protests by anti-American de- He later an- million more in U.S aid for Tunisian flood relief Rogers announcement said this would bring to more than 54 million the amount of money sent lo funis from Washington for recovery from the ing floods lhat hit Ibis northern African nation last fall Bands of students shouting and Rogers go broke police lines lhc government house meeting before policemen and troops dispersed them wilh high-powered fire hoses That demonstration against the Nixon administration's die policy and others at American installations in the city forced Rogers lo pul off a lo Tunis University The secretary of state also ran into some protestors at his own embassy where eight Peace Corps workers turned their backs on him in protest against the Vietnam War He lold the other 150 embassy personnel present lhat 64 per cent of the American people support the administration's Vietnam policies The eight dissidents gave him a note signed by 53 Peace Corps workers saying they were outraged at the tion of the unjust and destructive war in Vietnam Why don't we end il Rogers look up the Middle East crisis wilh Foreign Minister Habib Bourguiba Jr whom he was lo meet twice during his slay in Tunis the second stop on his African lour Although officials said the university visit was called off because of a change in Rogers schedule Tunisian security officials said privately it was inadvisable for him to visit the university in view of the demonstrations Rogers arrived Monday night from Rabat Morocco shortly after more than 100 students tried to march on he American embassy in Tunis About others gathered downtown shouting Nixon and permit fnr Arabs against for The students published a resolution today lhat said American policy in the Middle East favorable lo Israel and open support given by President Nixon to this policy amount to defiance of the charier and resolutions of the United Nations Tunisian security officials said was a Rogers might visit the ty laler if hings were calm WASHINGTON UPI ident Nixon called today for a total mobilization of all Americans in a concentrated campaign lo clean the air and purify the nation's waters In a special message lo Congress following up his Stale of Union pledge lo make cleaning the environment the primary effort of 70s Nixon outlined a lengthy plan for rescue of our natural habitat The program includes a billion project for cleaning up waters and calls for rigid regulations to deal wilh air and water polluters The time has come when we can wail no longer to repair the damage already done and to establish new criteria lo guide us in the Nixon said The task of cleaning up our environment calls for a total mobilization by all of us 11 involves government at every level it requires the help of every citizen Asks 54 Billion The main feature of the called Environmental Quality Program proposes a clean waters act through which billion would be authorized lo help slate and local ties build sewage treatment facilities The billion would have lo be matched by billion in contributions from state and local governments A special federal group called Financing Authority would be set up to help pressed municipalities raise the money meet their share of the cost The President said thai would be sufficient lo about new treatment facilities and to expand and upgrade other He asked for a billion over- a four-year a rate of billion per in the year beginning July 1 A ment would be made in 1973 to determine future needs The President's message called for establishment of federal water and air quality with fines of up to a day for violations Swift Court Action Federal enforcement dures would be revised to court action violators and the interior secretary would be empowered to seek immediate where severe tion existed The President also proposed a research and development program aimed at producing a low pollution automobile within five years He asked that secretary of the Department of Health and Welfare be authorized to regulate the composition of gasoline lo cut down on There is fresh agitation to force gasoline makers remove lead from gasoline to cul down on air The department of Health Education and Welfare ing one of the President's directives immediately an- a new five-year or increasing stringent federal for aulo exhaust emissions Under proposed new lesting procedures which will go into effect beginning with the 1972 model cars the weight LIFE MEMBERS Accepting life memberships in the bus PTA Council Monday were Kenneth and Mrs Ray Gladys Breidert The awards were presented by Mrs Jack Bullington right chairman of the life membership committee Telegram Photo 3 receive life memberships in Columbus PTA Council of pollution emitted by a lest car will be measured rather than calculated as is now the procedure The new standards will for the first time set limits on nitrogen oxide emissions ning with 1973 models and emission of participates ning with he 1975 model year Nixon has set up a new advisory council headed by Russell li Train ry of interior and the chief conservationist to help lead campaign to clean up the environment The President also proposed both the acquisition of more kind and the better utilization of present federal holdings to expand nation's parks and public recreation facilities He particularly stressed locations that ran easily reached by the people in crowded urban Offers New Philosophy I that we adopt a new philosophy for the use of federal owned lands Nixon said trailing them as a precious money should made o serve the highest possible public At the same time Nixon issued an executive order setting up a Federal Property Review Board with instructions to carefully assess the current utilization of federal properly with a view to putting excess holdings to maximum use for parks and recreation areas as well as oilier purposes The President said sense argues that the federal government itself as he nation's largest landholder should address itself more imaginatively In the question of making optimum use of its own holdings in a era turns ouf to be resourceful HOUSTON young man walked into a surplus store Monday and the clerk I'd like to buy a gun The woman showed him a 45 caliber automatic pistol He reached in his pocket pulled out a bullet loaded the gun and robbed and the pistol billion savings is usurped WASHINGTON UPI William Proxmire said today the Pentagon has absorbed or heisted billion in savings that should have resulted from defense upending cuts In a speech prepared for delivery to Senate Proxmire said an- or projected savings in defense spending for next fiscal year amount lo billion He from lhat he said The suffering taxpayers have been robbed of billion in tax relief or improved domestic services or a combination of the two He said billion in savings were ealen up by new weapons Proxmire said part o f he money will go inlo expansion of Safeguard sile some into extra costs of converting the Polaris submarines to the Poseidon figure billion allowable for billion in extra costs pay increases inflation for the Air Force's hie counting and ble increases and another savings actually President Nixon's billion in reflected in new budget The result was billion Proxmire said the Pentagon has stolen Peace Dividend Robbed The Pentagon has billion of the peace Index Editorial 4 Women's News Page 7 Area Page 13 Sports 16 Comics 17 Classified more for the SRAM missile system more for the new radar and airborne warning and control to guard against bombers billion lo the Navy for fleet modernization and some lo the Army for tanks which do not work and duplicate weapons Itemized Gross Savings Proxmire Remixed lhc billion in gross savings this billion billion in realized or anticipated culs in Vietnam spending billion in a cut in military personnel billion in an announced cut in the Defense Department's lian payroll billion through more efficient procurement billion by abandoning the strategy which a defense force capable of fighting simultaneous major wars in Europe and Asia and one war and million by closing some ry bases Somewhere along lhc line even generous allowances are made for inflation and pay raises double counting and we lost about Proxmire said Someone stoic lhc peace dividend The question is who? Who usurped the military Where did the billion The answer is that the Pentagon is keeping it Instead of making real savings by improving the procurement of weapons lems by using personnel more efficiently and by culling back on frills and prerequisites of military establishment is absorbing for its own use billion of the Proxmire said Omaha seeks answer to garbage problem OMAHA officials continued lo search for an answer to lhc city's garbage problems Last week National Disposal Service offered to collect the citys garbage for an- about more than the city currently pays Metro- Sanitation Co Gene E Jordan public works said he is studying what the citizens can afford and also the need for good tion service He said he is talking wilh of- of Metropolitan and of Urban Inc about a short term contract The Dynamics firm is a corporation of Negro businessmen contract ex- pires Feb 28 If the city accepts National Disposal's bid that firm would take over March I for five years City councilmen have said they favor rejecting National Disposal's bid if another firm could collect garbage for six while the city sought other bidders John L Jarecki dies Monday rites Two Columbus educators and a long-time board of education member received life ships in the Columbus PTA Council at its meeting last night The three are Ray Gladys Breidert P 1 a 11 e County superintendent of schools Kenneth Torczon and Physical Education Coordinator Francis Harms Mrs Breidert who holds a bachelor of arls degree from Wayne Stale College and a masters degree in arls from NU began teaching in Madison County in 1922 She served as Madison County superintendent from and has been County superintendent from 1957 She was a preceptress at Wayne in and was awarded a Fullbright scholarship in 1963 She is a member of several organizations including N e- braska State Education Association National Education Association Council for Seller Education National Council for Economic group meets Wednesday LINCOLN The braska Department of Economic Development Advisory tee will hold its regular terly meeling Wednesday al the Capitol James W Monroe ment director said the lee would review department programs and the status of in- and community de- velopment activities Accident Report Monday 0 Total this Tofal lait SCHUYLER John L Jarecki proprietor of Johnnie's Sleak House and Motel died of a heart allack Monday afternoon at Schuyler Memorial He was 57 Funeral services will he 10 Thursday at St Catholic Church with Rev John P Downey in Burial will he in St Bonaventure Cemetery Columbus Rosary services are scheduled Wednesday at Svoboda Funeral 3 p.m study clubs 8 Marine Academy Mr Jarecki who moved lo Schuyler six years ago was a former Columbus businessman He was bora Oct 21 1912 in Columbus lo Matthew and Tryba Jarecki and attended St Stanislaus School Duncan He married Verna A Kmiecik on Ccl 14 1940 at Silver Creek In Schuyler Mr Jarecki was a member of Rotary Club Knights of Columbus St Catholic Church and Holy Name Society Survivors include his wife three sons James of Ohio Ronald and Michael at home two daughters Mrs Larry Timmorman of North and Mrs Ronald Esther Sindelar of Omaha six grandchildren Brothers and surviving Edward of SI Paul Neb Ben and Mrs Viola Gonka of Columbus Tony and Amelia Jarecki of Texas Mrs Anna Maslonka of Mrs Helen Sock of Silver Creek Barbara Jarecki of Omaha Mrs Marie Gerber of Schuyler Mrs Jerry Cummings o f Holdrege Pallbearers will be nephews Lucian Micek James Maslonka Robert Gerber Jack W Fox Richard Gonka and Jerry 10 nominated for vacancies at Merchant WASHINGTON UPI Ten young men were by Rep Glenn ham to Nebraska vacancies at Merchant Marine Academy They will compete with nees by other Nebraska con- gressmen for the Tests will be by Maritime Administration and highest will be enrolled at the academy this summer Nominees Ronald K Hosteller Murray James L Murdock Leland S Myers Jr and David C Cunningham Richard D wards Leonard li Robert L and Michael J alt of Omaha Administrative Women Nebraska Slate Association Nebraska Public Health Association Nebraska County Super Association Nebraska State Audio-Visual Association American Association of School Pi Gamma Mu Delia Kappa Gamma Phi Delia Gamma and Women's Society of Christian Service She was listed in the edition of Who's Who o f American Women and calls photography and rocks and minerals collecting her hobbies Torczon is a 1949 graduate of NU an and member of St Anthony of Columbus and Holy Name He is a past president and member of the County Agricultural Society and managed the county fair for 10 years A member of the State Board of Agriculture he is presently serving on its governing board In addition he holds the presidency of the Columbus School Board and the College Board o f Education Other memberships include the advisory board of II School and lhc Elks Harms is a Hooper native who received his bachelor's degree from Wayne Stale College in 1956 Coming lo Columbus in 1903 he taught physical education and in 1905 was made coordinator of physical education kindergarten through he grade lie has worked a number of summers for the city handling ils summer playground program and has had an article on elementary program in Columbus published in a physical education magazine of national circulation A member of and CEA he enjoys gardening fishing bunting and sports is married and the father of two daughters Unable to be present Dr lames accepted the award for him Partly cloudy Wednesday 50 at T p.m 26 low this morning 44 high Monday 44 high year ago 22 low year ago By United Press International Cooler weather moved into much of Nebraska Monday night and temperatures were not expected to climb as high today as during he several davs winds of 15 lo 20 miles an hour boosted ihc colder temperatures across and areas The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and lows in the leens north and central and in the low 20s southwest Highs Wednesday will range from low 30s northeast lo the 40s southwest Springlike weather was I bo rule al many Nebraska points Monday when mercury rose to the low 60s in some western cities topped by Chadron's Overnight lows were quite mild ranging from !H al Alliance lo 32 at Norfolk Partly cloudy and colder tonight and day Lows tonight teens north and central lo lower 20s easl Highs Wednesday lower 30s northeast lo 40s southwest e fop selling animal ai A Hampshire was lhc lop selling animal at the Farmland Industries Swinn Station boar sale at Owned by John Volk Sons of Battle Creek the boar sold for lo Mel of Also Hampshires were Iho second and high selling hoars owned by Waller Son oi Schuyler These sold for each lo Wostoupal and Virgil Lingenfeller of Fifty animals were sold for an average price of to buyers including D Gale of Brigham City Utah Commercial Club members served lunch lo lhc capacity crowd Scotland Yard charges brothers with murder in death of wife of newspaper executive fire Report Calls to date To data last without call 13 17 LONDON UPI Scotland Yard tonight charged two brothers wilh the murder oE Mrs Alex McKay wife of a newspaper executive who has been missing for more Iban six weeks Police said lhc men fied as Arthur and 21 also were charged with lo obtain ransom for the return of Mrs McKay They were scheduled to appear in Wimbledon Court Wednesday The two men resided at Farm near Stocking Pelham where a force of more Iban 100 police have been searching for the past I wo days The village is 35 miles north of There was no immediate word on whether police had found lhc body of Muriel McKay Mrs McKay's husband is acting director ot the Sunday newspaper News of World The woman from her plush home at Wimbledon six weeks and two days ago Her disappearance off one of the largest investigations in British al history i
