Columbus Telegram, The (Newspaper) - March 25, 1970, Columbus, Nebraska it that Kate ef in which there it no of re- agamit release of energy E Read NUMBER 71 NINETY-FIRST YEAR THE TELEGRAM WEATHER OUTLOOK Deer cos iiiy cloudiness and colder tonight Partly cloudy Thursday tonight northwest 20.25 southeast Highs Thursday UPI Leased Wire COLUMBUS NEBRASKA WEDNESDAY MARCH 25 1970 24 Pages Today Evening Except single copy Postal workers pay hike may take months WASHINGTON DPI Gale W met with President Nixon today forecast afterward that a meaningful and constructive solution would be reached in the poslal workers pay dispute chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee warned however lhat final congressional action on a compromise pay could not come immediately and might even take months was summoned lo Nation's first postal strike over today By WILLIAM SUNDERLAND United Press International Hie nation's first poslal strike was over today and Congress sat down lo decide how big a pay raise il will grunt mailmen New York City where it all started eight days ago was the only major holdout Bui voles in the Boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn cd all city probably soon would join workers in 13 oilier slales sorting a backlog of millions of pieces of mail Hie Office Department announced thai some mail deliveries would be made lo businesses in Manhattan the Bronx and Brooklyn today by military personnel called in by President Nixon and lhat some home deliveries would be made in Queens County where letter carriers returned to their jobs in overwhelming numbers Manhattan appeared lo be Hie only major holdout against the return lo work After meeting with President Nixon General Winlon il said at The situation in the Post Office Department is thai we are approaching normalcy Mail service resumed day in such major cities as Philadelphia Chicago Detroit Los Angeles Newark and San Francisco Federal Judge Frederick Vanpelt Tuesday night cited Branch 36 the Manhattan local which started the strike for contempt oi a court order lo return to work He said if they were not back on the job by 5 p.m EST today the union would be fined and if they weren't back by Thursday they would be fined another The fine he ruled would increase by each succeeding day of lie strike In addition Gustave Johnson the union leader would be fined a day At the height of the strike post office employes were off the job in Illinois Nevada California Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania Connecticut New Jersey New York Colorado and Rhode Island Tlie number bad dropped lo by Tuesday paving way for Blount's agreement lo negotiate with union leaders White House along with Sen Hiram Kong ranking GOP member of the Senate committee for a review of Nixon's position and their own on how a renewed mail crisis might be averted Postmaster General Winlon M asked the leaders of Hie seven postal unions recognized by the government lo meet with his representatives today in there was no reversal in work rend He said be hoped we could conclude the matter very soon 1 think we can But declined to say whether President Nixon was now willing lo accept a pay raise for postal workers without action on turning the post office into a corporation Nixon had been insisting that two matters could nol be separated After met earlier Tuesday congressional leaders House and Senate conferees agreed to meet today on the pay increase measure The meetings will try lo resolve differences in postal bills already passed by the House and Senate Sen Gale W leader of lie conferees urged a approach toward a compromise He said Nixon administration and postal unions should try first to agree on what they would buy Hanging over all deliberations meantime was a Friday mid- night deadline when union leader James said he would call a nationwide strike if there has not been some action on strikers de- mands president of Association of Letter Carriers Tuesday sharply increased the strikers and fringe benefit demands and advised House and Senate conferees to forget about their talks until his negotiations with the ration are resolved said the conferees should be careful not to wreck any chance of a agreement between and the and indicated a compromise could he quickly passed if negotiations bogged down Crush attempted pocket revolt SANTIAGO Chile The government announced il had crushed an attempted pocket revolt with the arrest of 11 of 16 conspirators Military intelligence said the conspirators had planned lo seize April 10 through detention of President Eduardo Frei the defense minister and the army chief of staff Head of the movement was retired Gen Horacio official announcement said The other 10 military men arrested included three retired officers of lesser rank three including a lieutenant general and four warrant officers also on active duly Port closed by Cambodian government PHNOM PENH Cambodian government was reported today lo have closed the port of lo ships bearing arms for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese The government also up its vilification of deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk is Cambodia's only major port and is where the hijacked American munition shin Columbia Eagle is being held by the Cambodian ment Reliable sources said two other U.S ships were in but it was unclear whether they were being detained A Foreign Office spokesman disclosed the Polish Embassy had been closed but said lie did rot know the reason or whether this portended a break in diplomatic relations The new vilification campaign against Sihanouk linked him with such deposed Southeast Asian leaders as President Sukarno of Indonesia and Ngo Diem Dinh the assassinated president of South Vietnam In Moscow today the official Communist newspaper Pravda praised Sihanouk's neutrality and said any changes by the new government would rage an war in all Indochina COL CROWLEY held by Red Terrorists UPI Telephoto Red terrorists balk set new deadline SANTO DOMINGO Communist terrorists holding a U.S diplomat balked today at government terms for release of 21 political prisoners and threatened once again to kill him If the 21 prisoners are not freed unconditionally by 3 p.m EST the kidnapers said their hostage LI Col Donald J Crowley 48 air attache at the U.S Embassy will be executed Previously they had set a 10 EST deadline The terrorist ultimatum was delivered to a radio shortly after the government agreed lo release the 21 prisoners as demanded but said it would lake lime lo arrange their departure from the country and lo deliver the group lo any embassy in the city for safekeeping until lhal lime Shortly before the kidnapers accused government of President Joaquin Balaguer of lo their demands But shortly afterwards the government announced the 21 would be freed Gen Guillermo Guzman Acosla chief of national police said the kidnapers would have lo agree lo asylum in sonic embassy here for 21 until safe conduct from the Dominican Republic could uc arranged It was believed they would go lo Mexico The latest kidnaper fourth since Crowley was kidnaped on a polo field issued through Santo Domingo radio stations So far neither the government nor U.S Embassy has heard from the kidnapers A terrorist group calling itself the Armed Commandos Against Re-election disavowed a communique broadcast Tuesday night adding four more names to original 21 kidnapers asked lo be freed Crowley was one of two diplomats kidnaped by Latin American terrorists Tuesday Waldmar Sanches 56 a Paraguayan consul was kidnaped in Buenos Aires later Tuesday and threatened with death unless the Argentine government freed two left-wing terrorists The kidnapers of Crowley broadcast a note to Dominican government threatening to kill him Diplomat from Paraguay held by kidnapers Alfredo ner of Paraguay arrived on a stale visil marred by the kidnaping of a Paraguayan diplomat and kidnapers threat lo murder him The Paraguayan consul was Tuesday on the eve of the visit by men who lo kill him unless Hie Argentine ment released two political prisoners Hie release was thrown into confusion today by hostility and suspicion on sides The government said one of the lira men the kidnapers wanted released was not in jail The kidnapers said this statement was part of a threat lo kill him The men who seized Waldmar Sanchez 50 he consul in identified themselves as members of Argentine Liberation Kront Command in leaflets left in a downtown Buenos Aires bar The leaflets demanded the release of FAL members Carlos Dellanave and Alejandro Baldu in exchange for Sanchez called a known agent of the Central Intelligence Agency and representative of the bloody dictatorship of They said Sanchez depended on an immediate hall lo attempts lo find the diplomat The kidnapers message gave government until 10 p.m 8 p.m EST lo produce Dellanave and Baldu unharmed on television There was some confusion whether the note meant day or Wednesday night since the Tuesday deadline was imminent by the time the leaflets were discovered Manuel Avila an ambassador to Argentina said Sanchez was overpowered with a chauffeur while showing a Mercedes sedan lie had advertised for sale Sanchez arrived Sunday from to negotiate the sale and his presence in tlie cily had no connection witli visit was meeting Ar- gent i n c officials including President Juan Carlos before journeying lo southern Bariloche in the Argentine Andes for a four-day hunting and fishing vacation STRANGE ERROR LONDON De- fense Ministry admitted day it hacl to replace the water pipes in a new training center for army cooks because they melted when hot water was turned on A spokesman said plastic had been used by mistake instead of copper Power review body holds hearing on new feeder line Due to objections raised by Public P o w c V District the Nebraska Power Review Board today held a hearing on plans for the new feeder line being built into Columbus by She Loup Power District The now volt transmission line from t h e Columbus Powerhouse sub- station will provide an additional source of electrical power into the city Loup officials have declared this additional line will be essential in order to maintain reliable service with the increased electrical loads into Columbus Construction of this new transmission line was planned lo begin in the spring ol 1970 officials say the new line costing nearly will have firm capacity to carry the electrical load of Columbus for several years Directors of Loup have on several occasions proposed a merger of the two power districts terming this an effort to eliminate unnecessary litigation and avoid duplication of facilities Suit is filed against permit for trailers Partly cloudy is forecast 36 at 1 p.m 31 this morning 58 high Tuesday 36 high year ago 11 low year ago 03 rain Down 4 Egyptian By United International Israeli warplanes today attacked radar and military installations along the Suez Canal and shot down four Egyptian in one of the biggest air battles in the Middle East in months a Tel Aviv spokesman said A spokesman in Cairo said 16 planes on each side were involved in the dogfights which swirled over Egypt He said one Israeli plane was shot down and me was damaged 11 was the third day of raids against radar by the Israelis who have to prevent the installation of now Soviet antiaircraft missiles to replace ho older SAM2 by Israeli air force over the few months The Tel Aviv spokesmen said Israeli planes struck at as deep as IB miles from the Suez Canal line In addition lo the radar stations the spokesman said attacks were made against artillery and other positions across the central and southern sectors of the front Israeli spokesmen said a fleet of rose lo challenge raiders and that four were shot down in aerial battles that ranged up lo feet Tel Aviv said all of ils planes safely also was having troubles wilti Palestinian guerrillas based there On Tuesday guerrillas fought a battle in Beirut with a hand of hashish and smugglers Today fighting broke out between residents of the mountain village of Al Kahhale and guerrillas who were passing through en route lo Amman with the body oi a comrade slain in Ihp Beirut Suil was filed in district courl this week the Cily of Columbus lo slop of a mobile home park in Poor Sisters of St Francis Subdivision near the Columbus airport The suit is brought by Elmer J Hodges Adolph Wurdeman Sylvester Phillips Ted Olle Norman Borer Sam William Campbell Ken Placek Pete and William against the Board of Adjustment of he Cily of Columbus in their suit plaintiffs slate lhal the Cily Council approved on Oct 15 a permit or Lyle Lower to a mobile home park on 13.4 acres in the subdivision lhat building inspector gave Lower a permit Feb 18 1970 that the petitioners appealed lo the Board of Adjustment who had a hearing March C and denied petition partly on the basis that they had n o jurisdiction The charge lhat 1 board had jurisdiction 2 there are violations of cily code and stale laws 3 was no hearing on zoning variances 4 here was no hearing on ft would be use of land as well as fi commercial use of land and 7 lhat the petitioners have no representation on any of the official bodies concerned Fire Calls lo date 31 To date last without Accident Report Tuesday 0 Total last year 255 Total this Injuries PITTSBURGH Cheryl Markle sifs on her suitcase waiting for information on her fli Supervisors to keep Greater Pittsburgh airport open during sick-out by control tower personnel UPI Air traffic controllers slow down city flights By United Press International Occasional snow was fore- cast to end this evening in the panhandle and eastern ka The forecast is for decreasing cloudiness and colder tonight central and cast and cloudy in panhandle low readings were lo dip lo teens and to 20s casl High readings Thursday are lo reach the 10s over the stale under partly cloudy skies with warmer readings northeast Precipitation chances for panhandle were reported lo be near zero per cenl McCook reported Nebraska's high temperature Tuesday with 68 while overnight low dipped lo 23 at Imperial Occasional light snow mostly extreme cast ing tonight North winds miles an hour Decreasing diness and colder tonight Lows in the teens north central to 20s southeast and extreme south Ily cloudy Thursday Liltle warmer central and northeast Highs around northeast and in the central and extreme southeast ight the By United Press International Air traffic controllers pled airline service around nation today with a home sick and tired down and the federal ment decided to go lo courl to force them back to work With airline service severely curtailed as the Easter weekend was about to begin it was learned that Transportation Secretary John controllers boss lhat a court tion be filed o halt what he regards as an illegal strike It was the second lime in a week that federal employes defied warnings against a strike and look to the Most poslal workers were back but failed lo respond directly to a court order io do so Absenteeism among air con- trollers ranged up lo 90 per at Tlie number of missing ranged sharply downward at some places but the delays at big centers such as New York Philadelphia Miami Washington Cleveland and Denver resulted in service slowdowns elsewhere Informed sources said fell he had bent over backward to deal fairly with the Professional Air Controllers Organization which called for slowdown to seek better working conditions and bargaining authority for bers A rival controllers National Association of ment said it is planning to ask the court for an injunction to halt the walkout More than half of day shift controllers were reported ab- sent at a number of locations calling in that they were cither sick or loo lo work Based on reports by I lie FA A and spokesmen in local areas was picture at New of 129 lers missing at the control center at Field Long Island which controls airline traffic over a wide area around New York and phia Landings and takeoffs at LaGuardia were cut from a normal average of about one a minute lo one every five minutes 00 per cent of missing for day shifts al Greater and tlie KAA said lhat was one of its most acute problems although super- personnel attempted lo keep some traffic moving were re- ported normal at the nation's airport bul departures were delayed up lo half an hour because of delays at other airports Kansas of C8 lers called in sick at the Air Control Center of 107 lers were missing with delays in both takeoffs and landings partly because of slowdowns at other airports of 78 men failed lo show for work and a limit of two departures an hour was on flights lo New York for example This was one-third the average rale a third of day shift controllers failed lo at the control center il Colo As of mid- morning the FA A said slight delays were anticipated at International on the main air traffic flow South Vietnamese troops 64 along Cambodian border SAIGON troops killed G-l Viet Cong and North Vietnamese along the Cambodian border in fighting reported today ing to more than 300 the number of guerrillas slain there in past week Government in addition found bodies of 51 guerrillas killed by U.S air Tuesday in same border region the war's focal point The heaviest fighting along the Cambodian border involved units using armored vehicles within sight of frontier Military men said the government troops killed C4 Communist troops at a cost of dead and -10 wounded near Binh CO miles west-southwest of Saigon American units reported 69 guerrillas slain in a half-dozen engagements ranging from northern provinces to Cambodian border Eight Americans were wounded Near Tain Ky on the northern coast a boy led a U.S Infantry Brigade unit lo a Viet Cong mine hidden in the path of the unit's command vehicle Army spokesmen said today Military spokesmen said American planes flew air Tuesday in Laps both in support of royal Laotian forces and against the llo Chi Minh Trail flew two missions in Vietnam Evanston cold spot with 3 NKW highest temperature reported Tuesday by the U.S Weather Bureau excluding Hawaii and Alaska was 93 degrees at Thermal Calif Today's low was 3 degrees at Evanston Wyo Today's Index Women's News Pago 3 4 Sports Page 20 21 Classified Pages 22 23 Several banks cut prime interest rates NEW YORK of nation's largest cial banks cut prime interest rates lo 8 per cent from per cent Wednesday but left a number of other big banks across the country divided on the issue Irving Trust the nation's largest bank triggered the move and was quickly followed by Bank of America the nation's biggest bank and a few others including Morgan Guaranty Trust Co and United Bank of California HAM said it felt the cut was premature hut was in public service Hut Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co the fourth bank said the move was and unjustified R E McNeill president said commercial banks still find it necessary to use substantial of Eurodollars and other funds lo make loans News of the Irving Trust move caused a round of applause at the annual meeling of Chemical Bank New York Trust Co stockholders Bank officers said Chemical hasn't taken any action yet The prime rale is thai which commercial banks charge their mosl business clients Most other business rales are upward from the prime rale bul a movement in the prime rale does nol necessarily mean that consumer loan rates will move accordingly Irving Trust's move triggered another sharp rise on market Similar sharp upturns followed a rash of prime rale cnls by a number of smaller banks late in February and earlier this month Al that time lop executives nf most of the larger cial banks were saying that a drop in the prime rate from the record high of Sib per cent reached early was still one lo three months away i
