Corpus Christi Caller-Times, The (Newspaper) - December 9, 1972, Corpus Christi, Texas News Summary Corpus Christi Voters will decide today on the citys bond issue proposal and a proposal to expand the citys control over additional waters in Corpus Christi Bay IA Two members of the Nueces County Organized Crime Unit encountered a situation which kept them on the run after a car involved in a local accident The vehicle was believed to be occupied by burglars At one point officers were left holding the wig ISA The recently formed Nueces County Organized Crime Unit has been asked to join in the search for the killers of Randolph Farenthold The new unit is federally funded and composed of police officers and deputy sheriffs IB Texas The restructured National Council of Churches began a yearlong period of transition with a meeting of its top decisionmaking body in Dallas 10A A team of Texas University scientists and engineers is working with cities industry and individuals to locate and solve environmental problems 2D National The Apollo 17 astronauts moving along right on target checked out their lunar craft and found the old bird in perfect condition 1A Hospital officials reported improvement in the condition of former President Harry S Trumans heart but continued to express concern about the critically ill 88yearold man 1A Indications emerged that a compromise candidate might be thrust into the forefront in the battle over leadership of the National Democratic Committee IA Rep George W Collins DIH was identified among the dead as a United Air Lines jet carrying 61 persons crashed while nearing Midway Airport and plowed through a stretch of homes in Chicago Most of the passengers were found dead jA Some 36000 checks were placed in the mail to state and local governments and the Treasury Department braced itself for complaints from governmental units getting less than expected 7A The federal government reported that the nations unemployment rate had dropped to 52 per cent last month the in more than two years and close to Nixons 5 per cent goal 7A The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials closed at 103319 missing by just 08 setting another closing high Trading was fairly active 12B Former Chief Justice Earl Warren said in an interview that President Johnsons fears that the assassination of John F Kennedy could lead to nuclear war convinced him to head the commission which investigated the Kennedy assassination 8D International 9 A UN resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from Arab territory occupied during the 1967 war was expected to be ignored by Israel 2A Index 44th vear No 8 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS SATURDAY DECEMBER 91972 Wan 64 pages Price 10 cents Rep Collins among dead plane shears Chicago homes CHICAGO AP A United Air Lines jet carrying 61 persons crashed into a cluster of bungalows on the Southwest Side Friday as it approached Midway Airport Most of the passengers were killed including a congressman The Cook County morgue reported 46 bodies were received A hospital said 16 survivors were treated for injuries A United spokesman said all three stewardesses survived It was not determined however if any occupants of the houses demolished by the plane were among the dead or injured One fatality was Rep George W Collins who was returning from Washington to organize a childrens Christmas party Another victim tentatively was identified by a friend as CBS reporter Michelle Clark A spokesman at Holy Cross Hospital said three stewardesses were admitted but two later were released after treat ment Thirteen persons were kept in the hospital for further treatment One of the survivors Marvin Anderson 43 of suburban South Holland said The last words the pilot said to us were We are at 4000 feet and everything is going well and then a few seconds later I knew something was wrong because he began to rev the engines I thought Anderson added he the pilot is in trouble and Im in trouble but I didnt have time to think of much else Curtis Volkamer deputy fire marshal said his men found most of the 55 passengers dead in the debris of the Boeing 737 which plunged into several houses a half mile from the airport Volkamer said his men carried about 30 bodies from the wreckage He said another 10 or 15 persons could be buried in the debris of the plane and the houses There were no immediate reports of any occupants of the houses being killed The office of Rep Collins said the congressman was aboard the plane and an office spokesman said a Chicago policeman informed the office that he identified A United spokesman said the plane Flight 553 which departed Washington at See Most page 16A STRETCHERS BRING DEAD FROM CHICAGO CRASH SITE Slight improvement Action Line 2A Church News 6B Comics 12A8B Crossword 2D Editorials 2B Entertainment 9D Garden Page 10B Goren 10D Horoscope 14C Markets Now Obituaries Sports TV Scout Want Ads 12B 14A 6C 1C 9D 6C Weather Map 2A Womens News 12D Weather Cloudy to partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures are forecast for Corpus Christi and vicinity today Thick fog is expected to continue in the early morning creating a hazard for motorists and boaters Colder temperatures and brisk winds are expected tomorrow The high temperature today will be in the upper 60s with a low tonight in the mid 50s and a high tomorrow in the upper 50s Winds will be southerly at 8 to 18 miles an hour today shifting to northerly at 15 to 25 miles an hour tomorrow morning KANSAS CITY AP Harry S Truman continued to show slight improvement in his fight against heart and related problems Friday night but his physicians said the 88yearold former President would remain on the critical list The final medical bulletin of the day said Truman had taken nourishment during the evening hours and that he now seems to be more reactive Concern continued over Trumans heart problems which were described earlier in the day as extremely precarious However the final Research Hospital and Medical Center statement issued at pm CST said Trumans rapid pulse rate is slower and his blood pressure remains within normal limits It also said his fluid output is adequate The statement said Truman is still critical but slightly improved His temperature was given as 100 degrees after being reported earlier at 99 His temperature has fluctuated continuously throughout his hospitalization which began Tuesday evening Dr Wallace Graham Trumans personal physician was quoted as saying the former chief executive had taken 32 ounces of wheat soya vitamin in liquid form Friday evening The prognosis of slightly improved was made after the feeding the The spokesman who read the statement declined to answer questions The next news media briefing was not scheduled until 10 am CST Saturday Margaret Truman Daniel the former presidents daughter had taken issue at an earlier briefing Friday with the phrase extremely precarious to describe her fathers heart condition She later returned to tell newsmen that term was perhaps a bad choice of words In its pm CST report the hospital said Truman shows improvement from cardiac irregularities but there still is concern His temperature is 99 degrees the statement added His pulse is 124 His condition is still critical Asked for her view of her fathers medical progress over the last 24 hours Mrs Daniel said I think he has come up a little a a little Hes 88 years old Hes very frail and he is ill She said no one could foresee future developments with absolute accuracy but at the moment nothing drastic is antici pated She indicated she and her mother did not plan to return to the hospital Friday night after leaving Mrs Daniel who has taken on the role of family spokesman since her arrival here late Wednesday night indicated she would meet with reporters again Saturday Truman entered the hospital Tuesday night fighting lung congestion Doctors See Truman page 16A Voters will decide today the fate of the citys bond proposal and whether to expand the citys control over additional waters in Corpus Christi Bay Voting will be conducted from 7 am to 7 pm at 47 polling places City Secretary T Ray Kring who is in charge of the election is looking for a turnout of some 25000 About 97000 persons are registered to vote Absentee voting totaled 879 Both property owners and owners may ballot but on separate machines They may vote for or against the 12 separate bond propositions and the single on bay annexation The million includes funds for the college a convention center auditorium sanitary sewers parks and beaches public buildings city buses airport land acquisition drainage and streets Although the bond issue is the largest ever submitted the City Council has stated by formal resolution that sale of the bonds will not require a tax rate increase for bond service Normal growth and the assignment of a year for five years of federal revenue sharing money and a year from the room tax to the bond fund will be adequate to service the bonds city officials have said repeatedly The council staff and individuals working for the passage of the bonds have made some 80 public appearances to explain the issue While the college and the basic improvements such as streets and drainage have attracted little or no opposition there has been some to the convention center and auditorium The package includes million for land parking and building for a basic convention center and million for a companion auditorium The complex would be built on a 10acre tract just south of the ront Science Park The convention center can stand alone if voters approve bonds for it The Election judges urged to report Election judges in todays city bond election are urged to call in the results to the office of City Secretary T as soon as possible after the polls close Three private lines have been set aside for the judges The numbers are 8827181 8834930 and 8844312 auditorium listed separately cannot be built unless the convention center passes because land and parking costs are built into the convention facility total In order for any bond proposition to cany it must receive a majority vote from property owners and a majority ol voting This complexity is due to pending Supreme Court cases dealing with whether owners may vote in elections Results of the election will be tabulated by Krings staff at City Hall to introduce shield law measure WASHINGTON AP Sen Vance Hartke DInd said Friday that he will introduce legislation to provide unqualified protection from subpoenas for newsmen who decline to disclose confidential sources and information This is not an issue of protecting newsmen he said in a statement It is the publics right to know that is in jeopardy Hartke said There are two positions among those for freedom of the press one for absolute immunity the other for various forms of qualified protection By HOWARD BENEDICT SPACE CENTER Houston AP Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene A Cernan and Harrison H Schmitt checked their lunar craft Challenger for more than two hours Friday and declared it ready to land in a valley on Monday looks clean Everything is fine looking Schmitt reported Looks like theres some life in the old bird The inspection came as and Ronald E Evans hurtled through space right on target The true course was set by a brief burst from command ship Americas engine earlier in the day To their amusement the firing also shot them into a mass of ice work of plumbing Only one minor problem was found during the was a docking latch that failed to fully engage when Challenger and the command ship linked Demo compromise brewin WASHINGTON AP Indications emerged Friday night that a consensus candidate for chairman of the Democratic National Committee would be put forward against apparent frontrunner Robert Strauss before the issue is decided Satur day The committee is expected to vote Saturday on a motion to oust incumbent Chairman Jean Westwood who has been under fire to quit since Sen George McGovern who handpicked her for the job was trounced in the Nov 7 presidential election George Mitchell one of the darkhorse contenders for the job said Friday night some kind of compromise candidate would emerge before a vote is taken on a new chairman At the same time an agenda was announced for Saturdays meeting which provides for a recess between the anticipated vote to depose Mrs Westwood and any vote on a replacement This would allow the candidates time to organize a front to oppose him However a Strauss strategist said Friday night the Strauss group would try to couple immediate election of a replacement with its removal motion Mrs Westwood said the agenda which includes time to entertain an ouster motion not i n c 1 u d e d in schedules was approved unanimously by the executive committee which met through the day Friday Mitchell said there were no specific plans for the Strauss challengers to choose one of their number to face him in single combat but he said he expected them to talk Friday night Strauss is a first cousin of Mrs S R Alexander 133 Alta Plaza Her mother Mrs Louis Rosenwasser 1001 Carmel and Strauss Mrs Alexander said last night she hadnt talked to Strauss in several days although she tried to contact him this week to talk about his possible selection to head the Democratic party Its going to happen anyway said Mitchell Maine national committeeman and former booster of Edmund Muskies presidential campaign The field is going to be narrowed down voluntarily or oth Earlier Friday Mrs Westwood made her strongest attack to date against Strauss a former national er calling him a symbol of Democrats for Nixon Strauss insisted he is a and that Mrs Westwood handpicked for the chairmanship by George McGovern should step aside in favor of new directions following McGoverns landslide loss to President Nixon in the Nov 7 election Bob Strauss was a good treasurer Mrs Westwood told reporters But he is nonetheless very widely considered as a symbol I suppose of Democrats for Nixon people who did not support the up after the launching Thursday Mission Control officials noted there are 12 latches in the system and only three or four are needed for a secure hookup But experts on the ground were curious about the malfunction and planned to it During the lengthy check Ceman and Schmitt had little to say as they busily checked scores of switches and in Most of the conversation came during communications checks when temporary difficulty was experienced with antenna settings Leaving Evans alone in the command vehicle Ceman and Schmitt in late afternoon removed hatches and slipped through a tunnel connecting the two ships They carried with them film magazines tools and other items theyll use on the lunar surface They also checked the moon machines electrical communications and other systems and found nothing amiss Back in the command vessel Evans heated a container of colored liquid in an experiment to determine how fluids behave in weightlessness The informa tion recorded on film will be studied on Earth in an effort to set guidelines for future space science experiments and for possible space manufacturing techniques There are a lot of big bubbles boiling up Evans reported at one point Its a pretty picture The astronauts conducted the flawless engine firing earlier Friday when they were 147000 miles from earth The burst steered them off a collision course with the moon and onto a path that will take them to an orbit within 70 miles of the lunar surface Sunday Ohhh there we go said Evans the command ships systems expert as the engine lit up Burn is on time and we got shut down said Cernan the Apollo 17 commander The astronauts earlier had dumped waste water and urine overboard and it froze into tiny particles in the frigid space environment With the sun reflecting off their icy surfaces they resembled flickering fireflies as they floated in front of the spaceship After the firing Cernan reported We just caught up with everyone of those little bitty particles Were right in the middle of them Theyre drifting in random fashion Some are going against us some away from us he said Weve really got a star field out there It was a first for the Apollo program The rocket firing removed one of the continuing effects of the delayed launch of Apollo 17 on Thursday when it got away from Cape Kennedy 2 hours and 40 minutes late because of a computer problem To make up for lost Time and to get the astronauts to the moon on the original timeline Mission Control had them rocket out of earth orbit at a higher speed than planned That firing however was slightly off course and aimed Apollo 17 directly at the moon The brief firing Friday resolved that With the spaceships functioning without See Lunar page 16A Stock market tables improved The stock market tables in todays shows the profit earning ratio and additional clarification of stock dividends Profit earning ratios of more than 99 are not shown Prices today in the Land of Plenty A head of lettuce that costs less than a nickel to grow sells at the supermarket for 39 cents Why Beef that sells for 35 cents a pound on the hoof costs 99 cents a pound on the shelf Whos grabbing the profit A look at whats happening to prices today in the Land of Plenty COMING TOMORROW IN Compromise CORpUS
