Fitchburg Sentinel (Newspaper) - February 23, 1970, Fitchburg, Massachusetts ORIGINAL VOICE 1838 Vol CXXXI FITCHBURG MASS 01420 MONDAY FEBRUARY 23 1970 THE WEATHER Fair Colder SEE REPORT ON PAGE I 10 CENTS Senate To Question ABM System Birth Control Pill Hearings Resume Tuesday WASHINGTON AP ings that produced sensational testimony on side effects of the pill resume Tuesday after a re- cess marked by political ing among factions on the soring Senate subcommittee Witnesses at last month's five-day hearings before the subcommittee of the lect Small Business Committee But he vigorously denied knowing its clients included drug firm Squibb Beech-Nut Corp or that he got the job be- cause he has defended the in- dustry in hearings Frank Cummings an aide to Javits echoed these denials but acknowledged he had assigned Duffy to the subcommittee with specific instructions to make emphasized suspected the industry's side of the effects of birth control pills istory got told He charged that Ben Gordon the Democratic The testimony produced counsel runs a biased plaints the witness list was hearing and everybody knows stacked against the pill by the it subcommittee chairman Sen Gaylord Nelson Sen Jacob Javits of New York the subcommittee's ing Republican contended the panel had overreached its area by conducting the pill hearings and in a closed meeting of the parent committee reportedly said the drug industry feels it is being persecuted A few days later an industry newsletter claimed victory in its three-year campaign to silence Seeking Of Pep Pills WASHINGTON AP A j imposing maximum quotas on the manufacture of pep pills has i been proposed by four hearings by the subcommittee cratic members of the House that have uncovered cases Committee on Crime exorbitant pricing and and ineffective One of the main purposes of the legislation drawn up for in- today is to curb the tion of unsafe drugs Both Nelson and Sen Alan Bi- ble chairman of the Small Business Committee de- nied the subcommittee had been muzzled Meanwhile a scenes feud among Senate staff aides came to light last week with word the Republican cost of a thin system would Mayor Ralph Walker of What the full cost of a thick lia said he was delighted at the tern would be prospect of economic benefits to WASHINGTON AP ate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield says the Nixon Ad- ministration should lay all its fore asking Congress to approve an of the radar system tipped missiles nearby would 1 Safeguard ABM system which if hit would knock out make some residents little The Montana Democrat said Defense Secretary Mclvin R Laird will be quizzed on the need for such a system and its cost accuracy and reliability at a closed session Tuesday Base Mo and Mansfield said Laird should population cards on the table before the facts about the ty but noted having Congress to approve an ed Safeguard ABM system whole ABM system Congressional sources while disclosed this year's ABM program nervous The administration ly last year sought a thin ABM missile sites at Whiteman protection of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the defense subcommittee Air Force Base Wyo Officials of Cheyenne Wyo Minuteman ballistic missile sites I Safeguard sites in Montana and and Sedalia Mo cities nearest were in announced It would seek for additional sites Laird also said last week that with continued Soviet increases in offensive missiles It must be recognized that a threat could actually turn ouk to ba considerably larger than the Safeguard defense is designed to handle Mansfield said he expects a serious debate on the proposed ABM expansion adding that in addition to the Safeguard and Sedalia Mo cities nearest on wni fi All the cards should be laid the proposed new sites said Senate margin I h ncX for on the table Mansfield said in they were unaware of the g ncMs lor OUr SeCU an interview What the full tion last summer i jnty needs on one hand and our Last month the administration domestic needs on the Question Surplus Democrats Rap Domestic Cuts 1971 Too Pentagon Wary On Ending Draft WASHINGTON AP crises in education and WASHINGTON AP Key those Pentagon officials Democratic party panel centers are largely ig Pentagon officials and the ing a schedule Sunday for substantial increases nored The proposed spending chairman of the Senate Armed Laird said that I in domestic programs and cuts here reflects a stance Services Committee believe It don't want lo establish in the face of increasingly would be too soon to end the date for switching to an cal needs Expenditures for draft by the date force crime and drug control are by President He described It as a tactical fully inadequate Commission on an All-Volunteer and voiced the hope The report says there r sel to the subcommittee was planning to take a job with a Wall Street law firm that bers among itr clients the j lion's sixth drug ny James Duffy 28 confirmed flow of pep pills to high school students and others who use i them illegally At least one committee Re- publican objecting to the pro posed quotas as undue ment control of drug companies is offering an alternative It Isn't often university students gel a chance to throw pies at their president So Shaw University students in Raleigh N C got a big kick last night out of splattering their president Dr King V Check with pic in Shaw's first pie throwing con- test AP Get A almost identical to the crats but without the quotas The committee has been di- vided over the quota since We must at least Men Machines Work Hours Saving Gelding Moore join Cravath Swaine id Hop Jerome a And it in defense spending asserting the Nixon administration's et can lead to a end and national decay i The statement issued by a three member Democratic clear choices which would cy Council make possible substantial in- Task Force says the in urgent domestic listed in President Nixon's and a genuine et will likely vanish It contends the surplus defense outlays pends on a series of unrealistic by as much as to billion assumptions such as billion in savings from programs revenues by to gress probably won't end a billion through further postal rate increase April 1 and a delay in the Thc task force was chaired by of Selective Service except for In planned July 1 pay raise for Merlon J Peck chairman of standby machinery any are Armed Force These officials feel more time possibly two more years may be needed to find out whether higher pay for icemen and other measures will v enable the armed forces to enough Volunteers I that the Pentagon can move in that direction but he said the Defense Department has a long way to go to get down to 2.5 lion men Laird appeared on i chairman of the Senate Armed In Us report to Nixon on Committee said tax 15 member special day he felt the suggested mid- commission urged elimination date would nut In the longer years ahead It certainly is desirable he said workers Yale Department The report concludes of Economics and included Sen ion June 30 1971 Defense spending is F Mondale k with much former Assistant Secretary the commission are but no as much of Defense Pau C Warnk hat the nnl ly re- and Congress move volunteer promptly to put into effect Ibe commission Im- t n t n V draft law dies was interviewed on the CBS-TV program Face the Nation other and needs require urgent national The Council's Committee Further Priorities headed by are expensive new weapons grams of only marginal value which will escalate the arms race and lay the basis for far ture years spending in former While House aide seph A Galliano Jr and Morris Abram president of Brandeis of Ccc increases averaging about for Bute en starting this July n vearl rd detente lead of the draft law year Student Denied Grant To Pray In Classroom BROCKTON Mass AP Theresa Warren 13 the are ter of school prayer thf two undisputed Rita Warren was refused uses of the AnS Calif a sponsor of the quo whether the legitimate took part responsible for the vast drug abuse problem in the ed States Government experts told the the king's the king's men back on his feet Firefighters were called at 8 Sunday to the home of Deborah Vass 21 Stevens St again University plans two days ot tinn Tuesday and Wednesday at which 15 Secretary of Defense Melvin Programs lo improve scheduled to testify Laird appeared to agree with br sling quality of the environment Sens Fred R Harris was made and the tug of war the expenditures match ward M Kennedy Edmund starting li quest fi includes n re- cent pay in- the lower isl about pound frightened animal to ety Next William Proctor was called with his front end loader and between the two a was again set up with a xp old started trying to raise the neither the bold statements Muskie George S sling committee last year 8 to 10 fescue a saddle horse that I tress being placed under the lion I had fallen into a ditch near animal to prevent it from are legitimately produced in the home The ditch was filled rope burns The tug of j United States each year but water and before the pet war continued and finally the ern and Harold E Hughes pr each year thousand Mrs Warren took from the school after sion was refused defying a court order that the child attend classes Edward Hays the principal of East Junior High School stopped the child and her sants the American Medical Association lists only two medical uses for treatment for narcolepsy a rare sleeping sickness and for behavior in children The crime committee crats would authorize the er and said he had not been general to establish formed by School that the prayer exercise had been quotas for manufacture of the ing of Miss Vass was was lifted free barn six hours not to mention safely to its had elapsed strong armed work by fighters and to assistance of a tractor and a front end er Firmly Stuck Horse Book In the meantime Dr James T Wright veterinarian of ton was called Once the horse was pulled clear of the ditch it could not stand Dr tried all the tricks in his Fire Chief James P to get the animal on its said Miss Vass told him her I feet After keeping the sling un- horse was in the corral at the animal and moving the p.m and at 7 when she went out to feed the gelding it was missing A search of the area resulted in locating the animal firmly stuck in the ditch about 8 p.m The ditch was five feet deep News Digest More Heavy Strikes By U S Planes SAIGON AP U.S of the tons of bombs bombers made heavy strikes dropped by the big bombers so the Ho Chi Minh trail in far this month have been on Wright Laos today for the seventh supply depots and infiltration horse day and ranged to corridors in eastern Laos to cut within a mile of the down the movement of troops land war materials into South front-end loader the animal nally consented and started to walk It suffered only bruises and from immersion in the ice cold water By 2 the all clear Georges Pompidou zone Informed sources said about Vietnam Pompidou Leaves For U S Tour PARIS AP President wife Claude took off In left for a a light rain Efforts by firefighters to try home as Miss Vass tucked her horse In for the remainder authority for establishing ditch with ropes were the night an experience she colics manufacturing quotas I less Rosaire Chapdelaine was nor the ever will forget came and firefighters ay tne Heavy security precautions School Busing Becomes Key Issue As South Protests Desegregation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two Southern states have passed laws supporting freedom of choice school desegregation plans while forced busing of pupils Two other elates in the Deep South are considering similar laws all of them patterned after a New York State law In Pasadena Calif the school board says it needs more than million for busing to carry out a federal court integration order and a citizens group has raised of its goal for a legal fight against the Meanwhile in interviews day former Alabama George C Wallace and Gov Sen John Stennis spoke out against integration plans that involve forced busing but for- mer Vice President Hubert H Humphrey said busing Is times justified segregation to break up A law approved by the The Georgia Legislature passed a similar law Saturday and it now awaits Gov Lester Maddox's signature Bills are pending in the Mississippi which would do the same thing and Gov Albert Brewer has called the Alabama Legislature into special session I would have In beginning today to consider a j busing did not pass States today prepared for the threat of unfriendly and prospects sizeable East policies but ready to put congressional boycott when those policies in the most Pompidou addresses a joint light possible in in Washington Wednesday talks with President Nixon made for a mood among Pompidou and his dashing the president's aides Rogers Ends African Trip MONROVIA Liberia AP view fully But when Secretary of State William P jers itinerary crossed that of Rogers ended his Yugoslavia's President Tito in Addis Ababa and they conferred for 75 minutes their only point can tour Sunday with the con- viction that black Africa can and should be kept isolated effert banned frora the cold of substantive agreement was Indicates Candidacy George C Wallace Indicates during an Interview on Issues and Answers that he will run again for governor of Alabama Wallace Interviewed in Washington laid he'll make his announcement Thursday In Alabama AP similar measure pupil Two bills which n t J The action by the Southern ov Buford I states follows federal court deci- ee signed caUing for be no school desegregation and in Seeks To Widen School Lunch Program many instances requiring ing of pupils outside their that the African countries Not all the African leaders keep out of power blocs met on his safari shared and military alliances Laotian Position Under Threat VIENTIANE Laos AP said The North Vietnamese and The sources reported a light Pathet Lao that probing attack during the In the Justice Department's lured the Plain of Jars may on the mountain outpost of first West Coast prosecution heading toward Kout on the western edge up integration Pasadena an important Laotian the plain 100 miles north of I was ordered last month by U.S Dist Judge Manuel Real to bus nearly half of its students to break up de facto tion WASHINGTON AP Sen I southern schools and fails McGovern chairman feeding he Senate hunger committee is truly needy attempting to bolster sponsored school lunch tion he says is grossly quate to feed millions of poor and hungry U.S children The South Dakota Democrat has offered five amendments expected to come to a vote The state provide ment position nine miles west of the capital and on the route to the plain American Suoi Swiss Airliner Crash Probed siana Legislature and signed at broadening the Sunday by Gov John Keithen says there would be no racial in school systems but bars of students to achieve a racial ance unless local elected school base of the program and in- creasing funds to run it McGovern is opposed by the bill's Herman madge and a majority of members of the Senate ceding program to busing when the plan ASSOCIATED nine hours Sunday to discuss g p g am to tne s but Swiss investigators sifted the possibility of retaliation for McGovern proposal Stiffest Penalty Pants Get Youth Sentenced By DOUG FLETCHER iof the pants The officers said Staff Writer they questioned Goguen and A 19 year old Leominster them he nad a tear in youth was sentenced to one year pants and was using the flag al in jail today for treating patch ly the United States Flag in a a Police testified that Goguen non of a state statute dating toltl them he had just returned back to One would establish a form standard of eligibility based on an income of a year or less for a family of four He said it would expand the program to take in up to 9 million children McGovern also would change the Talmadge to allocate money to states based on the numbers of poor children As it stands now the would allocate funds based on the number of children fed by a officials approve such a plan culture Committee McKeithen said It would do Talmadge said Friday little about integrations ef forts j legislation is designed to make in the state but will make available to he said has more es aware maining airliner that crashed included 15 according to Yvette Lightfoot I Saturday trying to determine aboard Israeli newspapers de- whether Arab saboteurs caused action but a Cabinet the disaster which killed all said none of the persons aboard gestions considered was taken nt m and that in that k i i J state thc in many Glen had pleaded innocent to iin Israelis the charge found clothing the ft r tne McGovern said this would un- nnn favor the south a region PTV i hO cairl J i intergroup coordinator for the Pasadena school board She says neither the state nor the federal government has re- ID Jerusalem Premier Golda up to for and Israel's cabinet meti money School officials say the Pasadena district cannot vide the money alone because two recent bond issues have been turned down by the voters and the schools cut back lion in services last yesr The Pasadena Appeals Corn- TODAY'S INDEX Almanac Amusements Bridge if necessary Crossword Editorial Obituaries Judge in passing rt I sentence said act was ib vile contempt for the of the Republic He said ty by Judge Richard Comerford in Leominster District Court Goguen was arrested Fel on a warrant issued by police after receiving a complaint he is calling for thc stiffest pen from Jo allowed under the old Erdman who said he saw ute guen walking downtown with a1 small cloth American flag sewn a 4 2 Women's Page 1 to the seat of his pants According to Lt Francis A and Ptl Guy Barrassi and Roger Tata Goguen had been walking along Central Square and Monument Square with the pants Covered They said the small flag was sewn to the left buttock side Leominster court of the ter County Public Association immediately filed an appeal of the findings Bail was set at Goguen a native of Canada is the first person o be tenced under the state statute in years and the first ever cording to available in
