Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - December 27, 1970, Galveston, Texas VOL. 129, NO. 160 Associated Press AP Wirephoto Oldest Established in 1842, Dedicated To The Growth and Progress of Galveston and All of Galveston County 39ltt Monday SUNDAY DECEMBER The County's Only 7-Day Paper SINGLE COPY Nixon Vetoes For Training Of Family Doctors Ralph chief sponsor of other appropriations included in an broad tL nf WASHINGTON The White House said Saturday President uon has vetoed a that would set up a three year million program to train family million Efforts were under way to learn if Congress could vote to the A White House spokesman said Nixon's action was a pocket veto He said Congress was at the end of the ten-day period the President had to act on the measure so ms only means of vetoing it was not to sign it. Congress went home for the Christmas holidays last Tuesday evening and returns Family Planning Extended WASHINGTON dent Nixon has signed into law a three-year sion of the family planning vice and creation of a federal office to coordinate ways to con- trol the House announced The authorizes the funds to be distributed to public and private nonprofit organizations to advise persons on means of controlling and issuing But it bars use of any of the funds where abortion is used as a method of birth The White House ment noted that acceptance of the family planning services and birth control information must be it the program must not be made a prerequisite for eligibility for other services provided by the agencies which receive the Nixon said in a statement Is noteworthy that this mark legislation has had strong bipartisan I am dent that by working at slate and local levels can achieve the goal of providing adequate family ning services within the next five years to all those who want them but cannot afford Funds to implement the measure must be vided by separate The legislation Is a mise between Senate and House The Senate has passed a providing for expenditures of million over a five-year period while the House voted to spend over three Sen. Ralph chief sponsor of the said he had congress staff members studying the action to whether Congress will have a right to the veto under the manner in which it was Yarborough said a decision on records locked up until Monday He called the veto sad blow not only to those working in the health care but to all Yarborough noted that Nixon vetoed earlier this year two other appropriations included in an omnibus measure and a hospital construction Congress later agreed to a appropriations and overrode the veto of the construction in a statement dated said he was not signing the family doctor because authority provided in this is unnecessary and represents the wrong approach to the solution of the nation's health The President said the administration will propose next year broad pattern of reforms to deal with the nation's health problems and needs on a systematic and comprehensive which will contrast with the vetoed measure that continues the traditional approach of adding more programs to the almost unmanageable current structure of federal government health Yarborough said a safe bet that what the President proposes will be less than what the Congress has done this and delayed proposals will effectively postpone the imperative health needs of the nation for another VC Ends Truce By Allied Position PROTESTS SOVIET DEATH Prime Minister Golda Meir addresses a rally of people in Tel Aviv Saturday protesting the death tence imposed by a Soviet court in Leningrad on two Soviet Jews for allegedly trying to hijack an The believed to be one of the largest ever held in the country of million climaxed 24 hours of nationwide anger over the Soviet Russians Reject Weather Foreign Criticism The Viet Cong notched the end of their 72-hour Christmas cease-fire with the mortar bombardment of an allied naval base Military spokesmen said some American and South sailors were killed and wounded but casualties were in the attack on the base in the Mekong Delta 157 miles southeast of The shells began falling on the base just 10 minutes after the Viet Cong cease-fire ended at 1 a.m. Sunday Saigon The allies observed only a 24-hour stand-down that was over at 6 p.m. Christmas Headquarters reported the lied defenders at the naval base on the Ca Mau Peninsula tared the Viet Cong firing tions and called in but enemy losses were South Vietnamese troops moved out on their continuing sweep of the U Minh Forest in the delta after the allied fire closed and reported killing 17 enemy troops with the port of A spokesman said the ment units lost three men He reported four South soldiers were killed and five were wounded when their night bivouac near the iSTON AREA ued ol through fair Sunday partly cloudy r cloudy High low Ms upper 50? low Sunday upper 4fa and high upper Ms Island and BOATING Winds ly 10-W mph and gusty Sunday diminishing Sunday becoming ly Sunday night and shifting to northeasterly Monday after- Waters choppy to rough Monday Offshore wave heights feet Sunday morning subsiding to 3-4 feet Sunday night and WATER TEMPERATURE 62 Continued 289 Die On Roads BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Holiday traffic accidents had claimed at least 289 lives day as the nation passed the mark in its 78-hour Christmas Slippery roads from the Northern Plains to the Seaboard made driving MOSCOW Tass re- Saturday widespread for- eign criticism of death passed on two ful airline hijackers in dismissing the uproar as fit of anti-Soviet A tough commentary by the official Soviet news agency was the first reaction to the outcry that followed the Christmas Eve sentencing of two Soviet Jews to be shot their role in a hijack attempt last Nine others were sentenced to labor camp ranging from 4 to 15 The rejection of criticism ex- pressed in the Tass article that the defense ney's appeal to a higher expected to be filed next will have little chance of Sentences at Soviet political trials in the past several years have been uniformly upheld by appeals Soviet ties also have a record of total disregard of foreign criticism of their internal Tass charged circles in the United are fering in Soviet judicial by condemning the death first ever handed down in a hijacking against Mark Dymshits and Edward Tass said the international criticism is minded by in an attempt to divert attention from the of the Israeli armed forces in the Middle East. The news agency also ed that the 10 jews in the group were found guilty their not because of their Jews and other nic groups in the Soviet Union are considered separate from the in Soviet judicial Tass are trying this time to use the sentencing in Leningrad of participants in an attempted hijacking of a Soviet plane as a pretext for the new Tass Begins Galveston Evening mist club's to series begins in today's Daily News on page 4 and 5B. It is sponsored by ican National Insurance Company and Galveston This series will appear each day through next January 2. 1971. Each day it will feature different youth groups and youth activities in dian town of Krek was attacked by North Vietnamese early He said 13 Vietnamese were killed in the The allied and Viet Cong which will again be observed for 24 and 72 hours over New Year's do not apply to Cambodia and The U.S. and South commands listed a total of 78 initiated during the 24-hour allied truce for Twenty-six of the incidents in- volved American men and four U.S. men were During the Christmas cease-fire last U.S. forces reported 35 incidents and three Americans South Vietnamese ters said its losses were 13- killed and 45 wounded compared to 14 killed and 23 wounded a year The allied commands do not acknowledge the Viet clared cease-fire and therefore don't tally the number of dents during the full 72-hour riod it is in in another Rep. D- told newsmen in Saigon that as the United States ues to de-escalate the there probably be more mation on Americans held in North who had just completed a week-long visit to Southeast said North officials in told him American ers of war were given special privileges for the Christmas The prisoners are permitted to hold their own religious ices and are allowed to receive 11-pound Christmas the congressman he they are permitted one 6.6-pound package every two The North Vietnamese also told Montgomery that the 20 Americans they have ed as dead died of incurable tural strictly denied that Americans died from Montgomery The congressman regarded it as most significant that the North Vietnamese charge d'affaires at the embassy in agreed to meet with him at Montgomery said he was highest ranking official they've ever met in the I am generally classified what as a Little fighting was reported in Cambodia except for a skirmish between Cambodian and North Vietnamese troops across the Mekong River from the cial capital of Kompong 50 miles northeast of Phnom Field officers said the clash began when units from both sides went to pick up the bodies of their men killed in a battle the day ASSOCIATED PRESS BLISSFUL REUNION Honorary West German Consul Eugen Beihl his wife Boni after they are reunited at the airport in France was kidnaped and held captive for 24 days by Basque separatists in He was released Christmas Eve at an undisclosed location through the efforts of a West German television Page 8A.) Technology Finds Major Breakthrough v CHICAGO ment of a major breakthrough in continuous creation of a chemically generated aboard fire trucks was reported Saturday by a New York chemical Dr. Edward H. Blum told science meeting here that the pioneering technique features automatic chemical conversion of water to a fluid that flows faster through hoses and shoots twice as He said it should enable men to douse blazes more quickly and re- savings in human iives and property a private researcher working for New York City's fire also reported he and other scientists see promising possibilities for de- a detection and warning for automatically ting He said such a Nixon Raps Hanoi Over POWs Traffic Fatality Pace BY THE ASSOCIATED PI The pace of traffic deaths picked up in Texas Saturday er lagging behind similar counts in past years during the early part of the tabulation The toll at a late hour day reached 25. The count began at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve and will ue until midnight The Public Safety Department estimated 52 persons will die in traffic in the Yule holiday Latest reported Jim 20, of Jefferson died Saturday of injuries ed Friday night when an auto- mobile in which he was a senger struck a telephone pole and overturned in Jefferson in East Two persons suffered Clyde 73, wile of nf the as Supreme was killed Friday night in a traffic accident near Woodville in East The also 73, suffered in- Their automobile collided with a stalled Justice Smith had resigned from the high bench effective Jan. 1. A collision in Cameron in South Central Texas claimed the life of Russell T. 69, He had recently moved to Cameron from Jenkins was a passenger in a car driven by his Mrs. Ethel of A farm Virgil Curtis 60. died Friday night when a car turned over near Ellis worked on a farm near in Hockley Terry 73, of San An- a was killed See Page 8A WASHINGTON dent Nixon said Saturday U.S. efforts to resolve the problem of American prisoners of war face the basic obstacle of inhuman attitude of noi in violation of the Geneva Conventions and all standards of human Nixon pledged that will not rest until every prisoner has returned to his family and the missing have been accounted His statements were in an open letter to the wives and families of the U.S. POWs held in North White House press tary Ronald L. Zlegler said the recipients would include the wives and families of 339 POWs named by Hanoi in a list released in Paris But Ziegler did not say how many others would re- the He said only that it was going to those notified by the ment that their husbands and sons were held In his Nixon said the list released by Hanoi cates others already in the But he said military services have information identifying others as having been captured in North The President said he will not forget the loyalty and the with which the families and wives of the ers have borne their He said arc ready in- stantly to proceed towards for release of prisoners of war on both Among the hi ad- ministration to relieve the oner Nixon listed -On Oct. 7 he proposed immediate release of all POWs on both On Dec. 10 he New Sunday Magazine Coming Next Week SOMETHING NEW will be added to The veston Daily News next when Family Weekly Magazine makes its first appearance as a regular feature of your Sunday Family Weekly replaces the Sunday magazine which has been a part of your newspaper the past several Publication of Tempo is being suspended after today's posed release of all North Vietnam prisoners of war held in South Vietnam in return for the release of all American and prisoners in na and any South Vietnamese prisoners held outside South summer he sent for- mer astronaut Frank Borman to 12 nations enlist support for our and U.S. dors were using full diplomatic resources to help convince noi treat our men humanely and to release them said his administration has proposed repeatedly that both sides agree to impartial in- of prisoner proposal bv the Check These tern could offer significant world's fire saving advantages over He said the tional automatic alarm technology has tested by The of the New York some of the department's told of er trucks in actual er gains in urban fire protection has proved so through a continuing good that more than 100 study of the of the dally equipped pumpers have been He said the key chemical gether with the ment should be available to fire departments throughout the country by next The synthetic called polyethylene also under consideration as an additive to beer a to stabilize the he Blum said the new technique looks like the first real through in gy in the past 100 In an he amplified on a report prepared for the opening here of the 137th ing of the American Association for the Advancement of He said dissolving traces of the special chemical in water as it is pumped the truck the fire department to increase the flow through the hose at a given pressure by 70 per cent or and to more than double the reach of the he fireman can deliver as much water with a hose as he previously could with a 2 the lighter fighters can climb stairs and reach remote locations more rapidly and with less and put out fires more quickly and costs only about for enough material to handle a pretty large Blum and tests show the weight hose means can cut throe minutes from the time needed to climb stairs to a A 26 YEAR OLD Dutchman killed in an ambush reports in a diary how he be- came a guerrilla ter with the Viet SOME OF President Nixon's key tes review their first two years in power and conclude that the administration is ing okay but that Con- gress is a Other Beachcomber ISA Coin Earl From Here to There 3B Official 3B TV Want Women's News 3-4C 7 Envoys Kicked In Bis To Aid GOP WASHINGTON Seven of President Nixon's dors made substantial donations to major Republican races for the Senate this piping at least part of the money through a fund-raising tion run by a former White House The seven diplomats chan up to apiece into the GOP Senate race in with other contributions ed in Ohio and Two s in Maryland and listed pears on in tions to the GOP Senate nee in Gleason left the staff of White House political operative Harry Dent this fall to run the raising campaign from a ment back office in a gray Washington In addition to ida and Gleason was reported active in GOP Senate races in North Dakota and But he r to discuss a man visited his You have 55 seconds to leave or I'll call the You'll be The White House also was mum on Gleason's i. It would only that he no longer on its It is traditional for a president to name big political tors to prestigious just as it is traditional for wealthy ambassadors to ue to make political tions while holding the overseas of 'the seven dor listed as ID Senate races this year had been big donors to Nixon's 1968 The seven were appointed last year as envoys to the Luxembourg New Together they gave at least this year in five races where records could be with more than half the total going into Uie campaign windup for upset GOP Senate winner J. Glenn Beall in The givers H. Annenberg to Great a for- newspaper who gave each to and losing Sen. George Murphy in Beall's report to Hit Senate lists the from Annenberg Oct. 12 as coming Jack A. Franzheim to New Texas who gave for on Oct. 28, another for losing GOP Senate candidate William C. Cramer of Florida the same and still another for Republican winner Robert Tail Jr. in Cramer's report filed in the state capital at lists his Franzheim donation also Mr. Jack A. C. dor to a New York investment who gave Beall and for Taft on the same days his then added for See 7
