Kingsport News (Newspaper) - January 7, 1971, Kingsport, Tennessee U.S Almost Purchased Crop The House Crime Committee revealed Wednesday Uial U.S government officials seriously considered buying the entire Turkish opium crop to try to source of heroin at an estimated cost of million a year The committee said in a report on the heroin problem that the plan put forth by unnamed but responsible government officials was rejected on grounds it would stimulate opium poppy crop production in other countries Turkey one of 12 nations that legally grow poppies from which heroin is derived is said to be the point of origin for 80 per cent of the illicit heroin distribution in the United Slates One of the principal recommendations the committee made was for Congress to ban all legal Imports of opium used to make morphine because there are synthetic pain kiling drugs on the market for medicinal purposes The United States imports nearly pounds of opium legally We can hardly call for an end to opium production while we continue to sanction its importation into and use in this report said Committee Chairman Claude Pepper D- Fla told a news conference that heroin addiction will never be stopped in the United States unless opium cultivation is eradicated Pepper said it was too difficult to eliminate smuggling in the highly profitable heroin trade Among other recommendations the committee suggested crop diversification subsidies to help Turkish farmers turn lo other crops Another proposal would have satellites monitor opium growing areas On purchasing the opium crop the said that after substantial consultation with the State Department Federal Bureau of Narcotics ond Drug Control and United Nations the proposal was dropped It is our considered opinion that preemptive purchasing by our government would no doubt stimulate rather than stifle world opium the committee said If the world community thought that our government was in the opium purchasing business then we can foresee nations with the proper soil and climatic conditions going into opium cultivating business Hormone Reproduction Called Major Medical Tool SAN UPI The human growth hormone which controls body size nnd and can cure a form ot suffered by thousands ot- children has been reproduced in a test 1 Jbe University of California researchers announced Wednesday Fellow scientists halted the achievement as a significant breakthrough which could provide a major tool for research on heart disease metabolism bone and and resistance to infection It also could lead to the production and bustier women But the first beneficiaries of the synthesis of the hormone are expected to be thousands of youngsters suffering from dwarfism who can't be treated now because of insufficient supplies More On Page Col 1 Bring On The Snow Old Man can't get in his licks against fur wool and a sunny disregard bluster Clarence Dixon 106 West Park in against the season and goes strolling down Broad Street as if it were a balmy Spring day News Photo Charles WASHINGTON UPI troubled Lockheed Aircraft Corp risking a possible halt in construction of the Wednesday it would go to rather than accept a- million loss on the controversial jet transport The Defense Department proposed that the loss be spread over the entire program reducing Lockheed's take from to billion In exchange the Pentagon would have released million appropriated by the last Congress to keep production going this spring Rut Daniel J Lockheed board chairman told a news conference his firm has decided to sue for more than million in the hope of winning a better financial settlement in the courts He said the litigation probably will take two to five years Haughton expressed confidence that meanwhile a new agreement could be reached release of government funds He said his company would have to have additional money from some source by the end of February if production of the big plane at Marietta Ga is to continue Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard who proposed the fixed loss plan Dec 30 mentioned the possibility of an alternate plan in which the government funds would be released during litigation but he did not go into detail He said however he confer with congressional committees before deciding on future action Tire became controversial in when A E Fitzgerald Air Force efficiency expert later fired revealed that cost had risen billion to more than billion for 120 planes The program was plagued by financial difficulties through 1970 The Air Force has reduced its order to 81 planes but the program is still expected to cost billion Thirty of the transports equal in size to the civilian 747 jetliner have been completed The last is scheduled to roll off the production line in early 1973 Haughton said the possibility of huge cost overruns was anticipated at the time of the original contract in a repricing which he said will be one of the big issues in the litigation In a letter dated Wednesday and handed to Packard this morning Haughton Despite subsequent criticism we believe the program has been managed well our product is a good one needed for More On Page Col 1 Vpf beeh u of the winnings from for r J Tt Kingsport News VOLUME XXXIV No 5 THURSDAY JANUARY 7 1971 6 SECTIONS 40 PAGES 10 CENTS Combat To Laird PARIS Defense Secretary Melvin R Laird said Wednesday the American combat role in South Vietnam would end by midsummer and forces thereafter would be confined to support security and logistics duties Laird told a news conference that when the first phase of the program is completed this year the combat responsibility in South Vietnam will be completely turned over to the South Vietnamese government However in Washington officials stressed that this did not mean Americans would no longer be shooting or be shot at LOCKHEED'S DANIEL If AUGHTON rejects fixed loss concept A Pentagon spokesman Jerry W said Laird meant that American forces would not launch major offensive operations This would not preclude sending out patrols from U.S bases in order to hunt out any Viet Cong that might the security of U.S units Laird said We will be in a position this year where the American combat responsibility will be removed as far as South Vietnam is concerned We are approaching that position on our May 1st troop ceiling deadline The position of American forces in South Vietnam after the midsummer period of 1971 will be such that we will have a logistic role we will have an air support role and the combat forces which will be assigned to the logistic support and artillery roles will not be a combat mission but will be a security mission protect and to secure forces that are assigned these Laird said Laird called a news conference at the American Embassy in Paris after consulting with chief U.S peace negotiator David Bruce and his Saigon counterpart Pham Dang Lam Following two hours of talks wilh the Allied peace negotiators Laird said I have not seen substantial progress as far as the negotiations are concerned The Defense Secretary hastened to add however that the Vietnamization program has made substantial progress and this program of gradually strengthening South Vietnam's military capability gives the United States another means of disengaging in Vietnam should negotiations fail Referring to the May 1 troop ceiling of military personnel Laird said We will meet or beat that will be below the mark on the 1st of May He said that by June 30 We will have reduced that American presence in Southeast Asia by well over military personnel More On Page Col 1 Worley Decides Against Seeking State Position a tragedy few shillings 1 all he said is only when you beyond your S hirn some extra money for By ELLIS BINKLEY Political Editor NASHVILLE Former State Rep Thomas A Wiseman of Tullahoma was formally elected state a s expected Wednesday succeeding Charlie Worley of Sullivan County who withdrew from the race to succeed himself Tuesday Wiseman was selected for the post at a joint Democratic caucus Tuesday at which the Democrats also adopted a unit rule assuring his election by the full legislature Wednesday since the Democrats hold a healthy majority in both houses this year Worley's surprise withdrawal came just before the caucus was about to convene Tuesday to nominate candidates for treasurer and comptroller to submit to the legislature watch is in its organizational session Worley who has served as state treasurer for the past four years said shortly before the General Assembly was to fill the Jarring Goes To Jerusalem UNITED NATIONS Middle East peace negotiator Gunnar V Jarring bowing to pressure from Israel is going to Jerusalem to save his resumed peace talks from another possible collapse diplomatic sources said Wednesday Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah saw Jarring twice in the morning and again late in fhe afternoon The sources said the second visit which lasted only about 15 to complete arrangements for rip to Jerusalem There was no official talks resumed only Tuesday From the start it was evident that pressed the point of the Israeli foreign minister's invitation to Jarring to visit him talks in Jerusalem before fhe negotiations could begin in a meaningful manner 6 H was expected Jarring would leave for the Israeli capital as early as Thursday the sources said They said the United States was believed to be backing the Jerusalem visit in order to keep rne peace talks going The view is that Jarring who is Sweden's ambassador to Moscow saw Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad in the Soviet Capital just before he returned here lo resume the talks and meeting with Eban would balance things out One western diplomat said with Tekoah talking only procedure and repeating Sie invitation Jarring may find it quite tempting and go o Jerusalem quite soon Egypt's negotiator Ambassador Mohammed Hassan fold newsmen as he met Jarring Wednesday afternoon that the Israeli invitation was a delaying tactic and a stalling game He said I would advise him to But said he was not in a position to tell Jarring what to do He has his More On Pnge Col 1 office that he had asked his supporters not lo place his name in nomination The Sullivan County businessman who had previously announced his candidacy said he was withdrawing because I feel that by my being out of the race it would bring about greater unity within the Democratic Party Another East Jake Butcher More On Page Col 1 Gate City Man Is Held For Shooting Wife GATE CITY City man Is being held on charges of attempted murder at Scott County jail here after his wife was shot in back in Weber City Bond has been set at for John Robert Wilhelm His wife was listed in fair condition at Valley Community Hospital The incident took place in the home of Mr and Mrs Ed Dixon where Mrs Wilhelm had been late last week There had been in the Wilhelm family preceding the shooting according to Virginia State Trooper C G Cunningham who assisted Scott deputies Hobert Layne and Arnold Pruitt Dixon told authorities he admitted Wilhelm to his house Tuesday night Wilhelm then walked his wife pulled a pistol and shot her Dixon said Dixon and his wife wrestled the pistol from the accused assailant and held him until the law officials arrived The incident took place about p.m Communists Attempt To Cut Off Phnom Penh PHNOM PENH Communist troops blew up a Cambodian river boat loaded with gasoline Wednesday and destroyed two more highway bridges in a campaign to isolate Phnom Penh U S sources in Saigon announced a top-level meeting to deal with the deteriorating situation The Saigon sources said Adm McCain the U S commander for the Pacific would arrive in the South Vietnamese capital this weekend for talks with Defense Secretary Metvin R Laird These sources cited recent deterioration in the military picture in Viet Communist seized control of wide areas of the countryside and put a stranglehold on parts of the six highways which run out of Phnom Penh Romney To Try To Slow Wage Increases WASHINGTON UPI Secretary George Housing and Urban Development said Wednesday government will take steps to blunt wage increases of building trades workers which he said are largely responsible for the spiraling cost of homes He did not reveal he details of his plan to bold down pay boosts for skilled crafts like carpenters and electricians which have been running about double the wage gains in other occupations Nixon Wants Dole To Be New GOP Head WASHINGTON UPI Word went out from the House Wednesday that President Nixon wanted Sen Robert J Dole of Kansas to be Republican National Chairman despite opposition or reservations from some party leaders Few it any votes are expected to be cast against him when the GOP National Committee meets in Washington Jan 15 to elect a successor to Rep Rogers C B Morion of Maryland who is resigning to become Secretary of the Interior Dole himself toid reporters that he believed it's moving my way but that he was not yet ready to say he definitely would be fne new chairman Now in his first term in the Senate Dole 46 served eight years in the House Consumer Loan Interest Rate Cut NEW YORK UPI Chemical Bank New York trust Co cut interest rates on consumer loans Wednesday enough for instance to save a car buyer on a automobile installment loan Chemical also cut its rate for prime business loans to per cent from per cent The auto loan rate was cut to per cent from S per cent Uninsured collateral loans were cut to per cent from per cent and personal loans with life insurance to per cent from 6 per cent The per discount rate on auto loans is equal to a true or net annual interest rate of 10.57 per cent as compared wilh 11.58 per cent for a 6 per cent discount 12th Night Burning Stopped By Student INDIANAPOLIS Ind The grandson of former Sen Homer Capehart went to court Wednesday and won a restraining order preventing burning of Christmas trees in city parks in a Twelfth Night tradition Mayor Richard Lugar ordered a halt lo plans to bum the trees Wednesday night thus complying with the order issued by Superior Court Judge Charles Applegate The order was sought by three students including Craig Capehart a DePauw University sophomore and grandson of the former Republican senator from Indiana DOLE Variable and continued cold today and tonight High today low 16 Winds will Northerly at 4 to 8 miles per hour Yesterday's high 37 low Precipitation total for the month 76 inches
