Lima News, The (Newspaper) - March 6, 1973, Lima, Ohio is the golden chain by which society bound Cod 60 4 THE LIMA NEWS Serving Northwest Ohio More Than 88 Years Vol. 89, No. 65 MARCH 6, 1973 Weather Showers tonight and Lows night in upper 40s. Wednesday's highs in the 50s. Monday's high was 64 and today's low was 45 See weather page 4. 10 Cents Scale Studied WASHINGTON The General Accounting watch dog agency for is investigating pay setting machinery to determine if it is biased in favor of federa the GAO wants to know if federal workers are getting paid more on the age than employes holding comparable jobs in private in Although it may take two to finish the the GAO hopes to have ready its first set of recommendations this A spokesman said those recommendations could lead to either executive or con- The GAO investigation was triggered by allegations tha the system gives federal white-collar workers a break and leads to over compensation in comparison to private It is hard to prove the case either Federal statistics show that government employ es in some parts of the country earn more on the average than do workers in comparable jobs But in other they earn The process ers 1.3 million federal collar workers but eral and military jobs are linked to the salary scale so that actually more than four million arc Comptroller General Elmer B. Staats said differences m pay rates for federal and vate employes have reaching effects on working relationships and the costs for salaries and wages throughout the entire The process is called The is to make sure that federal workers almost automatically get salary each year so that they receive roughly the same pay for the same kind of work as their The system is a complex one based on government efforts to match federal and private job easy and then compare pay on the basis of the salary the Office of Management and Budget de- cides whether federal workers should be getting more and sends its recommendation to the White The president can then in crease federal salaries by exec in line with th survey recommen to Congress that something els be The last federal pay 5. per took effect Jan. 1. The GAO also is looking int pay in the gov those jobs that gener ally pay and Ther is a ceiling on those sal primarily because ac ministration appointees in po positions start a that But the ceiling probably wil be lifted next and the pay of federal executives by the system wil drift Although those civil service jobs -are not covered bj the comparability the government tries to keep them generally in line with the sala ries of execu Staats said that is particular ly because in private executive pay often includes bonuses and other fringe benefits government men don't Some sample covering and the pays an of a In vate the surveys in- the average is the average al pay is Among the in that grade are and engineering employes at the 3S-9 among them some chemists and make an average of tions average between and federal management evel begins at the and an official at this level earns on the the I think roughly comparable to a ce official Muddy Faurot Lake Claims Cop's Horse An off-duty Lima police officer was pulled to safety late Monday from Bear Pit Lake in Faurot but his valued at approximately wasn't as Patrolman Jack R. 22, told investigating of- he was riding Monday with a friend and at mately the frightened by a passing jumped into the Thompson said he was thrown clear and swam towards shore where his riding companion pulled him to A search ensued for the horse and about an hour later it floated to the The horse apparently drowned when it became entrapped in heavy mud at the bottom of the Pearl Nobel Vt. S. in China from 1914 until PEARL S. BUCK Dies At 80 the daughter of who won the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes for her ings on died today at her home She was 80. Beverly Miss Buck's private said the thor died about a.m. She underwent gall bladder surgery last Born in West Virginia June 26, 1892, Miss Buck was raised in China and learned to speak Chinese before she learned It was that she that influenced not only the subject of her writing but her style as She spent the first 17 years her life in returned to the United States for a stay and then worked as a Presbyterian 1935. The Chinese government refused her request to revisit the country last She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for Good a book detailing the rise to power of a Chinese peasant which was cited for epic its distinct and moving its sustained story in- its simple and yet richly colored In 1938 she became the first American woman to win a No- bel Prize for The award made special mention of two 1936 biographies and She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Miss Buck had been in failing health in the past than 30 It was hospitalized twice for extended Last July she spent nearly a month in the hospital following a pleurisy attack and in Octo- ber was hospitalized again for two months as she recovered from gall bladder A family spokesman would not make any comment on Miss Buck's death other than to say it had come and said in accordance with her wishes funeral services would be vate and would not be in The spokesman did not say where they would be Of her scores of far the most popular was Good which reflected the development of modern It was translated into which won an Academy award for Louise Rainer in 1937 and also starred Paul Muni. Mrs. Buck continued writing throughout her turning out three books a She five novels under the pen name For years she was among the top selling writers in but she said her largest public was in In an interview in 1969, Mrs. Buck said that American critics tend to dismiss her a an she to dealing with American ought to face the fact that I am not a 100 per cent American My con- cept of the novel is based on the Chinese which has a direct I read nese novels almost exclusively until I came to America to go to Mrs. Buck said she found most contemporary writers preoccupied with not moralistic at she doesn't shock me. It amuses me more than thing Among her interests in recent years was her foundation to aid Asian children fathered and abandoned by American It operated in seven Asian nations and last September opened an office in Page 4) 2nd Crash Averted French Sky Boycotted PARIS A number of Robert the French airlines boycotted French skies today because two Spanish jet liners collided during an air controller and a Swedish let captain said he nearly had a second collision over The chief of staff of the French air force he radar cover in the area of Monday's crash is than Gen. Claude told a news conference that shortage of ground equipment left gaps n the radar network a control checkpoint in western France for virtually all air traffic between Spain and But he insisted the main cause of Monday's ion was pilot The report from Stockholm said SAS pilot Rolf Bandell re- ported a big plane suddenly crossed his course at the same altitude Monday near in northern said Bandell was flying Boeing 720 jet with 178 ons bound for the Canary The military air Controllers the French airports strikers had not at in- him of any other plane n the Bandell When he reported the he said he was an- under- The two Spanish airliners col- ded about 760 miles southwest f near the coast be- ow One of the n Iberia Airlines broke p in the air and all 68 persons board were The Convair Coronado flown by ie charter d safely although part of a ing was knocked off. It had persons The jets hit in clear weather ver western France as both ere heading for beria said the dead included 47 11 2 1 Irish passenger and the Spanish Another 30 Britons missed the an in Minorca and took r Most of the 99 passengers on plane also were 3 minister of said the Iberia plane was about two minutes behind schedule and the was ahead of schedule despite instructions from the ground to slow He said as the charter plane was turning at a checkpoint near the two planes brushed Galley blamed the crash on and have found nothing at the present time which could question the responsibility of the very the striking air controllers said the defense which is supervising air traffic bears and total for all consequences of the The government has refused to negotiate with the saying walkout is The French association claimed a dangerous situation existed and grounded its members Monday halting most flights by the three McGovern Nixon D Lawyer WASHINGTON Sen. 3eorge McGovern said today he has proof the new director of the Office of Economic Opportunity plans to sharply limit he kind of help poor people can obtain from poverty He said the Nixon administration seeks to destroy the independence of the Legal Services Program and political appointees decide when and low the rights of the poor may The Smith Program cern is to get rid of the existing backup centers and much less with what they put in their he Under the Legal Services some poverty lawyers work out of 900 They handled more than one million cases last Congress has appropriated million in legal services funding for the current fiscal French British European British Lufthansa and Iberia joined the boycott of the French BOAC has passed France since the con- strike started two weeks the vian said it would tain its scheduled flights to French airports but other flights would not fly over the The U.S. Association said there was very risk over bul there was no immediate word of curtailment by Pan TWA or any of the can charter Leonard one of the on the light from said there was enormous bang and a dropped and dropped and were rocking Wareham said he ed out the window and saw half the wing was The pilot was able to land the jet at 125 miles without injury to any of the It was the second crash in three months involving a tax Convair All 155 aboard another one of he line's jets were tilled when it crashed shortly after taking off from the ry Islands on Dec. 3. j SURROUNDED Navy Lt. Cmdr. John McGrath of San is mobbed today by a happy class of ry school children at Clark Air McGrath was shot down over North Vietnam on June and was released e charter released a memorandum from a ranking OEO official to ing OEO Director Howard lips which indicated a lion research service for lawyer was being The research service in 15 nationwide located mostly at university law should be pulled back under the direct control of OEO officials the memorandum i By taki 3 out the the memorandum i OEO would end by poverty lawyers to use program as an agency to force broad social It said there is nothing in eral law either requires or encourages attorneys em- ployed in the Legal Services Program to be at the beck and call of every public and private entity in the U.S. interested in social The drafted by shall acting director of program vere Becoming public interest law which sometimes acted to encourage liberal cial in the In his McGovern said Phillips first decided to cut out the backup then sought justification and reasons to vide critics by having Boatman write the problem of what to do about legal services backup centers is most the memo ard Phillips asked me to prepare a rationale for phasing them out and replacing with an Boarman could be reached for comment Monday Theodore ENGLAND SUFFERING Threat of a general strike today in protest Against the government's wage could duplicate scenes like this empty ward Monday at King's College in other areas of Polish Protest in Britain have crippled closed cut off heating and cooking gas to homes and disrupted train CLARK AIR pines Eighty of the 106 American prisoners of war re- leased by North Vietnam this week will be flown to the United States on Operation Homecoming The announcement said planes carrying 20 men each would fly to Andrews Air Force Base in Scott Air Force Base at 111.; Kelly Field at San and Travis Air Force Base at Calif. They are due Wednesday between and p.m. local Their departure will leave 56 American POWs and two West Germans still at Clark Air Base awaiting Two Thai sergeants freed in Hanoi on Sunday were flown to Bangkok On Final Lap Home leased and two Monday Filipinos re- were trans- ferred to a Philippine military hospital in Officials at the base hospital reported that most of the men released with his name on it for the past The Debbie daughter of Russ T. White of Colorado took the bracelet off and gave it to He kissed the white mark it had left on her The airmen were visibly touched by the reception from the young could almost come to tears even though I'm supposed to be a big said Navy Lt. George T. 30, of to a group of mentary school Air Force Col. Norman C. 39, of Winston told the I didn't really believe when told he was to be Ur Force CapL Loren H. 32, of told the children about his capture in April 1967 after his plane was shot down by a bailed out and landed on a side of a he As as I landed on the I several Vietnamese ringing I guess warning the people they had seen me. I of my parachute and all my equipment Be- fore I could make any I had to get rid of it. By the time I collected my gotten this equipment they were all around and I had no op- to try and evade or He was taken to Hanoi in a and people threw rocks and tomatoes at the the rocks hit you in the someone they he Viet Cong Ask Of Prisoners Held In South SAIGON The what date will the Cong asked the Saigon of Saigon start the re- ment today to of the Communist ers n holds and begin the release of on what date will it Does the Saigon government consent to turn over civilian de- ond phase of Vietnamese to ibe Provisional af Alir II were in good condition and proposed thc their medical checks and other bv CTd processing were going ahead fired by Phillips as legal services said man had me that nc had written that memo makes clear that and con- without any A lumber of the men visited ihc base schools for Air Force children today to get an idea of what their children will be arc asked Robert B. 45, of as he saw a couple of long-haired standing in a hallway at High The boys The request was in a note from Col. Dang Van ty chief of Ihc Viet Cong gation to the Joint Military to Lt. Gen. Du Quoc thc senior military representative of thc Saigon thc government of gon consent to give us in the second phase of the prisoner re- leases a quarter of the There was no immediate comment from the Saigon Thu told Dong that the Viet Cong would release South Vietnamese or one- fourth of the list it presented at Paris when the agreement was signed Jan. 27. He said the Saigon government must turn over at least one- fourth of thc military who was shot down Crs of war on the list which thc Index July 14, 1067, said be had had four children whom he hoped to see Lt. Cmdr. Michael D. 32, of was escorted around Wagner school by a 15-year-old girl who had been wearing a POW bracelet Saigon government handed over in Thu in his what is thc exact number of military which the Saigon government will turn over to the Provisional Revolutionary Business Classified Comics Editorial Entertainment Sports TV Schedule Women's 17-19 4 7 prisoners on the list it sub- mitted in This would be nearly The Saigon government has offered to release only It claims the Viet Cong turned over a list of tary prisoners totaling only 285 names and has not fully counted for government soldiers and civilians ed as missing and captured by thc Saigon Thc Saigon government re- leased Communist tary prisoners in the first ex- change thai began Feb. 12 and lasted several The Cong freed military Thc Communist delegations announced Monday that they would attend no more meetings of the Joint Military sion the Saigon ment increased ibe number of prisoners it would But a Viet Cong spokesman said the dispute would not hold up the next release can
