Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - December 5, 1970, Reno, Nevada Final Edition Two Pock Stars Gain Page 8 I OUt 13 Reno's Morning and Sunday Newspaper Saturday December 5 1970 Daily Sunday Final Stocks Page 74 Nixon Pledges Action on Economy U.S Speeds Viet Withdrawal High Court Recall Try Abandoned An effort to recall three bers of the Nevada Supreme Court will be dropped by the Independent American Party it was disclosed Friday Daniel Hansen IAP governor candidate said the change in the Nevada Constitution would require signatures before a recall election could be held for Justices David Zenoff don Thompson and John bray He said This is beyond our ability to accomplish When the recall movement was started in the spring slightly less than names were on the petition and the party has gathered more than signatures Hansen said The petition was started after the three justices voted to give convicted killer Thomas Lee Bean a new penalty hearing in February The second hearing completed earlier this week in Reno ended with the same tence for Bean death in the Nevada gas chamber The constitutional change proved by the voters in ber requires that a recall tion must have 25 per cent of the signatures of the total ber of persons who voted in the last election instead of those who voted for a Supreme Court justice Usually more people vote for a senator or governor than mark the ballot for a Su- Court justice Out of Reach Hansen said The people in have voted away a con- right Difficult as it was their recall was an tive tool to keep politicians to the voters Now it is out of reach When the recall petition was Started the signatures were based on the returns of the 1968 election Now any re- call movement would have to base its numbers on the vote in the 1970 election where more people cast ballots than in 1968 FOR TEMPERATURES AND TATION DATA AROUND THE NATION AND SKI CONDITIONS SEE PAGE 2 Observation Point High Low Prec RENO 52 34 02 Sparks 52 37 01 Carson City 51 34 24 Virginia City 45 30 OB 53 32 T Pyramid Lake 50 35 T Verdi 34 39 Fallen 54 36 08 Lovelock 52 37 T 45 34 30 Battle Mountain 45 34 08 Elko 39 32 18 Ely 44 16 T Austin 39 25 09 Tonopah Si 21 Las 59 34 Owyhee 22 07 Bishop 54 23 Blue Canyon 37 28 37 Sacramento 52 46 44 Susanville 44 36 21 Tahoe City 41 32 South Lake Tahoe 39 14 Glenbrook 31 T Pass 18 Truckee Airport 50 8 Incline Village 44 15 Slide Mountain 26 21 PRECIPITATION DATA recorded for the 24 hour period i 4 p.m 02 1 to date 2.26 To date last year 62 Normal to date 1.87 Sunset today p.m Sunrise tomorrow FORECAST RENO AND Fair through Sunday except for of local valley fcw early this morning Colder gentle winds Forecast 23 LAKE TAHOE Partly cloudy through Sunday with a few showers Snow level near feet Patch early morning fog Little change In temperature erly winds miles per hour In the afternoons and evenings High lows SIERRA Mostly cloudy In the north through Sunday Occasional rain likely in Plumas County and a chance of rain at times as far south as Tahoe Snow level lifting to feet Partly cloudy In the south through Sunday WESTERN Partly cloudy in the north Fair In the south May EASTERN Partly cloudy through Sunday Warmer today and er tonight SOUTHERN May New Year Donner Snowpack Tops offensive Early Season Record Held Peril Broken clouds floating ward from the Sierra Nevada revealed a new quarter moon Friday night and a record early season snowpack on Donner Pass More than eight and a half feet of snow have piled up at Norden on Donner Pass The level reported there day by the National Weather Service near the tion mark represents more snow there than at any time last ter The previous record depth on a Dec 4 there was 62 inches in 1919 The Mt Rose Highway be- tween Reno and Incline Village at Lake Tahoe remained closed Friday night from 14 miles above the junction with U.S 395 to three miles above the junction with State Route 28 at Incline Village Kingsbury Grade from Genoa to Lake hoe also remained closed Interstate 80 was open out controls but some snow was reported on the pavement The snow level is expected to lift to feet in the Sierra north of the Reno area Some chance of rain is forecast in Plumas County A chance of early fog is fore- cast for Reno today with wise mostly fair skies gentle winds and colder nights Police Foil Bomb Six Jailed NEW YORK UPI Six persons identified by police as Weathermen terrorists were arrested Friday as they ly attempted to a Manhattan bank as a memorial to two slain Black Panthers and to protest President Nixon's visit to the city police who posed as drunks in order not to arouse their quarry's suspicions seized the six men and three women they began to light four Molotov cocktail bombs and brought out two sledgehammers to break the bank's windows Police said the six who denied being Weathermen had been under surveillance since last September as part of a national alert as a result of Weathermen threats to bomb establishment institutions They alleged that the six planned the bombing of the First National City Bank branch at Madison Avenue and Street as a reminder of the fatal shooting of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark Illinois Pan- ther leader last Dec 4 They also were protesting Nixon's appearance here to speak before the National Association of Manufacturers the police said Those arrested were identified as Joyce 26 a writer Sharon Krebs 33 a free lance copy editor Claudia Conine 22 a typesetter Martin Lewis 25 a law firm messenger topher Trinkle 19 a student at Hunter College and Richard Robin Palmer 40 a former deep sea diver Police saw the six as they ar- rived at the bank by cab at 3 The detectives decided to arrest them as soon as it was evident that four were going to light Molotov cocktail bombs and break the bank's windows with two sledgehammers Two of the group acted as lookouts police said Manson Trial Marking Time LOS ANGELES deputies pressed a rock ground search in the desolate Hot Springs area Friday for missing Tate Pope Ends Asian lour COLOMBO Ceylon UPI Pope Paul VI ended his ical mission to Asia and the South Pacific Friday with a stop in Ceylon where he celebrated Mass in a pagoda using an altar built for him by a Buddhist monk He then took off on the long flight back to Rome ROME UPI papal plane landed in Rome at p.m PST concluding his journey Pope Paul traveled from karta Indonesia to Hong Kong and then on to the ly Buddhist Ceylon Friday to wind up a journey to eight nations that began with a visit to East Pakistan and included an attempt by an artist in Manila In his last act of the journey the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic church presented to the Ceylon government for use at a leper colony outside Colombo More so than any other day since he left the Vatican eight days ago the Pope's itinerary Friday had strong political Hong Kong is on the rim of Communist China Ceylon is ruled by a Marxist ment and his route took him over three warring nations of Indochina der case defense lawyer Ronald Hughes while the trial itself marked time Other attorneys conferred in chambers with Superior Court Judge Charles H Older but they had accomplished all they could until Hughes is found or until his new associate sel has time to read the transcript of the week-old trial A helicopter flew in 15 members of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department join a number of other civilian hunters and hikers seeking the Hughes who was last seen in the mountains Saturday just as a torrential ram began The ground party of 22 men fanned out from the point where a Volkswagen containing transcripts of the trial was mired in mud It was dered possible he might have fallen from a rock or that he could have been caught up in a flash flood in Creek The location where Hughes was last seen was three miles from the spot where a group of Boy Scouts trying to ford rain swollen Creek on Jan 22 1969 were washed off their tractor and 10 drowned SAIGON military sources Friday disclosed a sharp acceleration in American troop withdrawal that will reduce strength in South Vietnam to men by Dec 31 This is 7.000 less than originally planned President Nixon has called for a further withdrawal of men in the four-month period beginning Jan 1 1971 But certain combat units will stay through the Tet holiday period ending in early Provide Support It was during Lunar New 1968 that Com- munist forces launched their heaviest offensive of the war Gen Creighton W Abrams the U.S commander in South Vietnam is understood to want available to South Vietnamese maximum American support available to South Vietnamese troops in the event of a Tet campaign in 1971 U.S troop strength in South Vietnam peaked at men in April 1969 President Nixon announced the first of six phases in a reduction program in June 1969 Battle Develops In Phnom Penh Cambodian military headquarters said day a major battle is shaping up in a area where six Communist re- are known to be deployed and a sixth was reported moving in The area begin about 35 miles northeast of Phnom Penh near the town of and is roughly bounded by Highway 6 on the west the Mekong River on the south and east and the 14th parallel of latitude running through the town of Thorn on the north Wives Strike BIRMINGHAM England UPI Wives of striking car workers have banned husbands from their bedrooms in a sex strike aimed at getting the men out of the house and back to work a pollster said Friday David Bell a registered ster said he had polled some persons mostly women for Robert Carr secretary of state for employment and other government officials Aid Reply Given Israel By United Press International U S Ambassador H Walworth Barbour met with Israeli Pre- mier Golda Meir in Tel Aviv Friday and delivered President Nixon's reply to her reported request for American tees if Israel returns to Middle East peace talks Foreign Minister Abba S Eban took part in Barbour's meeting with Mrs Meir The contents of Nixon's letter were not disclosed but Israeli officials said she would place it before a meeting of the cabinet Sunday Emergency Declared BURGOS Spain UPI The government Friday declared a state of emergency suspending most civil rights in the province of Guipuzcoa where strikes and demonstrations were growing in support of 16 Basques on trial for the murder of a secret police chief Afredo Sanchez Bella ter of information announced the decree after an all-day ing of the Cabinet in Madrid Spanish head of state simo Francisco Franco who turned 78 Friday presided over tht meeting Grim My Lai Testimony Given at Galley Trial FT BENNING Ga young New Englander who served with 1st Lt William L Galley Jr gave the most damaging testimony to date Friday against his former commander saying he'd seen at least 300 dead at My many of them killed by Calley An afternoon of stiff examination of the witness Dennis Conti 21 of Providence failed to shake his story and the sensational trial was recessed late Friday until fi PST Monday Conti quietly recited a grim tale of Calley using an automatic weapon to slaughter helpless South Vietnamese men women and children and ordering his men to Get Kill The former estimate of 300 dead was the highest yet suggested at the trial He said the 300 included people on the trail people I seen sic in the ditch and people I seen in hootches I didn't count em It's just a rough estimate The Army has officially charged Calley 27 with the premeditated murder of 102 My Lai villagers on March 16 1968 the day he led a platoon on a MARGARET MUTH of Reno High School was named Nevada State Teacher of the Year day and will compete for the National Teacher of the Year award in the spring Superintendent of Public Instruction Larson said Mrs Muth has demonstrated effectiveness as a room teacher throughout a distinguished reer in many schools of he state Her most important qualification was a superior ability to inspire love of learning in students of all backgrounds and lie said Mrs Muth has taught in Nevada schools for 27 years Journal Photo search and destroy mission through the hamlet Conti under tion steadfastly denied he was under the influence of drugs during the My Lai operation thai he raped any Vietnamese women or attempted any unnatural sex acts with them He also denied he had any desire to see Calley but answered in the affirmative when Did you observe some GI's cramming people into bunkers and blowing them up with hand Some of Conti's answers brought a crimson flush to Calley's normally red fact Fire Spreads Sludge NEW ORLEANS UPI An oil slick eight miles long and filled with heavy brown crude oil and sludge formed in the Gulf of Mexico at Shell mangled Baker platform The Coast Guard reported the rainbow slick was about 50 feet wide near the burning platform located 10 miles the Louisiana coast and ex- tended northwestward in a broken pattern Two smaller and lighter slicks extended to the west the Coast Guard said Officials said most nf the nil was burning as it escaped from the wells and discounted the of any major pollution Earlier Thursday five more wells had burst into flames at the platform indicating several weeks of fire fighting might be involved in ending the blaze Two workmen were killed 37 were injured and one was still missing from the site of the Tuesday blast New Backed In Senate WASHINGTON UPI A Senate committee voted for new welfare rules bypassing Supreme Court decisions which declared unconstitutional laws and residency for welfare recipients The changes are intended to discourage the migration of welfare families from states that make low welfare payments to those that pay more and to force a man to support the offspring of a woman in whose home he lives Under another controversial approved by the Finance Committee a mother could be denied welfare if she refuses to identify the natural father of her children Today's Journal 32 Pages 2 Sections Ahlswede to be roving 3 Christmas musical at 12 Vegans win youth economy 20 Teachers back Sesame 20 Christmas mail 20 Auto Workers expect Ford Page 2 Ireland reveals 2 Market achieves 14 8 McGee leads Coral 10 Major League baseball 10 12 Pages Abby's Advice 13 Amusement Theater Page 12 Becker on Bridge 13 Church Notices 5 Classified Advertising Deaths 14 Editorials Opinions 4 Health Column 4 News 6 Sports Section 8 10 Stock Market Report 14 Tahoe News World News in Brief 2 World of Women 5 NEVADA STATE JOURNAL Voluntary Inflation Curbs Asked NEW YORK lUPI ident Nixon pledged Friday night to take steps to stimulate the lagging economy and force down oil prices He also made a strong for voluntary action against inflation Addressing the National of Manufacturers Con- vention the President indicated for the first time that the budget will show a deficit this fiscal year and during the next one He said the Federal Reserve Board had promised to cooperate by easing the money supply and restrictions on credit Applauded Once Nixon was interrupted only once by applause at the black tie dinner in the plush Waldorf Astoria That when he told the businessmen Nothing has done more to help people in this country and people throughout the world than the private economic system Twenty to thirty pickets demonstrated briefly outside the hotel and about 10 members of the American Action Committee demonstrated for the President praising him for ordering an investigation into an incident in which the Coast Guard turned a would-be defector back over to the Russians Police outnumbered the de- and there were no incidents Real Help Nixon in his speech said if business and labor expect public policy to help stimulate real expansion then business and labor should be prepared to offer the public some real help in curbing inflation It was the closest Nixon has come to reviving the Johnson Administration's jawboning tactic of admonishing publicly against excessive wage and price increases that feed inflation Rejects Controls Nixon once again rejected the idea of wage-price controls and defended his plan to bring inflation under control and move the economy from war to peace however painful it might be The President briefly noted the news made public in Washington a few hours earlier that unemployment had climbed in November to a 7 year high of 5.8 per cent of the labor force The figures he said under- scored the fact that the nation has paid a price for slowing down the rise in prices To set an example for lower prices Nixon announced action to permit greater oil and gas production at federal wells off the Texas and Louisiana coasts and increased import of Canadian crude oil to boost supply and curb prices A Newspaper of United Preis Jobless Rate Shows Increase WASHINGTON UPI employment rose to 5.8 per cent of the labor force in November the highest level in more than seven White House blamed the General Motors strike but Democrats said handling of the economy had placed the nation on the brink of depression The jobless figures were re- leased by the Labor Department Friday several hoars before the National Manufacturers sociation in New and harsh new criticism of the administration Of the workers added to the jobless rolls since Octo- ber all were whites seeking time employment and most them were young women aged 20 to 24
