Northwest Arkansas Times (Newspaper) - December 5, 1970, Fayetteville, Arkansas Christmas Activities Reign On Campus Pago 3 Will Romney Be Ousted Page 4 Housing Action Committee Formed Page 7 Beats Benton Page 8 Construction Of Low Rent Housing Pago 12 Fcr women 3 1 Sports 10 Comics H 148 The Public Interest Is The First Concern Of This Newspaper ARKANSAS SATURDAY DECEMBER 5 1970 Clear and colder fair and cold Sunday barometer 30.05 falling winds shifting northerly tonight sunset today sunrise Sunday High Low Expected today 58 62 29 Friday 58 47 Weather map on page 14 Six After Narcotics Raids In Hill City county and Slate arrested six persons and seized an estimated worth of drugs late Friday afternoon in raids in Fayetteville and Cane The six suspects ranging in age from ID to 23 years were taken inlo custody on illegal drugs and five were still in jail this bonds fixed at each Formal charges are to be Monday in ton Circuit Court Three the suspects were arrested in the p.m raid on a house at 226 S Block Avc at which the officers found about MOO pills Hollis Spencer said most of the pills appear to be codeine Assistant Chief Wayne Stout who supervised the raid on tnc home the value of the drugs at Stout was accompanied by eral city policemen and a Springdale Police Department investigator In a simultaneous r a id at Cane Hill more than pills were found three other suspects were arrested The drugs include amphetamines demerol and a quantity of valued at an estimated One of the suspects arrested in a woman was transferred from the city jail Gen- eral Hospital shortly after her arrest for emergency ment she had been using a variety of drugs The suspects arrested at Cane Hill were a girl and two men all of whom list their home address as Parsons Kan They were taken to the Washington County jail This raid was conducted by Sheriff Long and stale lice Sgl Quimby Johnson with the of three ties and a Springdale gator The raids were based on in- formation obtained by the Police Department The search warrants were sued by Municipal Judge Ri- chard Wells on affidavits pre- pared by Prosecuting Attorney Mahlon Gibson Those at the home included Stephen R Pollard 23 who attracted attention in April 1969 by climbing into a tree on the University of Arkansas campus and remaining for eral days to protest among other things the Vietnam war Pollard was not In the home when police arrived He was ar- rested shortly after they left by a policeman who remained to wait for his return Pollard's wife Sherri and a youth were In the home when the lice arrived Although the youth was taken into custody and later released on bond Spencer said It appears he may have only been a the home Mrs Pollard was hospitalized Friday night after she had been In custody for several hours as she was apparently ing from the effect of drugs She was reported doing well this morning at Washington General Hospital Long said the marijuana was found in a three-pound coffee can and a shoe box in the Cane Hill home He ana was packaged as though it had been prepared for sale in small The prisoners are also ed by police of being involved in a series of recent drug store burglaries included Friday morning of Con- sumers Pharmacy and City Pharmacy both In Springdale We feel that the drub ures will be instrumental in ing many area drug store particularly the two that occurred In Springdale Dec Springdale criminal Sgl Gary Swearingen said None of the suspects are Uni- versity of Arkansas students and the three arrested at Cane Hill have been in this area only about three months according to reports Nixon Attempts To Roll Back High Gasoline And Oil Prices Oilmen Say Pressure Bomb Scare At Tulsa Federal employes and on- lookers whit the Tulsa Federal Building as police check out a bomb scare day Employes the budding after race of explosives British Bandits Net LONDON AP Britain's air and sea mum alert and a massive bunt was under way by Scotland Yard today for three masked bandits who stole worth of gold and diamonds from an airline truck in the middle of London A spokesman for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said ho believed it was the biggest robbery ever staged against his company Ho said the gold bullion and dia- monds were being shipped by several clients in the London area and were on their way to Heathrow shipment to several clients in dam It must have been a planned operation and it worked he said Our vans always take different routes We arc very hot on rity The thing that puzzled land Yard most was how the robbers found out that the KLM truck was carrying such a able load The means and times of moving such cargo are mally closely guarded secrets Detectives were also capped by inadequate tions of the bandits The bery took place in the middle of the rush hour Friday night and was over too for the tails to with witnesses The thiee sawed-off a ver struck the Piccadilly Highway underpass beneath Hyde Park Corner outside the ingham Palace The robbery went off like clockwork at a time when the road commuters Police said they believed the bandits used a car and a panel truck The car swerved across the road in front of the KLM trucks blocking its exit from the underpass and the panel truck staged a phony False Eyelashes AUCKLAND New Zealand AP A customs man found false eyelashes sewn inlo Bing Chi Wong's overcoat on his return from a visit to Hong Kong He was fined New land dollars on charges of smuggling and importing goods The eyelashes were worth about New Zealand dollars in New Zealand COLD FRONT DUE HERE By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The National Weather vice says that a cold front will move through the state tonight causing temperatures to drop to below freezing over the northern half of Arkansas by Sunday morning A few showers may be gered by the front but these showers will be sparse and will end rapidly as the front passes Sunny skies and cool are forecast for Sunday The highs Friday ranged from 68 at El Dorado to 60 at Hanson Overnight lows were 43 Harrison 46 37 Pine Bluff 42 55 El Dorado 45 Memphis 35 Little Rock 47 and Fort Smith 44 Two Weeks Leave Al Home Okayed For Combat troops SAIGON AP The first of American servicemen taking advantage of two weeks extra from Vietnam de- parted for the States day Nearly 250 aboard Most of them won't to at home since two weeks run out U.S cd a liberalized Iwmc policy Nov It servicemen In Vietnam to lake two in tho luring Until program started servicemen were given one- week leaves that had to be en in tho Par East or Hawaii The two weeks now authorised In the continental United is In addition to this one week of rest and recreation qualify for the two a serviceman served In Vietnam liS four and moro months ITo must show n return ticket or other proof ho linn tinck to Vietnam when Ills leave Is up breakdown on its tail snarling traffic several hundred yards The robbers jumped out of vehicles climbed into the KLM truck tied and bound the driver arid security guard and drove away with them in the KLM van The captured truck was then driven to an abandoned house where the gunmen un- worth of gold and diamonds into another getaway car and drove off Several hours later the KLM men freed themselves and fled the police Pentagon Cut Said Success WASHINGTON AP A leader of the long congressional fight to curb Pentagon spending says cuts by the Senate Committee were a signal success that make un- necessary further efforts to slash the defense budget this year The long fight over spending and priorities is beginning to pay Sen William mire said Friday ing military spending critics to back the billion money scheduled to reach the floor Monday or Tuesday said he and Sen Charles McC Malhias have dropped plans to Iry again to limit actual Pentagon ing during the current year to billion Such an amendment was beaten 42 to 31 during the military ment authorization last gust Senate loaders agree in light of the Senate committee's deci- sion to cut the Pentagon budget and its addition of a ban on funds for American ground combat troops In Cambodia the big money will be quickly approved as Congress clears the way for adjournment later this month While the actual spending lev the Pentagon won't be known until the fiscal year ends It likely will be below the estimated by some congressional exports during last summer's debate Governor Injured ANNAPOLIS AP Gov Marvin in- jured nml iho driver of a second cnr was killed today In n two- car crush on U.S near A tlin s press secretary snld suffered facial VASHINGTON AP The administration is lying an economic nutcracker to the oil industry in an effort to what it deems inflation ary price increases An of the oil-regulat- ing Texas quickly predicted the squeeze not work But.whether or not it works oilmen and oil-producing states can hardly be pleased to see the federal government picking up tools that can late the nation's oil production and pricing Tbe Nixon in a jor economic policy speech be- fore the National Association of Manufacturers in New York One of its arms is a tial order permitting oil ters currently unable tap their usual sources in the Mid- dle use import quotas for Canadian oil some 50 or 60 cents a barrel cheaper than the Texas and Louisiana product OIL PRODUCTION The other arm is an order to the Interior Department to start regulating oil production from its federal leaded lands in the Gulf of Mexico independently from iue Texas and Louisiana restraints thus pre- increasing domestic production By increasing domestic ply while undercutting the domestic price with cheaper crude the tion hopes to drive back a price increase of 25 cents a barrel re- cently adopted by U.S ers At the same time it hopes to Gulf Coast to the East Coast and erase shortages caused by problems In the Mid- dle East Observers said the moves probably will have little effect on Venezuela the major ter of oil to the United Slates or on production or imports on the West Coast Issues Ultimatum On Construction Costs Dies In Fire CAVE CITY Ark said Alfred Curtis 71 of Cave City Independence ty died in a fire that destroyed his frame home ly this morning motorist called the fire alarm to officials at about and Curtis body was discovered at 8 ties said said the cause or the fire is not known WAITING FOR PHONE TO You won't have to sit and wait or results when you in Inexpensive fied nd to rent your vacant house apartment or mobile home is an example or the many successful nils which run every In the TIMES TO home enrol e Don't delay you too cnn RPt results with tho of n Art 6242 nsk our ical nix CESAR CHAVEZ Farm Leader Imprisoned Calif AP Farm labor leader Cesar ez who used a boycott to ize table grape growers lias jailed by adjudge who says Chavez will stay behind bars un- til be calls off a nationwide tuce Chavez soft-spoken leader of Uie AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee was de- fiant as he was led to jail day Boycott Boycott Chavez called to about supporters at the Monterey County courthouse as bailiffs led him to jail Superior Court Judge Gordon Campbell told Chavez during a hearing he would not stand for the continued of this court's orders Campbell had issued an in- junction prohibiting the boycott against Bud Antic Inc scale lettuce grower owned in part by Dow Chemical Co The judge sentenced Chavez to two consecutive five day jail terms for violating two col orders and added that would stay in jail until the boycott is ended in nia and elsewhere UNION FINED Campbell also fined for violating his nary order against the boycott The boycott of all lettuce vested by labor was launched after Campbell had Issued a court order against picketing last Sept 16 Chavez had called a strike 23 against Salinas Valley growers who produce 70 per cent of the nation's head lettuce after most of signed farm labor contracts with the sters Union Some 75 growers Including Antic still hold to their contracts Chavez Ills strike ly after the table growers of the Central Valley signed contracts following five years of trying to combat his strike and wide boycott WASHINGTON AP With bold attempt to roll back ine and an natum on construction costs resident Nixon has he toughest drive of his administration Not only did Nixon announce direct government action day night to force down the price of crude oil he issued warning t all industry and la por against betting inflation Criticizing this year s big wage increases in tbe construe lion Nixon offered this ultimatum Unless industry government to intervene in wage negotiations on federa projects to protect the lerest the moment ds here for labor and management to make their own reforms In his speech to the Association of Manufacturers in New York the President took up a new economic strategy long held in disfavor by the power of his office directly to push down a specific price increase he con- siders inflationary Nixon was interrupted by ap only once by the business executives The President noted some businessmen are con- cerned because their children Letters WELLINGTON Now Zealand AP New Department fiO letters a month from asking about teaching In Now re Business is not don't want to get in he rat race I want to help er people done more to lelp people in this country and throughout the world ban economic he said to bring on the only applause of the night Whether his administration vill go further in jawboning labor was not dis- in his speech Nixon used the toughest language to date in his drive This is the moment tor labo and management to stop freez Ing into wage settlement an price actions any that inflation will continue in the future at its peak rate of tli past he said Any wage or price decision that makes the flat and sible assumption of a- high rate of the public interest and against the real interest of the man lie This is also the moment with productivity iy rise for business to ake a hard new look at its ing policies and to pass along to he consumer its savings in pro duction costs Nixon said his bid to roll back the increase n oil the resulting price not a nove toward government wage nd price controls On the he these are moves away from he kind of government controls hat cause artificial market Nixon overrode present state restrictions on oil production on offshore leases and mitted oil importers to use import quotas for cheaper Canadian oil In the construction industry he called for reform of the in- bargaining process saying consolidated or regional bargaining is needed When construction wage are more than double the national average for all manufacturing at a time when many construction workers are out of work hen something is basically wrong with that bargaining he said now tbe craft guarantees instability Nixon said he has ordered a sponsored commission to take the initiative in ing out these changes with ers of management and labor And it legislation is needed ha said it will be proposed GO Get Em Kill Em Witness Says He Saw Galley Slay Civilians FT BENNING Ga AP An testifying at the court-martial of Lt Wiliam L Calley Jr estimates that 300 people were killed at My Lai and says Calley was a major contributor to the loll Dennis Conti a high school dropout who was in Calley's platoon during the sault on the Vietnamese hamlet told the military jury Friday that Calley shol down ing men women and children And he said when some tried to run Calley yelled at his men NEWS BRIEFS Survivors Found CAM BAY Vietnam AP Army rescue ters plucked two badly injured survivors from a fogbound mountainside today six days after a plane crash that ently took the lives of 42 other persons The two survivors U.S Air Force sergeants had endured nearly a week of chilling rain and fog hunger thirst and the of being killed or cap- lured by Viet Cong troops They were identified as Sgl Navarro and Sgt Vincent brother Riverside Roth were flown to a hospital at Cam Ranh Bay where was reported in fair condition and seriously ill Sharp Graduates Airman Sharp son and Mrs Jack L has nt Chanute AKB III from the U S Air Force emit equipment repairmen course and assigned to Council for duty with the Air Command He Is a 1069 graduate High School Ills wife Mary is the daughter of Mrs Blanch or Horse Offender BLOOMINGTON III A horse that broke loose from its tether and damaged a fence was listed on police records as an offender The horse owned by Roy Donaldson was tied behind a service station when it made its break Louis told police the broke down a portion of fence on his property and aged a child s swing set Oil Slick Shrinks JACKSONVILLE Via AP A oil slick con- to break up offshore day It had threatened for three days to blacken da beaches The slick which once covered 1.000 square miles ot ocean was concentrated In an area about 15 square miles and moving from shore on a west wind the Slate Marine Patrol reported The Navy which dumped the oily sludge moro than SO miles out at sea described tho slick as no more than 13 miles long ami 2.5 miles wldo The state said Its closest point to shore was about 35 miles The Navy 50 miles to get em get em kill Of 31 witnesses Conti is tha first to seeing ley shoot civilians Calley is charged with murder of 102 civilians during the March 16 1968 sweep of the hamlet Conti an unimpassioned ness who remained unflappable under cross-examination said he Calley firing his MIS rifle at the trail inter- section where the lieutenant is charged with 30 deaths and at the drainage ditch east of Ihn village where he is charged with 70 deaths The number of My Lai dents left dead in the assault has been estimated variously from 28 to more than 500 Conti estimated 300 On what do you base the en- asked the prosecutor Capt Aubrey Daniel On the number of people on the trail people In the ditoh and people in the Hootches Conli said SAW MURDERS As he went through the lage the former said he saw some soldiers cramming people into bunkers then blowing them up tvith hand grenades Conti had undergone previous interrogations about the day In My Iho Army's criminal investigation division twice to the high Ing commission that ed whether Iho Army hadi ered up and nt the earlier of Sgl David Mitchell Defense attorney Richard n Kay tried to attack ibility by repenting from previous I'd to see the statement on Conll snld ing in rend his previous ny answering Kny to women the In tho Hint day
