Arizona Republican, The (Newspaper) - November 26, 1969, Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix weather Fair and warm with occasional cloud hiess High low Yesterdays high low Ky high low Page 80th 194 THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC CITY Todays chuckle Twenty years ago most people thought that television was lots of people still Telephone November 1969 Two 44 Pages e 10 cents Germ war ruled out Nixon to order all bacterial weapons destroyed million needed State agencies face budget cuts Associated Press WASHINGTON President Nixon announced yes the United States never will use germ warfare if attacked by an enemy spreading The President also promised to destroy all existing stockpiles of bacteriological weapons and to halt all further research on such In the President told research will be confined to efforts to counter any germ war fare such as developing immunization shots to protect the Because of the shift of research pro grams of this kind henceforth will be supervised by the Department of Education and Welfare rather than by the Nixon also broadened the official policy on use of chemical poison While the United States long ago renounced first use of lethal chemical Nixon extended the re nunciation to include first use of chemicals that merely incapacitate rather than The Presidents announcement capped a sixmonth review of chemical and biological defense policies and completed last week by the National Security On the basis of this he told I made a number of decisions which I believe will sharply reduce the chance that these either chemical or will ever been used by any Mankind already carries in its own hands too many of the seeds of its own Nixon By the examples that we set we hope to contribute to an atmosphere of peace and understanding between all In a more formal printed Nixon said he regards his moves as an initiative toward The President acted after Congress had shown marked reluctance to appropriate money for germ warfare And there were indications that destruction of present stockpiles of bacteriological weapons would pose little problem it was under they deteriorate bore down hardest on the germ warfare saying Continued on Page 4 By KING Senate okays extension of surcharge tax New York Times Service WASHINGTON The administration won the first major vote of the debate yesterday when the Senate de decisively a proposal to let the in come tax surcharge lapse at the end of this The vote was The administration had argued that retention of the surtax for this final sixmonth period was essen tial to keep the budget from lapsing heavily into thus adding further to inflationary pressures in the The opposing con to prepare for what appeared in would be the major fight on the issue of how much tax duction should be voted and in what Albert the spon sor of amendments to reduce individual taxes by increasing the personal said he would speak on this issue His he was to arouse further public support for his support that he hoped would be made known to the members of the Sen ate by their constituents over the Thanks giving The for its was buttonholing members of the Senate in an attempt to persuade them that there were two basic defects in the plan to increase personal The first was the size of the revenue loss to the government that would re sult from an increase in the personal even to plus tax relief for the and single which Gore also has included in his A somewhat newer administration argument revolved around the extent to which the Gore proposal would favor families of four or at the expense of single persons or families of two or Treasury Department figures compar ing the approved by the Senate Fi nance Committee to the Gore package that includes an personal tion showed that families of two or Continued on Page 4 The state budget director yesterday said state agency requests for legislative appropriations from the state general fund will have to be cut million to balance with his million estimate of general fund resources next fiscal Budget Director Donald Olson also said that agencies figure they will need million more salary money from the general fund than they received this year to pay in full accordance with the state personnel commissions new uni form pay Where million worth of agency budget cuts are to be made is the gover nors prerogative in preparing his legis budget said One possible starting place is the state universities construction budget request of up million from ac tual appropriations for the same pur pose this This increase alone ac counts for about a third of the mil lion boost in general fund support that all agencies combined are asking for next Actual general fund ations to them for this year were Olson Olson said some other major elements in the million rise in demand on the general fund are Anticipated increases of million in state aid to schools and million in state aid to junior colleges million more for including million for expansion of the new state girls school million more for Arizona Chil drens including million For its Tucson branch expansion program million more to pay welfare recipi ents 100 per cent of budgeted need million more for the Arizona State Hos including million for a new maximum security ward million for new National Guard armories million more for public health and million more for economic planning and The cost of bringing all eligible state workers into the personnel commission pay Olson will depend ing on how far the legislature is willing to The first move is gelling all workers into the plan on the pay step just above their previous To do agencies figure they will need a year more from the general fund than they are spending on salaries from the general fund this Olson The second legislative ations would be an addition al onestep pay raise for employes with some seniority at an additional annual general fund cost estimated at added The final carrying a general fund cost figure of would be still another step increase for ex meritorious espe those brought into the plan at or near the same step with comparatively unproven newcomers to stale A NASA security man stands guard as lunar labora tory employes unload a case containing some of the Associated Press moon rocks brought back by the Apollo 12 Ma terial was flown to Page Laird vows to enforce laws of war in Vietnam Associated Press Carless JP speechless Justice of the Peace Ralph Jenkins had to cancel his scheduled speech to the South Phoenix Chapter of the Lions Club last The speech was to have been on The Youthful Offender and Car said on his way home to prepare for the speech he stopped briefly to make a His car was WASHINGTON Secretary of De fense Melvin Laird says the Nixon administration is determined to insure absolute compliance with our orders and with the laws of war in American oper ations in South Lairds made public yester was in a letter to the Senate For eign Relations Committee on the alleged massacre of South Vietnamese civilians in March the released a copy of Lairds Accompanying it was an Army memo on the case and on the charges against William Calley who faces an Army courtmartial on a charge of murder in the slaying of 109 South Fulbright said the Laird statement was received by the committee First of I want to tell you and the members of this committee how shocked and sick I was when these alle gations first came to my Laird He said because of the he could not comment on the specific charges or the individuals said to be This matter first came to my atten tion in early he I immedi ately looked into it and shortly era full investigation was launched by the want to make beyond any that ad ministration is determined to insure ab solute compliance with our orders and with the laws of Laird Laird said the Nixon administration program of is the primary mission of the forces in I am sure you will understand that as secretary of I cannot com ment on the specific allegations con the incident that is alleged lo have taken place in March 1968 Laird The Army dated was marked Information for Members of Congress and included background material released at the Pentagon ear In the Army said Galley was charged 5 with the murder of ap proximately 100 Vietnamese The charge was brought one day before he was to have been released from active Two top Army Secretary Stanley Resor and general counsel Continued on Page 2 Ploesti pride of new Romania economy One of a series By MICHAEL Republic Foreign Editor and it is now the pride of Romanias new industrialized Oil fields look like oil fields the world and once you have seen you have seen all But oil re PLOESTI Romania Readers to put it are fineries and factories producing oil products are a different not so young and still remember that there once upon I took a good look at Braz a a war called might recollect the name of city of Chemical Industrial I saw was very A visit an American newsman to a top Communist in In August American in one of the most daring center can be a harrowing I raids of the bombed the Ploesti oil American all sorts of But the Romanians surprised losses were very but five airmen won the Medal of then under German was Europes most im portant oil The Romanians rebuilt it after the war a most pleasant The moment the managers of the Braz center realized I was a bona fide American all doors were all Continued on Page 2 Strange signal from moon has scientists elated By VICTOR COHN Washington Post Service HOUSTON A strange magnetic sigr much stronger than scientists liad received here from an instrument that the Apollo 12 astro left behind on the The magnetic measurement transmit ted by has geoscientists almost as excited as it it were a message from another The reason is that the signal for the first lime tells scientists that the moon has A hot fluid interior core like the if far to make electric currents and magnetism in effect a giant that in its early history it had such a so when its exterior rocks cooled and they aligned them selves with the magnetic field to make a huge bar 1 that there is present on the sur where the astronauts some huge magnetic body or the fragments of such a body perhaps an ancient as or meteoroid that helped form the Such bodies may have helped produced the he dimly un mass concentrations whose wierd gravitational pull troubles lunar THE DISCOVERY is exciting for a second It is the second major finding already made by the complex science station the astronauts put in The first That an impact on the like the lunar modules makes the moons interior ring like a bell again and revealing a pecu liar again Continued on Page 3 Todays prayer who created us in your forgive us when we distort or willfully criple wondrous body you have given to Help us to keep our bodies as temples to your shunning excesses of food or drink or cleanliness and Director of LEAP resigns to take post in California By CONNIE COBB The director of Operation Phoenix antipoverty has resigned to accept a job as executive director of the Social Planning Council of Santa Clara Yesterdays announcement of Robert resignation came in the wake of new criticisms of the Phoenix Concentrated Employment Program for which LEAP Leadership and Education for the Advancement of Phoenix is The Labor in a letter dated 10 to City Manager Charles said the CEP New Careers pro gram will not be refunded as it pres ently The program does not meet the required Department of Labor guidelines for New The signed by Kenneth Rob regional manpower administra said the departments regional office is convinced that the New Careers program has been mismanaged from the The prime it is responsible for any illegal federal ex which occur in a program Fenley said the charges refer to CEPs inability to obtain contracts from agen cies assuring that they will pay half the New Careers enrollees salaries during their second year of employment and guarantee them permanent positions at regular pay Budgets have not been such in he to allow the especially to sign such con Since we are unable to comply with that well convert New Careers to a work experience pro Continued on Page 4 BORDER BATTLES North Viet and troops fight series of battles along Cambodian Page ARMS TALKS encouraged by Soviet failure to employ usual propagan da ploy at arms Page REFORMS URGED Study panel on violence urges lowering voting age to easing marijuana laws and draft re Page NEW COMMUNITY Judge clears path for establishment of Fountain Page BOND APPEAL Mayor says Phoenix council lo appeal court rule against bond Page Astrology Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Dear Abby Dean Editorials Financial Page 21 9 3443 21 12 15 23 6 2933 Movies Obituaries Opinion Radio Log Sports TV Log Weather Women Page 1617 12 7 19 2428 20 13 1415 ASU scientist allows spider to bite arm for poison test By CLARENCE BAILEY Republic Science Writer A university scientist has allowed a spider to bite him to determine if it as as poisonous as its the notorious Brown The test subject is Mont Ca professor of zoology at Arizo na State Cazier and his graduate Joe goaded the spider into biting the zoologist Cazier last night reported a large sore in the vicinity of the bite as the major and was going about his duties in good Cazier and Bigelow last week identified the spider as Un a spider almost exactly like Brown after it was found in a rock pile near the tion Mountains Asked why he decided to test the spiders bite on Cazier re plied We have dozens and even scores of people who call us to ask whether the spider is and since nothing is known about its I just got tired of saying things such as they very likely are wanted to know for The zoologist pointed out that Un apparently is widely distributed throughout central Arizona and the Loren a technician at the ASU Animal Resource who spotted the Unicolor a week reported yesterday that he has located more of the spiders just east of on Page 4
