Portsmouth Times (Newspaper) - August 27, 1970, Portsmouth, Ohio Hot Stuff Ohio Fair and mild low Friday partly cloudy and liot high Saturday Chance at rain Official temperature Today -11 77 today's minimum 02 yesterday's maximum 05 Year Maximum 87 mini- mum 60 VOLUME 119 No 136 For 118 Years A Dependable Portsmouth Institution Covering Southern Ohio And Northern Kentucky PORTSMOUTH OHIO THURSDAY AUGUST Two Sections 32 PAGES Section 1 IOC By JACK HALL Times Staff Writer In the eyes of thousands of women across the nation the Portsmouth area must be a flop The Strike for Equality caused hardly a ripple in the area There were no marches Women shoppers appeared as numerous as usual No excessive amount of absenteeism was re- ported by business Wednesday's strike sponsored by the National Women's Strike Coalition was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote Oddly enough the planned strike also gave women a chance to vote and many women voted no A survey for more than 30 minutes during what normally is considered the peak shopping hour turned up little enthusiasm for the women's liberation movement My husband thinks it is great he wants me to go to one middle-age woman said I told him now that he kids were grown I wasn't about to go back to work The woman preferred to stay nameless Her companion who identified herself as Mrs Smith from Main said I guess some women want freedom but 1 don't want to be like a man I don't understand the whole thing Two girls in shorts took a- different viewpoint Women's Lib is just the blonde said It is about time men know we are their equals He friend said The only reason I like it is because it drives my boyfriend mad He thinks girls are too dumb to have any rights What were the girls Well I had better not tell you who I am My friend would wring my neck Some women were not aware hey were supposed to be on strike One said her husband gave her permission not to do any work today if he didn't have to go to the office One woman said she had no desire to drive a truck or dig a ditch The only man who would com- ment on the strike said My two are way ahead of these dizzy dames They have been on strike since they were big enough to make their own beds On the surface it would seem most Portsmouth area women ignored the strike At home it may have been a different story Who knows how many beds went unmade or how many dishes went Who knows how many women sent their husband off to work out And what about those dirty floors clothes scattered all over he house and dusty Who knows how many women relaxed in front of their ite soap opera with a cool drink while convincing themselves they were Just think All those women who enjoyed shirking their household duties Wednesday can work twice as hard today to make up for it WASHINGTON AP lation to create a sive national health insurance program with benefits effective in was introduced day by Sen Edward M dy The program would cover all citizens without individual it over he entire range of health services except for tain nursing home care menial and dental treatment and some medicines and equipment Kennedy estimated it would pay 70 per cent of all health ex- in the nation ly twice the amount now paid by the Medicare and Medicaid grams for the elderly and gent which would be ed Joining Kennedy as principal sponsors of the plan were Sens Teachers Portsmouth city school board Wednesday night awarded two teachers limited contracts and accepted resignations of four others Employed were Gary Crum of Cardington at an annual ary of and James R Smith at an annual salary of The board accepted the nations of Charles Ferrer Christian William and Sharon Shuter Supt Tennyson Fannin said two industrial arts teachers are needed The board approved a list of 12 students for graduation from high who have either completed requirements for graduation during the summer or have taken various tests Those from Portsmouth High School scheduled to receive diplomas are Steven L Fugitt Donna J Green Ralph L ley Steve C Keibler Celina Leonard Polly L Ryland Charles H Schramm George Warner Danny L Webb Earl A Maxie and Luanne G Wiget Jane A Winkler will receive a from East High School The following persons were awarded supplementary contracts for the school year In the amounts and for the assignments as Jack Gee assistant football coach at Portsmouth High School Gary Crum assistant football coach at PHS David Kaut and Branham football coaches at PHS each John Hendricks freshman football coach at McKinley ior High School John Shump freshman football coach at Grant Junior High School Michael Osborne eighth grade football coach at ley and Steve Duncan eighth grade football coach at The superintendent and clerk the board were authorized to establish a uniform schedule of 24 pay periods for ed personal and ed personnel effective Sept 1 1970 The clerk was authorized to reduce the annual salaries jf the following personnel for pose of tax sheltered annuity payments effective Sept I Mildred Bailey Vonna E Brown beth B Farguson Robert L Huffman Leota Lane Gerald 0 Martin Mary E McNamara and S Reed Turn tn BOARD Page 16 Come To First Federal Get Up to 6 per cent on your ings certificates 843 Ralph Yarborough John Sherman Cooper and William B Saxbe Kennedy in prepared re- marks for the Senate floor said the program would be financed through a trust fund similar to that for Social Security Forty per cent of the income would be derived from federal general revenues 35 per cent of it from a 3.5 per cent tax on em- payrolls and 25 per cent from a 2.1 per cent tax on individual income up to a year Based on figures said Kennedy the plan would have paid out billion Kennedy emphasized that his would not create a national health service of owned facilities and doctors On the he said the program proposes a ing partnership between the public and private sectors It would replace he said the large amount of wasteful and inefficient expenditures already being made by private citizens by employers by voluntary vate agencies and by federal state and local governments Only in this way can we be- gin to guarantee our citizens better value for their health lar Kennedy said with only four exceptions there are no tions on needed off points no coinsurance no deductibles and no waiting Kennedy said the was after the tions of the Committee for tional Health Insurance ed in 1968 by the late Walter Reuther The senator declared that America faces many serious and critical domestic problems but none is more pervasive or more difficult than the ration of our once proud system of health care The Nixon administration so far has shunned notions of a tional health plan for all zens However the President has indicated he will propose lation next connection with his welfare reform scrap Medicaid for a new gram aimed at doubling number of poor persons for whom health services would be available if 3 T V f h s A 1 ih W V J BACK TO Trying to set the record straight go all the way back into Biblical history as they try to get a point across during a women's liberation tion Wednesday in New York City A mass march down Fifth Avenue drew a good persons according to police estimates by parade officials figures UPI Telephoto By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Women activists around the country marking the of their winning the vote have begun a new drive for equality They marched in the streets chanted at rallies and held symbolic tions High point of Wednesday's Women's Strike for Equality was a mass march down New York's Fifth Avenue that drew a beyond our wildest dreams Major goals of the tion were equal job ties and pay free abortions and 24-hour child care centers Women were urged to stay home from their jobs and not perform menial household tasks Business communities ed little absenteeism however and the largest crowds were for those events timed for the lunch A wi rk i Hint ui ctv u crowd of more hour or after work than persons including some men Parade officials put as high as The New York parade drew thousands of homebound office workers as of -EL Test Seen By JIM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP tary of Defense Melvin R Laird ays the Soviets have multiple warheads on their ic intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time And his top Pentagon scientist says at the present pace the viets could not only outstrip the United States in strategic and tactical weaponry by 1976 but in secret technology as well Laird announced Wednesday an American destroyer saw three objects drop in the Pacific near Midway Island last Friday from an the Russian equivalent of the U.S man It is not known he said if the objects were weapons or if they were aimed and not simply dropped If they do deploy this tem and it does have three Laird told a news conference accelerate the number of warheads by three times This would be more than warheads using Laird's figure of well over 700 Soviet or using the figure given congressional committees this spring of 800 Soviet as of February this year The Soviets previously tested multiple warheads on their giant than twice the size of the and the have not deployed them Deployment of multiple warheads on U.S Minuteman Other major demonstrations them friendly Others stared or were held in Washington snickered or shouted ton Chicago Indianapolis San Francisco but there One group of also activity in cities the size of women carrying pink signs Missoula Mont and Paramus identifying them as members of Men Our Masters Betty Friedan founder of the Organization For originator of the idea for the strike said the scope of the activity was SAN CLEMENTE Calif AP High administration officials say the United States would consider agreeing to have U.S and Soviet units join in a peacekeeping force for the Middle East The administration men say they have in mind a physical presence of the two powers perhaps as an observer force under a United Nations umbrella The concept was outlined to 43 newspaper and broadcast from 13 Western states Monday Release of the mation was withheld for 48 hours Ground rules of the sion forbid direct quotation and identification of the sources The officials said Israel in particular wants security arrangements for surance it is agreeing to a real not a paper peace They said involvement would not mean mere recourse to the curity Council which the United States considers loaded against Israel Administration strategy for the Middle East is being built around the possibility that the United States and the Soviet Un- crossed police barricades to scuffle briefly with the ers until police separated them The mood was generally ial but with serious overtones It's both serious and fun but not something to be made fun commented one woman marcher There is a feeling of unity among us At a rally following the march Mrs Friedan This is not a bedroom war this is a movement Man is not the enemy man is a fellow victim ion may be enmeshed there acknowledged definitely in theoretician of the keeping the said movement and that both powers will have of Sexual agree to any settlement terms On other points the President Spiro T new is underscoring the Nixon Doctrine on his current Asian trip promising support but en- Asian nations to help themselves a result of the dian sanctuary operations the chances of survival of the rent Lon Nol government in Cambodia are better than compared to about one in four before that move strategic arms tion talks viewed with ued cautious optimism are con- to be the best arms con- trol negotiations the United States has ever engaged in with the Soviet Union And the sians are described as taking a more sober approach than ever before dissent in the United States over Vietnam policy th administration was described as conscious of the concern of leased soon some of the country's most people Politics Turn to Page IB By CARL P LEUBSDORF AP Vice Presi- dent Spiro T Agnew arrived in Vietnam today for his second visit of the year and declared that the success of the dian venture has insured that U.S troop withdrawals will ceed as planned We will go forward with Agnew told newsmen nying him on the flight across the South China Sea from For- mosa The present program calls for U.S forces in Vietnam to be reduced to men by next April The vice president spent most of the afternoon in conference with South Vietnamese Presi- dent Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky reviewing the progress of the war in South Vietnam and neighboring Cambodia They last met when Agnew was here at the beginning of the year Agnew was maintaining a fast pace on his current with 48 hours in South Korea 24 in Nationalist China and now 24 or less in South Vietnam He goes to Thailand Friday and though he said again today he would not visit Cambodia in Phnom Penh were ing plans for him to stop there for lunch enroute tn Bangkok In his remarks to newsmen during the flight from Formosa the vice president said the nam policy advocated by Sen Fulbright man of the Senate Foreign tions Committee and an nent of U.S participation in the war is very very wrong and dangerously wrong and is o ides WASHINGTON AP In a help the Lon Nol regime last-minute effort to gain voles Cambodia S The Afield M c G o v e r n Vietnam policy have offered President Nixon new amendment would restrict the spending to expenses of under their amendment to withdrawal to secure release of 116 war prisoners of war to provide Their inclusion of a for any Vietnamese riod in which the President by U.S withdrawal and to could suspend the aid the Republic of Vietnam of troops from Vietnam In Senate t Wednesday famo as of n T TIC an amendment by Sens William Melvin R Laird declared U.S j and Rich air power will be used m S bodja as long as li results in g U.S casualties in of Vietnam duct ion contingency fund was As the defeated to 30 its third An amendment by Sen in the Senate voted in effect j lord Nelson to ban use to allow continued use of of herbicides as defoliants in the in any Vietnam war zone because of their potentially damaging adverse effects on tiie to approve more spending for the C5 transport facts on the environment was already burned by a billion cost overrun Sen George McGovern offer Nelson and Sen Charles E planned today fallback proposal to III missiles is under way Besides the Laird said the Soviets have about 300 land about 100 a missile comparable to the and Minuteman The United States has about i may wish to bug out Minuteman missiles which 10 have been outfitted so far with three warheads each that can be targeted ently on enemy points being exploited by the Hanoi government The newsmen asked Agnew if he was referring to antiwar ators on Wednesday when he at- tacked a few opportunists who announced the new only use of herbicides to de- of the amendment he is crops in Vietnam ing with Sen Mark Hatfield Ore would lock the President j into his announced goal of re- ducing troop levels in Vietnam to men by April 30 1971 j The amendment still calls the orderly end of military oper ations in Indochina safe and systematic withdrawal of remaining forces by D By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON API Thirty-two But the new version would low the President In that deadline for up to 60 days j without the consent of Congress upon finding Americans were believed dead Dr Jon Foster the Penta- top scientist as director of defense research said while he is concerned not with the present rough parity but with the momentum of the Soviet weapons buildup while the United States stands still The time is right to try to work out something with the he said referring to the current arms tion talks But they still have the Foster told 300 students troops were subjected to today in one of the worst and present danger j copter crashes of the Vietnam McGovern said if additional j war but the U.S Command an- time were needed the President that American could submit n revised casualties last week ble and other dropped to their lowest level in to Congress for approval within i years 10 days after his first action Tho casually report I would not cite any Meanwhile Laird toid WM Americans were killed in hers of the Senate as being men and another 353 Agnew replied md with I there is a great Hd sity of opinion what we Vice should be doing in Southeast Asia and I find myself in olent disagreement with people such as Sen Fulbright I don't impugn his motives and I don't think he is less for expressing his tions but I think he is very very wrong and wrong and that since he is he in my opinion is in a position where he must be disagreed with and on very firm terms dent Spiro T Agnew that the United States will do all it can i lie Around Portsmouth Comics Death Notices Editorial Page Horoscope Markets Page 31 21 ti 13 21 I find a great desire on the Sports Television and Radio Women's News were A spokesman ii was lowest casualty total since the week ending 5 when cans were killed and 177 ed Enemy and South Vietnamese casualties also were down The U.S Command said allied forces killed North and Viet Cong last week the lowest in more than three years while the Saigon government reported 247 of its troops killed the lowest in a and wounded The American report did not include the casualties in the ir Robert Fuller movie and tele- vision western star is to be one of the featured attractions at the 1970 River Days Festival Fuller will make during the tion which begins Wednesday and continues through Sept 7 A former stuntman who de- acting was as easy as falling off a horse Fuller ed stunts for an acting career which has brought him fame He starred on the television series Wagon Train and amie and has appeared in shows as The Them Alcoa and Chrysler Theater He also has made 10 motion pictures and is starring in an- other one which is to be re- Fuller an excellent man will appear in the grand parade Saturday He also will Saturday night Fuller is to be at the Kiddies Circus at noon that day and will take part in the Ohio Festivals Pageant Testing Planned On Serum For Cholera WASHINGTON AP plan to begin testing con- vict volunteers soon with a new type of preventive serum for cholera says Dr John Seal Seal director of the National Institute of Allergy and Diseases said it is hoped the new vaccine will offer for at least two years compared with just six months for present serums Seal added however that even if it proves a success will not be available in ime for tend the Hospitality Ball alter the coronation Fuller's appearance here is being sponsored by Hart's ily Center and he will appear at Hart's to sign autographs about p.m Sept 5 A native of Troy Fuller followed his family to Florida Chicago and finally to fornia As a teen-ager Fuller landed a small part in a cal which convinced him he wanted an acting career After serving in the Army during the Korean War Fuller joined Richard group The ruggel Fuller was stunting for a ing when discovered by a tor who gave him a speaking part From there his career use in the current been on the climb ROBERT FULLER River Days Attraction shooting down Wednesday of the Chinook copter Two were creel serai men were injured and 30 other Americans were listed as missing and presumed j The big U.S Army helicopter was hit by an enemy 1 nade as it was coming in for a landing at Fire Base Judy in the northern part of the country It was transporting troops being withdrawn from Kham Due a 13 miles east of the Itian border which allied forces j abandoned Wednesday The chopper crashed just side the artillery base spraying wreckage in several directions A rotor blade hurtled into the base killing two soldiers there and wounding five others The Kham Due base is a for- mer Special Forces camp which was abandoned in 1068 under heavy enemy attack About South Vietnamese and MO troops reopened it six weeks ago to cut off North troops nnd supplies moving in from Laos
