Record-Eagle (Newspaper) - January 15, 1970, Traverse City, Michigan AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION 8 Ending Sept 30 1969 ABC Pub Statement filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulation Subject to Audit TRAVERSE CITY NORTHERN MICHIGAN'S GREATEST DAILY THE WEATHER Cloudy Detailed Information Page 8 7970 CHERRY FESTIVAL HERE JULY 6 12 UPI FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE TWO SECTIONS 28 PAGES TRAVERSE CITY MICHIGAN THURSDAY JANUARY SEVENTY-THIRD PRICE TEN CENTS Milliken Asks Tax Hike To Finance Budget Repulse Red Viet Assault on U.S Base Three American Copters Downed By Ground Fire SAIGON UPI More than 100 Communist troops firing and throwing bags of explosives stormed a U.S artillery base near the Cambodian border today U.S and South Vietnamese ers drove them back killing 29 Communist forces shot down three American helicopters Wednesday Fighting in South Vietnam Wednesday and early today killed at least five Americans and wounded at least 27 others communiques said The copter crashes killed three men and accounted for eight of the wounded The U.S Command said U.S battle in Vietnam last week climbed to their highest point in a month A total of 98 Americans were killed 33 more than the previous week Communist ground fire downed three U.S Army Huey transport ters Three Americans were killed and five others wounded when one of the copters ed in the A Shall valley 390 miles northeast of Saigon spokesmen said Three other Americans were wounded in the downing of an- other Huey helicopter in the Mekong delta 90 miles west of Saigon The third was destroyed near Dak To in the central highlands 290 miles northeast of Saigon An estimated company of 115 men assaulted the allied lery base Carolyn 72 miles northwest of Saigon and five miles from Cambodia The Communist troops broke through the barbed wire fence the base but were ly halted by intense fire of tank guns field artillery and helicopter gunships spokesmen said Dems Choose Caucus Chief LANSING UPI Democrats in the State Senate took only ten minutes Wednesday to elect George S Fitzgerald the ate's oldest member as their caucus leader to replace der Levin of Berkley Levin decided last week to step down from his position as Senate minority leader so he could explore the possibility of running for governor Fitzgerald 69 of Grosse Pointe Park will take over the reins of the Democratic caucus immediately He was a cratic national committeeman in 1948 and has served in the Senate since 1964 Democratic leaders were tight-lipped following the short caucus and refused to disclose the vote which gave Fitzgerald the top caucus position Ten votes were required Warmer the Man Says On the very day that our forecast finally contains the word warmer for the first time in more than a week we discover that the cury plummeted to a -3 ing here this morning Good Actually the prediction is quite encouraging cloudy and warmer with snow night and a low between 12 and 18 degrees with Friday to bring more snow and a high in the Saturday will revert to the usual pattern with cloudy skies colder temperatures and a chance of snow In case you're interested this is the mark for January FOR NIGERIA British airmen load 10 tons of medical supplies for Nigeria into an RAF Hercules plane at Lyneham Eng RAF Station as the civil war winds up Biafra Nigeria Armistice Sign LAGOS UPI The sionist state of Biafra today signed an armistice agreement and pledged total loyalty to the Nigerian federal government with which it fought a year civil war The agreement was reached by Gen Yakubu Gowon the gerian leader and a Biafran peace delegation Bi- afra had surrendered on day After the three-hour meeting in Gowon Dodan barracks the leaders of the two sides smiled for photographers and clapped one another on the back Maj Gen Philip who took control of the rebel after Gen fled the country day signed on behalf of Bi- afra In brief remarks after the armistice negotiations Gowon Clash Marks Agnew Stop AUCKLAND New Zealand President Spiro T Agnew arrived today for a three-day visit to New Zealand Police battled war demonstrators outside Agnew's hotel and arrested 10 of them Agnew was greeted on arrival by Prime Minister Keith J Holyoake and cabinet members It was the last official stop on Agnew's three-week Asian and Pacific goodwill tours Shortly before the vice dent arrived at the ental Hotel including 159 bers of a group called the Youth tried to block a police van Police chartered the crowd and arrested 10 of them Fascist the shouted The protesters held up signs that said Beware Of The Greek Bearing Gifts Victory For The Viet Cong and The Traitor Agnew ignored the crowd and walked into the hotel lobby smiling Similar demonstrations in Canberra Australia his last stop ed in 15 arrests New Zealand has 500 troops in Vietnam mainly fire port artillery and engineers A group calling itself the Activists stole 800 pounds of ammunition and tried unsuccessfully to blow up the armory of an army camp near Auckland 12 days ago expressed thanks to the Ibo tribe leaders for their tion and once again pledged the safety and welfare of all Nigerians Nigeria began withdrawing its victorious troops from the battlefield Wednesday and an- it would accept ed foreign aid for starving Bi- from nations who did not support the rebels Defeated Biafran leader Col in a ment issued through the ran public relations office in Geneva appealed to the world governments to save my ple from extermination In his first statement since leaving Biafra last Saturday he said Biafra had been starved into defeat The government of Maj Gen Yakubu Gowon barred any out- side help from France gal South Africa Rhodesia or any other country or agency it said had been studiously tile to it throughout the month conflict The government also claimed Friday Saturday and Sunday national days of er Many of the estimated 5 million surviving Biafrans re- are near starvation Today's Chuckle If our car gets much the long-suffering ist declared they'll start suing it upper and lower plates Nixon Orders More Cuts In Budget WASHINGTON UPI ident Nixon has told his budget writers to make some deep cuts in spending apparently in an effort to head off the need for a tax increase this year The presidential order ably dooms any substantial new federal programs It could in- tensify the Democrats election year criticism of the priority the GOP administration places on education welfare and ban problems With Nixon scheduled to give his State of the Union message to Congress Jan 22 he and a small staff flew to Camp vid Md Wednesday to spend much of the rest of the week there in final preparation White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said Wednesday Nixon had ordered Budget Di- New Plan in Robison Case Probe EAST LANSING UPI A new and different method to break open the mass murder case of the Richard Robison family will be attempted after a investigation into the slayings apparently stagnated into oblivion Wednesday Col Fredrick Davids director of the state police plans to recommend a course of action which he hopes will lead to solving of the murders Robison a magazine publisher from the Detroit suburb of Lathrup lage his wife and their four children were found shot to death in their luxury summer home near Petoskey in July 1968 Their bodies had been in the cabin for about a month After a lengthy investigation by state police and their up of a report which summarized the probe and named a suspect Emmet ty Prosecutor Donald C Noggle decided that there is not evidence to justify a murder warrant in the case Davids said he could not orate on his new plan but he said it would allow both Noggle and the office of State Atty Gen Frank J Kelley to enter more actively into the DIES IN FIRE OTISVILLE UPI Wallace McCormick 65 died in a fire which destroyed his home in this Genesee County community late Wednesday fire officials reported today Preliminary findings indicated he died of smoke inhalation KILLED BY CAR FLINT UPI Ruby ris 67 Flint was dead on ar- rival at Hurley Hospital early today from injuries she ed when struck by a car night rector Robert P Mayo to make further substantial cuts Ziegler refused to say how much the tentative budget taled and how much Nixon wants cut Ziegler said a day earlier the budget would show a surplus Other administration sources said the budget the first pre- pared from scratch by the on administration still will top billion for the first time in history These sources said the cuts probably would be counted in the billions not the millions There were indications last week the budget would total about billion with pated revenue as much as billion less Administration sources said at time the president ably would recommend higher federal excise taxes on liquor and cigarettes coupled with an- other postponement of uled reductions in the excise levies on telephone service and new automobiles Following Nixon's budget cut order one source said the chances of a tax boost had been lessened considerably But if Nixon balances the budget by cutting spending in- stead of boosting taxes he will send Congress a very austere spending plan Without any new programs or any increases in the lable cost of existing ones the figure will about equal anticipated revenues That means any new spending must be financed either by er taxes or by incurring a de- Rites Across Nation Honor Dr King By UPI Persons across the nation honored Dr Martin Luther King Jr today the an- of his birth Several governors including Nelson A Rockefeller of New York Kenneth Curtis of Maine and Frank Lucht of Rhode land declared today Martin Luther King in honor of the assassinated civil rights leader Schools were closed in eral cities including New York Baltimore Philadelphia sas City Poughkeepsie N Y and Harrisburg Pa New York Mayor John V Lindsay said city workers could take the day off The official inauguration of the Martin Luther King ial Center a projected cultural and spiritual gathering place for American Negroes was set for today in Atlanta The center will be built near King's new crypt and the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he served as co- pastor CLASH IN CANBERRA Australian police carry away a demonstrator outside ment House in Canberra Wednesday while Vice President Spiro Agnew lunches inside with Prime Minister John Gorton At least 15 persons were arrested UPI Radiophoto WAYWARD TRAVELER Normally members of the robin family head south this time of the year for an extended vacation One exception was found locally Wednesday after- noon Mrs Joseph Seymour spotted this young robin perched in a cluster of wild berries on West Bay Shore Drive R-E Photo by Jerry Martineau Shrug Off Appeal Reds Reject U.S Plea For Prisoner Talks PARIS negotiator Philip C Habib appealed to the Communists today to start negotiations without delay on American prisoners of war held by Hanoi They shrugged off the appeal and countered with new charges that President on is prolonging the war Habib the only chief at today's session asked again for secret talks and again was refused He said Sharp Split in Testimony On The WASHINGTON UPI A prominent cancer specialist warned today that thousands of women may be feeding the growth of undetected breast cancer with birth control pills Synthetic estrogens are to breast cancer what fertilizer is to a weed Dr Roy Hertz testified at a Senate hearing Estrogens are a prime com- ponent of oral contraceptives Previous witnesses said made estrogens could also cause blood clotting in some users of the pill Another witness Dr Edmond Kassouf of Cranford N J gested in prepared testimony that the American Medical sociation might have helped drug companies promote birth control pills and conceal their alleged dangers But Dr Robert W Kistner of Harvard Medical School scoffed at studies linking oral contra- with cancer The pill is Kistner de- clared Hertz formerly headed the re- production research branch of the government's National cer Institute He is now with Rockefeller University in New York North Vietnam and the Viet Cong have blocked any serious negotiations at the talks which will be a year old Sunday The deputy Viet Cong and North Vietnam negotiators the United States with one maneuver after another in order to downgrade this ence and sabotage it And they repeated once more their de- mands for unconditional can withdrawal from Vietnam Last week you went so far as to state that representations we have made here on behalf of the prisoners and their ilies are attempts on our part to downgrade these Habib said What kind of sophistry is that? Why must the question of humanitarian treatment of in accordance with dards almost universally ed await an over-all Your position is illogical and has convinced no one He asked for prisoner talks without delay and said the prisoner question is a matter of humane treatment for men on both sides who pose no threat and who no longer have the means to defend themselves It is also a question of man sympathy for the families of all those who are missing or captured whether those ilies are in North Vietnam in South Vietnam in the United States or elsewhere His pleas fell on deaf ears What's Inside Editorial Page 4 Weather Page 8 Theatre Calendar Page 12 Calendar of Events Page 12 Society Pages Heloise Page 14 Your 14 Ann Landers Page 15 SECOND SECTION Comics Page IS TV Log Page 24 Governor Also Changes Ed Reform Program LANSING UPI Gov William G Milliken today ed the legislature to raise state taxes million this year to finance the budget he plans to present to the makers next month The request came in his State of the State message to a joint session of the House and Senate The governor endorsed a tax package containing a four-cent raise in the cigarette tax re- peal of more than half of the property tax credit now given on the income tax and three bills to close current tax holes He also presented the makers with an overhauled sion of his educational reform program which included several significant changes from his original proposals In addition to these and other programs Milliken urged diate action on he said he will appoint a commission on goals for the seventies in the next few months The sion would be given the job of drawing up a proposed print for the state to follow in the coming decade the nor said He also promised four special messages to the lawmakers in the coming months outlining programs in the fields of ing environment traffic safety and drug dependence and abuse Milliken did not say what the expenditures he will pose in his budget message in early February will total hut he did say the million tax hike he proposed weald be needed to finance them He said the four-cent cigarette tax hike he is backing which would push the state tax on cigarettes to 11 cents per pack would raise million over a period if enacted in time to go into effect March 1 The governor proposed a cent raise last October but a to do that is still locked in the Senate Taxation Committee along with a four-cent raise passed by the House The three bills to close tax loopholes originally drawn up by Taxation Committee man Harry De Maso Creek would raise million over 16 months if put into fect March 1 the governor said Milliken then recommended repeal of million worth of the million in property tax credits now granted to state in- come tax payers in Michigan He proposed repeal of all the million worth ef credits now granted to and corporations and repeal of million worth of the million in credits now granted to individuals The governor originally had requested the repeal of all the million worth of credits last October a move which met instant opposition from Democrats who said it would make the income tax more re- I am proposing today a re- vised formula for a partial re- peal of credits which when considered together with the cigarette tax and exemption package will both preserve the current ratio of taxes paid by corporations and individuals and also will retain the now contained in the credit he said He said partial repeal of the credits would be much able to an income tax hike An income tax increase now will reduce pay at he said whereas the credit adjustment approach de- lays the effect upon individuals until April next year has no effect whatever on the half of Michigan taxpayers who have not been entitled to credits and under the revised formula re- tains for individuals 63 per cent of current credits The governor made several Continued on Page 7
