Wellsville Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - April 28, 1970, Wellsville, New York Reporter Serving Potter Counties Ninetieth Year New Tuesday Afternoon April 1970 10 Cents Per Worst Phone Service Given New Yorkers By STAN BENJAMIN WASHINGTON AP Sta gathered by the Federal Communications Commission indicate the nations phone service has deteriorated over more often than anybody except the folks in Southern like the they have to call back more than most people to get Los Angeles shows the best the past twoi years with service record in only one of the Yorkers as many of them suspect getting the worse service of Los Angeles seems to be get ting some of the best The in a study initiated last has collected figures from the Bell Telephone System on the quality of phone service in 20 major population and is awaiting statistics from seven independent telephone While a final analysis is still in the works the commissions Common Carrier Bureau is will ing to reveal the raw but not interpret But some of the figures speak for They for it takes longer to get a phone in stalled in New York City than anywhere And once you get youll have a harder time getting a dial tone or an opera tor on If you ask the operator to help put your call shell have a harder time doing it from New York than any where New Yorkers also find them selves seeking phone repairs nine major dont have to call back so often after they order But their service can be rated best in general because per in each category usually is above The FCC has drawn no con delusions yet from its but by adding each areas rank in all nine categories a kind of score can be reached to serve as a rough rule of tal ly of who seems to be having the most or least On that areas studied by the FCC as of January stacked up this from those with the fewest problems to those with the most Los Angeles Nebraska and Arizona about even Washing Dallas Georgia and Metropolitan Detroit Western Louis and Washington State Maryland Northern Ohio Colorado San Francisco Bay area Chicago Tennessee Phil adelphia Massachusetts Southern Florida and New York Against Smut Up For House Okay WASHINGTON AP A landmark cracking down on obscene mail sent to youngsters and to adults who dont want it should sail through Congress like motherhood and the says a chief The up for House approv defines in explicit terms sexual sexual excitement and sado masochistic abuse considered obscene to The American Civil Liberties Union opposed it as an restriction of speech and said Congress should have waited for a report from the Presidents Commis sion on Pornography and Ob before But Robert a principal said he had heard of no opposition i among his Its just like motherhood and the he said Mailing material or advertise ments defined as obscene for minors to any home with young sters under 17 could draw a maximum five years in jail and fine for the first offense unless it is specifically ad dressed to what the mailer be to be an Succeeding offenses could draw a maximum 10 years in jail and The same penalties could be imposed for mailing such mate rial to adults who put their names on a Post Office Depart register of people who dont want i The Supreme Court has made no hard and fast definition of obscenity but it has upheld a New York statutes definition of obscenity to minors and the House follows it almost to the It describes in detail prohibit ed depiction of but breasts and sexual arous al and defines it as obscenity harmful to minors when it Predominantly appeals to the shameful or mor bid interest of minors and is of fensive to prevailing standards in the adult community concern ing what is suitable material for minors and is substantially without redeeming social value for The one which the ACLU says make the more is that while the court approved New York statute says utterly without redeeming social value the uses sub The is basically what President Nixon asked last year but he proposed fines up to and prohibition of inter state shipment of obscene mate rial as well as use of the A Justice Department lawyer testified two weeks ago the bills definition is more explicit than necessary and the fine may be too low to effectively curb smut said William may consider this just another cost of doing Senate Committee Rejects Cambodian Plea For Arms Aid By SCHWARTZ HI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP The Senate Foreign Relations Com has made clear to the ad ministration it opposes any arms aid to Cambodia despite that embattled nations plea for enough military hardware to outfit a large The committee was virtually in agreement and very firmly against sending said Chairman after Secretary of State William Rogers briefed the panel behind closed doors Mon Agreeing with sen ior Republican committee mem ber George Aiken of Ver mont said he is sure the dent will take into consideration how this committee Fulbright and Aiken met with newsmen following the PRESIDENTS WELCOME GOVERNOR Presidents of three service clubs welcomed and discussed the educational facilities on the Wellsville Campus of Alfred at the luncheon yesterday sponsored by the local and prepared and served by the fresh men students in the foods service Left to right are Louis Lions Club Nelson Clair Exchange Club and Guy Rotary The held in the Activities which the students had built was attended by more than 100 Reporter photo Americans Lose 5 More Aircraft In Vietnam Viet Cong Press War In Cambodia SAIGON AP The Command announced today the loss of five more aircraft in which 15 Americans died and six were and an acci dental bombing by planes that killed 10 Vietnamese mili and wounded 20 Eight of the Americans were killed in an Army UH1 ter shot down Monday in the Central Highlands 21 miles southeast of Pleiku The only survivor was Another six Americans were killed and two injured early to day when a gunship crashed and burned in a rice field just after taking off from Saigons Tan Son Nhut Air Spokesmen said the cause of the crash was under investi but it appeared that the plane developed mechanical An observation helicopter crashed Monday while trying to evade enemy ground fire within a mile of the Cambodian border 67 miles northwest of Two Americans were a spokesman headquarters also made a delayed announcement of the loss of a medical evacuation helicopter last Thursday to ene my ground fire two miles north west of the besieged Dak Seang Special Forces camp in the Cen No casualties were But it was the 15th American aircraft lost at PHNOM Cambodia AP Cambodian govern ment said today that its troops had driven the Viet Cong from the Buddhist pagoda in som and that cleanup operations were under way in the It said small groups of Viet Cong were continuing to The battle at 36 miles south of Phnom has been going on for six The NYC Police Ponder Restraining Order As they approach a midnight deadline for a strike by 80 per cent of the New York City policemen have scheduled a I meeting to decide their response to a court order prohibiting the Else Minneapolis teachers moved to end a New York City obtained the temporary court restraint Mon day after Mayor John Lind charged that the police mens salary demands would Violators Protected Polluted Water May Be Treated By New Atom Smashers WASHINGTON AP Scien of four nations are rushing to complete powerful new atom smashers that may prove useful in treating cancer and desalting and purifying The nuclear accelera are designed to create new superheavy chemical elements that scientists hope will have many practical But how these elements are to be produced may give science bonus benefits in medicine and in making salt water reports at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society The machines sport powerful beams of bullets of a chemical element to bom bard another element in an ef fort to produce new superheavy But Marshall Biann of the University of Rochester told his report how the beams hold promise in other Outside of nuclear physics there is great interest in the beams for possible applications ranging from radiotherapy against cancer and other dis eases to water desalinization and he The nations involved in the race to complete the machines are the United the Soviet France and Blann said it appeared Frances called will probably go into operation possibly sometime this The and the Soviet Union are running neck and with prospects of having their ma chines operational by he But another American scien Albert Ghiorso of the University of California at where the United States device is being said it may be ready as early as The most sophisticated ma chine will be the German called WASHINGTON AP A Nixon administration decision against disclosing the brand name tof fat hotdogs has drawn the fire of a consumer spokesman who says processors are hiding behind bureaucratic Maybe I believe in the free enterprise system more than the said Erma executive director of the Consumer Federation of I say put em in line and let them compete in the open mar ket and let the consumer de she Angevines comments followed the refusal Monday of the Agriculture Department to list the names of meat packers charged under a new federal regulation to keep the fat con tent of hotdogs and other cooked sausages to a minimum of 30 per I Until last October 23 when the 130 per cent limit went into ef there was no federal maxi mum on the amount of fat in Experts said during hearings last June the fat pro portion ranged as high as 50 per cent in some varieties of cooked the city into bankrupt He added that the unlaw ful action could place in jeopardy the safety of the citi President Edward Kiernan of the Benevolent Association said the which he contended was a job was called to back po lice demands for an additional in pay over their 27 month conceded that the plan violates the states Taylor which forbids work stoppages or slowdowns by public The city used it as the basis for obtaining the court but the law has violated in several walk The PBA has based its salary demand on a contract clause that calls for salaries of patrol men to be maintained in a ratio of to to those of ser who were given a pay hike in Current pay for a patrolman is a In the lis Federation of Teachers Local scheduled a vote Tuesday on a tentative Jubilation swept a meeting of the MFT Monday when word was received of the tentative Details of the settlement were not immedi ately but one union leader praised its provisions re garding class size and prepara tion During most of the city has kept the schools closed to the systems In another the Chicago reported that the top leadership of the Teamsters Union has been sum to Washington for a final preballoting review on Thurs day of a tentative national con The contract provides an hour in increased wages over three wildcat strikes by truck drivers have developed in scattered locations to demand a better Dak Seang since the North Viet laid siege to the camp on April The fifth American Loss was said Monday that a an Air Force that was hit last Saturday on a mission over The crew tried to get back to its base in Thailand but crashed southeast of Khon in The pilot was killed and the copilot The accidental bombing oc curred Monday afternoon along the coastal lowlands 77 miles southeast of Da Two Marine A4 aircraft accidentally delivered bombs on civilian irregular defense group forces while on a bombing mis sion in response to a request from ground a communique The acci dent is under The Command said there were 32 enemy rocket and mor tar attacks from 8 Monday to 8 with one American killed and 17 wound dropped 450 tons of bombs today within a mile of the Cambodian border and south of the suspected head quarters of the Viet Cong high American spokes men The or tresses flew three missions against suspect ed enemy base gun positions and storage and staging areas 67 miles north west of The area is just west of a key infiltration corri dor from Cambodia which the military calls the Fishhook be cause it protrudes into South Viet Cong unit was holed up in Record Of Trial To Be Made Public BOSTON AP The tran script of testimony and the judges report in the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest will be made public at 3 EOT Miss drowned last July when a car driven by Edward Kennedy went off a narrow bridge on Chappa Island and landed in a tidal Chief Justice Joseph Tauro of Massachusetts Superior Court stepped into the case Monday and ordered the papers to be re rejecting the claim of a professional court stenographer that he alone had a right to make copies of the documents and sell Justice Tauro cited two orders of the state Supreme on April 9 and again last which denied stenographer Sid ney Lipmans claim that he had ownership His firm recorded the January Tauro also cited the finding of the state Supreme Court that it could not find any basis for the federal courts to assume juris diction over release of the pa the Buddhist pagoda and that the Cambodians would not at tack it because it was a sacred The army spokesman did not explain today how the Cam got the enemy soldiers The spokesman said that dur ing the the Viet Cong blew up another second in the two the road from Phnom Penh to Ang The army said it is expecting an attack on Highway the last road open ail the way from Phnom Penh to the Gulf of Siam ports through which the capital gets its petroleum An army spokesman said reinforce ments had been deployed along the highway down to Kompong the chief which was named until Prince Norodom Sihanouk was The Viet Cong and North Viet have cut five of the sev en major highways radiating out from Phnom Penh at var points 30 to 60 miles from the Only Highway 4 and Highway which runs north west to are still open for their entire The army said the Viet Cong had seized an administrative post at Sre west of Ang and there was specula tion that these enemy troops might head west for Highway The army spokesman said fighting was continuing in on the Mekong River 120 miles northeast of Phnom and that the Viet Cong had burned a police station He also reported heavy fighting on a French rubber plantation at near the South Vietnamese border 35 miles southeast of Sources in Phnom Penh said the Australian and Soviet em bassies are evacuating more de pendents because they fear an attack on the Inflation Slowdown Indicated session with The secre tary left hurriedly saying he didnt have time to Fulbright quoted Rogers as saying the Cambodians had made a very Jarge request for equipping a very large including half tracks and not military Fulbright said the administra tion apparently has made no de on going beyond what it already has at this has been confined to approving South Vietnamese shipment of captured Soviet rifles and armed forays into Cambodian territory by South Vietnamese When asked whether the ad ministration had considered air support for Cambodian troops and whether this would consti tute Fulbright said the question had been asked but that he really couldnt remem ber what Rogers Neither could Fulbright said the administra tion apparently was not overly concerned about the North Viet and Viet Cong troops roving but believed any substantial increase in their activity could threaten plans to continue winding down the Viet nam Stuart who left the session after about an said the North Viet and Viet Cong troops have been using Cambodia as a sanctuary since and he couldnt see why such a big thing is being made of Cambo I just hope that it does not mean that somewhere back of the administration policy there is a hedge against he added in reference to the Presidents stated aim of turning over the fighting to South Vietnam Gale criticized his fellow committee members for wanting to sep arate Cambodia from the rest of Southeast cutting off all aid and burying the problem as though in some valley on the McGee said he was the only one of the 11 members attending the meeting who believed the administration should be al lowed to have options on Cam He also said Rogers was genuinely soliciting the judg ment of members of the com There is genuine solici tation they are not seeking They are seeking ad By NEIKIRK WASHINGTON AP Eco nomic indicators point to a sharp slowdown in inflation this i two top economists They made their statements on a day the stock market suffered its worst slump in six years and other signs revealed a troubled In making this assessment in speeches to the United States Chamber of Commerce Walter former chair man of the Council of Economic Advisers under former dent and Beryle Sprinkel of Chicago supported Nixon administration conten tions that the overall price rise will slow sharply in the as they other indi cations of a sagging economy caused concern in the business In New the stock mar kets Dow Jones Industrial aver age fell points to the worst drop since the day President John Kennedy was in General Mo tors and the nations larg est automobile said that auto sales and profits were down in the opening quar ter this although both still finished in the Ford reported its consolidated sales in the opening three months down by 5 per while GMs sales fell by 14 per cent during the same At the White President Nixon conferred with his Coun cil of Economic Advisers and five other economists called in for a special discussion of the nations economic Administration officials de nied the talks were directly con to the stock market One informant said the discussion was scheduled some time ago and was a general bull kind of educa tional process for the to let him hear what others in the economic field are think Meantime a large bank in Cal announced it was reduc ing its prime interest rate from 8 per cent to per cent in a it said was designed to boost the nations Robert whose Community National Bank at operates 17 branches in that said he hoped its action will trigger an other round of nationwide prime interest rate Six weeks ago the bank was the na tions second to drop its rate from per cent to 8 per New car sales are off more than 20 per cent in the first quarter and so it goes in all the industry by which the strength of our economy is Parker told a news At the Chamber of Commerce meeting in now a University of Minnesota told the businessmen enough slack has developed in the economy to assure the overall price rise will slow to about a 4 per cent rate at the end of the senior vice president and economic director of the Harris Trust and Savings forecast a 3 per cent rate of in crease by The current rate is 5 per I am not afflicted with the doom and gloom that seems to pervade Wall Street and the business Heller He said the situation is ripe for Nixon to call publicly for re straint on prices and wages by industry and Sprinkel said he disagreed with Hellers call for White House saying there is nothing supporting it as a work able method to slow Regional Forecast Sunshine and high clouds and temperature rising to about 80 Changeable sky and muggy air and low temperature generally between 55 and 60 Cloud patches and chance of showers and high again about 60 Southerly winds generally between 5 and 15 Outlook for Thursday is humid and showers Probability of precipitation is 20 per cent today and tonight and 40 per cent HIGH LOW 48 Local Report There was no precipitation in the past 24 during which the high of 82 was recorded at and the low of 48 was noted at The barometer at noon today was at and still Temperatures were Yesterday Noon 3 Midnight Today 3 6 Noon
