Wellsville Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - April 13, 1971, Wellsville, New York Daily Reporter Serving Potter Counties Year New Tuesday April 1971 10 Cents Per Cooy New Inflation Alert To Be Issued Shortly East Pakistan Rebels Crumbling By NEIKIRK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP ident Nixons third inflation alert is expected to disclose whether the administration is ready to step onto ground by spotlighting pending wage and price Evidence suggests the dent is reluctant to go that far in using his office to comment in such a sensitive al though wage demands in the steel industry provide him the Union leaders in the steel in dustry are seeking a 32 per cent wage increase over a threeyear with the con tract deadline due to expire But a steel strike would drain a lot from the nations econo something the President wants to avoid if he is to deliv er the good year he pledged for the The inflation alert is a ve hicle Nixon adopted last year while the cost of living was still So far it has been nothing more than fact comments on wage and price movements in the econo This Nixons Council of Economic Advisers has been working on throwing the White House spotlight on and a wage settlement in the can As the White House prepared to release the opposition mounted to Nixons granting business a tax break on depr Walter chairman of the Council of Economic Ad visers under President John said in a statement the tax break Nominations For Oscars Released By BQB THOMAS Associated Press Writer HOLLYWOOD AP George who says he abhors acting finds himself with another He has been nominated for an Emmy for his performance in The The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences nominated Scott Monday for the best single performance by a lead ing Also named were Jack Cassidy for The Ander sonville Hal Holbrook for A Clear and Present Dan ger World Richard Widmark for Vanished and Gig Young for The Neon Ceil The Andersonville which Scott also won an Emmy nomination as the outstanding single program of the 197071 Its com petition Hamlet and The both by Hallmark Hall of Fame Theyre Tearing Down Tim Bar from Rod Night Gal lery and the Van Hamlet took top honors in the nominations with a total of Richard Chamber who played didnt get a Among the comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show received the most nomi All in the Fami which features a bigot in the leading followed with Both were nominated for outstanding comedy along with Style and The Odd For the outstanding dramatic series the First Play Marcus and The Bold Nine nominations went to the latter which has been canceled by Public broadcasting scored impressively in the nomi Among the shows cited in various cate gories The Andersonville Fran and Montserrat and The First Other nominations included Single performance by lead ing actress Colleen Dewhurst George The Price Lee The Neon Ceiling Lee Ransom for a Dead Leading actor in dramatic Raymond Iron side Mike Man nix Hal The Sena Bold Ones Robert Marcus Leading actress in a dramat ic series Linda High Chaparral Susan The First Churchills Peggy The Mod Leading actor in a comedy series Ted That Girl The Court ship of Eddies Father Jack Klugman and Tony The Odd Couple Carroll All in the Leading actress in a comedy series Mary Tyler The Mary Tyler Moore Jean All in the Family Mario That could be inflationary and ac tually could harm business in vestment in the short This looks to me like the wrong tax cut in the wrong way at the wrong Heller Heller said doubts about Nix ons authority to put the plan into effect without al approval will have a chill ing effect on investment thus reducing its eco nomic Heller joined in a coordinated fight against the depreciation led by consumer ad vocate Ralph Nader and a tax lobby called Taxation with Represen Nixons plan would allow businesses to claim 20 per cent faster tax writeoffs on their machinery and equipment for depreciation Over 10 it would cause a revenue loss to the The Internal Revenue Service will hold a public hearing on the plan May but the admin has assured businesses the depreciation system will go into effect with no substantial Edmund D said he will introduce a Wednesday to prohibit the administration from putting the plan into Officials Disappointed By Performance In Laos By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON AP are reassessing the Viet program because of the disappointing South Viet performance in the Laotian invasion and the cur rent North Vietnamese offen sive in the central It was learned today that the 7th Air Force is planning a complete reorganization and consolidation of its squadrons in South Vietnam in an effort to become more proficient in pro viding cover for withdrawing American During the cutback of more troops between May 1 and reduction of the 500 Air Force personnel will likely be kept to a sources with perhaps only one air wing pulled The sources said that under the new certain types of aircraft will be consolidated instead of being spread over the They said this should provide for faster keep more air planes in the air and help offset the Both the Laotian operation and the current North Vietnam ese offensive in the central highlands point up one major weakness of This is the South Vietnamese dependency on American air The South Vietnamese air force does not have enough planes or firepower yet to do the job officials bombers and tactic al have helped contain the offensive in the cen tral highlands and apparently have kept besieged Fire Base 6 from being overrun a second While South Vietnamese fly some mis sions in support of the they must be supplemented by helicopters also have played a prominent role in the defense of Fiee Base ing gunship support and supply ing the base under heavy The North Vietnamese siege of the near the juncture of South Cambodia and ended its second week Four battalions from the South Vietnamese 22nd Infantry perhaps moved on foot toward the base this morning to help ease the pressure on the less than two battalions of There were no reports of con tact with the STUDY BRIDGE PROBLEM Legislator Anthony Toporas of Legislator Lee Ryan of Almond and County Highway Superintendent James Young discuss the proposed County Bridge Study suggested by Ryan at Mondays Board of Legislators After Long Debate County Legislators to Assume Plot To Kill Responsibility of Town Bridge Mayor Daley Uncovered CHICAGO AP Police say additional arrests are expected in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate Mayor Rich ard J Daley of Chicago and the Jesse a Negro leader and head of Operation The alleged plot was revealed Monday when two black mili and Howard charged with soliciting to kill Daley and They were arrested on Satur five days after two other black who were charged with soliciting to com mit Police declined to link the ar A states attorneys cial said the four men were in in one plot aimed at touching off racial violence in the April 21 hearings were set for Harris and the other two and Terry The four are being held in lieu of bond Deputy Police John Kelly said additional arrests were Dillard and Harris were ar police after the de gang intelligence unit received a tip that an al solicitation to commit murder had been Police refused to elaborate Thomas director of the police in said the murder plot is not a prank but a serious A states attorneys who asked that his name not be said the alleged plot was connected with an effort by militants to assume power in the black community after making the neighborhoods sus to looting during racial Daley was unavailable for His aides said he was in Florida on a vacation after winning election to an un precedented fifth term April A spokesman for the mayors office said he did not know if the mayor had been informed of the alleged assassination Jackson said in he was deeply con cerned about the alleged I hope that whatever the facts are established to he told an audience at Fisk Uni the law will be soundly enforced in the pursuit of justice as it affects the accused and the well being of our Operation Breadbasket is a program of the Southern Chris tian Leadership BELMONT This was the key word in the debate Monday af at the County meeting between County Highway Superin tendent James Young and Legislator Anthony Toporas of Young told the legislators that the Town of Caneadea Bridge 1210 has been termed unsafe and was closed to all Young endangers the property and lives of approximately 125 persons residing in the Fire Department must detour 14 miles to reach that side of the Genesee River which is spanned by the This fact was emphasized yesterday when earlier in the afternoon the Caneadea Fire Department had to detour the 14 miles to fight a grass fire on Shongo Young told the county board that an engineer from the state department of tran along with his department had inspected old bridge March 25 and found that a approach which spans the suspended main section of the bridge is in danger of Erosion and heavy traffic have shifted and crumbled an he Upon Youngs recom the highway department offered the resolution authorizing the county to take over the bridge and authorized its repair at an estimated cost of to be paid from the Countys Repair Reserve Due to terming the repairs Emergency the can be awarded without competitive Fortified with pictures he had Legislator Toporas stated the bridge was not in immediate danger of collapse and that he believed there was sufficient time to permit the competitive bid under the General Municipal The Board approved the resolution declaring a public emergency exists as a result of the closing of the bridge and directed Young to have a contract for the repair ready for the boards April 26 The vote was 13 to 1 with the sole A Young reported that the Standard Engineering Cor of Albany has offered to do the repair work at a figure not to exceed the The job will take three to four months to To Study Problem Legislator Lee Ryan offered a resolution that the county high way committee together with the county highway superin tendent study the problem of bridge maintenance with an eye to a solution to eliminate that part of the cost to the under the Donovan which deals with bridges under in He asked that the committee present its solution for consideration by the county board at its June 14 Ryan emphasized that at the present time there is no clear cut law on the amount of fiscal responsibility placed upon either town or county in regards to bridge maintenance and He also stated that the towns were in no financial position to assume the cost of repair or replacement of any of the 38 bridges in the county under in Legislator John Hasper agreed that the county board should look for some sort of policy to share in the cost of bridge maintenance and repair and that the legislature have a clearcut We must face up to the reality that towns just do not have the necessary but also that bridges are an important part of our highway system and must be kept in top he Ping Pong Players To Meet Premier PEKING AP Members of the table tennis team are excitedly looking forward to what promises to be the high point of their weeks visit to a meeting Wednesday with Premier Chou The prospect of talking with the Communist Chinese leader outweighed the teams anticipa tion of its first matches this aft with Chinese table ten nis The 15 Americans were told this morning of the meeting with Chou as they left their hotel to practice for to days The table tennis bouts were expected to attract a capacity stadium crowd of team member John Tan a university student from re turned to the hotel after becom ing ill this raising the prospect that the American team may be one man short in the exhibition The Bother members of the team were in and eager for their first meet ings with Chinese Besides their meeting with the Americans on Wednesday will visit the Sum mer Palace on Pekings out skirts and attend a pre of a Chinese They fly to Shanghai Thurs day where they will spend the night before going on to They are scheduled to return to Hong Kong Satur The weather was clear and sunny Monday as the American visitors journeyed to the yearold Great Wall of and Tannehill pronounced it a museum piece which the Chi Sent To Cuba WASHINGTON AP So viet technicians are being sent to towns and cities all over Cuba in what officials re gard as a novel attempt to re vitalize the islands sagging Theyre actually being in into relatively low level said one noting the move is one of several examples of a grow ing Soviet role in the Cuban economic nese need as a reminder of their ancient Said Erroll Resek of New York City If this had been in the United States it would have been a great tourist attraction and it would be muti lated and cheapened by dis carded paper and The Americans also visited University and met a shy jet propulsion expert who taught at the California In of Technology and re turned to China in The Chen Wei reported that his stu dents criticized his teaching methods during the 1968 al Revolution and my eyes were The university was the scene of a bitter struggle between riv al factions at that time and re opened only six months Its enrollment has been cut from to and the stu dents now are selected by peasants and soldiers after they have worked in fac tories or on Team captain Jack of a comput er inspected a computer made by students and said It is a remarkable Very few students can build a Civil War Appears To Be Nearing End By DENNIS NEELD Associated Press Writer East Pakistan AP Armed resistance in much of rebellious East Pakis tan is crumbling fast before the swiftly advancing columns of President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khans army from West A reported shipment of In dian arms to the secessionist forces is likely to do little to Dacca A Subdued Capital Editors Note Foreign news men have been barred from the capital of East Pa since March two days after President Agha Mo hammed Yahya Khan ordered Pakistans army to put down the independence movement in East Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld and photographer Mi chael Laurent crossed from In dia and reached Dacca by foot and dodging army pa Neeld returned to tta to file this By DENNIS NEELD Associated Press Writer East Pakistan AP East Pakistans capi is a submissive city with up to persons slain by the army and at least 24 city blocks The crack of rifle shots still punctuate the night as the West Pakistani troops round p Aw ami League in and other prominent This is Gestapo com one Western The army has committee mass President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khans troops patrol the smouldering city in Jeeps and their submachine guns at the In teeming dis a black wilderness of ashes and charred bamboo stumps is all that remains of the flimsy homes where thou sands of families The city is under curfew from 9 to 5 Many families sit at home at night with their lights hoping they wont be visited by forag ing troops and The soldiers stormed into Dacca on the night of March 25 to crush the movement of Sheik leader of the Awami League who had de manded virtual autonomy for the 75 million people of East most of whom are Sheik Mujib was arrested and his followers are being hunted The flags of Bangla the independent state that the Bengalis tried to been hauled down or A forest of green and white Pa flags flutter over public The Hindu Minority also is being subjected to the armys A European reported a neighboring family of six was murdered in their No one dared to go to their Thousands of families are still fleeting to their native vil Dacca University remains Student dormitories are strewn with litter and pocked with bullet Some observers estimate that 300500 students were killed when they attempted to resist the Some persons claim they saw many students lined up against a wall and At least eight prominent pro were Troops from West Pakistan continue to arrive by air and are now number in Dacca and about in all of the prolong the civil or war of as the Bengalis de scribe their There are few visible prepa rations for a lengthy guerrilla If one ever gets un der many prominent of Sheik Rah mans Awami League fear it in will fall under Commu nist The which enjoys overwhelming support ih East is lead by middle class professional men better equipped for courtroom battles than for guerrilla conflict in the swamps and rice They believe the more dis backed by Marxists in neighboring In would take over the tion of any guerrilla The Pakistani army has been heavily reinforced from the western wing and is rapidly fanning out from Dacca in all For miles around the provin cial the army is in firm green and white national flag flies from every second village The people are fraid of in formers and terrified of repris als should they be identified as supporters of Bangla the Bengali nation proclaimed by Sheik Thousands have fled the capi Dacca nevertheless is slowly returning to something like We are functioning at gun we have no said one Bengali civil Crossing the wide Ganges River the Pakistani army has occupied the city of Troops were reported swining southwest toward the Bangla Desh stronghold of Something close to panic seized its ragtag band of de and there was a wild rush to flee the A fleet of immobilized by lack of was left to the ad No effort was made to destroy It was in Kushtia that some 200 Pakistani troops were mas sacred by Bangla Desh Parti and the town fears bloody reprisal is The Pakistani troops also are spreading out from their can at 25 miles from the Indian They have captured the northeastern city of Sylhet and re pushing steadily north and Resistance appears north of where strong elements of the East Bengal the East Pakistan Rifles and the police are fight i Regional Forecast Variable further showers and possibly a few thundershowers likely this High in the Changeable windy and cooler tonight and Wednesday with a chance of a few more Low 35 to High Wednesday in the West to northwest 15 to slowly subsiding HIGH LOW 43 Local Report The high for the period which ended shortly before noon today was recorded at 3 yesterday while the low was 43 at 3 Precipitation during the 24 hour period which ended at 8 today was measured at inches in the form of The barometer at noon reading was inches and The temperatures were Yesterday noon 3 midnight Today 9
