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Nixon Proposes Program To Deal With Drug Abuse Says Problem Has Become National Scandal; · Asks Tough New Laws To Counter Threats WASHINGTON (UPI)-Pres- proposed legal repair job on the ident Nixon proposed Monday to old federal marijuanc1; tax law, wage a campaign reaching from which was partially struck down , pot parties in American homes by the Supreme Court when it to the poppy fields of the Middle reversed a conviction . of Dr. East to combat the "rising Timothy Leary. It also would increase penalsickness" of drug abuse. " The abuse of drugs has ties for sale of marijuana, but grown from essentially a local permit probation for the first police problem into a serious time in marijuana cases. national threat to the personal health and safety of millions of Americans," the President said in a special message to Congress. Nixon laid out a broad program of action, proposing new legislation to help catch and punish offenders and SAIGON (UPD- B52s unloadrehabilitate addicts, stronger ed at least 450 tons of bombs efforts to curb dope smuggling, Monday night and Tuesday and cooperation with foreign morning in Tay Ninh Province governments to stop illegal where military officials say narcotics production at its thousands of North Vietnamese source. troops have massed to start a Perhaps the strongest single major attack within a week. step proposed by Nixon would The Air Force Stratofortresgive federal narcotics agents ses flew five missions over the authority to obtain search strategic province, dropping warrants that do not require their payloads on suspected them to identify themselves Communist activity areas, base beforE;J entering premises where camps, bunkers and weapons illegal drugs are believed being positions, U.S. military spokesmen said. · used or sold. Military sources have said This "no knock" proposal, while not spelled out in ' the more than 60,000 l'!orth Vietnamessage itself, is regarded as mese and Viet Cong have important to Jaw enforcement established camps in provinces
Maximum fines for sale of marijuana would be increased -to $25,000 for first offenses and to $50,000 for repeaters -in line with Nixon's statement that " society has few judgments too sever, few penalties too harsh for the men who make their livelihood in the narcotics traffic."
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THE MAN- Apollo 11 mission commander Neil A. ArmTHE MACHINE- The Apollo .11 spacecraft gleams strong said Monday night that he and other crew m_e mbers starkly against the black night as floodlights illuminate are "willing and r eady" to blast off Wednesday morning. Launch Complex 39A .at Cape Rennedy, Fla. Journal Tel ephoto
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CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)- . more smoothly than any before America's three · Apollo 11 it. "We're willing and ready to astronauts said Monday night they were " willing and ready " attempt to achieve our national to try Wednesday to achieve goal" of landing men on the the national goal of putting the lunar surface, Armstrong said. first men on the moon. Mission commander Armstrong · Fidgeting in front of the mopped his brow occasionally cameras during a 30-minute during the interview, but the nationally televised news con.. confidence of all three' astroference, Neil A. Armstrong, 38, na uts came through clearly. J spoke for fellow space men Asked about their feeling '\ Michael Collins, 38, and Edwin " regarding the emotion of E . Aldrin, 39, when he told the fear" 36. hours before their epic country, "we're very happy to journey, Armstrong told a be ready to fly ." panel of four newsmen: "I The countdown for their 9: 32 certainly wouldn't say that fear a.m. EDT Wednesday blastoff is an unknown emotion to us. atop a 363-foot Saturn 5 rocket Fear is characteristic particuwas already in its terminal larly of a knowledge that there phases an~ reported roUing may be something you haven't
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tnought of and that you might not be able to cope with. " I think our training does everything it can to erase those possibilities," Armstrong said. "I would say that among the three of us there is no fear of launching out on this expedition." T~e astronauts wore sportll shirts and sat in easy chairs in their quarters at the spaceport, some 15 miles from where the newsmen in a crowded press center questioned them. So concerned with their health were Apollo program medical men that television cameramen and technicians who worked close to the astronauts were
Area Men Play Key Roles In ·U.S. Lunar Landing Mission Fourteen persons from the Journal area are to play key roles in the scheduled lift off of Apollo 11 Lunar landing mission Wednesday , the National Aeronautics Space Administration disclosed. All but thr ee are working at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Two serve at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston and one is at the lift off station at the Kennedy ~pace Center in Flor ida . In Huntsville are Jack M. Kendall, William W. Wales Jr., Tulan Bullock , Robert H. Rutherford , Albin J. Amalavabe , Terry H. SharpeJ Hugh J. Dudley, Halsey E. Worley Jr., Donald L. Lackey, Ancil L. Kent , Keith D. Coates, and Richard N. Stone Jr. Harold H. Franks; is at Kennedy and Arnold J . Loyd and Jerry C. Bostick are at Houston. Kendall, son of Mrs. R. W. Watson of Amory, is a technician where the Saturn V. Rocket was built. He attended school at Amory and was gr a duated from Mississippi State . His wife , Edna, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. J)odd of Aberdeen . Wales is the son of Mrs. Velma W. Barron of Booneville. He is a flight systems engineer. He is a gr aduate of Mississippi State and his wife, Martha, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben F . Holley of Booneville. Bullock, son of Mr. and Mrs . Dewey H, Bullock of Burnsville, is an aerospace engineer. He attended Holcut High School and r eceived a bachelors degree from Florence (Ala.) State University. Rutherford, son of Mr. and Mrs . Dewey Rutherford of Booneville, is an industrial engineer. He went to high school at Wheeler and earned a degree at Mississippi State . His wife, Janet , is the daughter of John Davis of Cascade. Amalavage , a native of Dowagiac, Mich., is an elect r ical engineer. His wife , Varnie, is the daughter of Mrs. Lee Phillips Sr., of Fulton.
Sharpe, is the son of Mr. and Mrs . M, E . Sharpe of Tupelo. He is Chief of .Long Range Plan · Group. He is a graduate of Tupelo High School , received a BA and MA from the University of Mississippi. ,Dudley, a native of Pine Apple, Ala ., is an assistant director of the space science , laboratory. His wife, Bobby is the daughter of Mrs. Chandler A. LaGrone of Okolona. Worley, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Worley of Tupelo, is chief of analytical investigations section. He is a graduate of
Tupelo High School, received BS and MS ,degrees from Mississippi State University. Lackey, son of Mr . and Mrs. Toy Lackey of Tupelo, if project engineer. He attended Tupelo High School and received a degree from Mississippi State. His wife, Peggy, is the daughter of Mr . and Mrs. Luke Dugard of Tupelo. Kent , son of Mr. and Mrs . J . L. Kent of Dumas, is chief of the mission support office. Kent is a 1935 graduate of Center High School in New Albany.
MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa ( UPI>-Two cylinders containing liquid mercury have been found and a third has been locat ed in the bow of the sunken stamer Bertrand in the De Soto National Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley. A spokesman for the Interior Department, which is supervising the excavation, said the iron containers, 12 3-4 inches long and 4 3-4 inches in diameter, were found Haying ·on five or six !inches of sand and mud at the bottom of the hull of the boat. Early Monday afternoon the National Park Service architect tapped into one of the containers and took out two or three ounces of the liquid. " There is no doubt that it is merc·u ry, " he said. · Two Omaha treasure hunters, Jesse Pursell and Sam Corbino, have been excavating more · than a year in hopes of finding articles of value, particularly the mercury and gold and silver coins. •The Bertrand was bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton, Mont., on April 1, 1865, when it reportedly hit a snag and sank in the old Missouri River channel in what is now De Soto National Wildlife Refuge. The cargo was said to include
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do?,~oit ~f/!1~.,a~::~elh:!e been u in some states, asked to submit to medical notably New York, officials . said, d have stood up under exams. f'nllins. whos iob is to µilot Sup_r e Court tests. The request' for congressionthe Apollo command craft "C 1 b' " hil A .al action also i'ncluded a named o um ia w e rmstrong and Aldrin fly the lunar lander "Eagle" to the moon's surface next SW1day for their · . moon w,q!k qrifMond Y, had,-0ne
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would wait to hear the Administration's reaction to their reform pro,Posals before committing their votes to extension of the surtax. When a reform bill is ready for debate, Mansfield said, he would go along in every detail with the House's measure extending the surtax. The House bill would retain the surtax on individuals and · corporations at 1o per cen t for the rest of thi·s year, dropping it to 5 per cent for the first six months of 1970, after which it Id would expire. It a1so wou repeal the 7 per cent investment credit for businesses, which the Administration argued \\'.as inflationary, and
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - The government announced Mon-• day it no longer would print Continued On Page 17 currency in denominations larger than $100 bills. The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board said the use of $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills had declined to the point wfiere ff was not worth - the cost of printing them anymore. the mercury, valued at $80,000 Existing supplies of the. to $100,000 at 1865 prices; 5,000 larger denominations at Federgallons of whisky; and gold and. al Reserve Banks will be turned silver coins variouslv reported over to the Treasury for to be worth $~,000 to. $35,000. destruction and those in circulaThe mercury, one container tion will be destroyed when of which holds 76 pounds and is they are redeemed at federal worth $497, is valued at close to banks in the normal course of $1 million at today's prices. business, the Treasury said. The wreckage site is ringed The last supply of the large with more than 100 well ooints bills was printed in 1946. to draw water off the boat, which was located roughly 18 feet below the surface. Pursell and Corbino found the wreckage by comparing modern aerial photos with historic maps of the De Soto bend area about 20 miles north of Omaha, Neb. With ~ metalLee County board· of superdetecting instrument called a visors adopted a resolution magnetometer, they found indi- Mond ay calling a $260,000 cations of a boat some 160 feet school bond election for Netlong . Test boring brought up bits of tleton Line School District on leather, wood, tallow, fire brick August 12. Since the school district inand glass. One piece was volves voters in both Lee ·a nd obviously t)le broken neck of a Monroe Counties, Nettleton whisky bottle. School trustees had also More excavating brought up requested both county board of several cases of similar bottles supervisors to call the bond labeled " stom,wh hitters." Monroe County Federal salvage laws permit election . supervisors took a similar Pursell and Corbino to keep 60 action last Friday, according to per cent of the value of the Ben Coggin, Jr ., president of treasure they find. The remainNettleton School trustees. der, plus historic artifacts, will Coggin also said that if voters become property of the feder al approve the bond _issue, the government.
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commanders wanted to capture Tay Ninh City near the Cambodian border and hold it long enough to declare it the seat of the Viet Cong's " pr o vi sionary revolutionary government." A senior U.S. officer said the Communists also planned attacks in Binh Long province which neighbors Tay Ninh. As this officer disclosed intelligence estimates of the impending attacks and disContinued On Page 17
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Saigon. North Vietnamese army troops have held strong points on the mountain for several weeks. Two other raids flown over the province dropped bomo·s nine and 10 miles west of the Special Forces camp of Katum, about 75 miles northwest of Saigon. Military sources said Monday they expected the new Communist offensive to be launched by July 20. They said Communist
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TEGUCIGA PA, Honduras (UPIJ-El Salvadorean warplanes Monday attacked six cities in Honduras with bombs, including the capital of Tegucigalpa , Honduras charged. In Washington, Honduran ambassador Ricardo A. Midence Soto told the Organization of American States <OAS) that Salvadorean troops had invaded the territory of Honduras near the town of Santa Rosa de Copan. Reports from Tegucigalpa said the attack was carried out by P51 Mustang aircraft and that it took place on the cities of Ocotepeque, Gracias, Santarosadecopan, Choluetca, Toncon tin and Tegucigalpa. Reliable sources said the attack on Toncontin was against the international airport
removed two million lowincome families from the tax rolls. Sen. Russell Long, D-La., and other members of the Senate FinanceCommittee insisted it would be impossible to draft a meaningful reform bill by Aug. 13 -Long's deadline for Senate approval of the Surcharge extension. Sen. JohnJ. Williams, R-Del., pointed out, as an example, the l h proposa to remove t e taxexempt status of state and municipal bonds - one of the reformers' goals -would certainly draw the opposition of dozens qf governors and may.ors, who would want to testify against it. The process, Long contended, could take months. Others in the tax reform bloc were more demanding than Mansfield. Sen. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich., told Long that if the surcharge is brought to the floor without a meaningful reform bill accompanying it, "many of us will not be with you. If you don't attach that reform to it, we'll be another 11 years listening to explanations and requests to be calm, be patient." And Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, said tax reform must Continued On Page 17
codefendantsinthe1964pension fund fraud case. The four included Benjamin Dranow, 62 , former Minneapolis, Minn., depafrLotmenAnt st1ore exe£utive, now. 0 s t Je1e~, fiveyearsimprisopmen a vm Kovens,developer, 46, Miami, Fa.years real estate three imprisonment; Zachary A. Strate Jr., 49, New Orleans, La.' builder, three years Abe I. Weinblatt, 72, former M;.,...,i, Fla., hotel operator, one uvw· in custody of a U.S. marshal and a $5,000 fine. A fifth co-defendant, accountant S George Burri·s Sr 72 · ·, • New York, was previously resentenced to 18 months imprisonment and a $5,000 fine . The six were convicted of siphoning $1.7 million from $25 mTilliont in lo~ns f frodm thde earns er pension un , ma e on a var~~-~y of projects, The government contended in the 1964 trial that the fraud scheme was aimed at bailing out a financially pressed Teamster retirement retreat, s v II I · Fl ·d ~ -a ey nc. m ori a . At the court's direction, the government produced 12 logs of Federal Bureau of Investigation eavesdropping, seven of which involved Hoffa and his associates, and five of which involved attorneys for them.
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Mitch~II Says His Administration Using Fewer Wiretaps Than Demos WASHINGTON (UPI) -Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell told his first news conference in office Monday that the Nixon Administration was using fewer wiretaps and electronic eavesdropping devices than the Democrats who publicly shunned them. He also emphatically rejected suggestions that Administration decisions were influenced by Southern conservatives, notably Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., or that there was any political commitment to them. "As far as this department is concerned, we call 'em as we see 'em regardless of the senator or the part of the country," Mitchell said. Meeting reporters for the first time since he took office in January, the Attorriey General insisted there would be no easing of federal efforts in school desegregation, predicted there would be indictments of campus militants and disclaim~ any interest in being named to the Supreme Court. And he said his only role in
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School Bo-nd Vote Set For Nettleton funds will be used for construction of anew high school at Nettleton for about 300 students. He estimated about 1,500 qualified electors in the Nettleton Line Consolidated School District. Sixty per cent of those voting in the election must approve the issue in order for it to pass. In other action Monday, Lee County superv~sors also received the written annual report of Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District presented by J . C, Whitehead, Jr., chairman of the board of directors.
former . Justice Abe Fortas' decision to resign was to give then Chief Justice Earl Warren information "that affected the court.'' He said the Justice Department still·was trying to determine whether there was " obstrurtion of justice" in the case but that Fortas himself had never been under investigation by ' he department. Mitch ,lldefendedwiretapping as a pr, ductive tool in criminal ca.ses Lut "a power vested in the President of the United States" that must be used with care. "We are using · wir~tapping very, very sparingly and will continue to do so," he said. "There are fewer taps and bugging than when I came into office." · He refused to say how many existed ' now or when he succeeded former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark, who had told Congress he would not take advantage of a new law permitting government snooping in organized crime cases. "There were quite a number"
when he took office, Mitchell said. He removed several as unproductive, Mitchell said, and the total now stands at less than the 49 wiretaps and five electronic bugs reported April 17 by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover had reported 32 at the same time a year before. Asked about a report that Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-Tex., had charged that his telephone and those of all senators were ·tapped, Mitchell replied: "I can tell you flatly that as far as the Justice Department and all other agencies of government concerned ·with it are involved, it would be inconceivable to even consider placing a tap on a member of Congress or on anyone else in the government. " Speaking publicly for the first time about the Fortas affair, Mitchell said, " The only activity I was involved in was I" meeting with Chief Justice F · Warren." ,,