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PAGE 2, SECTION A THE TIMES HERALD Friday, August 20, 1971 President Confident Most Americans Favor His Stan SAN CLEMENTE. Calif. (AP) President Nixon concedes his far-reaching new economic program poses "some problems," but expresses confidence most Americans favor his approach ''and that's what counts." Nixon made the remarks to newsmen at the Western House after arriving Thursday night for a two-. week stay that followed a he said, "but the public reaction is what is important. I think an overwhelming majority of the people throughout the country favor what we're doing, and that's what counts." Looking a bit weary after a three-day journey that took him to New York, Illinois, Idaho, Wyoming and Texas, Nixon was ready to press ahead with official business today.

cross country presidential speech-making trip on behalf of his temporary wage-price freeze and other moves. Faced with rebellion against the freeze by such prominent persons as AFL-ClO President George Meany and Democratic Gov. Preston Smith of Texas, Nixon said some dissension is inevitable but, in his view, his program has "been going very well." "We have some problems," tration has asked be halted and avoided while the largely voluntary curbs remain in effecta period of 90 days subject to extension. Nixon was asked if he had anticipated a hostile reaction from high labor ranks. His reply: "We always anticipate some reaction.

There are very special interest groups always affected by such freezes, and there will' be some in business and some in labor that will be opposed but what really matters is what the people of the nation think, and I think that when scheduled pay raises for teachers and government workers despite the wage-price-rent freeze. Said Ziegler on behalf, he said, of the entire administration: "It appears that the governor of Texas, for motivations of which only he is aware, is seeking to single out a group of Texans for preferential treatment We don't think any Texan wants that, particularly at a time when all the nation is banding together to defeat inflation and at a time when many Americans are being requested to make temporary sacrifices for the good of all." Nixon later was asked if he expected any legal problem as a result of Gov. Smith's announcement. "I think Gov. Connally can handle it," said the President, referring to Secretary of the Treasury John B.

Connally, former Texas governor. Although both Smith and Connally are Democrats, they have often been at odds. Meany urged that labor unions cancel all contracts under which workers would lose money as a result of the wage freeze. Such moves could pave the way for strikes which the adminis- associated with the medical center of Loma Linda University. the facility will replace a VA hospital in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles that was destroyed by the Feb.

9 earthquake. Nixon, addressing the Dallas convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Thursdayand appearing in a half-empty auditorium that normally seats 10,000 asked for support of his economic policies. He also said his curbs on federal outlays, aimed at countering inflation, will not encompass any needless restraints on military spending. In a passage not included in his advance text as distributed to newsmen, Nixon associated himself with calls by Democratic Sen. Henry M.

Jackson of Washington for maintenance of a strong defense effort. Jackson, a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has been most vocal on the defense issue. While Nixon spoke in Dallas, Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler issued a statement denouncing an order by the Texas governor granting What's The Weather? TljUSm I DM4 tnm HAllOUAL WtAIHt SWlCf. Ui.4 ftM.

HI SW.4-C..fc ll DMZ Battle Bn Eighth Day (Scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers are forecast today by the National Weather Service. Disturbances are expected In the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain states, part of the central plains, the Gulf Coast states and from the Midwest through the St Lawrence Valley and New England. Warm weather Is forecast for most of the country.) I Busy Preparedness Office The Chicago Office of Emergency Preparedness found itself not so prepared after President Nixon announced his economic reforms. The office was quickly adapted to handle an average of 350 telephone calls an hour from Midwestern states residents with questions about the Administration's new economic policy. Lid Clamped Tighter On Economic Freeze SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese tanks and infantrymen battled North Viet-n a forces along the demilitarized zone for the eighth day Thursday and fighting also erupted in the flatlands of eastern Cambodia, military spokesmen reported today.

1 y-seven North Vietnamese and 17 South Vietnamese soldiers were reported killed and three South Vietnamese wounded in the second major battle this week around Camp Carroll on the western end of the DMZ. The fighting broke out shortly after noon Thursday about iy2 miles northwest of Carroll, headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st South Vietnamese Infantry Division and a base for American artillery. Later in the day, a South Vietnamese armored column clashed with North Vietnamese troops farther east just outside of Fire Base Charlie 2. The cavalrymen reported Although the. executive order does not freeze interest rates or profits, Treasury Secretary Connally sent personal letters to leading money institutions urging them to offer low interest rates voluntarily.

He said in the letter he expects lenders to "look beyond short-run profits when they set rates and consider the broad public-interest implications of what they do." On Capitol Hill, Chairman Wilbur D. Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee said he will consider more relief for individuals when his panel takes up Nixon's eco the Congress and the leaders of special interest groups hear from the country, that they're going to go along with the country." During Nixon's travels this week, crowds generally were plentiful and friendly and hostile cries or placards were rare. The White House sought to explain the half-empty hall in Dallas, the only downbeat note of the tour, by saying attendance had been restricted to VFW conventioneers. There would have been an overflow audience had all the VFW people showed up. Temperatures Port Huron Highest 90 at 2 p.m.

Yesterday Lowest 74 at 6 a.m. Today Yesterday Today 1 p.m. 88 1 a.m. 76 5 p.m 90 5 a.m 75 9 p.m 83 9 a.m 78 Midnight 77 Noon 84 Around The U.S. High Low Alpena, ptcldy 84 56 Detroit, clear 89 56 Flint, fog 89 67 Grand Rapids, fog 87 68 Houghton, ptcldy 73 56 Houghton Lake, fog 82 58 Jackson, ptcldy 87 67 Lansing, ptcldy 87 67 Marquette, ptcldy 75 58 Muskegon fog 80 62 Pellston, ptcldy 76 55 Sault Ste.

Marie ptcldy 68 50 Traverse City ptcldy 82 56 Albany, cldy 87 64 Albu'que, clear 89 65 Amarlllo, clear 82 60 Anchorage, cldy 60 51 Ashevllle, cldy 87 61 Atlanta, clear 87 70 Birmingham, clear 87 69 Bismarck, clear 82 47 Boise, clear 101 72 Boston, cldy 89 70 Buffalo, cldy 81 69 Charleston, clear 90 78 Charlotte, clear 88 66 Chicago, clear 84 70 Cincinnati, cldy 88 70 Cleveland, cldy 88 74 Denver, cldy 83 57 Des Moines, clear 88 67 Detroit, clear 89 69 Duluth, clear 79 58 Fort Worth, clear 90 72 Green Bay, cldy 80 62 Helena, clear 87 47 Honolulu, clear 87 74 Houston, clear 90 78 Ind'apolls, cldy 87 70 Jacks' vl lie, smoke 93 74 Konsas City, cldy 94 76 Little Rock, clear' 90 69 Los Angeles, cldy 86 69 Louisville, clear 88 68 Marquette, cldy 75 58 Memphis, clear 90 72 Miami, clear 86 81 Milwaukee, clear 81 64 clear 84 61 New Orleans, cldy 92 70 New York, clear 82 71 Okla. City, clear 89 65 Omaha, clear 86 69 Phllad'phla, cldy 83 70 Phoenix, cldy 97 75 Pittsburgh, rain 86 68 Ptland, cldy 77 64 Ptland, cldy 85 64 Rapid City, clear 87 57 Richmond, clear 87 66 St. Louis, cldy 95 70 Salt Lake, cldy 93 60 San Diego, cldy 77 69 San cldy 61 55 Seattle, cldy 81 62 Spokane, cldy 93 66 Tampa, clear 90 77 Washington, cldy 86 68 CANADIAN CITIES Edmonton, clear 80 48 Montreal, cldy 88 68 Toronto, cldy 88 68 Winnipeg, cldy 73 52 Pr .23 .05 .05 .07 .18 .02 .18 .11 .01 .31 .09 .20 .14 .20 .06 er felonies in April this year than in April 1970, Feckey explained. He said the number of felonies- reported for May also dropped from the same month last year, but he gave no figures. "The vehicle being on that corner, evert though the officer is not there is a deterrent," said Feckey.

"Even without the officer being there, the car Is performing a function." A take-home police car is "exactly like a company car," said Feckey. "The city pays for gas, oil and Insurance, and the officer drives it on the job and within a prescribed area off the Job." That "prescribed area," essentially within the city limits, means the Scherkenbachs can and do drive their 1971 Dodge squad car complete with siren, red light, shotgun and painted police badgesdown to the corner for an Ice cream cone. "When you're driving you don't realize you're In a police car," said Mrs. Scherken-bach. "But then you look and everybody's staring." Feckey said the annual cost of operating a tnke-home car Is about $1,050.

or about $108,150 for all 103 cars In the program. The President scheduled a morning conference with California Gov. Ronald Reagan, a fellow Republican, which was expected to focus on the national administration's welfare reform efforts. Then Nixon and Reagan were going by helicopter to Loma Linda, near San Bernardino, to formally announce plans for construction of a 6 3 0-bed Veterans Administration hospital that will be bone," he told the Joint Congressional Economic Committee. Heller had praise, however, for Nixon's objectives in freeing the dollar from gold prices to seek its own level on world money markets.

In Brussels, Common Market nations agreed open their money markets Monday after a week-long closure but failed to achieve a compromise between conflicting French and West German proposals on how to treat the U.S. dollar. The Japanese stock market suffered its third worst drop in history as the Tokyo government continued to support the dollar in an effort to head off upward revaluation of the yen, which would make the dollar more competitive in foreign trade. Meanwhile, Nixon ended a cross-country grass-roots appeal for support of his new economic game plan with a news conference at the Western White House at San Cle-mente, Calif. Attacking dissidents, the President said economic recovery will not work "unless the people as distinguished from the leaders support it." i statement that the great majority of Americans are behind his plan seemingly was supported by a Gallup Poll showing 75 per cent of citizens surveyed approve of the freeze.

Men in Service Pvt. Olvera Pvt. Dennis W. Olvera, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Gabriel C. Olvera, 2045 Yeager Street, is home for a 21 day leave following completion of basic training. He attended Port Huron High School and enlisted in the Army on March 16, 1971. He received basic training at Fort Knox, Ky. and advanced training at Fort Rucker, Ala.

Pvt. Olvera will be stationed in Korea. Pfc. James E. Leslie, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Floyd C. Leslie, 2057 Campau Avenue, Is home on a nine-day leave. A 1970 graduate of Port Huron High School, he was employed at St. Clair Rubber Company before his enlistment Feb.

20, 1970, He took basic and advanced training at Ft. Lewis, Wash. He completed his airborne lrainng at Ft. Benning, Ga. Private Leslie is now stationed at Ft.

Bragg, N.C. Prime Minister Blasts Leader Of Irish Republic BLUE WATER AREA Partly sunny and warm today, with highs in the mid to upper 80s. Mostly fair and cooler tonight and Saturday, the lows tonight 60 to 65 and the highs Saturday in the low 80s. Winds southwest 8 to 18 miles an hour today, variable 5 to 10 miles an hour tonight and becoming south at 5 to 15 miles an hour Saturday, Chances of rain: Today, 20 per cent; tonight, 10 per cent, and Saturday, 10 per cent. EXTENDED FORECAST, lower peninsula (Sunday through Tuesday) Chance of showers or thundershowers in the north Sunday, but fair in the south.

Highs Sunday in the mid 70s to mid 80s and lows from the low 50s to the low 60s. Fair to partly cloudy Monday, highs in the 80s and lows in the 50s. Tuesday, fair in the south, a chance of showers or thundershowers in the north, and generally cooler, the highs 75 to 80 and the lows in the 50s. GIRL SLAIN LOS ANGELES (UPI) The nude body of Glorida Frances Armento was found on her 16th birthday Thursday hidden under bushes in the yard of a school. Police said children playing at Farmdale Elementary School found the body.

The victim was "badly battered and mutilated" and had been stabbed seven or eight times in the chest, authorities said. Predicts Increase In Overseas Investment killing eight enemy without suffering any casualties. Revised reports from the field said that South Vietnam-e artillery rather than American as previously reportedhad been lifted out of Fire Base Sarge, west of Camp Carroll. There was speculation the move was made in anticipation of a ground attack on Sarge. Nearby bases, including Carroll, have enough artillery to support Sarge.

U.S. B52 bombers mounted heavy strikes along the DMZ for the ninth consecutive day in a campaign to slow the North Vietnamese offensive. In eastern Cambodia, a South Vietnamese armored column with infantrymen battled North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops 11 miles northeast of Neak Luong, astride the Saigon Phnom Penh highway. Six South Vietnamese were killed and 21 wounded, while five enemy troops were reported killed. obedience was "calculated to do the maximum damage to the co-operation between the communities in Northern Ireland." The British government chief said the army was operating against armed terrorists, many of whose activities originate in or are support from Ireland.

Turning down Lynch's proposal for an all-Irish summit on the Ulster crisis, Heath said the Irish leader's position was one "calculated not only to increase tension in Northern Ireland but also to impair our efforts to maintain good relations between the United Kingdom and the Irish Republic." Meanwhile, the government of Northern Ireland accused the IRA of preventing necessary and desired reforms for Catholics. Once the wave of violence is quelled and peace restored, a white paper said, the government would act on these reforms: appointment of a public prosecutor, replacement of the special police whom the Catholics detest, fair electoral representation for the Catholic minority, changes in public employment policy, and antidiscrimination clauses in government contracts, housing, community relations and local government reorganization. LOWER PAYMENTS WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Federal Home Loan Bank Board has authorized the nation's savings and loan associations to accept down, payments as low as 5 per' cent of the purchase price for home buyers seeking conventional mortgages. At present, savings and loan associations require down payments of about 30 per cent of the selling price. The lending Institutions would be under no obligation to low- er their down payment requirement under the new di-recltve, but a spokesman said he hoped the move would make loans available to "great numberj of American families (who) have only a modest down payment." Bus Drivers Will Hold 3-Day Rodeo Some 200 persons are expected to take part in a three-day bus-driver training program which will be held at Port Huron High School Monday through Wednesday.

The program is conducted by state universities and is under the direction of the State Department of Education. "The course and educational programs for bus drivers in Michigan are required by State law, and each school bus driver must have a card in his possession to show he is enrolled in the course or has completed it," said William W. Cottingham, director of transportation for the Port Huron Area School District. Classes will he held Monday and Tuesday, followed by a "rodeo" Wednesday. The rodeo is a voluntary program for testing drivers in the handling of buses as well as written tests.

STOWAWAYS SYDNEY (UPI)-Gary Randall, 13, and Ian Cow-perthwaite, 12, returned home today from stowing away on a Pan American World Airways jetliner to Honolulu. They were picked up in Honolulu Thursday when police noticed them trying to climb an eight foot fence at the airport. Officials talked to the youths when they arrived back in Sydney today, later, they were taken to Sydney Welfare Center. THE TIMES HERALD A Gannett Newspaper Vol. 61, No.

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nomic package. The Arkansas Democrat said his present thinking is to expand special provisions, now allowing a minimum standard deduction of $1,000 for 1972, to "put money in the hands of people who would spend it promptly." Walter Heller, chief economic adviser to two Democratic presidents, told a congressional hearing the Nixon program is lopsided in giving industry a $9-billion tax break and individual taxpayers some $2 billion. "That's raw meat for big business while the consumer gets little more than a soup those for their domestic operations in 1970," said Douglas Greenwald, chief economist for McGraw-Hill. "But less than half of them reported that overseas profit margins, were higher in 1970 than in 1969." He reported that manufacturers are more optimistic about sales growth in their foreign operations than in their domestic operations, estimating an increase in the former category at 12 per cent this year and 11 per cent the following two years compared with only 7 per cent annual growth domestically. Divorces GRANTED Dorothy Mae Graham from Melford A.

Graham Jr. Frederick S. Bowen from Frieda Bowen. Marriage Applications Richard S. Brennan, Kath-erine S.

Dean, both of Port Huron. Norman T. Schuyler, Goodells, Joyce M. Williams, St. Clair.

Craig N. Firestone, Wanette L. Arnold, both of Port Huron. Reports Double Albino Lobster BOSTON (AP) A "double albino" lobster exhibited at the New England Aquarium survived against odds estimated by Richard L. Jandl, executive director, to be 100 million to one.

The female lobster, estimated to be at least two years old, is white with faint traces of blue. It was caught by three Quincy lobstermen off Pemberton Beach near Hull. Lobsters normally have two pigments red and blue-green. Cooking destroys the blue-green, which Is the reason they turn red. Dr.

Howard Fell, zoology professor at Harvard, said the museum's lobster "seems to be a double animal In which two different pigment systems have broken down at the same time." Police Take Cars Home With Them; Crime Drops LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Edward Heath, in a heated exchange with the leader of the Irish Republic, accused Prime Minister Jack Lynch of stirring up trouble in embattled Northern Ireland. Lynch had cabled Heath warning against attempting "military solutions" in the British province and announcing support for a campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience by the Roman Catholic minority in Ulster. Heath replied Thursday night that Lynch's cable was "unjustified in its content, unacceptable in its attempts to interfere in the affairs of the United Kingdom and can in no way contribute to the solution of the problems in Northern Ireland." As the. two leaders clashed, a 16-year-old youth died of bullet wounds in Londonderry. He was the 29th person killed since fighting erupted after more than 200 suspected members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army were in-terned without former charges 11 days ago.

He was believed wounded in a gun battle between republicans and British soldiers Wednesday, morning. Two masked raiders broke Into a home in Belfast's Roman Catholic Ballymurphy district and shot three men, two of them British soldiers on leave from West Germany. One of the soldiers was seriously wounded. The gunmen believed to an IRA "execution squad" escaped. In his cable to Heath, Lynch said the 12,500 British soldiers In the North and the Protestant Provincial government's internment order had failed to solve Ulster's problems.

"In the event of the continuation of existing policies of attempted military solutions, I intend to support the policy of passive resistance now being pursued by the non-Unionist population," Lynch declared. He referred to the Catholic minority's Intention to plague Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's government with a campaign of store boycotts and nonpayment of bills and taxes. Heath answered that Lynch'! support for dis- NEW YORK (AP) More than $14 billion will be invested in property, plants and equipment outside the United States by American industrial companies this year, the McGraw-Hill Publications Co. reports. The firm said Thursday that a survey showed this would amount to a 17 per cent increase over the estimated $12 billion in overseas expenditures in 1970.

American manufacturing, mining and petroleum companies plan to spend $14.7 billion in 1972 and $14.9 billion the following year in their foreign operations, the survey showed. "More than half of the responding firms reported that profit margins of overseas subsidiaries were higher than BRENDA J. MUDGE Miss Mudge Is WMU Graduate Brenda Joy Mudge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyne II.

Mudge, of 8594 Morris Road, Goodells, recently received a bachelor degree in social work from Western Michigan University. She is a graduate of Yale High School and attended St. Clair County Community College before transferring to WMU. Miss Mudge Is employed at the St. Clair County Juvenile Center.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -When Gerald Scherkenbach, a police officer, moved with his family to a new neighborhood about two months ago, his old neighbors were sorry to see his car go. Scherkenbach, 23, is one of 103 officers taking part In St. Paul's new take-home program for police squad cars.

"Our old neighbors said they were really sorry to see us move," said Scherken-bach's wife Kathy. "They said they felt a lot safer with the car sitting there." The take-home program, Instituted April 21, Is modeled after a program in effect in Indianapolis. The Idea, said Sgt. Jim Feckey, program director, is "deterrence through omnipresence of the vehicle." "Let's say you're driving over the speed limit," said Feckey. "You see a police car sitting there, and Immediately your foot comes off the gas." Feckey said the rate of Increase in felonies appears to be on the downward trend since the take-home program started.

The number of such offenses increased 13 per cent from March to April, he said, and 9.62 per cent from April to May. There were 12 per cent few-.