Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 July 1973 — Page 7

Monday, July 16, 1973

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Early Start For Visit ^ on 0 Sunday Release

By ANN BLACKMAN Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the White House these days, the tourist line starts around 9 a.m. Across the street at the Washi n g t o n Monument, visitors

queue up about 7:30.

But to be first in line most days at the Watergate hearings, be there before 6 a.m. And unless you’re chummy with a senator, related to a witness or secretary to his lawyer, once inside it’s standing room

only.

Since the televised Senate Watergate hearings began almost two months ago, they’ve become Washington’s latest tourist attraction, drawing almost 1,000 persons a day. Students, housewives, businessmen, tourists come in droves, dressed in everything from shorts and blue jeans to designer dresses and threepiece suits. Some profess a gen-

uine interest in the workings of government. Others are just curious or want to say they’ve

been there.

“There” is an ornate marble hearing room in the Old Senate Office Building, just across an intersection from the Capitol. Once the regulars are packed in — Watergate committee staffers, the witness and his entourage and the press — there’s space for 250 spectators, as the guards say, “all the way to the

rear, please.”

The rear location offers an excellent view of the backs of 300 heads. Rarely does the public get close enough to view Chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr.’s dancing eyebrows or close-ups, such as the flush on John N. Mitchell’s fleshy face. But it's not unusual to find crowd-leasers mixing with the

rol Channing and Ginger Rogers. Few tourists, however, recognize curly-haired author Norman Mailer who can usually be spotted leaning against one of the white marble columns at the side of the room. For exhibitionists and demonstrators, the hearing room is a natural forum. One man announced his candidacy for president of the United States during the first week. Throughout the building security is tight. Plainclothesmen mingle with the crowds, and at least four photographers work not for the press, but the po-

lice.

At times, the heat and glare from television kleig lights are overpowering. At least five spectators have fainted and been carried out. But despite inconveniences,

Legion Commander Urges Foreign Ties

CHARLESTON£ W.Va. (AP) The national commander of the American Legion says his group should forge formal links with veterans organizations in some communist countries to further “the spirit of detente.” Joe L. Matthews said such ties could be established with veterans groups in the Soviet Union, Poland and Hungary, countries he visited last winter. He said he has invited Soviet and Polish delegations to future legion meetings “to explore means for further strengthening ties.” His remarks were prepared for delivery to a weekend convention of the West Virginia American Legion. FAA Investigating Light Plane Crash HENDERSON Ky. (AP) - Federal Aviation Administration officials from Washington and Louisville were on the scene Sunday investigating the cause of the crash of a light aircraft crash Saturday that killed a New Jersey woman and a New York man. Henderson County Deputy Coroner A.B. Stokes identified the victims as Sofia (Sally) Pizzitola, 47, of Oakland, N.J. and Nicholas G. Barry, 50, of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. Their single-engine plane crashed in a soybean field on Slim Island in the Ohio River, about seven miles west of Mount Vernon, Ind. Evansville, Ind. airport authorities said a flight plan indicated the plane was en route from New Jersey to Springfield Mo. They were the only people aboard. Frank Parrish, manager of the Mount Vernon airport, found the scattered wreckage Saturday afternoon, while checking reports of a low-flying aircraft in the area. Officials said a severe thunderstorm may have forced the plane down on the island near the Henderson-Union county

line.

public. Singer John Lennon and the crowds come, many declarhis wife, Yoko Ono, have been ing they want to be a part of there. So have entertainers Ca- history in the making.

“It’s very historical," said

Howard Kupferberg, 28, a real estate man from Commack, N. Y. “That’s really why I wanted to come. But the only way you could see Mitchell or whoever is testifying is if Ervin

would hold up a mirror.” “You can’t see anything,”

said Mrs. Olga Pingor of Rahway, N.J. who was attending the hearings with her husband, Frank. “We got here at 5:45 a.m. and we’re in the last row.

It’s very unfair.” Was it worth it?

“Oh, we’re glad to be here,” Mrs. Pingor said. “It is history. And we’ve seen all the principals. Mitchell looks smaller to me. Sam Ervin looks younger than he does on television and very spry. And we enjoy it so when Sam tangles with a wit-

ness.”

Like the Pingors, most spectators are delighted when the hearings’ tenor is broken by an occasional outburst. When Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., R-Conn., accused the White House of trying to intimidate him and others, the crowd applauded. When Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., suggested to Mitchell that the American public suspects that President Nixon knew of the Watergate coverup, Mitchell recoiled. “I do not believe the nation feels that way, and I do not believe that anyone has come to the point where they have one shred of evidence that he was knowledgeable of the break-in or cover-up,” Mitchell said.

“. . .let me reassure you that the American Legion is not going soft on communism and neither is the national commander,” Matthews said. “To say the least, however, I am excited about the possibilities this trip may have opened up, and I think that you, too, as concerned citizens, will share this excitement. . .”

he added.

Matthews said contacts with communist nations might “dispel once and for all the sterotyped notion of an American Legion that is hide bound by tradition and incapable of

change.

“The American Legion has great respect for tradition," he said, “but we always have been willing to explore new avenues and to consider new approaches that might be instrumental in helping bring about solutions to some of mankind’s major prob-

lems.”

Matthews also reaffirmed his organization’s position against reconstruction aid to North Vietnam and amnesty to men who left the United States rather than serve in the armed forces during the war in Viet-

nam.

Nixon Winning Bout With Pneumonia

By FRA NCES LEWINE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon was showing “good improvement” in his bout with viral pneumonia Sunday but his doctors ruled that he would remain in the hospital unfil at

least next Friday.

A new chest X-ray, taken Sunday afternoon, “continued to show an improving trend,” the doctors announced in a

midafternoon report.

Earlier Sunday they said the President has been sitting up

P. R. Mallory Boasts Record Sales, Earnings

P.R. Mallory & Co. Inc. Wednesday, July 11 - announced record sales up 18 per cent and an earnings gain of 23 per cent for the first six months of 1973 over the same period of last year. Charles A. Barnes, president and chief executive officer of the Indianapolis firm said consolidated net sales for the six months ended June 30 were SI07.5 million, compared with $91.1 million for the comparable period of 1972. He said consolidated net earnings for the six months were $4 million, the equivalent of $1.04 per share, a 23 per cent gain over the $3.3 million, or 85 cents per share, recorded in the first half of last year. Barnes said that consolidated net earnings for the three months ended June 30 amounted to $2.1 million, the equivalent of 55 cents per share. He noted that this was a 26 per cent increase over the $1.7 million, or 44 cents per share, for the similar quarter in 1972. The chief executive said

that “Consolidated net sales of $54.6 million for the three months just ended were the highest for any quarter in the company’s history and surpassed by 18 per cent the corresponding volume of $46.4 million in the same period a year ago.” Commenting further, he said that “The rate of incoming business during the second three months of this year held steady with the significant level of the first quarter and at June 30 the unfilled order backlog was at an all-time high of $45 million. This was 11 per cent above the $40.4 million at the beginning of the quarter and 32 per cent more than the $34 million total of orders on hand as the year began.” Headquartered in Indianapolis, the Mallory company -specializes in the development and manufacture of batteries, timing devices, electrical and electronic components and metallurgical products for diversified consumer, industrial and government-related markets.

for brief periods, four times daily, after inhalation and chest therapy. “The prognosis is excelent,” White House Physician Dr. Walter R. Tkach reported, describing the President as “midway in the recovery process.” The chief concern, the President’s personal physician said, was that Nixon would “push himself too hard and too fast.” Under the doctor’s insistence that he limit his activities so as not to suffer a relapse, Tkach said’ so far as he has desisted in our favor.” The President had his first restful night Saturday, getting f'A hours sleep, without any analgesic injection to ease his chest pain since he entered Bethesda Naval Medical Center Thursday night. His temperature had dropped Sunday to 99 degrees from a high of 102. Dr. Tkach said the chest pain is easing, too, and discomfort occurs only with deep breathing now. As had been predicted, Tkach said that the President is experiencing malaise and fatigue and the period of convalescence is expected to run for some 10 days after he leaves the hospital. Dr. Tkach said that Nixon would not be able to leave the hospital until Friday at the earliest. There has been no decision yet on where Nixon will go to recuperate. Nixon’s visitors were being kept to a minimum. So far he has seen no one but Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, his chief of staff Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., and his wife, Pat, and daughter and son-in-law Julie and David Eisenhower, who have been making daily hospital visits. Nixon has talked to members of his staff including national security adviser Henry Kissinger on the phone. The President was described as having little energy, to the point, Ziegler said, where he doesn’t feel well enough to pick up a book and read. The President does not watch television, Ziegler said.

The spectators hissed and booed. And when Ervin explained that the letter to Nixon he had just read out loud in the hearing room was marked “For the President’s Eyes Only,” the crowd roared. But more than one tourist has been discouraged by the lines that ring the building's rotunda until after 3 p.m. “We stood in line for two hours yesterday and didn’t get in,” said C. W. Deaton of Memphis, Tenn., who had brought his wife to Washington just to see the hearings. “We came back at 4 p.m. after our television set broke down and we still had to wait a half-hour.” Discouraged? “It would have been more interesting if you could have seen their faces but I was thrilled to see the senators in person," Mrs. Deaton said.

Two Canadian Peacekeepers

SAIGON (AP) — The Viet Uong released two Canadian peacekeepers Sunday after detaining them for 17 days and warned Canada to keep its observers out of Viet Cong territory without prior approval. The two officers, Capts. Ian Ratten of Toronto and Fletcher I homson of Ottawa, were tired, but in good condition, according to the Canadian surgeon who examined them immediately after they landed in a helicopter at Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut air base. Released with them were their Vietnamese interpreter and driver. All were stationed at the International Commission of Control and Supervision site at Xuan Loc, about 45 miles east of Saigon.

The Viet Cong delegation to the two-party Joint Military Commission in Saigon said the four had been moved about the jungle to avoid getting hurt by South Vietnamese military operations. The South Vietnamese government denied carrying out any military operations in the region, the reason given by the Viet Cong for two earlier delays in the release. A Viet Cong statement issued after the release said the two Canadians on June 28 drove into Viet Cong-controlled territory in the Xuan Loc region without “prior agreement.” “The above mentioned foreigners failed to exhibit necessary papers to prove themselves to be representatives of

the ICCS and to be authorized by the ICCS to enter the liberated area to perform their mission.” the statement said. “The local authorities therefore were compelled to keep them for verification to find out the truth.” The Canadian delegation has maintained that Patten and Thomson were on a flag-show-ing mission, that all commission representatives are on duty 24 hours a day and that they are entitled to diplomatic privileges and immunities as outlined in the Paris agreement. Ambassador Michel Gauvin, head of the Canadian delegation, had insisted that no routine work be done by the peacekeenine commission in Saigon

until the two Canadian officers were returned. Three meetings were canceled last week. In Cambodia, sources close to President Lon Nol said the ailing leader is expected to make his often-postponed trip to the United States at the end of this month or early in August. Lon Nol is semiparalyzed from a stroke suffered 2Vi years ago. The United States has been reported engaged in an effort to get the 58-year-old president to leave the country to seek treatment. His absence also could open the door for negotiations with the Cambodian insurgents who so far have refused to talk about peace as long as. Lon Nol is running the American-backed government.

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