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Negotiations Continue

WASHINGTON (AP)- Negotiators working into the early morning today were unable to reach a compromise aimed at getting striking independent truckers back on the roads, but P they agreed to continue their ■ talks later in the day.

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sources close to the negotiations said the compromise plan jf involved 11 points which the ■5 truckers considered “minimum Eg'. acceptable demands.” JJ The sources said that, in general terms, the 11-point list con•f* cerns the supply and price of fuel, the operating conditions of the drivers, driver safety and the federal and state regulations under which they operate. . •£►! A major stumbling block has 52*: ^en the truckers’ demand for a rollback in the prices of diesel fuel, a move opposed by federal energy chief William E. Simon.

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rollback was not a part of the tentative compromise under discussion. However, they said the truckers were seeking a freeze on fuel prices. Reportedly the crucial demand involved a request for the truckers to pass through in:reased fuel costs to shippers on a dollar for dollar basis plus an additional surcharge on existing freight rates. The Senate Commerce Committee has announced plans for a meeting today to consider the administration request for speedy action on a resolution aimed at speeding Interstate Commerce Commission-ordered relief for the truckers. Actidn was also expected shortly from the House Commerce Committee. The resolution would eliminate the 30-day delay required before new ICC rules can go into effect. In addition to the pass through and surcharge, sources said the proposal would also enable independent truckers who are exempt from ICC regu-

lations, such as those hauling produce, to carry freight on their return trip, which they cannot now do. The change would only affect truckers who own less than hree trucks. The tentative compromise was worked out in private meetings by truckers representatives with W. J. Usery Jr., the federal government’s top labor mediator, and Pennsylvania Gov. Milto Shapp. “Hopefully we’ have reached a stage where we can put down on paper an agreement that might be acceptable to all sides,” Shapp commented. Meanwhile, the effects of the strike were being felt in 36 states and National Guard units had been alerted in three. No new violence was reported, however. Simon termed the proposed pass through of costs a matter of pure fairness. “It’s a straight pass through of costs, which today the truckers have to absorb themselves. So it is a matter of them not being able to feed their families and make any money on their trucking runs,” he said.

Five Cousins Die In House Blaze

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. (AP) — Five cousins whose ages ranged from 16 months to 5 years died early today in a fire at a home where they had been left unattended, police said. Police said the 21-year-old mother of three of the children, Mattie McIntosh, was located at a nearby bar after the victims’ bodies were discovered at her home. • Authorities identified the victims of the fire, which broke out shortly after midnight, as Elizabeth McIntosh, 5; Yvette McIntosh, 4; Anise McIntosh Jr., 3; Sylvester Naves, 3; and Glenn Naves, 16 months. The Naves boys were the sons of Mrs. McIntosh’s sister, Georgette Naves, 18. Officers

said the Naves boys often stayed at the McIntosh home. All five children apparently died of smoke inhalation, according to a medical examiner’s preliminary report. Mrs. McIntosh told officers she left about an hour before the fire broke out. Police said she learned of the fire and her childrens’ death from a relative who located her at the bar. There was no immediate indication where Mrs. Naves was during the fire, but authorities said the children were alone in the house. Fire Inspector Raymond Donahue said the fire apparently began in the basement of the frame home, but said its cause remained under investigation.

NIXON PLAN

Protection For Everyone

By FRA NK CORMIER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (API — Describing national health insurance as “an idea whose time has come in America,” President Nixon said today the insurance plan he will send Congress this week would offer protection to everyone without adding to federal taxes. In a statement prepared for an appearance at. the convention of the American Hospital Association, Nixon said “there is widespread support in Washington” for some form of comprehensive health insurance. While arguing his proposal is

best, Nixon indicated he would be willing to compromise with Congress on the question. “Improvements can be made in it, I’m sure,” he said with reference to his own plan, “and we stand ready to work with the Congress, the medical profession and others in making those changes." At the same time, Nixon argued against “an extreme program that would require S80 billion or $100 billion in federal funds and would place the entire health care system under the dominion of social planners in Washington."“Let us act sensibly and let us act now in 1974,” he added.

Black Gunmea Kill Muslim Ministers

By JACK STOKES Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (APj - Four men, including two Muslim ministers, were killed and a fifth man critically wounded

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when several black gunmen invaded a Brooklyn mosque and opened fire, police reported. Police said they believed the shooting Monday night was provoked by a feud between different Muslim factions. Slain in the gunfire at the Ya Sin Mosque in Brooklyn’s predominantly black BedlordStuyvesant section were Abdullah Rahman, 36, the leader of the mosque, and Muhammed Ahmed, 30, identified by police as another minister. Rahman died at the scene. Ahemed died shortly afterwards of chest wounds at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. Also dead when police reached the mosque were men tentatively identified as Peter Jeffries and Ed Mason, both of the Bronx. Police said Jeffries and Mason, both wearing heavy winter jackets, apparently were among the gunmen who burst into the mosque. Another mosque member, identified as Jamil Haqq, was reported in critical condition at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. According to police, the mosque was part of the Sunni Muslim movement, whose adherents claim to be more orthodox in their practice of Islam than the Black Muslims, who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad Asst. Police Chief James Sullivan said about the shooting “We’ve made a determination after sitting down and sorting things out that it’s an interfactional thing." Strike May Close Meat Industry CHICAGO (AP| - Nearly all the nation's meatpacking and processing plants could be shut down by the weekend if the independent truckers strike continues, an American Meat Institute official says. Meat packers throughout the Midwest reported sharp production cuts Monday, and several plants closed. Deliveries to meat wholesalers and retailers were down. Richard Lyng, president of the institute, said packers were having a hard time transporting their products to supermarkets and distribution points as well as getting to cattle, hog and lamb shipments for processing. Livestock markets in the Midwest said cattle and hog receipts were down by as much as 75 per cent. At Joliet's Live Stock Marketing Center, southwest of Chicago. 2,000 cattle were received Monday, compared with about 4.500 to 5,000 on most Mondays. Hog receipts were 300, compared with an average Monday’s 2.000. At Peoria, 111., about 600 hogs, compared with a normal 5.000, were sold. Illini Beef, Inc., a major slaughterhouse in Geneseo, 111., closed two plants because it could not transport goods. Major supermarket chains reported being in somewhat better shape with produce, but efforts -were being made to switch as much of their incoming shipments as possible to rail or air delivery. The nation’s largest stock market cooperative. Interstate Producers and Livestock Association of Peoria, closed its 48 market operations in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. An official said they would not reopen “until we are able to make sure that livestock can be moved to slaughtering plants.” The McDonald’s hamburger chain, headquartered in Oak Brook, south of Chicago, said it has been forced to fly hamburger patties to Indiana. Pennsylvania and Ohio because of the truckers’ strike.

Police said they recovered in and near the three-story brick mosque on Herkimer Place a .25-caliber automatic pistol, a .22-caliber rifle, a .38-caliber pistol and six spent shells, two .45-caliber ammunition clips as well as 9mm ammunition. Detectives said they were uncertain whether anyone involved in the shooting had escaped, although early reports said some gunmen had fled on Mob HIM DIXON III. (API - The pilots of- two single-engine airplanes were killed when their planes collided as both were landing at Walgreen Field, an airfield outside Dixon. Richard Henkel. 50. of rural Dixon was landing a Cessna 172 Monday at Walgreen Field when the plane collided with a Bonanza aircraft piloted by William Treu of Brookfield, Wis., a spokeswoman for the Lee County coroner’s office said. Circus To Be Af Rockville The “circus” is coming to the Ritz in Rockville. Clowns, “elephants,” pink lemonade—a giant grab-bag of circus spirit and fun for both the young and the young-at-heart—it will all be here as the Sycamore Players from Indiana State University, in conjunction with Children’s Theatre of Terre Haute, the Rockville Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Arts Council, present “Circus in the Wind” at 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday. Feb. 9. ‘Circus in the Wind,’ an imaginative hour-long play for young people adapted by Aurand Harris from his prizewinning “Circus Day,” relates a tale about a bright-eyed little boy named Johnnie who hears the circus in the wind. Like every youth who yearns for the color, thrill and excitement of the circus, Johnnie is overjoyed when he’s accidentally carried away in a clown's box. Grandpa comes after him, but he too hears the “call” of the circus. The fun mounts when Grandma arrives, looking for both of her boys. Harris’ new plot incorporated audience participation and provides an active dramatic experience for the audience as well as the actors. The fourteen' member cast, under the direction of George McAtee who teaches on the I.S.U. theatre staff, attempts to make the children in the audience feel that they, too, are in the center ring performing with the clowns, the tight-rope walker, the ringmaster and all the colorful people and animals of the big top. Again, curtain times at the Ritz on Feb. 9 are 3:30 and 7 p.m. All tickets will be sold at the door.

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foot. Detectives also said they did not know whether persons initially inside the mosque had returned fire.

The President said he would send Congress a package embracing three separate but related insurance plans that would cover every American. First, he said, one would “be offered where people work," with employers paying the bulk of the insurance premiums and employees the rest. Second, he said he wants a government assistance plan to “cover people with low incomes and those who can’t purchase health insurance at a reasonable cost, such as those alread> in poor health or those whose work entails risk.” While the federal government presumabh would bear most of the premium burden. Nixon said individuals would be asked to pa\ a portion on an ability-to-pa\ basis but that “no premiums would be charged to very lowincome persons.” Finally, he said the existing Medicare program “would offer improved benefits matching those in the other plans."

Auto Plant Layoffs

DETROIT (APJ— More than 18.500 employes at seven Midwest auto plants have been laid off or had their shifts cut back due to parts shortages brought on by the truckers’ strike. Layoffs were ordered on Monday by General Motors, American Motors and International Harvester. Chrysler reported partial production cutbacks at two plants. Ford said its operations had not been affected yet.

GM laid off the most workers, sending home half the 4,400 hourly employes at a Delco Products plant in Dayton, Ohio, and 3,200 of 4.500 at a foundry in Defiance, Ohio. American Motors laid off 2,500 workers at its Milwaukee, Wis., body plant. They are to return Wednesday. An undetermined number of workers also were idled when one assembly line at AMCs Kenosha, W'is., plant was closed.

Public Auction Du* to the death of my husband the late Earl Epperson, I will soil at Public Auction a complete Machine Shop, located mile west of Hazelwood. Watch for Signs. Saturday, February 16,1974 Starting at 10:30 a.m.

DeWalt table saw with 20 ft. table. (2) Carpenters tables. Clausing floor drill with bits, 300 R.P.M. 1 in. chuck. Black & Decker floor drill, 8 in. heavy duty. Bench vise. (2) Sets socket wrenches *4 drive, 1 in. and 2 in. Delta band saw. Sidney 12 in. engine lathe with the following: 3 jaw chuck; 4 jaw chuck; taper attachment. Surface plate. Starrett surface gauge. 0-1 to 12 in. outside micrometer. 10 in. Parallel bars. 12 in. Parallel bars. Pair 10 in. Parallel bars. Assortment of tapered reamers. Assortment of tool bits. Assortment of tool steel. Starrett indicator. Pair 4 in. V blocks. Screw hole drill with top. Starrett square head set. Outside Venier calipers. Assortment of indicators. Flynn threading machine with wire gauge. Assortment machinist scales, 6 to 12 in. Assortment of lathe centers and reamers. Assortment of hand tapes and dyes. Pair 1 in. adjustable Parallel bars. Key seat rule clamps. Screw pitch gauge. Ball inside micrometer. Surface gauge. Lufkin depth micrometer, 0-12 in. Set Joe blocks. Starrett inside micrometer. Dial indicators. Brown Sharpe depth gauge micrometers. Kenneday tool chest. Parrellel vise National Cut-O-Matic cutting torch attachment. Acetylene welder with assortment of cutting tips. Electric welder. Assortment of welding rods. Black & Decker 9 in. grinder. 7 in. hand disc grinder. 16 in. electric drill. Stanley saber saw. Stanley precision level '6" elec, drill. Voltage tester. Band saw, 4 ft. Air compressor with electric motor. Thor paint gun. Welding table. Wright 2-ton hoist. Wright 1-ton hoist. Greaseless bearings.

Grease guns and grease. SMALL TOOLS Assortment of wood chisels. Right and left hand tin snips. Assortment of hand saws. Carpenter squares. Carpenter draw knives. Assortment of wood planes. Assortment of pocket wrenches, 1 to 8 in. GARDEN TRACTOR AND MISCELUNEOUS ITEMS Garden tractor with cultivators. Evinrude power boat motor. Log chains, lOand 12ft. Assortment of new bolts and nuts. Assortment of chains. Assortment of tool and die steel. (2) Miter boxes. large assortment of "C" clamps. Floor jacks. Quantity of electrical conduit. Electric soldering irons. Wrecking bars. Sledge hammers. Tool chest with mechanic tools. Oil cans. Assortment of steel. Gascons. Sears 2,000 watt starting engine. Tree trimming equipment. Dolly wheels. Tool chest with wood working tools. Electric wire. Boat oars and steering wheels, ladder jacks. Copper flashing. Quantity of furnace pipe. Reel mower for Simplicity mower. Furnace fan. Steel box. (2) Electric fans. Roller chain, link chain, lawn chairs. (2) Stone crocks. (2) Dog boxes. Burner and lead pot. Wire wheels and buffers, ladders. Photography equipment. Rope blocks. Set trailer tires, 7x14-5, 10 ply. Part of trailer room addition. Fertilizer spreader for garden tractor. 3x8 steel grating. Hand cart. (2) Wheel trailer. Boat trailer. 3 pt. Hitch disc. Rakes. Shovels. Hoes. 1972 G.M.C. ’6 T. pickup truck like new. Articles too numerous to mention.

MARY EPPERSON, Owner JIM VAUGHN & SON, TED EVERETT, Auctioneers. W.W.SMITHERMAN, Clerk. Terms: CASH. Not responsible in Case of Accident. AUCTIONEERS NOTE: This sale consists of some very fine precision tools. Lunch Will Be Served By The Hazelwood Community Center