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Chance of Showers Partly cloudy and warm with chance a thunderhhower Salurdav and Saturday night and probably Sunday. i.Mor weather data on page Ji Saturday Edition 10c 124th Year. 1 5 lit Day. Bloomington-Normal, Saturday, May 31, 1969. 30 Pages.

3 Sections War Enemy Likes Peace I i i 'MM. Oil; fai t-, WATKINSVILLE. (ia. itPh Jcaiinctte Rankin. C8.

I ho only member of Congress to vole against U.S. entry into both world wars still would rather talk about war than a home she owns which police sny has been used as a psychedelic hangout for marijuana smokers. Oconee County Sheriff Charles llolcomb calls the "round house." part of "a main supply line for marijuana in northeast Georgia." Miss Nankin says she rented Die hcusc to a group of "longhaired" University Georgia students recently and says the officers "came out here when the students were not even here. They said they found marijuana but nothing has been proved. "Of course.

I duii't really know much about it." Fcur students charged with possessing marijuana claim also to know nothing. The arrests came Saturday and earlier this week. The house, under construction for several years, and originally intended as a rest home lor elderly women, is a 10-bath home still not completed. The floors are dirt. Miss Rankin maintains a house next door, as well as one in Helena.

Mont. Instead of elderly women, the sheriff said raiders found the rooms furnished in psychedelic pastels, record players, books including one entitled "Red Dirt Marijuana." four ounces of marijuana and some marijuana seed. "We are going to get marijuana out of the county," Hoi-comb said. "We intend to get to the bottom of this case. It has meant losing a lot of sleep, but we'll lose more sleep if we have to." Miss Rankin remained mtstly unruffled by the furor as she continues her fight against United States intervention in the Vietnam War.

"We must abolish the military system." she maintained. "It is a tremendous expense and offers no protection." Diet tor roor uavkiasii Holiday Deaths Cost Figured Unusual Weapon Reaches War Zone PCRPIGNAN, France (UPI) A local winegrower it not in favor of pntsidontial candidate Alain Pohor. He stormed into a police "vote for Poher" campaign station to complain that a leaflet dropped from a light airplane fluttered into his vine spraying machine's air intake during spraying operations. The machine exploded. an hour on five feet of air created by jet turbine engine and held under hull by rubber apron resembling huge inner tube.

Vehicle, equipped with machine gum ami radar, carries infantrymen on patrol. (AP Wirephoto) Soldiers of U.S. Ninth Infantry maneuver 13-ton, air-cushioned craft enta Its pad at Nha Be, about IS miles southeast of Saigon. Unusual looking vehicle can speed over land and water of soggy Mekong Delta at 70 miles Returns in Truce SAIGON (UPI)-An American soldier captured by the Communists nine months ago was picked up Friday by a U.S. helicopter crew from the jungles northwest of Saigon, U.S.

military sources reported. First reports did not make it clear whether the GI was freed by the Viet Cong or had escaped. The GI won his freedom as the first eight hours of a 24-hour allied cease-fire. U.S. military headquarters in Saigon refused comment on the report of the serviceman who was picked up in an area 10 miles northeast of Tay Ning City, a provincial capital 60 miles northwest of Saigon.

Among the U.S. positions hit by the Communists during the South Vietnamese Buddhists marked the anniversary of the birthday of Buddha under a cease-fire that curtailed but did not stop the war. At least two Americans were killed and 17 wounded in ruptures of the brief truce. The U.S. command charged North Vietnamese and Vict Cong forces with 34 violations 'People's Park' Crowd Kept on Peaceful Walk Mount By The Associated Press Warm sunshine and seasonable temperatures lured thousands of motorists to the nation's streets and highways Memorial Day, and tire death toll in traffic accidents mounted steadily.

At least 192 lives were claimed in highway crashes. Nine persons died in boating accidents, and 54 drowned to accidents unrelated to boating. Total 255. Eleven persons died in two traffic accidents. Six were killed when a tractor-trailer rammed into the rear of a car occupied by eight Maryland residents.

The crash occurred about 20 miles north of Richmond, Va. In an accident near Heflin. five persons, including an elderly couple and two of their grandchildren, perished when their camper-type pickup truck collided with a trailer truck. The National Safety Council estimated in advance that between 550 and 650 Americans will lose their lives in traffic accidents in a tabulating period to end at midnight Sunday, Illinois Slaying Suspect Held SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) Police questioned Friday an itinerant mechanic wanted in Illinois in connection with the murder of two teen-agers the night of their high school prom.

Held for St. Clair County, authorities was Marshall Wayne Stauffer, 39. He was suspected of raping and killing Debra Means, 15, and of killing her escort, Michael Morrison, 18. Stauffer, also known to Illinois authorities as William Raymond Nickerson, was also wanted in connection with a rape April 25 in Clinton County. 111., an armed robbery March 31 in New London, and on a charge of enticing a 15-year-old girl from Wichita, Kansas.

WASHINGTON (AP) An analysis by a Bureau of the Budget task force estimates an adequate diet for the poor would require a tripling of federal spending, far more than has been asked by President Nixon. The analysis, a working paper dated the same day as Nixon's May 6 special hunger message to Congress, calls $2.93 billion "probably the best estimate that can be generated at the present time of the price tag of an adequate diet for the poor." Current government programs for feeding the poor total about $1.5 billion annually, including $340 million spent on food stamps. People Remember By The Associated Press Parades and prayers for the living and dead in the nation's wars, plus holiday outings and special sports events, marked the 102nd observance Friday of Memorial Day. Vigils and protests against the war in Vietnam made an impact this year on the three-day holiday. President Nixon, spending the long weekend with his family at Key Biscayne, urged Americans not only to honor our fighting men, past and.

present, but to pray for peace throughout the world. Antiwar groups in many communities read the names of 35,000 Americans who have lost their lives in the current conflict. At Rochester, N.Y., the local Council of Churches began its vigil at 6 a.m. on the church lawn, with volunteers reading the names of war dead from the city and its outlying areas. At Torrington.

two literary figures read from the list of war dead during a 24-hour vigil. They were Pulitzer Prize winners William Styron, the author, and Arthur Miller, the playwright. At Cincinnati. Ohio, a local peace group conducted a 20-hour vigil and name-reading of servicemen dead in front of the city's federal building. In Philadelphia, about 20 men and women stood at the entrance of the national cemetery reading names of Vietnam war dead.

Thev wore black armbands with white numerals "35.000." Similar vigils were held by church groups in Buffalo. N.Y., interdenominational groups at Kansas City, and students at the University of Chicago. At Swarthmore, David Carroll, 17, a member of a high school band, refused to play "taps" during holiday ceremonies, contending it was against his conscience. Nuclear Power Ideas Differ LONDON (AP) Briain and the United States, the two nuclear powers in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, emerged from a two-day strategy session Friday with differing approaches toward the use of battlefield nuclear weapons in Europe. Authoritative sources said British Defense Secretary Denis Healey pressed the view that a small number of tactical nuclear weapons might have to be used first by the West to halt an attack by larger conventional forces of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.

U.S. officials said Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird stressed instead the need to increase the combat readiness and effectiveness of conventional forces in the alliance. Unrest Stirs In Caribbean WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (UPI) Striking oil workers and longshoremen rampaged Friday through the streets of Willem-stad, capital of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles and a favorite resort for American tourists. Copter Crash Kills 2 SAN JUAN.

Puerto Rico (UPI)-Two U.S. Marines died and seven were injured Wednesday in a helicopter crash on Puerto Rico's east coast. The parade began peacefully. Some 400 young "monitors" accompanied the huge throng, urging nonviolence. Helicopters hovered overhead to help with crowd control.

The march followed a rally BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -An estimated 20,000 "people's park" demonstrators marched through the streets of Berkeley Friday, watched closely by about 2.500 National Guardsmen and peace officers on hand to prevent disorder. cease-fire were areas in the A Shau Valley around Hamburger Hill and near Khe Sanb just below the Demilitarized Zone. Other Communist fire was reported around Tarn Ky, a coastal city 340 miles northeast of Saigon where American and South Vietnamese troops were sweeping rolling hills to block Communist infiltration routes toward the city of 25,000 people. Solon Suggests Bomb Threat CHICAGO (UPI) -Jtep.

Roman Pucinski, proposed Friday that the United States serve notice that the bombing of North Vietnam will be resumed unless there is "some meaningful progress" made at the Paris peace talks. Pucinski predicted that South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu will propose a resumption of the bombing combined with withdrawal of a large force of American ground troops when he meets next week with President Nixon. Strikers Target In Argentina BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Army troops opened fire on a column of a thousand workers and students in the riot-ravaged city of Cordoba Friday as a 24-hour general strike practically paralyzed most of Argentina. The workers and students were fired on as they tried march two miles from a suburb to the center of Cordoba, occupied by thousands of army paratroopers. At least five persons were reported wounded in the shooting.

Allies Cool to Nixon's NATO Teamwork Plans and climaxed a two-week, violence-marked dispute over eviction of young persons from what they called a "people's park." Starting point of the parade in this University of California community was a "people's park annex" on Rapid Transit District land. The route extended southward 10 blocks to the original disputed area, now fenced in, and then back to the starting point over a different route. Officers were out in force for fear of possible violence. One patrolman remarked, as new hundreds kept arriving with no incidents of trouble, that "you really have to be impressed with the crowd control." A yellow sound truck and about 100 people on bicycles and motor scooters led the parade. Marchers clutched flowers and green flags, the latter signifying "green power" symbolic of grass.

Some were very conscientious about picking up litter. Armed officers surveyed the scene from rooftops along the route. WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon's specific proposals for tighter political and social teamwork under NATO have run into a generally unenthu-siastic response from the allies, diplomatic sources reported Friday. Only one of the three items Nixon proposed creation of a special political planning group to deal with long-range problemsseems likely to win allied acceptance soon in a form close to the presidential blueprint. The other two machinery for a social welfare "third dimension" for NATO and regular deputy foreign ministers' meetingshave failed to win adoption on the U.S.-proposed timetable and there is doubt about their future.

Blood Plotted LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) The government claimed Friday that extremists are plotting to turn Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's visit into a bloody confrontation aimed at overthrowing the month-old regime of President Luis Adolfo Siles. tyy iw mMin" mam 1 1 mf rfrxV hit s-tl 'Let's Rocky Says QUITO, Ecuador (UPI)-Gov. Nelson A.

Rockefeller of New York urged the youth of this South American nation to abandon street protests that have killed seven persons and wounded 52 since his arrival on a fact-finding mission for President Nixon. "We came here to listen and not to fight," Rockefeller said in a statement in which he deplored the violence which erupted here and in Guayaquil. -K vsv, i I icy I ft I rvi vv ft, of f-J Found Baby Sitter With Pantograph Want Ad Solving most an type ot ln-Vtb is pwltr o( Pantagraph Vnt Ad. Aladrtyn Aitvonwii. 709 Church.

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