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ii hi .,1 1 i .1 hi- i. 4 Nl 'I -A Burte-Anaconda 94th Year No. 90 Goof Morning, It's Wednesday, October 29, 1969 10 Cents wollll crony i i i Standard Zhe Montana 4 1 TIM' "till A Uxk i James W. Brigham, Ocala, Spec. 4 Thomas N.

Jones, Lynn-vffle, and PFC Donald G. Smith, Akron, Pa. were freed. SAIGON (AP) American military authorities said "day the U.S. Command will respond affirmatively to any Viet umg otter lor a-Dametieia Cong announced they would release three other American captives.

Through radio broadcasts, 7 a Christmas meeting was arranged in a rice paddy 50 miles northwest of Saigon. Negotiators for both sides showed up and Viet Cong photographers snapped pictures with long-' range Jenses from a woodline, but the prisoners were not turned over. Some Americans believed the Viet Cong were trying to milk maximum propaganda out of the turnover. A second meeting took place New Year's Day and the three American soldiers Spec. 4 Brigham, suffering from a head wound, died a few weeks later in a U.S.

Army hospital. Doctors blamed his death on improper medical treatment during captivity. Since making its initial announcement Sunday, the Viet Cong radio has provided no further detailsjm the release of the second trio Watkins, Strickland and Tinsley. "We don't-know what they're planning," said one U.S. officer.

time nor place of release. The government also said its planned release was for "humanitarian" reasons. The -itee GIs, all 22 years old members of the American Division based at Chu Lai, 50 miles south of Da Nang, were identified as Spec. 4 Willie A. Watkins, Sumter, S.C., PFC James H.

Strickland Dunn, N.C, and PFC Coy RyTinsley, Cleveland, Tenn. The Viet Cong broadcast said they had "proved progressive" during their captivity and showed "repentance of the crimes they- had committed against the Vietnamese people." A hint that the Viet Cong might seek a battlefield meeting to hand over the trio was seen in their insistence that the U.S. Command "must be responsible for its ex-servicemen and must insure safety for them." Similar demands were made last December when the Viet meeting to turn over three American prisoners of war. "No question about it," a spokesman said. He noted that in a similar case last winter, the Americans had agreed to go "anywhere, anytime" for the return of prisoners and said the offer still stands.

His statement coincided with a South Vietnamese announcement that 24 Viet Cong prison-; ers would be released Wednesday. The government, emphasized, however, that the release was not in response to the Viet Cong's plan to free three U.S. soldiers. The clandestine Viet Cong radio said Sunday night that the three would be given their freedom to show the "lenient and policies of the Viet Cong but specified neither ritflxacut pcedkfted to the children ore boxes witfi WocK Bedroom in street Three of Solgon's "street children" "fake on afternoon nap under a makeshift cardboard blanket on a busy street in the South Vietnamese capital. Next market items their parents sell to pass-ersby.

(AP Wirephoto) Hanoi has not changed policy Today capr weapons and food caches have increased in the past two weeks. Although U.S. military officials said they could not tell in all cases how long the supplies had been stored, they noted that enemy troops must store their supplies ahead of them for offensive operations. WHILE intelligence officials said they had no hard evidence of enemy plans to stage another fferisiveJj3yQ.iaptureLJocur; ments suggested that' attacks would occur on or near Nov. 15.

One document referred to a "nationwide" offensive begin-ning in mid-November. Another document, seized in the Mekong Delta, referred to an Aug. 19 enemy directive for "pro-revolutionary activities" to i between Nov. 15 and Dec. 15.

SAIGON Fighting has increased slightly in the last three days and. military analysts here' are collecting signs that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces are planning a further intensification in mid-November. Small but sharp battles took place northwest of Saigon over the weekend after Allied troops discovered enemy soldiers moy- ing along traditional infiltration routes south from Cambodia Early Tuesday morning, for example, 19 enemy soldiers were killed in two brief clashes about 30 miles northwest of here. IN THE SAME general area that includes Tayninh, Bi-nhduong and Haunghia provinces, discoveries of enemy Two convicts are captured DEER LODGE (AP)-Charles S. Dell, acting Montana State Prison warden, said Tuesday two convicts who escaped from the prison last month had been picked up at Portland, Ore.

Dell said the two, Ronald Woods and Donald Pierce, have signed waivers of extradition and will be returned to Deer Lodge. The two escaped by climbing over the fence at the Rothe Hall medium security compound near the prison. The office' was closed; it turned out to be Sunday today. from the Hanoi delegation whether their missing men might be alive in Norm Vietnam. Sen.

Gordon Allott, called meanwhile for a Justice Department investigation of lawyer William L. Kunstler's contacts with North Vietnamese diplomats about U.S.- prisoners of war. Kunstler, attorney for the eight men on trial in Chicago on conspiracy charges growing out of disturbances at the Democratic National Convention, met with North Vietnamese representatives to the peace talks in Paris during the weekend. "I think we have come to a very sad state of affairs when groups in this country have appointed themselves and endowed themselves as the American media for the enemy," Allott said. He said there is a federal law against correspondence with for-eip governments by private citizens.

WASHINGTON (AP The Pentagon said Tuesday it is uncertain whether Norto Vietoam has made a major prisoner of war policy change and will identify Americans held in its POW camps. Jerry Friedheim, defense spokesman, made the comment after antiwar group" leaders reported Hanoi plans to release a name list as well as allow regular mail between prisoners and their families. Friedheim said the latest comments by the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris gate no assurance Hanoi intends to provide additional information about captured Americans. Friedheim said, if a North Vietnamese policy change is in the making it could be the result of Hanoi "responding to humanitarian pressures." More than 20 wives and parents have gone to Paris over the last six weeks seeking to learn Storm misses area By The Associated Press An winter snow storm dumped nearly 10 inches of snow on parts of southern Montana Tuesday before heading eastwards out of the state. The U.S.

Weather Bureau said the storm was expected to be completelyout ot-th-tat by-mid--Wednesday. Travelers warnings were Issued for the area east of the Continental Divide. The weather bureau said hazardous driving conditions were reported over southwest Montana where freezing rains had glazed roads. Temperatures were expected to rise Wednesday )a the south portion of the state east of the divide. Skies were to be partly cloudy.

West of the divide, the weather bureau predicts a warming trend through Thursday with morning fog in most areas. Philadelphia papers sola in big transaction PHILADELPHIA (AP) Sale of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News to Knight Newspapers, for about $55 million was announced Tuesday, the biggest transaction in the history of American journalism. Walter H. Annenberg, president of Triangle Publications, and John S. Knight, editorial chairman and senior officer of Knight Newspapers, said in a joint statement that the.

transaction was valued at about $55 million in cash and notes. The previous largest American newspaper sail was the 1967 purchase of the Cleveland Plain Dealer by Samuel I. Newhouse for $50 million. Sen. Fulbright contends U.S.

involved in clandestine war some kind of clandestine operation was going on but not the extent of it. In the senator's opinion there is no constitutional authority for such activity and the U.S. has WASHINGTON Sen. J. W.

Fulbright, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, asserted Tuesday that the Unit- -1 no treaty with Laos providing man, Robert J. McCloskey, confirmed the absence of such commitments, telling newsmen that "there is no defense agreement with Laos, written, stated, or otherwise." THE SOURCES also said Administration witnesses had told the subcommittee that American involvement in Laos was far less than that in South Vietnam and They said the witnesses had described the operations in Laos as primarily an adjunct to those in South Vietnam and Thailand. The Administration witnesses defended the secrecy surrounding American activity in Laos as an effort to maintain the fa-cade of the 1962 neutrality agreements. Those agreements, which the U.S. and 13 other parties signed at Geneva, forbid the introduction of foreign troops in Laos.

ed States was engaged in a fpr such operations. He also Highway Patrol to move offices charged that the C.I.A. had exceeded its authority in supporting the Laotian activity. THE SENATOR also said that U.S. activity in Laos did not Miniskirts hard on the ears Consolidated Managers Construction, of Butte, which bought the old highway department office shop complex Oct.

2, plans to rent office space there to the Montana Highway Patrol. The patrol's Butte division office now is in a permanent Butte weather trailer bouse on Centennial Avenue near Montana. The driver examiner's office also may move -to the building at Franklin and LaSalle from its present location, 2501-A Harrison. CASEY JOHNSTON of CMC and Postmaster Alfred H. Wilkinson also reported Tuesday the post office will lease space in the building for parcel post -sorting and dispatching.

The government will pay CMC $100 come within the purview of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which was used by President Johnson in 1964 to justify large scale American' intervention in The subcommittee hearings," conducted by Sen. Stuart Symington, are part of a re-view of U.S. commitments around the world. They come at a time when several influential Congressmen have expressed uneasiness about the possibility clandestine war in Laos without the knowledge or authority of Congress. Fulbright made the allegation after a closed hearing of a subcommittee that is conducting an intensive inquiry into the United States' involvement in Laos.

The director of Central Intelligence, Richard Helms, was a witness Tuesday. THE SENATOR declined to comment directly on Helms' testimony, but said he found nothing substantially inconsistent between that and descriptions of a clandestine Laotian army, trained and supplied by the C.I.A., that were published by the New-York -Times. Fulbright, said he thought it "inconceivable" that such opertions jere going without Congress having been informed. He said he knew that By RALPH DIGHTON AP Science Writer VLOS ANGELES (AP) Skimpy skirts may be easy on the eyes but they can make it tough for the ears, a sound expert said Tuesday. conventional garb showed a sabin count-of 4.6, meaning they had absorbed almost twice as much sound as the miniskirted girls.

The test had a scientific purpose. Knudsen, who has de-8igned more- than -50Q--audito "Modern fashions are fine for rock and roll concerts people who go to them like loud noise;" he said. "Miniskirts could be out of- place at a symphony, however. Any large number of them inthe audience would dls turb the balance of sound designed into the auditorium." To prove his point, Knudsen assembled 10 miniskirted girls in a reverberation chamber in a UJLslidLng intoa deeper Partly loud through day for all of December. Barmg involvement in Laos, as it did riums and sound stages, includ could for instance upset the balance of sound at a concert although this could to some extent be countered by beards inxu jrccuTi una puat viiiva had used the Civic Center, as a Christmas mail but the county informed Wilkinson See HIGHWAY Page 2 Thursday.

Warmer days. Outlook tor today: 42 and 16. Weather map Page 2. ing the Hollywood BowL is seeking a solution to the sound-absorption problems posed by the fact audieifces wear less cloth- and long hair on boys. hysics building bearir LlothingjbSQrba.

ng in summer than in winter name and fired a .22 caliber pis "I think we've found it," he into Vietnam. LIKE MOST aspects of American ihvolvement in Laos recently, the hearings have been conducted -in secrecy. Sources saidj" however, that Administration witnsses had informed the subcommittee that the U.S. had no major military commitments to Laos that were legally binding. The State Department spokes- J.

Currie David dies at 58 a girl in a miniskirt reflects a lot more soundwaves than one who is dressed conventionally," Dr. Vera O. Knudsen, physicist and onetime chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles told an interviewer. tol. A recorder which measures sound absorption in "sabin units" the less sound absorbed, the tower the count-gave a reading of 2.5.

By contrast, an earlier test of 10 persons in said. "We'll make the seat cushions so absorptive it doesn't matter what the audience wears. With the trend to nudity, audiences will welcome additional padding Butte with his family at the age of 2 and attended schools here. He graduated from Montana Tech in 1937 and went into business with his' father, the late Disagrees with earlier story JP says jail sentence not mandatory David Currie, in the Currie Tire Service. He married Dorothy McAul-iffe in Butte in 1937.

In 1939, Mr. Currie took over the Nash Agency and in 1949, he and his brothers Hugh and Myron started Currie Buick, Inc. Other business acquisitions were a Chevrolet agency in 1961 and the Currie Tire and Appliance Center in 1968. Survivors are his sons and daughters in law, Spec 4 Myron T. Currie, serving with the Army in Georgia, Mr and Mrs.

John G. Currie of Butte and Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Currie of Oxnard, and brother, Myron lof David J.

Currie, 58, 3463 Hannibal, president of Currie Chevrolet and Butte civic leader, died Monday night after a brief illness. Funeral services will be Friday at 11 in Sayatovic White's Funeral Home. Burial wlil be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mr. Currie was past president of the Btftte Automobile Dealers Association, past president of the Montana Tech Alumni Association, member of the Butte Rotary Club, Butte Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, Summit Valley Lodge 123, Sigma Rho fraternity at Montana Tech and the Presbyterian Church.

He was born in Anaconda July 23, 1911, the son of a Scot-Jteft immigrant, He mo td to i 'A the financial responsibility portions of the driving codes. He also cited 11 sections, those concerned with traffic vio-lations, which do carry a mandatory jail sentence of two days. Highway Patrol Attorney Charles A. Smith of Helena confirmed Schmall's statements as correct. But Smith also confirmed that the point of the ori.

Foley and UPI's Bill Baer, Alexander M. Schmall says that "it appears that neither of these men has made a careful study of JP act 1 Titles and procedures IN A LETTER to several newspaper editors, Schmall cited six sections of the driving law which do not require the two day sentences The sec-tioni deal with violations under. ginal story is correct: That some JPs are frequently ignoring the sentence) when it should be imposed. THE ORIGINAL story was based on a check of driving record for the past three months. Itshowed that only 17 of sons convicted of driving while their licenses were sus- SU JAIL TERM Po8e Standard State Bureau 1 HELENA Not tell persons convicted of driving while their licenses are suspended or revoked must serve vvo days in jail, says a Bozeman justice of the peace, who has disagreed with stories stating that such a sentence is mandatory in Montana.

In reference to the stories, by State Bureau reporter Daniel Butte. His younger brother, Hugh Currie, died June 30 in Butte at DAVID CURRUS the age of 56,.