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The Independent Recor From Montana's Capital Helena, Montana, Friday Evening, September 25, 1970 umi Established Dec 17, 1865 14 Pages 10c BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) King Hussein of Jordan and Pal estinian guerrilla leader Yasir Arafat today announced agree ment to end the civil war in Jor in "iVv-n t4 4'V CHv- now in army hands preparatory to their delivery to their home countries." Originally, there were some 400 hostages from three planes hijacked to the Jordanian desert Sept. 6 and 9. Most of the hos-; tages were released earlier. The planes were blown up. The guerrillas have demanded the release of Palestinian commandos jailed in Britain, West; Germany, Switzerland and Is-" rael as ransom for the Order Cease-Fire Majali and Hussein both issued orders over Amman Radio The agreement between Hussein, Arafat and Arab mediator Jaafar el Numairi, president of Sudan, was announced over Amman Radio.

It was the first time Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, agreed to stop fighting in nine days of bloody civil war. Numairi, Arafat Meet The agreement followed reports on Cairo Radio that Numairi met with Arafat early today. On Wednesday Arafat had spurned a cease-fire reached between Hussein and two captured guerrilla leaders. Field Marshal Majali said the freed airline passengers "are dan. The announcement followed word from army commander Habis Majali that 15 of 54 hijacked airline passengers held hostage by Jordanian guerrillas had been freed.

Released were eight Britons, five Swiss and two West Germans. All but one of the 39 hostages who remained in the guerrillas hands were believed to be Americans. Majali said arrangements would be made quickly to get the freed passengers out of Amman. (Continued on Page 2) Prospects Are Growing For Lame Duck Session A major objection to sessions WASHINGTON (AP) The after election day is that too prospect of the first "lame- many defeated members are looking for new jobs and are willing to do some legislative duck" session of Congress in 20 years looms after election day log-rolling to get them. despite the distaste of leaders of both houses for such a House leaders have agreed in and an industrial safety proposal.

They would like to pass before the recess an anticrime bill and the $69 billion defense approprU ation bill, and re-pass the vetoed $19 billion independent offices money measure. Both would have to clear the Senate. Eight of the 13 annual appropriation bills which finance the government still are far from enactment. Since July 1, when the new fiscal year started, the Staff Photo by Bill Hanson Not all of them have aban formally to a recess starting about Oct. 15 and ending the week after the election.

The recess may start even sooner, Car Wreckage Was Scattered 300 Feet at the Accident Site. doned hope for adjournment be fore the Nov. 3 elections in since anxious members want to which all seats in the House and get home to campaign. one-third in the Senate will be Senate Democratic leader filled. Mike Mansfield of Montana says But House Speaker John W.

hod irastfi) injeueGD departments whose money is McCormack, has said Congress cannot finish its work Congress can wrap up its business by Oct. 15. But with a filibuster developing over a proposed Constitutional amendment to elect the President by before election day without junking some major legislation. Two Others Injured, One Seriously to his Charles John Volk, 22, of Helena was killed early this morning and two other young men in- parents in 1960. Surviving in addition wife and parents are a son, Won't Be Back direct popular vote, the Senate sister, tjured in a single-car.

wreck on the York Road about a half Brian Charles Volk, a Already 24 members of the Dresent Coneress will not be The death was the 15th by auto accident in Lewis and ed in the air. Torn fragments of the yellow body were widely a brother, tied up have been financed on a temporary basis. The most recent temporary act expires Oct. 15. The last time Congress held a post-election session was in 1950.

It recessed that year from Sept. 23 to Nov. 27 and finally adjourned on Jan. 2, 1951, after passing a tax bill and some money measures. There were more than 40 lame ducks in that post-election meeting.

mffle east of the Warren School. Sayonna of Helena, Robert of Portland back for the new session start' and grandr Clark County this year. Investigating Montana i fa- parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank ing in January.

They have either announced their retire A resident in the vicinity of the crash said he had heard a way patrolmen and Lewis and Clark County sheriff's officers from St. 's Community Hospital today with their new baby. Westrup and Boedecker both are in St. John's Catholic Hospital. Volk was born June 19, 1948 in Bismarck, N.D., the son of Clarence and Joyce Hermes Volk and came here with his would have to abandon many major measures to hit its adjournment target.

Major Bills House leaders unofficially have relegated to a post-election session some major bills including a reciprocal trade measure Volk of Bismarck. He was a member of St scattered and the frame and engine were found 10 feet apart. Injured seriously was William E. Westrup 23, of 418 W. Lawrence, with chest and head said the 1956 Corvette with a fi high-powered car engine about Mary Church.

Funeral ar ments, sought other offices or lost in the primaries. Casualties in the Nov. 3 elections may double the number of lame ducks. berglass body apparently went 2 a.im. Undetermined yet is the exact time of the accident.

The rangements are pending at Retz Funeral Home. sheriff's office received its first wounds. Brooks Boedecker, call on the accident about 7 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Boedecker of 221 Adams, also was injured and was hospital a.m.

Volk graduated from Helena out of control as it headed east on a curve. Wreckage was spread 300 feet along a borrow pit on the south side of the highway. The car struck an approach on the south side of the highway land apparently disintigrat- Army to Cut Three Divisions ized for observation. Boedecker was discovered at the warren High School in 1967 and was employed by Hennessy's. He and his wife lived in the Alma-nor housing development on the School.

th dronninz of three combat di- sion before the National Sccuri- WASHINGTON (AP) The bat divisions about 15,000 in east edge of Helena. visions was disclosed Thursday Ity Industrial Association, by Robert C. Moot, Defense De- group of defense contractors. providing allies military aid hi the form of equipment and training, rather thai: armed troops. With the exception of the Volk was a member of the National Guard and had served asa paratrooper.

In high partment controller. Secretary of Defense Mclvin Moot disclosed the cuioacx i has established a coal Army, in cutting its troop strength to 1.2 million men by next June, will trim three divisions out of its combat force. There will be a Army reduction by mid-1971 as compared with mid-1970, 45,000 school, Volk was active in Vote Registration Record May Be Set Thursday during a panel discus- each division. Most of the Army cuts will be in support units. At 1.2 million men, the Army will be at its lowest strength in 10 years next June.

The size of the Army's reduction was announced previously; of 2.9 million men in uniform by three divisions to be Westrup works as a mechanic eliminated by next June, most of the Army cutback will be at the Al Rose Garage. His wife next June. The armed forces now have slightly more than 3 million men, compared with the Vietnam war peak of 3.5 million in 1968. Moot said the cutbacks will was expected to be released of these men coming from com made through phasing out sup port units. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Army combat force is With the deadline passed for come as a result of ITesident composed of 4 2-3 infantry divi Nixon's doctrine of reducing registering to vote in Montana on Nov.

3, Secretary of State Frank Murray has forecast a Panthers Plead Guilty NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) sions, 4 mechanized divisions, an airborne division and 5 independent brigades of about 3,500 U.S. commitments abroad, thus requiring a smaller standing Anaconda Is Hit With Another Suit record general-election registra men each. army and a greater reliance on 5 p.m. Thursday.

In Billings, the Yellowstone County clerk and recorder's registrations, slightly above the 40,523 registrations in 1968. Officials Missoula County reported about 25,000 registrations late Thursday, somewhat below the 26,437 figure for 1968. Officials in Butte and Boze-man reported heavy final-day n- Two of the remaining six Black KALISPELL (AP) -Six dam Panther defendants awaiting Pace Setters Lead Drive age suits were hied Thursday forced to ingest "intolerable amounts of fluoride and other dangerous pollutants" so bodtfy functions have been impaired. In the last count the plaintiffs trial in connection with the shooting death of Alex Rackley phadfd guilty today to substi-i tuted charges with lesser penal tion of 334,818. The total, if confirmed in about two weeks by official figures from the 56 counties, would be slightly more than 1 per cent above the high of 331,078 set in 1968.

Murray's forecast was issued as Montanans streamed to county courthouses throughout the state to make themselves eligible to vote in this nonpresidential-election year. Clerks and recorders in the state's major cities and in several sparsely-populated counties queried by The Associated Press indicated voter registrations would, in most cases, equal cr exceed those for the 1968 election. The registration deadline was registrations, with Butte having 22,052 persons registered and Bozeman counting about 14,000. The final registration for Silver Bow County is expected to be slightly below that of 1968, with Gallatin County expecting a slightly higher total. Officials in Hill, Roosevelt, Lincoln and Custer counties estimated final registration figures to a total of $1,650,000.

Five of the suits include three counts each. In the first part, the plaintiffs claim property damage has been caused by noxious pollutants, hydrocarbons and fluorides from the two plants. They claim timber, trees and vegetation were injured and the natural beauty and market value of the land impaired. In the second count, they by Columbia Falls residents seeking $625,402 for alleged fluoride damage cause by the Anaconda Aluminum and the Anaconda Wire and Cable Co. They follow by about a week a $21.5 million class action filed against the two Columbia Falls companies by Dr.

and Mrs. Lor-en Kreck, Columbia Falls. In April a suit filed by the claim they are entitled to punitive damages because they have suffered compensaory damage to health personal welfare. The suits and amount asked for the first count were filed by: Josephine and Georgia Hamilton. closely approximating those of Allen and Sandra Wagner and the late John Lewta, $324,000: Harold Dehlboms of Columbia: claim they have suffered from ties, Rose Marie Smith.

22, of Jer- sey City, N.J., and Margaret Hudgins, 22, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty in Supcri-, or Court to aggravated assault, i The two originally had been charged with conspiracy and kidnaping resulting in death, a capital offense and have been held without bond since they( were arrested late in May 1969. Judge Harold M. Mulvey scheduled sentencing for Oct. 2. Among the four persons still awaiting trial in connection with the torture and slaying of Rack-lev, a New York Clfv Panther.

1968. Total registration for the primary election last June 2 was Falls asked $2.38 million damages from the same defendants. That suit was amended in June anxiety over the condition of property values, destruction of trees and forage and have been A total of $20,328, almost one-fifth of the $102,000 goal set by United Givers, was recorded today at the first report meeting of the campaign. The Pace Setters continued to do just that, registering a grand total of $19,158 of this division's goal of $36,822. General Business, with a goal of $8,354, reported $100 and Special repxled $1,070.

The goal of the Special division is "We are pleased to see such fine participation," United Fund chairman Gordon Buckland said. "With the continued cooperation of the workers and the residents of Lewis and Clark County, I am con fi! lent that our g)al of $102,000 will be attained." 304,328. i Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sedivy, Mr.

and Mrs. George Zin-gebnan, Mr. and Mrs. Orlcy Huffman, and Mr. and Mrs.

Wiiliam Armstrong, $29,505. In each of the five suits, the plaintiffs seek $10,000 for the sec oftes ond count and an equal amount for exemplary damages for the; is mby nationaI tkms. But the conference ac-iThursday conferees slashed thelment spokesmen spent a lot of third count. i i -J 1 I TtiA eivK Senate's elimination The sixth chairman of the black suit, ft'ed bv Mr. cepted the budget for research and devel- time "clamoring for what they of funds to begin deployment of and Mrs.

M. Joseph Hauber, opment by $300 million a Chinese-oriented area defense The key change in the conference agreement, Stennis said. lost" in the Senate bill. "I don't think we've made any modifications that in any way impair the seeks $105,000 for damage to confier and other trees, livestock and the land values of system The conference restored $700 involves Navy shipbuilding. million which had been cut by Conferees eliminated $152 mil- efficiency of military pre pared-j their property.

They claim they WASHINGTON (AP) A $19 9-billion military purchasing biQ Hicludirg two new sites for the Safeguard antiballistic missile system lias been approved by a Sjnate-House conference. The agreement, subject to approval of both houses before going to President Nixon. i3 $1 billion under the Nixon budget The ABM system, a subject of Senate debate for two years, will be expanded to four loca- the Senate. The House version lion for a new aircraft carrier ne, originally purchased the Undfor ness or its effectiveness, It'll I'M UHfTED said Where to Look Pages City 3 Editorial 4 Sports 14 7 i TV Guide Markets II Comici 10 Classified 12 13 I carried $20.5 billion, about $100 approved $435 million for million less than the Pentagon several new ships, including two asked. nuclear-powered submarines.

recreational purposes. They further allege the companies have caused fluoride pol- The final version of the bill carries $75 million for develop- 1 Sen. John Stennis, the House had added to mcnt of the Bl bomber. The of the Fbthead River, chairman of the Senate Armed the President's budget. I Senate had approved $50 milibn, which runs along the frunt of Services Committee, saidl Stenni3 said Defense Depart-' and the House $100 million, jtheir property..