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In hopes of a quieter Christmas,Theodore Berland blows whistlewhile wearing ear protectors as Dr.William Plotkin fires a cap pistol indemonstration of noise levels in chil-dren's toys. The two appeared at

Quiet, please!news conference held by ChicagoHearing society and the CitizensAgainst Noise. They warned thatsuch items can cause permanenthearing damage. (UPI Photo)

More wild turkeys now thanwhen the Pilgrims landed?

(C) New York Times

WASHINGTON - Federal wildlife expertsbelieve the nation's wild turkey population,rather than diminishing, probably is greatertoday than at any time since the Pilgrimslanded on those shores 352 years ago.

Yet in a twist of historical irony the tur-keys devoured by the millions Thursday arenot the same type that the Pilgrims carvedup but are themselves as alien as the firstsettlers.

The basis for the stock on which the com-mon supermarket variety rests today comesfrom a type or bird bred by the Aztecs, takento Spain by the conquistadores, thence toEngland and back across the Atlantic to theUnited States.

The arrival of the Mexican strains a centu-ry or so ago about coincided with the ex-tinction of native wild turkeys in New Eng-land due to over-hunting and the cutting ofthe forests.

Because of the collective insults to the en-vironment inflicted on the United Statessince the coming of the white man it is cus-tomarily assumed the wild turkey populationhad been decimated.

But conservationists have re-introducedwild turkeys to the northeastern states and,more importantly, vast regions of the RockyMountain states where they have flourished.

"There are probably more wild turkeys inthe United States now than at the time of thelanding of the Pilgrims," said Duncan Mac-Donald, a wildlife management specialist atthe Department of the Interior.

MacDonald explained in an interview thatthe "turkey of the Pilgrims" has the techni-cal name Meleagris Gallopavo Silvestris,while the bird that has been circuitously im-ported from southern Mexico is named Me-leagris Gallopavo.

Fish-game commission eagernow to pay forgotten taxes

The Kansas Forestry, Fish and Gamecommission has been'working this year toinform counties of property taxes the com-mission wants to pay that it hasn't paid inthe past.

Richard Wettersten, commission director,reporting at a hearing in Topeka last week,said there are 10 counties which in the pasthave not billed the commission for taxes onslightly more than 1700 acres.

Those counties were notified this year thecommission is willing to pay property taxeson land it owns which produces income. Thenotices detailed land holdings and indicatedincome-producing properties.

Wettersten said the commission has no re-servations about paying the taxes on the landwhich produces income.

The property tax problem came to lightduring the last legislative session when a billwas introduced which would have requiredstate agencies to pay a flat rate of one dollarper acre in lieu of property tax payments.

If such a law was passed, it would mean adollar per acre on about 78,000 acres ownedby the commission and a dollar per acre onabout 125,000 acres licensed to the commis-sion.

That's more than $200,000, compared toabout $19,000 the commission would pay inproperty taxes on income producing proper-ty, so the commission is attempting to go the

1 6 to becomenurses' aidesSixteen persons have completed the nurs-

es' aide course at the Salina vocational-tech-nical school.

The course, "Simple Nursing Proce-dures", included 68 hours of classroom workand 24 hours of work at Asbury and St.John's hospital and Kenwood View, Shali-mar Plaza and Windsor Estate nursinghomes.

Completing the course were Mrs. Sue An-thony, 518 W. Grand; Kathy Crimen, 741Sheridan; Mrs. Fanny Dallas, 125 Georgia;Mrs. Wilma Drake, 431 S. Phillips; Mrs.Sandi Freeman, 214 N. 12th; Gene Gibson,144 S. 10th; Joanne Hoard, 146 S. 9th; Mrs.Myrna Hopson, 113 N. 2nd; Mrs. Hildy Lar-son, 1100 Sunrise; Terri Meier, 2193 Kensing-ton; Mrs. Karen Meredith, 419 Putnam;Mrs. Diane Ruede, 540 W. Cloud; RyekelVernon, 510 E. Kirwin; Mrs. Jenny Wood,825 Merri l l ; Mrs. Emma Powell, Ben-nington, and Phyllis Homolka, 1121 N. 9th.

The next class will be an afternoon coursestarting Jan. 15.

More information is available from theschool, 5-1508.

Ford signs accord<C) New York Times

NEW YORK — The Ford Motor companysigned an agreement Tuesday to assembleautomobiles and manufacture engines onTaiwan.

route of paying the property tax.Wettersten has pointed out if the dollar-

per-acre law were passed, it would also af-fect other state agencies such as state uni-versities and the turnpike authority.

Four counties in North-Central and North-west Kansas were notified this year theycould bill the commission for income-pro-ducing property. They were Gove, Russell,Sherman and Washington counties.

Officials in Gove county said the land in-volved in that county was negligible and notax notice was being sent. The tract involvedless than 20 acres located around Sheridancounty state lake which lapped into Govecounty. _

Mrs. Betty Laubhan, Russell county clerk,said the commission had been sent a tax no-tice for $503.44 on 2 tracts of land on the up-per end of Wilson lake which totaled 440acres.

Mrs. Velma K. Holste, Sherman countyclerk, said her office had sent notices on 4tracts around Sherman county state lake for$193.87 on about 160 acres.

In Washington county, a tax bill of $282.73on 160 acres around Washington county statelake was sent to the commission, accordingto Mrs. Dollene Hillyer, county clerk.

This is the first year any of the 4 county of-ficials can remember the commission hasbeen sent tax notices on the land involved.

Old fowling piecefetches fancy price

LONDON (AP) — A 17th century flint-lock made for Louis XIII of France fet-ched a world record auction price for agun at Sotheby's Tuesday.

The French fowling piece was bought bythe London dealer Frank Partridge for$300,000.

Daley's son wedsMichael Daley, son of ChicagoMayor Richard J. Daley, and hisbride, Barbara Lynn Paterson, af-ter wedding in Chicago's HolyName Cathedral. He's a lawyerand Barbara is financial analystfor Pullman, Inc. {UPI Photo)

American men are really slaves!LONDON (AP) — The American male is

the most oppressed man in the westernworld, says the author of a book that alsoargues men are really slaves and womentheir exploiters.

Esther Vilar, author of "The Manipu-lated Man," also thinks that women arestupid and getting more so every day; thatmen are brilliant but locked into stultify-ing jobs; that housework is a pleasure andmen are deprived of it and that all of thisstems from mothers who condition theirchildren into manipulative and slave roles.

The book was originally published inGermany where it made the best seller listbefore it was launched in seven other Eu-ropean countries.

Now Miss Vilar has added a specialchapter devoted to the American male andis preparing for a lecture and publicitytour in the United States.

She actually wrote the book in New Yorkalmost two years ago during a five-monthvisit in which she lived in an East Village

Hotel and made research trips' to suburbia.The book is, she said, an illustration of a

theory she calls "the pleasure of nonfree-dom."

Basically her theory is that the male isbrilliant and capable of doing great thingsw i t h h is f reedom but h is i n t e l l i gen tthoughts frighten him. He seeks the securityof the enslaved and marries.

Conditioned by his mother from child-hood to believe that he is smart and re-sponsible and that girls are incapable andhelpless, he easily assumes his responsi-bilities. He is therefore bound for life instultifying jobs. For the American malethis is all compounded by the high stan-dard of living and the emphasis on suc-cess.

"In no other country do mothers sopitilessly train the male infant to perform.No other society exists where the malesexual drive is exploited for money so un-scrupulously," she wrote.

Girls, though born intelligent, Miss Vilar

says are taught they don't have to thinkbecause men are going to work for them.Their goal is to find a man to do this.Some women may work or go to college,but only to make themselves attractive tomen. They may even proclaim that house-work is drudgery and that the male is ful-filled because he works outside the homebut in fact, they know housework is easyand they really think it is a pleasure."Housework is so easy that in psychiatricclinics it is traditionally the job of moronswho are unfit to do any other kind ofwork," wrote Miss Vilar.

As for feminists, these are women whofrom time to time, throughout history ,• em-phasize their claims to masculine pre-rogatives. American contemporary femin-ists are doomed to failure because theyhave directed their efforts against men,their real allies. • '

Some escapeThe only women who escape Miss.Vilar's

pen unscathed are those who go to work

and let their husbands stay home: Those,she notes, are rare.

A meek, almost mouselike woman withlong brown hair parted in the middle, MissVilar, 37, was born in Argentina of Ger-man parents who were divorced when shewas three.

After graduating from medical schoolshe practiced for one year, then studiedpsychology and sociology and became asales representative for a pharmaceuticalcompany so she could support her writingcareer. '

At various times she has worked as asales girl, a secretary and on the assemblyline of a firm making thermometers. 1

In 1961 she married Klaus Wagn, a Ger-man writer. They were divorced two yearsla'ter after the birth of a son, Martin, riow9. Miss Vilar says her former husbandj isstill the most important man in her life.When she is away publicizing her books,;helives in her home to care for their son. "

Holdup men lock five instore, then set it afire

CHICAGO (AP) — Four persons aredead following a holdup at a South Sidephonograph record store in which two gun-men locked five robbery victims in awashroom and then apparently set thestore ablaze with gasoline.

Two of the victims in the explosion andfire Wednesday were among the five per-sons locked in the washroom of the 1-StopRecord Shop. Two other badly burned bod-ies were found outside the washroom.

Sgt. Michael Maloney of the Chicago Po-lice Department said the three survivors

in the washroom — all seriously injured —told police they tried to break out whenthey smelled gasoline, and moments laterwere overcome after they smelled smoke.

The four persons killed were buried un-der debris as an explosion ripped the rearof the building. Cause of the blast was notknown.

The fire damaged a day nursery, aclothes cleaning plant and a restaurantnear the record shop. A number of chil-dren in the nursery were led safely fromthe fire scene.

Heavy raids continueover North Vietnam

SAIGON (AP) — U.S. war planes flewmore heavy raids over the North Vietnam-ese panhandle below the 20th parallel to-day and Air Force crash investigators inThailand determined that the war's firstB52 bomber lost to hostile fire was prob-ably hit by a surface-to-air missile.

Inclement weather again curtailed fight-er-bomber strikes over the North, leavingthe major bombing burden to the bigStratof or tresses that fly above the cloudsat 35,000 feet on radar-guided bomb runs.

The B52s hit at supply stores awaitingshipment across the border into Laos andsouthward toward the battle areas in SouthVietnam, military officials said.

The B52s flew 12 missions, each withthree planes carrying up to 30 tons ofbombs apiece over the North in the 24hours ending at noon today. It brought to27 the number of B52 missions flown in thelast two days, the heaviest attacks of thewar north of the DMZ.

Another 23 missions were flown by theStratofortresses south of the DMZ, most ofthem around Quang Tri city and in the Sai-gon region.

The Command also reported today that aU.S. light reconnaissance plane was shot

down by a shoulder-fired "Strela" missilenear An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon. Thepilot bailed out and was rescued.

Battle in DeltaIn ground action, the heaviest fighting

was centered in the Mekong Delta wheregovernment forces claimed 58 enemykilled in battles 120 to 180 miles southwestof Saigon. Government forces reportedthree men killed and 14 wounded.

Field reports said fighting had been un-der way for three days near the village ofBen The, 17 miles north of Saigon nearHighway 13, with two Communist battal-ions involved. There was no report on cas-ualties.

Air Force investigators reached the siteof the B52 crash early today and their find-ings were the basis for a U.S. Commandstatement that the giant bomber "prob-ably" was struck by a Soviet-built surface-to-air missile.

Hit while on a Wednesday night raidnear Vinh, the bomber managed to flyabout 100 miles across the panhandle ofNorth Vietnam and Laos, trying to reachits base at Utapao in southern Thailand,before the six-man crevy was forced to bailout.

They were quickly scooped up by AirForce rescue helicopters as the planecrashed 12 miles west of Nakhon Phanom,a U.S. base in eastern Thailand. The crew-men reportedly were unhurt.

Late generation SAM 2 missiles areknown to have the capability to reach thehigh-altitude heavy bombers and two .havebeen damaged in the past, but Wednes-day's was the first one ever shot down inthe 7Vz years the B52s have been flyingmissions in Indochina, the Command said.

Sailing the bounding mainSurfer Grant Oliver of Sydney, Aus- am s u r f i n g championsh ips attralia, shows his style in winning a Honolulu amidst 8 to 12-foot waves,heat in annual Smirnoff world pro- (UPI Photo)

Negligence caused death; now

she seeks other death trapsMIAMI, Fla. (AP) — The score stood at

two down and eight to go Thursday inEarline Clark's hunt for abandoned refrig-erators, a court-imposed prerequisite toclearing her record in the death of a 3-

" year old neighborhood boy who suffocated inher own discarded ice box.

Criminal Court Judge Jack Turner sen-tenced Mrs. Clark, 34, to two years' proba-tion for negligence in the accident, butpromised to consider wiping her recordclean if she found 10 abandoned refrig-erators and reported them to police.

With her two teen-aged sons, Mrs. Clarkbegan searching her neighborhood Tuesdaynight and to her surprise quickly found twoold refrigerators.

She had complained earlier that the jobwas going to be tough, speculating thatmost people "got rid of their ice boxessince what happened to me."

Mrs. Clark, a divorcee who lives withher sons, said the death of Ulysses Davislast July "hit me real hard."

"I knew those kids," she told newsmenwho followed her on the search. "I was al-ways chasing them away from cars. What

possessed that boy to climb into the icebox, I just don't know. -^

"I had that refrigerator up against'atree. It was just an accident. I never hadany trouble with kids. I love them, really*"

Mrs. Clark was charged under a little-known Florida statute that makes it illegalto discard a refrigerator with a closeabledoor. She could have drawn a maximumsentence of one year in jail. .;»

"She owes a debt to society for her neg-ligence and she can't pay it in jail or onprobation," said Asst. State Atty. TerryMcWilliams, who proposed the refrigerator

'hunt idea to Judge Turner. "She can onlypay it by helping to save another littlechild." .';;

Blatchford resigning -LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joseph H.

Blatchford has told the White House he is(resigning as director of ACTION, the govrernment's volunteer service conglomerate,and probably will run for mayor of Los An-geles next spring, the Los Angles Timessaid today. 'i

With Salina's new water rates

Few will get by for the minimumSnow-time artist

First snowfall in Reston, Va., in-spired motorist to a bit of artistryon his small car. (UPI Photo)

Hummingbirdflies in style

BALTIMORE, Md. (AP)—A tiny hum-mingbird is winging south in style today tobegin a belated winter in the sun.

Carried in a styrofoam case by RuthMednick, the unnamed bird is flying toFlorida aboard a jet to catch up with otherMaryland hummingbirds which migratedin a more traditional and less speedy man-ner weeks ago.

The tiny bird flew through an open win-dow into the ninth floor office of the city-state Information and Referral Service,which Mrs. Mednick directs.

"It's a ruby-throated female humming-bird," explained Mrs. Mednick, who—lucky for the bird — is an ardent ornitho-logist.

"What it was doing in this area, I can'timagine, because hummingbirds migratedsouth in September," she said.

By nightfall today, the hummingbird wasslated to be set free in Bradenton, Fla.,where Mrs. Mednick is going to visit a rela-tive.

By KAREN BLACKAlthough Salina's monthly water rates in

January will be raised to a $2 minimum, it'sdoubtful any customers will receive a billfor only $2.

Charges are based on meter size and ac-tual consumption, .which generally exceedsthe cubic feet per month which can be pur-chased for the minimum rate.

A study by Wilson and Co., upon which thecity's new water rates are based, indicatesmost Salina households can expect a min-imum bill of $3.75 per month or more.

The new rate schedule means higher billsfor all residential, commercial and industri-al users.

The water department is exempt fromwage and price control guidelines. Accord-ing to Larry Bengtson, city attorney, ratescharged by municipal utilities, except gasand electric suppliers, aren't controlled ifthey are locally governed, as the water de-partment is by the city commission.

The most common water meter in the cityis the s/sth-inch size. There we're 11,204 resi-dential customers on 5/ath-inch meters in1970. the base year used in the Wilson study.According to that study, the majority ofthese customers actually used an average ofbetween 410 and 1200 cubic feet of water permonth. Under the old rate schedule, whichallowed a minimum 500 cf per month for$1.75, about 1500 customers paid only theminimum rate.

But under the new rate schedule on a %th-

inch meter the minimum cf has dropped to300 per month for the base $2 charge. Thereare few if any customers who get through a

•month of laundry, dishes, potato boiling,showers, lawn sprinkling and householdchores using only 300 cf of water.

The Wilson study indicates customers whowere using 410 cf of water for $1.75 will nowpay $2.43 monthly for the same amount ofwater, a 39 percent increase in the bill. Oth-er comparisons between existing and newmonthly rates for %th-inch meter customersare from $2.36 to $3.74, a 58 percent in-crease, for 745 cf water; from $3.50 to $5.51,a 57 percent increase, for 1200 cf; and from$4.80 to $7.54, also a 57 percent hike, for 1720cf.

Residential customers with %th-inch me-ters will find their monthly bills increasedfrom $2.70, the old minimum, to about $4.27,a 58 percent increase for 800 cf of water. Themajority of residential customers on 3/ith-inch meters can expect to pay from $4.27 to$13.11 per month for water.

Other anticipated monthly charges, ac-cording to meter size and water con-sumption, include:

Residential, 1-inch meter, between $6.43and $13.06; residential, 1'/2-inch meter, from$9.4fi to $21.39; residential, 2-inch meter,from $12.35 to $123.68; commercial andindust r ia l , %-inch meter, from $2.39 to$12.92; commercial and industrial, %-inchmeter, from $3.10 to $20.40; commercial andindustrial , 1-inch meters from $6.36 to

$21.40; commercial and industrial, IVz-inchmeter. $9.78 to $38.02; commercial and in-dustrial, 2-inch meter, from $12.95 to $147.595

These are average charges for the ma^OE-ity of customers in each category, althoughcustomers with extremely high consumptiofiwill pay even heftier bills. The Wilson studywas intended to revise rates so that big cGjlsumers would pay more percentage wisethan they have. "Proper concepts do nottake quantity discount into consideration oradvocate lower rates simply for water soldin larger amounts," the study said. •*

Customers outside the city limits, in-cidentally, also will pay more for their wa-ter. Residents in rural water districts sup-,plied by the Salina plant pay at a rate of 125

'percent of the price to Salina customers. Achange in city water rates means a corre-sponding change in rates to those water dis?.trict customers. . '̂

According to the Wilson study, Salinans;still will purchase their water at a price low'4er than minimum rates charged by some'other Kansas cities. Wichita and Manhattan*also charge a $2 minimum for customers oira %th-inch meter, although both cities als&:

supply more water for that price. Lawrence?,has a $2 minimum and supplies less wateKifor the price. Pittsburg has a higher min^irnum, $2.35, for less water. Topeka, Kansas?City, Leavenworth and Hutchinson charge Clower minimum rate, but their minimum alJ£lowable consumption also is lower than Sali*«na's. - •'?.*<