KEY BISCAYNE Al the Florida While House - Key Biscayne - an allempl today to still lite growi,zg clamor over Laos. White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler sayi,zg present _!!llied operalion . s in that country - "post absolutely no threat to Red China." 1 1'\nd we see no reason" - he continued = "for them to be interpreted as such." Ziegler also emphasized once aga · in - the South Vietnamese thrust is strictly limited in time and a.el' scope. And he stressed repeatedly - as he has ,tl1r.r along - that "there are no U S ground troops or advisors being committed in Laos." Ziegler added that reports lo the contrary have been thoroughly checked out - and found to be erroneous. INDOCHINA FO . LLOW KEY BISCAYNE Meanwhile, V S helicopters were air lifting into Laos f' another two lhotlsand south Vietnamese troops. This in the face of intense ground fire - 111ilh lh . e resulling loss of a . I . least six more choppers. Tile U S was also rusJ,ing elements of the Hundred and First Airborne - into positions just south of the D M Z back in Sot1lh Vietnam. This - we are told - to "bolster security" against massive enemy build-ups J11sl north of the D M Z. MIDDLE EAST In Ill e Middle East - al Ammatz - an . o t her cla s li toda y between Palestinian ,,._ guerrillas and Jordanian arm y troops; with most of the fighting - s.-1ia1' • • I ; ~ around the . - . alls 'c airport and m11i11 railroad sta t ion. In any event, /he Jordanian capital coming lo a virtual stand-still -- for /he s e cond straight day. ~Al the same time, Israeli newspapers were continuing to comment on that new Mid-East peace p ' lan supposedly put for11Jard by the U N's Gunnar Jarring . The Israelis saying - Golda Meir 11Jas • • • I I almost certain to reject it. ... 'Ti" UJSS&•I!:; Il l e ' lady Premier 'itt11&.f quoted as saying .i\ ,. 0# I )i t + .i-:1 - - - t h e ff! is an end lo her govern m en t 's flexibility." COMMERCE Turning Io I h e do m es Ii c fr on l , U S person a l income increased last month -- al a rate more than double lite monthly average ef last year. This according lo an announcement today - from the U S Commerce Depar · tmenl; wlrich placed the total gain al nearly eight billion - in wages, salaries, dividends ~.µ and so on.1'~n indication - we are told - of "some • improvements" in the nation's economy; with ~ore, hopefully 1t Just ahead. ,I RATE WHh the same thought in mind, no doubt, another reduction today in the federal discount rate. As announced by the Federal Reserve Board - a cut back .from fi v e percent down to four and three quarters. This the fijtJ, . such reduction - in a little over three months. In line ,oi . th the President's neao "easier money" policy -- the discount rate no,o standing at lls loaoesl level since March of Sixty-Eight. CENSUS AA .= =1.,=::;e-~l UM:.1 NN➔i:l:l •••nt::::1 ==-==1-j~, XIO~WIS- 7i, e U S Ce n s us - ~ ·~ ~ ~ ~ ~ bllreauA d,aulari rg +s l:ndo~ rapid strides A in the direction of eqllal pay for whiles and blacks. rr,r •••mt le.. 7fie new report indicating that young black families in the north and Wes/ aNyh•IIJ. ':!" are now earning roughly the same as young white familites '; whereas a decade ago, black income in the same category - was only about seventy-five percent t::1fRl:t of white income. it , s Where the South is conc~rned ,,,agl A+H ~ I■ ,Pe:a l-nt&w4 lie census bureau reporting ~ the income of Southern Blacks - v•ma,on about ftft.y-seven percent o•• tlaut of souther• wliites; --- -- - - -------- fJver the pa : sl decade -t virtually no c han , ge. NEW YORK /11 New Y ork Cil y loda y - the dealh o f a legendar y figure i-n A merican relatling. James Cash Penne y - the founder o f the J C Penney stores - victim of a s11dden he , arl a/lack ; ending a career - that spanned nearl _ y seventy years. J ~ ;Ji~_ ~ ~ ~ 1'v~ , - · . .~~~ ~ ~~~ ~ fl4_; I f>f)~ }l.f ... lt.:f- S 1 ~~ The birthp ace of I e J-:':ney legend - oul west al ..., Kemmerer, Wyoming? where he opened his first tiny dry goods store way back in Nfnete ■ n Oh Two. J C Penney calling /h , al first store - "the golden Rule." And he often said la/er ,, that , .,,as - the ,,. gui#ding principal of his lifeo -~~ l a •orkedJfor . . . the Penney chain no"' includes more ' /!t than seventeen hundred stores ';#. , , across /he nation. ~ In his last public interview • - Just a fellJ months ago - J C Penney '%J,,;'i: "I don 'I believe in luck - lout If you put a 'P" in f ront of.!_!_ that's different." Jam , es Cash Penney - age ninety five. g ~ ~ "..J ~ ~ ~ ' HOUSTON For Astronauts Shepard, Mitchell and Roosa - the men of Apollo Fourteen -- .,.,. -. they will continue lo remain in quarantine for another lw , o weeks. In I he meantime, arz.e. U S scienlislsA.gelling their firs I look - a I one of I he s tr,anger rocks the lunar explorers brought back with them: a quarter-pound lemon si2ed chip - - taken from a huge 11Jh , ite lunar boulder. The experts saying - this could be a porUan of the moon's primeval crust. ACCIDENTS Chicago again a year- end r-epor-1 fr-om lite Nalional Safely Council; sho , 111ing, in Nineleen Seventy, a shar-p dr-op in lhe U S public accident loll - excluding Ir-a/fie deaths - for- lhe fir-sl lime in Nine year-s. The final figur-e coming out · an esllmaled l11Jenly thousand - as compar-ed with t111enty-one thousand a year- ago. The safety councU · adding that lhis is allr-ibutable lo fewer- deaths ? fr-om falls , fir-es, air-plane er-ashes, and so on; ever-ylhing, ii seems - --- e%cept snow mobiling. POCATELLO Her e' s w:. - a sports item re-rn teJ Juda) fro• §1io Sta l!..._Enl~~tzj -- Pocai el lo, J , da Ito; •here --- an a IIYaclive lliirl y-one year old red head has ;us t a pp l i e d f or a j ob a s a s s i s ta n t foot b a l l co a c h ~ «« Mrs. Nila Gilcl.Yist - t:1a wife of a local d , octor - also t:IA mother of two boys - also something of a football nut. As for coaching technique, she contends - "I think it would be nice to have someone put their arms around a dejected football player -' and say, "honey, do it f t u■ Id ■ U • , I • l -et c / p I IJi i I , ~~ 4,::t:fo:r H,e-4f11ss-ib=Ri'J, f'hDl-slit ■ fglt eW- o ■ •ter-, &-~ locker room p r o ~ J t , f } ~ " \ , 1111 rtFCPIJt, ~ /,\ ,, ·~., my husband sees female patients all the time, - POCATELLO Here' s wu=. - a spor/s ilem 2=L/J_a1ted lQda1 f'r om j1 d a l1 o SI a I e Univ er s i I yr- Poca I e 11 o , Id a h , o ; 111 I, ere an allraclive thirty-one year old red head has just \ a pp l i e d for a J ob a s a s s i s ta n I foot b a ll c oa ch . , «« Mr s . Nila Gilcl,rist - t:lc:e wife o f a local doctor - also t:IA mother of two boys - also something of a football nut. As for coaching technique, she contends - "I tliin , 11 it would be nice to have someo . ne put their ar . ms aro . u · t.ad a dejected football player -'a · nd say, "honey, do it l C Uni d ■ llt 8 Ct lul t/ Jliyif J,:'.mo kt-:far- tit• =.pas•i6 Ui~ -t••• · sire • •••' a ■ co•••• r-:. %~ lockeT TOOm / ) T O ~ ~ ~ • • • • ••a.t: "A 'I\ " •W:ft7, my h us b a n d s e e s f e ma l e pa ti en ts all the ti m e , - ::-;; ,, - - ~ 0 ? J a J H f: ah 'J 1 ~ w ha I> t he di ff e re n c e - • o • • n •• • • CHICAGO America's new "family dentist of lhe year" - Dr. George Shopp of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, so named - al a Chicago meeting af,atl, of lhe Academy of General Denlislry. Dr. Shopp called - "a triple I hr ea I " den Ii s I ; "on e w ho has done an ex c e p Ii o,('a l Job in conttn111111 community service - i f i s work with den I al soc i Ii es - in p u rs u in g a ,,F pro gr a m of con I in u in g education in dentistry. And besides lhal - he ~ plays trombone in lhe nearby Harrisburg 9pjl,sllK