AGNEII /4,'it~, Taipei, c a ~ i t '11 I= "fF1' F o n11 o s n I • -f'-f .,..,_ ass11rcd Nalio11alisl I\ £:Jm.y- C h i II e s <' P ,. c s i de 11 t C h i a n g K a i S h e I.~ t lw l l h e U n i l e d Sia/es ~ defe111/ /1is country agai11sl a11y attack. C h i a 11 g a II d o I h e r Na t i o 11 a I ; s I C h i 11 ,, s c l e a de r s a r e r e p o r t e d concerued 01 er rcce11I America11 over/u1•es l01 ord Red ~ i n a - including relaxation of trade reslrictions;- 1,e,.ce Agneu ...,,_ efforls lo reassur~them. ~J>re iottsl,, while I' c halting willl news men on /he plane from Saigon, the Vi c e Pr e s id c 11 t It a d rl e s c r i b e d A m er i ca n o v er I u re s toward Peking as "jusl baby, crawling mo/ions. ,;"Agnew also told reporters lte exp eels a nc w Comm"" is t • I ~ offensive in Vietnam -- possibly to coincide willt /he TET New Year ho lid a, , . ear 1" n ex I month • - or per It.a P s a I a I ate r date. • J I "My j11dgm.e11I" said he, "would be 11,al they would strike wltene er tltey think it would be most effecti1e in s • ~,; • 6 swaying American p11blic opinion against lite war." AGNEW 2 /11 t' ic/1,am, a rock e t ba1'r<1g e strr,c:k an America11 comp n e ar th e d e militariz e d zo11,c. Field reports i ndicate the 11rivk m i ss i les ma) ' lta1 e been fired from positions i11side tltat supposedl) ' neutral strip. T Ii e ca s "n I tie s were l i g Ii t • wi:t1r no fatal it i es reported. ,/ MID EAST I s r a e l i p I a n e s lx,:f;:t x kllll • I a u 11 c It e d t w o s e p a r a t e attacks against 1.,ex; Lebanon toda y -- lite action coming after Israel had wa'l'Jted tlz.e Lebanese lo prevent Arab guerrilla forays front their soil. A Lebanese spokesman s a,,s nine persons were wounded when Israeli Planes 76 shot up.Ai main roads fifty miles crcr sor,lheast of Beirut. H ~ Also , two Sou tli L e bane s e village 5A, reported hit by rockets fired from Israeli held territory. CONRAD "F 1, , i "g G ,. a 11 df a l It e r " i\,f ax C o" r a d ha d t o t 11 r n back to da, , after taking off from Jnvercargill ,ria:i• New ~ ~ ( ) ~ ~ - }Kt> rn~~~ ,:,:}- ~ Z e a l a n d I\ i Ni a 'A a tt c m p t to fly s o l o a r o r, n d I ~ e w or l d by way of both Poles. He had flown half /he two thoi,sand mile distance from lnvercargill to McMurdo Soi,nd on the fwing S) A ,ztar ct ic c ontitient wile n lie noticed that hi~ •*6sf w.Jre .... t«~ icing up -- and hf'polar con,pass-.. acting up. ,I Turning his twin engine plane around Conrad Jl,,ulx flew t4~ ~, ~ back to New Zealan"JA.landing at Christchurch • - ...=;;;;;;;. . . . . ~ ;. - - - • ..:s4-{,4 ~ ~ a ; ; , , ~ ~~~W\~~-- ~~ J f O s " ~ }law 2 ~ ~-t£:e ~ ~ - \ ~. WHARTON Clif/011 R. Wha, • lon Jr. today officially assumed comm:a11cl at Mic:hi}fan Stale University - the first 11egro to sert e as P'r esi dent of a major American universif,,. Wharton - a fort1,-t1u·ee year old agricultural economist -- is the fourteenth President - C A ~ ~ k , . ; J i . _ of Michigat1 Sta le a,,\ivll l1t18 an enrollment of forty-one " ~ thousand students) ~ ~ Gl ~ ~. GEOLOGY . Ji -~ ~ A s I h e B i b I c I e I I s 11 s , /... o ,, I y -" f o o l i s h ma n i ~ S' a,oa~ huild his house 011 sand, Saint Matthew has I ll e ca s c h i s t or, , of a h o 11 s e s o b 11 i l I - w h e ,i t Ii e r a i n s , tile floods a11d the winds came, the llousc crashed. E ve n so, some h11.m.a,i bei11gs ha e conlin11ed to build their ho11ses ;,, "geologically diflic11II" Places where tlae hazards of volcanic: err,ptio11, earthq1'akes, m.ud flows, landslides and floods are constantly present. Year after - ~ , c?-¾ year we gel reports - ~ many ;rom Sollthern Califor11ia - telling of costly homes .;liding down hill in the mud - ~ or being destroyed by~ other environmental laazardf. So, the U S Gaological Surve} ' sa:, , s it's time for '5d••k s c i en t i st s , b u il d e rs a n d city pl a n n e rs I o work t»p:.I • r togetl,er in order to avoid these predictable disasters. Th e f; r s t s t u d y - a t hr e e J,,ox m i ll i on fxtl do l la r P r o j e ct - will cover the Snn Fra,zcisco Bay area. NEW YORK ~~-t- The New York Stock finished strong today - I\ the market indicator sltowing a gain of alniost two per cent. More t 11 an a thousand · issues advanced - only tl11•ee hu,zdred declined. If the Stock Market · news was good - there was some news not so good -- for New Yorkers, t::lrrd ~ Nearly five million subway and bus riders will have to pay a ks higher fare beginning Sttnday. Tlie cost for a ride advancing from twenty to thirty oentJe c e n t s > ' f ~ ~ _ /'twenty years ago, the sub way fare in New York was five centsf Then it went to ten -- then to fifteen - and three years ago"£ , ci • • to twent}' cents. Tlie new A thirt,, cent fare highest ever - is expected to finance a new labor con , tract that will cost the city an extra one •• hu,idred twenty million dolla · rs. SCARLETT A 11111. i cal produ ct1 0,1 0111,·d "Sca1·/ctt '' - - based 011 .\lnrgart · I .\lilchcll'~ C i,· il War 11,Jt · c l , (;011" l1 · it h T h c W i n d - op c 11 c d taa'!q; I o n f" I I h o II s c ' a I I h t' I mp c r i a I The a I t' ,. i 11 do u · 11 I o If'" 1' t> k _,, o. An All-~Taf>nnesc ca s I Pc r f o 1· m c d I h t' s II o If' c n I i r c I y i " J a pa "t' s c' - I h o "J,( l1 I I, e m u s i c w a s u r ; I I<' 11 h .\' .4 m e ,. i'c a ,i s :"T .U o s I of I I, t • l ea d a c I o r s a u d a c I,· c s s e s " e ,. e .; k i llf II II .\' m a d c ,, p I o r e s e m b l e x.a.r, Ca II ca s ; a n s - - b u f Ii t't I e fvx e ff o ,. I If' a s m a de to hide the 11atio11alil) 1 of lesser memht.·rs of the cast. / 7.. _ ~ How e v e r • t It e star of I he s II ow is n hors c' - "a III e d ~ D a ii c It i - - ti, c It or s e I ha I p II T l s I h c ,. a ,. t , c n ,. r :\' i "I( S ca r I " ti from Atla,r ta in her flight from General s11,,1·ma,r 's troops. ~ " Daiicl•i~e~old, managed lo stand 011 ll1e .•Inge a tk«IK with o tt I I wit chi ng a ,n tt s cl c a ll Iii r o II g 11 I he bombardment of A t l a n t a . ~ a.P,,-i. ·-0 ~ • · ,\~......- -~~ ~ ~~ ~ NAME What used lo b e the coal mining community of Do K W a l k , 1 l l i 11 o is , no w ha s a 11 e w n a m e . Som e . \ re si de n I s t Ii e re - l on gin g f o Y a m ore dig n if i e d pl a c e- , name - have lr•..- succeeded in ltaving t11 e Dog Walk sign . al either end of town replaced with one reading Cedar Gro, ·e.~ How did Dog Walk get its name in the ~~ first Place? Old settlers say it was' the brain child /~ . -•C••'f\ "'4-f --~'">') - ~ ? ~ ~ of a coal miner becauseA.I-IU: dc■ 11 , •,)<'outnumbered ~ peo le tltrl around the turn of the•• century. POLICEMAN ln Londo1z, a twenty two ye ar old Scottish Pe e 1 ' - L o 1· d St r a t h na v e r - h e ca m e j tt s t pl a in I k pol i c e ~ '·~t¥•1v/? ff, cons ta b I e A/i s ta i r Su t her land t o day • ~ L or d Strathnaver - a graduate of both Elon and Oxford - ~ti> I" · ~ l" A r• ::a rea iz e.,. a ~~ boyhood ambition to ja:h: IAe policeJIA4t, /1utn The rent on his lzome in London's fashionable Edwardes Square is more than his salary which is forty-eight dollars a week. Said one fellow officer "he'll probabl)' get ribbed a bit at first by the other ~,I• l;n d s - ,, • ' :i • • r Ls d& ly liiii'.' al. a-;~~~~ ~ ~ )w '/.JU;u, '