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lts Sports Final THE WOUD'I ORKATEST NEWIPAMI Tuesday, January 7, 1975 4 Sections I5e mi 0 LJ LJ LJ VwkJ iy I Jwf 1 v. An ML IU pj Alan Greenspan, President's chief economist tax cut wouldn't ease unemployment. Ford aide sees long recession Stories on economy are on pages 5, 7 -fa Reds overrun S. Viet city; 1st since 1972 1 A. NT People One Nixon scrawl goes for $2,000 expressed fear for the lives of the 26,000 residents.

Phuoc Binh had been under attack since last Thursday. The decisive final attacks began late Monday night. "The Communists fired thousands of artillery shells and rockets into the residential areas before the attack," a command spokesman said. "That showed their savagery in overrunning the town." Tlffi COMMAND said 10,000 North Vietnamese and Cong soldiers took part in the five-day assault against the town, climaxing a two-week offensive in Phuoc Long province. The command said six more Soviet-built T-54 medium tanks were destroyed, raising to 29 the number of tanks government troops claim to have knocked out since the battle began.

According to intelligence esti-' mates in Washington, the North Vietnamese-Viet Cong strategy; is to force a coalition government in Saigon that the munist forces could dominate. Information received from the field indicates that the" North Vietnamese are attempt-- Continued on page 15, col. 3 From Trlbur WIr Servicei SAIGON North Vietnamese, forces, firing 130 mm. artillery guns at point-blank range, overran the last sizable government position in Phuoc Binh before dawn Tuesday, capturing the military and administrative headquarters of Phuoc Long province. Small units of South Vietnamese rangers were still fighting in and around the provincial capital 75 miles north of Saigon, but the town was lost to the Communists, military officials said, In Washington, high United States officials were considering what steps could be taken to bolster support for South Viet Nam in the face of the current Communist offensive which the officials expect will intensify.

THE FALL of Phuoc completed the Communist conquest of Phuoc Long, a rural province of rubber plantations and about 100,000 people on the Cambodian border. It was the first provincial capital captured by the Communists since the 1972 Easter offensive. The Saigon command reported the town in flames and Pi ji I By Richard Phillips THE FORMER purchasing agent and admitted bagman for the late Secretary of State Paul Powell testified Monday that "the old man," as he called Powell, "was always on my back for more payoffs." James S. White said that In 1968 when he told Powell that an Arkansas company wanted the contract to provide Illinois license plates, Powell said, "Okay, but I want to make sure I'm included." "I told them that 'the old man' expects moire because of the heat that will come from moving the contract out of the state," White told a jury in the courtroom of Federal Judge Bernard M. Decker.

White is one of the government's chief witnesses against Talmadge G. Rauhoff, wealthy Chicago contractor charged with conspiracy, mail fraud, and tax evasion in a scheme to funnel bribes to Powell in the days when Powell was one of the most powerful of all Illinois politicians. ALTHO NOT indicted himself, White was named by the federal grand jury as a co-conspirator of Rauhoff; J. Patrick 1 1 president of Metal a i Co. of Conway, and Jorn Leonard 56, of Hinsdale, Rauhoff 's attorney who set up a dummy corporation to handle the bribes.

Stoltz and Leonard already have pleaded guilty and are scheduled to be called by assistant U. S. attorneys Donald C. Shine and Royal B. Martin as witnesses against Rauhoff.

Rauhoff, who is 53 and lives in Hinsdale, received millions of dollars worth of state business, including a contract from Powell to renovate the Capitol building in Springfield, before Powell's death Oct. 10, 1970, at a hotel in Rochester hear the Mayo Clinic. "I took him Powell $40,000 in cash from bribes only nine days before died," White said. After Powell's death, a cash hoard of approximately $750,000 was found crammed into shoeboxes in a closet in his room at the St. Nicholas Hotel in Springfield.

Agents of the Internal Revenue Service found one envelope containing $5,000, with the word, "Tal" written on it. Powell also left a fortune in racetrack stocks which he is said to have acquired at bargain rates for political favors. WHITE TESTIFIED the contract for Illinois license plates was held by King Seeley Corp. of Macomb in 1968 when he got a phone call from Stoltz, who told him, "I want to bid, and I want to win this time." He said Stoltz's Metal Stamping Co. had submitted "complimentary bids" that had always been higher than King Seeley's bids and said he understood that for doing this Metal Stamping got part of the contract under the table from King Seeley Corp.

Early in January, 1969, when a contract was about to Continued on page IS, col. 3 I'm- 'V Former President Nixon's signature "is one of the vilest scrawls of history, along with Napoleon's and Jack Kennedy's," says New York autograph tycoon Charles Hamilton. But such scrawls bring lots of money in the autograph market. A handwritten Nixon letter sells for about $2,000 these days, according to Hamilton, who recently held the first sale of Gerald Ford autographs. The President's 1931 high school yearbook with seven signatures by him brought $450.

Being a Mr. Nice Guy doesn't help the value of a man's signature unless he happens to be George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, whose autographs have sold for as high as $30,000. "Evil is a much more enthralling thing," Hamilton said. "People are fascinated by it. Because of this the value of Nixon's autograph is bound to go up." "I don't think I'd go off the road for love, for life with a guy, no matter how good," says the late legend, Janis Joplin, in the movie "Janis," which consisted of 96 minutes of per- Jack Mabley's column is on page 4.

formances and interviews. But the movie's producer, Canadian "Budge" Crawley, said, "She did finally find the right guy. She was to marry Seth Morgan, a young easterner and direct descendant of J. P. Morgan, at the end of October, 1970.

They were planning a camping trip to Mexico for their honeymoon. Death intervened on Oct. 4." Don Rumsfeld, the former congressman from Chicago's North Shore who is now President Ford's chief of staff, is getting the treatment from the star makers-and-breakers of Washington and New York. Women's Wear Daily, which spends much of its space reporting on either Jackie O. or the decline in the girdle business, has taken to calling Rumsfeld "Rummy." In a recent profile, W.W.D.

quotes him as denying he has any interest in the Presidency: "The future? It's all blurred. All I see is smog." He also replies to a question about whether he is Ford's Haldeman with: "My goodness." The opening of a campaign headquarters is usually a celebration full of pomp, circumstance, and hot air. Candidates habitually predict, great victories, supporters cheer, and Continued on page 4, col. 1 in1 Oil workers cut pay hike demand mi tMffiifrKmm rL Tribune Photo 6y Michael Budrys Mayor Daley new stadium will not be constructed on site of Soldier Field. No new stadium planned for Soldier Field, Daley says DENVER API-Oil industry workers reduced their wage demands as a midnight contract expiration neared Tuesday.

The bargaining policy board of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union agreed to cut 30 cents an hour off the wage proposal in each of the three years of the proposed contract in a meeting late Monday. Union President A. F. Gro-spiron said he was authorized to call a strike when the current pact expires, "but I'm not in a hurry on this thing. It's very easy to call a strike." GROSPIRON SAID if a walkout is called it could be industrywide or against only a selected company.

An industrywide strike would idle most of the nation's gasoline and petroleum product refineries. The union represents 60,000 oil workers. The last industrywide strike was in 1969 and lasted for four months for some companies, but ended in 10 days for one GROSPIRON SAID that even if an industrywide walkout is! called, current reserves of gascv line would keep the effect of' the strike from being felt by' consumers for at least 30 days. The policy council reduced-the wage demand from $1.50 an hour in each of the three years of a proposed contract to $00 an hour in each year. The union is still seeking an immediate 50-cent an hour increase as "catch-up" to the rising cost' of living.

The average hourly" wage in the industry under the current contract is $5.95. There was no immediate re- sponse from the oil companies on the new union proposal. Grospiron said the compa- nies have offered a 60-cent per; hour wage increase in the first, year and 50 cents per hour in the second year of a two-year; contract. The companies involved in the negotiations include Texaco, Exxon, Shell, Atlantlc-Richfield, Mobil, Phillips, Continental, the Standards, and many small companies. reducing the distance from the field to the stands from 75 to 15 feet.

"There will also be work on improvement of the washrooms," he said. "They are a disgrace. An upper tier can even be added, but that would be in the future." DALEY INSISTED there will be no changes in the site lines or in the exterior of Soldier Field. He Said there are no plans to urge the city's major league baseball teams to move to Soldier Field. Daley noted that a commit- and "you can say the mayor definitely is not for building a new stadium on the present site." NEWSPAPERS had quoted Brian M.

Kilgallon, executive director of the Public Building Commission, as saying Saturday that Mayor Daley favored building a new stadium instead of rehabilitating the present one. The commission would handle any rehabilitation for the Chicago Park District. In discussing preliminary proposals, Daley said increasing the capacity of Soldier Field from 55,000 to 75,000, is being considered, along with By Edward Schreiber MAYOR DALEY insisted Monday, a new stadium will not be constructed on the site of Soldier Field, but said a $3mlllion to $35-million overhaul of the stadium is under consideration. He emphasized no decisions have been made on whether to proceed with the rehabilitation. Recommendations by architects studying alternatives are due in a week to 10 days, he said.

Building a new stadium could cost as much as $150 million, Daley said at his press conference in City Hall, Weather CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy Tuesday; high around 40; cloudy and cold Tuesday night; low in upper 20s; southerly winds 8 to 15 m. p. h. Wednesday: Cloudy; chance, of snow or rain; high around 40. For map and other reports: See page 13, Sec.

2. Continued on page 4, col. 4 company. Plan readied to ease sex education rules here students, but should not discuss personal situations lnvolv- ing himself or individual stu- dents. A spokesman for the Family Life Education Department said the guidelines were because of the "changing social climate and the exposure of students to all kinds of media and peer gossip." "It's important for them to get accurate and scientific father, mother, and children, teachers must recognize and accept the many differences in contemporary family structure.

Teachers must be sensitive to the developmental differences between girls and boys and should portray fern ales and males without bonds of prejudice or stereotype. The teacher should establish open communication with contraception may Include general information about the natural, mechanical, chemical, and surgical means of preventing pregnancy and how each method affects health. Teachers must recognize that any decision is a personal one, and students must be referred to their parents and school personnel for in-depth information. While it may be traditional to portray the family as the developmental needs of the students and cn relevant scientific facts. In elementary schools questions should be answered scientifically, and truthfully; however, teachers should not hesitate to refer pupils to their parents or school personnel, such as the teacher-nurse, for additional information.

In high schools and special schools, discussions about tions, and the sex education program skirted the issues of contraception, abortion, homosexuality, masturbation, and venereal disease. The new guidelines include: elude: When questions about abortion, homosexuality, and masturbation arise, teachers must accept the moral and religious beliefs, of tho students, their parents, and society. They must base answers on ment during special meetings last summer and fall. The guidelines, if approved by the board, would allow an individual school to expand its sex education program if the school administration seeks the support of parents, the Parent-Teacher Association, and the local School Community Council. UNDER PREVIOUS guidelines teachers were not allowed to answer students' ques By Connie Lauerman A PLAN TO broaden the sex education program in the Chicago public schools and allow teachers to answer questions on contraception, abortion, homosexuality, and other sex topics will be presented to the School Board Wednesday.

The new, more literal guidelines were drawn up by a special advisory committee of the Family Life Education Depart-.