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Thought Chuckle 3 The so-called debtor class are not dishonest because they are in debt. Grover Cleveland When the time eventually comes that everyone has a Ph.D., the last garbage man will make a fortune. THE LEADING NEWSPAPER OF SOUTH CAROLINA 99th Year No. 33 Metropolitan inn cni PHONE 242-5011 Greenville, S. Friday Morning, February 2, 1973 56 Pages Newsstand 10c Daily, 25c Sunday Carrier Home Delivery: 7Se per week Population Mm $900,000 Kiss ins er orecas Center Grant Okayed By MARY JANE BENSTON News Staff Writer A $900,000 grant from the U.S.

Ceasefire llciillie Department of Justice has been approved for the construction of the detention section of the Names Of 10 POWs In Laos Released civilians, as prisoners of war in Laos. In South Vietnam, the fighting ebbed amid glimmers of hope that peacekeeping commissions were finally on their way toward By THE WIRE SERVICES Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger Thursday forecast "a difficult period ahead" in making the Vietnam cease-fire stick, but declined to say what the United States would do if fighting resumed. Kissinger, architect of the agreement for this country, 6aid: "I don't trust the goodwill (of North Vietnam). Much depends on the actions of the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and on the sort of relationship we will be able to establish with North Vietnam.

So it is a difficult period which is ahead, but it gives us an opportunity, hopefully." "AH countries, including ourselves, have to ask" what is at stake in deciding their policy in Vietnam, Kissinger said, adding there is no agreement with Moscow and Peking but he expects the two big Communist powers to be restrained. Meanwhile, the Communists acknowledged Thursday holding seven living American servicemen, including four previously considered missing in action, along with three U.S. policing the frail cease-fire. Mil ii-: I IMIUM li i i'i Another 70 North Vietnamese delegates to the four-party Joint Military Commission were to arrive in Saigon during the next few days. Sunday was reported Courtroom View Greenville County Law Enforcement Center.

County Council Chairman Larry H. McCalla announced the news Thursday after receiving word by telegram from U.S. Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, However, the brief message from Washington leaves some doubt about exactly which plans for the law enforcement center have been approved.

Preliminary approval of the grant was announced last year, but whether the funds could be used in the project was in doubt for the last several months as architects tried to come up with some design changes to suit the purpose of the federal program. The $900,000 carried with it a stipulation that the building be a correctional facility not just a detention center. Architects serving on a review committee of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) had told council that the plans being prepared by its architects, J. E. Sirrine would not fit the bill.

Faced with a decision of either doing without the $900,000 grant as the target date tor the com attorney is Don Austin of Savannah. The presiding judge allowed photographs to be taken in the courtroom while the court was not in actual session. (Greenville News photo by George W. Gardner Jr.) SAVANNAH, Ga. Carl Jones, center, leans over to talk to one of his three attorneys, George Pahno of Savannah, left, in the courtroom at the Chatham County Courthouse Thursday.

At right is attorney Lehman Moseley Jr. of Greenville. The third defense munist representatives to be deployed to seven regional field headquarters. Kissinger was interviewed in his White House office by CBS diplomatic correspondent Marvin Kalb in his first full-scale question-and-answer ses Inside Today's News Correspondent Critiques U.S. Role In Vietnam War COL.

ROBERT D. HEINL defense correspondent for North American Newspaper Alliance, has studied the Vietnam, war since the outset. Using interviews and research compiled over a period of years, he pieced together a three part critique of the U. S. role in Vietnam.

The first article appears on Page 21. THE SOUTH CAROLINA General Assembly was in session yesterday, and complete coverage from the Capital is on Pages 8, 9, 12, and 13. sion with a single American broadcast reporter. The biggest task to be ac Eight Witnesses Testify In 1st Dav Of JonesTrial complished now in Vietnam, Kissinger said, "is to move a generation that has Known nothing but war toward peace," The terms of the agreement By ROGER WHITE charged him with having two "are firm and specific" 'and News Staff Writer SAVANNAH, Ga. An FBI agent, three policemen and four couldn't be any tighter, he said.

In addition, Kissinger stated, there is no reason to assume Hanoi can accumulate enough character witnesses testified Thursday in the first day of Dear Abby 27 Billy Graham 4 Comics 36 Deaths 10 Editorials 4 Life Style 25' or changing its philosophy and plans for dealing with county prisoners, council instructed Sirrine to try to change the plans to suit the advisory committee. Shortly after receiving Hollings' telegram, McCalla said he assumed the approval meant federal officials have approved the new schematic drawings for the facility. But Sam R. Putnam Markets 22 Sports 31 Television 20 Theaters 32 Thosteson 30 Want Ads 37 arms in the next two or three years to launch a major marijuana cigarettes in the car. "We intend to prove that he (Jones) is not now and never has been working for SLED (S.C.

State Law Enforcement Division) and has no right to possess marijuana," Ryan said. In a surprise move, Ryan the trial of Carl Jones, 39. were pending against Jones in the Georgia court. Chief Assistant Chatham County District Attorney Andrew J. Ryan ni told the jury in his opening remarks that Jones "had no authority to have improper tags he is not authorized to carry those pills." Police charged Jones on Feb.

10, 1971, with having four pills in his car, a tranquilizer and a male hormone. They also charged with drug law viola- In the meantime, the South Vietnamese have been provided with sufficient equipment to and displaying improper car tags. Jones was suspended from the Greenville County Coundl Jan. 11 by Gov. John C.

West after it was verified that charges handle any foreseeable viola questioned the character wit Poinsett Hotel Bought project manager for J. E. tion of the cease-fire. nesses about whether they knew (See Center, P. 18, Col 1) But in any event, a true end Jones used aliases, had credit to the fighting "depends in part on the Vietnamese and in part" cards under three different names and that he had left his Savannah hotel without By Greenville Group on outside forces, said Kissin Decision Challenges paying the bill.

a hotel. 2. Convert it into an years and appear pleased to When one of the witnesses apartment project. 3. Develop School Funding System replied no, Ryan said, "Stick around tomorrow and you'll find it as a U.S.

Department of Hous have it locally owned once again and anxious to join with us in striving for standards of food and service associated with it when Mason Alexander set the ger, who negotiated the Vietnam cease-fire. When Kalb asked the presidential adviser about the American commitment to the Saigon government, Kissinger answered that any future military assistance is defined by the terms of the agreement and in relation to the military out." By DOUGLAS MAULDIN Conceivably the case could ing and Urban Development 236 project for elderly, middle in lead to court decisions requiring In probing cross-examination By LEWIS BRABHAM News Business Editor The Poinsett Hotel, a downtown Greenville landmark for nearly a half century, has been purchased by a group of Greenville people, banker Phillips Hungerford announced at a news conference Thursday. The new owner is Poinsett Associates, a limited school districts and the state come people. pace," Hungerford said. Alex of eacfl prosecution witness, Don Austin, one of three defense to come up with fairer ways Showers and thundershowers, heavy at times, is the forecast Friday for Greenville and the upstate.

The National Weather Service News Columbia Bureau COLUMBIA The South Carolina State Supreme Court, ruling in a Greenville County case, opened the door Thursday Hungerford 6aid he thought of financing public school opera the owners will make a decision ander was manager of the Poinsett for many years, when the hotel was at its peak of attorneys for Jones, revealed conflicting testimony about $2C0 uons. within about three months. said the area would be partly Courts have ruled in other Meanwhile he added, the for a possible frontal assault reported massing when Jones was arrested, and conflicts in As to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu's states that it constitutes unequal prestige. Named for Joel R. Poinsett, the hotel displays a stone from cloudy and mild Friday night and Saturday with a chance statements by police.

statement that he would not protection of the law for school Austin and George Pahno both Picture on Page 12 Poinsett will continue to operate as a hotel with no anticipated change in personnel. "These are people who have been with the hotel for many (See Decision, P. 18, Col. 2) on South Carolina's system of funding public schools. The high court ruled in an appeal from Greenville that four taxpayers have a legal cause of showers.

Probability of rain was put at 80 per cent Friday the spring at the Poinsett home of Savannah and Greenville at torney behman Moseley are and 50 per cent Friday night. Creamer Trial of action to attack alleged in-. representing Jones. Austin said conflicting accounts of portions of the Jones investigation leave reasonable doubt whether he is partnership, in which Orchard Corp. is the general partner.

Hungerford, president of the partnership, did not reveal the purchase price, but 6aid in response to the questions of newsmen, the consideration wa6 less than $1 million and more than a half million dollars. Built in 1924 at a cost of $2 million, the 13-story, 250-room guilty. Austin said in opening THURSDAY High 41 Low 38 FRIDAY High low 60s Low low 408 ask for reintroduction of American ground troops if fighting broke out, but would expect U.S. air power, Kissinger said: "It is legally correct that we have the right to do so. it depends on the extent of the challenge, the nature of the threat." But he emphasized it would be unwise for any responsible American official to "provide a checklist" of what the United States might or might not do.

The small number of POWs in Laos came as a disappointment to Defense Department officials, some of whom had (See Communists, P. 2, Col. 4) Defense Witnesses Take Stand By VERNON ELLISON News Staff Writer remarks that Jones was in Savannah on real estate business and was also involved in an investigation, but he did not name any agency with which hotel is currently valued on the Greenville County tax books at Jones was supposedly in upper Greenville County. The stone is near the Main Street sidewalk in a small corner park beside the hotel. The hotel is the dominant structure in the 200 block of South Main Street.

It was erected in 1924 and replaced the 100-year-old Mansion House, which William Toney had built in 1924. Hungerford 6aid an opportunity will be given "for other local parties to associate themselves with us in the appropriate development of a fine old building we will be endeavoring to make a handsome and creditable part of downtown Greenville's long needed new look." Hungerford, who is president also of First Piedmont Bank and Trust, said neither the bank nor its holding company has any interest in the Poinsett undertaking. The level of pollution in the equities ui property taxation in the Greenville School District. The court in a unanimous decision overruled a circuit judge who found that the taxpayers had no legal cause of action in their class action suit. The high court reversal of Circuit Judge Frank Eppes gave the taxpayer-plaintiffs the opportunity to return to court to seek relief from alleged inequities in property tax assessments i Greenville, Laurens and Spartanburg counties.

The meat of their argument was that the school district properties of equal value are being assessed and taxed differently, constituting unequal protection of the law. Austin said Jones was "help Greenville area Thursday was light, according to the Green $530,900. Hungerford and his associates acquired the property Jan. 31 from Greenville Community MARIETTA, Ga. The state rested its case early Thursday in the murder trial of James ing the police" and "we will prove he is pretty much the ville County Health Depart Edward Creamer, 42, of Green ment.

hero and not a bum." Hotel owned by the Jack Tar Hotel Corp. of Dallas, Tex FBI agent Charles Shelton ville, charged with murder in connection with the May 7, 1971 as. The hotel has had financial Pause To Pray God, remind us again that testified that he became suspicious when he noticed shooting deaths of two Marietta difficulties for many years. Following a feasibility study. Temperatures in the Newberry and Greenwood areas ranged from a low of 40 to a high of 59 while Anderson reported a low of 39 and a high of 47 degrees.

Additional weather information is on Page 2. Jones' car had a Chevrolet weight tag instead of the one designating a Cadillac which Hungerford said, the new owners will decide on one of pathologists, Dr. and Mrs. Warren B. Matthews.

The prosecution called as its final witness Mrs. Judy Fox, (See Defense, P. -12, Col. 1) peace may bring plenty, plenty bring pride, and pride bring war again. Keep our pride within bounds, we pray.

Amen. three courses: Jones was driving on Feb. 10, (See Eight, P. 12, Col. 1) PHILLIPS HUNGERFORD 1.

Operate the Poinsett as 'Pardon Me, Mam, But Have You Ever Seen A Well, ma'm, what does it mean when the groundhog sees his shadow? "That's one question I can't answer. As smart as they were and those groundhogs could do Just about anything we never did find one that could talk." "Well, yes, to tell you the truth I did. It was back in '14. I was working a spread down on the Pecos. There was a cowpoke there that had hair down to his chaps.

A feller down there told me he was a groundhog in disguise and every February he went crazy and shot people when they stepped on his shadow. I reckon that's the only real groundhog I ever saw. I don't want to see no more. They're too dangerous." I got up and left a quarter for the coffee-Thanks, Rudolph. You've been a big help.

Now to buttonhole people on the street. Hello, ma'm, have you ever seen a groundhog? "Let me see, now. No, I don't guess I have. I saw a chipmunk one time. But that wouldn't count, would it?" What does it mean if the groundhog sees his shadow? "I'm not sure, but I believe it means there's going to be a foot of snow in March." Thank you, ma'm.

Oh, sir. Excuse me a minute, sir. "Whaddaya want?" I was wondering if you had ever seen a groundhog? "A what?" A groundhog. "I'm Just visiting in Greenville' I'm from Oconee County. We ain't got no groundhogs over there." Thank you, sir.

Pardon me, ma'm. I'm from the newspaper and I'd like to ask you some questions about groundhogs. "You've come to the right place to find out about groundhogs. I come from up close to Brevard. We had a whole barn full of groundhogs when I was a girl.

They were really smart. They could do Just about any kind of a trick." that all Journalists seem to have, decided to treat it as a challenge. There were several handicaps immediately obvious. I had not the faintest knowledge of the groundhog' Having never seen one not even a picture I could only suppose that they ranged in size somewhere between a kangaroo and a hamster. I dared not try to imagine what one looked like.

1 One's first guess would be that he resembled a hog who had lost faith in the world and had burrowed into the ground in search of more humane surroundings. But, no, that would be far too practical. So, being thus utterly barren of even the most rudimentary facts about the groundhog, I decided to go into the land and see if others were any better informed. Having once done a man-on-the-street column for a newspaper, I developed, the chilly-eyed callousness needed to confront total strangers ones who have done you no harm with such questions as: "Do you really think Carol Burnett and John Foster Dulles have something going?" My first interview was with a chap named Rudolph Fink. He was huddled suspiciously in the back booth at Bikas Restaurant.

At first he would only tell me that he was from the Black Hills of South Dakota. He had that true Dakota humor. You can spot it a mile away. "I first became famous for climbing Pike's Peak backwards," he says, pulling the ratty overcoat up around his ears. Not far enough to hide the fact that he was not only reason I did not survive Custer's Last Stand was that I was born 50 years too late." Come on now, Rudolph, let's be serious.

Answer my question. Have you ever seen a groundhog? By JIM MCALLISTER All of this business about a groundhog started two' weeks ago aboard the destroyer Strong in the Atlantic off Charleston. If I'd kept my mouth shut then I wouldn't be where I am today disgraced; me, a cultured person, forced to appear In public wearing a groundhog's body. On that fateful day aboard the Strong I had simply said to Stan Shealy: "Get a picture of me coming up out of this hatch. We'll caption it: The Groundhog Sees His Shadow." Everybody laughed.

It was all so cute, you see. Back In the newspaper office I'm laughing, showing off the picture. Gary Boley, chief of the copy desk and a pretty sharp little cookie why does he have to be one now? looks at the picture and his eyes light up: "Yeah, that's It. We'll run this picture on Groundhog Day." You can Just see those wheels churning in his head. "And we'll have George Chastain draw a picture of a groundhog for your body.

How do you like that?" I don't say anything. But I'm shocked. Such, a total lack of respect. Stan had made a good picture' and that was a beautiful brainstorm I had about the groundhog and all. Now my friends my former friends have taken a perfectly good joke and turned it against me.

Now, after 20 years in the business, I'm forced to write my first groundhog story. "We're going to run this picture with your column on Groundhog Day," said Gary. He was snickering. What cheek. "So you're going to have to write a column about groundhogs." This was no time to be angry.

Of course it really was, but blessed with the good grace (Art by 0orq Chattaln) Columnist Jim McAllister sees his shadow..