Britain Proposes New Monetary System Area UF Campaign Kicks Off hold the SDR. National currencies would still be used for ordinary trading. In a speech for representatives of 118 countries of the IMF, Barber did not say whether SDR should be defined in terms of gold, as they are now. He suggested introduction of the proposed system would eliminate a major problem for the United States. How to change the value of its currency without changing the price of gold.
The possibility of an economic counterpunch to the United States' 10-per-cent import surcharge and its refusal to devalue the dollar has emerged at the annual International Monetary Fund meetine. But whether the punch will actually be thrown, pulled or landed only lightly remains unsettled. The indication of possible countermoves came when West German Finance Minister Karl Schiller told Treasury Secretary John B. Con-nally that West Germany "may be compelled to come to a painful reappraisal of the economic and currency policy we have been pursuing." Schiller told newsmen later Monday that his government is not thinking of full-scale economic retaliation against the United States. "We are not crusaders," he said.
"We are not thinking about countermeasures. We are not thinking about a trade war." But, he added, as West German Finance minister, "I have to ask at some point: What are the alternatives? I hope this time will not come." dollar or a pound would be so many units of SDR, rather than as a fixed quantity of gold. Devaluations and upward revaluations of currencies would be stated in terms of SDR, rather than in terms of gold or dollars as they must be now. Eventually, Barber said, SDR could become the major asset which countries hold as reserves, instead of gold, dollars or pounds. He said arrangements would be needed for the controlled creation of new reserves what he called "adequate but not excessive liquidity." The new reserves would be in the form of additional SDR, created by international agreement Barber proposed that, as at present, only central banks and monetary authorities would WASHINGTON (AP) A bold new international monetary system which would reduce the dollar to the rank of other currencies was proposed today by Anthony Barber, Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer.
The plan is designed to make it easier for nations to adjust their surpluses and deficits in world trade. Also, Barber said, it would improve the scope for international control by the creation of new reserves. Such reserves are considered essential for the promotion of world trade. Barber said the system should be based on a new form of the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) on the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These first were created in 1969.
He suggested that the dollar and other currencies be defined in terms of SDR. That is, a The VOL. 124, NO. 189 Staunton Leader Police Seek Elusive Bandit STAUNTON, 24401, TUESDAY At least three women who reported the man to police say they were touched and were awakened. In Staunton, all of the women wete married and on most occasions their husbands were in the house.
"At least 75 per cent of the houses had watchdogs which did not sound an alarm," it was reported. "The man has probably been in numerous other homes, probably without the occupants realizing it. According to police, more than 14 complaints have been received which may have involved the same man. Police, checking various neighborhoods, have been told that residents investigated barking dogs or noises around their houses, but have seen nothing. Augusta County Sheriff John E.
Kent said his department has investigated five cases of a man entering homes. All of these have been in suburbs southwest of Waynesboro. The pattern is the same: no forced entry other than opening doors or windows, no injuries (See ELUSIVE, Page 2) More than 300 volunteer workers from all strata of the United Fund attended a kickoff dinner for Staunton and Augusta County at Ingleside Monday night as the 1971 campaign got under way to raise $183,906 for 14 agencies. The meeting was presided over by Gifford M. Mabie, 1971 campaign chairman, who told his audience that contributions and pledges received to date now total $80,373, or 43.7 per cent of the 1971 goal.
Three individual division reports were presented following dinner. Mrs. Preston C. Manning chairman of the professional division, reported that approximately 50 per cent of the pledge cards have been returned in the amount of $5,569, or 69.9 per cent of the $8,000 quota being sought. Roy L.
SheriU key firms division chairman, said that 25 of 42 area key firms have thus far reported in whole or in part. He said that 16 business firms have submitted final reports totaling $46,785 in pledges, and nine others have submitted partial reports pledging $17,172 for a total of $63,957, or 58.6 per cent of the quota being sought for 1971. Special Gift Division Chairman Hierome L. Opie drew an enthusiastic response when he told his audience that with 11 of 114 pledge cards still to be turned in, he has received pledges totaling $10,847 and that the division quota has been exceeded by .4 per cent. The principal speaker at Monday night's dinner meeting was Rev.
J. Edward Gayhart, pastor of Hebron Presbyterian Church, who urged his audience to work hard in support of UF objectives. "When we give the united way," he said, "we are not simply giving money to the United Fund, we are investing in lives." At the conclusion of Mr. Gayhart's remarks, a monologue titled "Through the Eyes of a Child" was presented by Mrs. Harry Baylor who concluded the skit by presenting a glass piggy bank filled with coins to Mr.
Mabie. A six-minute film called "If You Don't Do It It Won't Get Done" was shown by Ray Bowers and featured popular country and western singer Loretta Lynn in a part-singing, part-narrative low key pitch for UF support. Following the invocation by Lt. William R. N.
Goodier, UF President Sidney M. Supple thanked Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Tucker, Ingleside owners, for sponsoring the dinner meeting. The campaign, which runs through October, is seeking to raise money in support of the following area and national agencies: Blue Ridge Branch, Cystic Fibrosis Center, Effie Johnson Day Nursery, Children's Home Society, SAARC, American Red Cross, Boy Scouts, YMCA, United Services Organization (USO), Girl Scouts, Mental Health Association, which also operates the Amity Club and Day Center, Valley Workshop, Community Day Center, Salvation Army, $21,073, and Traveler's Aid Society, $150.
AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 28, Sign of Fall A NUTTIN' WAY TO EARN A LIVING This gray squirrel sets about the business of storing away goodies for the approaching winter as the leaves begin their autumnal transition to scarlet and gold. (Photo by Dennis Sutton) visit today to the Saigon Zoo that had been scheduled at about the time the demonstrations were in progress. No reason was given for Thieu's failure to appear, but there was nothing to indicate that the protests had kept Thieu who often cancels public appearances at Independence Palace. Police, while reinforced to cope with the protests, have made no move to crack down hard enough to end them. The demonstrators badly organized and lacking in numbers have had no visible impact on the government or on Thieu's election plans.
tmM i I Tn -rmir tti I i i 1971 PRICE TEN CENTS Mansfield Proposes Amendment WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield has renewed his campaign to have Congress declare a six-month deadline for U.S. military withdrawal from South Vietnam. He says he would be delighted if President Nixon beat him to it. Mansfield proposed an amendment to add his end-the-war legislation to a $21-billion bill authorizing funds for missiles, ships, warplanes and other weaponry. He said if it is stymied this time as it was once before by deadlock and compromise between the Senate and the House, he will propose it all over again.
"Nothing would please me better than an announcement from the White House setting a time certain for withdrawal," Mansfield said as he introduced again the amendment which, with one variation, was approved by the Senate June 22, only to die in the face of House opposition. The one change: the earlier version would have declared it U.S. policy that all American military forces be withdrawn from Indochina within nine months. Mansfield said he subtracted the three months since Senate approval of the measure, resulting in a six-month deadline. The withdrawal timetable is subject to release of all American prisoners of war held by the Communists in North Vietnam or elsewhere.
"Insofar as I am personally concerned," Mansfield said Monday, "the fate of these men, at this late date, is the only significant basis for this nation to remain any longer in Vietnam." Sen. John C. Stennis, chairman of the Armed Services Committee and leader of the opposition to the amendment, has not said when he would be willing to have a vote. Weather Cloudy tonight and Wednesday except for some daytime clearing Wednesday. Low tonight from the mid 50s to the mid 60s and a high Wednesday in the 80s.
Students Protest Saigon Election By DON HOUSER Leader Staff Writer A man identified only as the "cold cream bandit" has been eluding law enforcement officers in Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County for almost a year. This daring and brazen subject, is credited by police with entering at least 35 homes in the area and molesting sleeping women. There are perhaps 50 more instances where he is suspected of entering houses. The bandit enters homes in various ways, but always quietly. He has entered unlocked doors and windows, pried open locked doors and screens with a sharp object, and has entered through small windows usually thought inaccessible.
Once inside, he apparently becomes familiar with the interior layout, especially exists. In several cases, he has found watchdogs sleeping. If they awaken, they fail to bark or attack the intruder. If a woman or her husband awakens, he makes a fast exit and disappears into the night. The name "cold cream bandit" was given to him because on several occasions, he has carried cold cream with him and rubbed it on the person's chest and abdomen.
According to police, the elusive bandit strikes homes where women of any age live. Women in their 20s and older have been awakened by the man as he touches them. The ones that weren't awakened have found themselves covered with cold cream in the morning. A Staunton police spokesman reported the man has struck in northern parts of the city since February and are certain he has attempted to enter several homes a second time. "He has been in several houses on one block, and we think he has pretty well covered the neighborhood," the spokesman said.
According to city police, he has used cold cream at least once in Staunton. The spokesman said it is very possible some women would not report the incident because of embarrassment. Other targets included a South Vietnamese base camp in the Cambodian town of Krek, 85 miles northwest of Saigon and seven miles across the border, and three other positions on both sides of the border. All the attacks were described as light, with 30 rounds of rocket fire the biggest. Informants said 10 South Vietnamese soldiers were wounded in today's shellings.
The aim of the North Vietnamese drive by elements of two divisions is to pierce the South Vietnamese defenses along the border with Cambodia, to open infiltration corridors and supply routes into the 3rd Military Region and to cut Saigon's troops off from their own rear bases. The 3rd Military Region includes Saigon and 11 surrounding provinces. Mindszenty ROME (AP)-Free at last, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary flew into Rome today. For the last 15 years the Roman Catholic primate of Hungary had been in solitary exile in the U.S. diplomatic mission at Budapest.
He fled there in 1956 after five days' freedom during the Hungarian uprising. The Communists in Hungary had sentenced him to life imprisonment on charges of treason, tracing to his opposition to their takeover. The prelate, who is 79, arrived on a flight from Vienna. This evidently signaled the end of a long dispute between the Catholic Church and the Communist government of Hungary. The official Hungarian news agency MTI said: "In accordance with an agreement between the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Holy See, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty left North Viets Drive to Open Infiltration Corridors Waynesboro Council Urged To Review Committees SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese students and disabled veterans hurling firebombs clashed with police today in Saigon and Da Nang in continuing protests against next Sunday's one-man presidential election.
A progovernment demonstration was held in Saigon about the same hour and went off without incident as some 200 persons paraded through downtown streets. One student and two policemen were injured and four vehicles, two of them American, were firebombed in Saigon. Police arrested about 60 persons but released most of them, sources said. In Da Nang, where five policemen were wounded by grenades during a street protest Monday, more than 50 students and veterans launched a new demonstration which police dispersed with tear gas. The demonstrators were reported to have holed up in the Tinh Hoi pagoda, from where they hurled firebombs and police lobbed more tear gas.
A loose coalition of college and high school students and disabled veterans has figured in the recent wave of demonstrations against President Nuygen Van Thieu's decision to run for reelection unopposed. They were joined today by a handful of Buddhist monks. Thieu has taken some public notice of the protests, increasing security to contain them and appealing in one speech for them to be called off. In a campaign speech Monday night, he also noted his administration's accomplishments in providing benefits to war victims, such as disabled veterans. With the election five days away, Thieu has yet to make any of the 10 public campaign appearances that he had mapped out.
He canceled a Free at Last the territory of Hungary for good on Tuesday and traveled to Rome." The timing apparently had something to do with the third World Council of Bishops, which opens at the Vatican Thursday. Relations between the Church and the Hungarian regime have been strained for years because of the prelate's exile in the U.S. mission. There were occasional efforts to work out a solution, but the cardinal was adamant in refusing to leave his exile under conditions which he insisted were humilitating. The Hungarian government sought to have him leave the country on conditions he not speak or write about his relations with the regime.
An Austrian official said the cardinal was accompanied by a papal nuncio or ambassador, Archbishop Opilio Rossi. SAIGON (AP) North Vietnamese troops staged a halfdozen assaults along the South Vietnam-Cambodia border today in the third day of an offensive which the Saigon command said has taken more than 400 casualties on both sides. Casualty figures from the Saigon command for the three-day period claimed 230 North Vietnamese troops killed, more than half of them by U.S. and South Vietnamese air and artillery strikes. Saigon headquarters reported 27 of its troops killed and 173 wounded.
Targets in the latest North Vietnamese rocket and mortar attacks included the U.S. fire support base Pace, and artillery position on the Cambodian border supporting South Vietnamese forces. The base was hit with 11 mortar shells, wounding five Americans, the U.S. command said. Enemy gunners also fired six 50-pound rockets into the Tay Ninh West Base Camp, 55 miles northwest of Saigon.
The camp is the forward headquarters for South Vietnamese operations inside eastern Cambodia. News Inside WAYNESBORO City Council was advised here Monday night to take a critical look at the committees, commissions and boards it has established and to consider eliminating or restructuring some of them. The advice came from the Citizens Advisory Committee, a council-created, 15-member group which serves as a liaison between city government and the public. The Rev. Karl Schmidt, committee chairman, told council in his annual report Monday night that the committee's "feeling was that some (committees and commissions) have outlived their effectiveness" and need to be abolished or restructured.
In many cases, he said, those groups formed by council are given little to do. "Some are bypassed when they could be useful" in performing tasks for council, Mr. Schmidt continued, "and there is also a feeling that suggestions made ere not given much attention." 1 Roger B. Willetts, committee member and former chairman, added: "We began to feel like a blank in a federal form and weren't sure we had time to serve if this is all we were." The citizens group and several other committees have been established on recommendation of the U. S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. "A lot of manhours went into this year, and the members were willing to put in time, but we don't feel our efforts are really being appreciated," Mr. Willetts told council. Mayor J. B.
Yount seemed to echo the feelings of other councilmen when he said: "While one portion of the reason for establishing the committee was to satisfy HUD requirements, I take issue with the statement that the committee was set up to fill a blank on a federal form." Councilman Louis J. Hausrath added: "We've never really reviewed our boards, but you've made a pretty solid recommendation to us tonight and have proved your usefulness. "More importantly, your report has brought into light the need to review." In another matter, council is not yet satisfied with a revised sanitary sewer contract with Augusta County. Councilmen agreed Monday night to again revise the contract, which calls for the city to provide service to areas surrounding Waynesboro at city rates, and forward it to the Augusta County Service Authority. In other business, council: Proclaimed the week of Oct.
3-9 National Pharmacy Week in Waynesboro; Proclaimed Oct. 24 as United Nations Day in Waynesboro and designated Mrs. Louis J. Hausrath as chairman of the observance; Adopted an ordinance increasing the number of Redevelopment and Housing Authority commissioners from five to seven; Authorized the city manager to survey the need for microfilming records in city offices; Approved a request to extend the option granted Paragon Design, Inc. for 90 days under the same provisions of the original option to purchase parcel 5 in the Industrial Park; Following a public hearing, set a viewing date on an application by James D.
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