m President's Viet Offer Gets Cold Shoulder From Red# WASHINGTON OF) — President Nixon and his advisers went over details of his eight-point Vietham offer today and prepared to send it to the Paris talks despite an initial cold shoulder from enemy negotiators there. Hie President outlined the offer, including a plan for a mutual .pullout of major forces over a 12-month span, in a nationwide address last night; In the f ” I mm i follow-up the chief of the U.S. mission to the Paris parley, Henry Cabot Lodge, conferred with the administration leadership at a special joint meeting of the Cabinet and the National Security Council at the White House before, heading back to the French capital later in the day. The speech drew a generally favorable response from U.S. political figures, but what U.S. officials said was a not unexpected negative response .initially from representatives of the Vietcong’s National Liberation Front in Paris. / Hie NLF statement said the United States "still clings to its old formula of a mutual withdrawal of troops, a formula which we have repeatedly reject- Hanoi will “make some kind of favorable reaction to the American proposal after thoroughly examining it.” Related Stories, Pages A-13, B-13 But . from Hanoi, the Communist-aligned Japanese . news agency- Nihon Denpa News quoted "observers” in the North Vietnamese capital as predicting U.S. diplomats anticipate that Hanoi and Vietcong negotiators will be using some tough language as they examine the latest Washington proposal. What the final, enemy posture on it will be remains to be s^en, they said. White House sources said Nixon timed /his offer which had been ready for some weeks, for delivery now because, this seems to be the best moment for a U.S. move to thaw the Paris deadlock.. Elements of virtually all of Nixon’s eight points appeared in proposilS made from time to time duriKg the Johnson administration, but White House sources portrayed the package over-all as fresh in its impact in revisions coming from the new administration. Reactions in the U. S. were quick in conning. -f *• ,< / In Texas, an aide said former President Johnson “wholeheartedly supports President Nixon in his efforts at bringing peace to Southeast Asia.” In Washington, Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., the antiwar Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, termed Nixon’s offer reasonable while making plain he still thinks' the United States should get out of South Vietnam. House Republican leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan j said the President made plain he seeks an hdooifeble peace and Hanoi has nothin g to gain by delay.. V.S. Weuther Bureau Warmer (Details Page j) THE PONTIAC PRESS Home Edition PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 15, i960 VOL. 127 — NO. 84 ★ ★ UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATED PRESS -84 PAGES Fortas Quits Supreme Court From Our News Wires WASHINGTON — Justice Abe Fortas, under mounting pressure and the threat of impeachment proceedings, announced today his resignation from the Supreme Court and President Nixon accepted it, effective immediately. favorable although some members continued to call for an investigation of Fortas’s relationship with now-jailed financier Louis E. Wolfson. Reaction from Congress, the center of often severe criticism, generally wag In resigning, Fortas denied any “default” in performance of his judicial dqtles. L. Ziegler said Fortas’s letter of resignation was received about 5:30 p.m. yesterday, a short time after Chief Justice Earl Warren telephoned “to advise the President that a letter of resignation was forthcoming . . . ’’ WARREN LETTER and returned after the financier was indicted. Milliken and Griffin are long-time friends and confidants. Sen. Robert P. Griffin, R-Mich., who led the fight that blocked Fortas’s nomination last year as chief justice, said in a statement today: “Again, the infinite PROBE CALLED FOR White House press secretary Ronald Fortas also sent Warren—the man he once was nominated by Lyndon Johnson to, succeed—a letter of explanation of his actions in accepting and then retum- Related Stories, Page A-3 Other congressmen — including Rep. Clark MacGregor, R-Minn., who called yesterday for a preimpeachment proceedings investigation, and Sens. Richard S. Schweiker, R-Pa., and Paul Fannin, R-Ariz., said today the incident would not be closed until all details are revealed fully. AP Wirephoto LODGE ARRIVES FOR TALKS-Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who heads the U.S. delegation of negotiators at the Paris peace talks, leaves Ms plane after arriving yesterday at Andrews Air Force Rase near Washington, D.C., for conferences with President Nixon. ing 11 months later a 20,000. fee from rouson the Wolfson family foundation. wisdom and foresight of our founding Vathers in establisMng a system of ghecks and balances has been confirmed.” The exchange between Fortas. and Nixon was not disclosed, but the Court made public the Fortas letter to Warren. - Wolfson, a former Fortas law client, now is serving a prison sentence for violating federal securities laws. The fee was given Fortas while Wolfson’s activities were under government investigation Michigan Gov. William G. Milliken said today it would be “great” if^President Nixon tapped Sen. Robert P. Griffin to succeed Fortas on the Supreme Court, In the four-page letter, Fortas told Warren Ms resignation was prompted by “the welfare arid maximum effectiveness of the court to perform its critical role in our system of government.” Trouble Ahead for Nixon Surtax County Government Claim on Tax Funds Downgraded News in Brief By JEAN SAILE Despite the prediction that their actions might come back to haunt them, members of the Oakland County Allocation Board yesterday downgraded county government claims on the 15-mill tax allocation. By setting an unofficial levy rate of 5.16 mills for the county, the board, in effect, would lop $3.5 million off the county’s record $31.1-million tentative budget for next year. sider a fixed millage, permissible under the constitution and requiring a vote of the people. He said such action would “dp away with the gymnastics of firianc-ing when we haven’t got enough funds to go around anyway.” ,* WASHINGTON (AP) - The WMte House reportedly is studying a plan to revamp the supersonic transport program to open new means of financing and ease fears about sonic booms. Abe Fortas . . . Resignation Breaks Silence 8 Pontiac Teachers Fired for Dues Lack The levy is 0.12 mill less than this year, and 0.63 mill less than that requested. It still raises $2 million more than that raised on property taxes tMs year, due to a substantial increase in county equalized valuation. Daniel T. Murphy, a member of the allocation board arid county auditor chairman, warned members, “One day you’re going to have to take from the schools to finance the county.” He received support from new board member Louis Schimmel and Chairman Henry Schiffer. Setting a fixed millage rate for each government unit would do away with the function of the allocation board and it would also do away with the need for preparing tentative budgets. All allocations recommended by the board, which met yesterday as a committee of the whole, are within the 15-mill limit. The proposal would put the program directly under the secretary of transportation. The project to develop a 300-passenger, 1,800-mile-an-hour jetliner has been run since its inception by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), an independent regulatory agency administered by the Transportation Department. Support has developed for establishment of a business-government agency under which funding would come from sale to the public of government-guaranteed shares. Such an agency could not conveniently be a part of the FAA. From Our News Wires WASHINGTON President Nixon’s proposed extension of the income surtax, a key part of the administration’s fiscal plans, is facing problems both in and out of Congress. Rep. Charles A. Vanik, D-OMo, a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said Nixon’s urban policy had alienated some congressmen who might have supported the surtax extension past the June 30 expiration date.' Nixon has asked for an extension until Jan. r, at 10 per cent, and a 5 per cent rate between Jan. 1 and June 30, 1970, when it would expire. New threats came yesterday when two powerful groups declared any such bill must be coupled with sweeping reforms of the entire federal tax stnicture. The AFL-CIO Executive Council said it will not support the extension unless it is combined with “immediate, substantial and equitable reform.” Fifty-four House members of the liberal Democratic Study Group signed a letter calling on the committee to act on tax reforms first, even if it delays the surcharge extension past the June 30 deadline. TO BE SET MONDAY The preliminary allocation will not be 2 Stars 'to Wed Soon' officially set until Monday and the final lUn........................ BIGGEST INCREASE By MARY SUNDSTROM Eight Pontiac tenure teachers were discharged by the board* of education "last Mght because ~ ofmeir“failu?e To Comply with a "financial responsibility” clause in their contract with the school district. The teachers had refused to pay $85 dues to the Pontiac Education Association, in an agency shop agreement specified in this year’s contract between the school board and the PEA, and were given a hearing April 29 to discuss the case. . they would remain on their present jobs iil Pontiac until the appeal is settled, according to the contractual agreement betweernthe school board- andrthe-PEA. Further appeals may also be.Made beyond the tenure commission to circuit court, appellate court and finally the supreme court. The unit getting the biggest increase from within the 15-mill limit was Oakland Intermediate Schools — allotted 0.21 mills. Last year the Intermediate SehoM-DistFiet-was~fiRancod-almost-en tirely from nonvoted taxes outside the limit,.but an,attorney general’s opinion has held that financing illegal. Murphy alsp asked the board to con- rate will not be set until June 2. Action yesterday followed two days of budget presentations by schools, townships and the county. CORFU, Greece (AP) — British actor Albert Finney and French star Anouk Aimee left for Italy today, saying they would be back in two months to get married. Sun's Warm Smile Lifts Temperature WMle township allocations remairi' substantially the same as last year, schools learned .they- probably will be pare(TTo^eIp^hance^einfemedlj5te school district. The millage allotted to them and townsMps was downgraded (Continued on Page A-2, Col. 3) The couple arrived in Corfu a week agft.and.Mve beenjstaying at a rented three-room villa at Ipsos, on the island’s picturesque northwest coast facing Albarta. 1 Prosecutor Bill Stalls Related Stories, Page B-7 During negotiations for the teachers’ contract last July, PEA obtained the , agency shop agreement which provides that all teachers must pay dues or be discharged. The Michigan Tenure Law provides that no teacher may be fired except for just cause, and whether nonpayment of dues is included in the provision is a matter MicMgan courts have not clearly decided. SUIT POSSIBILITY CITED Board , President William Anderson said that although he did not like dismissing the teachers, he felt that not to dismjss them would leave jhe board open to charges of urifair labor practice. 4* I 'hriii Chris Brown, the only' board member who voted against the dismissals, said he 'could not condone the action, since it has not been upheld in the MicMgan Supreme Court. Board member Monroe Qsmun was absent, and Dr. Robert R. Turpin had hot yet arrived at the meeting." . , The vote was 4-1 on the resolution to /dismiss the teachers at the close school year on June 13. Should the teachers appeal their case to the Michigan Tenure Commission, LANSING (AP) — The Senate yesterday debated, then put off action, on a controversial bill tiiat would mandate counties to pay prosecutors as much as probate Or circuit court judges. In 11 countes last year, no one filed for the office of-prosecuting attorney, said Sen. James Fleming, R-Jackson, sponsor of the bill. Today’s brilliant sunshine is expected to send temperatures soaring into the mid-70s by late afternoon. Tonight will continue lair and warm, with a low ~of50to55.—------—..................~ Increasing cloudiness and warm with a chance of showers or thundershowers by evening is the forecast for tomorrow. Tomorrow’s expected Mgh is 75 to 82. There’s a chance of showers Satunlay. The low prior to 8 a.m. in downtown Pontiac was 44. The reading at 2 p.m. was 70. Army Tank Tempest WASHINGTON (AP) - Hitherto confidential government report says the Army pushed its problem-ridden Sheridan tarik into production to avoid criticism and possible budget cutbacks, then repeated the mistake with a refitted version of the M60 tank. As a result, of rushing production before the bugs were ironed out, the General Accounting Office,.says, many Of the tanks have been stored to await \ modifications before they can become ' operational. , Canada Sex Bills Gain LITTLE NIP’LL DO IT—A little antelope gets a midday snack in the special care section of the Columbus, Ohio, Zoo. Georgia Bolin. The antelope is of the black buck variety The antelope was born April 19. Holding the bottle is Mrs! ' from India. OTTAWA (AP) — Criminal code amendments- to legalize therapeutic abortions and homosexual acts in private between consenting adults cleared'the House of Commons Wednesday night.* The vote was 149-55. The bill Was seirt to ^he .Senate fpr priority consideration. 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