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Not big enough to fillet
Contrary to popular belief, there are fish in Potter Lake. Not very big ones, but fish just the same. The angler shown here surveying his catch is Kerry Atkinson, 2528 Moundview Drive.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — To a Scranton, Pa., bill collector, he's W. Magnuson of Seattle, Wash., a guy who owes $16.47 for some phonograph records. A sportsmen's magazine calls him "dear subscriber" and is dunning him for $20.
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Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), sponsor of an amendment which would make unsolicited merchandise the property of the recipient, says he never ordered the records or magazines. And he's not paying.
"They didn't know who they were sending them to." Magnuson said of the merchandise which arrived at his Seattle home. "They're mine now. I gave them to my grandchildren. They didn't know who put the amendment in on them," he said in a UPI Washington Window interview.
"There are no unsolicited sscriptions at all," the editor said. He checked and said the magazine's files listed Magnuson as having subscribed to the publication by answering an ad in Outdoor Life magazine last fall.
The editor, reached by telephone in New York, said Magnuson must be mistaken.
His office gave UPI photostatic copies of a bill and three dunning letters from a magazine editor plus a bill in behalf of a record club and credit service in Scranton, which lists its business as "collection and tracing of delinquent accounts."
"No, not me," Magnuson said "I'm sure I didn't. I'd like to see it if my signature on it. I never
answered an ad and I don't even read Outdoor Life."
Was Magnuson sure he never subscribed to the record club? "Never came near it." he replied
"They're doing this all over the country," Magnuson said of the practice of sending unordered merchandise, then demanding payment. He emphasized his overall complaint was not directed at either the magazine or the club.
South Korean leader asks no U.S. pullouts
England's royal duo leave States with mixed reaction
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The three day visit of Prince Charles andl Princess Anne left American observers with contrasting impressions—they admired his good humor and grace but noted that she, unlike royalty, was sometimes unable to mask her feelings.
HONOLULU (UPI) — South Korean Defense Minister Jung Nae Hiuk warned Sunday against the partial pullout of American troops from his country and said such a move would invite another invasion of Korea and probably topple the Seoul government.
The royal pair left Washington Saturday night to return to Buckingham Palace after a whirlwind visit that brought them close to the First Family and gave them their first view of American life.
"This is not the time to discuss U.S. forces being withdrawn from Korea," the minister told a news conference upon his arrival for the third U.S. Korean Defense Ministers Conference.
Their parting with President Nixon's family at the White House was filled with fond farewells, promises to return, and kindly handshakes with the household staff. But no public words of their impressions about their visit were spoken.
The conference, which begins Tuesday, will discuss the American proposal to withdraw an estimated 20,000 Americans from Korea in exchange for a beefing up of the Republic of Korea's military.
"The national consensus in my country is that the U.S. forces should stay with us for several more years," said the black-suited Jung.
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"Take a young married couple short on cash and credit," he said. "They get dunned like this, and they say, 'Gee we better pay, our credit rating will be ruined.' It's a tragedy."
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (UPI)—U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists are studying a new "solar-groove" wood siding material for use in home construction.
"As you know very well, the Communist provocations and in-
Although New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote, Finland was the first enabling them to run for Parliament. Finland was the first in Europe to give women the right to vote.
The siding consists of V-shaped grooves machined so that in summer the bottom surface faces the sun.
Magnuson's amendment passed the Senate as part of the postal reform bill and is now before a House Senate Conference Committee.
HELSINKI (UPI)—In 1907 Finland not only gave women the right to vote but the right to sit in Parliament.
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filtrations have increased tremendously and are continuing. According to our estimates, North Korea is very likely to launch another war in Korea," he said.
"On this point we feel that our defense posture should not be reduced but strengthened. That is why the Korean government and people are so seriously concerned about the proposed reduction of U.S. forces in Korea."
The Defense Minister, speaking soft, halting English, said he was certain Prime Minister Chung Ikwong and 19 members of the Republic's cabinet would resign if the United States goes through with its planned troop reductions.
'I think the prime minister still thinks he will resign and I belong to his cabinet,' Jung said.
"I am sure he would resign, and am also sure that he will act according to what he said."
"We will watch the situation very closely," he said. "Our decision on this question will be made in accordance with developments in the situation."
Jung said that "at this moment" South Korea was not considering any withdrawal of its troops from South Vietnam.
Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard told a news conference here Saturday that South Korea needed and would get new and improved military equipment to bolster its defenses in return for the American troop withdrawal.
Italian court rejects appeal in divorce case
ROME (UPI) — The Roman Court of Appeals Sunday upheld the constitutionality of an article in the Lateran treaty between Italy and the Vatican that forbids divorce.
The Italian Senate is debating legislation that would legalize divorce for the first time in Italy. The bill, which already has passed the Chamber of Deputies, is opposed strongly by the Vatican and most of the Christian Democrats in Parliament but supported by almost every other party.
Article 34 of the Concordat gives the Roman Catholic Church authority over marriage and divorce in Italy. Advocates of divorce long have contended this violates the Italian constitution by allowing a foreign nation—the Vatican—to dictate civil rights of Italian citizens.
The Court handed down a ruling on a test case involving a Roman couple who went to court to get a divorce.
Jung said, however, that his country needed the Americans for at least another five years as the South Korean Government was not economically able to support both a big military machine and a prosperous economy.
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Charles impressed Americans with his grace and style, good manners, wry sense of humor and sartorial splender.
But to them Anne seemed different. She rarely smiled and sometimes appeared sullen.
"He does everything right," one woman reporter remarked about the 21-year-old prince. "Charming" was the most heard description.
Charles cut a suave figure with his erect posture—a contrast to the boyish slouch of David Eisenhower, Nixon's son-in-law.
On his various tours, he always seemed to be in the lead. But sometimes he was a comic.
Once, at a party, sighting newsmen peering at him, their noses pressed against the window of the Blue Room, Charles looked back with amusement. Then, to their delight, he pantomimed a dance position.
Impressions of 19-year-old Anne, a tall blonde, were different. She looked like a princess, observers agreed, but did not live up to her publicized funloving image.
She displayed irritation at the "million's" of reporters who followed her. Official doings seemed to bore her. When 78-year-old Speaker John W. McCormack took her arm in a courtly gesture to lead her on a tour, she jerked away.
And there were some high level surprises over Anne's special request to visit the scene of Washington's 1968 race riots. When the presidential limousine slowed down, she photographed the gutted ghetto buildings.
Thousands fight timberland blaze in Washington
OKANOGAN, Wash. (UPI) Lightning-ignited fires raced through thousands of acres of grass and timberland Sunday as more than 5,000 men fought them with planes, bulldozers and trucks.
A 44-man firefighting crew from the U.S. Forest Service was trapped for a time by a 400 acre fire about 20 miles west of Omak, but was rescued by helicopters.
The Forest Service reported about 100 fires had blackened 40,000 acres in north central Washington, with several blazes burning more than 1,000 acres each. Sixteen fires in the state, including 14 in the Okanogan area, were listed as potential "disaster" blazes.
No communities were threatened, although thick smoke hung in some areas like yellow fog, turning the sun into an orange disk.
Weather forecasters predicted a 60 per cent chance or more lightning and gusty winds which could touch off even more quick spreading fires in the tinder dry area.
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