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> I Mr. Thrasher He is a dandy, a show-off and a superb perfo:nner. His ~mrnon name is Brown Thrasher, but he is also known as foX< thrush, .ground thrush, French mockingbird and half a dozen other flat- tering names. He is not a thruah at all,. but a member of the .same family as the mockingbird and the cat- bird, the Mimidae, or the Mimics. He is one of the most engaging singers we have. - :Longer than a robin and slimmer, he wears a rich cinnamon,brown coat and a pail buff weskit with streaks the color of his back. His beak is'· long and somewhat curved. IDs eye is bright: He loves to sing fl-om the very top of a tall tree, and he s.ings early and late and often in between. It really isn't correct to speak of the thrasher's song, for he has a big repertoire of phrases that he puts to- gether in a hundred ways. Aretas Saunders, the bird- sang man, once recoroed . fifty different phrases from one pird, in addition to half a dozen. imitations of other birds. Mr. Thrasher is both a composer and an_ impro- visor of great range and skill. And he has a splendid voice, second only to the best of the thrushes. · Some say he is repetitious, because he usually sings the same phrase twice as . he goes .along. Some even say he stammers. But this is patently a canard. That is his trademark, his own way with a song. He knows what he is doing, and he does it superbly well. He lives to sing, glories in it. He makes any spring day somewhat brighter for everyone within hearing. -New York Times Last·Rites For SST HE ......... URNAL_., EGISTER Chance of brief showers Sunny interv!lls ~Y. the JllKI!I· m Winds mainly southwest ·to . Serving The Lake Plains Country~Orldans; Niag!lra, Genesee to 30 around some thunder shOWet't; VOL. 69-NO. 77 u.s. ARVN.in $hau Valley~ · By BARNEY SEIBERT SAIGON (UPI)-South Viet- namese -troops battle~ dug-in North Vietnamese at both ends of the A Shau Valley today, supported by U.S. helicopters that came under heavy fire. B52s bonibed. in neighboring Laos where a Communist offensive rolled on unchecked. A military spokesman in the · J..aotian capital of Vientiane said North Vietnamese forces launched a 12-hour rocket and mortar attack which drove Laotian government forces out . of Houei Kong, last government •mtpost on the strategic Bolov- ens Plateau in southem Laos. ' / • • . . tl ' UPI correspondent Stewart Kellerman reported fmm a firebase overlooking the valley in · the northern part of South Vietnam that ARVN troops killed 38 North Vietnamese in the bitterest fight of the ca~paign to drive Commwrlsts from bunkered strongholds. · Another battle was reported at the northeastern end· of the valley, which is 375 miles north of Saigon. There the 54th ARVN regiment fought for eight hours, · killing five of the dug-in enemy .. ARVN casualties were reported light. DEDICATION PLANNED - A committee of the Medina Cemetery Commission meets to make further plans for dedicating a new section of Boxwood Cemetery on May 30. The Rev. R. B. Moss,- standing, a commission member, is chairman for the dedica- tion. Seated from left, John P. Kennedy, a commission member; Ronald Yates, cem- etery superinterndent, and Dr. Fulton Rogers, chairman of the commission. . , -(J-R Photo) In southern Laos the military situation grew more serious by the minute and the North Vietnamese were reported con- solidating their hold on the Plan Dedication- R'ites For Cemetery Expansion Black Ratio ln U.S. Cities Is Growing WASHINGTON (UPI) -The entire Bolovens Plateau-a On Sunday, May 30, at 3 p.m. an -drive that in effect widened the outdoor service of dedication will Ho. Chi Minh Trail complex of be held on a plot just north of the supply lines to Cambodia and present Boxwood Cemetery southern Vietnam. which will become a new addition B52s for the first time in six to the cemetery. days bombed in both Cambodia The Medina Cemetery Com- and Laos. At least 20 of the mission is carrying forward a bombers hit Communist supply pmject started when the land was lines in Laos with 600 tons of first set aside for the purpose bombs and 15 others struck in under the administration of northeastern Cambodia just Mayor Eldred Short some years below the Bolovens Plateau. ago. The new section will be started black population of the nation's with $5,000 in this year's _village largest cities continued to grow budget, and gradually expanded. during the 1960s, the Census- It will ·include a \Memorial Bureau said Wednesday. . Circle\ and a special section for The bureau said that of the 50 ground markers only, and con- U.S. cities with the largest taining an 8-foot redwood cross. black population, only one, The Cemetery Commission is Birmingham, Ala., had fewer headed by Dr. Fulton Rogers, Negro residents in 1970 than in who with his wife, gave the cross 1960. A total of 126,388 Negroes and surrounding ground as a live in Birmingham-42 per 20. 1971 ,, lOCENTS • evea's ' .. ' rms ·re·a· .- - . ·._ .· :~ Says U.S., Russia· Agree· On Nuclear Cutbacks WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres- . ident Nixon announced today that the United States and the Soviet Union· had agreed to negotiate simultaneously limita- tions on both offensive and defensive weapons in the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT). The President said the agreement, reached in negotia- tions \involving the highest levels of both governments,\ represented \a major step in breaking the . stalemate on the nuclear arms talks.\ The White House felt that this step could perhaps lead to an agreement this year to curb deployment by both the Rus- sians and the United States of antiballistic · rnissYe systems <ABO) and limit some offen- sive weapons systems. Announcement of the agree- ment was made simultaneoUSly' by Nixon ·· in a nationally broadcast statement from the White House and by the Soviet government in Moscow. After making the formal an- nouncement, Nixon said: _ \If we succeed, this joint statement that is being issued today maY: be .remembered as the beginning of a new era in which all nations may devote School Negotiations at Stage of Deadlcxk . . more of their lm•ei:(
