February 8, 1973

J Hoover surrenders to team of police searchers 7 hrs after allegedly killing his sister's fiance G R Winch and critically wounding his brother K Hoover and friend K Widdis; shootings occurred in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, NJ; police decline to speculate on motive for shootings but noted Hoover had history of mental illness; illus; map

Research team at Pasteur Inst in Paris produces influenza vaccine that researchers believe will be effective against strains of the disease yet to evolve; expects it to provide protection against flu viruses that will not appear in human population before '78; influenza virus strains drift' or evolve so that antibodies generated in body for original strain become less effective; vaccine producers are engaged in continuous race to keep up with drift; 'forced' evolution of virus in laboratory was proposed in order to produce future strains and vaccines against them before they appear in population; is accomplished by constantly attacking virus in laboratory with antibodies, but by the time vaccine is produced, virus is changed and unaffected by antibodies produced by earlier form; vaccine producers expect this is true of new vaccine; Pasteur group, headed by Dr C Hannoun and including Dr F de Saint Groth, appears confident that vaccine is effective, based on laboratory development of Hong Kong flu from its original '68 form along parallel lines to those of its development in population; contends vaccine jumps 5 yrs ahead of natural drift of virus; illus of Hannoun

US HR, in defiance of Pres Nixon, votes on Feb 7 to require Agr Dept to spend $210-million that Adm had refused to release for Rural Environmental Assistance Program; vote, however, fails to get 2/3 majority facing possibility of Presidential veto; action considered 1st major test of Pres' refusal to spend some $8-billion appropriated by Cong for domestic programs; Sen is expected to go along with HR on rural conservation program; conservation program, in existence for over 4 decades, provides direct grants to farmers for soil and water conservation practices; Agr Sec Butz testifies that rural environmental program involves only 20% of nation's farmers in any given yr; says that if conservation practices were considered important enough, farm communities could allocate funds for program from gen revenue-sharing grants received from Govt; illus

commuters and transportation auths on Feb 7 begin preparing alternate means of transportation during Penn Central strike; car pools are formed, hundreds of extra buses scheduled, parking restrictions in city eased, and additional commuter service is planned on lines not affected by Penn Central walkout; affected lines listed; alternate services detailed

N Ireland erupts in widespread violence on Feb 7 after gunmen fire into procession of hundreds of Roman Caths following coffins of 3 members of Provisional wing of IRA who were killed recently by Brit troops; 2 people are injured in procession; aside from those wounded at funeral, Brit soldier is shot and 8 gunmen are reptd hit by fire from Brit troops; 1 Prot dies later and 3 unidentified bodies are found; fireman is shot fatally while fighting fire in downtown Belfast; rampant shooting, rioting, looting and intimidation coincide with 1-day strike called by Prot militant groups; just about everything stops in Belfast except fighting; Prot extremists appear to be warning Brit Govt that they will not tolerate 'sellout' to Cath minority on future of N Ireland; Prot youths attack home of Cath priest Rev J Courtney and wreck inside of his church; W Whitelaw, Brit admr of N Ireland, says demonstrations and violence will not influence Brit policy; 1-day strike was called by W Craig, former Home Affairs Min who is leader of Vanguard Movement, Prot group, after Brit troops detained 2 Prots under emergency powers for involvement in tossing of hand grenade into busload of Cath workmen, 1 of whom was killed; detention law had previously been applied only to suspected Cath terrorists