September 9, 1973

Vice Pres Agnew says on Sept 8 that Repub party is healthy and has survived worst of Watergate affair, speech, Kane County Fair Grounds, Ill, in benefit fundraising event for Repr Arends; says 'morbid preoccupation' with Watergate 'obstructs' will of people because it distracts Govt from other necessary tasks; says 'we have reached the watershed of Watergate'; calls Watergate 'the misguided actions of a few zealots'; concedes there were real and tragic abuses' connected with it; says abuses resulting from current climate are of much more subtle and tragic proportions; says these abuses include 'persecutorial atmosphere hanging over Amer pol system' that, he says, damages willingness of men to enter politics, casts shadow over normal pol affairs and brings motives of politicians into question; illus

Article describes Bur of Customs computer network, Customs Automated Data Processing Intelligence Network (CADPIN), which aids in identifying suspected smugglers; operation, which was kept secret until recently, began in '70, has 485 terminal points along Mexican and Canadian borders and at internatl airports and several cruise ship ports; system allows customs inspectors to swiftly obtain data on people crossing border into US by entering name, passport number, auto license plate number or similar identification into remote terminal that is hooked up to central computer; computer stores data on known smugglers and criminals and is also linked with FBI and other law enforcement agencies; D Bulman, chief of center, says over Labor Day holiday alone 715,000 inquiries were handled on system

career sketch of M Court, winner of women's singles champ at US Open tennis tourn in Forest Hills

Ceres Land Co, one of nation's largest beef cattle feeding cos, begins on Sept 7 to include in normal diet of its herd substantial portions of feed derived from cattle manure, 1st commitment by major cattle producer to use processed, protein-rich animal waste as cattle feed; move came after 15 yrs of research and testing by a dozen cos and univs; roughly 3/4 of some 1.7-billion tons of wastes produced by farm animals yrly is cattle manure; cattle in feed lots produce some 600-million tons of manure a yr; Agr Dept researchers estimate that protein extracted only from feed-lot manure would equal protein contained in yrly soybean crop in US; soybean is chief protein source in animal feed; Ceres officials think they can produce manure-derived feed with 30% protein content at cost of less than $70 a ton, compared with $206 a ton for soybean oil meal with 44% protein content; Prof David W Seckler, who along with Prof W Brady Anthony pioneered process and is part-owner of Ceres, says that there is image problem since manure is, in effect, recycled; says that manure is far too valuable to waste as fertilizer or fuel; recycling process explained; illus; recycled manure feed will eventually replace only about 15-20% of cow's diet for its 5-mo stay at Ceres feed lot; co expects to spend $500,000 over next 3 yrs converting feed lots into efficient manure collection pens

Both sides in Kompong Cham, Sept 8, reptdly dig in and fortify houses and st positions while bringing up reinforcements; relatively little fighting reptd in city, but both sides seen preparing for maximum effort in next few days; insurgents are in complete control of the mainly residential southern part of city; Govt troops control northern part; river convoy from city arriving in Phnom Penh carries about 30 Govt casualties; convoys move regularly between 2 cities; illus of wounded Govt soldiers