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WINTER SPORTS CAPITAL OF IOWA of fTlstory 4 Archives Uea Moines, Xowa 50316 i- 1-70 DAILY NEWS 104th YEAR; NO, 200 Estherville, Iowa, 51334, Friday, July 14, 1972 WEEK. 60c; COPY, 15c Fat Albert, Strela Make Air War Scene To Music Camp Seven Estherville High School students and vocal instructor Don Brown will leave Sunday for the International Music Camp at the International Peace Gardens on the Canadian Border near Bottineau, N.D. Their one-week stay will include study under chorus director Dr. Musselman from the University of Montana. Going from Estherville are sitting from left, Jean Sampson, LuAnn Clague and Brown.

Standing are Ramona Doyle, Kim Yule, Dennis Murray and Jeff Fain. Also going but not pictured is Kathy by Chuck Ostheimer No Household Word: Meet Tom Eagleton JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. CAP) TTie selection of Thomas F. Eagleton as the Democratic vice presidential candidate climaxed a meteoric rise in politics for the 42-year-old junior senator from Missouri. At 27, Eagleton was elected St.

County circuit attorney; at 31, Missouri's attorney general; at 35, lieutenant governor; and at 38 Mis sour ians sent him to the U.S. Senate. Youthfulin Eagleton sometimes has been called a Kennedy-type Democrat, but he dislikes being labeled either a conservative or a liberal. He says his views depend on the issue involved. Associates regard him as liberal on most matters.

He called in 1968 for an immediate cease-fire in Vietnam, and was an early advocate of stopping the bombing there. Eagleton also tried to whittle down military spending and succeeded in knocking out the MBT70 tank as a wasteful expense. He advocated wage and price controls to slow inflation. When President Nixon announced Phase I of his economic controls, Eagleton praised the action but told Missourians he hoped it wasn't "too little, too late." Eagleton has worked on labor and consumer issues in the Senate. He got the Senate to adopt a clear labeling act.

He sponsored an amendment, later adopted, that allowed use of federal funds to ease the financial strain on school districts caused by public housing projects. As vice chairman of the Senate's air and water pollution subcommittee, he has counted environmental problems as one of his main concerns in recent months. Eagleton was a principal sponsor of the Clean Air Act of 1970 and was an author of the Water Pollution Act of 1971, which is still pending in a conference committee. As chairman of the Senate committee on the District of Columbia, he pushed through a consumer protection act and got the Senate to adopt a home rule bill for the district. As lieutenant governor of Missouri, Eagleton presided over the state Senate with a flair.

Quick-witted, he often broke tensions with a quip. He served as cochaurman of the Governor's Conference on Education and was head of the Governor's Commission on Crime and Juvenile Delimiuen- cy. At 15, Eagleton was the target of a kidnaping threat while his father was representing the Missouri Senate in an ouster case against a senator accused of soliciting a bribe. He later became an honor graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School and attended Oxford University. He served two years in the Navy before opening law practice in Louis.

Eagleton is married to the former Barbara Smith, 36, a childhood playmate. They have two children, Terry, 12, and Christin, 8, who is called Christy. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine was Eagleton's first choice for the Democratic presidential nomination, but after Muskie withdrew, the Missourian joined the forces of Sen.

George McGovern. Airward SAIGON (AP) Hanoi's introduction of a heat-seeking Soviet antiaircraft missile into the Vietnam war is generating considerable concern among U.S. and South Vietnamese commanders and has brought about some drastic changes in their fliers' tactics. The weapon is the SA7, or "Strela" a Soviet missUe which the North Vietnamese fire from the shoulder like a bazooka. It is much like the U.S.

Redeye missile. The Strela is equipped with an infrared homing device that is attracted to the heat given off by an aircraft engine and carries a high-explosive warhead. It has proved very effective, especially against the comparatively slow helicopters and propeller planes, officers say. Some officers consider it the most effective of the several weapons used for the first time by the North Vietnamese in the current offensive the others include long-range artillery, medium tanks and wire-guided missiles. Military sources estimate that more tlian a dozen U.S.

aircraft and at least that many South Vietnamese helicopters and planes have been downed by Strela missiles since they appeared on the battlefield in early May. The only Americans known to have survived being hit by one of the missiles were two Army pilots whose helicopter gunship crash landed in some trees after a missile blew off its tall boom near An Loc. The Strela has been used most often around An Loc and along Highway 13. It was so effective there that midway through the siege of the provincial capital, U.S. helicopters quit flying in the area, and spotter planes were forced to operate at 10,000 feet, above the estimated range of the missile.

Among the tactics devised by pilots is low-level flying which often enables a helicopter to fly through a danger zone before the enemy can bring the weapon to bear. Another, used with middling success, is cutting power and allowing the helicopter to "autorotate" toward the ground; the sudden drop causes Hanoi Squints at Election Asks School Finance Change DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Tlie new president of the Iowa Education Association (ISEA) says the organization will ask the Iowa Legislature to create "a more equitable school financing system." E. L. (Roy) Karlson made the remark at a press conference here Thursday. Karlson, a Coon Rapids High School history teacher, said the ISEA intends to have such a bill ready for legislative study Among Other Second Session Swim Lessons Sign-ups are now being taken for the second session swimming lessons which will run from July 24 through Aug, 25, Anyone interested in enrolling should call the swimming pool by dialing 3622723, The lessons will include adult, senior life saving, beginner, advance beginner, intermediate and advanced.

The lessons must be attended regularly in order for the swimmer to complete the course. Woolworth's Closes Aug. 15 The W. Woolworth variety store will discontinue operations in Estherville Aug. 15, according to C.

W. Backhaus, regional vice president of the company. Backhaus, in announcing the closing, stated, "The company regrets closing the store after many years of service to the community and the pleasant association it has had with customers here. However, requirements of efficiency and economic operations make the closing necessary." Gene Timmerman, store manager in Estherville, said personnel would be offered transfers to other Woolworth stores. Injured in Cycle Accident Joleen Gibson, 25, Armstrong, was injured while riding as a passenger on a motorcycle yesterday, according to an Estherville police report.

Ms. Gibson is being treated at Holy Family Hpspital for facial and internal injuries. She is reported to have many abrasions and much pain but no fractures or serious injuries. She will remain in the hospital several days. She was riding on a 1972 Honda operated by Roy Lee Roberts, Estherville, at 10:45 p.m.

on Park Road near Fort Defiance. They were traveling south on a part of the road which is under construction and the east lane was higher than the west. The cycle caught the higii part of the road on a curve and tipped over. The rear fender and tail light of the motorcycle were damaged. by early September.

He said the bill would equalize educational opportunities "instead of freezing taxes for individual school districts." Job opportunities for teachers in Iowa are increasing, he said, but there are still too many teachers, "Schools advertise for teachers to teach more than one subject," he said, "and then supervise extracurricular activities such as coaching football and track. Teachers are hesitant to accept so many responsibilities." Karlson, a native of Waterloo, was to take office Friday as the 119th president of the BEA. He succeeds Walter Galvin of Des Moines, who will return to teaching at Technical High School here. During his term, Karlson said he will promote 'the concept of developing multiple talents in students and stress the need for upgrading employment conditions for educators." Gun Battles Rage BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Gun battles raged through the night in Roman Catholic districts of Belfast and continued today after the British army abandoned its "low profile" and took the offensive against guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. The Forecast By WILLIAM L.

RYAN AP Special Correspondent Call it educated guessing, hunch or plain gut feeling, but some veteran Communist- watchers detect new ferment in the Indochina situation generated by the yeasty possibilities of the U.S. presidential campaign. American politics presents mystifying problems to Hanoi. If U.S. campaign politics can create confusion among Americans themselves, how incredibly mixed up it must all seem to a clutch of Communist leaders who cannot hope to begin understanding the rudiments of American democracy.

Imagine yourself a member of the Hanoi Politburo. You know the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency has pledged that all U.S. forces and prisoners will be out of Indochina 90 days after his inauguration. Should you sit tight until November to see if he wins? Trying to figure out the Americans, you look to the record.

Perhaps you see little difference on Indochina between Democratic and Republican presidents. On the other hand, suppose the incumbent is re-elected. Would he be much more difficult to deal with after November? You get advice from the Soviet Union and China, but your giant allies make you jumpy. Peking received President Nixon. Then Moscow received him, even while he was increasing the bombing of your country and mining its ports.

Both the Chinese and Russians assure you their hearts are with you, but you can't help wonder: What's going on? Clearly your allies have big- power interests. Clearly those interests clash in Southeast Asia. Neither wants a situation to develop that will overly enhance the other's influence. Each has an interest in an opening to the United States. Is the Southeast Asia war becoming an embarrasment to both? The experience of history has been that every war must end when there no longer is any purpose in continuing the fightr ing, when costs outrun the value of objectives.

Is that time near? Your country has lost enormous numbers of young men and its problems are Immense. Floods break weakened dikes and there's not enough labor to keep them in proper repair. Keeping agriculture sufficiently productive to feed those at home and the troops wUl be an increasingly difficult problem. There can hardly be a family in the land that has not suffered the loss of at least one man. The prospect of an Indochina wholly free of Americans is enticing.

Perhaps one might accomplish politically what force of arms failed to accomplish. You are bound to weigh the odds. What do you do? Do you consider the possibility of a in the hand or sit tight and wait on the chance that there may be a more attractive one in the bush? the missile to zoom past harmlessly. U.S, and South Vietnamese airmen have used still another gimmick tossing out mite grenades or parachute flares. The missile diverts to the hotter target.

Groundward SAIGON (AP) The U.S. Navy announced today the introduction of a new, one-ton video bomb called "Fat Albert" into the air war against North Vietnam and termed it highly effective. The weapon is an improved version of the "Walleye" television bomb and has been in use for the past month, the Navy said. Capt. Marland W.

Towsend, commanding officer of the carrier Kitiy Hawk, said the first six Fat Alberts released scored direct hits against their targets and reduced the risk that American pilots would be hit by ground fb-e. Townsend said four bridges were downed and two military supply buildings were destroyed by the bombs. "You can't beat 100 per cent," he said. The Fat Albert, named by fliers aboard the Kitty Hawk, is twice as powerful as the Walleye and has a television camera in the nose to direct the bomb to the target. The U.S, Command announced, meanwhile, that pilots carried out 270 tactical air strikes against targets inside North Vietnam Thursday.

Radio Hanoi claimed that 14 U.S. warplanes bombed a section of dikes in North Vietnam's Hai Hung Province on Tuesday and tliat a large number of Western newsmen saw it. The broadcast said the newsmen had been taken to the area near Iliep Ca and Nan Hung villages to sec damage allegedly done to dikes there by U.S. bombs two days earlier. In the ground war, more heavy fighting was reported today on South Vietnam's northern front, where 20,000 Saigon troops are on a drive to retake Quang Tri Province, which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1.

The Saigon command said its troops liad not entered the Quang Tri City limits, but reported a series of battles ranging from two to miles northeast of the provincial capital. Spokesmen said 114 North Vietnamese troops were killed, almost half of them by air and artillery strikes, and 41 weapons captured. Three South Vietnamese marines were reported killed and 14 wounded. A higli-ranking South Vietnamese officer was killed and eight other men wounded when a South Vietnamese helicopter crashed southeast of Quang Tri City. The Saigon command reported artillery and rocket attacks against the old imperial capital of Hue Thursday night and this morning, and said eight persons were killed and 21 wounded.

Mrs. Boy Bobby Makes Move, Loses Second Game REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's protest against his loss of Thursday's world championship chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award the game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's title. Fischer stayed in his hotel room Thursday and refused to play unless three cameras filming the match for movie and television sales were removed from the hall.

Since the American challenger lost the first game on Wednesday, referee Lothar Schmid's forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Schmid said the third game of the 24-game match would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match was very much in doubt. Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott. He added that the World Chess Federation FIDE could step In at any time and disqualify him. But Dr.

Max Euwe, president of the organization, said Schmid was still in charge of the match and must decide how to handle the American. A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, who bought the movie and TV rights for the match from the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the cameras had to stay because "the whole financial structure of the match depends on it." It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders to offer a record $125,000 purse to the two players, and Fischer and Spassky are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a minimum of $55,000. Fox said Fischer admitted he couldn't hear or see the three cameras, but "he said they bothered him because he knew they were there," Fischer had objected first to the cameras Wednesday night and left the chess board in the sports palace for half an hour before conceding defeat in the first match. Intense negotiations through the rest of the night and all day Thursday failed to coax him from his hotel room. Spassky had arrived while at the sports palace and was seated behind the black figures before a crowd of about 1,000.

The white pieces, and with them the first move, were Fischer's as the loser of the first game. At 5 p.m., the scheduled starting, Schmid started the playing clock. When the hour time limit for the first move by Fischer passed, the referee declared a forfeit. Spassky was given a standing ovation as he left the hall. Jivo Nei, a Spassky assistant, called Fischer's refusal to appear "a grave insult not only to the Soviet people but to the whole world." Connally Confers SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(AP) Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally has arrived in Southern California for a conference today with President Nixon. Connally just completed a 35- day, 15-nation trip around the world for the President, who has promised the mission would be followed by an important new assignment for the Texas Democrat. River Pollution? or is it a moonscape? Neither. It's water with white bubbles on top floathig in a river of ralmvater in the alley behind the Dally News office.

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