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1 in Firecracker Softball Tournament, rolls morning coastal showers. High 88-95, dominate field in Firecracker 400 to Centaur rocket. six drivers expected TODAY vatory will go Aug. 10 on an AtlasSports Highlights An Next Orbiting Space Astronomical Shot ObserIC. TODAY's Weather Homer Warren Motors Fair through -Wednesday.

Night, 1C. (Complete sports, 1-4C) low 75. Winds southeast 8-15 m.p.h. Florida's Space Age Newspaper (Complete weather Page 2A) Tuesday, July 4, 1972 -Published by The Gannett Company in Brevard County, Florida 10 Cents TUESDAY Headlines Inside TODAY IN SPACE U.S., SOVIET space engineers to study dock mission, design at Houston. IN THE WORLD SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER in hospital, suffering from effects of attempt to sail Atlantic solo.

(2A) ENGLISH TAVERN owner bans smoking in his pub, watches half his business go up in smoke. (5A) RALPH NADER in Australia to study extinction peril for kangaroo species; U.S. Interior Department may ban hides. (8A) U.S., SOVIET scientists open Moscow meetings to implement Nixon treaty with Russia. (11A) BELFAST PROTESTANTS erect barricades around three 'citadels' in defiance of British.

(12A) IN THE NATION EX-PRESIDENT TRUMAN, cheerful but bit tired, jokes with hospital nurses. (2A) NIXON GETS taste of rising beef prices when he: orders steak in Los Angeles restaurant. (2A) PEARL BUCK, 80, in hospital following pleurisy attack. (2A) ENSIGN DAVID. Eisenhower home from sea duty; Julie meets him in Jax.

(2A) WHITE PRESIDENT of NAACP not realistic, black chapter president says. (2A) SLAIN SAIGON skyjacker was. June University of Washington graduate and antiwar activist. (3A) NIXON ADDRESS to nation on radio at noon today to stress bicentennial. (3A) ARTHUR BREMER, accused Wallace assailant, to undergo mental testing.

(3A) FIRST FEDERAL Congress in 1789 had moments of humor but it also laid the foundations for, the Republic. (8A) HOOVER EX-AIDE fears congressional pressure may now make FBI 'instrument of police state (12A) IN FLORIDA POWER COMPANY given waiver of pollution restrictions to alleviate threat of pow-. er shortage. (8B) MEASLES OUTBREAK has state officials calling for mass immunizations. (8B) SPECIAL SESSION of legislature may be called if filing fee is unconstitutional.

(8B) IN THE AREA BREVARD DEMOCRATIC Executive Committee members face loyalty oath violation if McGovern becomes presidential nominee and they disavow support. (1B) AUTO TAG purchases set records on first day of sales, although missing tags and computer foulups slow lines. (1B) CAPE CANAVERAL Police Chief Willard Winnett gets bashed by bottle thrown by a man holed up in a house and resisting arrest. (1B) Specials TODAY JULY 4, 1776 was only another hot, mugday in. Philadelphia where the Second gy Continental Congress was assembled.

While, to later generations of Americans it marks an epochal event, it wasn't even recognized as an important date until a year later. Focus. (10A) JABE THOMAS is 'one of them there race car drivers' who would look more at home behind a plow. than behind the wheel of powerful automobile. He's a little-known member of the NASCAR Grand National's second pack now assembled at Daytona International Speedway.

He's also booked for an appearance on TV's 'Hee (4C) SPACE COAST motels are enjoying their busiest summer in history, thanks mostly to World. And operators report their guests staying longer in Brevard than Disney are they did in previous years. (12C) Everyday Features After Dark, 5D Amusements, 5-69 Amy Clark, ID Bridge, 7D Business, 10-12C Classified, 4-9C Comics, 8D Crossword, 7D Dear Abby, 7D Deaths, 3B Earl Wilson, 6D Editorials, Four Hubert: 'I'm the One to Beat Nixon' By PETER BEHR Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Sen. This interview with Sen. Hubert intends to H.

remain Humphrey a says candidate he of Hubert four exclusive Humphrey is articles the based first EXCLUSIVE through Democratic the first ballot National at the on vice talks editors by and Gannett the top News presi- Ser- Interviews Convention but is prepared to dential candidates. The aim back McGovern Sen. if it George becomes S. is his to own let words each one why tell he you should in With Candidates apparent he is the choice of get the nomination. the delegates.

"I'm a reasonable man. I'm not a spoiler," Humphrey said. In an exclusive interview has "disagreed honestly" with defense spending and welfare "The last thing I'd try to do is with the Gannett News some of McGovern's positions but doesn't consider him a spoil Democratic chances." Service, Humphrey said he on issues most notably radical. McGovern, rn, Daley $130,000 1. Added to Chess Pot REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer accepted London banker's offer of a $130,000 richer prize pot for the world championship chess match and flew out of New York Monday night toward his confrontation with Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky.

Paul Marshall, a lawyer in New York for Fischer, said the 2-year-old American challenger had accepted banker James D. Slater's offer of the extra prize money and would be in Reykjavik by the deadline today. Earlier, the sponsors turned down Fischer's bid for a cut of gate receipts in addition to the prize money agreed on. Marshall quoted Fischer as saying of Slater's proposal: "I gotta it. It's a stupendous offer." Slater said in London he received confirmation of Fischer's acceptance" by telephone and had been told the challenger planned to fly to Reykjavik.

The first game is to begin at 5 p.m. today 1 p.m. EDT postponed from the same time Sunday at Fischer's request. The Russians, from Spassky here in Iceland to the Soviet Chess Federation in Moscow, protested the fact that the World Chess Federation FIDE granted a postponement of Fischer's appearance. When Slater offered to put up his own money as an extra inducement to the American grandmaster, he stated: "Fischer has said that money is the problem.

Here it is. What I am saying to Fischer now is 'come out and The original terms call for the winner. to receive $78,125 and loser $46,875, plus 30 percent for each of the income from sale of television and photographic rights. Slater's private enrichment of the pot could be used to up the winner's prize to $156,020 Continued Back Page This Section TODAY's Chuckle Nothing, is impossible if you don't have to do it yourself. TODAY- Wirephoto WALLACE FLASHES VICTORY SIGN UPON RETURN TO HOSPITAL wheelchair pushed by Alabama Capt.

Dothard, also wounded in shooting Wallace in 4-Hour Outing, Eats Dinner With Doctor SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) hospital at 2:30 p.m. with his tanned and he did not look Alabama Gov. George C. wife, Cornelia, for the home of abnormally thin.

Wallace, left Holy Cross Hospital Monday for a fourhour outing to eat an early dinner at his physician's home in nearby Bethesda, Md. It was the second time that Wallace had left the hospital since he was wounded at a political rally in Laurel, May 15. The governor left the North, South Korea Begin Unity Talks SEOUL (AP) North, and South Korea have held top level meetings aimed peaceful reunification of the peninsula split by World War IL and ravaged by the Korean War five years later, the two governments announced jointly Tuesday. Agreements were reached at meetings in Seoul and Pyongyang to refrain from slanderous statements armed provocation and to install a telephone hot line between the two capitals "in order to prevent the outbreak of- unexpected the announcement said. "He is a friend.

He's been my neighbor. I consider him a good man. with good instincts and I'm not going to let anything rupture our personal relations," Humphrey said. "I spoken ill of George. I do not call him a radical.

1 have not accused him of any nefarious political activities." But Humphrey made it plain he considers himself a stronger potential opponent Continued Back Page This Section SEN. HUMPHREY no spoiler' Lose Pleas Credentials Committee. Both the Illinois and the California credentials cases will be appealed today to a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals here. In both cases Hart made it clear -he did not think the judiciary ought to become involved in Democratic intra- parthis is disputes.

an issue for the convention itself, not -for the courts," he said in ruling on the California case. The 151 McGovern delegates from California were unseated by the Credentials Committee last Thursday when it decided that the state should not have conducted its presidential primary on a winner-take-all basis. Most of the deposed delegates were replaced delegates committed to Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who lost to McGovern by a 44.3 to 39.2 percent. margin in the California primary.

The 58 delegates allied with Daley were elected in the Illinois primary March 21. The Credentials Committee rejected the, delegates Friday on grounds that the Daley slate was put together in violation of party reform rules. Specifically, the -Credentials Committee upheld the findings of a hearing. examiner that the Daley slate was put together in closed meetings and that blacks, women and young people were excluded. Only two weeks ago Hart had ruled in favor of the Daley delegates, holding that they could not legally be rejected because blacks, women and young people were cluded.

That ruling was immediately reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, because at that time the Credentials Committee had not ruled on the Illinois case. Monday, by contrast, Hart ruled against the Daley Continued Back Page This Section U.S. Judge Allows Delegate Shifts TODAY--Washington Post News. Service WASHINGTON A judge here Monday.

upheld the Democratic Credentials Committee actions that stripped Sen. George McGovern of 151 delegates in California and unseated the 59. Illinois delegates headed by Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago. The ruling by U.

S. District Court Judge George L. Hart Jr. was at least a preliminary defeat for the McGovern and -the Daley forces in their efforts to win back in the courts what they lost last week before the Credentials Committee. JOSEPH SMITH knew Brigham Young Patriarch Of Mormons Dies at 95 SALT LAKE CITY.

Utah (AP) Joseph Fielding Smith, patriarch and prophet to three million members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be buried Thursday following traditional funeral services in the historic Mormon Tabernacle. President Smith, 95, the 10th spiritual leader to Mormons whose faith was founded by Prophet Joseph Smith, died Sunday of a heart attack. A rigid fundamentalist Mormon, President Smith succeeded David O. McKay 30 months ago as head of the church. Church officials are expected to announce Friday that Elder Harold B.

Lee, 73, first counselor to Smith, will be named church president. Smith's death a chapter of Mormon history in Continued Back Page This Section Dr. Joseph Schanno, who has been heading the medical team treating Wallace's gunshot wounds. Wallace, dressed in brown slacks and a white shortsleeved shirt, waved from the back seat of a limousine when he returned to the hospital at 6:25 p.m. His wife was seated next to him.

Mrs. Wallace emerged from the car first and a security officer then lifted Wallace into a wheelchair. Wallace smiled slightly. waved, saluted and raised two fingers in a sign. Newsmen were not allowed to talk to him.

Wallace appeared slightly Poseidon Shot On Wednesday The Navy nuclear submarine USS Simon Bolivar is scheduled to launch a Poseidon 2C ballistic missile at 7:15 Wednesday while submerged off Cape Kennedy. It will mark the 46th launch of the Poseidon since it was developed in 1953 and the 25th launch from a submarine. Eleven submarines have testfired the Poseidon, the Air Force Eastern Test. Range reports. Mrs.

Wallace, who wore a sleeveless white and green dress, stayed out of camera range while Wallace was being photographed." The governor dined Sunday night in Mrs. Wallace's hotel room, but Wallace's aides had not mentioned the outing until Monday. 'Joy Killing' of Girl, 4, 'A Blatant Murder' LOS ANGELES (AP) The killing of a 4- year-old girl by a shotgun blast from a passing car was possibly, a senseless "joy a sheriff's deputy said Monday. Joyce Ann Huff was playing alone in a neighbor's yard about. 7:30 p.m.

when gunned down. Sheriff's Deputy Robert Wood said there peared to be no motive for the shooting, and advanced the "joy killing" theory. "From the trajectory and a study of the scene, It must be a blatant case of murder," he said. The girl was struck by 42 birdshot pellets, two of which lodged in her brain. She died an hour later in a hospital.

Witnesses said the shot came from- a lightcolored car containing three or four men. A stateJOYCE ANN HUFF wide search was launched for the car and its ockilled while playing -cupants. A Charges of war preparations: have flown in both directions across the 38th parallel recently, raising the specter of renewed hostilities. Family, 1-4D HELPI, 1B. Horoscope, 3D Jerry Greene, 1C Letters, 11A Movie Times, 6D Names and Faces, 2A Over the Second Cup, 7D Television, 6D Sports, 1-4C State News, 8B Weather, 2A- Sections The three-year conflict that began in 1950 cost two million lives.

Of the dead, 54,246 were Americans. The South Korean negotiator, Lee Hu-rak, told a news conference at which he issued the announcement: is only the beginning. We now enter COnfrontation with dialogue, while Continued on Back Page This Section.

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