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Evening NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR, No. 92 RENO, NEVADA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972 PHONE (702) 323-3161 15 CENTS Reno Gazette Woman fails to get Supreme Court job, plans suit WASHINGTON (AP) It's not that the Supreme Court won't hire female messengers-it's just that they would be "a little awkward." That's what the court's spokesman says Maryann Clifford, 22, was told when she applied for one of the half-dozen times act as chauffeurs and office helpers. They are paid $3.37 an hour. Ms. Clifford said she will file an administrative charge against the U.

S. marshal's office today, claiming she was denied a messenger job on the basis of her sex. one." The center is a research center for the federal courts. Any job there would have been a clerical one, Whittington said, but there was no job available. The Supreme Court messengers carry messages between the justices, run errands, some who told her a female messenger would be "a liability." Bert Whittington, public information officer for the court, said Ms.

Clifford "was never told she couldn't have a job We said it might be a little awkward." He said one messenger job in the fall, said she applied for one of the messenger jobs June 19 after a friend, already a messenger, told her there were two openings. U.S. Marshal Frank M. Hep-ler told her she was the first women to apply for the job, she said. It was Hepler, she said, i 1 till Two hijacks; engineer shot, pilot beaten wins, Eagletomi tunning- mate summer jobs at the court customarily filled by law students.

Ms. Clifford a title she preferssays she was told "I'd be a liability because all the messengers share the same lounge." Ms. Clifford, who is to enter law school at Catholic University The plane's tires blew on landing, authorities said. Earlier police reported the tires were shot out. The FBI said today two armed hijackers have agreed to give up three hostaged stewardesses and their ransom money in exchange for a private plane with an agent-pilot.

The exchange plane, a single-engine Cessna 182, was sitting halfway down the runway awaiting preparation of another plane to follow the Cessna, the FBI said. The FBI agent piloting the small escape plane was identified as Fred Hartung. The hijackers stipulated that Hartung strip to his underwear. Until the deal was made the hijackers had remained aboard the disabled jet with the three stewardesses. A fourth stewardess, taken hostage in Phila- delphla, escaped.

The pilot, identified as Norman W. Reagan had suffered a fractured pelvis, broken wrists and face bruises. The engineer was identified as Gerald Beaver. In the American Airlines hijack of a Dallas-bound jet, the lone gunman apparently abandoned a plan to try to escape by parachute and instead surrendered meekly to a steward- ess. He left behind the ransom package, which actually contained less than half what he demanded, and the gun turned out to have been empty.

The gunman in the second hijacking, identified by the FBI as Melvin Martin Fisher, 49, of Norman, the father of five children, released the 51 passengers aboard an American Airlines Boeing 727 after getting the ransom at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport early this morning. Fisher had boarded the Dallas-bound flight there and took' over the aircraft about a half-' hour after it was in the air, ordering it to return to the air- (Turn to page 2, col 8) A Roman Catholic from St. Louis, Eagleton in in his first Senate term and had compiled a liberal voting record. He is considered to be an ally of organized labor. Earlier the Missouri senator had openly indicated his interest in the vice-presidential nomination and had told reporters Wednesday night he was water area parity of the system to be reached in the near future.

MacKenzie said Sierra Pacific maintains two major reservoirs in tfiA Ponn oroa nliiQ mnro than spupn storatr tank and Jubilation! Jubilant campaign workers gave Sen. George McGovern's victory in the Democratic a tumultous acclamation. For Wallace: what now? top elected omciais an votea -a pumping station at Idlewild iU nrhmi. mm, trnm the agamst the South Dakota sen- has been filled since Ms. Clifford was turned away "but he applied ahead of her." "We went out of our way to help her find another job," Whittington said.

"We called the Federal Judicial Center to see if they had anything for her. We don't do that for every MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern today asked Missouri Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton to be his running-mate in the race against President Nixon, informed sources said today.

There was no immediate word whether the 42-year-old Eagleton had responded to the McGovern request. Summer outlook: Enough The water supply for the Reno, Sparks and Stead area appears to be sufficient for a heavyruse summer according to Norman Elliott, Sierra Pacific Power Co. water superintendent. But conservation of water could help insure good carryover supplies for 1973, Elliott said. The company provided more water to more customers in June than in any other June in the company's history, Elliott The heavy use is attributed to a hot spell in late June and addition of about 1,500 new water customers in the last year.

Elliott recommended local water users renew the practice of alternate day watering to help balance out water use and assist the company in higher water pressures throughout the summer." Presently Sierra Pacific is "exploring expansion of the water system," said Walter Mac-Kenzie, manager of public information for the company. He said he doesn't expect the ca- There was more violence in Portadown after the marching. Two men a Catholic and a Protestant were shot dead in a bar. Two more bodies were discovered this morning in Belfast. Sandbagged army replacements came under gun and bomb attack in Londonderry and Belfast.

Bombs damaged a factory in Lurgan, and in Londonderry one big explosion badly damaged a restaurant, a cafe, a department store, two travel offices, a bakery, a pharmacy, a record store and a bank. executive order directed the Interior Department to develop a unified interagency policy to alleviate the growing use of off road vehicles on roadless public lands: "The President apparently realizes the massive debilitating effects of ORV use and that such use has become a McGovot chooses for for Reno By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 Two armed hijackers who received a cash ransom and an escape plane flew to a small Texas airport from Philadelphia today. Two injured crewmen, one shot and the other badly beaten, left the jet as it was surrounded by authorities. The hijacking of the National Airlines 727 jet was one of two that began Wednesday night. The other hijacking was against American Airlines for a ransom of $550,000 but the lone hijacker gave up at Oklahoma City in the early morning.

The shotgun-wielding hijackers of the plane in Texas took four National Airlines stewardesses, a pilot and a flight engineer from Philadelphia. They demanded $600,000 ransom but officials would not say how much was paid. The National Boeing 727 landed at Brazoria County Airport, near Lake Jackson about 50 miles south of Houston, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The pilot and flight engineer were taken to a local hospital, the latter with a gunshot wound in his side. It was not known immediately how he was wounded or how the Wo crewmen were gotten off the plane.

The hijackers, who in addition to sawed-off shotguns had a box they said contained a bomb, remained on board with three stewardesses. The fourth stewardess escaped, the FAA said, in a manner not known. Fischer irked at cameras, forfeits game REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer forfeited his chess game with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia on Thursday by failing to appear at the playing hall. Fischer boycotted the game because he objected to the presence of movie cameras in the hall. The forfeit gave Spassky, who beat Fischer on Wednesday, a 2-0 lead in the scheduled 24-game series.

It was uncertain whether the match would survive. Lee Trevino ties for lead MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) Defending champion Lee Trevino fired a one-under-par 70 today and tied Britain's Tony Jacklin for the British Open Golf Championship lead, with such strong contenders as Doug Sanders and Dave Marr still on the course. one of three leading contender! after Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had rejected a spot on the ticket.

In that conversation with newsmen, Eagleton said he could help a McGovern cam paign because of his youth. The roster of names was compiled during a two-hour meeting by McGovern aides. (Turn to page 2, col 4) Nevadans give McGovern narrow MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) Nevada Democrats gave Sen. George McGovern a narrow ma- jority of the state's 11 conven- 4. xi 11 uin vw.es, uui uie suuc utree ator.

mi kt .1 i nevaua ueiegai.es wiui 53A votes supported McGovern while nine delegates cast the state's remaining 5y4 votes for Washington Sen. Henry Jackson, withdrawal of Sens. Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie. Gov. Mike O'Callaghan and Sens.

Alan Bible and Howard Cannon all voted for Jackson. Former Gov. Grant Sawyer, an uncommitted delegate until a few hours before the final bat loting, voted for McGovern. Both O'Callaghan and Sawyer indicated "conditional" support for McGovern's candidacy, al- th0 both said they hoped to back the McGovern ticket. O'Callaghan said earlier he SSmrii erns economic policies, which he said WOuld probabIy n0t t0 Par with Nevada's rela- tivelV conservative He said he would also ask McGovern to be more specific about his announced willingness t0 10 Hanoi t0 see re of Amrican Prisoners O'Callaghan said he will ask McGovern to take a stronger nn ifa return of Amripan une on return 01 American prisoners Of WaT than the Dem- archaeological, historic, recreational and open space values.

"Recent investigations have developed information which tends to conclude that our Great Basin desert and steppe envb onment is one of the most (Turn to page 2, coL 1) edge Truckee River. mu 1 11c waici Muiage aisv includes ownership of Indepen- dence Lake north of Donner Lake in California and water rights on the Truckee River up- NUCa 32 pages 2 sections SECTION ONE Editorials 4 Family livisg 13-15 Sylvia Porter 11 sftttdn two nZS ZL 5 Classified ads 26-31 Sword Wilson 25 ffl Yg "otlces, Local regional news 17 Markets in Sr 32 Weather tMe 24 Win at bridge 25 reno evening gazette A Spidel Newspaper, member of Associated Press. Second Class Postage paid at Reno, Nevada. Published week- days by Reno Newspapers, Inc Box presidential nomination race (UPI Telephoto) may try to fit the pieces together into a more conservative party in 1976. Wallace's campaign manager, Charles S.

Snider, said Wednesday the possibility of another, third-party race which gave Wallace five states in 1968 was "getting stronger and stronger every minute." But other spokesman at the governor's headquarters said no plans have been made for a campaign. Snider said he was speaking for the governor, who tried in vain to get the Democratic nomination and to rewrite the (Turn to page 2, col. 6) 11 wounded in firefights with IRA guerrillas. The troops, whose death list since 1969 rose to 91, claimed to have wounded or killed at least five of their assailants. The first to die Wednesday was a Protestant 16-year-old, gunned down as he walked through a park in the town of Portadown.

Then gunmen burst into the Belfast home of a Catholic widow and killed her teen-age son, said to have a mental age of five, as he slept in bed. "This was completely without reason," said a detective. "Where the hell are we going?" O'Callaghan urged further hearings, said the approach to an executive order issued by President Nixon Feb. 8, 1972 should be reasonable and suggested that in implementing the order, "we work through, not around, our Nevada residents." Watson said the President's Protestants' -Glorious Eight killed in Northern Ireland MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -For George Corley Wallace, it is the toughest of times.

Confined to a wheelchair, his financial support sagging, and facing political unrest at home, Wallace now must make myriad decisions as the Democratic National Convention draws to a close. Although received warmly at the convention, Wallace's desires again were rejected by the delegates and platform writers. The Alabama governor refusing to take refuge with Republicanscould undertake another third-party presidential campaign. Or, if the Democrats experience a shattering November defeat as he he there will be no army raids or arrests, no "harassment" of his men, and complete freedom for the Provisionals to move freely, although in "low profile." There was no immediate reaction from the British. The celebration of the Protestant victory on July 12, 1690, at the Battle of the Boyne went off peacefully, with 32,000 troops, militia and police sandwiched between the religious factions to head off violence.

But in advance of the marching, on its periphery and in its wake assassins and bombers were hard at work. Two soldiers were killed and ciation (NORA) said in a statement. Earlier this month Gov. Mike O'Callaghan, in a strongly worded letter, urged Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B.

Morton to seek further information before imposing restrictive rules on the use of off road vehicles. 280, w. 2na Reno, wev. ww4, ocrauc iNauonai umvenuon pui telephone 702-323-3141 SUBSCRIPTION rjLf. ttt.jJ' RATES: Carrier delivery In Reno, Sparks US party platfOrm WedneS- nd Carson City, $3 a month; for delivery jv outside these areas and by adult motor O'Callaghan, a veteran of two vear.

other rates on request. wars, said he is concerned that both the Democratic and Repub lican parties should not forget CnUCkl Americans missing in action or taken prison in Vietnam." "The refusal to adopt a more Breadwinners complaint: specific and stronger p.0.W.. Three meals a day, a roof M.I.A. plank displeases me be-over my head, two cars, a cause I don't believe the gener-boat, a power mower and a allies of the adopted Dem-c wif why ocratic PIatform shouldn't I be in debt?" (Turn to page 2, col. 4) BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Security forces kept the Protestant marchers and the Roman Catholics apart in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, but at least eight persons were killed before and after the parades on the Protestants' Glorious Twelfth.

It was one of the bloodiest days in the province's three years of communal strife. Seamus Twomey, chief of the Republican Army's Provisional wing, told newsmen his forces might consider renewing the cease-fire they ended Sunday after 13 days. But he said the British must guarantee tional treasure and heritage which must be protected and managed in the best interests of all1 Americans," Charles S. Watson representative-at-large for the National Public Lands Task Force of the Nevada Outdoor Recreation Asso Restrictions on off road vehicle use defended major threat to our desert environment" NORA, Watson said, has tried to develop meaningful solutions which would allow for reasonable ORV use on such lands while restricting such use where there are fragile flora, wildlife, unique natural, wilderness, Nevada political leaders were urged today to focus their concern "on what constitutes the public interest" before opposing rules restricting the use of off road vehicles on public lands. "There must be an over-riding awareness that our public lands constitute a priceless na.