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A 2 Akron Beacon Journal Thursday, June 22, 1972 Blackless Jury Wins Case For Issue White N. Viet Delegation Cools Hope For Early Peace Talks Mickey Porter i 1 come an opposite view: That a defendant can upset his conviction on the basis of discriminatory jury selection only when the defendant and the people kept off the jury were of the same race. Justices Byron R. White. William J.

Brennan Jr. and Lewis F. Powell Jr. also ruled for Peters on the theory that racii'l exclusion nf one group of jurors violates an 1875 fed- Public Ambulances Eyed For Summit-Portage Area offensive involving Peking1 and Moscow by noting, "If the Nixon administration i wants to settle the Vietnam problem, it should engage in 1 direct talks with us at the Paris conference." xtr: LE GREETED some 20 re- porters present, wished "happy vacations with lots of sun," and added, "we, too' are getting ready for vaca-y tions." This seemed to hint that North Vietnam felt little progress would be made this Summer at the Paris conference, even were it to resume. Pointedly, Le noted the continued presence in Hanoi of both delegation chief Xuan- Thuy and Le Due Tlio, 'the po? I itburo member who has ducted past secret talks with.

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By mall per year in ad- Science: Friend Or Foe? Science, as we all know, is a wonderful thing. We just couldn't get along without it, and even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without science, we possibly would still be walking the woods In deerskin moccasins and traveling by horseback instead of by jet. Without science, there would be no high speed dental drills or pizza ovens or electronic devices to record, for all ages to come, the melodic outpourings of the Three Dog Night and Conway Twitty. Without science, the neighborhood blabs would be unable to spread their ruinous gossip by telephone, and Elvis Presley would have remained a Tupelo truck driver, and each of us would have been forced to depend on muscle instead of electricity in brushing his teeth.

Without science well it's just a pretty bleak prospect, that's all there is to it, and I know I am not alone in shuddering at the unnerving might-have-beens. But science, thankfully, DOES exist; if burgeons, I believe is what I am trying to say. This morning, as you sipped your coffee and yawned the sleep from your weary soul, science was up and about, briskly astir. And here, of recent months, are some of the things it has accomplished: A New Jersey contractor, first of all, has discovered how to put more into a hole than is taken out. He can, specifically, store a billion cubic feet of natural gas in a hole that contains only two million cubic feet of space.

The trick, according to a learned spokesman, is "cyro-genics" low temperature physics which will store the gas as a liquid at a temperature of minus 259 degrees. At this temp, 620 cubic feet of gas become one cubic foot of liquid, and when the gas is removed again, it is similar to eral civil rights law, though they chose not to label such practice unconstitutional." DISSENTING were Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Justices Harry A. Blackmun and William H. Rehnquist.

Burger, pointing out that Peters is not a Negro; maintained that the case "in no way suggests that race was relevant in the proceedings." bulance because of Federal and State standards." FEDERAL funds will be available for public operated emergency services and related communications systems' July 1. In addition, the State Legislature is expected to adopt strict standards within the next two years over training and ambulance equipment First Move NEW YORK World chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union flew out of Moscow Wednesday for Reykjavik, Iceland, to defend his title there against Bobby Fischer, the American. Their 21-game match begins July 2. me Beacon journal's telephone e. cnanqe is j-sim.

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Outside Onto, 3 Zones Three, Four, Five, Six, Sever and Eight: Daily MO.0O. Sundays HS.to. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Story Kelly-Smith and Knight Advertising Sales, offices it print- pal cities. The Associated Press is entitled e-" li chislvely to the use lor republication ot u) alt the local news published in this wspaper as well as- all AP news. By CURT BROWN neon Joejrnal Staff Writer Work began Wednesday on a master plan for public, federally funded ambulance service for Summit and Portage counties.

"The purpose of our plan will be to define what is the best method for ambulance service for the two-county area," said Dr. C. C. Roussi, chairman of the Task Force for Emergency Medical Services of the Summit-Portage County Comprehensive Health Planning "We now have an uncoordinated bunch of private ambulances," Dr. Roussi said.

"The pinch is really being put on the private enterprise am tf DUR NIGHT AND WASHINGTON Ifl Convictions of white defendants are invalid if Negroes are systematically excluded from the jury, the Supreme Court ruled 63 today. Over the years the court has struck down guilty judgments returned against black defendants by juries from which blacks were pointedly excluded. Today's ruling was the first, ever, involving a white defendant. Justice Thurgood Marshall, in the main opinion, said: "When a grand or petit jury-has been selected on an impermissible basis, the existence of a Constitutional violation does not depend on the circumstances of the person making the claim." Justices William 0. Douglas and Potter Stewart backed Marshall's position that the "due process" provisions of the Constitution bar conviction of any defendant by a jury from which a particular race was systematically excluded.

THE CASE came from Georgia where Dean Rene Peters was convicted of burglary in Muscogee County and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Long after the 1966 trial he asked Federal courts to set aside the judgment because the juries were drawn from racially-segregated tax digests and no Negroes served at his trial. Marshall said if Peters can prove the systematic exclusion of Macks his conviction must fall. MOST STATE courts have Hopkins Plane Hits 2 Houses CLEVELAND A Pennsylvania-based airplane crashed into two houses near Cleveland Hopkins airport this morning, killing the pilot and setting both bungalows afire. An airport official identified the pilot as William Henry, but his address was unknown.

The plane was owned by Aero Taxi of Lester, Pa. THREE OCCUPANTS of the houses escaped unhurt, although one house was destroyed and the other heavily damaged. Alone in one house was 82-year-old Harry Kragle. Next door at the Harry Becksted residence were Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Epps of 859 Overlook Alliance. Mrs. Epps is a sister of Becksted's wife and they were visiting him while Mrs. Becksted is hospitalized. Epps said he and his wife had risen 13 minutes before the crash and were in the kitchen of the one-story frame home.

"There was a big bang. At first I thought it was a sonic boom, then I aw the house was on fire. My wife and I ran outside and saw Fred (who was backing out) was okay." "I knew it was a plane," said Helen Epps. "I don't like this neighborhood with all of these planes. I never have liked it." KRAGLE said he was.

sleeping on a couch when the blue Beechcraft came down. "It sounded as though the house came down," he said. The plane clipped off a television antenna from a nearby house and knocked down a street lamp before it crashed into Kragle's house. A neighbor, Mrs. Joan Neu-rohr, said she heard the plane hit.

"I came running. It just exploded. I ran to get my son out of bed and it exploded again. I thought all the houses up and down the street were going." Money Ena-Maria Tiinme, 17, of has been named 1973 High School Cover Girl in the annual contest sponsored by Co-ed Magazine and Noxcl Corp. Her winnings include a $1,006 scholarship, a Fall wardrobe and a cover girl modeling assignment IT) which could cut into the profits of private ambulance operators, Dr.

Roussi said. He said the new task force will examine a $40,000 emergency medical services study for a seven-county area in southeast Ohio which netted $4.2 million in Federal funds for vehicles, a communications network and ojierational expenses. CURRENTLY, 35 ambulances serve Summit County's population of 553,371, one ambulance per 15,810 residents; and 15 serve Portage County's 125,868, one ambulance for every 8,391 persons. Only Akron and Kent have licensing requirements. Service is provided by private operators.

Polaroid Corporation Post Office Box 68 11 Atlanta. Georgia 30315 BtKM JwnuMttMhiiqtM Past PARIS North Vietnam Wednesday discouraged any American optimism that the supended peace talks will resume shortly and prove fruitful because of the Moscow summit meeting and triangu- lar international diplomacy among the United States, China and the Soviet Union. The message was delivered in a series of remarks at a tea party organized for the press at the North Vietnamese headquarters in suburban Choisy-Le-Roi by Hanoi delegation spokesman Nguyen Thanh Le. Running throughout the remarks were oblique criticism of the Soviet Union and China, exasperation at U. S.

efforts to persuade Hanoi's Soviet and Chinese allies to force a peace settlement and a determination not to change the present North Vietnamese policy. Commenting on the recent, visit of Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny; and the presence in Peking of" White House adviser Henry A. Kissinger, Le said "President Nixon "was seeking to weaken or divide the forces supporting the Vietnamese people in their struggle for independence." Le reiterated the now standard Hanoi line on the current American diplomatic Cod Film A0 It stsjsmn taking a pinball machine and the entire clientele of the Elbow Inn from a magician's undersized hat. But that's nothing. The Swedes, in Stockholm, are pouring oil into bottomless tanks, and I am told you would be simply amazed; at how much oil you can insert into such a receptacle.

The tanks, you see, float on water in the Stockholm harbor. Since oil and water do not mix, the water makes an effective bottom for the tank. It is strangely reassuring that I am able, to report, however, that it isn't always some 21st Century idea that saves the day; sometimes an 18th Century one will serve just as well. Some time ago, for example, a million-gallon water tank in Florida sprung a leak. Skindivers plunged to the bottom and released three cases of oatmeal near the crack.

The pressure of the escaping water pulled the oatmeal into the hole, where it it swelled and plugged the leak. Science also has attacked the growing challenge of auto thievery and a device soon to hit the market may be the When the device is installed any tampering with the ignition wires locks the brakes. If the brakes are released, the fuel supply, is cut off. If the fuel system is adjusted, the brakes will lock again and the ignition system will become grounded. It is reported that in a test, a mechanic without a key was unable to start an equipped car in 30 minutes.

But when the device was removed, he drove off in 16 seconds. Another scientific breaktnrough that we could have done marvelqusly without, it seems to me, is a specialized parking meter. It is equipped with an infra-red sensor that returns the "expired time'' dial to zero as soon as a car pulls out of a parking space, so that nobody can get a free ride on somebody else's nickel. We may as well face it if they don't get it from us through taxes, then they're just going, to get it some other way. But I don't care much for the fact that science is going to help them.

Teamster Protests Pension Hearings You pay for 3 packs of Iblaroid Colorpack Wll pay for the sunglasses. film. Polaroid9 Here are my 3 end panels from either Polaroid Type 1 08 or Type 8 8 Land film. Please send me a free pair of Cool-Ray Polaroid sunglasses. (Sorry, one to a household.) Name-1 And not just ordinary sunglasses.

They're Cool-Ray Polaroid sunglasses. The extraordinary sunglasses with the built-in optical barrier that can block out up to 99 of reflected glare. To get your pair free (they're for men or women and have a $3.25 retail value) just send us the red end panels from 3 boxes of Polaroid Land film (Type 108 or Type 88) before July 10, 1972. This summer, you'll not only have Polaroid Color-pack film for the pictures you want most (like your, two-year-old with his first fudge pop), but you'll also have a good-looking pair of sunglasses to keep an eye on him. Gordon R.

McKinley, Akron area leader of a rebel Teamsters group, has lodged a written protest in Washington charging that rank and file teamsters are being denied a voice in hearings on a proposed pension reform bill. McKinley, 45, complained in a letter to Sen. Harrison Williams Jr. (D-N. that 15 Akron area Teamsters were denied a chance to testify in recent hearings on the bill held in Cleveland.

He also charged he is now being denied an opportunity to testify in legislative hear: ings underway in Washington. Williams was a chief draftsman of the proposal. "I told Sen. Williams it was an outrage that rank and file could not testify fore these hearings," McKinley said. "This legislation is supposed to benefit rank and file workers, and none are being allowed to WILLIAMS, in turning down McKinley's request, said in a letter that because of time limitations, not all witnesses who wish to testify can be heard.

He invited McKinley to submit a written statement which would be made part of the record. "What he means is that there's no time for the Teamsters," McKinley charged. McKinley, a member of -Teamsters Local 24, is a lead-. er of the rebel Unit Commit-' tee 24, an affiliate of Teamsters United Rank and File (TURF). A strong critic of the administration of Teamster pension funds, he charged in an earlier letter to the Labor subcommittee counsel that "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of Teamsters are being bilked of their pension benefits.

McKinley said to his knowledge, no Teamsters members have testified in any of the hearings on the pension bill. I i i I Address. I City. -State. Continued From Page A-l it every night.

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