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Miami Beach Drains Page 5 Volume Beddejr, We Yaw Friday Morning, July 14, 1972 Good Moming 'Politics Will Never Be The Same' 12-Counly Regional Service (RNS) 2 Sections--10 Cents The News IT. WILLIAM L. GALLEY accompa- nied by guards, flew Thursday by military transport to Gainsville, to visit his seriously ill father. It was only the second time that the lieutenant, under house arrest since his conviction in March 1971.for the killing of 22 civilians at My Lai, has left Ft Benning. An lirfteli army i a began Thursday to weigh the fate of accused Lod airport slayer Kozo Okamoto.

He a i i responsibility earlier in the day. The heard Okamoto, 24, admit full responsibility for the Lod attack that killed 28 persons and wounded on May 30.... Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin," an overnight guest at a private home near the Western White House, prepared to return to Washington Thursday after meeting with president Nixon. GALLEY CITY DETECTIVES say no charges will be made against two 8-year-old boys who admitted setting a fire earlier this week that did $208,001 damage at Parkersburg. The youths, who were not identified by detectives, said they started the Tuesday fire at the old Union Livestock Co.

with burning railroad flares. buses will be rolling again at Huntington on Monday following more than nine absence of the service. John Quarles, president of Tri-State Transit Authority announced Thursday that bus would resume Monday, following Public Srvice Commission approval for the authority to operate the bus system. Ten operators of grocery stores in New York City's poor neighborhood were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges of redeeming food stamps for cash at cut rate prices. S.

Atty. Whitney North Seymour Jr. said the law specifies that food coupons may be redeemed only for food. HANCOCK COUNTY Common Pleas Judge 'Gallic Tsapis announced Thursday she will seek the Democratic nomination for judge of the first If elected, she my aid ni creator of the hrteratate Manufact Co. to oe located Elkins, W.

Sea. Jennings Randolph, D-W. said Thursday. The film wnl create approximately 35 jobs and wilt manufacture metal pipes and ducts ojr heating, air conditioning and ventilation 1 George A. Haag, former top to Texas Rep.

James M. Collinsi, was 'found guilty Thursday of all 23 counts mail fraud, falsifying payroll forms and inducting a fellow employe to le in connection with a kickback" THE CITY OF CHARLESTON is planning a multi-million dollar underground parking garage and community center complex, the Charleston Daily Mail said Thursday. The complex, including a 600-car garage under the community center building, would be located in downtown Charleston, the newspapers said. A hearing has been scheduled next month on a inove by the Penn Central railroad to withhold monthly interline payments to the Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio railroads. Penn Central trustees, in, a petition to U.

S. District Court Judge John P. Fullam, claimed the 0 and the 0 owe the Penn Central about S3.5 million. Police experts Thursday were trying to identify the badly mangled bodies of 13 persons killed Wednesday night in the crash of an Alpine cablecar at Brig, Switzerland, Most were crushed to death when the cabin smashed aginst the concrete walls of the ground station at Betten after a polling cable snapped on the way up to the peak of the Bettmeralp, a favorite sightseeing point in the Valais Alps. Karachi Curfew Relaxed KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) The round-the- clock curfew in Karachi, imposed after note over the provincial government's proposed language bill, was relaxed for seven "hours Thursday.

The bill would make Sindhr official language in Smd Privince, where 30 per cent of the people speak Urdu. Light Whisky Coming CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Alchohol Beverage Control Commissioner J. i a Barber has announced that West Virginians will be able to buy the new light whiskies by mid-August. State stores will stock five brands Royal American, Crow, Four- Roses premium, Barton's Q-T, and J.W.

Dant Premium Light. Barber said. Distillers officially were allowed to place the aged light whisky on the market July 1 in an effort to compete with scotch and Canadian whiskies. Storm Batters Freighter HONG KONG (AP) Twenty-nine seamen' were trapped Thursday aboard a freighter- battered by high and 70-mile an-; hour winds against rocky Pratas Reef 200 miles southeast of Hong Kong. Rescue ships radioed'that the storm was so bad they could 'riot get close enough "to the Oriental Falcon to take off the rest of her crew.

British helicopter took 13 men off Wednesday night but reported' the other 29 decided to stay aboard. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern chose Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri to be his vice" presidential partner, then keynoted his campaign against President Nixon Thursday night, vowing: "American politics.will never be the same again." "To anyone in this hall cr beyond who doubts the ability of Democrats to join together in common cause, I say never un- Picks Eagleton overestimate the power of Richard Nkoa to bring harmony to McGovern said in his prepared speech formally accepting the nomination.

He said his was the most remarkable political organization in American history, his nomination "the gift of the most open political process in our national "This is a nomination of the people, and I hereby dedicate this campaign to the said the nominee from South Dakota, last season's political nobody. 'And next January we will restore the government to the people. American politics will never be the same again," he said. Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy of Massachusetts, to McGovem first offered the vice presidential nomination, was flying to Miami to present McGovern to the Democratic National Convention in a show of party solidarity. Eagleton said he was flabbergasted when McGovern phoned to offer him the vice presidency- The only real business left for the convention was to ratify Eagleton's nomination and hail in person the nominee whose name was newly emblazoned in two-foot-high orange letters on a sign behind the platform. In his acceptance speech, McGovern spoke of the issue on which his long-shot presidential candidacy was founded: the Vietnam war. "In a democratic nation, no one likes to say that his inspiration came from secret ar- a behind closed doors," McGovern said. "But in a sense, however, that is how my candidacy began.

I am here as your candidate tonight in large part because during four administrations of both parties, a terrible war has been charted behind closed doors. "I a those opened," he said, "and I want that war closed. And I make these pledges above all others-the doors of government will opened and that brutal war Witt be closed." In an acid reminder of the Republican campaign that put President Nixon in the White (Continued On Page II) 2 Crewmen Hurt Hijackers Release Up Deep In Thought Bobby Fischer, hands to face and side against Boris Spasskv. of his head, contemplates a chess (AP Photo) By REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) 36bby Fischer forfeited Thursday's chess game wititr world champion Boris Spassky. He stayed in his hotel rooiri, sulking because of movie cameras in the playing hall.

When the American failed to show up, the chief referee awarded the game to Spassky by default, thus giving the Russian a 2-0 lead in the 24-game series, Fischer-drew up formal protest against the decision and handed it to the referee shortly before midnight Lothar Schmid, the chief referee, told reporters: "The match is not finished. We will now have the third game on The Russian, won the iirst game Wednesday. According to the rules Spassky must have 12 win. Fischer, the challenger, needs This means 10 more unplayed games may be required if Fischer continues boycott. Schmid left open the possibility that the International Federation--FIDE-could intervene andj decide on Fischer's disqualification if the situation persists.

Ten minutes before the scheduled start the second game, Fischer informed the organizers of the championship through' a U.S.. chess official Titier's Vacated Post To Pnakovich NEW YORK (AP)-The United Mine Workers Union International Board has selected UMW District 31 President Leonard Pnakovich of Fairmont, W. to fill the unex- pired term of Vice President George Titier. The 53-year-old Pnakovich was the only nominee suggested to the board by UMW President W. A.

"Tony" Boyle. Tifler announced; his resignation last week and urged Boyle to name a successor immediately. Pnakovich now will be the No. 2 man on me Boyle-led slate that will be up for election during court ordered balloting during December. The third key figure on that ticket will be Wflbert Kiffion of Terre Haute, who wffl run for the secretary-treasurer's post.

Pnakovich also has been the acting.safety director for the UMW in addition to his responsibilities as District 31 president A union spokesman said. Pnakovich will have to relinquish his job as district president but will retain the safety post Union law prohibits one person from holding two elective positions. It is expected that Boyle will name a successor to Pnakovich for the district presidency. Killion's candidacy for the secretary-treasurer's office (Continued On Page 10) that he was boycotting furtfier play unless three hidden rmovie cameras removed from the sports palacei Spas sky entered the hall on time and took his place at the table. At tiie end of an hour, Schmid announced to an angry crowd: "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.

Fischer did not appear in the playing hall. According to Rule No. 5, if a player is more than one hour late he loses the game by forfeit" Richard Stein, lawyer for American promoter Chester Fox, said "we did everything we' to -appease Fischer. Fox, who bought exclusive film rights for the match, reported that Fischer admitted he could not see or hear the cameras but "said they bothered him because he knew they were there." Stein emphasized that Fox could not comply with Fischer's demand because "the whole structure of the match depends on it" Fred Cramer, an official of the U. S.

Chess Federation, made the phone call to Gud-- mundur- Thojarinsson, presi-. dent "of the Icelandic Chess Federation, Morming him of. Fischer's decision to boycott. (Continued On Page 10) Crash Hurts By ARTHUR EVERETT Associated Press Writer Two armed hijackers forced a National Airlines jet to fly from Philadelphia to a little, out-of-the-way Texas airport Thursday after releasing its 113 passengers. The airliner was disabled in landing and the pair later freed three hostage stewardesses and surrendered.

It was one of two separate skyjackings that began almost simultaneously Wednesday night Both' ended with the sky pirates giving up, and with no loss of life. Two male crewmen on the National plane were the hijackers, however. Wit: surrender, the nijacfc team sought to make a. deal with ttoe FBI--the hostages a. small fortune in ransom money in exchange for a private getaway plane piloted by an agent The airport at Lake Jackson, was 'too small to safely handle a replacement aircraft the size of their trknotored 727.

A black FBI agent was flown. in from Baltimore to aid in the negotiations as the two Negro hijackers kept altering thetr demands. Also bought in was a Dallas psychiatrist, expert on the thought processes of ae- Korean Spy Hanged SEOUL (AP) National Assemblyman Kim Kyu- Nam was hanged Thursday for involvement in a Communist spy ring working for North Korea, the Justice Ministry rial hijackers. Earlier, a man in a pink shirt with, an empty pistol lost his nerve after commandeering an American Airlines New York- to-San Diego jet He surrendered himself and $200,000 in ransom and was held in $100, 000 bail after a tearful court appearance in Oklahoma City. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton became the Democrat party's nominee for vice president early mis morning when the vote of the Texas delegation put him over the top. Between them, the hijackers demanded $1 million in ransom--although they settled for less than that Both planes involved were Boeing 727s. their release.

164 passengers in the two planes were at the mercy of the three gunmen; In both cases, passengers complained of lax security that enabled the skyjackers to walk aboard with their weapons One reportedly concealed a sawe3- shotgun in a cast and sling oc Ms arm. Another apparently wore a gun holster. Some National passengers also complained because the pilot, Elliott Adams, abandoned his aircraft by diving to freedom through a cockpit window (Continued On Page 10) Viet Talks Reopen, But No thing Gained PARIS (AP) The Vietnam peace conference reopened Thursday after a. 10-week break, with both me Communists and allies clinging to old positions. But the TJ.S.

delegation spokesman termed the session businesslike. The negotiators agreed to hold a new meeting next Thursday. This reinforced speculation that a new round of secret and possibly more fruitful talks may be pending. Politburo member Le Due Tho of North Vietnam, who has held a series of secret meetings in the past with Henry A. Kissinger, left Peking on Thursday en route to Wallace HasNo Plans To Run At This Time MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Alabama George C. Wallace said Thursday he has no plans for any further presidential cmpaign "at this But he said: "I don't say I won't ever have Wallace, preparing to return to Alabama Friday from the Democratic National Convention, chatted with Alabama newsmen in his hotel suite for more than an hour. "I don't have any plans now politically except to go back to Alabama," the governor said'. He will fly to Birmingham, where he will undergo intensive physical therapy for probably "a few weeks." He is paralyzed in both legs from a bullet suffered in an as-" sassination attempt May, 15. Wallace was that ruled out the.

of a third-party campaign "after" the Democratic nomination. Paris. North Vietnamese Ambassador Xuan Thuy laid new stress on a linkup of a military and political solution to the war-slightly rephrasing the old Communist demands without fundamentally changing memV He insisted that the United States end support for the South Vietnamese Nguyen Van Thieu to permit establishment of a coalition government to be followed by a cease-fire. The U.S. delegate, William J.

Porter, reiterated the allied position that a cease-fire should be put into effect first then "political be discussed by the Vietnamese among themselves." "I am sure, I hope, we will be discussing this matter more," he added. Porter would make no further comment on the telling reporters without elaboration: "We will have to have an- other look record." Flood Watch Ends By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The National'Weatter. Service cancelled a -flash: floqd watch bulletin Thursday mat had-been- issued late Wednesday for four East. Panhandle: counties of West Virginia; The counties -included in the watch were Jefferson, Hampshire and Morgan, Beckley Man So uth CMm ills Killed Flying Home Boost in Telephone Rates Suspended Pending Inquiry CHARLESTON, W. Va, (AP)--A; rate increase affecting the 442,000 Virginia customers of the Chesapeake, Potomac Telephone Co.

has been suspended until Nov. 16. The Public Service Commis- jsion announced the 120-day suspension Thursday" to allow time for investigation of new rates CP had -filed to go into effect 'July 20. This is the maximum allow. able suspension period.

At its expiration Nov. 16, the new rates may be put into effect un-der bond to guarantee customer "refunds in case, the PSC sub sequently disallows part of the No date for PSC hearing on increase has yet been set The PSC also announced it has scheduled a hearing Sept 14 on a 26-per-cent water rate increase" the Huntington Water Corp. 'has in effect under $575,000 bond since March. A Beckley businessman was injured in a -plane crash approximately eight miles west of Covington, Va, -Thursday night Virginia state police at Salem reported that a privately owned twin-engine aircraft by William Hall Sheffield 54, of 222 S. Heber St, owner of The Charles House Motor-Hotel, also on Heber Street, went down in a wooded area at 6:30 p.m.

He was flying alone. Trooper P. B. Kesterson said Sheffield was conscious when taken from the plane. 'He was first, taken to Emmitt Memorial Hospital' in Clifton Forge and later transferred to Community Hospital; in Raleigh County Memorial Airport personnel reported Sheffield was on a return flight from Alexandria, at the time of the accident.

Quang Tri Fighting Heated SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese marines battled enemy. infantrymen Thursday in a third day of heavy fighting north northeast of city of Quang Tri, field reports said: Associated Press -correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that the marines killed- 118 enemy and knocked out 'five tanks in a series of clashes several mites outside the northern; provincial capital. Marine casualties were said to 6 killed and Ranking military sources on the northern front said the government drive into Quang Tri Province has -made some progress during the past week but conceded the: enemy remains in control of the city. "Indications are -that. the North'Vietnamese are jgoing to defend Quang-Tri right'down to the wire," one source said.

Cant- Gail Furrow, a paratrooper adviser at the the southern edge of Quang Tri, told Associated Press correspondent Richard Blystone that has been slow'but measurable. The North Vietnamese are putting up stiff resistance despite air strikes and Field reports American jet bombed government lines south of the city and U.S. air strikes were temporarily susupended to coordinate the scores of planes striking the area. The Weather BECKLEY VICINITY: Partly Cloudy and warm through Saturday with a chance of late afternoon, and evening-thundershowers. Highs both days in the mid 80s, low tonight in the 60.

Probability of precipitation per cent through WEST VIRGINIA: Partly cloudyand warm today through "Saturday with' a chance of late afternoon and evening Highs both days in the 80s, lows tonight from the mid 60s to "few 70s. On Page 13).

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