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Today's chuckle Every married man should forget his mistakes. No use in two people remembering the same thing. Warm and humid through Monday Complete weather, p. 2A A MEMBER OF THE GANNETT GROUP ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y., SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1972 Psst, got a firecracker? You're under arrest 7 mm fireworks this July Fourth, they will results from the unconscionable laxity of the FDA in failing to ban Class fireworks." Black said. The FDA has proposed closing a loophole in its regulations allowing the sale of larger fireworks for agricultural purposes, because 3f evidence the exemption "has been grossly abused by some manufacturers and distributors who make the fireworks available to the general public." Melvin Black, also an attorney for the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, said a 1969 survey of selected areas revealed a total of 1.330 personal injuries and five deaths attributed to fireworks.

Forty-two per cent of the injuries were caused by class fireworks, still permitted by federal law. includking sparklers, cones, fountains and firecrackers with less than two grains of powder. "If there are any injuries caused by Class have been a particular problem in past years. He said FDA agents in out-of-state cars check roadside stands, gift shops, novelty shops and gas stations for contraband explosives. After the agent purchases the fireworks, he said, the FDA either seeks a federal seizure order or turns the information over to state police.

Meanwhile, the president of the 3.500-mem-ber New York State Trial Lawyers Association assailed the FDA for failing to ban all fireworks. By JOHN STOVVKLL WASHINGTON (APi Federal inspectors posing as tourists are cruising heavily-traveled highways in the Midwest and Southeast this Fourth of July weekend in search of bootleg fireworks. A similar crackdown last year resulted in more than 80 seizures of illegal explosives and the shutdown of one plant, and netted Food and Drug Administration agents thousands of dollars worth of fireworks. "We know there are still some clandestine plants operating." said Dale C. Miller, chief of compliance in the FDA's Bureau of Product Safety.

"In audition to the manufacturers and sellers, we're also trying to find the middlemen, because, without them, stands have a tougher time getting the stuff." he said. Miller said Missouri. Tennessee. Ohio. Wyoming.

South Carolina. Alabama. Georgia and Louisiana are states where illegal fireworks Daley's ouster We missed rain record Bv BEN CHEEVER Staff Writer fight assures a tfci IS a MifW (A hit Vtj I McGovern will gain at least 40 votes. The challenging delegation from Chicago has 40 McGovern delegates. 13 who call themselves uncommitted and the rest for an assortment of other candidates.

Presumably there were no McGovern votes in the Daley delegation. McGovern ran slates in some congressional districts but did not compete in the statewide popularity contest, won by Muskie. Friday's battle was a bitter replay of the confrontation between Daley and the supporters of Eugene McCarthy and the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy during Chicago's 1968 Democratic convention.

And it was also revenge for the defeat handed to McGovern by the Humphrey-Wal-lace-Muskie "regulars" coalition Thursday when the credentials committee voted to away 151 of l'- Call fornia delegates McGovern won in the" June 6 primary there. Daley's five loyalists on the committee voted against McGovern on the California challenge and were the margin of McGovern's defeat. At that point. McGovern's staff angrily quit their attempts to work out a compromise between the Chicago factions. Daley's supporters on the credentials committee could not vote on their own challenge, just as the 10 McGovern partisans on the California delegation had no vote on that test.

June gurgled into July today, leaving Rockland residents flood weary but without even so much a record rainfall to show for their misery. Thundershowers. heavy at times, put the cap on two weeks of rains Friday by creating renewed flooding problems at scattered locations in the county. At the Lake DeForest reservoir in West Nyack. though, the Spring Valley Water Company recorded only .48 inches of new rainfall, bringing the June total there to 9.40 inches 38 hundredths of an inch shy of the 1903 total recorded at the U.S.

Weather Bureau's New York City testing site, the recording station nearest Rockland. Spring Valley Water Co. officials pointed out that other parts of Rockland could easily have received more rainfall than Lake De-Forest, but no figures were available. Weathermen, meanwhile, were predicting that July would be ushered in by warm and uncomfortably humid weather. Temperatures today were predicted to reach 80 or higher.

Skies are expected to be clear tonight with some fog developing overnight in valley areas. Predawn temperatures in the upper 50s were to rise into the mid-80s under mostly sunny skies Sunday. Monday is exptected to be partly sunny, very warm and humid. Friday's rain brought renewed road and basemen' flooding and mudslides in some parts of Rockland. The most serious effects of the thunderstorms appeared to be felt in Orangetown.

Haverstraw. Ramapo and Stony Point. A road washout on Route 9W in Piermont swept away part of the road's shoulder. Rushing waters on the steep slopes of Piermont and Grand View brought stones and dirt down from the mountain, causing property damage. Route 303 near Mountain View Avenue in Orangetown was closed for an hour when waters covered the road.

In Haverstraw. flooding closed Thiells-Mt. Ivy'Road and a mudslide obstructed traffic on Route 202. Both roads were open to traffic this morning, however. In Ramapo.

town police reported having received complaints of flooding from Monsey residents and in Spring Valley the Memorial Park pond was flooded. Suffern police reported flooding under the State Thruway at Orange Avenue. Stony Point Police reported Tomkins Avenue was flooded near Elm Drive in Tomkins Cove. The town highway department pumped out the area. In Clarkstown.

the eastbound lanes of Route 59 in West Nyack flooded again, refilling the pond in which people have been seen launching raits on more than one occasion during the last two months. Wind and lightning caused three electrical outages in Orangetown and Clarkstown. mm By PETER BEHR Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Long-suffering Democratic liberals evened their score with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley Friday as they used their muscle on the Democratic convention credentials committee to throw Daley and 58 followers out of the Democratic National Convention, at least temporar- iiy. The committee's action assured that the opening day of the 1972 Democratic National Convention on July 10 will be buffeted by another blood-letting collision between the liberal followers of Sen.

George S. McGovern and the party regulars, who back Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey. Sen.

Edmund S. Muskie or almost anyone other than McGovern. Daley will go into federal court immediately to seek ie-versal of the credential committee's action and if that fails, he plans to throw the question before the entire convention, asking the delegates to restore his people to their place. The debate Friday was a likely preview of what the convention will witness. Supporters of Sen.

McGovern provided most of the 71 votes on the credentials committee against Daley and his delegates. The anti-McGovern coalition, joined by a few regulars who couldn't afford to vote against Daley for political reasons, got 61 votes. The same resolution recommended that 59 of Daley's opponents from Chicago, headed by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson a black community leader, and Chicago Alderman William Singer, take the places of the Daley delegates.

McGovern's supporters cheered and embraced as the vote was announced. "Wait until November." bellowed Norman Jones, a burly, black Wallace supporter from Florida. "You can run away from me" he shouted towards McGovern supporters. "But you won't be able to run away from Nixon in November." Warren Inglete photo Triieli ilrivcr Vnlhonv Diilio i. siflcr Kle.

iiecidenl (ihieaiio'o Itichard Dalev nol Mtiiling now Rep. Roman Pucinski. a Daley supporter from Chicago and candidate for the U.S. Senate said Daley's organization would "take a walk" on McGovern in the election if the challenge against Daley is upheld by the convention. If the full convention upholds the vote against Daley, injured Two men are in Rte.

59 truck spill Fischer sfrofegy neors deadline REYKJAVIK. Iceland (AP) Considerable progress was reported Friday niht in 11th hour negotiations over Bobby Fischer's demand for more money from the world chess championship with Boris Spassky of Russia. Elmhurst. N.Y.. and a crewman in the truck, Raymond Schoenleben, were released at Nyack Hospital after treatment.

Working with a heavy tow truck, a wrecking crew was able to lift the garbage truck A fully-loaded 3-ton garbage truck, apparently forced off the road, fell over on its side Friday in West Nyack. injuring two men and requtring police to divert eastbound traffic on Route 59. The driver, Anthony Didio of upright within an hour. East-bound Route 59 traffic was rerouted temporarily through Foxwood and Green roads in West Nyack. After falling on its side, the truck skidded for about 60 feet, cutting a huge swath in the embankment along Route 59.

"We were going down the hill (travelling east on Route 59 1 when a woman cut us off." Schoenleben said at the scene. "We were forced off the road and hit the ditch. We went over right away." Schoenleben said he grabbed the gear shift "when I saw it coming, but my partner wasn't able to hold onto anything and got thrown around pretty bad. I think he boke his arm." However, X-rays of Didio's arm later proved negative. The driver of the car, Ann Zbinovsky, 22, of Nanuet, told police at the scene she was cut off by a car that pulled out of Cherry Lane into the fast-moving traffic lane.

No charges were brought against her. The West Nyack Fire Dept. washed down the gasoline and oil spilled from the truck. $2 billion for war Bv JIM ADAMS Kip wri mm Officials of the sponsoring Icelandic Chess Federation met with Andrew Davis. Fischer's lawyer and confidant, but said there was still no guarantee that the 29-year-old American would show up.

The 24-game match starts Sunday. Meanwhile. Fischer missed a flight Friday to Reykjavik. He booked a reservation and checked his baggage, but after holding the plane up for two hours demanded his luggage back and disappeared from New York's Kennedy International Airport. This apparently leaves only one flight late tonight which would put Fischer in Reykjavik in time lor the start of the match.

Fischer's faith, the Church of God. observes Saturday as the Sabbath and Fischer will not fly between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday. The financial dispute with the Icelandic Chess Federation involves Fischer's demand for 30 per cent of the gate receipts at the 2.500 Sports Palace where the matches will be held. Tickets are $5 apiece. A federation spokesman said Davis was seeking a compromise over the money snarl.

But Gutmunder Thorarisson. ICF president who talked with Fischer's representatives in the United States for much of Friday night, said later that "nothing had been settled." By previous agreement. INDEX WASHINGTON (APi -President Nixon has asked Congress for an extra $2.25 billion primarily for the Indochina war nearly a one-third increase in war costs in the wake of renewed U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. The President made the request Friday without indicating whether it is all or only part of the extra war costs Secretary of Defense Melvin R.

Laird has said could go up to $5 billion if the United States continues bombing, mining and other war operations at the present pace through the end of the year. The President indicated at his news conference Thursday night he intends tn continue U.S. war operations at that pace until Hanoi is willing to accept a cease-fire and release American prisoners. I Uclirr on a laic Fischer and Spassky are to divide the purse, with the winner getting five-eighths, and receiving 30 per cent of the sales of television and film rights. The Soviet news agency Tass blamed the uncertain condition on Fischer and said.

Wherever Fischer is. money ranks first, pushing aside all sporting motives." Tass accused the American challenger of disrespect to the championship organizers by not telling them that he might arrive just before the match begins. Ann Landers (IA Church 5 A Comics 4B Classfiied 7B-11B Editorial page 4 Family 6A, 7A Money 9A Movie clock 11 A1 Obituaries 5 A Sports 1B-3B Stock 8 A. 9 A Television 10A Theater UA Art Sorno photo Holiday soles There's somelhini: for sjirl watchers as well as Mall's 01. Nanuel I I'axhioiH'd Day-, which mds lMila Scharf check- veM al sale, through Monday.

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