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Today's chuckle Little boy to his father, after hearing a bedtime story: "Okay, so the cow jumped over the moon but what about re-entry into the earth's atmosphere?" 13' Mostly cloudy, high in the 80's Complete weather, p. 2A A MEMBER OF THE GANNETT GROUP ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y., MONDAY, JULY 3, 1972 Yankee Doodle tops the news mimiiitiii wim r. in i hi, i J- 1 YYprvI hi Ja nu mimSmjitt't-lt A nit md itVLMimt- 1 ClLttJtJ Mmi 't A FESTIVE FOURTH Jazz festivals, youth festivals, porcupine races and queen crownings. Stories and pictures, pages 10B and 11B. What was July 4, 1776 really like? Story and picture, page 12A flashlight no other power will be needed.

Broadway's bright lights in New York will feature a free Tuesday night performance of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" as a Fourth of Julv gift to the American Wind Symphony will present a BYOL concert-Bring Your Own Light Tuesday night. Flooding knocked out the electrical system in the park where the group plays, but director Robert Boudreau said if everyone brings their own Clarence Davis photo Armed police and sheriffs deputies on Haverstraw's Main Street early today Fischer gets a day's delay 3 hurt in Haverstraw REYKJAVIK. Iceland (AP) The International Chess Federation postponed the start of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship series until Tuesday after Fischer failed to arrive in Iceland over the weekend. The American champion was believed still in New York. number of departments responded and remained at the scene throughout the night.

At least two shots werg fired into the air while police were trying to arrest Felix Soto, who they said had threatened them and interfered with the arrest of his brother, Ramos. The shots were fired by Ptl. Michael Squillini. who said he has been harassed by Ramos Soto moments earlier. But a Spanish-speaking woman eyewitness said five shots had been fired.

A group of men and women followed the patrol car to police headquarters. At one point about 70 men and women stood outside screaming and stoning the building, demanding release of the prisoners, according to desk officer Ptl. Patrick Scorese. It was at this By FRANK LEONARD Staff Writer Shots were fired and a Spanish-American and two policemen were injured early today during disturbances in a Spanish-speaking section of the village of Haverstraw. Unrest broke out after lage patrolmen arrested a man while trying to disperse a group of men they said had been drinking beer along Main Street about 12:30 a.m.

Spanish-speaking residents claim the trouble began after police slapped a man when he disobeyed an order to "speak English," and then beat him. Nine men were arrested, including one man who escaped and then gave himself up. in the melee that erupted. More, than 50 law officers from a 11 v.s -ff v'; melee point about 12:45 a.m. that a county-wide aid call was sent out.

Among those responding was Haverstraw town Ptl. Hector Soto, the brother of Felix and Ramos Soto. Hector Soto made loudspeaker appeals asking people to return home and stay away from their windows, police said. The patrolman also accompanied Felix, who had suffered head wounds, to Nyack Hospital for treatment. Squillini and Ptl.

Walter Key, who received a wrist injury, were also treated at the hospital and released. Police said the trouble began Sunday with a rash of telephone calls to headquarters claiming fights had broken out along Main Street. The fighting and shouting apparently broke out when a scuffle developed between Ptl. Squillini and Ramos Soto of 48 Main St. when police tried to break up a crowd of Spanish-speaking residents.

According to police, Ramos" Soto's father. Eufemio Soto, 63. of 7 Rockland interfered, and Ramos escaped. Felix Soto, 33, of 13 Third then allegedly interfered along with his father. Ramos Soto this morning gave himself up to village police and was charged with second degree escape and second degree assault.

Mayor Anthony Bosico provided what he termed "an educated guess" that pre-holiday "unrest" in the community prompted the disturbance. While attempting to arrest the two men, police say, their car was stormed by men demanding their release. The village was quieting (Turn to page 5A) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fireworks, patriotic pageants and family picnics are among the traditional Fourth of July highlights as the nation celebrates its 196th birthday over a four-day weekend. An audience dressed in red. white and blue was on hand Sunday in Oklahoma City for "The 1972 Stars and Stripes Show" featuring comedian Bob Hope, singers Anita Bryant and Nancy Wilson and baseball's Mickey Mantle.

Tickets to the $300,000 extravaganza were free but the ticket holders had to come dressed in the colors of the flag. NBC taped the show for broadcast at 9 30 p.m. EOT Tuesday. "The National Yankee Doodle Dandy" will be selected in Philadelphia from among 13 teen-agers who were born on the Fourth and who represent the 13 original colonies. The youngsters competed in as essay on "What My American Freedoms Mean To Me." Acting FBI Director L.

Patrick Gray III will deliver the keynote address during Tuesday's festivities at Independence Hall. While the Dandy hopefuls declaim. President NLxon and his wife plan to spend a quiet holiday at the Western White House in San Clemente. The President said in his annual Fourth of July message that the spirit of the first Independence Day lives on that "no evil is too strong to be overcome by the American people." In Miami Beach, meanwhile, the Youth International Party sponsored a picnic Sunday and urged those attending to bring enough food to share with everyone young and old. "Freeshare.

a Picnic of the Ages." was one of a number of events planned by the Yippies prior to the opening of the Democratic National Convention on July HI. In Falls. City. a holiday outing for a group of mentally retarded youths ended tragically Sunday when five young men and a counselor accompanying them drowned in ten Swift-flowing Missouri River. The victims, ranging in age from 17 to 22.

were from the Omaha area. They had gone for a weekend camping trip to Indian Cave State Park under guidance of an organization that aids the mentally retarded. In Pittsburgh. which is still recovering from the tragedy and destruction wrought by Tropical Storm Agnes, the To our readers In observance of the Independence Day holiday. The Journal-News will not be published Tuesday.

We wish all our readers a safe and enjoyable holidav. 41, Wilt Phot (Ml), jailer Charles Morris Fischer's 24-game match with the Russian world's champion was to have begun Sunday, and the president of the world federation, Dr. Max Euwe, announced if the American challenger failed to show up by noon Tuesday he would risk forfeiting his chance at the title. Euwe said his personal opinion was that "there will be no play at all." The Russians reluctantly accepted Euwe's decision to delay the match. Asked what he thought of the situation, Spassky replied: "I came to play." An Icelandic chess player and longtime friend of Fischer, Freystrinn Thorber-bergsson, flew to New York and said he would try to persuade Fischer to meet the Tuesday deadline.

Fischer's representatives in Iceland requested the postponement on the grounds that he was unable to play because of fatigue. But it was generally assumed that the request was part of Fischer's campaign to get more money out of the Icelanders. Fischer and Spassky have agreed to split a $125,000 purse, with the winner taking five-eights, and are also to each get 30 per cent of the sale of film and television rights. But Fischer is seeking an additional 30 per cent of the gate receipts, and his representatives have been negotiating this point with sponsors of the match, the Icelandic Chess Federation. Country club manager dies in car crash A one-car accident in Spar-kill took the life Sunday of Er-hard F.

Wittnik. manager for the past seven years of the Rockland Country Club in Sparkill. Wittnik. 45. of Route 340.

Sparkill. was driving near his home at about 6:25 when his car went off 340. hit a utility pole and flipped over, police said. Orangetown police said Wittnik apparently was driving south at the time of the accident. Pinned beneath his Lr.

he was pronounced dead at tiie scene by a representative of the Rockland County Medical Examiners Office. Born in Germany, he served in the German Army and was wounded during World War II. Before taking over as manager of the Rockland Country Club he was employed by the Chemical and Drug Club in New York City. He is survived by his wife. Catherine.

The body was ordered removed to the Rockland County Health Complex in Pomona for an autopsy. Funeral plans were not completed this Bomb revenge hiiacker killed Patrolman Michael Sqtiilliui hols tluriny; lilurbam't and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese police sources said two homemade grenades were in the package and there was no indication whether they could have exploded. But the airline described them as harmless "egg-shaped objects" wrapped in aluminum foil. In Seattle, the University of Washington Fisheries School said a 24-year-old Vietnamese named Nguyen Thai Binh.

had graduated with honors last month D.C. women offer aid to rape victims Bv ANN BLACKMAN Publicity delays Hansen trial By RICHARD BLYSTONE SAIGON (AP) A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger Sunday. The hijacker was tentatively identified today as a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seat-le. where he had studied fishery science on a U.S.

government scholarship and graduated with honors last month. The young man. carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name Nguyen Thai Binh. met violent death after the pilot tricked him and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled destination, in defiance of his demand to fly to North Vietnam. The 135 other passengers were safely evacuated by sliding down emergency chutes, used to empty the plane quickly in case of explosion.

Several persons suffered minor scratches or bruises and one passenger, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, broke his leg. To back up his threats, the hijacker carried a long knife INDEX Ann Landers 10A Comics 4B Classified 11B-15B Editorial pages 18A.19A Family 10A-12A Leisure 13A Money 16A Movie clock 15A Obituaries 3B Sports 6B-9B Television 14 A Theater 15A WASHINGTON (AP) For local women who suffer the brutal experience of being raped, advice and comfort, often from other rape victims, now is just a telephone call away. Staffers say the month-old Rape Crisis Center is receiving about 20 calls daily from current and past rape victims and their families who seek medical and legal advice and. sometimes, just sympathy.

The dozen or so women who organized the center include several former victims of rape. To the best of their knowledge, the center offers the first such private service in the nation. An example of the center's operation: A woman who has been raped may be too embarrassed to notify police or may not want to go through a long court procedure. With a phone call, she'll be given the name of a medical center in her area and information on venereal disease. But the staffers provide a list of lawyers and psychologists for victims who need them.

"We have staffers who will accompany a woman to the hospital," said one staffer. "The staffer will explain hospital procedures to the woman so she isn't shocked or upset by them." One piece of advice from Liz. who, like the other center staffers.declines to give her name: A rape victim should not act calm and controlled when she enters a hospital because "if you go in hysterical, people in the emer- (Turn lo page 54) the murder trial of Kenneth Hansen, originally scheduled to begin Wednesday, has been postponed probably until fall because of wide publicity surrounding Hansen's escape from the county jail last week and his return to jail Saturday night. Announcement of the postponement was made this morning by District Attorney Robert R. Meehan.

Hansen faces charges of escape in the first degree, a felony. Meehan said the escape of all five prisoners from the county jail last Sunday will be put before a county grand jury, probably within several weeks. Hansen, 19, is charged with the knife murder of his 84-year-old landlady in May. 1971. After a week of hiding.

Hansen turned himself in to police at the 10th Precinct in New York City Saturday evening, saying he was hungry, scared and tired. Sunburned and badly bitten by mosquitoes after living for five days in the woods in the Valley Cottage area, Hansen was returned to his cell after eating a square meal and speaking on the telephone to his mother in Connecticut and his attorney. He told members of the Sheriff's Patrol he had hitchhiked to New York City on Thursday and had lived by panhandling money for food. He had no money in his pockets when he voluntarily surrendered to police. Still at large is Edward Ryder 28.

convicted on a drug charge, who fled with Hansen. Hansen told Sheriff Lindemann Ryder had convinced him to escape, and he said Ryder had scaled the 16-foot chain fence before him and disappeared. ii Kiwi 2 kl ill vV I I YJ Hansen with Sheriffs I'alrol A. Ilarrv Stewart 5.