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Times -rmJ-imes 1 lie Jbieporter Service lo Advertisers Responsibility to Readers Scope Year No. 36ft Responsibility Dover-New Philadelphia, Friday, July Price 10 Cents Hostage talks AWOL soldier into giving up air ransom try OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner for $450,000 ransom, which he said would be given to groups "involved in the Mideast crisis," and ordered the plane 1,000 miles up and down California before surrendering early today to his hostage, a law officer, authorities said. The air pirate, who gave up after the jetliner landed at Oakland Inter- national Airport, was identified by the FBI as Francis Goodell, 21, of nassas, AWOL two days from the Army. FBI agent-in-charge Robert Gebhardt said military cards were found on Goodell, including one from Ft.

Riley, Kan. The entire $450,000 was recovered, the agent said. The hijacker gave a note to the pilot which said the ransom money, obtained from PSA along with one para- chute, "would be given to two organizations involved in the Mideast crisis," a Federal Aviation Administration official said. The note continued: "Recent actions by the Air Line Pilots Association and secretary of transportation have caused consternation in our organization and. we are forced to take prompt action." Some ALP A members last month FRANCIS GOODELL SURRENDERS The 21-year-old soldier was AWOL took part in a one-day work stoppage to protest the recent wave of air piracy throughout the world and to demand better security measures.

It was the second hijacking for PSA, an intrastate airline, in two days. On Wednesday FBI agents stormed' aboard a PSA jetliner at San Francisco International Airport, killing two hijackers who had demanded $800,000 in ransom and escape to Siberia. A passenger was shot in killed by one of the hijackers, the FBI said, and two other passengers were wounded. The Oakland air pirate gave up his guns to California Highway Patrol Capt. Lloyd T.

Turner, who he held as a hostage on the flight. The hijacker had a pistol taken from the officer and a 7.65-caliber pistol of German manufacture, the FBI said. "He (the hijacker) started to act rather nervous and pursuant to suggestions, with the captain and the pilot talking to him together and individually after 2Vz hours he finally: surrendered his weapons and surrendered to the FBI," Gebhardt said. Turner, a passenger on the flight, had volunteered to stay aboard the three-engined jetliner as a hostage with three crewmen after the jet's 53 other passengers and crew were allowed off in San Diego. Earlier reports that there were two passengers being held as hostage were erroneous, the FBI said.

U.S. Atty. James Browning Jr. authorized a complaint for air piracy against Goodell and recommended $100,000 bail. The Boeing 727-100, originally with With 58 persons aboard including the hijacker, was seized while on a short flight Thursday from Oakland to Sacramento.

The plane was ordered 500 miles to San Diego where the hijacker got the money and parachute, then ordered it to Oakland. He asked for a helicopter he had demanded to be waiting for hihl Turner had volunteered to be a hostage while the jet was in San Diego. The hijacker allowed all but Turner, and three crewmen to get off there. Witnesses said Capt. Jerry E.

Blakely, pilot of the jetliner, and the 42-year-old highway patrol officer both were handcuffed before they walked off the plane. It was believed they had been handcuffed by the hijacker. it Burger polling high court justices on appeal for California delegates WASHINGTON (AP) The fate of a bloc of Democratic National Convention delegates that could give Sen. George McGovern a first-ballot presidential nomination rested today with the Supreme Court. The court must decide whether to convene a rare special session to consider an appellate-court decision which returned to McGoyern 151 California delegates he lost in a party Credentials Committee fight.

Check alert issued Area merchants were alerted Thursday to watch for a number of checks from Harry Humphries Auto City and Harry Humphries Auto Leasing which allegedly were stolen by an employe. New Philadelphia police said the leasing company checks are numbered 2601, 2602 and 2846 and the dealership checks are numbered 11583, 11584, 11640 and 11740. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Thursday suspended implementation of the lower-court decision while he attempted to poll the other eight vacationing justices to determine if there was sufficient support for a special session. Should Burger call the court into emergency session, the justices might be expected to hold a hearing and announce a decision before the Democratic National Convention opens in Miami Beach Monday night.

On the other hand, Burger could refuse the appeal, thus letting the Appeals Court decision stand. Or he could delay implementation of the Appeals Court order until the Supreme Court convenes its fall term, well after the convention ends. In that case, McGovern might be expected to ask the convention to overrule the Credentials Committee and return the 151 California votes to him. Forces of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley also have asked the court for a special term to attack another section of the same lower-court decision, which upheld the committee's author- ity to reject 59 Illinois delegates, including Daley.

In asking for Supreme Court action, the party maintained that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia "has provoked a fundamental constitutional crisis which can only be settled by this "Reversal of the judgment below is necessary to ensure that hereafter the federal courts will stay out of the American political process rather than seize its center stage," the petition read. The Credentials Committee stripped McGovern of the California delegates after deciding that the 271 he won in the state's winner-take-all primary should be apportioned among all the candidates according to their share of the vote. The appeals court held that changing the rules after the primary was over violated McGovern's right to due process. The ousted Illinois delegates said the committee decision and the court ruling that supported it disenfranchised the Democratic voters who elected delegates only to see them replaced by challengers.

The party is opposing the Illinois suit on grounds it "does not involve an unprecedented judicial intrusion into the internal decision-making processes of a national political party." Youth faces charge for obscene letter James Locker, New Philadelphia police chief, said today that a delinquency charge will be filed in juvenile court against a 17-year-old Freeport area boy in connection with an obscene letter received earlier this week by a 16-year-old New Philadelphia girl. Locker said the youth admitted to officers Thursday that he wrote the letter during an interview in the presence of his father. The chief also reported that a 10-year- old Dover boy will be charged in juvenile court as a result of his discharging a firecracker at Tuscora Park Tuesday night. Appellate court to hear picket case in December An appeal filed by four New Philadelphia men convicted of rioting last Oct. 16 at Hardy Coal Co.

near Sugarcreek is expected to be heard in December by Fifth District Court judges. The four, James Russell, Michael De- Torio, William Bonnell and Clarence Morgan are being returned from the Ohio Penitentiary today and will be released under $10,000 bonds. They had served five weeks of one-to-three-year sentences meted out on the rioting convictions. THEIR RELEASE, until it has been determined if they were legally sentenced and if their constitutional rights were abridged, was ordered Thursday during a special session of the appellate court. Atty.

Danny Johnson, representing Russell, Bonnell and Morgan, and Attys. James Barnhouse and Joseph Tripodi, defending DeTorio, said in arguments Thursday that the riot section of Ohio law is new and they question its constitutionality. They also say the trial court erred: By not granting separate trials for the four men. By not allowing counsel to withdraw from the case. In the consolidation of six counts of the indictment into three counts.

REFERRING TO the Oct. 16 incident, Johnson said the four men were conducting peaceful picket action during the nationwide coal strike, which was their constitutional right. Barnhouse said DeTorio was convicted only because of "guilt by association" with other pickets. He also said the trial court did not allow him to argue on the intent of DeTorio. Barnhouse said Judge Ronald Calhoun of Gallia County, who heard the cases by special assignment, did not emphasize to the jury that intent was a necessary element of the case.

Prosecutor George Demis said he did not see that the consolidation of counts was damaging to the defense. Instead he said, it made it more difficult for him to present the state's case. Demis also said he could not see the actions at Hardy as peaceful picketing. He also said his version of labor negotiation is both sides having equal representation and being able to speak freely and that it is not men armed with pistols clubs, bars and chains and led by a man with a mask. Inspection Patrolmen from the New Philadelphia post of the state highway patrol will conduct a voluntary inspection of motor vehicles July 9 from 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m. in Carroll County fairgrounds. There will be no charge for the inspection. Billie Jean wins WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Billie Jean King of Long Beach, won her fourth women's singles titles at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships today with a victory over defending champion Evonne Goolagong of Australia. With the second set tied 33, Mrs.

King went ahead when Miss Goolagong had service problems. Mrs. King moved ahead 5-3 in the first set when the Australian girl was guilty of some weak volleying. Chess match on REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday. The pn-again-off- again meeting, billed by chess lovers as the match of the century, was delayed for months by disagreements over a site, prize money, and personal hurt feelings on the part of the participants.

Prices rise WASHINGTON (AP) A renewed surge in livestock and meat prices led an over-all rise of five-tenths of one per cent in wholesale prices of food and industrial products in June, the government said today. The unemployment rate dropped during the month. It was the second straight substantial monthly price increase, following a three- fifths of one per cent hike in May for the largest two-month increase since last January and February. The Labor Department also reported the nation's unemployment rate dropped from 5.9 to 5.5 per cent last month for the lowest figure in more than a year and a half. Forecast Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with a chance of thundershowers.

Low in the 50s. High in the 80s. Inflation talk SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) President Nixon called in his economic experts to discuss ways of holding down food prices today after promising to veto any excessive election-year spending by Congress. The President's moves were aimed at curbing inflation one of the most persistent problems of his administration and setting the stage for the forthcoming campaign debate over who is to blame for it.

Need a head? FIUGGI, Italy (UPI) Want a new head? Prof. R. J. White of Cleveland says that was not an impossible question. "Although all the problems are not resolved, today we must, we want, to think of a head transplant," he told the International Transplant Society's fifth convention Thursday.

"The transplant of a brain, which until yesterday was the ultimate frontier of experimental surgery today, has been crossed," he told the gathering. "We've done it with baboons and we are on the right track." Boyle mate? CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) The name of United Mine Workers District 31 President Leonard J. Pnakovich, 53, is being prominently mentioned as UMW President W.

A. (Tony) Boyle's choice for a successor to vice president George J. Titler of Beckley, who has resigned. Titler announced Wednesday he had resigned to allow Boyle to select a new vice president and give him exposure in that office prior to the December elections, when the union candidate will face stiff opposition from the dissident Miners for Democracy. In addition to serving as president of the third largest district in the union, Pnakovich also is acting director of the union's important safety division.

20 Pages 2 Sections Around the World B-10 Court Records A-10 Editorials A-4 Hospital A-10 Obituaries Sports Stocks A-10 Television A-6 Women Thursday'sT-R circulation 27,051 Strike by labor halts five highway projects A statewide strike by members of the Laborers International Union has stopped work on at least five highway construction projects in Tuscarawas and surrounding counties. The 10-day strike began June 27, but its impact has spread slowly. Its first effect in this area was a work stoppage Thursday on the construction of the W. 15th st. bridge in Dover.

There are no pickets or signs at the bridge site. Construction began May 17 on the $69,798 project by Gibbons-Grable Co. of Canton. OTHER PROJECTS affected include construction at the Coshocton Richard Downing Airport, with the Walter Jones Co. of Wooster as general contractor; Rt.

76 project, south of Coshocton, Blausey Construction a bridge project at Mineral City, Ohio Bridge Co. of Cambridge, and a bridge project on Rt. 258 south of Newcomerstown, McConnel Excavating of West Lafayette. Each of the projects involve a walkout by members of Laborers Local 134 in Newcomerstown. It js not known how many men are affected.

It has been reported that agreement has been reached between the Laborers District Council of Ohio and the Ohio Contractors Assn. on wages and working conditions. HOWEVER, NEGOTIATIONS were bogged by labor's demand for a policy of hiring 80 per cent of laborers to jobs within their local's jurisdiction. A meeting between both parties was scheduled today at 10 a.m. in Columbus.

Karl Rothermund, executive director of the Ohio Contractors which represents about 500 contractors, said he was optimistic an agreement would be ratified by the Laborers Council. Twice before the laborers' negotiating team agreed to a tentative pact, only to be overruled by the district council. About 10,000 laborers are involved. The old contract, involving heavy highway construction, expired June 1. The current strike does not encompass building construction which is negotiated by a separate contract.

Derby check, trial runs set for Saturday Racers built by contestants in the Soap Box Derby being sponsored by New Philadelphia Jaycees will be inspected Saturday between 9and at the top of the Wabash av. hill. Cars later will be weighed and heats assigned. In the afternoon, each contestant will make a trial run down "derby hill." Cars then will be impounded and stored in the Tuscarawas Avenue School until the day of the race, July 16. The race is scheduled to get under way around noon, following a parade at 11:30 from the bottom of the Wabash hill to ramps at the top.

One activity held in conjunction with previous derbies is not on the agenda this year the selection of a derby queen. Officials said they felt such a contest would not be appropriate since three girls, one of them a former derby queen, are among contestants in the race. New Philadelphia Police Chief James Locker today announced that Wabash av. NW from N. Broadway to 3rd st.

will be closed Saturday from 8 a.m. to 6 because of Soap Box Derby inspections and trial runs. Locker also reminded that Wabash av. will be closed next Saturday (July 15) and until after the race is completed Sunday, July 16..