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section The Scone 2 Business 4 Comics 8 Features 0 metropolitan Saturday, July 3, 1976 'fie jjf Inquirer 2 wagon Democrats pick Rep. Myers for Barrett's seat trains link up "XT! By Richard L. Papiernik Inauirer Stuff Writer Two of the six Bicentennial wagon trains heading for Valley Forge linked up in Conshohocken last night, where the tired riders were to spend their last night on the trail. After making their way separately for months, the two trains one that had followed the Northern Great Lakes Route from North Dakota and another that followed the Northern Colonial States Route down from Augusta, Maine joined up in an athletic field at 13th and Hallowell Streets in the Montgomery County community the first link-up of the trains. The Augusta train, with 21 wagons, pulled in first, shortly after 4 p.m., and the Northern Great Lakes train, with more than 40 wagons, arrived a few hours later.

Today the merged train, accompanied by vai'ious local fire companies, was to make the final push to Valley Forge. As the Augusta train, which had camped in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia Thursday night, wound its way west yesterday, hundreds of onlookers lined the route. At one point, in the Plymouth Township community of Lafayette Hill, about a half dozen women handed glasses of gin and tonic to the wagon train members rolling slowly by. Among those watching the procession through her neighborhood was Mrs. Anne Zeock.

"I just had to come out here," she said. "This is something I'll never have a chance to see again I just had to see what a wagon train looked like." Another onlooker, Mrs. DeLoris (See WAGONS on 2-B) r-t' Ti'-a D5h ilii 111 -X'O 0 0 0.0,0;?."' KvKV wire By Paul Critchlow Inquirer Political Writer State Rep. Michael J. (Ozzie) Myers, 33, was selected yesterday as the Democratic nominee for the First Congressional District seat vacated by the death last April of Rep.

William A. Barrett, 79. Myers, who was planning to seek a fourth term in the legislature, was selected by a vote of the 16 ward leaders in the First District at the Bellevue Stratford. Myers captured 10 votes on the first ballot; the rest of the votes were cast for various other candidates, most of them ward leaders. The leaders voted unanimously for Myers on a final ballot.

Myers' nomination must be ratified next week by the full Democratic City Committee, but that is merely a formality. His name will appear twice on the Nov. 2 ballot, once for a regular two-year term and once for the remainder of Barrett's unexpired term through Jan. 1. Myers, leader of Ward 39B, was the hand-picked choice of two powerful ward leaders in the district State Sen.

Henry J. Cianfrani (Second Ward) and City Councilman James J. Tayoun (First). Both had said they did not want the nomination. Cianfrani lobbied heavily among the ward leaders to reduce opposition to Myers, some of which came from leaders who wanted an Italian-American for the district.

Cianfrani was aided by Mayor Frank L. Rizzo, who in recent days personally called some prospective candidates and asked them to withdraw. The selection makes Myers a favorite to win. The district, which encompasses South, Southwest and parts of West Philadelphia, has a 4-to-1 Democratic registration margin. The Republican nominee for both elections is Samuel N.

Fanelli, 43, of Overbrook, a Boeing-Vertol engineer. In a speech before the caucus vote, Myers was humble as he praised Barrett's performance. "Well, if I go down there, I only hope I can do as good a job as he done," he said. Myers told the caucus he was not yet prepared to offer a "platform." "I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do until I get there (Washington) I've only been there three times in my whole life," he said. Myers has kept a lew profile as a loyal rank-and-file member of the city's Democratic delegation in Har-risburg.

He has a record of strong labor support, and is a member of Philadelphia Inauirer EDWARD J. FREEMAN shipped to Philadelphia in refrigerator trucks, stands in Memorial Hall in Fair-mount Park. BIG AND EDIBLE, a five-stories-tall chocolate cake, baked in Sara Lee kitchens in Deerfield, 111., and Michael J. Myen unanimous choice the International Longshoremen's As-sociation. He once was a cargo checkers an the piers.

In 1963, The Inquirer learned, Myers was arrested and subsequently acquitted by a judge on a burglary charge. Asked about the incident yesterday, Myers said it resulted from a "misunderstanding" and refused further comment. Friends of Myers said the charges had resulted from a quarrel between Myers, who was 19 at the time, and the father of a girl he was dating. In 1975, The Inquirer disclosed that Myers had once possessed an unregistered pistol in apparent violation of existing registration laws that was used by his cousin in the 1970 shooting death of a man in a union quarrel. At the time, Myers was leading the opposition to a city gun-control bill.

He contended that he did not own the gun. He was never charged in the incident. Among the candidates defeated by Myers were ward leaders Jack Bonner (40B), Vincent Fumo (39A) and Mary Goldman (27). After his speech, Tayoun handed the young legislator a caricature of Myers that he (Tayoun) had drawn. It was labeled, "Congratulations, Congressman Myers." Bicen planning angers Chinatown Rich Off Our Backs park rally is peaceful Attempting to spruce up Chinatown for the Bicentennial, the city has hung banners throughout the area in the manner used by Chinese to mark the death of an elderly family member.

The patience of Chinatown's leaders, who are already angered by several decisions by Philadelphia 76, has been strained by this latest faux pas. The city painted intersections elsewhere in center city red, white and blue. But in Chinatown, the intersections were painted yellow and green. "We are Americans," said a spokesman for the Chinese Benevolent Association. "Why can't we have our national colors here? This is discriminatory." Leaders of the Chinese Benevolent Association say they were not consulted about the "dolling-up" done in their neighborhood, adding that the multicolored "funeral" banners were "very depressing to us." The benevolent association is made up of leaders of the various regional, family and business associations in Chinatown.

These affronts to the Chinese in Philadelphia come on the heels of a dispute over assignment of the Philadelphia Dragon Club group to the "foreign nations" section of the July 4 parade. The Chinese complained bit- DOMKE Philadelphia Inquirer J. Banner represents the latest dispute between the Chinese community and the city Bv Frank Heick and. John F. Clancy htriHirer Staff IVntrrx The Rich Off Our Backs-July 4th Coalition held a rally in Norris Park in Kensington last night but only about 400 persons turned out and the event was peaceful.

They came chanting, singing and cheering in six rented flatbed trucks, several vans and some automobiles, arriving nearly an hour late for the scheduled 6 p.m. start. They left promptly at 8:15 p.m., in accordance with an injunction issued by a federal judge forcing the city to provide them with a permit for the rally. Before the demonstrators arrived, 30 to 40 plainclothes policemen in the Civil Affairs Squad headed by Inspector George Fencl combed the block-square park, picking up 300 to 400 soda, wine and whisky bottles and hauling them away in six large Freedom Week Me added that tiie community more annoyed about not being consulted about the decorations than about the decorations themselves. City Representative Albert V.

Gaudiosi said his office would investigate the association's complaints and issue a statement later. "I'd rather pick one up than get one in the head," Fencl said of the precautionary cleanup. Only 50 to 60 curious neighbors were attracted to the park, bounded by Susquehanna Avenue and Diamond, Hancock and Howard Streets. They stayed on the park's edges while the demonstrators gathered in the center of the park where paths criss-cross at a hub. Various groups in the demonstration carried signs identifying their home states, including California, Washington, Massachusetts, Oregon and Connecticut.

A Vietnam Veterans Against War contingent wore mili-, tary fatigues. Most of their chants were repetitions of three themes, "Jobs or Income Now," "Workers United Will Never be Defeated," (sometimes chanted in Spanish), and "We Carried the Rich for 200 Years, Let's Get Them Off Our Backs." A large contingent of police ringed the park. They included mounted police, a bus full of policemen, and several police vans. None of the police emerged from the vehicles, however. The police quietly withdrew from the area around 7:45 n.m., but their departure was noted by a speaker who charged that the police were trying to provoke the demonstrators into remaining past the 8:15 p.m.

dead The Chairman of the benevolent association, Yick Shan Leung, said his group would ask the city to remove the banners from poles in Chinatown. The organization will not request the re-painting of intersections red, white and blue, although those colors would have been preferred to yellow and green, he said. terly that they are not representatives of a foreign nation. As a result, they were then reassigned to the Pennsylvania section of the parade. Surviving in center citg: A Julg 4 transit guide GREEN 3T r- i rj find( i i i i LJ sti: r- 1 1 in t-v i MUSWM lJ l-j mm ffi 3 ARI ST itkllls east of City Hall, a large portion of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and portions of Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Broad, 16th and 19th Streets will be closed.

If you want to park downtown, most of the commercial lots with entrances on or near the east-west streets (Chestnut, Market west of City Hall, Sansom, Walnut, Locust, Spruce) will be open. There are also a few Philadelphia Parking Authority lots (all with varying nominal charges) open downtown, including the lot under the Municipal Services Building. Enter either on 15th Street or on Cherry Street between 15th and 16th Streets. Do not attempt to park in the lots under Independence Mall or at 824 Walnut Street. They are closed.

Lots will also be open in the Vine Street and Spring Garden Street area between Fourth and Ninth Streets and between 17th and 19th Streets. (Sec TRANSIT on 2-B) By Howard S. Shapiro Inqtivpr Tmn'vnrtatwn W'vr By today's standards, there were not many roads in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. And there won't be that many roads in center city on July 4, 1976 either. A number of center city's major arteries will be completely closed to vehicles during the better part of tomorrow's birthday celebration.

Your best bet is to declare freedom from your car on Independence Day and surrender to mass transit. Or go halfway, at least, and park near a major transit stop, then ride public vehicles into town. Philadelphia police say that after the parade, at some point tomorrow evening, all center city streets will be reopened to traffic. At that time, from all projections, center city should quickly become a colossal traffic jam. DRIVERS: Mosr of Market Street si-" or lj I lOHNf KrNNFMRLVD -1 C4q I T-l TITV I Jill 1 FT" riTV I Jin line du LUdL lucy wuuiu luac tx bond they had posted and! their permit for a rally tomorrow in Fair-mount Park would be revoked.

Earlier in the day, there were other developments involving the dissident groups gathering in the city for the July 4 celebration. Mayor Frank L. Rizzo vowed that no one would get away with disruptions during the weekend. "I hope and pray that nothing occurs," Rizzo said, "but I know this. A lot of people are coming to this town who are vent on violence We won't need troops of there's violence.

We'll put it down They would not get away with one iota of violence or disruption while I'm the mayor." The U.S. Labor Party sued the Rich Off Our Backs-July 4th Coalition for $3 million and obtained a federal (See DISSIDENTS on 2-B) 5t St. 1 2d St. UttiSt. MARKET ST CHtSTMUT ST su i sti.

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